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1910 · PDF PAGE 181

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Normal amount of sleep. Speech only when necessary. Pranayama, A’sana with eyes turned up. October Walking as exercise. 2nd. 8.30 a.m. Mantra “Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 9.10-10.50 A’sana with Mantra and eyes turned to Ajna Chakkra. am. am. Chittam distinctly slowing towards end. 10.50-12.5 Continued lying down, [Did I sleep ?] am. p.m, 12.35-1.45 For a walk muttering Mantra. p.m. p.m. 2.20-2.45 A’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Maitra- p-m.p.m, nandra Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in appe…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 181

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Normal amount of sleep. Speech only when necessary. Pranayama, A’sana with eyes turned up. October Walking as exercise. 2nd. 8.30 a.m. Mantra “Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 9.10-10.50 A’sana with Mantra and eyes turned to Ajna Chakkra. am. am. Chittam distinctly slowing towards end. 10.50-12.5 Continued lying down, [Did I sleep ?] am. p.m, 12.35-1.45 For a walk muttering Mantra. p.m. p.m. 2.20-2.45 A’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Maitra- p-m.p.m, nandra Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in appe…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 100

Oracles

…! I stood and laughed upon the Ancient One. For He was silent as my body’s kiss, And sleeping as my many-coloured hair, And living as my eyes and lips ; and where The vast creation round him cried “ He Is ! ”, No murmur reached Him ; He was set alone, Alone and central. And my eyes were dim; I worshipped even ; for I envied Him. So, moving upward to the azure throne, I spread my arms unto that ambient mist ; Lifted my life and soul up to be kissed !

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1899 · PDF PAGE 57

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…leep are unfurled, The moon in the east is rekindled, The hope of the passionate world. The stars for a token of glory Flash fire in the eyes of the night, And the holy immaculate story Of Heaven is flushed into light. For the night has a whisper to wake us, And the sunset a blossom to kiss, And the silences secretly take us To the well of the water that is ; For the darkness is pregnant with being, As earth that is glad of the rain, And the eyes that are silent and seeing - Are free of the trammels of pain. Like light through the portals they …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 114

The Winged Beetle

…ne abode beyond Death. Three times I circle thee : three times my breath Breathes on thy mouth ; three times I do adore Thee, Till thine eyes glitter and thy loose lips curl Make me the innocent alluring girl Of fifteen years—that were ! so to recoil The same sweet garland. . . . Hither comes the lad With shy looks—let me blind him, let me soil His swan-soft body and his soul swan-pure ! Ah ! but my life is glad. Pan smiles ! My suit preferred. Now, let these eyes allure And this worn throat throb, thrill with songs to woo him, Fiercer than eve…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 44

Amphora

AMPHORA Now is the royal mystery outrun ; Mary is gathered to the Holy One. The vision fails ; and we abase our eyes In silent praise and solemn ecstasies. Hail, Mary, hail ! Our song goes up to Thee ; From Thee descends the quickening decree. Like trembling flowers our souls accept the stress Of Thine exalted dew of holiness. Amen. 37

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1905 · PDF PAGE 102

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…se to mine, as in the south We see the sun close fast upon the sea ; So, my own heart, thy mouth must close on me. Art thou awake? Those eyes of wondering love, Sweet as the dawn and softer than the dove, Seek no quick vision—yet they move to me And, slowly, to the child. How still are we! Yes, and a smile betokens that they wake Or dream a waking dream for kisses’ sake ; Yes, I will touch thee, O my low sweet brow ! My wife, thy lips to mine—yes, kiss me now ! IV. THE VOYAGE SOUTHWARD. Hoty as heaven, the home Of winds, the land of foam, The p…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 44

Hail Mary

AMPHORA Now is the royal mystery outrun ; Mary is gathered to the Holy One. The vision fails ; and we abase our eyes In silent praise and solemn ecstasies. Hail, Mary, hail ! Our song goes up to Thee ; From Thee descends the quickening decree. Like trembling flowers our souls accept the stress Of Thine exalted dew of holiness. Amen. 37

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1905 · PDF PAGE 196

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…moon is overhead— Some other meaning in the words he saith? Even so the king had Or, am I tricked in such a little snare? I lifted up my eyes. What soul stood there, Fronting my path? Tall, stately, delicate, A woman fairer than a pomegranate. A silver spear her hands of lotus hear, One shaft of moonlight quivering and straight. She pointed to the East with flashing eyes : “Thou canst not see her—but my Queen shall rise.” Bowed head and heating heart, with feet unsure I passed her, trembling, for she was too pure. I could have loved her. No: sh…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV I “TELL it us! O tell us it!” Elphénor Pistouillat de la Ratiboisiére, the Master Magi- cian, hearkened unto his disciples, who sat cross-legged around his incense-bowl. His lips parted in that unapeable grin of his, and he stopped his nostrils awhile with his two fore- fingers. Then he blew on the charcoal and began. “Yes, I will tell it to you, intellectual infants, I will. Listen. Two hundred and one years ago—when I was thin and thirty—I chanced upon a couple, living in South Russia. Boy and girl they were still; but,…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV I “TELL it us! O tell us it!” Elphénor Pistouillat de la Ratiboisiére, the Master Magi- cian, hearkened unto his disciples, who sat cross-legged around his incense-bowl. His lips parted in that unapeable grin of his, and he stopped his nostrils awhile with his two fore- fingers. Then he blew on the charcoal and began. “Yes, I will tell it to you, intellectual infants, I will. Listen. Two hundred and one years ago—when I was thin and thirty—I chanced upon a couple, living in South Russia. Boy and girl they were still; but,…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 148

Little Poems in Prose

….” This was said in a very serious voice by a man of easy and composed aspect, of an al- most clerical physiognomy, unhappily lighted by eyes of clear gray: eyes of that kind whose glance says, “I will,” or “You must,” or, “I never forgive.”

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1901 · PDF PAGE 86

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ith thin lips grown grey In desperate desire, and so with song And wine fling hellward. Yes, she does not rise— O if she opened once her eyes!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 46

The Book of Lies

…ousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it be- comes easy; a thousand thousand times a without ever casting his eyes upon the ground.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 86

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH ZE SIC TRANSEAT —— “‘At last I lifted up mine eyes, and beheld; and lo! the flames of violet were become as tendrils of smoke, as mist at sunset upon the marsh-lands. ‘*And in the midst of the moon-pool of silver Thus the disciples that watched found a dead body kneeling at the altar. Amen!

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1904 · PDF PAGE 71

The Goetia

…th and obey na-e-el. IMiisa, fatabe-are-Z0Di, soDameranu pujo ooaona; ZodDOrese: my power. Come forth, visit us in peace, appear unto my eyes; be friendly : Darebesa jijipabe! Lape ol lavinuji-ta Do-o-i-ape Jada CGaoanu das Obey the living breath ! For I _ stirtheeup inthe name ofthe God of Truth who apila, belioren, Darebesa jijipabe, eca, Do-miame pujo valasa, liveth for ever, Helioren. Obey the living breath, therefore continually unto the end ta anugelareda: Z00ameranu ooagna: 30Doreje: gobola laiada as my thoughts appear to my eyes: theref…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 72

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… Fiend I had a vision of myself as a peacock strutting and preening. Lou, her mouth half open, was gazing at me fascinated with enormous eyes; the pupils dilated by cocaine. It was just the male bird showing off to his mate. I wanted her to adore me for my little scraps of knowledge; the fragments I had picked up inmy .- abandoned education. Lou is always practical; and she puts something of the priestess into everything she does. There was a certain solemnity in the way in which she took up the heroin on the blade of a knife and put it on to t…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 8

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…Of fallen tyranny, may seek her sire In the pure soul of Man, her lips may lave In the pure waters of her soul’s desire, Truth: and deep eyes behold thine eyes as deep, Fresh lips kiss thine that kissed her soul from sleep. See Italy, the eagle of all time, Triumphant, from her coffin’s leaden prison, Soar into freedom, seek the heights sublime Of self-reliance, from those depths new-risen, Stirred by the passion of thy mighty rhyme: Eagle, and phoenix: shrill, sharp flames bedizen The burning citadel, where crested Man Leaps sword in hand upon…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 20

The Holy Books

50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; and my spangles are purple and green. 51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. 52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, and the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my services; ye do well, and I will reward you here and hereafter. 53. Fear not, O prophet, when these words are said,…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 15

Ambergris

…lieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep : Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke Only the respite of a little sleep ; Sleep, just a little space of sleep, to rest The fevered head and cool the aching eyes ; Sleep for a space, to fall upon the breast Of the dear God, that He may sympathise. Long has the day drawn out ; a bitter frost Sparkles along the streets ; the shipping heaves With the slow murmur of the sea, half lost

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