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1909 · PDF PAGE 221

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…issful bale. My cold grey kisses awake From the silence of utmost eld The grey cold slime of the snake That her beautiful body held. But—God! I was not content With the blasphemous secret of years ; The veil is hardly rent While the eyes rain stones for tears. So I clung to the lips and laughed As the storms of death abated, The storms of the grevious graft By the swing of her soul unsated. Wherefore reborn as I am By a stream profane and foul In the reign of a Tortured Lamb, In the realm of a sexless Owl, 211

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1909 · PDF PAGE 221

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…issful bale. My cold grey kisses awake From the silence of utmost eld The grey cold slime of the snake That her beautiful body held. But—God! I was not content With the blasphemous secret of years ; The veil is hardly rent While the eyes rain stones for tears. So I clung to the lips and laughed As the storms of death abated, The storms of the grevious graft By the swing of her soul unsated. Wherefore reborn as I am By a stream profane and foul In the reign of a Tortured Lamb, In the realm of a sexless Owl, 211

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1910 · PDF PAGE 20

Ambergris

AMBERGRIS 11 FROM JEPHTHAH Chorus of Maidens O the time of dule and teen ! O the dove the hawk has snared ! Would to God we had not been, We, who see our maiden queen, Love has slain whom hate had spared. Sorrow for our sister sways All our maiden bosoms bared To the dying vesper rays, Where the sun below the bays Of the West is stooping ; All our hearts together drooping, Flowers the ocean bears. All the garb that gladness wears To a rent uncouth attire Changed with cares ; Happy songs our love had made Ere the sun had sunk his fire, In the mo…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 58

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ur and art, Of the mystic quest, of the toil of the saint, The mount on whose slopes the strongest faint, Jeanne I Suppose that peace of God, that House Of Delight of the Bridegroom and the Spouse, Were only the calm of the chewing cows, Jeanne! Suppose that in all the worlds inane There were one thing only vexed and vain, Turbulent, troubled, and insane, Jeanne I Suppose that the universal plan Had but one flaw, and that flaw were man!

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1911 · PDF PAGE 58

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ur and art, Of the mystic quest, of the toil of the saint, The mount on whose slopes the strongest faint, Jeanne I Suppose that peace of God, that House Of Delight of the Bridegroom and the Spouse, Were only the calm of the chewing cows, Jeanne! Suppose that in all the worlds inane There were one thing only vexed and vain, Turbulent, troubled, and insane, Jeanne I Suppose that the universal plan Had but one flaw, and that flaw were man!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 48

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ip Truth ; They laugh uproariously in youth ; ( And when they get to feeling old , They up and shoot themselves , I'm told .) . . . Ah , God ! To see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester ! To smell the thrilling - sweet and rotten Unforgettable , unforgotten River - smell , and hear the breeze Sobbing in the little trees . Say , do the elm - clumps greatly stand Still guardians of that holy land ? The chestnuts shade , in reverend dream , The yet unacademic stream ? Is dawn a secret shy and cold Anadyomene , silver - gold ? And sun…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 144

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…g Where the hills reach to heaven behind us Into midmost air the world, A voice is rolled over the steep, As the echo of my booming Some godhead whose glory would bind us, To the furthest star is hurled. Reflected far-off on the deep. Now I hear the lunar clashing We hear the low chant that may blind us, That evokes me from the tide, The song from the ultimate shore. Now I rise, my fury lashing, We come that our lover may find us Rolling where the banks divide— His bride as he found us before. I obey thee, I am with thee, Lord of Light- | We li…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 153

Collected Works (Vol. I)

¥46 THE FATAL FORCE Of angels hastening to fulfil Thy supreme, single will ! Alone, intense, unmoved, change, Let thy one godhead rise To move like morning, and like day to range, A furnace for the skies, That all men cry: ‘‘ The uncreated God! Formless, ineffable, just, whose period Is as his name, Eternity!” So bear The sceptre of the air ! So mayest thou avenge, all-seeing, blind, The wrath of this consuming fire, that licks The rafters and the portals of the house, The gateways of the kingdom, where behind Lurk ruinous fates and consequence…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 53

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind. IV. FLOWERS. O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s ! power ! Who find the well taught Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower? 1 Hades plus Minos; he both rules and judges the dead, according to Hindu mytho- logy. The seeker shall subdue this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power; The seeker find that Path as skill of t herbist finds the proper flower. Like unto foam this body whoso sees, its mirage-nature comprehends aright, Bre…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 141

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Slaying even God, should He distract Thy attention from the chosen act! Last, all these things in one o’erpowered, Time that the midnight blossom flowered! The oneness is. Yet even in this, My son, thou shalt not do amiss If thou restrain the expression, shoot Thy glance to rapture’s darkling root, Discarding name, form, sight, and stress Even of this high consciousness ; Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here: Thou art the master. I revere Thy radiance that rolls afar, O Brother of the Silver Star! Yet, immediate…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 141

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Slaying even God, should He distract Thy attention from the chosen act! Last, all these things in one o’erpowered, Time that the midnight blossom flowered! The oneness is. Yet even in this, My son, thou shalt not do amiss If thou restrain the expression, shoot Thy glance to rapture’s darkling root, Discarding name, form, sight, and stress Even of this high consciousness ; Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here: Thou art the master. I revere Thy radiance that rolls afar, O Brother of the Silver Star! Yet, immediate…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 43

Liber Aleph

…1 Ae De Lege Motus (Of the Law of Motion) ONSIDER, o my Son, that Word in the Call or Key of the Thirty Aethyrs: Behold the Face of your God, the Beginning of comfort, whose Eyes are the Brightness of the heavens, which provided you for the Government of the Earth, and her unspeakable Variety! And again: Let there be no Creature upon her or within her the same. All here Members let them differ in their Qualities, and let there be no Creature equal with another. Here also is the Voice of true Science, crying aloud: Variation is the Key of Evolut…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 55

777

…e giver of advant- ages wy!) sll @ J| inheritor survivor inventor axall deel patient (? beginning) guide woolgo FAUT D gall at ge Hua is God; and there is none other God than Hua. Amen. Cot. VI., Linz 34.—Essence, c/ a and w. Cot. VIII.— Lines 1-10.—Beth Elohim gives a quite different ten Qliphoth. Line 15.— In the midst of the Zodiacal Qliphoth are xp and *S"I1NDN. At SE corner, Man, Serpent, and the elder Lilith the wife of Samael. At NE corner, the Ox and Ass, and Aggereth the daughter of Machalath. At NW corner, the Scorpion and j}5°DN, the…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 274

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…sculine Whirlings, and to gladden us and to bring us to the Bosom of the Great Mother, Death. Before what is known as the Equinox of the Gods, a little while ago, there was an initiated Formula which expressed these Ideas to the Wise. As these Formulas are done with, it is of no Consequence if I reveal them. Truth is not eternal, any more than God; and it would be but a poor God that could not and did not alter his Ways at his Pleasure. This Formula was used to open the Vault of the Mystic Mountain of Abiegnus, within which lay (so the Ceremony…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 143

Tannhäuser

…ore purpose than the last ! So fills his sorrow, and Her sympathy, My common soul, that I am fain to fall Upon my face, and cry aloud to God : " O Thou, Sole Wise, Sole Pure, Sole Merciful, Who hast thus shewn Thy mystery to man : Grant that his coming may be very soon ! " See, the sobs shake me like a little child. The moon is crescent, waxing in the West. Take the last kiss, dear. What is the strange song ? [ The great Goddess ariseth, weeping for the slain Osiris Tannkduser. Isis. Isis am I, and from my life are fed All stars and suns, all m…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 70

Oracles

INVOCATION 65 Of the all-rushing fire ; and Every Spell And scourge of God the Vast One may be made Obedient unto me, to the All-Good And ultimate Redemption : Hear me, thou ! Eca, zodacare, Iad, goho, Torzodu odo kikale qaa ! Zodacare od zodameranu ! Zodorje, lape zodiredo Ol Noco Mada, das Iadapiel ! Ilas ! hoatahe Iaida ! O crowned with starlight ! Winged with emerald Wider than Heaven ! O profounder blue Of the abyss of water ! O thou flame Flashing through all the caverns of the night, Tongues leaping from the immeasurable Up through the g…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 35

The Holy Books

61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence; to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; and he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal and it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who s…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 72

The Goetia

… names and by the name Tah and Vau, which Adam spake and Do-o-a-ipe Jada, Agla, das Lot cameliatza; od asa ta obelisonugi in the name of God, Agila, which Lot spake : and it was as pleasant deliverers pujo-totza od totsa salamanu: oD DO-0-a-ipé Joth das Jakob unto him and his house and in the name Ioth which Iacob cameliatza, Do-bianu jJPireé Das adarepanu tot3a, oD asata spake in the voice of the Holy ones who cast him down, and it was also obelisonusi DO vanupebe Esau totza e-si-asacahe: od Do-o-a-ipé as pleasant deliverers in _—i the anger o…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 42

Moonchild

"More centuries; some bold thinker invents a single cause for all these diverse effects, and calls it God. This hypothesis leads to interminable disputes about the nature of God; in fact, they have never been settled. The problem of the origin of evil, alone, has quite baffled Theology. "Science advances; we now find that all things are subject to law. There is no need of any mysterious creator, in the old sense; we look for causes in the same order of nature as the effects they produce. We no lounger propitiate ghosts to keep our fires alight.…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 19

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ultiple each part. Sweet Madeline, Believe me, She will come to maiden dreams, Bestow Her peace, and so direct the life That is not unto God unconsecrate For being dedicated unto love! [22z¢ MADELINE.

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