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1913 · PDF PAGE 95

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…nd breathes the evening air , And often walk to Primrose Hill And hope to meet her there . Once more together will we live , For ,I will find her yet : I have so little to forgive ; So much , I can 't forget .

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1898 · PDF PAGE 20

Songs of the Spirit

… sides Each perfect as each other. Now backwards, inwards still my mind Must track the intangible and blind, And seeking, shall securely find Hidden in secret places Fresh feasts for every soul that strives, New life for many mystic lives, And strange new forms and faces. My mind still searches, and attains By many days and many pains 10

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1898 · PDF PAGE 29

Songs of the Spirit

… tender for the day, Are dazed with sunlight, and poor fingers grope For those far truths that mock our vague en- deavour, Whilst we may find in thee the secrets grey Of all things God would fain have hid for ever. 19

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1901 · PDF PAGE 40

The Soul of Osiris

… of a king. Envious I sprang—and found the last rose gone. So in the fiery ring of wedlock, blind, Mad, one may leap, no rose perhaps to find (Or, if no rose, good fortune finds no thorn), But—mark the difference—palpable and plain Rose or no rose, one leaps not out again. I

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1907 · PDF PAGE 15

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…E STAR AND THE GARTER Remind, recall, hint? Never! Stuff! You are, as aye, alone, elect. Shall we then dive in Paris sewers? Ay! but not find you there, nor yet Your likeness. Did you then forget You are my love? Arise and shine ! It was your blasphemy, not mine. XIX, A FAINT sweet smell of ether haunts Yet the remembrance. Hear the wizard His lone and melancholy chaunts Roared in the rain-storm and the blizzard ! The ancient and devoted dizzard ! Appear, thou dream of loveliness! She wore a rose and amber dress, With broidery of old gold. Her …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 173

Magick Without Tears

…ur observations. No circumstance of life is, or can be irrelevant. "He that is not with me is against me." In all these letters you will find only two things: either I tell you what is bad for you, or what is good for you. But I am not you; I don't know every detail of your life, every trick of your thought. You must do ninety percent of the work for yourself. Whether it is love, or your daily avocation, or diet, or friends, or amusements, or anything else, you must find out what helps you to your True Will and what hinders; cherish the one and…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 226

The Winged Beetle

216 TOUT ENTIÈRE THE Devil is my lofty vault This morning came to talk with me. And (ever trying to find fault) Said “ I should like to know, pardie ! “ Of all the beauties that compose The enchantment of her darling breath, The black seductions and the rose Wherewith her body glittereth, “ Which is the sweetest ? ” O my soul ! Thus didst thou answer the Accurst : “ In her, since all’s divine control, There cannot be or last or first. “ Since all transports me, how shall I Aught of one thing affirm aright ? She dazzles like the morning sky And …

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1939 · PDF PAGE 18

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…ly to be bad for you. Anything that weakens the body, that exhausts, disturbs or inflames the mind is deprecable. You are pretty sure to find as you progress that there are some conditions that cannot be eliminated at all in your particular circumstances; and then you have to find a way of dealing with these so that they make a minimum of trouble. And you will find that you cannot conquer the obstacle of Yama, and dismiss it from your mind once and for all. Conditions favourable for the beginner may become an intolerable nuisance to the adept, …

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1939 · PDF PAGE 51

Eight Lectures on Yoga

… at his highest,—the Demiourgos) Eheieh—Asher-Eheieh,— I am that I am. 17. If there is any sense in any of this at all, we may expect to find an almost identical system of thought all over the world. There is nothing exclusively Hebrew about this theogony. We find, for example, in the teachings of Zoroaster and the neo-Platonists very similar ideas. We have a Pleroma, the void, a background of all possibilities, and this is filled by a supreme Light-God, from whom drive in turn the seven Archons, who correspond closely to the seven planetary de…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 247

The Book of Thoth

…, and place the top half to the left. 2. Cut each pack again to the left. 3. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left. 4. Find the Significator. If it be in the Yod pack, the question refers to work, business, etc.; if in the Hé pack, to love, marriage, or pleasure;, if in the Vau pack, to trouble, loss, scan‐ dal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the Hé final pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. 5. Tell the Querent what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divinati6n. 6. If right, spread out the pack containing the…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 206

The Law is for All

… subfigura CCXX — Chapter II 205 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love o…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 22

The Soul of Osiris

…r quite. Not altogether : in my patchwork brain Some rag of passion tears its woof asunder. Strange, that its own insatiable pain Should find an opiate in her eyes of wonder ! Yes, though I hate her well enough to kill, I know that then my soul would love her still. H

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1901 · PDF PAGE 123

The Soul of Osiris

…ad springs again The Soul of Resurrection : thou art chief And lord of all thy Soul : O patient thief Of God’s own fire ! What mysteries find fane In the white shrine of thy white spirit’s reign, Thou man of Sorrows : O, beyond belief ! Let God's own Peace be with thee : let thy days Prosper in spite of thine unselfish soul ; And as thou lovest, so let Love increase Upon thee and about thee : till thy ways Gleam with the splendour of that secret goal Whose long war grows the great abiding peace. O

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1905 · PDF PAGE 21

Oracles

…le burning Somewhere amid the flame Scorching the smoke of London With its eternal shame ? “ Is there no gate so stubborn That shall not find a key, That with our Sovereign’s image Graven in majesty ? ” Why not the Devil’s portrait Graven in Walham Green ? Why with the bare suggestion Dare we insult our Queen ? Give me the golden trumpet Blown at the judgment-day, Closing the gate of mercy Over the Cast Away. Melt me its gold to money, Coin me that small, small ring Stamped with the Hoof of Satan, Bearing the name of King. Then, in the murky mi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 75

The Winged Beetle

…omy London oversea My lady sends a letter. My credit’s gone : the Deity May write me down a debtor, For I had thought that I was free— I find I have a fetter ! (Her thought.) Yea ; must some god announce afresh No more they are twain ; they are one flesh ? ” For here I sit and laugh and smoke And play with youth and pleasure ; Life is a dream, and death a joke, And love a thing of leisure— The dance is done, the spell is broke, And marred the merry measure ! Yea ; my small kiss is somehow worth The love of all the boys on earth ! The shy sweet …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… is now being fully obeyed, as will be evident upon the publication of Part IV of Book 4. We now return to the diary. On September 24 we find a new password for the forthcoming Equinox—4 dio. Its sublime meaning was not yet suspected by Frater Perdu- rabo. On November 9 we find the entry “Here endeth this diary, for I write now in a Holy Book of my Holy Pilgrimage to the Sun.” In fact, he left London for Paris on November 10, attended only by a single Chela. He arrived at Algiers on the 17th, and on the next day took the tram to Arba, from whic…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… is now being fully obeyed, as will be evident upon the publication of Part IV of Book 4. We now return to the diary. On September 24 we find a new password for the forthcoming Equinox—4 dio. Its sublime meaning was not yet suspected by Frater Perdu- rabo. On November 9 we find the entry “Here endeth this diary, for I write now in a Holy Book of my Holy Pilgrimage to the Sun.” In fact, he left London for Paris on November 10, attended only by a single Chela. He arrived at Algiers on the 17th, and on the next day took the tram to Arba, from whic…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 74

Tannhäuser

…have thy life ! TannhAuser. Where is the cavern in the mountain side, The accursed gateway of this house of Hell ? Venus. Thou canst not find it ! Fool ! TannhAuser. And yet I will.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 11

Why Jesus Wept

D E D IC AT IO M AJ O R My Friends, To you, Eastern of the Easterns, who have respectively given up all to find Truth ; you, Jinawaravansa, who esteemed the Yellow Robe more than your Princedom ; you, Achiha, by sticking manfully to your Work in the World, yet no more allowing it to touch your Purpose than waters may wet the lotus leaf (to take the oldest and best simile of your oldest and best poets), must I dedicate this strange drama ; for, like you, I would abandon all ; like you, I see clearly what is of value ; or, if not, at least what i…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 246

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… Abra-Melin the Mage.” A time of transition was at hand, a spiritual renaissance was about to take place, so little wonder is it that we find P. much like St. Augustine lamenting his outward search, and crying with him: “I, Lord, went wandering like a strayed sheep, seeking Thee with anxious Reasoning without, whilst Thou wast within me. I wearied myself much in looking for Thee without, and yet Thou hast Thy habitation within me, if only I desire Thee and pant after Thee. I went round the Streets and Squares of the City of this World seeking T…

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