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1996 · PDF PAGE 90

The Law is for All

…Universe was conceived as possessing a fixed centre, or summit; an absolute standard to which all things might be referred; an Unity, or God. (Mystics were angry and bewildered, often enough, when attaining to “union with God” they found him equally in all.) This led to making a difference between one thing and another, and so to the ideas of superiority, of sin, etc., ending by absurdities of all kinds, alike in theology, ethics, and science. 2. The absolute antithesis between the pairs of opposites. This is really a corollary of (1). There wa…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 155

Oracles

… our women : let us then At least annihilate their men ! Lest the ill race from faithless graves Arise again to make us slaves. Arise, O God, and stand, and smite For Ireland’s wrong, for Ireland’s right ! Our Lady, stay the pitying tear ! There is no room for pity here ! What pity knew the Saxon e’er ? Arise, O God, and slay nor spare, Until full vengeance rightly wrought Bring all their house of wrong to nought ! Scorn, the catastrophe of crime, These be their monuments through time ! And Ireland, green once more and fresh, Draw life from the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 8

Rosa Coeli

… dizzy seas Of this my mind, Sabbatic rout that spanned These straits my soul ! Ay, they are dead and drowned (And damned, I doubt !) Ah God ! I am exhaust In the red moon’s holocaust ! God ! God ! The chasms secret and profound Suck down the porphyry flood Of your maniacal, ensorcelled blood That maddens and bewitches. My life is suffocated—now I swoon— I die ! I am in hell, red hell, red hell, Circles me closer ; all the soul’s afire As if the boreal moon With all the icy Lapland hags That shiver on ’s hibernal crags Were but a thin white she…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 453

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ng stone So fierce a questing barked and brayed, It turned his laughter to a groan. His vow forgot, his task undone, His soul whipped in God’s bitter school! (He moaned a mighty malison !) The perfect knight? The perfect fool! “Now, by God’s wounds!” quoth he, “my strength Is burnt out to a pest of pains. Let me fling off my curse at length In old Chaldea’s starry plains! Thou blesséd Jesus, foully nailed Unto the cruel Calvary tree, Look on my soul’s poor fort assailed By all the hosts of devilry ! Is there no medicine but death That shall ava…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 453

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ng stone So fierce a questing barked and brayed, It turned his laughter to a groan. His vow forgot, his task undone, His soul whipped in God’s bitter school! (He moaned a mighty malison !) The perfect knight? The perfect fool! “Now, by God’s wounds!” quoth he, “my strength Is burnt out to a pest of pains. Let me fling off my curse at length In old Chaldea’s starry plains! Thou blesséd Jesus, foully nailed Unto the cruel Calvary tree, Look on my soul’s poor fort assailed By all the hosts of devilry ! Is there no medicine but death That shall ava…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 239

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…m, Advaitism, and Dvaitism. Taking the ordinary hypothesis of the universe, that of its infinity, or at any rate that of the infinity of God, or of the infinity of some substance or idea actually existing, we first come to the question of the possi- bility of the co-existence of God and man. The Christians, in the category of the ex- istent, enumerate among other things, whose consideration we may discard for the pur- poses of this argument, God, .an_ infinite being; man; Satan and his angels; man certainly, Satan presumably, finite beings. The…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 28

White Stains

22 A FRAGMENT Th’ Eternity of an immortal self That is, and shall be while the stars endure, Or while a God of Love is pitiful Of all men’s sorrows, and most happy in Their joys— She. Ah ! joys are fleeting !— He. But our love Is anchored in the portals of the dawn Where heaven begins. She. And heaven begins with us This day. Behold the flowers, whose kindly gaze Of modest love is on us as we stand, And clasp fond hands before high Heaven to swear Truth an eternal bond, no parchment scroll Of perishable matter ill devised And scored upon with p…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 137

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…sh consumes my soul; My body towards the city turns, My spirit seeks its fierier goal ; In wells of heaven to quench my thirst, And take God’s hand among the first. I conquered self; I grew at last A prophet chosen of the Lord ; I blew the trumpet’s iron blast That called on Zimri Omri’s sword; My voice inflamed the fiery steel That was to smite upon Jezreel. And now, I haste from yonder sands, With fervour filled, to say God’s doom To Ahab of the bloody hands, The spoiler of his father’s tomb, The slayer of the vineyard king. God’s judgment, a…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 186

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… leaping on his mate ; The upright posture for sure murder taken ; The gibberings modified to spit out hate : Struggle to manhood—surely God-for- saken. The bestial cause of Morals—fear and hate. At last the anguish-vomit of despair, The growth of reason—and its pangs abate No whit: the knife replaces the arm bare. Fear grows, and torment; and distracted pain Mist from sheer agony some respite find ; When some half-maddened miserable brain Projects a God in his detesting mind. A God who made him—to the core all evil, In his own image—and a God …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 381

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e of all absurdities. Remain the objections of dissent. The Jews, our fathers in religion, reproach us with having attacked the unity of God, with having changed the immut- able and eternal law, with adoring the creature instead of the Creator. These heavy reproaches are founded on their perfectly false notion of Christianity. Our God is the God of Moses, unique, immaterial, infinite God, sole object of worship, and ever the same. Like the Jews, we believe Him to be present everywhere, but, as they ought to do, we believe Him living, thinking a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 381

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e of all absurdities. Remain the objections of dissent. The Jews, our fathers in religion, reproach us with having attacked the unity of God, with having changed the immut- able and eternal law, with adoring the creature instead of the Creator. These heavy reproaches are founded on their perfectly false notion of Christianity. Our God is the God of Moses, unique, immaterial, infinite God, sole object of worship, and ever the same. Like the Jews, we believe Him to be present everywhere, but, as they ought to do, we believe Him living, thinking a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 164

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… upward to itself again . Out of the lives of heroes and their deeds , Out of the miracle of human thought, Out of the songs of singers, God proceeds ; And of the soul of them his Soul is wrought. Nothing is lost : all that is dreamed or done Passes unaltered the eternal way , Immerging in the everlasting One , Who was the dayspring and who is the day . Joscelyn . Good poet , cease , and quaff some ale with me . John . You have not said who raised me from the sod . Henry . Your speech is rank and hellish blasphemy . Caspar . Nay , nay ,- and ye…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 73

Amphora

…ORA III Pro Gente Anglicana I N great cathedral cities, In cloisters old and dim, Wherever worth or wit is, We raise the choral hymn. To GOD’S eternal Mother We lift our hearts of flame ; We join with one another To bless Her holy name. II O hear us, blessed Mary ! Thy graces send as dew, As kisses fond and faery Our spirits to renew ! O bid our sinful nation, The broken from the rod, By Thine initiation Soar subtly up to GOD ! I 66

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1907 · PDF PAGE 97

Konx Om Pax

… sin of mine And this alone, when neophytes (Confused by the excess of lights) Perceive not what they ought to see: “There is none other God than He." Oh how the good converted Fiend Worries those Postulants unweaned! Though now he dances deosil He pounds them many a purging pill. He cleans them from their piggish food; He brings them to beatitude. “ Hua is God!" quoth Asmodee: “ There is none other God than He.” A silence ensued. At last, from Denzil: You mean very much what the Hindus mean by their doctrine of Maya? Exactly so; but of course …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 321

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…בל Sorrow; wept, mourned?לבא Day Demon of 1“ Dec. rr-?לאב To destroy (Ch); (e) a King?אלב of Edom Spring, fountain?לג <4+>)4צ24!*(4? 7! “GOD the Father,” divineלא ?בא name attributed to Jupiter To ransom, avenge, pollute?לאג To reveal?אלנ A pauper?לד A common person ; unr?טך`ךה educated, ignorant Angel οἷ’; (Ξ.?היוהה 33 34 Agla, a name of GOD ;?אלנא notariqon of Ateh Gibor leOlahm Adonai Boundary, limit He will goדחי 5 6%:20-81 ©. The Mysrie [35 Number of Hod Tabernaculum?להא How? (Vide Lamentations)?הביא Duke of Geburah in Edom;?הלא to curse; …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 321

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…בל Sorrow; wept, mourned?לבא Day Demon of 1“ Dec. rr-?לאב To destroy (Ch); (e) a King?אלב of Edom Spring, fountain?לג <4+>)4צ24!*(4? 7! “GOD the Father,” divineלא ?בא name attributed to Jupiter To ransom, avenge, pollute?לאג To reveal?אלנ A pauper?לד A common person ; unr?טך`ךה educated, ignorant Angel οἷ’; (Ξ.?היוהה 33 34 Agla, a name of GOD ;?אלנא notariqon of Ateh Gibor leOlahm Adonai Boundary, limit He will goדחי 5 6%:20-81 ©. The Mysrie [35 Number of Hod Tabernaculum?להא How? (Vide Lamentations)?הביא Duke of Geburah in Edom;?הלא to curse; …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 212

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX eyes of the gilded courtezan—Babylon, thou harlot of the Seven mansions of God’s Glory! But he kept it free from rust, sharp and glittering bright, so that when the time came wherein he should be called upon to use it, it might leap forth from its sheath like a flash of lightning from betwixt the lips of God, and slay him who had ventured to cross his path, silently, without even so much as grating against his bones.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 212

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX eyes of the gilded courtezan—Babylon, thou harlot of the Seven mansions of God’s Glory! But he kept it free from rust, sharp and glittering bright, so that when the time came wherein he should be called upon to use it, it might leap forth from its sheath like a flash of lightning from betwixt the lips of God, and slay him who had ventured to cross his path, silently, without even so much as grating against his bones.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 73

Hail Mary

…ORA III Pro Gente Anglicana I N great cathedral cities, In cloisters old and dim, Wherever worth or wit is, We raise the choral hymn. To GOD’S eternal Mother We lift our hearts of flame ; We join with one another To bless Her holy name. II O hear us, blessed Mary ! Thy graces send as dew, As kisses fond and faery Our spirits to renew ! O bid our sinful nation, The broken from the rod, By Thine initiation Soar subtly up to GOD ! I 66

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1898 · PDF PAGE 52

Jephthah

…sacred songs ineffable, In all the words of power that fly About the world, this song they spell : He keepeth Israel. AHINOAM. Ye praise God of full heart: I would to God Your minds were somewhat fuller, and could keep Discretion seated on her ivory throne. What folly is it they will now be at, Gray beards, and goatish manners? Hearken them! CHORUS. In the brave old days ere men began To bind young hearts with an iron tether, Ere love was brief as life, a span, Ere love was light as life, a feather, Earth was free as the glad wild weather, God …

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