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1905 · PDF PAGE 12

Rosa Mundi

…ant His poison ? Did we hesitate ? Leave but one little chance to Fate ? For one swift second did we wait ? There is no need to answer : God is God, A jealous God and evil ; with His rod He smiteth fair and foul, and with His sword Divideth tiniest atoms of intangible time, That men may know he is the Lord. Then, with that sharp division, Did He divide our wit sublime ? Our knowledge bring to nought ? We had no need of thought. We brought His malice in derision.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 88

The World’s Tragedy

I THE RED STAR SCENE. — A grove of ilex in Arcadia. The terrace is of white mar- ble. In the centre an image of the god Pan in Ivory and Gold. The pedestal is of lapis-lazuli, the space around of malachite. It is strewn with red roses. Before the image of the god stands a naked man, in whose hand is a sharp sword heavy and curved. Its blade is of blue steel, its hilt encrusted with rubies. The man is come to his full strength ; he is very dark with deep-set glittering eyes of green flecked with fire. His beard is short, square, curly, and black…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 37

The Mother’s Tragedy

…barricades, [He picks up his mother’s Bible, tears it, and casts tt into the fire. And swear before the Spirit of the World, In sight of God, this day: I love you still With carnal love and spiritual love! And I will have you, by the living God, To be my mistress. If I fail in this, Or falter in this counsel of despair, May God’s own curses dog me into hell, And mine own life perpetuate itself Through all the ages of eternity. Amen! Amen! Come, Cora, to my heart! [He stoops to embrace her. Horror and madness catch him, and he runs about the roo…

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1914 · PDF PAGE 5

Chicago May

…hat she blasphemes ; her life's Satyricon Would taint all speech! Yet “love,” obscenely purred From whiskered lips, stillsends my spi To God from all this miry martyrdom. ‘There is a woman, true, fair, wise, and young, Her soul one flame for art and song, her soul Pure as the trilling musick of her tongue, Her heart one flame—for me. The single goal Of this great purgatory of mine is she. God grant her hope to her, and mine to me! fa) ‘Thou all-beholding sun, whose beams Comfort the just and the unjust, Wake me from all these evil dreams Of thi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 84

The Book of Lies

…ings; they are reborn in other shapes. I gave up all for One; this One hath given up its Unity for all? I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks. Think me not fallen because I love LAYLAH, and lack LAYLAH. I am the Master of the Universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and LAYLAH naked! Amen.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 3

The God-Eater

THE GOD-EATER

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1913 · PDF PAGE 360

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. But Diana is not conquered by Venus; her Endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in mother- hood! Quit the tomb, O Phidias, and rejoice in the destruction o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 360

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. But Diana is not conquered by Venus; her Endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in mother- hood! Quit the tomb, O Phidias, and rejoice in the destruction o…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 61

White Stains

ALL NIGHT 55 Kissing the gates of hell, the sword of God, Each unto each a serpent or a rod, A well of wine and fire, each unto each, Whose lips are fain convulsively to reach A higher heaven, a deeper hell. Ah ! Day So soon to dawn, delight to snatch away ! Damned day, whose sunlight finds us as with wine Drunken, with lust made manifest divine Devils of darkness, servants unto hell— Yea, king and queen of Sheol, terrible Above all fiends and furies, hating more The high Jehovah, loving Baal Peor, Our father and our lover and our god ! Yea, th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 13

The Winged Beetle

… 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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1912 · PDF PAGE 165

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE FORTY-EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS of your Creation ; be friendly unto me, for I am the servant of the same your God, the true worshipper of the Highest. The Angle of A of Δ, ἰπ the tablet of Δ. The Prince of the Chariot of Fire. THE SEVENTEENTH KEY ILASA dial peretal soba vaupaahe cahisa nanuba zodixalayo dodasihe od berinutafaxisa hubaro tasataxa yolasa: soba lad z' Vonupehe o Uonupehe: aladonu dax ila od toatarel Zoda— care od Zodameranu! Odo cicale Qaal Zodoreje, lape zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe IAI D A. THE SEVENTEENTH KEY O THOU third Flame! …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 165

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE FORTY-EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS of your Creation ; be friendly unto me, for I am the servant of the same your God, the true worshipper of the Highest. The Angle of A of Δ, ἰπ the tablet of Δ. The Prince of the Chariot of Fire. THE SEVENTEENTH KEY ILASA dial peretal soba vaupaahe cahisa nanuba zodixalayo dodasihe od berinutafaxisa hubaro tasataxa yolasa: soba lad z' Vonupehe o Uonupehe: aladonu dax ila od toatarel Zoda— care od Zodameranu! Odo cicale Qaal Zodoreje, lape zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe IAI D A. THE SEVENTEENTH KEY O THOU third Flame! …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 258

The Star in the West

…octrines of the older and simpler Qabalah . The Qabalah guides us to a divine theurgy . Ac cording to the Zohar it is impossible to know God , herein the Qabalah is Agnostic , it forbids the repre sentation of God , herein it is Rational . The Ain Soph is the “ All-pervading ,” the “ Non Ens ” dwelling in the “ Non Est , " it is inscrutable to man's mind ; this vast Pleroma , Corona Summa , The All , is formless , and is symbolized by a circle , it is Nothing. As the Ain Soph is the closed eye of the Unknown Darkness , so is Macroprosopus , who…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 50

The Holy Books

6. Thou hast appeared unto me as a young and brilliant God, a god of music and beauty, - even as a young god in his strength, playing upon the lyre. 7. Thou hast appeared unto me as the white foam of Ocean gathered into limbs whiter than the foam, the limbs of a miracle of women, as a goddess of extreme love, bearing the girdle of gold. 8. Thou hast appeared to me as a young boy mischievous and lovely, with Thy winged globe and its serpents set upon a staff. 9. Thou hast appeared to me as an huntress among Thy dogs, as a goddess virginal chaste…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 123

Konx Om Pax

…r rest) Just where the jury at the ’Quest At the Asylum duly find “Suicide while of Unsound Mind.” This time we skip from earth to heaven God stands among the Spirits Seven. The Seven Lamps about Him flame. Myriad archangels cry His name. Millions of elders, prophets, preachers, Saints, martyrs, virgins, hermits, teachers, Angels, evangelists, apostles All singing like a lot of throstles All out of tune with one another, And every one a Plymouth Brother, With praise set heaven in a whirl. Up slinks the poor bedevilled Earl, Saved after all! The g…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 522 `” 5ï 3 524 525 The LORD of Hosts, `הוה ?תואבצ a name of GOD re- ferred to Netzach 526 Superliminare?ףוקשמ 527 Σ (1—32) 528 23’ $529 Afl’atura ollaris cum?הך'רקT)": iusculo dulci Day Demon of 3rd Dec. 93?ירופיש 53° The Rose?תלצבח Voices?תלק Tekel, a. word of the ‘wrifing?לקה on the wall’ at Belshazzar’s fabled feast 53I 532 533 Heaven of J'esodלבט ןוליו ?םימש of Malkuth King of Tenorsךלמ תוהלב 534 A certain Name of GOD?קשרלק 535 536תילט הנבל תולטמ A white cloak Sphere of the fixed stars 51 The World of Assiah,םלוע ?הישעה the ‘…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 522 `” 5ï 3 524 525 The LORD of Hosts, `הוה ?תואבצ a name of GOD re- ferred to Netzach 526 Superliminare?ףוקשמ 527 Σ (1—32) 528 23’ $529 Afl’atura ollaris cum?הך'רקT)": iusculo dulci Day Demon of 3rd Dec. 93?ירופיש 53° The Rose?תלצבח Voices?תלק Tekel, a. word of the ‘wrifing?לקה on the wall’ at Belshazzar’s fabled feast 53I 532 533 Heaven of J'esodלבט ןוליו ?םימש of Malkuth King of Tenorsךלמ תוהלב 534 A certain Name of GOD?קשרלק 535 536תילט הנבל תולטמ A white cloak Sphere of the fixed stars 51 The World of Assiah,םלוע ?הישעה the ‘…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 45

The Mother’s Tragedy

…corners; yea, some fire Malignant, terrible—nay, pitiable, Thou poor fool stricken with senility, How spurred to passion? Yet behold thy god, Horus, lest anger take benignancy From his left hand and smite thee with his strength. Thou hearest? Nay, thou pitiful old man, For I have loved thee. Yet my godhead must Get worship. Anger not the god, but stoop, My faithful priest, and worship at my feet. AMENHATEP. I am most miserable. But truth must leap In this tremendous moment from my lips, Its long-shut barrier. For I pity thee With my old heart’s…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 15

Aceldama

VII. I climbed still inwards. At the moveless point Where all power, light, life, motion concentrate, I found God dwelling. Strong, immaculate, He knew me and he loved ! His lips anoint My lips with love ; with thirst insatiate He drank my breath, Absorbed my life in His, dispersed me, gave me death. VIII. This is release, is freedom, is desire ; This is the one hope that a man may gain ; This is the lasting ecstasy of pain That fools reject, the dread, the searching fire That quivers in the marrow, that in vain Burns secretly The unconsuméd bu…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 109

Little Poems in Prose

…prodigious happiness, and, as I lay down to sleep, kneeling once more in prayer (a tag of imbecile custom!) I repeated, half asleep; “Oh God. Oh Lord my God, do Thou grant that the devil keep his word to me!”

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