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1908 · PDF PAGE 17

Amphora

…ed, discrowned ! Now might not men withstand, Save that one maiden bland Aids with Her splendid hand Them whose poor power is spanned By earth’s sad ground. All hail ! dear CHRIST, all hail ! None could endure Thy pale Anguish ; all creatures veil Their woeful eyes. Joy fills the hells of hate. Thou shalt their rage abate, Conquer the lords of fate, Virgin immaculate, Serene and wise ! A 10

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1910 · PDF PAGE 150

The World’s Tragedy

THE BLUE DWARF. 97 GOVINDA Dance, o thou mannikin Dwarf and malign To the clink of Earth’s pannikin Drained of its wine ! CHAU Dance, to the scream Of strangled humanity, The delirious dream Of the Vampires of Vanity ! The kings rise, bow, and depart. THE KINGS Away, away like the wanton wind ! One to the groves of ilex tall ; One to the plains of infinite Ind ; One beyond the Mongol wall. As we met, so we part. Three great kings and one true heart !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 58

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… the call Of ibex that behold on high Night’s funeral, And see the pale moon quiver and depart Far beyond space, the sun ascend And draw earth’s globe unto his heart To make an end; The shriek of startled birds; the sobs that tear With sudden terror the sharp sea That slept, and wove its golden hair Most mournfully 5 The rending of the earth at his command Who wields the wrath of heaven, and is dumb ; Hell starts up Is overcome. and before his hand LG. C. Jones, then of Basingstoke, a pro- found mystic. I heard these voices, and beheld afar The…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 142

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…here can be no completeness in the advance to holiness. I. The general conception is that the three active éléments co-operate to affect earth; but earth itself may be employed as an instrument. Its function is solidification. The use of the Pentacle is indeed very necessary in somc types of operation, especially those whose object involves mani¬ festation in matter, and the fixation in (more or less) permanent form of the subtle forces of Nature.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 85

Alice: An Adultery

…the kiss of tender lovers— Let mingle also the sun’s kiss to sea, Also the wind’s kiss to the bird that hovers, The flower’s kiss to the earth’s deep greenery. All elemental love closes and covers Both you and me. All shapes of silence and of sound and seeing, All lives of Nature molten into this, The moonlight waking and the shadows fleeing, Strange sorcery of unimagined bliss, All breath breathing in ours ; mingled all being Into the kiss. 65

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1908 · PDF PAGE 65

Amphora

AMPHORA XII WAKE the earthly choir To match the host of heaven, Where the seven lamps of mystic fire Shine, and the spirits seven ! In this religious gloom Invoke the light divine As, Mary, in Thy blessed womb GOD made the Daystar shine. This common fruit of earth Be made the Body of grace Even as the flesh by Jesu’s birth Was holy for a space. All things by heavenly power To that redemption come Equal before Thee in the hour Of joy or martyrdom. Amen. A 58

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1911 · PDF PAGE 17

Hail Mary

…ed, discrowned ! Now might not men withstand, Save that one maiden bland Aids with Her splendid hand Them whose poor power is spanned By earth’s sad ground. All hail ! dear CHRIST, all hail ! None could endure Thy pale Anguish ; all creatures veil Their woeful eyes. Joy fills the hells of hate. Thou shalt their rage abate, Conquer the lords of fate, Virgin immaculate, Serene and wise ! A 10

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1909 · PDF PAGE 136

John St. John

…nto His presence eternally even now. But He withdrew Himself, for that I must do that which I was sent hither to do; namely, to rule the earth. Therefore with sweetness ineffable He parted from me ; yet leaving acomfort not to be told, aPeace . . . the Peace. And the Light and the Perfume do certainly yet remain with me in the little Chamber, and I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. For I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold! I am alive for evermore, and have the Keys of Hell and of De…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 8

Carmen Saeculare

…sel deep ; I hear the thunder the winds utter in broken sleep ; I hear the voices of four rivers crying aloud ; Four Angels trumpet, and earth shivers : the heavens shroud Their faces in blank terror for the sound of them : The mountains are disturbed and roar : the azure hem That laps all lands is broken, lashed in fiery foam, And all God’s thunderbolts are crashed—against my home. Written in heaven, written on earth, written in the deep, Written by God’s own finger-birth ; the stars may weep, The sun rejoice, that see at last His vengeance st…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 65

Hail Mary

AMPHORA XII WAKE the earthly choir To match the host of heaven, Where the seven lamps of mystic fire Shine, and the spirits seven ! In this religious gloom Invoke the light divine As, Mary, in Thy blessed womb GOD made the Daystar shine. This common fruit of earth Be made the Body of grace Even as the flesh by Jesu’s birth Was holy for a space. All things by heavenly power To that redemption come Equal before Thee in the hour Of joy or martyrdom. Amen. A 58

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1911 · PDF PAGE 29

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ly, the poor, the tearful—these are mine enemies, and I am come to destroy them. 26. This also is compassion : an end to the sickness of earth. A rooting-out of the weeds: a watering of the flowers. 27. O my children, ye are more beautiful than the flowers : ye must not fade in your season. 28. I love you ; I would sprinkleyou with the divine dew of immortality. 29. This immortality is no vain hope beyond the grave: I offer you the certain consciousness of bliss. 30. I offer it at once, on earth ; before an hour hath struck upon the bell, ye shal…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 29

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ly, the poor, the tearful—these are mine enemies, and I am come to destroy them. 26. This also is compassion : an end to the sickness of earth. A rooting-out of the weeds: a watering of the flowers. 27. O my children, ye are more beautiful than the flowers : ye must not fade in your season. 28. I love you ; I would sprinkleyou with the divine dew of immortality. 29. This immortality is no vain hope beyond the grave: I offer you the certain consciousness of bliss. 30. I offer it at once, on earth ; before an hour hath struck upon the bell, ye shal…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 156

Collected Works (Vol. III)

150 ORPHEUS ORPHEUS. O hours not of day But of ons that roll! Earth stretches away From pole unto pole ; Four seasons decay, Ere one sound of thy soul, O fervent and following years, springs over the solar goal ! Come forth to the sound Of the seven sweet strings ! Advance and rebound ! Be your. pomp as a king’s ! Girdled around With seasons and stings As a serpent’s encompassing Time. forth ! on the heavy grey wings! Come Ye arbiter lords That sit as for doom, Bright splendour of swords Leaps forth in your gloom ! But stronger my chords Shall …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 324

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH Red earth, the soil ; Earth of?המרא Chesed Closed, shut up?םמא Angel of 9 P.?,ךיךלא Jonah’s Whaleנך ?לחנ To ferment?המה Pains, sorrows?ילבח Unclean, impure?אמט 58m?ש ”,| endילו ?ש The sea?םי All, every?לכ To thee?ךל What ?—Which ??ימ Edom?טררא Terrible ; Day Demon of 2"Cl?ם`א Dec. [TL Ate; devoured?לבא Pain?וא Tumultuously (vide πο. 451);?םוה to harass, perturb Angel or 8 s. [Vide K. ofs.,?לאההי fig. 52] Failure?אב Father and Motherאבא ?אמאו Supernal Mother?אמא Elihu : Eli Hue, “He is my?ןהילא GOD,” who is the Holy Guardian Ang…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 324

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH Red earth, the soil ; Earth of?המרא Chesed Closed, shut up?םמא Angel of 9 P.?,ךיךלא Jonah’s Whaleנך ?לחנ To ferment?המה Pains, sorrows?ילבח Unclean, impure?אמט 58m?ש ”,| endילו ?ש The sea?םי All, every?לכ To thee?ךל What ?—Which ??ימ Edom?טררא Terrible ; Day Demon of 2"Cl?ם`א Dec. [TL Ate; devoured?לבא Pain?וא Tumultuously (vide πο. 451);?םוה to harass, perturb Angel or 8 s. [Vide K. ofs.,?לאההי fig. 52] Failure?אב Father and Motherאבא ?אמאו Supernal Mother?אמא Elihu : Eli Hue, “He is my?ןהילא GOD,” who is the Holy Guardian Ang…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 26

Alice: An Adultery

…pace and sun and star, As drifts a nenuphar Down lilied creeks. Beyond the heavens I see The pale embroidery Of some wan child Waster by earth and sea, Whose kisses were too free, Too swift and wild ; A Maenad’s floating tress Lost in the wilderness Of death’s or my caress, Discrowned, defiled. 4

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1907 · PDF PAGE 126

The Star in the West

…the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadfast pride , And on my neck his foot triumphant press'd . So it is to - day . Conventionalism is passing along its way chaotic and disordered . Mutinus is worshipped at every street corner , and the goat of Mendes slavers over the revellers as they wend their way home with their Gitons and Messalinas . “ The decay of a people , as well as a family , begins with the preponderance of se…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 53

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

V. Of tlie Office of the Collects which. are Eleven in Number (THE SUN) The DEACON. Lord visible and sensible of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpétuai radiance hearten us to continuai labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (TH…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 112

The Book of Thoth

…nted by Herschel, the planet of disintegration and explosion. 4. Jupiter 5. Mars. 6. The Sun. 7. Venus. 8. Mercury. 9. The Moon. 10. The Earth. (The Four Elements). All these symbols swim and dance in a complex but continuous ambience of loops and whorls. The general colour of the traditional card is subfusc; it represents the confusion and darkness of the material world. But the New Aeon has brought fullness of Light; in the Minu‐ tum Mundum, Earth is no longer black, or of mixed colours, but is pure bright green. Similarly, the indigo of Satu…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 92

Songs of the Spirit

…Is potent everywhere ; Creation waits th’ event : In silence, without sighing, The living and the dying, Oppressed and putrefying, Curse earth and firmament. What dreams disturb my slumber, Or what sights seen ? Foul orgies without number In dens and caves obscene, 82

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