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1913 · PDF PAGE 211

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ROSA IGNOTA Was the veil of Olympus! Now the shadowy night That sang to me, that sang, that sang to me Sprang from the underworld of Eld; the moon That circled in the heavens sang to me. And I that heard the olden monstrous lays Of eld, the dreaming wonders of the dawn, Died, and still lie imprisoned in the rocks By the salt sea, knowing of the doom of man, But being dumb, as is the doom of man. For nightfall is delight of Eld, and I Wander bareheaded under the dark sky; Calling and calling from the windy deeps, The olden Night still draws me: …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 61

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty! 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! 38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet— secret, O Prophet! 4o. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43.…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 211

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ROSA IGNOTA Was the veil of Olympus! Now the shadowy night That sang to me, that sang, that sang to me Sprang from the underworld of Eld; the moon That circled in the heavens sang to me. And I that heard the olden monstrous lays Of eld, the dreaming wonders of the dawn, Died, and still lie imprisoned in the rocks By the salt sea, knowing of the doom of man, But being dumb, as is the doom of man. For nightfall is delight of Eld, and I Wander bareheaded under the dark sky; Calling and calling from the windy deeps, The olden Night still draws me: …

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1902 · PDF PAGE 37

Tannhäuser

…e, dear, The loves of lambent spring. Our lamp the drooping moon, dear, Our roof, the stars that sing ; The bed, of moss and roses ; The night, as long as death ! Still, breath ! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth ! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden, The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover 35

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1910 · PDF PAGE 75

Ambergris

…ing with solar fire, The single-eyed desire Of scent and sound and sight and sense perfuses The still and lambent light Of the essential night ; And all the heart of me is fain, and muses, As if for ever doomed to dream Or pass in peace Lethean adown the grey Lethean stream. So deep the sense of beauty, and so keen ! The calm abiding holiness of love Reigns ; and so fallen from the heights above Immeasurable, the influence unseen Of music and of spiritual fire, That the soul sleeps, forgotten of desire, Only remembering its God-like birth Refle…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 8

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…rs sâoul” Charles Baudelaire. Delaying to do the thing that’s right Is as bad as having a funk on; Then why should we wait till Saturday night To get all kinds of a drunk on? With brandy a century old in sight, Why should we wait till Saturday night? If I haven’t a house on the Grand Parade, I’ll build me a hut of wattle. The corkscrew seems to have got mislaid? Then smash the neck of the bottle! Courage and will and a whack will aid, Though the corkscrew seem to have got mislaid. Anatomists say that a single wing Isn’t much for a bird to fly o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 56

Ambergris

…nfinite rings of luminous ether move At first amid the blackness that I seek : Infinite motion and amazing love Deaden the lustre of the night. I speak The cry of silence, that is heard unspoken ; That, being heard, rings evermore unbroken. Silence, deep silence. Not a shudder stirs The vast demesne of unforgetful space, No comet’s lunatic rush ; no meteor whirs, No star dares breathe, no planet knows his place In that supreme unquiet quietude. I am the master of my own deep mood. I am the master. Yea, no doubt I rule The whole mad universe by …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 106

Gargoyles

…Support the Arahat’s abode. Who grasps one truth, beholds one light, Becomes that truth, that light; discedes From dark and deliquescent night, From futile thoughts and fatuous deeds. Your girl, your gems, your mournful tones Irk not perfection with their goad. One thing I know—a set of bones Is travelling on upon this road !” 98

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1907 · PDF PAGE 101

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… icy glimmer Shows dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed ? | Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled! Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness! blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, IIence hidden for an hour : imagining…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 325

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…גב Ornament?הב Dread, terror?המיא He suffered?הנא Angel 014 C.?לאװה Day?םוי Beautiful?האנ Rim?]רבא Consuming?לכוא Wealth, an age, Time ; Night?ןוא Demon oi in Dec.?חן Formidable, terrible?םייא We?דכא A breaking down, subversion,?לוטיב destruction 55 56 57 Built?הנב χ. [Fish (pl.) ; vide 7]?םינד Angel of 8 Cr?הילוי Angel of5 C.?היוול Altar?חבזמ The layingeby, making secret?אןבהמ [Vide not 499]?םיבהא [VideK,D, Lox. p. 69,] An?ןזא ear Night Demon of is1 Dec. 1?!גאד יליה Love, kindness, grace; notarlqon l"? of Chokmah Nesethrah, the? Secret Wisdom?…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 325

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…גב Ornament?הב Dread, terror?המיא He suffered?הנא Angel 014 C.?לאװה Day?םוי Beautiful?האנ Rim?]רבא Consuming?לכוא Wealth, an age, Time ; Night?ןוא Demon oi in Dec.?חן Formidable, terrible?םייא We?דכא A breaking down, subversion,?לוטיב destruction 55 56 57 Built?הנב χ. [Fish (pl.) ; vide 7]?םינד Angel of 8 Cr?הילוי Angel of5 C.?היוול Altar?חבזמ The layingeby, making secret?אןבהמ [Vide not 499]?םיבהא [VideK,D, Lox. p. 69,] An?ןזא ear Night Demon of is1 Dec. 1?!גאד יליה Love, kindness, grace; notarlqon l"? of Chokmah Nesethrah, the? Secret Wisdom?…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 115

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…as sleeping. A tear is made of fire and dew And saddened with a smile; The sun’s laugh in the curving blue Lasts but a little while. The night-winds kiss the deep: the stars Shed laughter from above; But night must pass dawn’s prison bars : Night hath not tasted love.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 55

Collected Works (Vol. I)

48 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT THE STORM. In the storm that divides the wild night from the passionate kiss of the morn- ing Stands there a tower by the sea un- shaken by wave and by wind ; Lightning assails, and the sea breaks-vain on the battlements, scorning Even to fling back the foam shattered before and behind ; Save for one window its height rears up unbroken and blind. tere may a man gaze out to the night by the stars of it stricken, Out to the blind black air that the lightning divides, and is dumb; Ifere, and look back in the tower’ where pal…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 346

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 249 L.A4 Angel of 6?לאוןךא Night Demon of?:"”יDec.:?רומג Fear, terror?רוגמ 250 The living GOD ofיהלא ?ם`זנלועה the Worlds; or, of the Ages [The South] Midday?םורד Habit, action (Ch)?רורמ 1r 2 5 r Fir, cedar?ורא The angel Uriel: "Vrihl,"?להיךן i.e. Magical Force [Vide Lytton's “ Coming Race,” andAbra—Melin—forehead Lamen] Angel or xo wt?לאייר 252 Serpent’s den?הרואמ Σ (1—22) 253 Proselytes?םירג Mati-ed,- who symbolizes the?דרטמ Elaborations on the side of Severity 254 Angel of 3"l Dec. ”::.?לאףוךג Geomantic Intelligence ofΔ?לאיר…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 346

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 249 L.A4 Angel of 6?לאוןךא Night Demon of?:"”יDec.:?רומג Fear, terror?רוגמ 250 The living GOD ofיהלא ?ם`זנלועה the Worlds; or, of the Ages [The South] Midday?םורד Habit, action (Ch)?רורמ 1r 2 5 r Fir, cedar?ורא The angel Uriel: "Vrihl,"?להיךן i.e. Magical Force [Vide Lytton's “ Coming Race,” andAbra—Melin—forehead Lamen] Angel or xo wt?לאייר 252 Serpent’s den?הרואמ Σ (1—22) 253 Proselytes?םירג Mati-ed,- who symbolizes the?דרטמ Elaborations on the side of Severity 254 Angel of 3"l Dec. ”::.?לאףוךג Geomantic Intelligence ofΔ?לאיר…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 65

Alice: An Adultery

…den in dark and mist, The moon and sun are dead, Because my love has caught and kissed My body in her bed. No light may shine this happy night— Unless my Alice be the light. 45

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1906 · PDF PAGE 63

Gargoyles

… icy glimmer Shows dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed? Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled! Your golden world 55

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1913 · PDF PAGE 19

The Book of Lies

…one are They whose number is Six:° else were they six indeed. Seven © are these Six that live not in the City of the Pyramids, under the Night of Pan. There was Lao-tzii. There was Siddartha. There was Krishna. There was Tahuti. There was Mosheh. There was Dionysus.’ There was Mahmud. But the Seventh men called PERDURABO; for enduring unto The End, at The End was Naught to endure.® Amen.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 152

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…nd paler curves of the immutable bars That line the universe with light, Great eagle-flights of mystic moons That dip, while the dull midnight swoons About the skirts of Night : These bowed and shaped themselves and said : “* Tt shall be thus !” And the intolerable luminous Death that is god bent down his head And answered : ‘‘ Thus, immutably, Above all days and deeds, shall be!” And the great Light that is above all gods Lifted his calm brow, spake, and all the seas, And all the air, and all the periods Of seasons and of stars gave ear, and t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 45

Ambergris

…wn of the lilies of light— For a maiden they crowned her in May, For the Queen of the Daughters of Day That are flowers of the forest of Night. They crowned her with lilies and blue, They crowned her with yellow and roses ; They gave her a sceptre of rue, And a girdle of laurel and yew, And a basket of pansies in posies. They led her with songs by the stream ; They brought her with tears to the river ; They danced as the maze of a dream ; They kissed her to roses and cream, And they cried, Let the queen live for ever ! They took her, with all o…

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