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1910 · PDF PAGE 146

The World’s Tragedy

THE BLUE DWARF. 93 MIRIAM Have ye no pity, kings, at this disease ? O then I am a mere muck-midden of shame. But yet my body feeds on flame As if some masterpiece Were wrought — I know not how — pray cease ! Leave me with these ! CHAU Midden or maiden, we must see the birth Of thy black womb. Why do these moans disturb our mirth ? I will have thee lashed to shreds By this vile groom Unless thou quit thy prating. THE HAG Here’s pay for months of waiting. She detaches the placenta. A black old rotten wine-skin, mangy goat Patched with bat, stork,…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 15

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…y—the sweet bells toll A lost, lost soul, a soul in Satan’s bands, A lost, lost soul ! ODE TO VENUS CALLIPYGE.! WHERE was light when thy body came Out of the womb of a perished prayer? Where was life when the sultry air, Hot with the lust of night and shame, | Brooded on dust, when thy shoulders bare Shone on the sea with a sudden flame Into all Time to abundant fame? Daughter of Lust by the foam of the sea! Mother offlame! Sister of shame ! Tiger that Sin nor her son cannot tame! ~Worshtp to thee! Glory to thee! Venus Callipyge, mother of me. …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 26

Aceldama

XXIX. Choked with their reek and fume and bitter sweat His body perishes, his life is drained, The last sweet drop of nectar has not stained Another life, his lips and limbs are wet With death-dews ! Ha ! The painter has attained As high a meed As his who first begot sweet music on a reed. XXX. And O ! my music is so poor and thin ! I am poor Marsyas ; where shall I find A wise Olympas and a lover kind To teach my mouth to sing some secret sin, Faint, fierce, and horrible, to tune my mind, And on a reed Better beloved to bid me discourses at hi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 38

The Scented Garden

30 Is the passion of man for man. Let him but taste the wine ! It grips him body and soul. Once and for all, Whatever befall, He is bound to the golden goal By the joy of his shuddering spine.” He will know that in the rites of sodomy duly done, even more than in the rites of heterosexual passion, lies the great secret of the Universe, the Key of the Gardens of God..... But I must not proselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite does…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 257

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ve their sanction. Appeal from their decisions may however be made to the Supreme Council. “The Sixth Degree is an executive or military body, and represents the tem- poral power of the Supreme and Holy King. Each member is amenable to military discipline. Singly or in concert with his comrades, each Knight is vowed to enforce the decisions of authority. “The Grade of Grand Inquisitor Commander follows. Here every member has the right to a seat on the Grand Tribunal, which body decides all disputes and complaints which have not been composed by…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 7

Why Jesus Wept

….................. Provost of Queer Street. A Horny-Handed Brother (Plymouth). A conscientious Chemist. A Theatre-Goer. Large but unseen body of retainers. MAUD, MARCHIONESS OF GLENSTRAE ANGELA, LADY BAIRD .......................... HORTENSE .......................................... Her maid. MOLLY TYSON ...................................... Daughter of Tyson. Agéd (Plymouth) Sisters, etc., etc. The action of the play occupies 3 years.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 82

Rodin in Rime

…ure. For pure delight of luxury she turns, Smooth in her goddess rapture. So she spurns And crushes the pale suppliant. Softly bent, Her body laughs in ecstasy of leisure. o4

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1910 · PDF PAGE 122

The World’s Tragedy

…e her. MIRIAM Scarce forty ! Yet the dawn begins to stir : The Wolf’s tail blots my star. At last I strain Some strength that strains my body back again. THE CENTURION Enough, lads ! If she breed not, at my peril I shall uphold it “ Jewish girls are sterile. ”

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1913 · PDF PAGE 580

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…partakes of the universal life, and receives the imprint of the memories of Nature which will later determine the con- figuration of its body and the form of its features. That happy age may be called the childhood of the embryo. Adolescence follows; the human form becomes distinct, and its sex is determined; a movement takes place in the maternal egg which resembles the vague reveries of that age which follows upon childhood. The placenta, which is the exterior and the real body of the foetus, feels germinating in itself something unknown, whi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 580

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…partakes of the universal life, and receives the imprint of the memories of Nature which will later determine the con- figuration of its body and the form of its features. That happy age may be called the childhood of the embryo. Adolescence follows; the human form becomes distinct, and its sex is determined; a movement takes place in the maternal egg which resembles the vague reveries of that age which follows upon childhood. The placenta, which is the exterior and the real body of the foetus, feels germinating in itself something unknown, whi…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 65

Tannhäuser

…sionate hatred, what infernal pains, Mixed with thy being in the womb of Death ? Blistering fire runs, Scorching, terrific suns. Through body and soul in this abominable Marriage of demon power Subtle and strong and sour, A draught of ichor of the veins of Hell ! Curses leap leprous, epicene, unclean. The soul of the Obscene Incarnate in the spirit : and above Hangs Sin, vast vampire, the corrupt, that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world, and flaps for lust of Death —and Love! Venus. This man was drained of music ! Five new songs Chase …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 89

Rodin in Rime

…coiling round the riven rim, Lost beyond hope; and she, her sighs upswell, And sorrow shakes her: shame’s oblivious hell Burns round her body: in her eyes there swim Tears of deep joy, deep anguish; love's first hymn Is choral in her ear’s young miracle. She knows the utmost now: what waters white She held from heaven’s crystal fountains; flight Of what celestial birds struck down:—Ah me! What god or demigod hath struck remorse Into that close-crouched, cold, and desolate corse, Wailing her violate virginity ? SY / I

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1910 · PDF PAGE 444

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…HT The Me with Thou; then swift the quest To slay the Me should hook the Thou.” With that he crossed him, brow and breast, And flung his body from the prow. Anend? Alas! on silver sand Open his eyes; the surf-rings roar. What snorts there, swimming from the land? The Beast that brought him to the shore! “O Beast!” quoth purple Palamede, “ A morister strange as Thou am I. I could not live before, indeed; And now I cannot even die! Who chose me, of the Table Round By miracle acclaimed the chief ? Here, waterlogged and muscle-bound, Marooned upon …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 444

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…HT The Me with Thou; then swift the quest To slay the Me should hook the Thou.” With that he crossed him, brow and breast, And flung his body from the prow. Anend? Alas! on silver sand Open his eyes; the surf-rings roar. What snorts there, swimming from the land? The Beast that brought him to the shore! “O Beast!” quoth purple Palamede, “ A morister strange as Thou am I. I could not live before, indeed; And now I cannot even die! Who chose me, of the Table Round By miracle acclaimed the chief ? Here, waterlogged and muscle-bound, Marooned upon …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 170

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… fallen gently in the arms divine, Caressing arms of pale Persephone, And bathed her in death’s river tenderly, Washing the whole bright body, the long limbs, The clothing hair, the face, the witchery Of all the smiling shape in the dark stream, As one who gathers the first floral beam Of daylight by the water, dives and swims Deep in cool alleys, softer than a dream : So, rising to the other bank, aglow With the bright motion and the stream’s young flow, She might discover the Elysian ground, And find me waiting, find me sad and slow Pacing th…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 545

Magick Without Tears

516 Ascendent, 162 Asi,78,412 Asiatic God, 77 Assyrian, 94 Astaroth, 281, 412 Astarte, 281, 412 Astral Body, 19, 245,427,501 -Plane, 17,23,50,171,320, 356, 360, 363, 372, 390, 399,500 -Projection, 191, 245 -Travel, 18, 19, 22, 375, 389,410 Astrology, 430 Asuras,54 Athanasian Creed, 475 Athanor,114 Athene, 227 Atma, 195, 275 Atmadarshana, 56, 57,112 Atman,57 Atonement, 418 Attlla,68 Attis,465 Atziluth, 105 Augoeides, 203, 276,465 Agustus Caesar, 77 Aumont, Gerard, 38, 64, 89 Auphanium, 279 Auto-Hagiography, 188 Autolycus, 288 Ba, 195,203 Babalon…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 116

The Mother’s Tragedy

…gling happy breath. ‘‘Could I end so—this moment!” Lingereth The lazy gaze, half mournful and half blythe. But there’s another, when the body dieth— Hast thou no knowledge what the carcass saith ? I watched all night by my dead lover’s bed. I saw the spirit; heard the motionless Lips part in uttering a supreme caress: “T care not nor for life nor death;” they said, ‘““Only for love.” ‘What difference?” said I, ‘“‘ Dead or alive, I love thee utterly.”

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1922 · PDF PAGE 185

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…he poet was writing. It is a formless calm. But love! We had never loved like this before. We had defiled love with the grossness of the body. The body is an instrument of infinite pleasure; but excitement and desire sully its sublimity. We were conscious of every nerve to the tiniest filament ; and for this one must be ineffably aloof from movement. H. makes one want to scratch, and scratching is infinite pleasure. But that is only a relic of animal appetite. After a little while, one is able to enjoy the feeling that makes one want to scratch…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…d upon D.D.S., O.M., and another, the Authority of the Triad, who in turn have delegated it unto others, and they yet again, so that the Body of Initiates may be perfect, even from the Crown unto the Kingdom and beyond. 32. For Perfection abideth not in the Pinnacles, or in the Foundations, but in the ordered Harmony of one with all. 61

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1907 · PDF PAGE 168

Collected Works (Vol. III)

162 ORPHEUS Whose moony glimmer hath a purple vein Hidden—so I athirst of the sad stain Drink up her body’s life, as if to spite Its quiet, as if the venom were to drain Into my life—that hurts me not at all, Struck by a stronger buffet: let me call All deaths! they come not, seeing I am broken In this one horror where a man may fall. I am alive, and live not: I am dead, And die not: on my desolated head No dew may drop, no word of God be spoken, None heard, if by some chance some word be said. The wheels of Fate are over me; quite crushed Lies…

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