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1898 · PDF PAGE 18

Songs of the Spirit

…y and night apart, Know not where frost has laid his iron hand, Save only that it fastens on my heart ; Save only that it grips with icy fire These veins no fire of hell could satiate ; Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate. 8

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1906 · PDF PAGE 17

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…of frenzy, concentrate Our thirsty mouths on that hot drinking cup, Whence we may never suck the nectar up Too often or too hard ; fresh fire invades Our furious veins, and the unquiet shades Of night make noises in the darkened room. Yet, did I raise my head, throughout the gloom I might behold thine eyes as red as fire A tigress maddened with supreme desire ; White arms that clasp me; fervent breast that glides An eager snake, about my breast and sides ; Teeth keen to bite, red tongue that never tires, And lips ensanguine with unfed desires, …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 53

The Mother’s Tragedy

… of the violate day, In the furious waves of the sea, wild world of tem- pestuous night, Our song is as light! In the tumult of manifold fire, Multitudinous mutable feet That dance to an infinite lyre On the heart of the world as they beat, In the flowers of the bride of the flame, in the warrior Lord of the Fire, There burns our desire! AMENHATEP. Cry now, bewail the broken house, bewail The ruin of the land; cry out on Fate! CHORUS. Slow wheels of unbegotten hate And changeless circles of desire, Formless creations uncreate, Swift fountains o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 71

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…y and night apart , Know not where frost has laid his iron hand Save only that it fastens on my heart ; Save only that it grips with icy fire These veins no fire of hell could satiate ; Save only that it quenches this desire . Let me pass out beyond the city gate . THE ROSICRUCIAN . SEE the centuries wax and wane , I know their mysteries of pain , The secrets of the living fire , The key of life : I live : I reign : For I am master of desire . Silent , I pass amid the folk Caught in its mesh , slaves to its yoke . Silent , unknown , I work and …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 178

Book 4 (Part II)

… gold, because these were called the perfect metals; it is upon perfection that the im- perfect is burned. Upon this plate burns a great fire of charcoal, im- pregnated with nitre. This charcoal is (as chemists now begin to surmise) the ultimate protean element: absolutely black, because it absorbs all light; infusible by the apphcation of any known heat; the lightest of those elements w^hich occur in the solid state in nature; the essential constituent of all known forms of life. It has been treated wnth nitre, whose potassium has the violet f…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 110

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH IF TAT Ex nihilo N. I. H. I. L. fit. N. the Fire that twisteth itself and burneth like a scorpion. L. the green fertile earth. Fierce are the Fires of the Universe, and on their daggers they hold aloft the bleeding heart of earth. Upon the earth lies water, sensuous and sleepy. Above the water hangs air; and above air, but also below fire—and in all—the fabric of all being woven on Its invisible design, is AIOHP.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 193

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…th against himself, hewing him into many small pieces, so that he hath no longer any strength against His will. Good; then taketh He the Fire of our Father the Sun, and setteth it directly in battle array against that Water by His army of Wood that he hath con- quered and drilled, building it up into a phalanx like unto a Cone, that is the noblest of all solid figures, being the Image of the Holy Phallus Itself, and combineth in himself the Right Line and the Circle. Thus, son, dealeth He; and the Fire kindleth the Wood, and the heat thereof dr…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 177

Book 4 (Part II)

CHAPTER XVI THK MAGICK KIRE; Willi CONSIDERATIONS OF THK THURIBLE, THE CHARCOAL, AND THE INCENSE INTO the Magick Fire all things are cast. It symbolizes the final burning up of all things in Shivadarshana. It is the absolute destruction alike of the Magician and the Universe. 'I'hc Thurible stands upon a small altar. "My'altar is of open brass- work; burn thereon in silver or gold." This altar stands in the East, as if to symbolize the identity of Hope and Annihilation. This brass con- tains the metals of Jupiter and ^'cnus fused in a homogeneo…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 62

The Goetia

phurous stinking substances, and burned in this material fire; so in the name IEHovAH and by the power and dignity of these three names, TETRA- GRAMMATON, ANAPHAXETON, and PrimEuMATON, I do cast thee, O thou wicked and disobedient Spirit N., into the Lake of Fire which is prepared for the damnéd and accurséd spirits, and there to remain unto the day of doom, and never more to be remembered before the face of Gop, who shall come to judge the quick, and the dead, and the world, by fire. TueEn the exorcist must put the box into the fire, and by-an…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 66

The Mother’s Tragedy

…gh fields of foam ungarnered sweeps The fury of the wind of dawn ; Through fiery desolation creeps The water of the wind withdrawn. With fire and water consecrate The foam and fire are recreate. With air uniting fire and water, The springtide’s unbegotten daughter Blossoms in oceans of blue air, Flowers of new spring to bear. The sorrowful twin fishes glide Silent and sacred into sleep; The joyful Ram exalts his pride, Seeing the forehead of the deep

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1909 · PDF PAGE 295

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ane, and is analogous to the Pan of the Greeks and the Egyptian Goat of Mendes. As his hands bear the torch and the horn, the symbols of Fire and Water, so does his form unite the Earth in his hairy and bestial aspect, and the Air in his bat-like wings. The whole would be an evil symbol were it not for the Pentagram of Light above his head which regulates and guides his movements. The figure of Pan is then explained, after which the Hierophant Inductor shows the Philosophus the 14th Key of the Tarot. The more ancient form shows us a female figu…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 295

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ane, and is analogous to the Pan of the Greeks and the Egyptian Goat of Mendes. As his hands bear the torch and the horn, the symbols of Fire and Water, so does his form unite the Earth in his hairy and bestial aspect, and the Air in his bat-like wings. The whole would be an evil symbol were it not for the Pentagram of Light above his head which regulates and guides his movements. The figure of Pan is then explained, after which the Hierophant Inductor shows the Philosophus the 14th Key of the Tarot. The more ancient form shows us a female figu…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 42

Ambergris

…gh fields of foam ungarnered sweeps The fury of the wind of dawn ; Through fiery desolation creeps The water of the wind withdrawn. With fire and water consecrate The foam and fire are recreate. With air uniting fire and water, The springtide’s unbegotten daughter Blossoms in oceans of blue air, Flowers of new spring to bear. The sorrowful twin fishes glide Silent and sacred into sleep ; The joyful Ram exalts his pride, Seeing the forehead of the deep Glow from his palace, as the sun Leaps to the spring, whose coursers run Flaming before their …

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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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1913 · PDF PAGE 175

Book 4 (Part II)

THE MAGICK FIRE

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1905 · PDF PAGE 67

Oracles

… the secret pillar in the midst May be made manifest to mortal eyes. Behold upon my right hand and my left The mighty pillars of amazing fire, And terrible cloud. Their tops in Heaven are veiled, Whereon the everlasting lamps rejoice. Their pedestals upon the Universe Are set in rolling clouds, in thunder-gusts, In vivid flame, and tempest : but to me, Balanced between them, burns the holy light Veilless, one liquid wheel of sacred fire, Whirling immutably within itself And formulating in the splendid sun Of its white moony radiance, in the lig…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 280

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX figure Samael, the ruler of Volcanic Fire—he is also Axiokersos ; the right-hand figure is Axiokersa. « These three principal figures form the Triangle of Fire ; and they further represent Fire operating in the other three elements of Earth, Water and Air.” The central lower figure is Erd, the ruler of latent heat, he is the candidate in the Samothracian mysteries, and rises from the Earth as if to receive and absorb the properties of the D1acraM 27, Dracram 28. The Ten Sephiroth in the Seven The Attributions of the Ten Sephiroth Pa…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 280

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX figure Samael, the ruler of Volcanic Fire—he is also Axiokersos ; the right-hand figure is Axiokersa. « These three principal figures form the Triangle of Fire ; and they further represent Fire operating in the other three elements of Earth, Water and Air.” The central lower figure is Erd, the ruler of latent heat, he is the candidate in the Samothracian mysteries, and rises from the Earth as if to receive and absorb the properties of the D1acraM 27, Dracram 28. The Ten Sephiroth in the Seven The Attributions of the Ten Sephiroth Pa…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 183

Moonchild

…sun's rays through a burning-glass?" "Hush! there is no phosphorus, nor any sticks, nor any sun — in this country." "Then how do you get fire?" "There is no fire — in this country." "But you said you were making a fire!" "Trying to make a fire, my dear; we are always trying, and never succeeding — in this country." [258] "And how long have you been trying?" "There is no time — in this country." Iliel was half hypnotized by the reiteration of that negation, and that final phrase. She began to play a game. "Well, Old Lady, I've something round, a…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 119

White Stains

…¿Å ’ O½±Á 113 Ah ! Love ! how fierce that night ! With what unsung desire Thy lips and mouth were bright, In mine eye to give light, And fire to kindle fire. Ah Love ! nor king nor queen Of mine exhaustless flame, But comrade of my teen, Spouse of that epicene Incontinence of shame. Twin Love ! Soul’s dual spouse, Dream-serpent of my life, Rose-garland of my brows Within that ivory house, Sex with itself at strife. Were I a wanton stream, Thou mightest bathe in me, Yet in that happy dream Methought my heart did deem We mingled utterly. O sexles…

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