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1910 · PDF PAGE 121

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…e mind’s eye; the meditation then takes place on the image in the mind. So with the following practices. + Tejas-Akasa is the Element of Fire. It is symbolized by a red triangle of fire with a black egg in the centre. See 777, col. LXXV, p.16. See Diagram 84. § Apas-Vayu is the Element of Water and is symbolized by a black egg of Spirit in the Silver Crescent of Water. See 777, col. LXXV, p. 16. See Diagram 84. || The Golden Dawn symbol of the Flaming Sword. See Diagram 12. 107

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1904 · PDF PAGE 75

The Goetia

ipamisa. Od commemabé Do pereje salabarot3a kynutzire faboanu, cannot be. And I bind thee in the fire of sulphur mingled with poison oD s0DUMeCDI pereli oD salabarotza; niisa, eca, Dorebesa na-e-el od and ___ the seas of fire and — sulphur: come forth, therefore, obey my power and Z0Dameranu asapeta vaunesa komesalohbe. €ca, nlisa, Do-o-i-ape appear before this circle. Therefore come forth in the name pire Adoni, 4abaoth, Adonai, Amioran. Misa! lape sodiredo Adni of the Holy Ones Zabaoth, Adonai, Amioran. Come! for Iam Adonai Das latinuji elasa…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 11

Tale of Archais

…gain ; But he smiled through all his pain : “ Priestcraft and red tyranny Have ursurped My crown : Children, in my scepter lurks The old fire, with you works All My Strength Immortal, when you tear the lying fabric down. ” May Man’s Spirit yet be great ? Gather power himself to rule, Master circumstance and fate, Laugh for joy and smile for dule, Weep brave tears while lute-strings sob, Clench brave hands when bosoms throb, Till his soul beyond control Break the fetters ; sweep across Worlds and waves on wings, wind-wafted, whiter than the alba…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 100

Alice: An Adultery

…ntent. The subtler splendour of our love has stilled Those sombre glories that it never meant, Those giant meanings that it never meant. Fire only is our substance ; there we dwell, The Salamandrine with the Salamander. No fuel to crack, no water to make tunes, No air to blow us hither and thither ; well ! At our own will through cosmic space we wander Alive, the sun’s beam mixing with the moon’s. 80

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1910 · PDF PAGE 9

The Winged Beetle

CONTENTS ix THE CAMP FIRE. To the memory of A. C. Swinburne 154 AVE ADONAI. To G. M. Marston 157 THE WILD ASS. To Prince O. of Z. K. 159 THE OPIUM-SMOKER. To Elaine Simpson 163 IN MANU DOMINÆ. To Anna Grossmann 168 MR. TODD : A MORALITY. In memoriam Lilith 173 TRANSLATIONS L’AMOUR ET LE CRANE 203 L’ALCHIMIE DE DOULEUR 204 LE VAMPIRE 205 LE BALCON 207 LE GOUT DE L’INFINI 209 L’HEAUTONTIMOROUMENOS 210 LE VIN DE L’ASSASSIN 212 WOMAN 215 TOUT ENTIERE 216 LE VIN DES AMANTS 218 LE REVENANT 219 LOLA DE VALENCE 220 LE BEAU NAVIRE 221 L’INVITATION AU VO…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 259

Collected Works (Vol. I)

252 TANNHAUSER Grew the desirable, the golden one, Separate from the sun. Now fire and air no more exult, exceed, Are balanced in the sphere. The waters wide Glow on the bosom of fixed earth ; and Need, The Lady of Beginning, also was. Thus was the firmament a vital glass, The waters as the vessel of the soul ; Thus earth, the mystic basis of the whole, Was smitten through with fire, as chrysopras, Blending, uniting, and dividing it, Volcanic, airy, and celestial. T rose wiuun the elemental ball, And lo! the Ancient One of Days did sit ! His he…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 240

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…t In Thine own symbol, Beauty, were con- cealed Under her brows—how wider than the air ! How deeper than the sea! How radiant Beyond the fire! VENUS. O shun her devilish lures ! That Beauty is the sole detested fear That can annul our conquests, and arouse Our rapt dream-kisses. TANNHAUSER. That is my intent. It is the spiritual life of things I seek—Thou knowest ! VENUS. Oh, I did not mean ! Remember my dilemma! Hear me speak The story of her. She is a wicked witch That seeketh to delude thy sleepy sense In vicious purpose and malignant hope T…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 68

Songs of the Spirit

…e poor dreams of us Who strive mysterious To pierce the bands of sense, and break the girth Of our own minds’ desire, Till He relume the fire Lost at our fall, not kindled fresh till that diviner birth. 58

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1898 · PDF PAGE 84

White Stains

…ASSIVE PAEDERASTY A BALLAD OF PASSIVE PAEDERASTY Of man’s delight and man’s desire In one thing is no weariness— To feel the fury of the fire, And writhe within the close caress Of fierce embrace, and wanton kiss, And final nuptial done aright, How sweet a passion, shame, is this, A strong man’s love is my delight ! Free women cast a lustful eye On my gigantic charms, and seek By word and touch with me to lie, And vainly proffer cunt and cheek ; Then, angry, they miscall me weak, Till one, divining me aright, Points to her buttocks, whispers “ …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 99

White Stains

…n, thy Eve, my Lilith, in this bower Which we indwell, a deathless three, changeless and changing, as the pyre Of earthly love becomes a fire to heat us through eternity. I have forgotten Christ at last ; he may look back, grown amorous, And call across the gulf to us, and signal kisses through the vast ; We shall disdain, clasp vaster yet, and mock his newer pangs, and call With stars and voices musical, jeers his touched heart shall not forget. I would have pitied him. This flower spits blood upon him, so must I Cast ashes through the misty s…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 211

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…AL AND DRAMATIC. 189 Feel the breath of your freedom burn in my veins, and Freedom! Freedom ! echoes adown cliff and precipitous ghyll ; Fire and desire and light and youth and passion and freedom Race in my blood untamed, laugh in my face for love. Down by the cold gray lake the sun descends from his hunting, Shadow and silence steal over the frozen fells. Oh, to be there, my heart !_ And the vesper bells awaken, Colleges call their children, Lakeland fades from the sight. Only the sad slow Cam like a sire with age grown heavy Wearily moves to…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 111

Alice: An Adultery

…s and in gardens, like lost souls. Strong kisses that had surfeited a score Of earthly bridals in an hour we squandered ; And tears like fire, and looks like burning coals, Without a word passed on for evermore. 91

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1905 · PDF PAGE 96

Orpheus

…nger Here on the beach— Let God’s own finger Here to me reach, Making me singer Each unto each— Nature and Man made one In the light and fire of the sun, And the sobbing tune Of the moon, Wedded in cyclic bonds, Where fall the zon-fronds, Whose large bed bears a child (In its due period) Not merciful and not severe, Knowing nor love nor fear, But majesty most mild, Being indeed a God. Yea, let the very ray-hand of Apollo Lead me where none may follow 97

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1908 · PDF PAGE 20

Amphora

…, ye wild billows of ether ! the cymbal is shaken and sounds ! Wild and sonorous the clamour, vast in the region of death, Live with the Fire of the Spirit, the essence and flame of the breath ! Sound, O sound ! Gleam in the world of the dark, where the chained ones shall tremble and flee ! Gleam in the skies of the dusk, for the Light of the Dawn is in me ! Light on the forehead, and life in the nostrils, and love in the breast, Shine, O thou Star of the Dawning, thou Sun of the Radiant Crest ! Shine, O shine ! Flame through the sky in the str…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…mes crowned and conquering . An angel stands on my right hand With strength of ocean 's wrath ; Upon my left the fiery brand , Charioted fire , smites forth ; Four great archangels to withstand The furies of the path .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 180

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…dlong into Hell."—Zhe Wisdom of the Ancients. ‘* Moody Pluto winks while Orpheus plays." —Rafge of Lucrece. . i ot Vivid and hoary, Take fire, understand The ways of the dark, As an angel did guide me, As I pass in my flight On the awed storm cloud, Steeps steeper than sleep, oe Depths deeper than night, | Waving the brand I have furrowed and ploughed | Of the dawn’s red spark. (Deep calling to deep !) My measures mark The influence fine Through the spaces of light, e The heads of them bowed Of the voyage divine ° Of the airy bark For the fears…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 56

Orpheus

… and night, As a bride in her chamber that dreams many visions of varied delight. O how shall my lyre Divide thee, dispart Thy water and fire, Thy soul and thy heart, Thy hills that spring higher, Thy flowers that upstart, How quire thee, my limitless love, with a lewd and a limited art? A fortress, a sphere, An arrow of flame; Let thy children appear At the sound of thy name! In my silence uprear The sweet guerdon of shame! Be they choral to hymn thee, O mother, thy magic ineffable fame! Last birth of the Sun, Best gift of the giver, Thou sure…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… accurséd that disparts Them now, or seemeth so to do! Him will I pile the curses on ; Him will I hang, or saw him through, Or burn with fire, who doubts upon This doctrine, hotototon spells The holy word otototon.” The poor Sir Palamedes quells His rising spleen ; he doubts his ears. “ How may I catch the Beast?” he yells. The smiling sage rebukes his fears: ‘Tis easier than all, Sir Knight! By simple faith the Beast appears.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… accurséd that disparts Them now, or seemeth so to do! Him will I pile the curses on ; Him will I hang, or saw him through, Or burn with fire, who doubts upon This doctrine, hotototon spells The holy word otototon.” The poor Sir Palamedes quells His rising spleen ; he doubts his ears. “ How may I catch the Beast?” he yells. The smiling sage rebukes his fears: ‘Tis easier than all, Sir Knight! By simple faith the Beast appears.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 110

The World’s Tragedy

THE RED STAR. 57 Conquering, penetrating, crushing — All the seeds of darkness in me Splashed with fire and water, So that spring arises in me Like a warrior weary of slaughter Striding to the striped lair Of deftly-woven camel’s hair, Where the trembling captive-woman Waits his pleasure-hour inhuman ! All the roots of love and power Flushed at last into a flower. All the films of sense dissolved ; All the spirit sight evolved, So that after myriad aeons Filled with trumpet-pealing paeans, With the nuptial bliss of man Prostituted unto Pan, Ris…

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