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1910 · PDF PAGE 329

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…(there are a lot of them—quite enough to make it pay) who are so irritated at the arrival of a bill that I nearly always throw it on the fire. For all that, I had been humbly proud of my memory, and it was an awful shock to me one morning when I received this bill, ‘Teactarmne Abort, “WGCUMBOB.LONOONTM TeLernon N° 388%, CERRO J W BENSON, Lt JEWELLERS, GOLDSMITHS, SILVERSMITHS AND WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS. 25.OLD BOND St (Steam Factortes Luooate Hive.) RES 21 Warwick fork, - (odlitob. altars. 1H: filed bho te pide shendart> — F fo- 2b Z g fo - for I…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 329

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…(there are a lot of them—quite enough to make it pay) who are so irritated at the arrival of a bill that I nearly always throw it on the fire. For all that, I had been humbly proud of my memory, and it was an awful shock to me one morning when I received this bill, ‘Teactarmne Abort, “WGCUMBOB.LONOONTM TeLernon N° 388%, CERRO J W BENSON, Lt JEWELLERS, GOLDSMITHS, SILVERSMITHS AND WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS. 25.OLD BOND St (Steam Factortes Luooate Hive.) RES 21 Warwick fork, - (odlitob. altars. 1H: filed bho te pide shendart> — F fo- 2b Z g fo - for I…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH £B TWIG ?38 The Phoenix hath a Bell for Sound; Fire for Sight; a Knife for Touch; two cakes, one for taste, the other for smell. He standeth before the Altar of the Universe at Sunset, when Earth-life fades. He summons the Universe, and crowns it with MAGICK Light to replace the sun of natural light. He prays unto, and gives homage to, Ra-Hoor- Khuit; to Him be then sacrifices. The first cake, burnt, illustrates the profit drawn from the scheme of incarnation. The second, mixt with his life’s blood and eaten, illustrates the use of the l…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 78

Songs of the Spirit

…he tameless thunder follows hard behind, Fast, and too fast. The lightning heralds us, the iron blast Lends us its splendour for a steed fire-shod, The steed of God ! 68

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1910 · PDF PAGE 132

The World’s Tragedy

…, and make them beasts ; Give the carrion soldier meat, And corrupt the judgment-seat. With it he shall seethe the snake Of his faith in fire-hot blood ; Hurt the humble, strew the stake With the faggots ; gild the rood That for many a year shall brand With its blight full many a land. CHAU I have brought him frankincense. He shall dull therewith the sense Of his slaves, that they may be Docile in their slavery. He shall fill their aching minds

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1912 · PDF PAGE 13

Household Gods

…fish Played in its oily depths. Some monstrous wish, ‘The shadow of some unspeakable desire, Strikes my heart cold, and sets my brain on fire. Aurcra. Learn this, as we pass through the portico: Fear nothing; there is nothing you can know! And by these terraces and steps that gleam Wintry, although the summer night is hot, This—what we seek is never what we find! 16

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1898 · PDF PAGE 32

Songs of the Spirit

…ousand Pains With heavy kissing breath. I said : Our Lady is as God, Her hell of pain as heaven above ; Death’s feet, like Sleep’s, with fire are shod, And Lust is likest Love. Our Lady crushed me in her bed, Between her breasts my life was wet ; My lips from that sweet death were fed ; I died, and would forget. 22

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1898 · PDF PAGE 77

White Stains

… laughs and promises May. Newly the bird sings of Love, newly he wooeth a maiden, Newly the heart of a boy leaps, and his eyes catch its fire. Light is his laugh as the sea, with no sad remem- brances laden ; Light as the sea, and as fierce and fickle is grown his desire. Here in the spring we are free, as the winds that look love at the ocean ; Change we and weary too soon of delight that is hardly begun ;

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1905 · PDF PAGE 147

Oracles

…. The Bhikkhu who in Earnestness delights, who fears dispersions dire, His fetters all, both great and small, burning he moves about the fire.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 7

Orpheus

…rus a® Spring 99 p® Summer » > Autumn » 5° Winter Semichorus 7° The Years » 5° The Lustres Spirit Water . the five- Earth . . fold idea. Fire Semichorus e® The Centuries a’ Centuries Semichorus . vate sae # Eternity Str. y Orpheus Ant. y Death— (Suppressed antistrophe, Death being silent. His reply is really given in Books II., III., IV.) Parabasis: The Poet | Epode: Nature BOOK II. Orpheus laments his wife—‘‘ Come back, come back, come back, Eurydice” . ° . “‘ Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power” , PAGE 53 53 54 61 71 72-88 73 76 82…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 14

Orpheus

…oblems bewildering the brain, Deep lights beyond heaven unsought, Dead faces seen dimly in rain ; From the depths of Mind’s caverns, the fire Reclaims the old magical lyre; The ways of creation are nought, If only, O mother, O Muse, I may measure Thy melodies in me again ! How wayward, how feeble the child Three watched from the stars at his birth ; Erato the fierce and the mild ; Polymnia grave ; and the girth Broad-girdled of gold and desire, Melpomene’s terrible lyre, That lifts up her life in the wild, The star-piercing pzan, and floats in …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 159

The Winged Beetle

…ea. He controlled the vigour of steam, he harnessed the light- ning for hire ; He drove the celestial team ; and Man was the Lord of the Fire. Deep-mouthed from their thrones deep-seated, the choirs of the æons declare The last of the demons defeated, for Man is the Lord of the Air. Arise, O Man, in thy strength ! the kingdom is thine to inherit, Till the high gods witness at length that Man is the Lord of his spirit.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 119

The Book of Lies

. Twig?=dost thou understand? Also the Phoenix takes twigs to kindle the fire in which it burns itself. 34. Laylah is the Arabic for night. 35. al] =x1+30+30+5=66. L+A+I1+L+A+H =77, which also gives MZL, the Influence of the Highest, OZ, a goat, and so on. . Death is said by the Arabs to ride a camel. The Path of Gimel (which means camel) leads from Tiphereth to Kether, and its Tarot Trump is the ‘* High Priestess.” . UNT, Hindustani for camel. J.e. Would that BABALON might look on thee with favour. . These eggs being speckled, resemble the wan…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 239

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ove! Kiss TANNHAUSER. Ah, but the waking! As [ sink to sleep >illowed in nuptial arms —so fresh and cool— (Yet in their veins I know the fire that runs Racing and maddening from the crown of flame, The monolithic core of mystical Red fury that is called a woman’s heart) Sinking, I say, from the supreme embrace, The Good-night kisses; sinking into sleep-— What dreams betoken the dread solitude? VENUS. What dreams? Ah, dreamest not of me, my knight ? Of vast caresses that include all worlds? Of transmutation into molten steel Fusing with my intol…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… noiseless place” should be chosen; and in S’vetds’vatara, 2. 10: Let the place be pure, and free also from boulders and sand, Free from fire, smoke, and pools of water, Here where nothing distracts the mind or offends the eye, In a hollow protected from the wind a man should compose himself. The dwelling of a Yogi is described as follows: The practiser of Hathayoga should live alone in a small Matha or monastery situated in a place free from rocks, water and fire; of the extent of a bow’s length, and in a fertile country ruled over by a virtuo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… noiseless place” should be chosen; and in S’vetds’vatara, 2. 10: Let the place be pure, and free also from boulders and sand, Free from fire, smoke, and pools of water, Here where nothing distracts the mind or offends the eye, In a hollow protected from the wind a man should compose himself. The dwelling of a Yogi is described as follows: The practiser of Hathayoga should live alone in a small Matha or monastery situated in a place free from rocks, water and fire; of the extent of a bow’s length, and in a fertile country ruled over by a virtuo…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 33

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…nt lies at the base of the spine.” This time I saw. In a blue heaven was coiled an infi- nite snake of gold and green, with four eyes of fire, black fire and red, that darted rays in every direction; held within its coils was a great multitude of laughing children. And even as I looked, all this was blotted out. Crawling rivers of blood spread over the heaven, of blood purulent with nameless forms—mangy dogs with

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1898 · PDF PAGE 64

White Stains

… to thee ! Venus Callipyge, mother of me. Fruitless foam of a sterile sea, Wanton waves of a vain desire, Maddening billows flecked with fire, Storms that lash on the brine, and flee, Dead delights, insatiate ire Broke like a flower to the birth of thee, Venus Callipgye, mother of me !

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1898 · PDF PAGE 126

White Stains

… burn red and low, Regild the golden coronet, Gleam on her nude lewd hips, and glow On hours of weariless desire, A bastard and infernal fire. Smite me, my fiend-fair whore, nor spare My raging hips, but wake again The old desires ere I’m aware, Joy more intense from cruel pain : They say he hoped his crown to fix By his delirious crucifix. Yes, spare me not, red-lipped, low browed, Large-featured animal I love :

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1901 · PDF PAGE 56

The Soul of Osiris

…ield, how gladly dower Our sin with my own spirit’s quenchéd gold, Clothe love with my own soul’s immortal power, Give thee my body as a fire to hold— O love, no words, no songs—your breast my bower !

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