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1954 · PDF PAGE 111

Magick Without Tears

… in the book of Lapis Lazuli. A single passage is adequate to explain the formula. 7. Moreover I beheld a vision of a river. There was a little boat thereon; and in it under purple sails was a golden woman, an image of Asi wrought in finest gold. Also the river was of blood, and the boat of shining steel. Then I loved her; and loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. 8. I gathered myself into the little boat, and for many days and nights did I love her, burning beautiful incense before her. 9. Yea! I gave her of the flower of my youth. 1…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 28

Aceldama

…y love to win. ( Baise la lourde crinière ! ) Your passion has destroyed my soul—what care If you desire me, and I hold you in My arms a little, and you love for lair My heavy hair ! It is a fatal web your fingers spin. ( Baise la lourde crinière ! ) Let our love end as other loves begin, Or, slay me at The Moment, unaware, Or, kiss in mutual death-pang, if you dare— Or one day I will strange you within My heavy hair !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 82

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ad strange store of books obscure ; books written Not openly for fools, but inwardly Toward the heart of wise men. And myself Studied no little while upon these things, And, seeking ever solitude, I went Nightly upon a rock that stood alone Threatening the sandy wilderness, and prayed Where many visions came before mine eyes So strange—these eyes have started from my head, And every hair, grown fearful, like a steed Reared in its frenzy: see, these lips of mine Have blanched, these nails have bitten through my flesh For sundry things I saw —and…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 23

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…s the virtue which enables one to contend with, and to conquer, the physical difficulties of the Work. The practical point is this: 'The little more and how much it is, the little less and what worlds away!' No matter how long you keep water at 99 degrees Centigrade under normal barometric pressure, it will not boil. I shall probably be accused of advertising some kind of motor spirit in talking about the little extra something that the others haven't got, but I assure you that I am not being paid for it.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 35

Konx Om Pax

THE WAKE WORLD 15 married to the Fairy Prince, so I suppose we- shall always be near each other now. There was the way out of the little room with millions of changing colours, ever so beautiful, and it was lined with armed men, waving their swords for joy like flashes of lightning; and all about us glitter ing serpents danced and sang for joy. There was a winged horse ready for us when we came out on the slopes of the mountain. You see the Sixth House is really in a mountain called Mount Abiegnus, only one doesn’t see it because one goes throug…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 16

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…s would rather not be told? You shall hear. Does a miner lose If through the quartz he gets to gold ? Yes: Nina was a thing of nought, A little laughing lewd gamine, Idle and vicious, void of thought, Easy, impertinent, unclean— Utterly charming! Yes, my queen! She had a generous baby soul, Prattled of love. Should I control, Repress perhaps the best instinct The child had ever had? I winked At foolish neighbours, did not shrink. Such café Turc I made her drink As she had never had before 3 Set her where you are sitting ; chatted ; Found where …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 62

In Residence

…mmon parlan- Ce), and for your sport the bill confront- Eth, “Bitte, Herr, bezahlen! ” And if you call the waitress neat “ Mein liebchen—little darlin’ !” Her pretty mouth will murmur sweet, “O bitte, Herr, bezahlen !” And when your guide, divinely drunk, As helpless as a carline. Deserts the party in a funk, Yet “ Bitte, Herr, bezahlen !” 50

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1905 · PDF PAGE 70

Orpheus

Our little love and hate, Our hunger and our fear, Pass to a solemn state Pregnant with hope and fate. O Orpheus, we are here! THE EARTH Life hidden in death, Life shrined in the soul, Life bright for his breath, Life dark for his goal, I am Mother, and Burier, and Friend—- Look thou to the end! I am Light in thy Love, Iam Love in thy Life. I am cloistered above Where the stars are at strife. I am life in thy light, and thy death Is part of my breath. My voices are many, Thy lyre is but one; But thou art not as any Soul under the sun! Thou hast…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 39

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…g young grass, Oh, have ye heard Diana pass Over the lawn ? Oh, dimpling river, murmuring slowly Under the starlight pale, and holy, Oh, little green grasshoppers chirring, chirring, What have ye seen in the bright night stirring? xxxrx

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1912 · PDF PAGE 39

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…g young grass, Oh, have ye heard Diana pass Over the lawn ? Oh, dimpling river, murmuring slowly Under the starlight pale, and holy, Oh, little green grasshoppers chirring, chirring, What have ye seen in the bright night stirring? xxxrx

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1910 · PDF PAGE 318

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX and was almost a genius in disgrace—‘ terribly clever” the old men said—once told the little Piotr what it was to be blind. Fortunately for the child’s mental equilibrium, he also spoke of the compensation. “What they mean, boy, when they call you blind, is that you cannot see,” he said; “that is, your eyes have been given unto you by the devil, and not by God. Your father must have been rather a bad fellow, you know. When you hear the women singing at the dance, it is that God has given you your ears; if you didn’t enjoy the sounds…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 318

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX and was almost a genius in disgrace—‘ terribly clever” the old men said—once told the little Piotr what it was to be blind. Fortunately for the child’s mental equilibrium, he also spoke of the compensation. “What they mean, boy, when they call you blind, is that you cannot see,” he said; “that is, your eyes have been given unto you by the devil, and not by God. Your father must have been rather a bad fellow, you know. When you hear the women singing at the dance, it is that God has given you your ears; if you didn’t enjoy the sounds…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 129

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…finite energy of the whole Universe is therein, what then is possible but that it return to its own First Intention, dissolv- ing itself little by little into that Light which is its most se- cret and most subtle Nature? For this Universe is in Truth Zero, being an equation whereof Zero is the sum. Whereof this is the proof, that if not, it would be unbalanced, and something would have come from Nothing, which is absurd. This Light or Noth- ing is then the Resultant or Totality thereof in pure Perfec- tion; and all other states, positive or neg…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 105

Songs of the Spirit

I saw the Christ, with fire shod, Walk through the holy place, And the lilies rosier where he trod, Blushed for a little space. I saw myself, and still I sang With lips in clearer tune, Like to the nightingale’s that rang Through all those nights of June ; Such nights when stars in slumber hang Beneath the quiet moon. Still, in those avenues of light, No maid, with golden zone, And lily garment that from sight Half hides the ivory throne, Lay in my arms the livelong night To call my soul her own. The Christ’s cold lips my lips did taste On Time…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 88

The Argonauts

… fall while love was 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.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 119

Sir Palamedes

…d spirits breathed the Beauteous Breath : They taste the Goodly Gift of Grace. —Now ’tis the chronicler that saith: Our Saviour grant in little space That also I, even I, be blest Thus, though so evil is my case— Let them that read my rime attest The same sweet unction in my pen— That writes in pure blood of my breast; For that I figure unto men The story of my proper quest As thine, first Eastern in the West, Sir Palamede the Saracen ! 113

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1909 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…the Sun, the Wind, and the Ocean ?—indeed the ways of God are inscrutable and past finding out. Thus the Unobtainable tempts us, and the little segments of God that we see become to us the fiercest and most terrible of the Dog- faced Demons which seduce us from the path. He is always at our elbow, whispering, tempting, jeering, advising and helping us; He it is that casts despair upon us when we have done nothing wrong, and elation when we have done nothing right; He it is who is ever rising before us like a mist to obscure our path or to magni…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…the Sun, the Wind, and the Ocean ?—indeed the ways of God are inscrutable and past finding out. Thus the Unobtainable tempts us, and the little segments of God that we see become to us the fiercest and most terrible of the Dog- faced Demons which seduce us from the path. He is always at our elbow, whispering, tempting, jeering, advising and helping us; He it is that casts despair upon us when we have done nothing wrong, and elation when we have done nothing right; He it is who is ever rising before us like a mist to obscure our path or to magni…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 15

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…the sunny bars, And watched where through the silence of the lawn Came Charicles, the darling of the dawn, slowly, and to his steps took little heed ; IIe came towards the pool, his god-wrought reed Shrilling dim visions of things glorious, And saw the maiden, that disported thus, And worshipped. Then in doubt he stood, grown white And wonderful, with passion’s perfect might Viring his veins and tingling in his brain, He stood and whitened, and waxed red again. His oat' unheeded glanced beneath the wave, llis eyes grew bright and burning, his l…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 46

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…f. But something else obscurely answered it. “That accounts for what the world has always done —made martyrs of its pioneers.”’ I felt a little ashamed, to tell the truth; but Lamus put me at my ease. He waved his hand towards a huge arm-chair covered with Persian tapestries. He gave me a cigarette and lighted it for me. He poured out a drink of Benedictine into a huge curved glass, and put it on a little table by my side. I disliked his easy hospitality as much as anything else. I had an uncomfortable feeling that I was a puppet in his hands. …

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