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1907 · PDF PAGE 9

Rosa Inferni

…t, a pale, wan phantom floating Aimless in air, than which I am thinner. You I see, more brilliant, of that sanguine hue (If anything be true that I can see) Full fed ; you smile, a smile obscenely gloating On the voluptuous wreck your lust hath wrought. See the loose languor of precipitate thought These versicles exhale ! How rude the rime ! There is no melody ; the tune and time Are broken. Thirteen centuries ago They would have said, “ Alas ! the youth ! We know This devil hath from him plucked the immortal soul.” I say : you have dulled my …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 57

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…, each of us, Jeanne! To break the bars of the prison-house, Jeanne! We have raged like cats in a ring of fire, Driven by desire that was true Desire, The hate οί the lower, the love of the Higher, Jeanne! What is the end of it, Jeanne? Why, that’s A mystery not to be solved by cats! In the fields we wandered through to—day, Jeannel Hand in hand, this wonderful May, Jeanne 1 This May we have made so marvellous With the infinite longing and love of us, D 49

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1911 · PDF PAGE 57

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…, each of us, Jeanne! To break the bars of the prison-house, Jeanne! We have raged like cats in a ring of fire, Driven by desire that was true Desire, The hate οί the lower, the love of the Higher, Jeanne! What is the end of it, Jeanne? Why, that’s A mystery not to be solved by cats! In the fields we wandered through to—day, Jeannel Hand in hand, this wonderful May, Jeanne 1 This May we have made so marvellous With the infinite longing and love of us, D 49

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1913 · PDF PAGE 285

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ont; the spirit, so long de- throned and forgotten, will take its ancient place; it will be demonstrated that the old traditions are all true, that the whole of paganism is only a system of corrupted and misplaced truths, that it is sufficient to cleanse them, so to say, and to put them back again in their place, to see them shine with all their rays. In a word, all ideas will change, and since on all sides a multitude of the elect cry in concert, ‘Come, Lord, come!’ why should you blame the men who throw themselves forward into that majestic f…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 401

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…d goodness of Providence he does more than his duty, and sacrifices his right to the good of others? a. A hero. What is the principle of true heroism ? Faith. What is its support? Hope. And its rule? Charity. What is the Good ? Order. What is the Evil? . Disorder. What is permissible pleasure? Enjoyment of order. What is forbidden pleasure? Enjoyment of disorder. Pope POPOPrPOPOPO 103,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 285

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ont; the spirit, so long de- throned and forgotten, will take its ancient place; it will be demonstrated that the old traditions are all true, that the whole of paganism is only a system of corrupted and misplaced truths, that it is sufficient to cleanse them, so to say, and to put them back again in their place, to see them shine with all their rays. In a word, all ideas will change, and since on all sides a multitude of the elect cry in concert, ‘Come, Lord, come!’ why should you blame the men who throw themselves forward into that majestic f…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 401

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…d goodness of Providence he does more than his duty, and sacrifices his right to the good of others? a. A hero. What is the principle of true heroism ? Faith. What is its support? Hope. And its rule? Charity. What is the Good ? Order. What is the Evil? . Disorder. What is permissible pleasure? Enjoyment of order. What is forbidden pleasure? Enjoyment of disorder. Pope POPOPrPOPOPO 103,

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1928 · PDF PAGE 48

Little Poems in Prose

…the influence of this popular jubilee. They absorb, without wishing it, their part of this happy-go-lucky atmosphere. For myself, like a true Parisian, I never miss passing in re- view all the booths which flaunt upon these solemn occasions. They were in truth trying to outdo each other in hubbub; they chattered, bellowed,

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1928 · PDF PAGE 60

Little Poems in Prose

…ancy there take the bit in its teeth; so much has it been patiently and obstinately made il- lustrious by its wise and delicate flora. A true country of Cockaigne, where all is beautiful, rich, quiet, straightforward. Where luxury takes pleasure in admiring itself in the mirror of good order; where life is easy and may be softly breathed; from which disorder, turbulence, and the unforeseen are shut out; where happiness is wedded to silence; where the food itself is at once poetical, rich, and ex- citing; where everything resembles you, dear ang…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 37

Liber Aleph

…an Illusion of Ignorance. Whoever thou mayst be now, thy Destiny is that which I have declared unto thee; and thou art most fixed in the true Way when, accepting his consciously as thy Will, thou gathereth up thy Powers to move thy Self mightily within it. s

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1904 · PDF PAGE 49

The Sword of Song

…ght On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri ! So may She Illume our minds ! So mote it be ! 795 800 805 810 815 Christian mystics not true Christians. What think ye of Crowley ? His interlo- cuter dis- missed, not with a jest, but with a warning. Poet yawns. Aum !

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1928 · PDF PAGE 156

Little Poems in Prose

…rouble, O toilsome folk that are alive, and you would trouble less often the slumber of those who long since have hit the mark, the sole true mark of detestable life.”

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1906 · PDF PAGE 247

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…The consciousness of the Absolute- wala! is really extended infinitely rather than diminished infinitely, as he will himself assure you. True, Hegel says: ‘‘ Pure being is pure nothing!” and it is true that the infinite heat and cold, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, and all the other pairs of opposites,” cancel one another out: yet I feel rather afraid of this Absolute! Maybe its joy and sorrow are represented in phases, just as 0° and finity are phases of an iden- tical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right side …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 125

The Winged Beetle

…of you, ripe and rotten, athwart the lies Of paint and powder, false fanfares of youth That blare, yet passionate ache their tongue were true— Hag of the pit, what should I make of you ? I will legitimize the bastard spell ! Take all your falsehood, weld it with my force. Now then, Canidia, match thy miracle With mine, old medlar ! Though the reek of hell Gush from thy gorge, I hold my knightly course, Dragon ! I love thee, and I love thee well Who am like a shipwrecked sailor that should skry On the horizon some scarred citadel Or, smoking sti…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 25

Jephthah

…ndations, and the Kingdom, Flower of all kingdoms, and by the holy Crown Concealed with all concealments, highest of all, We swear to be true men to thee and thine. JEPHTHAH. I thank you, people. Let the younger men Gather their swords and spears, and pass before This spear I strike into the earth, that so I see how many fight for Israel. CHORUS. The young men are girded with swords, And the spears flash on high, and each shield Gleams bright like the fury of lords Through the steam of the well-foughten field, And the children of Ammon are brok…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 75

Tannhäuser

…rm, I have a feast for you ! Tannhauser. The palace staggers. I can hardly see— Only these writhing horrors. I am blind ! Venus. Ha ! My true knight ! I ask thee once again, Once more invoke the epithets of love. Suspend my powers — constrain thee on my knees For thine old kisses. See, I am all thine ! All thine the splendid body, and the shape Of mighty breasts, and supple limbs, and wide Lips, and slow almond eyes ! Adorable, Seductive, sombre, moving amorously. Droop the long eyelids, purple with young blood. The lazy lashes and the flowing …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 81

The Star and the Garter

…clear? It is perhaps Jue to you, the bedrock of my mountains of idealism, that I attained the tayial force to make all those dreams come true: for that, then, this. should Nietzsche play you false, and supply no key to this Joseph ‘confection; akid glove and an ortolan are alike to him—and, if this bea huggis, much more is this the case!—you may apply to the only educated ‘man in your neighbourhood, as you applied before in the matter of the Bruce refer to the Bruce Papyrus which all who run may read— ribe!) and he will take pleasure in explain…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 27

Liber Aleph

…e, namely: Whereas the Direction of such Journeys is consciously willed, and determined by Reason, and also unconsciously willed, by the true Self, since without It no Invocation were possible, we have here a Cooperation of Alliance between the Inner and the Outer Self, and thus an Accomplishment, at least partial, of the Great Work. And therefore is Confusion or Terror in any such Practice an Error fearful indeed, bringing about Obsession, which is a temporary or even it may be a permanent Division of the Personality, or Insanity, and therefor…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 16

Moonchild

…and she was an intolerable poseuse. Every word of hers must have disgusted you. Yet you stick to her closer than a brother." "That's all true! But she's a sublime genius, the greatest artist the world has ever seen." "She has a genius," distinguished Simon Iff. "Her dancing is a species of angelic possession, if I may coin a phrase. She comes off the stage from an interpretation of the subtlest and most spiritual music of Chopin or Tschaikowsky; and forthwith proceeds to scold, to wheedle, or to blackmail. Can you explain that reasonably by tal…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 16

The Poem

…festing life. BRANDON [wth sudden calmness]. This to his father! What does the Bible say, you wretch ? PERCY [fo Vaughan}. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [suddenly breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. Percy, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. Brandon, maddened by the zdea offighting, snatches up a knife and drives tt into his heart. He falls wth a low cry. Vaughan dashes forward and strikes Brandon heavily. He…

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