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1907 · PDF PAGE 46

Rodin in Rime

… of our race Heroic tales, half-doubted, being So far beyond a rime to trace. What shall they say? For secret we Have held our love, and holy. Splendour Of light, and music of the sea And eyes and heart serene and tender, With kisses mingled utterly. These were our ways. And who shall know? What warrior bard our nuptial glories Shall sing? Historic shall we go Down through our country’s golden stories? Shall lovers whisper ‘Even so 26

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1908 · PDF PAGE 12

Amphora

…rs the CHRIST, a star of doom To cast the stars of evil kings Into the blind abyss of things. Hail, Mary, hail ! Thou didst conceive The Holy Child whom we believe. Draw Thou our loyal spirits hence In rapture and in reverence ! Still be the beatific balm To heal, to comfort, and to calm ! Still make to bud the barren rod, And bring our spirits back to GOD ! Amen. W 5

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1930 · PDF PAGE 133

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…ghtfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. *9- There is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine honour. 20. Ail holy things and ail symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. These animais are sacred unto me 5 the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. Ail corpses are sacred unto me3 they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. Ail lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 261

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…. Leave the wide circle—word and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit: land you in the Three, Where form is perfect—in the triangle. TANNHAUSER, My friend, the Three is infinitely small, Mere surface. And I seek the Depth divine! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The solid! But the triangle aspires To that same unity that you despise, And lo! the Pyramid! The Sages say : Unite that to the-Sphinx, and all is done, Completion of the Magnum Opus. TANNHAUSER. No! Each new dimension …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 83

Alice: An Adultery

Two faces and two bosoms, breathing slowly In tune and time with the sea’s hymn below, Breathing in peace of love, mighty and holy, Fearing to fuse, and longing—be it so ! And the world’s pulse stops, as God bends him lowly To hear and know. . . . . . . . For not the heights of heaven shall exalt her Whose heart is full of love’s dumb deity, Nor harp-strings lift me, nor the sound of psalter, Whose love is merged and molten into thee, Nor incense sweeter be by shrine or altar For you and me. . . . . . . . But like dove’s eyes where glamour lies…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 169

The Winged Beetle

159 THE WILD ASS I THE secret of the House of Set Is hidden in my sevenfold veil ; For I am he that doth beget The Rood, and bear the Holy Graal. Yet is my manhood woman-frail Barren my motherhood. Then how Shall men my mystic mountain scale ? These ram’s-horn thumbs jut from my brow To push them to the miry slough Wherein the foes of Set are caught. Come, let us pluck the Golden Bough From the brave Tree of life and thought ! Who heareth naught, he heedeth naught. Come, we are safely housed and shrined Where subtler images are wrought Than boa…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 12

Hail Mary

…rs the CHRIST, a star of doom To cast the stars of evil kings Into the blind abyss of things. Hail, Mary, hail ! Thou didst conceive The Holy Child whom we believe. Draw Thou our loyal spirits hence In rapture and in reverence ! Still be the beatific balm To heal, to comfort, and to calm ! Still make to bud the barren rod, And bring our spirits back to GOD ! Amen. W 5

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1913 · PDF PAGE 79

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…he lampless night There shone a strange and splendid sight. The noise of pomp and battle Of Israel died away. Amid the lowing cattle The Holy Mother lay , While at her breast the Child Divine Drank in the starry milk and wine . Three magicians Chaldean Have bowed their royal knees Before the Galilean , The God of stars and seas , And tasted all the fervent grace That shone from Mary 's maiden face . That star of resurrection Still stands above the night ; Its portent of perfection Shall bring us all to light ; And by the peace of Mary 's prayer…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 455

Magick Without Tears

422 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS spend an evening in the Tenderloin. On the other hand, the Sheikh of Mish-and a very holy Sheikh he was-introduced his "boy friend" as such to me when I visited him in the Sahara, without the slightest shame or embarrassment. Believe me, the humbug about "morality" in this country and the U.S.A., yes, even on the Continent in pious circles, is Hobgoblin No. 1 on the Path of the Wise. If you are fooled by that, you will never get out of the stinking bog of platitudinous mouthings of make-believe "Masters." Need I refer t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 530

Magick Without Tears

… rely. But then, if we once introduce a teacher, why not go to the Fountain-head and press towards the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel? In any case your Indian teacher will ultimately direct you to seek guidance from that source, so it seems to me that you have gone to a great deal of extra trouble and incurred a great deal of unnecessary danger by not leaving yourself in the first place in the hands of the Holy Guardian Angel. In any case there are the two methods which stand as alternatives . I do not know of any third o…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 34

Sir Palamedes

… crew of monachals Asleep in various visions spelt By mystic symbols unto men. But when a foreigner they smelt They drive him from their holy den, And with their glittering eyeballs pelt Sir Palamede the Saracen.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 58

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ages has been put to flight. “The word of Sin is Restriction,” or as it has been otherwise said on this text: That is Sin, to hold thine holy spirit in! Go on, go on in thy might; and let no man make thee afraid. Love is the law, love under will. 52

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1904 · PDF PAGE 126

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…ces on my stiff pee-wee ! I leave plain buggery to prigs ! Her twat is deeper than the sea ; Her ulcers are like rotten figs ; — It is a holy time for me When Celia frigs. II When Celia spends I send a card Inviting all my oldest friends To tea, if they can get a hard When Celia spends. It should be easy to make ends Meet, O good comrades of the bard ! Her twat gapes wide : what Ghost descends Upon that virgin hole ? On guard ! Brave soldiers. Frig ye ! Fucking tends To clap or chancre every yard When Celia spends. [128]

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1910 · PDF PAGE 449

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

XXVIII Sir PaLaMEDE the Saracen Hath clad him in a sable robe; Hath curses, writ by holy men From all the gardens of the globe. He standeth at an altar-stone ; The blood drips from the slain babe’s throat; His chant rolls in a magick moan; His head bows to the crownéd goat. His wand makes curves and spires in air; The smoke of incense curls and quivers; His eyes fix in a glass-cold stare: The land of Egypt rocks and shivers! “Lo! by thy Gods, O God, I vow To burn the authentic bones and blood Of curst Osiris even now To the dark Nile’s upsurgin…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 449

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

XXVIII Sir PaLaMEDE the Saracen Hath clad him in a sable robe; Hath curses, writ by holy men From all the gardens of the globe. He standeth at an altar-stone ; The blood drips from the slain babe’s throat; His chant rolls in a magick moan; His head bows to the crownéd goat. His wand makes curves and spires in air; The smoke of incense curls and quivers; His eyes fix in a glass-cold stare: The land of Egypt rocks and shivers! “Lo! by thy Gods, O God, I vow To burn the authentic bones and blood Of curst Osiris even now To the dark Nile’s upsurgin…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 275

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…R PROBATIONERS rise from among the alher PROBATIONERS and march to the allow] FIRST PROBATIONER. 333-333-22. Brethren, let us kindle the holy perfumes in honour of the most divine God. ALL FOUR PROBATIONERS. [Whilehe does so.]. Hail unto the most divine Lord Mercury! FIRST PROBATIONER. [To FR. GEMINI] Our Brother, child 97

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1911 · PDF PAGE 275

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…R PROBATIONERS rise from among the alher PROBATIONERS and march to the allow] FIRST PROBATIONER. 333-333-22. Brethren, let us kindle the holy perfumes in honour of the most divine God. ALL FOUR PROBATIONERS. [Whilehe does so.]. Hail unto the most divine Lord Mercury! FIRST PROBATIONER. [To FR. GEMINI] Our Brother, child 97

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1930 · PDF PAGE 62

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…fbe internai lustration of God; day by day bis mort ai frame, shedding its earihly éléments, will become in very truth the Temple of tbe Holy Gliost. Day by day matter is repîaeed by Spirit, tbe bmnau by the divine ; ulîimately the change will be complété; God manifest in flesh will be bis naine, This is the most important of ail magical secrets that ever were or are or can be. To a Magician thus renewed the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel becomes an inévitable task; every force of his nature, unhindered,…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 151

The Winged Beetle

141 THE CIRCLE AND THE POINT THE CIRCLE I AM the Holy Queen of Heaven ! Eternal matter is my name. The veiléd star, the crowned eleven. These are my soul, as thou my flame, O wingéd globe of serpents twined, O sun of glory in my skies ! O subtle spirit of my mind ! O ardent rapture of mine eyes ! Thou secret centre, motion, rest :— Come to my breast ! Come to my breast ! THE POINT I am the Lord of Heaven, and I Am secretly arrayed and robed In all the azure abyss of sky By serpents wingéd, wound and globed. Thou art the Infinite of space, Thou …

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1941 · PDF PAGE 6

Thumbs Up! A Pentagram – A Pantacle to Win the War

…errestrial birth, Man mastered the mammoth and horse; and Man was the Lord of the Earth. He made him an hollow skin from the heart of an holy tree; He compassed the earth therein, and Man was the Lord of the Sea. He controlled the vigour of steam, he harnessed the lightning 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 aeons 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 inher…

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