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1910 · PDF PAGE 57

The World’s Tragedy

… measures of Beautiful wine : Infinite treasures of Bacchus divine ! Hail to the Lord of us ! Blithe is his reign. Be thou adored of us, Soul without stain ! Fair are the faces, and Limbs of us light, Tracing the paces, and Drunk with delight. Io ! let us tremble in Trance of the tune Here that assemble in Joyaunce of June ! ATTHIS Doris, our darling ! How subtle and sweet

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1912 · PDF PAGE 35

Household Gods

…to die Alike for wonder—and for jealousy! Crassus. Vile, filthy whore! I'll catch you at it. ALICIA. Softt Sce how his feathers hold her soul aloft! Crassus. Beast! Have you brought me through the wood for this? Aurora, No wonder I must teach you how to kiss. Crassus. I'll clip his wings. Autcra. Sub pennis, penis! ’Slife! It’s not the wings of him that clip your wife. 38

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1919 · PDF PAGE 438

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX words, “Soul” means Neshamah, and it is important for Neshamah to fix its attention on Chiah, rather than on Ruach. 67. Beware of change! For change is thy great foe. This.change will fight thee off, and throw thee back, out of the Patch thou threadest, deep into viscous swamps of doubt. The only. difficulty in this verse is the word “change.” People who are meditating often get thrown off by the cir- cumstances of their lives, and these circumstances must be controlled absolutely. It should, however, also be taken to refer to any c…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 98

Moonchild

… and ignorant beings, things of the same class as Douglas' watcher; but now a far more formidable problem was in view, how to dissuade a Soul, a being armed with the imperial right to enter, from approaching. Demons and elementals and intelligences were only fractions of true Entities, according to the theory; they were illusions, things merely three-dimensional, with no core of substance in themselves. In yet another figure, they were adjectives, and not nouns. But a human soul is a complete reality. "Every man and every woman is a star." To r…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 374

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e supposes that doing nothing has no effect. To refuse to save life is murder. 33. Shalt thou abstain from action? Not so shall gain thy Soul her freedom. To reach Nirvana one must reach Self- Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge is of loving deeds the child. Continues the subject. The basis of knowledge is experi- ence. 34. Have patience, Candidate, as one who fears no failure, courts no success. Fix thy Soul’s gaze upon the star whose ray thou art, the flaming star that shines within the lightless depths of ever-being, the boundless fields of the Un…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 92

The Star and the Garter

… [Out of print. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT. THE TALE OF ARCHAIS. JEPHTHAH AND OTHER MYSTERIES, &c. JEZEBEL AND OTHER POEMS. (Out of print. “The Soul of Osi AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY, &C. (Privately Printed) CARMEN SAECULARE. Tue Sout oF Osiris. TANNHAUSER. Of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, Dryden House, 43 Gerrard Street, W. Mostly reprinted in Also BERASHITH, [Out of print. Reprinted in “The Sword of Song.” SUMMA SPES. [Out of print. ‘the Chiswick Press, Tooks Court, B.C. [Out of print.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 260

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ower | Of life, and girded it with walls of hell, The name of Death. This limit in all things Baffles the spirit wings, Chains the swift soul; for even Death is bound. In its apparent amplitude I saw, I, who have slept through death, have surely found The old accurséd law, And death has changed to life. alone Shoots to the starry throne : That if man lack not purpose, but succeed, Reaching in very deed Impersonal existence ;—Lo! Man is made one with God, an equal soul. For he shall know The harmony, the oneness of the Whole. This task Vain, The…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 29

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…h he sit and little cheer doth get. He doth not moan or laugh aloud or rave ! The dogs of hell are not upon him yet. Ile was the bravest soul man ever met In court or camp or solitude—then why Stands his pale forehead in an icy sweat? He mutters in his beard this rune awry : ‘‘There lives no soul undrugged that feareth not to die.” Lo! were it otherwise, mere banishment, I deem he had feared more! He had an heir. This was a boy of strength with ardour blent, High hope embowered in a body fair. Him had he watched with eager eye, aware Of misery …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 337

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE 16. When waxing stronger thy Soul glides forth from her secure retreat; and breaking loose from the protecting shrine, extends her silver thread and rushes onward; when beholding her image on the waves of Space she whispers, “This is I’’—declare, O Disciple, that thy Soul is caught in the webs of delusion. An even more advanced instruction, but still connected with the question of the Ego and the non-Ego. The phe- nomenon described is perhaps Atmadarshana, which is still a delusion, in one sense still a delusion of pers…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 183

Collected Works (Vol. III)

LIBER TERTIUS VEL LABORIS 177 But thou, O Titan ! O splendour triform ! Gloomiest dweller Of uttermost night ! My journey enlighten ! O soul of the storm! Waker and queller Of sombre delight, Hecate! hearken The soul of my prayer ! Glitter and darken Through sulphurous air ! Let the sacrifice move thee to joy, the in- voker thy glory declare In words that shall please Thy terrible peace, O speedy to save, In flames of fine fire that bedew the deepest Tartarean cave ! [/voking HECATE] O triple form of darkness! Sombre splen- dour! Thou moon unse…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 165

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…oy to revel Betwixt Iscariot and the Devil, Throned in their midst! No pain to feel, Tossed on some burning bed of steel, But theirs: My soul of love should swell And, on those piteous floors they trod, Feel, and make God feel, out of Hell, Across the gulf impassable, That He was damned and I was God! Ay! Let him rise and answer me. Ethical and That false creative Deity, eloquent de- Whence came his right to rack the Earth Christian Cos- With pangs of death,” disease, and birth : mogony. No joy unmarred by pain and grief: Insult on injury heape…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 125

The Scented Garden

… : the wa- ter in the bowl is the veil which prevents man be- ing burnt up in that glory, and the purifying influ- ence of calm upon the soul ; the smoke is the per- fume of the Spirit of God ; the tube is the Influence (Heb. Mezla) from on high ; the mouthpiece the love of one’s earthly teacher ; (This sounds as though Sufi confessors shared the predilections and privileges of Jesuit confessors) the inhalation is the enlightenment of the soul ; the exhalation the holy influence shed by the Sufi upon his fellow man — and so on. Mahbub was perfe…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 30

Alice: An Adultery

…el jaw Hides me in the glutless maw— Crown of ten blisses ! For all the vision world Is closed on me and curled Into the deep Of my slow soul, and hurled Through lampless lands, and furled, Sharp folds and steep : Till all unite in one, Seven planets in the sun, And I am deeplier done Into full sleep. 8

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1910 · PDF PAGE 156

The World’s Tragedy

…chery That hags thee — Faugh ! MAGDA Art thou not lewd with me ? ISSA Ay ! and the rot of Egypt pays me for’t. MAGDA To match thy rotten soul, thou pimping ort ! Marrowless bone ! Dry fig ! ISSA Enough, black bitch ! The Seventy shall stone thee for a witch. MAGDA More than enough. I’ll call thy darling itch, Thy— He fists her in the abdomen. ISSA Take the name back to thy bloated belly ! Speak, and I kick thy carcass to a jelly !

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1907 · PDF PAGE 187

The Star in the West

…the kiss of life : XXI . Melt on my lips to flame , fling back the gates of Dis ! This is the true conquest of life , the salvation of a soul wandering through the mazy depths of existence . At length filled with the experience of worldly things seeking the Sublime , he finds it. The kingdom of Dis , the terrors of Death are vanquished , “ and , like this in substantial pageant faded , leave not a rack behind .” Yet how difficult is all this without the guidance of a master hand , the hand which supports but does not hold , directing but never …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 12

Clouds Without Water

A TERZAIN King of myself, I labour to espouse An equal soul. Alas ! how frail I find The golden light within the gilded house. Helpless and passionate, and weak of mind ! Lechers and lepers ! — all as ivy cling, Emasculate the healthy bole they haunt. Eternity is pregnant ; I shall sing Now— by my power — a spirit grave and gaunt Brilliant and selfish, hard and hot, to flaunt Reared like a flame across the lampless west, Until by love or laughter we enchaunt, Compel ye to Kithairon’s thorny crest — Evoe! Iacche ! consummatum est. — XxI —

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1910 · PDF PAGE 278

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…blend that the chain has become a continuous band, now resting with joyous lightness as a chaplet, and now mightily pressing in upon the soul like the glowing hoop of iron which holds martyrs to the stake. The final months of this spell-bound existence, be it terminated by mental annihilation or bya return into the quiet and mingled facts of humanity, are passed in one unbroken yet chequered dream. Moreover, through many ecstasies and many pains, I still supposed that I was only making experiments, and that, too, in the most wonderful field of …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 278

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…blend that the chain has become a continuous band, now resting with joyous lightness as a chaplet, and now mightily pressing in upon the soul like the glowing hoop of iron which holds martyrs to the stake. The final months of this spell-bound existence, be it terminated by mental annihilation or bya return into the quiet and mingled facts of humanity, are passed in one unbroken yet chequered dream. Moreover, through many ecstasies and many pains, I still supposed that I was only making experiments, and that, too, in the most wonderful field of …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 453

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… to these special incarnations of the only Buddha of whom we have any such record. It is, therefore, ridiculous to place Srotapatti as a Soul of inferior grade to Bodhisattva. Buddha did not become a Srotapatti until seven incarnations before he attained to Buddhahood. The last part of the verse and the long note (of which we quote the gist) are nonsense. To describe a complete Buddha as “an ideal breath; Consciousness merged in the Universal Consciousness, or Soul devoid of every attribute,” is not Buddhism at all, and is quite incompatible wi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 518

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… All created spirits have, then, bodies, some subtler, some grosser, according to the surroundings in which they are called to live. The soul of a dead man would, then, not be able to live in the atmosphere of the living, any more than we can live in earth or in water. For an airy, or rather an ethereal, spirit, it would be necessary to have an artificial body similar to the apparatus of our divers, in order that it might come to us. All that we can see of the dead are the reflections which they have left in the atmospheric light, light whose i…

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