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1905 · PDF PAGE 191

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…p, The birth of knowledge as a flower ! Slow and divine thy gentle breath Wovos my warm throat: my spirit flies Beyond the iron walls of death, And seeks strange portals, pale and wise. My lips are fervent, as in prayer, Thy lips are parted, as to kiss: My hand is clenched upon the air, Thy hand's soft touch, how sweet it is ! The wind is amorous of the sea ; The sea’s large limbs to its embrace Curl, and thy perfume curls round me, An incense on my eager face. O emerald star, deep beauty’s avatar, Are thy skies dim? What throne is thine above?…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 296

The Law is for All

…nd Conquering Child 31,47, 163 Crusades 181 cup 30,65 Cythna 54 Daath 89 Daniel, Book of 157 Daphnis 63 Darwin, Charles 52.109 David 180 death 41,48.65.67,69,73,79.92,97. 102,103,124,125-127,135,143-145, 147-148,151,171,172 feast for 124 of the ego 93 Death (Atu XIII) 144 Debussy, Claude 75 de Lamballe 84 democracy 37,129 Desdemona 68 destiny 25,63,76,131,146,150,173 Devil Atu XV, “The Devil” 30 Diana 24 Dianus 24 Dilke, Charles, Sir 55 dimensions 24,88,93,94,187 Dionysus 47,84,85 disease 51,60,68,70.72.73,102,103, 111,133,162 disk 30 Disraeli,…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 41

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ght divide to red and green And violet! and the hues innumerable Lesser than these, and gave man hope at last With the invariable law of death Abundant in new life, and having filled The world with music, dost demand of us ‘Is my work meaningless?” O thou, supreme, Thou, First and Last, most inconceivable All-radiating Unity, thou sphere All-comprehensive, all-mysterious, Spirit of Life and Death, bow down and hear ! [Bends deeper and prays silently. The flame grows duller, and finally leaves the room in ab- solute darkness. Curtazz. SONNETS TO…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 17

Handbook of Geomancy

…ed. Good Sex of Child 6 5 Son 5 5 Son Dau. 5 Son Sickness 7 | Health| Health | Health| Health| Health| Health| Asc. In danger Prison 8 | Death | Come | Come | Come | Long | Come |Late out| Slow out out out out Journey 9 | Med. | Good | Good | Med. | Soon | Med. | Evil | Slow return Thing Lost 10] Found | Not | Found | Not | Found | Found | Found | Found found found Lw. ee * : 32 Amassto “ : : Life, &o. 1| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med, | Mea. | Evia | Evil Money, &, 2| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Mea, | Evil | Evi | Mea. Rank, &, 3 | Med. | M…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 91

The Scented Garden

…re these si- miles ! No artifice, so straining of the metaphor is involved ; the poet rests in calm and beatific certi- tude of “ a good death, and a joyful resurrection in His holy kingdom ! ” Yet there is no false piety, no arrogance ; and like every straight-living man, he is capable of honest laughter, almost in the same breath.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 80

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ow me Through slippery ways of blood to Ephraim To beat with sturdy swords unwearying Our foemen to their Ammon, and to grapple With red death clutching at the throat of us, With famine and with pestilence, at last To reach a barren vengeance, and per- chance An hundred of your thousands to return Victors—so best God speed us—and_ for worst Death round our cities horrible and vast, And rape and murder mocking at our ghosts? A SOLDIER. Better they taunt our ghosts than us for cowards ! Live through or die, I will have my sword speak plain To the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 131

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…e- Fire fold idea. Semichorus «© The Centuries. a’ Centuries 87 Mahakalpas y’ Manwantaras 5? Eternity Semichorus | 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.” Complains of the antithesis of desire and power --‘' Le¢ the far music of oblivious years,” Laments—'‘ How can one hour dissolve a year's de…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…eth sweet. Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire! 56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenu- ously against me. I pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life. 57. How shall I answer the foolish man? Inno way shall he come to the Identity of Thee! 58. But I am the Fool that heedeth not the Play of the Magician. Me doth the Woman of the Mysteries instruct in vain; I have burst the bonds of Love and of Power and of Worship. 59. Therefore is the Eagle made one with the Man, and th…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 199

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…zes cool faces, rosy with the brand Of long sweet kisses; sun shall dawn and find Two lovers who have passed the land Of sleep—and found Death kind.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 161

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ed. Good Sex of Child 6 5 Son 5 5 Son Dau. 5 Son Sickness 7 | Health| Health | Health| Health| Health| Health| Asc. In danger Prison 8 | Death | Come | Come | Come | Long | Come |Late out| Slow out out out out Journey 9 | Med. | Good | Good | Med. | Soon | Med. | Evil | Slow return Thing Lost 10] Found | Not | Found | Not | Found | Found | Found | Found found found Lw. ee * : 32 Amassto “ : : Life, &o. 1| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med, | Mea. | Evia | Evil Money, &, 2| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Mea, | Evil | Evi | Mea. Rank, &, 3 | Med. | M…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 161

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ed. Good Sex of Child 6 5 Son 5 5 Son Dau. 5 Son Sickness 7 | Health| Health | Health| Health| Health| Health| Asc. In danger Prison 8 | Death | Come | Come | Come | Long | Come |Late out| Slow out out out out Journey 9 | Med. | Good | Good | Med. | Soon | Med. | Evil | Slow return Thing Lost 10] Found | Not | Found | Not | Found | Found | Found | Found found found Lw. ee * : 32 Amassto “ : : Life, &o. 1| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med, | Mea. | Evia | Evil Money, &, 2| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Mea, | Evil | Evi | Mea. Rank, &, 3 | Med. | M…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 52

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… Through a land of pleasant things, of woods and streams, Bind my slumber with a chain of pure delight, Though the canker of it stain at death of night, Fill with passion and distaste and wakened pleasure All the moments run to waste that else were treasure ? Who is Love ? a fury red with all men’s blood On his cruel altars shed, a deadly flood ? Or a veiléd vision black with shame and fear, Whose most loathliest attack at night is near, When the gates of spirit tense with angel’s tread Close, and all the gates of sense swing wide instead, When…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 210

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… cries thy litany | Thy mitre sits, divided strength, to end thy church and thee !” The third face spake and said: ** Welcome, O Man, to Death! Thy little span of life is sped, Sighed out thy little breath. The worm that never dies is thine; the fire that lingereth !” ‘¢ Three voices has thy frame, Their music is but one. Fool-demon, slave of night and shame, That canst not see the sun ! I am the Lord thy God:? make thou homage and orison !” The wild heads. sank in fear: Then, troubled, to those eyes Remembrance crept of many a year, Barred gat…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 40

John St. John

…that he is under the Shadow of the Eternal Wings of the Holy One. Yet at the end, at the supreme accusation, the Hiereus smites him into death. The same answer avails him, and in its strength he is uplifted by his aspiration— and now he stands upright. Now then he makes a journey in his new house, and perceives at stated times, each time preceded by a new ordeal and equilibration, the forces that surround him. Death he sees, and the Life of Nature whose name is Sorrow, and the Word that quickeneth these, and his own self—and when he hath recogn…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 184

The Star in the West

THE CUP 177 His , dispersed me , gave me death ." This is pure Buddhism . In death is found release , freedom from desire , which fools alone reject . In the spiritual contemplation of life the slags of existence fall to the bottom of the burning furnace of the human soul ; the power of em pire and glory is shattered , “ The golden image with the feet of clay ,” and the marred vessels of the ( All) mighty potter are cast outside , from the wheel of Fate —why contemplate what is so unprofitable and use less ? Yet in this mysticism which is more …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 137

The Scented Garden

The ruling passion strong in death. 129 And he my tool doth entertain. I speak the truth ; falter, nor feign, Seeing my camel on the plain Girt for the Journey ; spared or slain, My love’s no moon to wax and wane. Allah our love with mercy sain ! Then death’s a splendid window-pane Through which I look the world to explain. Give me the Cup ! it’s wine I’ll drain, Thy podex to my member strain, And thrust, and pull, and writhe amain :— Thrill through each raptured dying vein That El Qahar’s dissolving brain Be of his Destiny the bane ! 1. Can th…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 245

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ever !’” I don’t know what some of the words mean. But there is a fascination about them. They give the idea of something without limit. Death has become impossible, because death is definite. Nothing can really ever happen. I am in a perpetual state of pain. Everything is equally anguish. I suppose one state D.D.F. Q

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1898 · PDF PAGE 109

Songs of the Spirit

…ts of the tomb, And from hell’s womb Or heaven’s breast bring all the load of fears, Toils of long years, Sorrows of life and agonies of death, Hard caught-up breath, The labouring hands of love, the cheeks of shame, The gloomy flame 99

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1906 · PDF PAGE 101

Gargoyles

The agéd man lifted his mouth And spat against the South. He clutched his throat in pang of death, As if he cried for breath. Whereat the second beat his breast And frowned upon the West. Then the man sighed, as if to say: The glow of life is gone away. At this the rusty and wroth released His eyes against the East. Then the man touched his navel, as He felt his life thence pass. Also he smote his spine; the base Of life burnt up apace. Then rose the many-coloured sage; He was right sad with age. 93

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1905 · PDF PAGE 130

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ids drown Their rippled tresses in her golden breath. Let us keep watch, my true love, caught at last Between my hands, and not remember death. Only bethink us of the daylight past, The Jong chase oversea, the storm, the speed Whereby we ran before the leaping blast, And left the swift pursuers at our need With one wrecked dragon and one shattered; yea! And on their swiftest many warriors bleed, Having beheld, above the gray seaway Between them and the sun, my sword arise, Like the first dagger flashing for the day, My sword, that darts among t…

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