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1910 · PDF PAGE 161

The Scented Garden

…pume Cast from the holy hiding-place for ever till the day of doom. Rejoice, O podex, in thy strength ! thy spasms like the stars illume Earth’s darkness, life’s disgrace, abash the trifling terrors of the tomb. The nargis scent shall steal about the world, assuage its fret and fume,

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1911 · PDF PAGE 54

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…f fire and dew, Lamps of the hollows of the mountain, What dream angelic fathered you On what celestial fountain? Nayl but I lay on lower earth Stagnant in sunless meres! The prison Of monstrous spawn, detested birth— Behold me rearisen ! It was yon fierce diurnal star That licked me up with his huge kisses, And dropped me in his rain afar Upon these frore abysses! Yea! as I press to the cool moss My mouth, and drink at its delirious Delight—acclaim the Sun across The menaces of Sirius !

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1911 · PDF PAGE 54

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…f fire and dew, Lamps of the hollows of the mountain, What dream angelic fathered you On what celestial fountain? Nayl but I lay on lower earth Stagnant in sunless meres! The prison Of monstrous spawn, detested birth— Behold me rearisen ! It was yon fierce diurnal star That licked me up with his huge kisses, And dropped me in his rain afar Upon these frore abysses! Yea! as I press to the cool moss My mouth, and drink at its delirious Delight—acclaim the Sun across The menaces of Sirius !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 190

The World’s Tragedy

…on From horizon to horizon. Beauty, strength, virtue, all are gone. (the eclipse passes.) Now sudden springs the natural face Of all the earth’s old grace. The broad sun smiles, as if that fatal close Of the revel in the garden of Eros

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1906 · PDF PAGE 33

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… is a sharper fang, Reminds my night of a tempestuous morn. For I am lost and lonely: in the skies I see no hope of any sun or star ; On earth there blooms no rose, no nenu- phar; No cross is set for hope of sacrifice. I cannot sleep, I cannot wake; and death Passes me by with his desiréd breath. No shadow in my mind to prove a sun ; No sorrow to declare that joy exists ; A cycle of dim spectres in the mists Moves just a little; lastly there is One, One central Being, one elusive shape, Not to aspire to, not to love; alas! Only a memory in the …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 202

The Law is for All

…. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house cometh that child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand a little; solve the first …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 84

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… the answer. But dawn shall see a solemn sacrifice, And solemn vows, and long swords glittering, And moving columns that shall shake the earth With firm and manly stride; and victory Most like a dove amid the altar-smoke. CHORUS. We, passing here the night in prayer, will wait And with thee offer up propitious doves, And firstline males of all the flocks of us, JEPIVITIATE. Not so: but [ will have you hence in haste To gather food and arins and carriages, That all our soldiers may have sustenance, And fresher weapons. I alone will spend The lon…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 106

Tannhäuser

…hood. Our court loves not these wastrel troubadours, Loose locks, flushed faces, soul's unseemliness. The Unknown Minstrel (sings). Amid earth's motley, Gaia's cap and bells, This too material, too unreal life, Sing, sing the crown of tender miracles, The pure true wife ! Sing not of love, the unutterable one, The love divine that Mary has to men. Seek not the winepress and the rising sun Beyond thy ken ! Tannhauser [aside). Who is this man that reads my inmost thought ? The Unknown Minstrel. I sing of love, most delicate and pure, Surely the c…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 61

The Holy Books

…lf that holy and formless fire, ,?שדקwhich darteth and flasheth through the depths of the Universe. 1. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the earth melted into a liquor clear as water. 2. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the water smoked into a lucid air. 3. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the air ignited, and became Fire. 4. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh, Ο Lord, the Fire dissipated into Space. 5. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh, Ο Lord, the Space resolved itself into a Profundity of Mind. 6. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the Mind of the Father …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

The Book of Lies

…or Sight; a Knife for Touch; two cakes, one for taste, the other for smell. He standeth before the Altar of the Universe at Sunset, when Earth-life fades. He summons the Universe, and crowns it with MAGICK Light to replace the sun of natural light. He prays unto, and gives homage to, Ra-Hoor- Khuit; to Him be then sacrifices. The first cake, burnt, illustrates the profit drawn from the scheme of incarnation. The second, mixt with his life’s blood and eaten, illustrates the use of the lower life to feed the higher life. He then takes the Oath an…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 199

The Law is for All

… is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no differ­ ence made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 2…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 71

The Goetia

…vided, the winds of the firmament groan aloud; the fire je-ialaponu: caosaga 30Daca DO-jiz0Dajazoda, oD tofasilo Salamann burns not; the earth moves in earthquakes ; and all things of the house pe-ripesol, od caosaji, oD faoresita oresa cabisa ta jizodajazoda, od of heaven and earth and the dwelling-place of darkness are as_ earthquakes, and cabisa Do-mire, od ovankabo Do-korat3z0, IRiisa, eca, tlasa gabe mM. are in torment, and areconfoundedin thunder. Come forth, O Spirit N. olé oanio: cbhristeos faorejsita afafa, imumamare latadDa, oD Darebe…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 90

White Stains

… spicéd spittle trickle down my throat ; This is more pleasant than at dawn to steal Toward lawns and sunny brooklets, and to gloat Over earth’s peace, and hear in ether float Songs of soft spirits into rapture peal.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 38

Tale of Archais

…the sea flashed with blasphemy, and loath Black thunder broke from out the shuddering deep. He swore again, and from its century’s sleep Earthquake arose, and rocked and raved and roared. He swore the third time. But that Heaven’s Lord Curbed their black wrath, the stars of Heaven’s vault Had rushed to ’whelm the sun with vehement assault. The heavens stood still, but o’er the quaking earth, That groaned and shrank with the untimely birth Of fury and freedom, Charicles strode on With fervid foot, to Aphrodite’s throne In seagirt Paphos, to exac…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 44

The Mother’s Tragedy

…habiliments of the goddess Isis That day appeared.”—Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 6, 16. “Stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the earth, reached by a descending ladder which hath Seven Steps, and therein is established the throne of an evil and fatal force.”— ZOROASTER. PEOPLE. RATOUM, Queen of Egyft. PACHAD, her son (by the son of herself and the LEPER). THE LEPER, her divorced husband. THE KING OF SYRIA. AMENHATEP, High Priest. Chorus of Priests. Soldiers of Egypt. Syrian Troops. PACHAD. HY is thy back made stiff, unrighteous priest, !…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 23

The Soul of Osiris

…n that star whose tender eyes Were on thy bosom at thy birth ! Call, one long passionate note that sighs ! Call, till its beauty bend to earth, Meet thee and lift thee and devise Strange loves within the gleaming girth, And kisses underneath the star Where on her brows its seven rays are. Call her, the maiden of thy sleep, And fashion into human shape The whirling fountains fiery and deep, The incense-columns that bedrape Her glimmering limbs, when shadows creep Among blue tresses that escape The golden torque that binds her hair, Whose swarthy…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 50

Alice: An Adultery

…E EIGHTH DAY “ A certain aim he took At a fair Vestal throned by the West.” Midsummer Night’s Dream. Here in the extreme west of all the earth This Vestal sate ; and I from Cupid’s bow Loosed a fair shaft of verses shapen so As to fling love through the chaste girdle’s girth, And show my love how meek was my love’s birth, How innocent its being : thus arow Stood the mild lines, immaculate, to show My harmless passion and her own great worth. She could not be offended : and moreover— When at the nightfall I sought Heaven’s light, All my work gre…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 43

Amphora

… with a rod of iron. I saw moreover how She bore the Child, And how the Dragon drave Her to the wild, Loosing a flood of venom ; but the earth Gaped and devoured it in her warrior girth. I saw red war in heaven ; Saint Michael fell With all his angels on the host of hell. Saint Michael ! praise to thee who didst prevail And pen the demons in the hollow vale ! S 36

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1910 · PDF PAGE 120

The Scented Garden

…Gladdens the lover. Take the fact And leave the cause ! What joy or aid Springs form thy searches for the cause ? Thy cause thou dost to earth degrade, Bounding its nature ; shall Habib’s Delicious podex be displayed To weaklings whose erections lags For them to prate and make parade Of tedious knowledge ? Rather plunge To scabbard the impassioned blade ! Throughout the summer to indulge The sodomitic1 accolade ! Forget, an if thou wilt, the scribe ; The lovely script to heart be laid !2 Describe the script ? The scribe adore ? Perchance his po…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 149

Magick Without Tears

… it revealed by the letters that are the totems of the stars, but only by the stars. And he says to me, quite disconnectedly: The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men. And I ask him: Why does he tell me that? And he says: I tell thee not. Thou tellest thyself, for thou hast pondered thereupon for many days, and hast not found light. And now that thou art called NEMO, the answer to every riddle that thou hast not found shall spring up in …

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