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1908 · PDF PAGE 54

Amphora

…surge and fire At last shall win to his desire. Thy grace for us sufficient still To smite the arbiters of ill Shall grant the exceeding great reward To look by Thee upon the LORD. Be still, my soul, whate’er assail ! Through Mary they shall not prevail ; And thou resigned in peace await Her peace at Her appointed date. Amen. B 47

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1908 · PDF PAGE 83

Amphora

… Queen of Love, Bring us to Thine House above, Where in love and splendour dwell All the saints that praise Thee well. Bring us to their great content By Thy mystic sacrament ! Amen. O 76

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1906 · PDF PAGE 44

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…istant sea Moaning, and here the wind that wails, the drear Groans like a ghost’s, the desolate house of fear Whence I fled once from my great enemy— This is the house! O speechless misery ! Here the great silver candlesticks illume The agéd book, the blackness blazoned o’er With golden characters and scarlet bloom Twined in the blue-tinged sigils wrought for doom, And dreadful names of necromancer’s lore Written therein : so stood my room before When the hissed whisper came, ‘‘ Beware! Beware ! They’re coming !” and “‘ They’re coming !”” when …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 64

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE EQUINOX the river. And these lamps were above the river, children of a nobler element. And in the river is the great Leviathan that devours men. But before I had come within the sphere of attraction of either of these, suddenly mine eyes were gladdened with a marvellous vision. Infinitely far off, as it seemed, a ray of sunlight shot through the Saturnine gloom of the skies, and lit the surface of the water. And then I perceived that upon the river there floated, within that small circle of light, an ark, or as it might be, a coffin. Then look…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 64

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE EQUINOX the river. And these lamps were above the river, children of a nobler element. And in the river is the great Leviathan that devours men. But before I had come within the sphere of attraction of either of these, suddenly mine eyes were gladdened with a marvellous vision. Infinitely far off, as it seemed, a ray of sunlight shot through the Saturnine gloom of the skies, and lit the surface of the water. And then I perceived that upon the river there floated, within that small circle of light, an ark, or as it might be, a coffin. Then look…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 390

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…tany. By the “boundless Vision” is not meant the stupid Siddhi, but one of the forms of Samadhi, perhaps that upon the snake Ananta, the great green snake that bounds the Universe. 70. No Arhan, O Lanoo, becomes one in that birth when for the first time the Soul begins to long for final liberation. Vet, O thou anxious one, no warrior volunteering fight in the fierce strife between the living and the dead, not one recruit can ever be refused the right to enter on the Path that leads toward the field of Battle. For either he shall win, or he shal…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 323

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ngel approached me apparently to aid me, yet I tarried not, but still ascended. On, on I flew, until at length I became surprised at the great distance of my journey. “ Eventually I arrived in a strange land, and after some perplexity assumed a divine figure, which I believe to be that of Diana. Then I called Sappho, and immediately she appeared before me, a small dark woman with a wonderful skin and a copper sheen on her dark hair. Her face was very lovely, but her expression was ablaze with intense desire, and through her wild floating hair c…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 323

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ngel approached me apparently to aid me, yet I tarried not, but still ascended. On, on I flew, until at length I became surprised at the great distance of my journey. “ Eventually I arrived in a strange land, and after some perplexity assumed a divine figure, which I believe to be that of Diana. Then I called Sappho, and immediately she appeared before me, a small dark woman with a wonderful skin and a copper sheen on her dark hair. Her face was very lovely, but her expression was ablaze with intense desire, and through her wild floating hair c…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 54

Hail Mary

…surge and fire At last shall win to his desire. Thy grace for us sufficient still To smite the arbiters of ill Shall grant the exceeding great reward To look by Thee upon the LORD. Be still, my soul, whate’er assail ! Through Mary they shall not prevail ; And thou resigned in peace await Her peace at Her appointed date. Amen. B 47

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1911 · PDF PAGE 83

Hail Mary

… Queen of Love, Bring us to Thine House above, Where in love and splendour dwell All the saints that praise Thee well. Bring us to their great content By Thy mystic sacrament ! Amen. O 76

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1910 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…n of the whole world” (p, 184). Here the “true-self” is the Higher Self, Atman or Augoeides, unity with which is what we have called the Great Work of the A... A... When a soldier turns philosopher we always expect good work, and Major Kelly has not failed us; and to all such as would understand Kant as well as Schopenhauer’s great work, “The World as Will and Idea”—of which an excellent English translation is published by Messrs. Paul, Trench, Triibner, we heartily recommend this masterful little volume. F. THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…n of the whole world” (p, 184). Here the “true-self” is the Higher Self, Atman or Augoeides, unity with which is what we have called the Great Work of the A... A... When a soldier turns philosopher we always expect good work, and Major Kelly has not failed us; and to all such as would understand Kant as well as Schopenhauer’s great work, “The World as Will and Idea”—of which an excellent English translation is published by Messrs. Paul, Trench, Triibner, we heartily recommend this masterful little volume. F. THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 181

Moonchild

… the Terrible Secret that "today is Wednesday," perhaps "because the devil told him to do so." "I am He who is Truth" was the boast of a great mystic, Mansur, and they stoned him for it, as they stone all men who speak truth; but had he said "Hush! I am God!" he would have been merely a maniac. So Iliel acquired the habit of spending a great part of the day in her cradle, and there indulging her mind in every possible morbidity. The very fact that she could not go on to action served to make the matter worse. It is a terrible error to let any n…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 270

The Star in the West

… blot out the sweet laughter of another , and as the spark ling stream and the muddy river both pour back their boiling waters into that great ocean , from out of which they sun - kissed arose , so do action and re action once again unite to build up that great unity which is Nothing . Not one farthing is ever lost , ab solute co - operation exists , and the dividend Mysticus offered Scepticus is paid out without fault or fail , to all those most assiduous workers whose skill and craft never tarries or tires : “ In the first year Dhyana ; in th…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 307

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING obtained possession of his sight were suddenly to return to a state of blindness, would have great difficulty in explaining to his blind brothers the sights he had seen, in fact none would believe him, and his difficulty in explaining in the language of blind-land the wonders of the land of sight would probably be so great that he would find more consolation in silence than in an attempted explanation: this has generally been the case with the true adepts; and those who have tried to explain themselves have been c…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 307

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING obtained possession of his sight were suddenly to return to a state of blindness, would have great difficulty in explaining to his blind brothers the sights he had seen, in fact none would believe him, and his difficulty in explaining in the language of blind-land the wonders of the land of sight would probably be so great that he would find more consolation in silence than in an attempted explanation: this has generally been the case with the true adepts; and those who have tried to explain themselves have been c…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 475

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…brity; his reveries would be bought for their weight in gold by the booksellers. He would become immensely rich, attract the notice of a great lady, and marry beyond the seas. It is by such promises that the phantom of the devil, long ago, lured Gilles de Laval, Seigneur of Retz, and made him wade from crime to crime. A man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the grimoive of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 475

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…brity; his reveries would be bought for their weight in gold by the booksellers. He would become immensely rich, attract the notice of a great lady, and marry beyond the seas. It is by such promises that the phantom of the devil, long ago, lured Gilles de Laval, Seigneur of Retz, and made him wade from crime to crime. A man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the grimoive of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 310

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…d after a little I found myself in a beautifully clear sky. “On gazing up into the depths of the blue, I saw dawn immediately above me a great circle; then of a sudden, as I looked away from its centre, there swept out towards me at intolerable speed the form of a shepherd ; trembling and not knowing what to say, with faltering voice I asked, ‘Why speed ye?’ Whereupon the answer came: ‘ There is haste!’ Then a great gloom closed mine eyes, and a horror of defile- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermos…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 310

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…d after a little I found myself in a beautifully clear sky. “On gazing up into the depths of the blue, I saw dawn immediately above me a great circle; then of a sudden, as I looked away from its centre, there swept out towards me at intolerable speed the form of a shepherd ; trembling and not knowing what to say, with faltering voice I asked, ‘Why speed ye?’ Whereupon the answer came: ‘ There is haste!’ Then a great gloom closed mine eyes, and a horror of defile- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermos…

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