1913 · PDF PAGE 145
Book 4 (Part II)
…hadows, no reflections. It cannot be touched, it cannot be extinguished, in no way can it change; for it is utterly apart from all those things which
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Cambridge Poets 1900–1913
J. C. Squire. Is it that now a year has passed Of vain pursuit of glittering things, Of fruitless searching , shouting , running , And greedy lies and candour cunning , Here as I stand the year above Sudden the heats and the strivings fail And fall away , a fluctuant veil, And the fixed familiar stones restore The old appearance -buried core , The moveless and essential me, The eternal personality Alone enduring first and last ? No, this I have known in other ways, In other places, other days. Not only here , on this one peak , Do fixity and be…
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1901 · PDF PAGE 125
The Soul of Osiris
THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 113 So patient, in the breathless strife ; So silent, under scourge and knife ; So tranquil, in the surge of things ; I bring them from the well of Life, Love, from celestial water-springs ! From the shrill fountain-head of God I draw out water with the rod Made luminous with light of power. I seal each æon’s period, And wait the moment and the hour. Aloof, alone, unloved, I stand With love and worship in my hand. I commune with the Gods : I wait Their summons, and I fire the brand. I speak their Word : and there is Fate. I …
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1913 · PDF PAGE 39
Book 4 (Part II)
…nt " principles," whose operations chemists have found it more convenient to explain in other ways. But Sulphur represents the energy of things, Mercury their fluidity, Salt their fixity. They are analogous to Fire, Air and Water; but they mean rather more, for they represent something deeper and subtler, and yet more truly active. An almost exact analogy is given by the three Gunas of the Hindus; Sattvas, Rajas, and Tamas. Sattvas is Mercury, equable, calm, clear; Rajas is Sulphur, active, excitable, even fierce; Tamas is Salt, thick, sluggish…
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1906 · PDF PAGE 241
Collected Works (Vol. II)
… back to our previous irritable agnosti- cism, and look for our Messiah elsewhere. But if we can see together on this one point, I think things will go fairly smoothly after- wards. Consider! Darkness !_ Can we philosophi- cally or actually regard as different the dark- ness produced by interference of light and that existing in the mere absence of light? Is Unity really identical with .9 recurring? Do we not mean different things when we speak respectively of 2 sine 60° and of 4/3? Charcoal and diamond are obviously dif- ferent in the categori…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 44
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)
…, sliapes, perfumes and so on, so that any idea or (as we might call it) “spirit”, may be com- posed or called forth by the use of those things which are harmonious with it, and express particular parts of its nature. These correspondences hâve been elaborately mapped in the Book 777 in a very convenient and compendious form. It will be necessary for the student to make a careful study of this book in connexion with some actual rituals of Magick, for example, I. He is this only by définition. The universe may contain an infinité variety of worl…
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1935 · PDF PAGE 9
One Star in Sight
…pose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a resolution of all complexities into their elements, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in respect of their relation to, and reaction on, other things. 8. The Grade of Adeptus Exemptus confers authority to govern the two lower Orders of R. C. and G. D. The Adept must prepare and publish a thesis setting forth His knowledge of the Universe, and his proposals for its welfare and progress. He will thus be known as the leader of a school of thought. (Eliphas Levi’s Clef des G…
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1898 · PDF PAGE 63
White Stains
…desired above All loves of hell or heaven, supremely wed, Knit in one soul in one delicious bed More hot than hell, more wicked than all things, Vast in our sin, whose unredeeming wings Rise o’er the world, and flap for lust of death, Eager as anyone that travaileth ; So in our lusts, the monstrous burden borne Heavy within the womb, we wait the morn Of its fulfilment. Thus eternity Wheels vain wings round us, who may never die, But cling as hard as serpent’s wedlock is, One writhing glory, an immortal kiss.
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1912 · PDF PAGE 418
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
THE EQUINOX St. James the Divine has indeed found a way to tell the truth (about most things) without frightening Respectability too much, though I think he might have spared us a thunderbolt against that feeble writer, Herbert Vivian. Sanctus Jacobus Corvus once observed in his treatise on?!”נ/עשתמ (blue- pencilled by the common sub-editor),“Crow and Crowley—what a combination ! " Not a bad one, either. Ifonly he had stolen the holy water (as I begged him to do) and baptized our mandrakes properly Never mind! I advise all our readers to read h…
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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
THE EQUINOX St. James the Divine has indeed found a way to tell the truth (about most things) without frightening Respectability too much, though I think he might have spared us a thunderbolt against that feeble writer, Herbert Vivian. Sanctus Jacobus Corvus once observed in his treatise on?!”נ/עשתמ (blue- pencilled by the common sub-editor),“Crow and Crowley—what a combination ! " Not a bad one, either. Ifonly he had stolen the holy water (as I begged him to do) and baptized our mandrakes properly Never mind! I advise all our readers to read h…
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1928 · PDF PAGE 155
Little Poems in Prose
…at all its length upon a carpet of magnificent flowers nourished upon destruction. An immense rustle of life filled the air; the life of things infinitely small, which was interrupted at regular intervals by
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1961 · PDF PAGE 14
Liber Aleph
…Holy Qabalah. Know that herein the Rela- tions between Numbers, though they be mighty in Power and prodigal of Knowledge, are but lesser Things. For the Work is to reduce all other conceptions to these of Number, because thus thou wilt lay bare the very Structure of thy Mind, whose rule is Necessity rather than Prejudice. Not until the Universe is thus laid naked before thee canst thou truly anatomize it. The Tendencies of thy Mind lie deeper far than any Thought, for they are the Conditions and the Laws of Thought; and it is these that thou mu…
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1898 · PDF PAGE 44
Jephthah
…part who am judge of these I vow beyond obedience sacrifice, And for the victory Thou shalt give, I vow To sacrifice the first of living things © That with due welcome shall divide the doors Of my house, meeting me, an offering , ‘Burnt before Thee with ceremony meet
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1901 · PDF PAGE 69
The Mother’s Tragedy
…FATAL FORCE 55 Speak, that I rise from chaos, from the world Of shapeless and illusionary forms, And dead men’s husks, and unsubstantial things. O mother, mother, mother! I arise! RATOUM. Horus, dread godhead, child of me, arise! Arise Osiris, to the sacred rites: And marriage-bed of fuller deity, Now, at the serpent-motion of this wand, Rise from the dead! Arise, dead Horus, rise To be Osiris. Isis speaks! Arise! | Zhe coffin ts opened. The leper ts raised out of zt swathed in bandages. Out of the sleep of ages wake and live! [ The wrappings f…
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1902 · PDF PAGE 61
Tannhäuser
…ose ? Sharp thorns in thee are set ; In me, in me beget The dolorous despair of this desire. Thy body sways and swings Above the tide of things, Laps me as ocean, wraps me round as fire ! Ye elemental sorceries of song, Surge, strenuous and strong, Seeking dead dreams, the secret of the shrine ; So that she drain my life and being up As from a golden cup, To minofle in her blood, death's kiss incarnadine. & Who cometh from the ocean as a flower ? Who blossometh above the barren sea ? Thy lotus set beneath thee for a bower. Thine eyes awakened, …
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1903 · PDF PAGE 67
The Star and the Garter
…art unto heart, Thus ever, never otherwise. The soul is out of me, and swings In desperate and strange surmise About the inmost heart of things. This is all strange : but is not life, Death, all, most strange, not to be told, Not to be understood by strife Of brain, nor bought for gleaming gold, Nor known by aught but love? And love Far from resolving soul to sense, Stands isolated and above Immaculate, alone, intense, Concentrate on itself. But should The lesser leave me, as it might ; The lesser never touch you; would Your will be one with my…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 18
Rosa Coeli
…hat would devour me, Did not the raptures of thy love embower me In meads Elysian, fields of foamless fire, Nights of invincible desire, Things beyond words, beyond the want of them, Beyond the pauses and the ecstasies . . . . Where should my dream get such a diadem Of voiceless thoughts as these ? XIII HESE dreams reform Themselves into a rainbow to the storm Of simple passion ; let me from the string Take many-coloured wing As a swift-thoughted arrow Vertically shot against the sun ! I would you were a sow And these my verses were your squeal…
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1911 · PDF PAGE 216
The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)
…UTONOE. Fall soft and sweet! AGAVE. Moaning for love the woods lie. AUTONOE. Sad the land Lies thirsty for our kisses. MAENADS. All wild things Yearn towards the kiss that ends in blood. AGAVE, Blood! Blood | Bring wine! Ha! Bromius, Bromius! M/ENADS Come, sweet God, Come forth and lie with us!
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1911 · PDF PAGE 216
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)
…UTONOE. Fall soft and sweet! AGAVE. Moaning for love the woods lie. AUTONOE. Sad the land Lies thirsty for our kisses. MAENADS. All wild things Yearn towards the kiss that ends in blood. AGAVE, Blood! Blood | Bring wine! Ha! Bromius, Bromius! M/ENADS Come, sweet God, Come forth and lie with us!
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1961 · PDF PAGE 17
Liber Aleph
… of Repression in which they chanced to move. Thus Beatrice was robbed of Dante by social Artificialities; and Paolo slain on account of Things external to his Love of Francesca. Then, per contra, Martin Luther, being a Giant of Will, and also the Eighth Henry of England, as a mighty King, bent them to overturn the whole World that they might have satisfaction of their Loves. And who shall follow them? For even now we find great Churchmen, Statesmen, Princes, Dramamakers, and many lesser Men, overwhelmed utterly and ruined by the conflict betwe…
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