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1911 · PDF PAGE 6

The Vision and the Voice

…ravail of a Terrible Child; she shall bring forth an universe of Darkness, whence shall leap forth a spark that shall put his father to flight. The Obelisks are broken; the stars have rushed together: the Light hath plunged into the Abyss: the Heavens are mixed with Hell. My Father shall not hear their Noise: His ears are closed: His eyes are covered with the clouds of Night. The End! the End! the End! For the Eye of Shiva He hath opened: the Universe is naked before Him: for the Aeon of Saturn leaneth toward the Bosom of Death. The Angel of th…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 76

Oracles

A LITANY 7I X Where light and darkness meet, There shine thy flaming feet, There is thy splendid seat ; Mighty Anubi ! XI Swift-winged Stability, Lifting the earth and sky, Hold me up utterly, Keep me, O Shuwe ! XII Virginal Queen of Earth, Late love, and last of birth, Loose, loose the golden girth, Nephthys, the crowned one ! XIII Hail, crowned Harpocrates, Shew, shew thy secrecies, Lotus-throned silences, Typhon’s replacer !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 13

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ceive me not, I trust thee, [am sure Thy love will stand while ocean winds endure. Our quest shall be our quest till cither brow Radiate light, till death himself allure Our love to him When life’s desires are filled beyond the silver brim. . XXXII. Ifere I abandon all myself to thee, Slip into thy caresses as of right, Live in thy kisses as in living light, Clothed in thy love, enthronéd lazily In thine embrace, as naked as the night, As love and lover More pure, more keen, more strong than all my dreams discover. 1 Christ. - EPILOGUE. My heav…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…hildren of earth ; But ye in singing and sleeping Shall pass in measure and mirth! I lift my wand and wave you Through hill to hill of delight; My rosy rivers lave you In innermost lustral light. I lead you, lord of the maze, In the darkness free of the sun; In spite of the spite that is day’s We are wed, we are wild, we are one! [The light: go out and the rampant)! join in universa! dama] HERMANUBIS. Silence. TYPHON. Silence. C.I.C.’l‘. 1-333. The Secret of the Father is in the Secret of the Son. SPHINX. 22-22. And the Secret of the Son is in …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…hildren of earth ; But ye in singing and sleeping Shall pass in measure and mirth! I lift my wand and wave you Through hill to hill of delight; My rosy rivers lave you In innermost lustral light. I lead you, lord of the maze, In the darkness free of the sun; In spite of the spite that is day’s We are wed, we are wild, we are one! [The light: go out and the rampant)! join in universa! dama] HERMANUBIS. Silence. TYPHON. Silence. C.I.C.’l‘. 1-333. The Secret of the Father is in the Secret of the Son. SPHINX. 22-22. And the Secret of the Son is in …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 520

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…eil of the great Isis. Nature is chaste, and it is to chastity that she gives the key of life. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul, is only preserved in the order of Nature. Every voluntary disorder wounds it, prolonged excess murders it. Then, instead of being guided and preserved by reason, one is abandoned to the fatalities of the ebb and flow of magnetic light. The magnetic light devours ceaselessly, because it is always creating, and because, in order to produce conti…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 520

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…eil of the great Isis. Nature is chaste, and it is to chastity that she gives the key of life. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul, is only preserved in the order of Nature. Every voluntary disorder wounds it, prolonged excess murders it. Then, instead of being guided and preserved by reason, one is abandoned to the fatalities of the ebb and flow of magnetic light. The magnetic light devours ceaselessly, because it is always creating, and because, in order to produce conti…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 101

Orpheus

Vain are the light and laughter of man’s rhyme, Vain the large hymns, and soaring songs and psalters ! My face, my breast, .no soul of man uncovers, Nor is my bed made lovely with my lovers! I long for purple and the holier kiss Of mortal lyrist ; in these arms to gladden ; To take him to the spring and source of bliss, And in his vast embrace to rouse me, madden Once with the light of passion, not to miss Uttermost rapture till the sweet loves sadden To sweeter peace thrilled with young ecstasy— Ah! man’s high spirit may not reach to Me! Iam N…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 145

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Constantine Michaelides . Yet light as maidens in a flower starred -dell They plunged their gnarled hands in the moss-hushed earth And spread their branches each to each in dance As of a host enchanted , seeming still To taunt with strange expectancy of life And foil with runic mystery of trees . Wild beasts Aled to the forest glades , whose peace Seemed as a haven on a cliff-bound coast, Smiling a sunlit smile within the rift Of sombre leaf -surged beeches , or of pines Stern -trunked and straight as spears of ancient work , Sky-piercing , gro…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 106

The Book of Thoth

…ru‐ra‐ha, the Lord of the New Aeon, in his manifestation to the race of men as the Sun spiritual, moral, and physical. He is the Lord of Light, Life, Liberty and Love. This Aeon has for its purpose the complete emanci‐ pation of the human race. The rose represents the flowering of the solar influence. Around the whole picture we see the signs of the Zodiac in their normal position, Aries rising in the East, and so on. Free‐ dom brings sanity. The Zodiac is a kind of childish representation of the body of Nuith, a dif‐ ferentiation and classific…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 84

Little Poems in Prose

…ose and of musk in the house, and further, behind our little estate, tall masts swinging on the swell; around us, at the end of the room lighted by a rosy light filtered by blinds, decorated with fresh mats and heady flowers, with seats here and there in Portu- guese rococo style of a heavy dark wood, where she would rest herself, so calm, so well at ease, smoking tobacco slightly flavoured with opium; beyond the compound, the noise of light-intoxicated birds, and the chattering of little negresses, and at night, to accompany my dreams, the pla…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 30

Book 4 (Part I)

…ss of the Ego and the non-Ego, the seer and the thing seen, the knovver and the thing known, is blotted out. There is usually an intense light, an intense sound, and a feeling of such overwhelming bliss that the resources of language have been ex- hausted again and again in the attempt to describe it. It is an absolute knock-out blow to the mind. It is so vivid and tremendous that those Who experience it are in the gravest danger of losing all sense of proportion. By its light all other events of life are as darkness. Owing to this, people have…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 72

Sir Palamedes

…under-claps Smite him—insane—insane—insane |! His muscles roar with senseless rage; The pale knight staggers, deathly sick; Reels to the light that sorry sage, Sir Palamede the Lunatick.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 198

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…er I MATER C(ELI. Behold thine handmaidenl [MAGISTER TEMFLI mul MATER CCELI go together hand z'n hami, within the wil. CAPRICORNUS turus light πῄ] [MATER COELI ;5111315 a Pæah of despaz‘n‘r [MAGISTER TEMPLI, finding veil, aþþan: standing an altar. 0 melancholy Brothers, dark, dark, dark ! Ο battling' in black floods without an ark! Ο spectral Wanderers of unholy Night! My soul hath bled {or you these sunless years, With bitter blood-drops running down like tears : Oh, dark, dark, dark, withdrawn from joy and light ! My heart is sick with anguish …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 198

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…er I MATER C(ELI. Behold thine handmaidenl [MAGISTER TEMFLI mul MATER CCELI go together hand z'n hami, within the wil. CAPRICORNUS turus light πῄ] [MATER COELI ;5111315 a Pæah of despaz‘n‘r [MAGISTER TEMPLI, finding veil, aþþan: standing an altar. 0 melancholy Brothers, dark, dark, dark ! Ο battling' in black floods without an ark! Ο spectral Wanderers of unholy Night! My soul hath bled {or you these sunless years, With bitter blood-drops running down like tears : Oh, dark, dark, dark, withdrawn from joy and light ! My heart is sick with anguish …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 191

The Law is for All

…rible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee:— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! The Light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Turn, Of Khephra and of Ahathoor. I am thy Theban, O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit! Bid me within thine Hous…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 36

Alice: An Adultery

…isper o’er the wave The name of Margaret. A heart of gold, a flower of white, A blushing flame of snow, She moves like latticed moons of light— And O ! her voice is low, Shell-murmurs borne to Amphitrite, Exulting as they go. 14

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1911 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…m by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…m by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 109

Mortadello

OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 93 Will the day after suit your highness ? Then we’ll dine With but her light to shoot its silver through the wine. MORTADELLO. Her light and love’s ! My friend, I feared that we should fight : But—look toward the end ! fate sets us all to right. Deserve as you’ve deserved till now, and you may be The greatest man that’s served in Venice after me. ALESSANDRO. My lord, you are too good. At first I did not know you. But now I’ve understood the service we all owe you. MORTADELLO. Well, shall we go to the boat ? ALESSANDRO. …

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