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1911 · PDF PAGE 305

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…luminates his subject with a pleasing humour, and his book is readable and interesting as well as instructive.” —The Yorkshire Observer. DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOMENA. By Herewarp CarrINncToN and JouN R. MEADER. Ornamental black cloth, gilt, 8 in. x 5} in., 552 pp., 8s. 6d, net. CONTENTS PREFACE. Pant I. Physiological.—I. The Scientific Aspect of Life and Death. II, The Signs of Death, III, Trance, Catalepsy, Suspended Animation, etc, 1V. Premature Burial. V. Burial, Mum: mification. "VI. The Causes of Death. VII.’ Old Age: Its Scientific Stu…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 305

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…luminates his subject with a pleasing humour, and his book is readable and interesting as well as instructive.” —The Yorkshire Observer. DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOMENA. By Herewarp CarrINncToN and JouN R. MEADER. Ornamental black cloth, gilt, 8 in. x 5} in., 552 pp., 8s. 6d, net. CONTENTS PREFACE. Pant I. Physiological.—I. The Scientific Aspect of Life and Death. II, The Signs of Death, III, Trance, Catalepsy, Suspended Animation, etc, 1V. Premature Burial. V. Burial, Mum: mification. "VI. The Causes of Death. VII.’ Old Age: Its Scientific Stu…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 21

Liber Al vel Legis

… of the stars rain hard upon thy body. 63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fulness of the inspiration: the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm. 64. Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail! prophet of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet of Ra-Hoor-Khu! Now rejoice! now come in our splendour and rapture! Come in our pas- sionate peace, and write sweet words for the Kings! 65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One. 66. Write, and find ecstasy in w…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 92

The Mother’s Tragedy

78 MADONNA OF THE GOLDEN EYES Beast! I am damned in Hell for the kisses we sucked from death! Now remorse is yours, and love is fallen in dust— I shall seek Him again for its sacramental breath ! Yes, fear the gold that glitters from these eyes!” She took a dagger, and I could not stir. She pierced my silent fascinated breast. She held me with the deadly look of her. I cried to Mary in the House of Rest: ‘““O Madonna of the Virgin eyes!” I pierced him to the very soul: I took His whole life’s love to me before he died: Mad kisses mingled that e…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 70

The Winged Beetle

…dia, Swooning my soul out into her red throat, So that the glimmer of our skins, the tune Of our ripe rhythm, seeded the hideous play Of death-worms crawling on a corpse, afloat With life that takes its thirst Only from things accurst. Closer than Clodia’s clasp, Death had me down To his black heart, and fed upon my breath, So that we seemed a stillness—whiter than The stars, more silent than the stars, a crown Of stars ! For in the icy kiss of death I found that God that is denied to man So long as love and thought And life avail him aught.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 33

Songs of the Spirit

…relax and fade, Her body slackens with a sigh Reluctant, like a maid. I said : O vampire Lover, weep, Who cannot follow me above, Though Death may masquerade as Sleep, And Lust laugh out like Love. But God’s strong arms set under me Lifted my spirit through the air Beyond the wide supernal sea, Beyond the veil of vair. God said : My ways are sweet and deep ; The sceptres and the swords thereof Change : for Death’s face is fair as Sleep ; And Lust is clean as Love. I slept upon His breast ; and Death Came like Sleep’s angel, and I died, And tast…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 123

The Law is for All

124 The Law is for All bounded by death; and his spy-glass is smeared with the idea of sin. The New /Eon proclaims Man as Immortal God, eternally active to do His Will. All’s Joy, all’s Beauty; this Will we celebrate. In this verse we see how the awakening leads to ordered and purposeful action. Joy and Beauty are the evidence that our func­ tions are free and fit; when we take no pleasure, and find nothing to admire, in our work, we are doing it wrong. 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first nig…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 49

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH AE VENUS OF MILO Life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. Death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body. The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond Life and Death. Even as the Lingam and the Yoni are but diverse developments of One Organ, so also

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1899 · PDF PAGE 198

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ts back the sudden glint Of sunshine that brings healing with the breath Of western winds that sigh, and hint _ Of sleep, twin soul with death. Death, death ere dawn. The night is over dark, Trees are grown terrible, the shadows wan Make shudder all the tense desires of man ; No gleam of moonlight bears the golden mark Of sunny lips, nor shines upon Our sleep—Love’s birchen bark.

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1902 · PDF PAGE 125

Tannhäuser

… court to brag Of his incredible vileness ? To link up The saintly purity of this my child With his seducer's heart of hell ! My voice ! Death ! Your cry echoes me ? Voices. Death ! Death ! Tannhauser. Leap out, Sword of my fathers ! you have heard my harp ! Its music stings your vile hypocrisy Into mere hatred. Truth is terrible ! You, cousin, taken in adultery ! You, Wolfram, lover of the kitchen maids ! You, Jerome —yes, I know your secret deeds ! You, ladies ! Are your faces painted thus Not to hide wrinkles of debauchery .-' To catch new l…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 116

The Scented Garden

…e sun illume them with his gold ! My dew is on thy rose ; what Light Their love with rapture doth enfold ? They are immune from Life and Death ; From heat and hunger, thirst and cold. The worn ascetics1 of the mosque Guess not what joy the ages hold. Seek we the tavern and the stream, The garden and the grassy wold ! No potter fashioned thee, o man ! ’Tis thou that didst the Potter mould. From Fear grew Hell, from Hope sprang Heaven ; From Love our Ecstasy untold.2 Those are delusions, slow to live, This hath no death, the iron-souled. [Therefo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 193

The Star in the West

…he pain was sudden — and the joy was long . Persists that triumph , keenly , utterly ! Write , then , in thy mysterious book of song : “ Death chisels marble where life moulded clay. ” 1 And again : Dim winds shall whisper echoes of Our slow ecstatic breath , Telling all worlds how sweet is love , How beautiful is Death.2 Thus in this cup which Aleister Crowley offers us , we find that to sip the honey of Virtue is to quaff the wormwood of Vice ; they are one , and there must be no comparison . Outside our minds exists neither one nor the other…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 85

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ace had been Alway my true wife’s; let me not recall Her first shy glance! This woman I desired, And sealed my own for ever by this keen Death that crowns her Death’s queen. Death’s and not mine: I was a fool to kiss Her dead lips—aye, her living lips for that ! I cannot bid her rise and live again. I would not. Nay, I know not; for is this My triumph or my ruin, satiate Of death, insatiate alway of pain ? What have I done? In vain, in vain!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 32

Ambergris

…fts back the sudden glint Of sunshine that brings healing with the breath Of western winds that sign, they hint Of sleep, twin soul with death. Death, death ere dawn. The night is over dark ; Trees are grown terrible ; the shadows wan Make shudder all the tense desires of man ; No gleam of moonlight bears the golden mark Of sunny lips, nor shines upon Our sleep—Love’s birchen bark. Love, love to-night. To-night is all we know, Is all our care ; lips joined to lips we lie, Tender hands touching, hearts in tune to die, With willing kiss reluctant…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 556

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX great Catholic Count Joseph de Maistre so well understood ; this is why the penalty of death is a natural right, and will never disappear from human laws. The stain of murder would be indelible if God did not justify the scaffold ; the divine power, abdicated by society and usurped by criminals, would belong to them without dispute. Assassination would then become a virtue when it exercised the reprisals of outraged nature. Private vengeance would protest against the absence of public expiation, and from the splinters of the broken …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 556

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX great Catholic Count Joseph de Maistre so well understood ; this is why the penalty of death is a natural right, and will never disappear from human laws. The stain of murder would be indelible if God did not justify the scaffold ; the divine power, abdicated by society and usurped by criminals, would belong to them without dispute. Assassination would then become a virtue when it exercised the reprisals of outraged nature. Private vengeance would protest against the absence of public expiation, and from the splinters of the broken …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 17

The Law is for All

…uch means, that will be compassed by the adoption of the religion of The Book of the Law. Further, this Book gives a new illumination of death, of the meaning of death. With death all religions have of course been much concerned; but the extent to which the various Christian sects have succeeded in dispelling the fear of death can be judged by the prevailing attitude towards death of the great majority of professing Christian persons. When they are not refusing to think about it, they are terrified of it. They speak of one who has died as “poor…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 31

Tale of Archais

…ught Him, and the world began, He made moist clay, and breathed on it, that man Might be most frail and feeble, and like earth Shrink at Death’s finger from the hour of birth ; And like the sea by limits of pale sand Be utterly confined ; but so He planned To vivify the body with the soul, That fire and air were wedded to control The heavy bulk beneath them, so His breath Touched the warm clay and violated death, Gave to the spirit wings and bade it rise To seek its Maker with aspiring eyes, Gave to the body strength to hold awhile The spirit, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 415

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ves upon coal. One day, medicine will make use of this property, and nervous persons will find great relief from it. CHAPTER II LIFE AND DEATH.—SLEEP AND WAKING SLEEP is an incomplete death; death is a complete sleep. Nature subjects us to sleep in order to accustom us to the idea of death, and warns us by dreams of the persistence of another life. The astral light into which sleep plunges us is like an ocean in which innumerable images are afloat, flotsam of wrecked existences, mirages and reflections of those which pass, presentiments of thos…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 415

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ves upon coal. One day, medicine will make use of this property, and nervous persons will find great relief from it. CHAPTER II LIFE AND DEATH.—SLEEP AND WAKING SLEEP is an incomplete death; death is a complete sleep. Nature subjects us to sleep in order to accustom us to the idea of death, and warns us by dreams of the persistence of another life. The astral light into which sleep plunges us is like an ocean in which innumerable images are afloat, flotsam of wrecked existences, mirages and reflections of those which pass, presentiments of thos…

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