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1899 · PDF PAGE 196

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… And Earth refuses home; He knows not to direct him To Lesbos or to Rome. His life he sees unhidden, A sea of waves unchidden, Devouring things forbidden In sacramental foam. Here come “the loves that wither,” And here their heaviest wings Droop, and “dead years draw hither And all disastrous things.” Pure loves that flowered never, True loves that none might sever, The flame that burns for ever, Love's ruined water-springs. Oh, Death! draw nigh, deliver My passion from its band ; Draw nigh, until I shiver At thy most holy hand. For Earth’s des…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 303

The Star in the West

…nkable and wicked too , A great deal that I know is true ! In short , the mind is capable , Besides mere ratiocination , Of twenty other things as well , The first of which is concentration ! Bloom , Concentration's midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long -sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not , my friend !), Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time - suppose , the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh '!) And at that instant comprehend (That past and future tenses v…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 97

Book 4 (Part I)

… loss of the senses of time and space and causality. Duality in any form is abolished. The idea of time involves that of two consecutive things, that of space two non-coincident things, that of causality two connected things; These Dhyanic conditions contradict those of normal thought; but G

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1913 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… if he had never entered on the Path at all. For the Ego has been totally destroyed, and he has nothing wherewith to bind together these things. He is not any of these things, for there is no He. Those things are. And of the results of this, and of how it may bear upon the question of his advancement to the Grade of Magus, who can say? It is not the Master of the Temple even who could answer such a question. For, in relation to his advancement, he is but that little pile of dust which is to burn up, and from which shall be prepared a white ash …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… if he had never entered on the Path at all. For the Ego has been totally destroyed, and he has nothing wherewith to bind together these things. He is not any of these things, for there is no He. Those things are. And of the results of this, and of how it may bear upon the question of his advancement to the Grade of Magus, who can say? It is not the Master of the Temple even who could answer such a question. For, in relation to his advancement, he is but that little pile of dust which is to burn up, and from which shall be prepared a white ash …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 233

The Star in the West

…ere is the jest is it for a philosopher to chief and most confounding question the existence of sen objection to excessive sceptic sible things , till he hath it ism , that no durable good can proved to him from the vera ever result from it; while it city of God ; or to pretend our remains in its full force and knowledge in this point falls vigour . We need only ask such short of intuition or demonstra a sceptic , ' What his meaning tion ! I might as well doubt of is ? And what he proposes by my own being , as of the being all these curious res…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 43

The Soul of Osiris

…t men have in contempt, That wise men yearn to see), Of angel forms exempt From mockeries that tempt Who fly about the lea ; Proclaiming things unheard, Unknown to brightest bird, Things, whose unspoken word Is utmost secrecy. So pure, so pale we lie, Like angels eye to eye, Like lovers lip to lip. So, the elect knight, I Keep vigil to the sky, While the dumb moments slip.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

The Book of Lies

… IT moves from motion into rest, and rests from rest into motion. These IT does alway, for time is not. So that IT does neither of these things. IT does THAT one thing which we must express by two things neither of which possesses any rational meaning. Yet ITS doing, which is not-doing, is simpleand yet complex, is neither free nor necessary. For all these ideas express Relation; and IT, comprehending all Relation in ITS sim- plicity, is out of all Relation even with ITSELF. All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 54

The Argonauts

…d, not human force— Hardly the favour of the gods themselves— Shall stead him in that peril. CHORUS. Yet we know Courage may conquer all things. AEETES. Such a man Is greater than the gods! CHORUS. If only he Know who he is—that all these gods and men And things are but the shadows of himself! AEETES. I cannot give you hope. Await the end.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 100

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…t think. ” And she stood motionless until her hapless father attracted her attention by backing into his wicker chain “ Don't touch holy things," she snapped suddenly, taking the sketch from his nerveless hand, and replacing it reverently in the portfolio. The action seemed to decide heri "I'll give you an address to send my things to, ” she said, and walked out of the garden. Theodore Bugg sat stunned “Holy things, " she had said. She called that lustful French photograph holy! Was this Original Sin; or was it that strange new thing people wer…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 100

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…t think. ” And she stood motionless until her hapless father attracted her attention by backing into his wicker chain “ Don't touch holy things," she snapped suddenly, taking the sketch from his nerveless hand, and replacing it reverently in the portfolio. The action seemed to decide heri "I'll give you an address to send my things to, ” she said, and walked out of the garden. Theodore Bugg sat stunned “Holy things, " she had said. She called that lustful French photograph holy! Was this Original Sin; or was it that strange new thing people wer…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

LIBER A’ASH 19. There is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour. 20. All holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments 21. These animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. All corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. All lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. I am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is u…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

LIBER A’ASH 19. There is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour. 20. All holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments 21. These animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. All corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. All lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. I am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is u…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 214

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 202 Zs De Veritate Rerum (Of the Truth of Things) O do thou apprehend this Wisdom, o my Son, laying it to hine Heart, as a Mistress, and hiding it in the Treasury of hy Mind as a Jewel of Enlightenment. Consider a Dream, how it is unreal in Respect of thine Experience of the Objects of thy Waking Sense, but real also, both as it did in Fact impress thy Mind, and as it did express some Hunger of thy Secret Nature, as I have already shewed in this Letter. Consider the Play of the Chess, how its Law hath made for itself a Langu…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 50

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

RICHARD BUXTON . SONNET. DEAREST, if the touch of common things Can taint our love or wither , let it die . The fre' est hearted lark that soars and sings Soon after dawn amid a dew - brushed sky Takes song from love and knows well where love lies , Hid in the grass ," the dear domestic nest , The secret , splendid , common paradise . The strangest joys are not the loveliest : Passion far - sought is dead when it is found , But love that 's born of intimate common things Cries with a voice of splendour , with a sound That over stranger feeling …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 184

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 172 #o De hac re Altera Intelligenda (More things to be Understood concening this) ARK then, o my Son, how in the Ancient Books of Magick it is Man that selleth his Soul unto the Devil, but Woman that maketh Pact with him. For she hath constantly the Wit and Power to arrange Things at his Bidding, and she payeth this Price of his Alliance. But a Man hath one Jewel, and, bartering this, he becometh the Mockery of Satanas. Let then his tutor thee in thine own Art of Magick, that thou employ Women in all Practical Matters, to o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 345

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…. To destroy or sequestrate the common wealth is not to possess; it is to steal. I say common wealth, because the true proprietor of all things is God, who wishes all things to belong to everybody. Whatever you may do, at your death you will carry away nothing of this world’s goods. Now, that which must be taken away from you one day is not really yours. It has only been lent to you. As to the usufruct, it is the result of work; but even work is not an assured guarantee of possession, and war may come with devastation and fire to displace prope…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 345

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…. To destroy or sequestrate the common wealth is not to possess; it is to steal. I say common wealth, because the true proprietor of all things is God, who wishes all things to belong to everybody. Whatever you may do, at your death you will carry away nothing of this world’s goods. Now, that which must be taken away from you one day is not really yours. It has only been lent to you. As to the usufruct, it is the result of work; but even work is not an assured guarantee of possession, and war may come with devastation and fire to displace prope…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE TWO PATHS The Authoress of these treatises is a little exacting in the number of things that you have to do before you take your first step, most of them being things which more nearly re- semble the difficulties of the last step. But by learning to distinguish the “real from the false” is only meant a sort of elementary discernment between things that are worth hav- ing and those that are not worth having, and, of course, the perception will alter with advance in knowledge. By “Head- learning” is meant the contents of the Ruach (mind) or M…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 119

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e to the Earth and to the Sun and to the holy body and soul of Man ; and glory be to Love and to the Father 01 Love, the secret Unity of things! Glory be to the Shrine within the Temple, and to the God within the Shrine, to the Word and to the Silence that bore it unto Him that is beyond the Silence and the Speech! Also thanksgiving in the Highest for the Gift of all these things, and for the maiden in whom all these things are found, for the holy body and soul 01 man, and for the sun, and for the earth. AMEN. FRANCIS BENDICK.

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