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1930 · PDF PAGE 46

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

IL Of the Officers of the Mass. The PRIEST. Bears the Sacred Lance, and is clothed at first in a plain white robe. The PRIESTESS. Should be actually Virgo Intacta or specially dedicated to the service of the Great Order. She is clothed in white, blue and gold. She bears the sword from a red girdle, and the Paten and Hosts, or Cakes of Light. Ihe DEACON. He is clothed in white and yellow. He bears the Book of the Law. Two Children. They are clothed in white and black. One bears a pitcher of water and a cellar of sait, the other a censer of lire …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 197

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…haps possible to predict a Geometrical Pro- gression (or Mixed Progression.)] BEGIN, END. OBJECT. TIME, NO. OF BREAKS. 10.58 am, II. am. White tri- 3m. 5 breaks. angle [I am in very bad state—nearly a// breaks!—do a little Pranayama to steady me.] Ilioam. .1.15$a.m. White tri- 5m. 30s. 4 breaks. angle [Sneezed: totally forgot what I was doing. When I reflected, time as above.] 9.45 a.m. 9.584a.m. White tri- 13m.30s. 20 breaks. angle 1025am. 1057}am. Ajna 32m. 308s. 20 breaks. [With Mantra. Throbbing at once. “Invaders” nearly all irrational. St…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 197

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…haps possible to predict a Geometrical Pro- gression (or Mixed Progression.)] BEGIN, END. OBJECT. TIME, NO. OF BREAKS. 10.58 am, II. am. White tri- 3m. 5 breaks. angle [I am in very bad state—nearly a// breaks!—do a little Pranayama to steady me.] Ilioam. .1.15$a.m. White tri- 5m. 30s. 4 breaks. angle [Sneezed: totally forgot what I was doing. When I reflected, time as above.] 9.45 a.m. 9.584a.m. White tri- 13m.30s. 20 breaks. angle 1025am. 1057}am. Ajna 32m. 308s. 20 breaks. [With Mantra. Throbbing at once. “Invaders” nearly all irrational. St…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 39

Orpheus

THE CLOUDS Sun’s spirit is calling ! We gather together, White wreaths, as appalling Pale ghosts of dead weather, The veil of us falling On snow-height and heather, Or hovering and scrawling Strange signs in the zther. We hear the still voice, and we know him: we come! We are sightless and dumb. ORPHEUS More frail than your friends, The clouds borne above, The light of thee blends With the moon and her love. Thy spirit descends As a white-throated dove. Come forth! I invoke thee, O mist, and make me a sharer thereof! THE MIST From valleys of vi…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 136

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…retched out cruciform. She hardly breathed; there was no colour in her face. One would have said the corpse of a martyred virgin. On her white body its own purity hovered like a veil. Edgar Rolles watched the lamp, erect, attentive. It went out. Hardlya hint of grey filtered through the blackness. In his hands he held two threads. “ One is black, and one is white, he mused, and only God knows which is which. So only God knows what is sin. In our darkness we who presume to declare it are liars—Charlatans, groping quacks at the best. Will the sun …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 136

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…retched out cruciform. She hardly breathed; there was no colour in her face. One would have said the corpse of a martyred virgin. On her white body its own purity hovered like a veil. Edgar Rolles watched the lamp, erect, attentive. It went out. Hardlya hint of grey filtered through the blackness. In his hands he held two threads. “ One is black, and one is white, he mused, and only God knows which is which. So only God knows what is sin. In our darkness we who presume to declare it are liars—Charlatans, groping quacks at the best. Will the sun …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 107

The Mother’s Tragedy

THE LESBIAN HELL 93 Cling to the white and bloody feet that hang, And drink the purple of a God’s pure side; With your wild hair assuage His deadliest pang, And on His broken bosom still abide His virginal white bride. So, in the dawn of skies unseen above, Your passion’s fiercest flakes shall catch new gold, The sun of an immeasurable love More beautiful shall touch the chaos cold Of earth that is grown old. Then, shameful sisterhood of earth’s disdain, Your lips shall speak your hearts, and understand; Your lovers shall assuage the amorous pa…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 5

Tale of Archais

TO THE WHITE MAIDENS OF ENGLAND THIS TALE OF GREECE IS DEDICATED.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 3

White Stains

WHITE STAINS THE LITERARY REMAINS OF GEORGE ARCHIBALD BISHOP A NEUROPATH OF THE SECOND EMPIRE

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1899 · PDF PAGE 237

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. | 215 A VISION UPON USHBA. ERE in the wild Caucasian night, The sleepless years Seem to pass by in garments white, _ Made white with tears, _ A pageant of intolerable light Across the sombre spheres, And, mingling with the tumult of the morn, Methought a single rose of blood was born. Far on the iron peaks a voice Crystal and cold, Sharper than sounds the auroch’s choice O’er wood and wold, A summons as of angels that rejoice, A pzan glad and bold, A mighty shout of infinite acclaim Shrieks through the sky some dread forgo…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 188

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…rd is yellow, with Aquarius and Dagger in violet. The last is in the four colours of Malkuth, with Pentacle and Taurus in black. Ring is white, having at the top the Name of the Great Angel P HL? Η U A; below cross-bar are Pentagrams, one enclosing Sol and the other enclosing Luna. The whole space in the ring contains the Rose of 22 Petals bearing the Names of the 22 Keys. In the centre a white circle, and a red cross of four equal arms. About the whole symbol are the words— L.I.F.E. B.I.O,S. V.I.T.A., and the letters— Τ᾽A. P. Ο., Tarot. 146

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1912 · PDF PAGE 188

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…rd is yellow, with Aquarius and Dagger in violet. The last is in the four colours of Malkuth, with Pentacle and Taurus in black. Ring is white, having at the top the Name of the Great Angel P HL? Η U A; below cross-bar are Pentagrams, one enclosing Sol and the other enclosing Luna. The whole space in the ring contains the Rose of 22 Petals bearing the Names of the 22 Keys. In the centre a white circle, and a red cross of four equal arms. About the whole symbol are the words— L.I.F.E. B.I.O,S. V.I.T.A., and the letters— Τ᾽A. P. Ο., Tarot. 146

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1912 · PDF PAGE 350

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…tle A City of Edom?הרצב The Throne; a Name or?איםרוב Briall Nuriel?לאירונ The neck?ראוצ Amen, our Light[ ?רואDR Son of the GODSךב ?!"ךלא White?רהצ Pathetic appeals; com< D‘DH‘I miseratio-ns Angel of 2"cl Dec.?ץרהר Σ (1—24) Khabs am Pek'htרוא ?ההאפב Vide Bethףלא רמל יה די` ?םמ Elohim Dissert. Π. Cap, L A spelling of?םיהלאin full. Formation?רצי Profundities?ם'קמעמ God of Chesed, and of Hod?צפצמ of Briah; Tmum of?הוהי Incircumcisusלרע 297 298 299 300 34 Separation?רודפ The Spirit ofGOD.חור ?םיהלא [Vide em L 3] ?:,סג “My Lord, the mmינרא ?ךלמה fait…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 350

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…tle A City of Edom?הרצב The Throne; a Name or?איםרוב Briall Nuriel?לאירונ The neck?ראוצ Amen, our Light[ ?רואDR Son of the GODSךב ?!"ךלא White?רהצ Pathetic appeals; com< D‘DH‘I miseratio-ns Angel of 2"cl Dec.?ץרהר Σ (1—24) Khabs am Pek'htרוא ?ההאפב Vide Bethףלא רמל יה די` ?םמ Elohim Dissert. Π. Cap, L A spelling of?םיהלאin full. Formation?רצי Profundities?ם'קמעמ God of Chesed, and of Hod?צפצמ of Briah; Tmum of?הוהי Incircumcisusלרע 297 298 299 300 34 Separation?רודפ The Spirit ofGOD.חור ?םיהלא [Vide em L 3] ?:,סג “My Lord, the mmינרא ?ךלמה fait…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 60

Jephthah

…, with song and gladness of full hearts. SEMICHORUS OF MAIDENS I. The conqueror rides at last To home, to love; The victory is past, The white-wing dove Sails through the crystal air of eve with a pzan deep and vast. Jephthah! SEMICHORUS OF MAIDENS II. Forth, maidens, with your hands White with new lilies ! Forth, maidens, in bright bands, Virgins whose one sweet will is To sing the victory of our God in all sky-girdled lands! Elohim! SEMICHORUS I. With dancing feet, and noise Of timbrels smitten, With tears and tender joys, With songs unwritte…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 113

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. And lazy bosoms keep Their slumber perfect and their sorcery, While dawny winds arise, And fast the white ship flies To those young groves of olive by the shore, The spring-clad shore we seek That slopes to yonder peak Snow-clad, bright-gleaming, as the silver ore Plucked by pale fingers slow In balmy Mexico, A king on thunder throned, his diadem The ruby rocks that flash The sunlight like a lash When sunlight touches, and sweeps over them A crown of light! Behold! The white seas touch the gold, And flame like flowers of f…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 123

The Soul of Osiris

…The Soul of Resurrection : thou art chief And lord of all thy Soul : O patient thief Of God’s own fire ! What mysteries find fane In the white shrine of thy white spirit’s reign, Thou man of Sorrows : O, beyond belief ! Let God's own Peace be with thee : let thy days Prosper in spite of thine unselfish soul ; And as thou lovest, so let Love increase Upon thee and about thee : till thy ways Gleam with the splendour of that secret goal Whose long war grows the great abiding peace. O

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1903 · PDF PAGE 44

Alice: An Adultery

THE THIRD DAY “ My love is most immaculate white and red.” Love’s Labour's Lost. She was more graceful than the royal palm ; Tall, with imperial looks, and excellence Most simply swathed in spotless elegance, And holy and tuneful like some stately psalm. Her breath was like a grove of myrrh and balm, And all the sight grew dim before the sense Of blind attraction toward ; an influence Not incompatible with her own calm. All the red roses of the world were blended To give the lively colour of her face ; All the white lilies of the sea shone sple…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 27

Oracles

…aiden ! The delight of thy lips Is the voice of the Spring That the nightingales sing Over Winter’s eclipse, While my fingers enring The white limbs of thy sleep And my lips suck the lips Of the house of my dream, And press daintily deep, Till the joys are supreme That thine amorous mouth On the home of thy love Would exhaust the fierce drouth Of the rivers thereof, Till thy white body quiver With mystic emotion As the star-blossoms shiver On silvery river Rushed into the ocean ! O Lesbian maiden !

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1899 · PDF PAGE 78

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…, with song and gladness of full hearts. SEMICHORUS OF MAIDENS I. The conqueror rides at last To home, to love; The victory is past, The white-wing dove Sails through the crystal air of eve with a pzan deep and vast. Jephthah! SEMICHORUS OF MAIDENS II. Forth, maidens, with your hands White with new lilies ! Forth, maidens, in bright bands, Virgins whose one sweet will is To sing the victory of our God in all sky-girdled lands! Elohim! SEMICHORUS I. With dancing feet, and noise Of timbrels smitten, With tears and tender joys, With songs unwritte…

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