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1911 · PDF PAGE 300

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Flame, 0 thou Meteor Car, for my fire is exalted in thee! Lighten the darkness and herald the daylight, and waken the sea! Flame, 0 flame ! Crown Her, 0 crown Her with stars as with flowers for a vix-gina] gaud ! Crown Her, 0 crown Her with Light and the flame of the down-rushing Sword ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Love for maiden and mother and wife! Hail unto Isis! Hail! For She is the Lady of Life! Isis crowned ! CANCER. In vain thou invokest our Lady of the Moon! TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation ! CANCER- 333'333'333- PAN. …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 300

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Flame, 0 thou Meteor Car, for my fire is exalted in thee! Lighten the darkness and herald the daylight, and waken the sea! Flame, 0 flame ! Crown Her, 0 crown Her with stars as with flowers for a vix-gina] gaud ! Crown Her, 0 crown Her with Light and the flame of the down-rushing Sword ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Love for maiden and mother and wife! Hail unto Isis! Hail! For She is the Lady of Life! Isis crowned ! CANCER. In vain thou invokest our Lady of the Moon! TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation ! CANCER- 333'333'333- PAN. …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 474

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…dnight, and alone, in the church, begin the office of the dead. “Mingle with this office infernal evocations. “ Finish the office by the light of a single taper, extinguish it immediately, and remain without light in the church thus profaned until sunrise. “On Thursday, mingle with the consecrated water the powder of the tongue and heart of the black cock, and let the whole be swallowed by a male lamb of nine days old... .” 176

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1913 · PDF PAGE 474

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…dnight, and alone, in the church, begin the office of the dead. “Mingle with this office infernal evocations. “ Finish the office by the light of a single taper, extinguish it immediately, and remain without light in the church thus profaned until sunrise. “On Thursday, mingle with the consecrated water the powder of the tongue and heart of the black cock, and let the whole be swallowed by a male lamb of nine days old... .” 176

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1905 · PDF PAGE 97

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…1898. THE FIVE KISSES} I, AFTER CONFESSION. Day startles the fawn from the avenues deep that look to the east in the heart of the wood : Light touches the trees of the hill with its lips, and God is above them and sees they are good : Night flings from her forehead the purple- black hood. The thicket is sweet with the breath of the’ breeze made soft by the kisses of slum- bering maids ; The nymph and the satyr, the fair and the faulty alike are the guests of these amorous shades 3 The hour of Love flickers and falters and : fades. Oh, listen, m…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 180

The World’s Tragedy

THE GREY NIGHT. I27 AGRIPPA But fear persuades. — This deathly light, these foul grey shades ! PUBLIUS Portending little enough of good To Rome, that beats with our heart’s blood. See how dejected on their spears The guard lean ! AGRIPPA Rather a thousand years Of strife than this black peace. Accurst I know this night shall be. ISSA I thirst. AGRIPPA Give him to drink ! PUBLIUS How strange a fate ! Those noble eyes irradiate This leprous luster.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 14

Hail Mary

…ange faces glimmer in the gloom ; The soul clings feebly to the clay. For that, the void ; for this, the tomb ! But Mary sheds a blessed light ; Her perfect face dispels the fears. She charms Her melancholy knight Up to the glad and gracious spheres. O Mary, like a pure perfume Do thou receive this failing breath, And with Thy starry lamp illume The darkling corridors of death ! Amen. T 7

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1911 · PDF PAGE 60

Hail Mary

…ke to toil and praise, Since these our purpose speed By walking humbly in Thy ways To worship Thee indeed. Let all the life and love and light Of earth and sky and sea Soar in one flame’s surpassing might To Thee—to Thee—to Thee ! Amen. N 53

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1907 · PDF PAGE 276

The Star in the West

…ing and mystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . Beyond the splendour of the world , False glittering of the gold , A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom's sacred cold . Life is the flaming of that flame . Death is the naming of that name . That star upon the serpent's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life'…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 345

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ion, aspect?הארמ גנרמ לאריאר סAngel L.T.D. of? םררHeight, altitude? ךיילאAngel Ι...Τ.Ν᾿of VS? םרזTo overwhelm (Ps. lxxvii I8);? a flood A light?רואמ Night Demon of 15' Dec. δ?םואר Sensus symbolicus?זמר Abraham. [Vide 243 and?םהרבא 505, 510, Discussed at length in Zohar] The Three that bear wit-םרא+?ארב ness, above and beneath, respectively.?םראthe Spirit, the Water, and the Blood;?אbeing Air (Spiritus),?ךstanding for ?םרBlood, and?מbeing both Water and the in- itial of?םימwater— For ?ארנsee 203 Uriel or Auriel, archangelof?לאיךןא Earth, and ange…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 345

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ion, aspect?הארמ גנרמ לאריאר סAngel L.T.D. of? םררHeight, altitude? ךיילאAngel Ι...Τ.Ν᾿of VS? םרזTo overwhelm (Ps. lxxvii I8);? a flood A light?רואמ Night Demon of 15' Dec. δ?םואר Sensus symbolicus?זמר Abraham. [Vide 243 and?םהרבא 505, 510, Discussed at length in Zohar] The Three that bear wit-םרא+?ארב ness, above and beneath, respectively.?םראthe Spirit, the Water, and the Blood;?אbeing Air (Spiritus),?ךstanding for ?םרBlood, and?מbeing both Water and the in- itial of?םימwater— For ?ארנsee 203 Uriel or Auriel, archangelof?לאיךןא Earth, and ange…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 91

Songs of the Spirit

…AL. THE mind with visions clouded, (Asleep ? Awake ?) By bloodless shades enshrouded, (By whom, and for whose sake ?) With visions dimly lighted, By its own shade affrighted, In its own light benighted, The doors of hell may shake. Unbidden spring the spectres (Whence come, where bound ?) To baffle those protectors Whose wings are broad around. Uprise they and upbraid, Till life shrinks back afraid, And death itself dismayed Sinks back to the profound. 81

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1913 · PDF PAGE 107

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… In the garden gloom The white chysanthemums Out- loom . Like balls of snow , From dusk till dawn , Still as tapers they glow , Flooding light on the lawn .

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1916 · PDF PAGE 1

A Dictionary of Similes

…a Wife Originally published in the November 1916 edition of A Dictionary of Similes. A cigar is like a wife! Put it up to your lips, and light it; When you’ve learned to do it right, it Adds a certain zest to life. Mind you keep on puffing it, Or it’s out, and can’t be lit. Ah, the aroma! Ah, the glow! Will I have one? Thank you, No. —ALEISTER CROWLEY

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1911 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…un; The world's gray noon only is for thee and me; There is no sound in the nerveless silences Of the fading world; there is a quiver of light On the river of life; we are unwed, my Rose, Nor knoweth each the other ; we are undone, My Rose, my secret Rose, my unknown Rose! And still the Autumn woods are rustling dumbly With sodden leaves made brown by wind and rain ; And the satyrs are fled under the earth to hide From the sunless world, and the nymphs are faded to air, To be reborn in the sun—light: there is no morejoy, For mournfulness is fall…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…un; The world's gray noon only is for thee and me; There is no sound in the nerveless silences Of the fading world; there is a quiver of light On the river of life; we are unwed, my Rose, Nor knoweth each the other ; we are undone, My Rose, my secret Rose, my unknown Rose! And still the Autumn woods are rustling dumbly With sodden leaves made brown by wind and rain ; And the satyrs are fled under the earth to hide From the sunless world, and the nymphs are faded to air, To be reborn in the sun—light: there is no morejoy, For mournfulness is fall…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 318

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…rah (See 777) π 1 1 Anxiety?הנאד Allah?ההאA fisher?גור Firebrand, volcanic fire : the?רואThunder; w meditate; he 18-?הנה special ‘fire’ or ‘light’ of the moved Sacred Magic of Light, Life, A City of Edom 11,1 and Love ; hence “Odic Here; this?וז Force” &c. Cf. 9 and 207 A locust?בגה Where?יאHe shall come?אבי When?אובב Το 'e"! cut, mac“ Tu Rhamnus; a thorn, spine?ךמאGold (Οι)?בהרRising ground; Earth of?איג Proud, haughty?דוGeburah. (See 777) To conceal?אנחSacrifice v. & s. (Ch.). (?)?חבך A circularity of form or motion ;?גהLove, beloved; David?ךח 2‘…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 318

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…rah (See 777) π 1 1 Anxiety?הנאד Allah?ההאA fisher?גור Firebrand, volcanic fire : the?רואThunder; w meditate; he 18-?הנה special ‘fire’ or ‘light’ of the moved Sacred Magic of Light, Life, A City of Edom 11,1 and Love ; hence “Odic Here; this?וז Force” &c. Cf. 9 and 207 A locust?בגה Where?יאHe shall come?אבי When?אובב Το 'e"! cut, mac“ Tu Rhamnus; a thorn, spine?ךמאGold (Οι)?בהרRising ground; Earth of?איג Proud, haughty?דוGeburah. (See 777) To conceal?אנחSacrifice v. & s. (Ch.). (?)?חבך A circularity of form or motion ;?גהLove, beloved; David?ךח 2‘…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 147

Liber Aleph

…asure in thine Heart, o my Son, this Mystery that I shall next unveil before thine Eyes, O Eagle that art undazzled by the brilliance of Light, that soarest continually with virile Flight to thine august Inheritance. Behold the Beatific Vision is of two Orders, and in the Formula of the Rosy Cross it is of the Heart and is called Beauty; but in the Formula of the Silver Star (id est, of the Eye within the Triangle) it is of the mind, and is called Wonder. Otherwise spoken, the former is of Art, a sensuous and creative Perception; but the latter…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 9

Berashith

7 Consider * Darkness! Can we philosophically or actually regard as different the darkness produced by interference of light and that existing in the mere absence of light? Is Unity really indentical with .9 recurring? Do we not mean different things when we speak respectively of 2sine6o° and of y3? Charcoal and diamond are obviously different in the categories of colour, crystallisation, hardness, and so on; but are they not really so even in that of existence? The third example is to my mind the best. 2 sine 60° and V3 are unreal and therefor…

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