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1901 · PDF PAGE 77

The Soul of Osiris

…terrors never sung. I swim with sorrow bursting at my breast. Yet I am cleansed, and find some little rest. Still from my agonised unspeaking tongue Breaks : I must go, go onward to the quest. Again the cursed cry : “ What quest is this ? Is it worth heaven in thy lover’s kiss ? A queen, a queen, to kiss and never tire ! Thy queen, quick-breathing for your twin desire ! ” I shudder, for the mystery of bliss ; I go, heart crying and a soul on fire ! “ Resolve all question by a moonward tread. Follow the moon ! ” Even so the king had said.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 106

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

[108] TO PE OR NOT TO PE KING. O heavy burden ! POLONIUS. Hold on, I’m coming : I’ll withdraw, my lord. [Enter Hamlet.] HAMLET. To pe or not to pe : that is the question : Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous stricture Or to take arms against a closed urethra And by abscission, end it ? To fuck : to come : No more ; and, by a come to say we end The cockstand and the thousand natural lusts That flesh is heir to. ’Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To fuck : to come : To come, perchance to clap ! Ay…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 72

Oracles

… Thou, O Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light ! Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods ! O Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy King Ineffable, O Consciousness Divine I whose white Presence, even I, a god, A god of gods, prostrate myself and say : I am the spark of Thine abundant flame. I am the flower, and Thou the splendid Sun Wherefrom my Life is drawn ! All hail to Thee, For Holy, Holy, Holy, is Thy Name ! Holy art Thou, O Universal Lord ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, the Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 63

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE ELECTRIC SILENCE [This parable is a synopsis of The Temple of Solomon the King, with which it may be collated—Eu]. I WAITED for news that my heart beat. The severing night was between me and my love. There was no god of sleep; sleep were traitor. I sought to praise my love, and to lament the hours that divided us; and I could not. Therefore I wrote down the story of my life. And it is this: * * * 3 * Gilded and painted to hide its worm—eaten planks, my pleasure—boat was foundering. I cursed the treachery of the workmen, and resolved to trus…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 63

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE ELECTRIC SILENCE [This parable is a synopsis of The Temple of Solomon the King, with which it may be collated—Eu]. I WAITED for news that my heart beat. The severing night was between me and my love. There was no god of sleep; sleep were traitor. I sought to praise my love, and to lament the hours that divided us; and I could not. Therefore I wrote down the story of my life. And it is this: * * * 3 * Gilded and painted to hide its worm—eaten planks, my pleasure—boat was foundering. I cursed the treachery of the workmen, and resolved to trus…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 71

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A at night, a shade better. Some slight vision. July 10. A at night fair only. ,, 11. A rather reveresque. ,, 12. Throat very bad. A futile. ,, 13. A better (in A. M.) (Twenty-second week of A ends. There ought to be a new current to—morrow.) (The idea was 22 weeks for the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. So he seeks a new method.) ,, 14. Avoided invoking A that He might instruct me in Vision. I am in serious trouble. Place, Method, Means, Time, etc. A wakeful night, followed by profound and dreamless sleep (Had…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 71

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A at night, a shade better. Some slight vision. July 10. A at night fair only. ,, 11. A rather reveresque. ,, 12. Throat very bad. A futile. ,, 13. A better (in A. M.) (Twenty-second week of A ends. There ought to be a new current to—morrow.) (The idea was 22 weeks for the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. So he seeks a new method.) ,, 14. Avoided invoking A that He might instruct me in Vision. I am in serious trouble. Place, Method, Means, Time, etc. A wakeful night, followed by profound and dreamless sleep (Had…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 142

The Book of Thoth

…n his action; he has no means of modifying it according to circumstances. If he fails in his first effort, he has no resource. In the Yî King, the fiery part of Fire is represented by the 51st hexagram, Kan. The sig‐ nification there given is entirely in accordance with the doctrine of the Tarot, but great em‐ phasis is laid on the startling, perilous, and revolutionary character of the events cognate. The Querent is advised to be apprehensive, yet cool, resolute and energetic: to beware of untimely action, but to go forward with tense confiden…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 6

The Honourable Adulterers

… love would bring My thirsty lips to the one perfect spring— My iron soul upon my trembling hands Fad its harsh will ; my bitterness was king.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 156

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…your God in your Creation 1 [Invokes : bitom; the whole tablet of Fire, The Angle of Δ of Δ The Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire] TH E SEVENTH KEY RA-ASA isalamanu para-di—zoda oe—cari—mi aao iala—pire- gahe Qui—inu Enaibutamonu od inoasa m' pa-ra-diala, Casa— remeji ujeare cahirelanu, od zodonace lucifatianu, caresa ta vavale-zodirenu tol—hami. Soba lonudohe od nuame cahisa ta Da 0 Desa vo-ma—dea od pi-beliare itahila rita od miame ca-ni-quola rital Zodacarel Zodameranul Iecarimi Quo- a—dahe od I-mica-ol-zod…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 156

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…your God in your Creation 1 [Invokes : bitom; the whole tablet of Fire, The Angle of Δ of Δ The Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire] TH E SEVENTH KEY RA-ASA isalamanu para-di—zoda oe—cari—mi aao iala—pire- gahe Qui—inu Enaibutamonu od inoasa m' pa-ra-diala, Casa— remeji ujeare cahirelanu, od zodonace lucifatianu, caresa ta vavale-zodirenu tol—hami. Soba lonudohe od nuame cahisa ta Da 0 Desa vo-ma—dea od pi-beliare itahila rita od miame ca-ni-quola rital Zodacarel Zodameranul Iecarimi Quo- a—dahe od I-mica-ol-zod…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 142

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… love would bring My thirsty lips to the one perfect spring— My iron soul upon my trembling hands Fad its harsh will ; my bitterness was king.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 8

The Honourable Adulterers

…e, not for myself; I cling Desperate to despair, as some to hope, Unheeding Saturn in their horoscope ; But I, despair is lord of me and king ; But I, my thoughts tend ever to the rope. But I, unknightly, recreant, a coward, Dare not release my soul from fate untoward By such a craven’s cunning. Nay, my soul Must move unflinching to what’bitter goal The angry gods design—if gods be froward I am a man, nor fear to drain the bowl. And some old devil, dead no doubt and damned, But living in her life, had wisely crammed Her fierce bronze throat wit…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 191

Oracles

…little masterpiece.” A reprint, slightly abridged, is now issued at 5s. It is printed on hand-made paper. The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. 21s. This interesting old relic of mediæval magic, with over 150 sigils, etc., is annotated, translated, edited, printed, in the best possible manner. It is the only book of its kind in which rational criticism has been combined with unimpeachable scholarship and a profound knowledge of Ceremonial Magic, as practiced to-day in the Secret Houses of Adepts. The S.P.R.T hold the whole editions of al…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 264

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…on us ! EEL. Indeed, I ha’ seen her at the window. Aboot nine ο’ th‘ clock last nicht when a’ guid fowk suld be abed—and I mysel’ was wa’king hame fra’ the meenister’s. And there she was at the window, wi’ her lang hair doun on her bare shou’ders. ALL. A' weel ! a' weel ! 'Tis a wicked wurrld ! EEL. D'ye ken she leanit oot, the Jezebel, wi' her painted face, an'—an'——— ALL. Weel! EEL. The audacious wench cried oot, “ Gude-nicht, Chairlie ! ” an' blew me a kiss. ALL. A’ weell EEL. An’ I cried oot i’ the wurrds o’ the gude buke : “An ]ehu cried u…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 264

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…on us ! EEL. Indeed, I ha’ seen her at the window. Aboot nine ο’ th‘ clock last nicht when a’ guid fowk suld be abed—and I mysel’ was wa’king hame fra’ the meenister’s. And there she was at the window, wi’ her lang hair doun on her bare shou’ders. ALL. A' weel ! a' weel ! 'Tis a wicked wurrld ! EEL. D'ye ken she leanit oot, the Jezebel, wi' her painted face, an'—an'——— ALL. Weel! EEL. The audacious wench cried oot, “ Gude-nicht, Chairlie ! ” an' blew me a kiss. ALL. A’ weell EEL. An’ I cried oot i’ the wurrds o’ the gude buke : “An ]ehu cried u…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 194

Book 4 (Part II)

…l et Dogme de la Haute Magie, by Eliphas Levi, or its translation by A. E. Waite. 7^. 6d. 10. The Goetia of the Lemegeton of Solomon the King, ^i is. Study of these books will give a thorough grounding in the intel- lectual side of Their system. After three months the Student is examined in these books, and if his knowledge of them is found satisfactory, he may become a Pro- bationer, receiving Liber LXI and the secret holy book. Liber LXV. The principal point of this grade is that the Probationer has a master appointed, whose experience can gu…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 175

Little Poems in Prose

…tes they are, and the poet who looks upon them with a fraternal eye. Fie upon the insipid beauty-dog, this absurd quadruped, Pomeranian, King Charles, pug or lap dog, so pleased with himself that he runs indiscreetly between the legs or on the knees of a visitor as if he were sure of pleasing, as boisterous as a child, as silly as a beldame, sometimes as snappish and insolent as a ser- vant. Shame above all upon those four-footed serpents, shivering and idle, that they call Ital- ian greyhounds, and who do not keep in their pointed muzzles enou…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 144

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…e, not for myself; I cling Desperate to despair, as some to hope, Unheeding Saturn in their horoscope ; But I, despair is lord of me and king ; But I, my thoughts tend ever to the rope. But I, unknightly, recreant, a coward, Dare not release my soul from fate untoward By such a craven’s cunning. Nay, my soul Must move unflinching to what’bitter goal The angry gods design—if gods be froward I am a man, nor fear to drain the bowl. And some old devil, dead no doubt and damned, But living in her life, had wisely crammed Her fierce bronze throat wit…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 27

Mortadello

…ENA. Death sits, your vassal, in your eyes. MORTADELLO. I swear by Mary and the Mass, your rival dies. MAGDALENA. Then go, my knight and king. I love you. MORTADELLO. Queen, good-night ! [He steps from the gondola. MAGDALENA. God and his angels watch above you. MORTADELLO. At the light You may expect my news. MAGDALENA. Strike swift and sure and subtle ! Snap the pale thread, my wedding gift Fate’s empty shuttle !

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