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1910 · PDF PAGE 114

Ambergris

…t of all thy beauty burns upon the wind. The deep perfume Of our own love is hidden in our hearts, the invul- nerable ring. No man shall know. I bear thee down unto the tomb, beyond the tomb, Rose on the breast of the world of spring !

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1904 · PDF PAGE 125

The Sword of Song

…ingenuity of scientific investi- gators. But no sane man has ever pre- tended, since science became a definite body of doctrine, that we know or ever can hope to know or conceive of the possibility of knowing, whence this mechanism has come, why it is there, whither it is going, and what there may or may not be bey ond and beside it which our s enses are incapable of appreciating. These things are not ‘explained’ by science, and never can be,” he gives a curious example of that quaint scientific pride which knows the limits of its powers, and r…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 34

White Stains

… is sweet : Come to a lover’s arms that grow divine At the first eloquent embrace of thine, While pulses in wild unison warmly beat. 2 I know a valley walled with glistening steep Of fire-hewn rock, and stately cliff of ice,

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1902 · PDF PAGE 86

Tannhäuser

…lord, Your cousin. Is my face so changed with care, My body shrunken with my suffering (That was not ever of the body) so ."* Wolfram. I know you, my old friend ! Our chiefest bird ! Sweetest of singers ! Tannhauser. No, the naughty one ! 84

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1905 · PDF PAGE 152

Oracles

…ounts to the Gods, the highest, the scent of those whose deeds are right and good. Perfect in virtue, living lives of Earnestness, Right Know- ledge hath Brought into liberty their minds, that Mara findeth not their path. As on a heap of rubbish thrown by the wayside the Lotus flower Will bloom sweet scented, delicate and excellent to think upon. So ’mid the slothful worthless ones, the Walkers in Delusion’s power, In glory of Wisdom, light of Buddha forth hath the True Disciple shone. Desunt cetera. [The reader will kindly note such important …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 290

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…es me? I love you; can you satisfy The hunger of my heart? Nay ; not in love, or faith, or hope is hidden The drug that heals my life; I know too well How all things lawful, and all things forbidden Alike disclose no pearl upon the midden, Offer no key to unlock the gate of Hell. There is no escape from the eternal round, No hope in love, or victory, or art. There is no plumb-line long enough to sound The abysses of my heart!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 290

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…es me? I love you; can you satisfy The hunger of my heart? Nay ; not in love, or faith, or hope is hidden The drug that heals my life; I know too well How all things lawful, and all things forbidden Alike disclose no pearl upon the midden, Offer no key to unlock the gate of Hell. There is no escape from the eternal round, No hope in love, or victory, or art. There is no plumb-line long enough to sound The abysses of my heart!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ROSA IGNOTA I INVOCATION My unknown Rose! Sweet-hearted, scented purely With all the passion of my heart, if now I sing new songs to thee Where many songs before have marked thee surely Their own, let vagrant Liberty Inform my songs; for I, of the pure brow And the soul that glows With the fervency of eld, invoke thee; for I have known thee : Wandering far into the cities I found thee, Unsuspected still, and round thee The idle worshippers that the wind hath blown thee. It is well; for I know thee and thy magic grace, And the history of thy rac…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ROSA IGNOTA I INVOCATION My unknown Rose! Sweet-hearted, scented purely With all the passion of my heart, if now I sing new songs to thee Where many songs before have marked thee surely Their own, let vagrant Liberty Inform my songs; for I, of the pure brow And the soul that glows With the fervency of eld, invoke thee; for I have known thee : Wandering far into the cities I found thee, Unsuspected still, and round thee The idle worshippers that the wind hath blown thee. It is well; for I know thee and thy magic grace, And the history of thy rac…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 254

Diary of a Drug Fiend

240 The Diary of a Drug Fiend It won’t do to let him go under; and they must know that. I won’t trouble my silly head about it, I’ll keep on loving and trusting. October 26 I have forgotten about my diary all this time. I have been too busy with Peter. My memory is fright- fully bad. I don’t seem able to fix things at all. Peter got stronger all the time. He is practically quite well now, and took me out and taught me to shoot pheasants this morning. It was terribly exciting. I actually got one, my very first day. I got a man and wife and their…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 57

Songs of the Spirit

…ger on alone Without a staff to hold me if I sink In the hot quagmires of untrusty stone. Foodless and beastless, so despairing grown, I know not, care not, only trust that soon The sun’s dominion may be overthrown, And o’er the wilderness appear the moon With cold lips to bestow the inestimable boon. Still I have never prayed for death, but rather Would be found fighting toward the goal I seek, Stretching both hands toward a loving father, And struggling toward some barren voiceless peak With feet made stedfast, if God made them weak ; So, on …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 132

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…t is so pure and I am so dull of un- derstanding. When I write I feel as it were the breath of an angel covering me with holiness, and I know— then! But now—I only write mechanically. I force myself. To-day I tore up all I wrote last night. ESME. | Let us ask God to send you the angel, shall we? [They kneel, with arms intertwined, at the open window, and bow their heads silently. Vaughan also prays, with arms outspread in blessing. Curtain. SCENE III. Six months later. The dining-room. Percy, Vaughan, Esmé at dinner. Enter Butler. BUTLER. F you…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 34

The Mother’s Tragedy

…h evasion. Iam bound a slave To this wild passion. It will eat me up. CORA. You cannot guess the horror that you speak. I tell you, if I know your golden heart, This detestation of yourself shall cry The cry of Edipus—“ I have profaned——” ULRIC. What sphinx more cruel? What new C:dipus ? You riddle, Cora, and it breaks my heart. [He sinks exhausted. (Rallying.) By God, I swear to you no lie shall keep Its Dead Sea bar against our marrying. CORA. The truth! Thetruth! Thetruth! I am indeed That whore I told you. That makes nothing here. I am the …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 79

Alice: An Adultery

…ruth of honour in her, hath made him that gracious denial which he is most glad to receive.” Measure for Measure. Of course I might have know it was a lie. Nathless, I wept all morning and despaired. Nothing for any life of earth I cared, Neither for heaven : I railed against the sky, Hating the earth, the sea, the witchery Of all the universe : my breast I bared And cursed God, hoping lightning ; and I dared Not ask my love “ In very truth—you die ?” I could not bear it longer ; then she spake : “ I lied indeed, love, for mine honour’s sake,” …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 29

The God-Eater

27 I know. Ho! Ho! Criospa. All this I did for thee? Rupua. Ha! Ha! What didst thou do? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Crrospa. What did Inotdo? All! RupuHa. Tell ! Tell ! "Tis a spell. Criospa. I will tell all. O sea, swallow me up With the last word ! RupHA. It obeys? No! No! Ho! Ho! Criospa. Thou sinister one! Thy rite I duly did That drugged (and dancing with delight thereof The maiden’s mind) the maiden’s body prone Lay on her altar. Then she gave consent, And I smote once. RupHa. Ha! Ha! What came then? Criospa. I tore out her heart, And held its flame …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 81

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…“ Beware of thy lynx- eyed uncle ”—me—ah ! yes? DENYS. Sir, do you take me for the pernicious idiot that wrote that stuff? ALAIN. Sir, I know that there is a lady and a letter and a door and—a marriage. [udicating the appropriate four guarters of the universe. DENYS. And a sword. If it de broken— ALAIN. Lnteger vite scel— DENYS. I know ¢hat tag at least. [ALAIN claps his hands, walks toward door behind DENYS. The arras swings back and armed men appear. ALAIN. O mator tandem parcas, insane, minort. DENYS. A truce to all this theatrical folly, Mo…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 21

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…rue to his own nature, and at the same time adapt himself to his environment.) (10) Nature is a continuous phenomenon, through we do not know in ail cases how things are connected. (Illustration: Human consciousness dépends on the properties of pi otoplasm, the existence of which dépends on innumerable physical conditions peculiar to this planetj and this planet is determined by the mechanical balance of the whole universe of matter. We may then say that our consciousness is causally connected with the remotest galaxies 3 yet we do not know eve…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 509

Magick Without Tears

…umber was fantastic-who got there through fear that they had somehow committed that aforesaid "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost ." The unknown again. The Bible does not tell us what it is; only that it is unpardonable . Nor Grace, nor Faith, nor Predestination avail in the least ; for all you know , you may have committed it. Reassurance is impossible ; no ceinture de chastete avails to avert this danger. Again with drugs, it is the unknown which is the horrific factor. Most people get their information on the subject from the yellowest of yell…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 52

Gargoyles

…How rude the rime! There is no melody; the tune and time Are broken. Thirteen centuries ago They would have said, ‘‘ Alas! the youth! We know , This devil hath from him plucked the immortal soul,” 7 say: you have dulled my centres of control! v. If you were with me, I were blind to this: Ready to drain my arteries for your kiss, 42

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1913 · PDF PAGE 105

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…eneath low - clouded skies New - widowed of their grain , And Autumn leaves like blood and gold That strew a Gloucester lane . Oh well I know sweet Hellas now , And well I knew it then , When I with starry lads walked out But ah, for home again ! Was I not bred in Gloucestershire , One of the Englishmen ! 86

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