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1913 · PDF PAGE 120

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…see That wood beside the lake where slow winds drift? I am quick with flickering fantasies to-night Meshed in the quivering fabric of my soul Like tremulous visions of another sphere. O heart, are they sick memories of delight Lost long ago? Or glimpses of a goal That I shall win after long pain and fear? 80

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1913 · PDF PAGE 120

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…see That wood beside the lake where slow winds drift? I am quick with flickering fantasies to-night Meshed in the quivering fabric of my soul Like tremulous visions of another sphere. O heart, are they sick memories of delight Lost long ago? Or glimpses of a goal That I shall win after long pain and fear? 80

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1913 · PDF PAGE 578

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…on his feet, the hands on his hands, the mouth on his mouth. Then concentrate the whole will for a long time, call to itself the escaped soul, using all the loving thoughts and mental caresses of which one is capable. If the operator inspires in that soul much affection or great respect, ifin the thought which he communicates magnetically to it the thaumaturgist can persuade it that life is still necessary to it, and that happy days are still in store for it below, it will certainly return, and for the man of everyday science the apparent death…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 578

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…on his feet, the hands on his hands, the mouth on his mouth. Then concentrate the whole will for a long time, call to itself the escaped soul, using all the loving thoughts and mental caresses of which one is capable. If the operator inspires in that soul much affection or great respect, ifin the thought which he communicates magnetically to it the thaumaturgist can persuade it that life is still necessary to it, and that happy days are still in store for it below, it will certainly return, and for the man of everyday science the apparent death…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 352

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX then, the goal; beyond which lie, bathed in the sunlight of the Spirit, glories untold, unseen by any save the eye of Soul. These gates are described in the third treatise. The words “spirit” and “soul” are highly ambiguous, and had better be regarded as poetic figures, without a technical meaning being sought. 60. There is but one road to the Path: at its very end alone the voice of Silence can be heard. The ladder by which the candidate ascends is formed of rungs of suffering and pain: these can be silenced only by the voice of vi…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 28

Aceldama

…hed my lips and told me I was fair ; It was your wickedness my love to win. ( Baise la lourde crinière ! ) Your passion has destroyed my soul—what care If you desire me, and I hold you in My arms a little, and you love for lair My heavy hair ! It is a fatal web your fingers spin. ( Baise la lourde crinière ! ) Let our love end as other loves begin, Or, slay me at The Moment, unaware, Or, kiss in mutual death-pang, if you dare— Or one day I will strange you within My heavy hair !

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1898 · PDF PAGE 36

Songs of the Spirit

… and my weakness are interred In the deep water where the pebbles gleam. I rouse the force persistent of my will To compel matter to the soul’s desire, To make Heaven aid the mind that would aspire To touch its borders, and to drink their fill At those far fountains whence one drop of dew Descends upon my head from yonder blue. 26

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1904 · PDF PAGE 122

The Argonauts

…5. 6d. THE TALE OF ARCHAIS. 55. JezeBeL. Out ofprint. A few copies at £1 15. An APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IS. JEPHTHAH. 75. 6d. THE SouL oF OsiRIS. 55. THE MoTHER’s TRAGEDY. 55. CARMEN SAECULARE. IS. TANNHAUSER. 55. BERASHITH. Out ofprint. A few copies at 5s. AHAB. 55. THE Sworp oF Sone. Jn the press. 55. THE STAR AND THE GARTER. 55. Tue Gop-EaTER. 2°. AS EDITOR. THE GOETIA OF THE KEy or SoLomon. Jn thepress. 10s. ALICE: AN ADULTERY. Out of print. A few copies at Avis. These books may be obtained through the Author, Boleskine House, Foyers…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 94

Sir Palamedes

… and all the emotions stilled, And all the stains and all the scars Left him; so like a child he thrilled With utmost knowledge; all his soul, With perfect sense and sight fulfilled,

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1911 · PDF PAGE 24

The Vision and the Voice

…e, that I have not devoured thee altogether! On my head is the crown, 419 rays far-darting. And my body is the body of the Snake, and my soul is the soul of the Crowned Child. Though an Angel in white robes leadeth me, who shall ride upon me but the Woman of Abom- inations? Who is the Beast? Am not I one more than he? In 22

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1906 · PDF PAGE 61

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…pire to range, Whence the moon and the meteor hearken The perpetual rhythm of change, On earth and in heaven deluded With time, that the soul of us kills, I have passed. I have brooded, fled far to the wooded And desolate hills. Not there is the changing of voices That lament or regret or are sad, But the sun in his strength rejoices, The moon in her beauty is glad. As timeless and deathless time passes, And death is a hermit that dwells By the imminent masses of ice, where the grasses Abandon the fells. There silence, arrayed as a spectre, Is …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 107

White Stains

…at utter sweetness yet ! What agony of curst hell-fire, Shame, lust, and infamy, and ire, Wrath in the highest heavens set, Shame in the soul, and leaping lust On pleasure’s flaming parapet, An Infamy that I forget.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 61

The Star and the Garter

…o my eyes less sad, and drew Back from the slender witcheries Of word and song: and silence knew What splendour in the silence lies, The soul drawn back into itself. It was the deep environing Wood that then shielded us: the elf And fairy in an emerald ring, And hamadryad of the trees, And naiad of the sleepy lake, That watched us on the mossy leas Look on each other’s face, and take The secret of the universe 59

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1904 · PDF PAGE 74

Why Jesus Wept

…the bond — but let it pass. There ! there ! MOLLY. Sir, I beseech you — for an hour — take me away. I am in terrible trouble of body and soul — danger, misery.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 195

Oracles

…IS. 5s. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT. 3s. 6d. JEZEBEL. 21s. AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 1s. JEPHTHAH. 7s. 6d. THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY. 5s. THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. 5s. CARMEN SÆCULARE. 2s. 6d. TANNHÄUSER. 7s. 6d. BERASHITH. 5s. AHAB. 5s. THE GOD-EATER. 2s. 6d. ALICE. 21s and 5s. THE SWORD OF SONG. 10s. THE STAR AND THE GARTER. 1s. THE ARGONAUTS. 5s. GOETIA. 21s. WHY JESUS WEPT. 21s. and 42s. Of which many are almost exhausted. COLLECTED WORKS. TRAVELLER’S INDIA PAPER EDITION. STRONGLY BOUND WITH PORTRAIT. VOLUME I. 21s. COMPETITORS SHOULD ORDER FROM THIS …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 46

Ambergris

…here the Winds lie between. So still lingers sun upon sea ; Still twilight draws down to the world ; The light of my spirit is she ; The soul of her love is in me ; Lithe kisses with music are curled. Like light on the meadows we dwell ; Like twilight clings heart unto heart ; Like midnight the depth of the spell Our love weaves, and stronger than hell The guards of our palace of art. We are one as the dew that is drawn By the sun from the sea : we are curled In curves of delight and of dawn, On the lone, the immaculate lawn, Beyond the wild wa…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…kening shame W'atehing the fading spots, As quickly they faded, The heart of me faded as well, Until nothing is left Of my garden, But a soul sunk to hell,

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1912 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…kening shame W'atehing the fading spots, As quickly they faded, The heart of me faded as well, Until nothing is left Of my garden, But a soul sunk to hell,

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1928 · PDF PAGE 186

Little Poems in Prose

…ude, Her brothels, pest-house, prison, purgatory, hell, Where like a flower flourishes all vicious brood. You well know, Satan, fount of soul- devouring harms, I went not there to shed vain tears in dolor- ous mood, But, like a shrewd old lecher in his woman’s arms, To drink deep of the lures of this lewd be- hemoth, Who keeps my youth aflame with necro- mantic charms. Whether past noon you’re still in bed, asth- matic, wroth And torpid, or quitting the dim haunt you inhabit, You prance in trailing veils of evening’s gold-spun cloth,

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1898 · PDF PAGE 88

White Stains

… and fro amid the wildernesses Of swart curled locks ! I deem it a sweet sin, So sweet that fires of hell have no more power On body and soul to quench the lustrous flame Of that desire that burns between us twain. What is Eternity, seeing we hold this hour For all the lusts and luxuries of shame ? Heaven is well lost for this surpassing gain.

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