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1929 · PDF PAGE 145

Moonchild

…al?" They are real enough to kill a man, to ruin a life, to push a soul to every kind of crime; and there are not many "real" "material" things that have such weight in work. Phantoms, then, were apparent to the necromancers; and there was no doubt in any of their minds that they were dealing with actual and malignant entities. The hideous cries of the tortured cats mingled with the triumphant bleating of the goat and the nasal monotone of Arthwait as he mouthed the words of the Grimoire. And it seemed to all of them as though the air grew thic…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 6

An Appeal to the American Republic

…mour of a righteous boast— That friendship and dominion shall be wrought Out of the womb of thought, And all the bygone days be held for things of nought. What matter though our fathers did you wrong ? Though brave sons brake our bitter yoke ? Though we Strove to compel you to a cruel thong ? What, though the stronger did defeat the strong ? Both, wild and patient as the steep strong sea ? What matter that some strive to waken hate, Traitors to either state, Hang them in chains ! Our way to Freedom cannot wait ! 4

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1910 · PDF PAGE 150

The Winged Beetle

…te loss is infinite loss, That tears are trivial, tears are happiness, That this blind ache is God’s last punishment For love ; that all things in that one thing shent Are damned, that had I loved her less I could have prated in some honeyed strain. Taking a subtle pleasure in my pain. It is my bulk, the mass of my intent, That makes the ruin abject. I had sung Some partial earthquake ; here the universe Crashes with one great curse, Whelming the singer and the song. My tongue Is palsied ; only this chaotic clash Of curses echoes the dire crash…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 358

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…, רדא תא m? שקב ררב תב שיבכע !יליבש 403 ןבא ריפס 404 חר 7397 Almond,- to watch, be awake;?רקש 42 to hasten?רוא ימינפ 405 ᾿ΘΗ!?רפעFearful things, serpents of? 398 the dust, [Job]?טשמה הכפשPhallus;? ].ךבז ,227 [Cf. πο.?ישפח ïmmuh urethral [Vide Deut. xxiii. :[? Σ (1—28) 406?ץחש התאTHOU: a name of GOD? 399 םע ץראהVulgar, common; plebeian?יפטש קושLeg? 4°°_/~ םרגשAlterations?ףשנ וחThe letter Tau?ליבשמ F2

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1912 · PDF PAGE 358

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…, רדא תא m? שקב ררב תב שיבכע !יליבש 403 ןבא ריפס 404 חר 7397 Almond,- to watch, be awake;?רקש 42 to hasten?רוא ימינפ 405 ᾿ΘΗ!?רפעFearful things, serpents of? 398 the dust, [Job]?טשמה הכפשPhallus;? ].ךבז ,227 [Cf. πο.?ישפח ïmmuh urethral [Vide Deut. xxiii. :[? Σ (1—28) 406?ץחש התאTHOU: a name of GOD? 399 םע ץראהVulgar, common; plebeian?יפטש קושLeg? 4°°_/~ םרגשAlterations?ףשנ וחThe letter Tau?ליבשמ F2

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1899 · PDF PAGE 5

An Appeal to the American Republic

…ed out Hungary for gold, And shattered Greece to serve no noble ends. The traitors and the peoples and the kings That love not righteous things, They shall behold our wrath, and find our anger stings. White slaves shall look up and behold a light Grow in the islands of the sacred sea, And on the land whose forehead kisses night And has the dawn upon its wings, whose might Is mightier for the lips of Liberty Pressed on its new-born cheek, when Church and State Drove forth to baffle Fate Our sires and yours, whose fame is grown this year so great…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 135

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…t human responsibility ; Fifth(June), he was brought back completely, in full freedom, into the work laid down in Liber Legis. All these things were doubtless necessary as a winding-up of his business with Earth. The result is the final Initiation of December 3. There is a very curious entry in his diary for January 1— “Having left the Juggler (Standard Music-hall), ate 12 oysters=1 crab=Abrahadabra, a small bottle of No. 111 (cost 231 pence), invoked and banished Mercury in P. Circus, opened message from Adonai. Folly=Aleph.” 95

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1913 · PDF PAGE 135

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…t human responsibility ; Fifth(June), he was brought back completely, in full freedom, into the work laid down in Liber Legis. All these things were doubtless necessary as a winding-up of his business with Earth. The result is the final Initiation of December 3. There is a very curious entry in his diary for January 1— “Having left the Juggler (Standard Music-hall), ate 12 oysters=1 crab=Abrahadabra, a small bottle of No. 111 (cost 231 pence), invoked and banished Mercury in P. Circus, opened message from Adonai. Folly=Aleph.” 95

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1901 · PDF PAGE 50

The Mother’s Tragedy

… gone, and we behold her go, Haggard and weary, through the palace courts And through the temple, lusting for strange loves And horrible things, and thirsting for new steam Of thickening blood upon her altar steps. Her body wearies of desire, and fails To satisfy the fury of her spirit; The blood-feasts sicken her and yield no strength ; She is made one with hell, and violent force Slips and is weakness, and extreme desire Spends supple. }

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1911 · PDF PAGE 157

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE AUTUMN WOODS THE eye of Fate is closed; the olden doom Lies in the wrack of things. There is no sigh; Only the wind cries through the lonely woods, And the barren motherhood of the world is manifest Shamelessly ; in the dank, pale Autumn woods The fallen leaves lie squelching under the feet Οἱthe desolate gnomes ; and now the birds are silent, And the streams flow sluggishly through the veins of the world. Dark gray and cloudy, the skies no more are blue, And grayness reigning solitary makes music Drearily through the wind-harp. The dripping…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 157

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE AUTUMN WOODS THE eye of Fate is closed; the olden doom Lies in the wrack of things. There is no sigh; Only the wind cries through the lonely woods, And the barren motherhood of the world is manifest Shamelessly ; in the dank, pale Autumn woods The fallen leaves lie squelching under the feet Οἱthe desolate gnomes ; and now the birds are silent, And the streams flow sluggishly through the veins of the world. Dark gray and cloudy, the skies no more are blue, And grayness reigning solitary makes music Drearily through the wind-harp. The dripping…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 168

Diary of a Drug Fiend

154 The Diary of a Drug Fiend Her cranial dome is vaulted, Her mad Mongolian eyes Aslant with the ecstasies Of things immune, exalted Far beyond stars and skies, Slits of amber and jet— Her snout for the quarry set Fleshy and heavy and gross, Bestial, broken across, And below it her mouth that drips Blood from the lips That hide the fangs of a snake, Drips on venomous udders Mountainous flanks that fret, And the spirit sickens and shudders At the hint of a worse thing yet. Olya! the golden bait Barbed with infinite pain, Fatal, fanatical mate O…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 30

Collected Works (Vol. II)

24 ORACLES Stain not the planets, the unfathomed home, The spaceless, unformed faces in the dome Brighter and blacker than all things, Borne under the eternal wings No whither: solitary are the winter woods And caves not habited, And that supreme grey head Watching the groves: single the foaming amber floods, And O! most lone The melancholy mountain shrine and throne, While far above all things God sits, the ultimate alone ! Ill. I sate upon the mossy promontory Where the cascade cleft not his mother rock, But swept in whirlwind lightning foam …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 71

Songs of the Spirit

…Of Grass whose frailties ’scape the passing maid, Whose light foot brushes fern and moss ? But Love Comes a thief to men who turn toward things above 61

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1909 · PDF PAGE 334

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…him that would ascend. O may the Four avail me! Ageless woe, Fear, torture throng the threshold. Lo! The end Of matter! The Immensity of things Let loose—new laws, new beings, new conditions :-— Dire chaos; see! these new-fledged wings Fail in its vaguenesses and inanitions. Only my circle saves me from the hate Of all these monsters dead yet animate. I match, &c. 326

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1909 · PDF PAGE 334

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…him that would ascend. O may the Four avail me! Ageless woe, Fear, torture throng the threshold. Lo! The end Of matter! The Immensity of things Let loose—new laws, new beings, new conditions :-— Dire chaos; see! these new-fledged wings Fail in its vaguenesses and inanitions. Only my circle saves me from the hate Of all these monsters dead yet animate. I match, &c. 326

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1911 · PDF PAGE 190

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS As in the blood of murdered things The afirighted augur shaking skries Earthquakeand ruinous fate of kings, Famine and desperate destinies, So in the eyes of Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damned minion Of Set, the accursed lord of Hell. Yea! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Drus…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 190

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS As in the blood of murdered things The afirighted augur shaking skries Earthquakeand ruinous fate of kings, Famine and desperate destinies, So in the eyes of Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damned minion Of Set, the accursed lord of Hell. Yea! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Drus…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 35

Collected Works (Vol. I)

25 THE TALE OF ARCILAIS So the sound-world, filled of the fire of all Now to me remain in the doubtful twilight things, Stretches bare of Mower, but touched with Rolls majestic torrents of mighty music whispers, Through the stars where dwell the avenging Grey with huddled rocks, and a space of spirits | woodland, Bound in the whirlwind... . Pine-tree and poplar. So the cliffs their Song... For the mist) Now a stream to ford and a sule to clam- regathers, her} Girds them bride-like, fit for the sun to kiss Last the inn, a beok, and a quiet cor- …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 175

Oracles

…apart from the One ; And the sweep of the wings of the weather, Marked bright with the silvery ghylls For flickering feather, brings all things together To nest in the hills. Like a great bird poised in the æther, The mountain keeps watch over earth, On the child that lies sleeping beneath her Wild-eyed from a terrible birth. But by noise of the world unshaken, By dance of the world not bedinned, The hill bides forsaken, yet only to waken Her lover, the wind.

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