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1907 · PDF PAGE 57

Rodin in Rime

…, God stands Shrunken and shaking at my gaze, before My hollow seat of agony, it may be He shall discover me the great excuse For an ill world ill shapen by ill hands, For unit joy and misery ten score, For all his work’s complaint; I think that He, Twitching His fearful fingers, may let loose This answer: Thus a kiss I brought to being Which by no other way were possible. Measure, O man! Balance with eyes true seeing If I were right or no to have made Hell! Then would He stand forgiven—nay! acquitted! I, as I look on this tight coil of bliss, …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 11

The Winged Beetle

1 ROSA COELI I ROSE of the World ! Ruby with blood from the bright veins of God Caught in the chalice of your heart, and pearled With dew at many a melting period When the amethyst lustre of your eyes dissolves The veil that hides your naked splendour From these infirm resolves And halting loves of your poor poet’s soul With radiance mild and tender, So that I see awhile the golden goal ! Yea ! all your light involves Me, me tenebrous, me too cold and base Ever to kindle to the maiden face (Three years my wife, three years of me unwon !) That w…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 36

The Winged Beetle

…se. He had traced the serpent sigil In his ghastly virgin vigil. Sursum cor ! the elfin hill, Where the wind blows deadly chill From the world that wails beneath Death’s black throat and lipless teeth There he had stood—his bosom bare— Tracing life upon the Air With the crook and with the flail Lashing forward on the gale, Till its blade that wavereth Like the flickering of Death Sank before his subtle fence To the starless sea of sense. Now at last the man is come Haply to his halidom. Surely as he waves his rod In a circle on the sod Springs …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 149

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…was grey When shrill cocks crew , They knew that day Was peering through Her mantle dim , her mantle blue , And heard her say : “ O dear world , help me to count less This once , the feet that stray , The hands that do not bless That men forever may Feel my caress .” Afternoon . W E cannot , like the wise men three , W Journey away to seek and see , But we can keep with feast and mirth The winter blossoming of earth ; Nor shut our doors , for we may then Shut out the travelling Wise Men , Who always tread the mazy way Age after age , upon this …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 127

The Sword of Song

…: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is fusion in the spirit’s shadow-veil, Till the Knowledge-Lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem; Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them. As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 34

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… dive no deeper. Did I touch bottom? Never, O never! I stand confessed A footler, a creeper. These spells—’Od rot ’em !— Are vain as the world, As all of the stars. This mystery’s nought. But for cold! The lake Is hot as the curled Flames at ‘the bars Of Hell; it is wrought Of fire: what shall slake This terrible thirst, This torment accurst? [He looks into the water. Yet, in my face As I gaze on the water Is something calmer. What if the king Of the Screes should see me, Give me for grace His beautiful daughter, Voluptuous charmer? 1 The mount…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 60

Rodin in Rime

LYETERNEL PRINTEMPS I HE eternal spring is in the heart of youth. They are nearest to the secret of the world, These lovers with their lithe white bodies curled Into the rhythm of a dance; the truth Is theirs that feel, not ours that idly see; Theirs that inhabit, and not ours that flee The intimate touch of love and think to sleuth By intellect all the scent of being, whirled In the wheel of time—roll back, slow years, and be A monument, a memory for me; That I may in their passion have a part, And feel their glory glow within my heart! II Thi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 153

The Winged Beetle

…our hearts, and burn and breed Myriad children to your will. We will damn the coward’s creed, And the eunuch’s squeaking still, Till the world is yours indeed ! Yea ! at last the spell shall break Wherewith Christ and Cromwell bound us

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1906 · PDF PAGE 147

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ds and mortals wither ; Moons fade where constellations shone ; Numberless aeons brought us hither ; Niumberless aeons beckon us on. The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Here, in the Dusk of Gods, I linger; The world awaits a Word of Truth. Kindle, O lyre, beneath my finger ! Evoke the age’s awful youth! To arms against the inveterate wrong ! Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Sand-founded reels the House of Faith ; Up screams the howl of ruining sect ; Out from the shrine flits the lost Wraith ; ‘God hath forsaken Ilis…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 110

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…degraded rituals of black magic, the laws of Magick are not thereby suspended. The iaws of Magick are the iaws of Nature. A singular and world-famous exampie of this is of sufficiently recent date to be fresh in the memory of many people now living. At a nigger camp meeting in the “United” States of America, devotees were worked up to such a pitch of excitement that the whole assembly deveioped a furious form of hysteria. The comparatively intelligible Cries of “Glory” and “Hallelujah” no longer expressed the situation. Somebody screamed out “T…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 5

John Yarker – In Memoriam

… of Mizraim, 90°, from 1871 down to the present time. Received over twelve patents of 33° of the Supreme Council in various parts of the world. Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece by patent, July Ist, 1874. Hon. Member of Lodge 227, Dublin, 1872, and of various foreign bodies, 1881-3. Among these he received the “Crown of Kether,” admitting to the 5° of the Grand Lamaistique Order of Light. In 1882—3 he acted as General Guiseppe Garibaldi’s Grand Chancellor of the Confederated Rites, which he arranged throughout the world. Hon. Grand Master of t…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 34

The God-Eater

…ible cry he collapses, and falls ' dead with his head on Maurya’s knees.| Rupna. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. [She deliberately breaks her staff in her hands. The report is sharp and very loud, like a pistol shot.| CurRTAIN, ¢ R. CLAY AND SONS, LTD., BREAD ST. HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 30

Rodin in Rime

Let day, a glowing vigour, male; And night, a virgin bowed and curled, Stand at the foot; their ardours pale Systole and diastole of the world! With life impearled (their eyes absorb) They visibly sustain the orb. Then let the tower in seven tiers Rise in its splendour marmorean, Unite the chill divided years In plain perception of the aeon. Cry clear the paean! Its tunes recoil About thy flanks, O Tower of Toil. Below be miners fashioned fair, And all that labour in the sea Sepulchred from the ambient air, A fatal weird of dole to dree. No tim…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 48

The World’s Tragedy

…ay cleanly maiden whose embrace Flushes with shameless fervour the fair face, Fills the whole leaping heaven with the light Till all the world is drunken with delight. You with your own authentic filth defiled Robbed Keats of life, and Shelley of his child, Corrupted Swinburne to your foul disease, Denied Blake bread — are you fed full on these ? You hate the wise, true, beautiful, and holy : — Dogs ! is there nothing you can do to Crowley ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Therefore I see and speak, who would be dumb And blind : but Thou dost c…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 51

Little Poems in Prose

…t, without friends, with- out family, without children, degraded by his misery and by public ingratitude, into whose booth the forgetful world will no longer come.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 21

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… of Mizraim, 90°, from 1871 down to the present time. Received over twelve patents of 33° of the Supreme Council in various parts of the world. Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece by patent, July ist, 1874. Hon. Member of Lodge 227, Dublin, 1872, and of various foreign bodies, 1881-3. Among these he received the “Crown of Kether,” admitting to the 5° of the Grand Lamaistique Order of Light. In 1882-3 he acted as General Guiseppe Garibaldi’s Grand Chancellor of the Confederated Rites, which he arranged throughout the world. Hon. Grand Master of t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 21

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… of Mizraim, 90°, from 1871 down to the present time. Received over twelve patents of 33° of the Supreme Council in various parts of the world. Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece by patent, July ist, 1874. Hon. Member of Lodge 227, Dublin, 1872, and of various foreign bodies, 1881-3. Among these he received the “Crown of Kether,” admitting to the 5° of the Grand Lamaistique Order of Light. In 1882-3 he acted as General Guiseppe Garibaldi’s Grand Chancellor of the Confederated Rites, which he arranged throughout the world. Hon. Grand Master of t…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 129

The Law is for All

… Ready- Money Mortiboy, Chapter xxiil: The big-bearded man stood towering over the children, with his right arm waving them out into the world—where? No matter where: somewhere away: somewhere into the good places of the world—not a boy’s heart but was stirred within him: and the brave old English blood rose in them as he spoke, in his deep bass tones, of the worth of a single man in those far-off lands;—an oration destined to bear fruit in after-days, when the lads, who talk yet with bated breath of the speech and the speaker, shall grow to ma…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 159

The Scented Garden

The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. 151 Rampant within thy podex take this member, stiffer than a mast. Lively as love itself, supreme in pride, stupendous in the vast ! Even the present gold and white, the Moment ever fleeting fast, Surrendered never ! this delight the Venus-throw hath surely cast.3 Jehannum shall exclaim “ Habib ! ” and light inform its murky fire, Entrancing all the ghouls4 to love, waking the Shaitans to desire ! Rejoicing souls in Paradise shall spurn the Hur al Ayn5 with ire, Opening their lips in pangs of wo…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 15

Jephthah

JEPHTHAH. Perfumes of a precious stone, Where beneath His feet the dire World of shells is pashed with mire, And the evil spirits’ ire Steams and fumes within the zone Girt with minaret and spire Broken, burst, and overthrown, Dusty, and defiled, and dun, Palled with smoke of fruitless altars Cast beneath the ocean now, Ruined symbols, changéd psalters, Where no lip no longer falters, And the priest’s deep brow Pales not, flushes not for passion, Clouds not with concealéd thought, And the worshipper’s eye, wrought To the stars in subtle fashion…

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