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1911 · PDF PAGE 61

Hail Mary

AMPHORA X Vespers OW at the setting of the sun We turn our thoughts to rest and sleep. Do Thou, O chaste and Holy One, Our spirits keep ! O shed Thy radiance forth in streams To keep us in the Land of Dreams ! The subtle enemy of man Marshals his hosts to work us ill. His demons bloat or deathly wan Sustain his will. More than day’s arrow doth affright The Fear that walketh in the night. Keep Thou our dreams ! Let holy words And angel voices breathing balm And sweetly-tuned celestial birds Uplift their psalm ! Our meditations on Thy grace Blend…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 37

Sir Palamedes

XI Sir PALAMEDE the Saracen Hath hied him to an holy man, Sith he alone of mortal men Can help him, if a mortal can. (So tell him all the Scythian folk.) Wherefore he makes a caravan, And finds him. When his prayers invoke The holy knowledge, saith the sage: “This Beast is he of whom there spoke The prophets of the Golden Age: “Mark ! all that mind is, he is not.’” Sir Palamede in bitter rage Sterte up: “Is this the fool, ’Od wot, To see the like of whom I came From castellated Camelot ?” The sage with eyes of burning flame Cried: “Is it not a …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 177

The Vision and the Voice

…rld; his work therein. This is the first mystery revealed to a M.T. 12. The Second Mystery: the cup-bearer of Babalon the beautiful. The Holy Grail manifested to the M.T., with the first knowledge of the Black Brothers. 11. Now cometh the Frontier of the Holy City; the M.T. is taken into the Abyss. 10. The Abyss. 9. The M.T. hath passed the Abyss, and is led to the Palace of the Virgin redeemed from Malkuth unto Binah. 8. The fuller manifestation of the Holy Guardian Angel. 7. The Virgin become the Bride, the great Reward of the Ceremony. Also …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 61

Jephthah

…f our warrior sires whose victor swords restore us Jephthah! SEMICHORUS II. With angels vast and calm That keep his way, With streams of holy balm, The prayers of them that pray, We go to bring him home and raise to Thee our holy psalm, Elohim ! ELEAZAR. Go ye, make ready for the happy march. [Exeunt Adulah and Maidens.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 407

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

XI Sir PALAMEDE the Saracen Hath hied him to an holy man, Sith he alone of mortal men Can help him, if a mortal can. (So tell him all the Scythian folk.) Wherefore he makes a caravan, And finds him. When his prayers invoke The holy knowledge, saith the sage: “This Beast is he of whom there spoke The prophets of the Golden Age: “Mark ! all that mind is, he is not.’” Sir Palamede in bitter rage Sterte up: “Is this the fool, ’Od wot, To see the like of whom I came From castellated Camelot ?” The sage with eyes of burning flame Cried: “Is it not a …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 407

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

XI Sir PALAMEDE the Saracen Hath hied him to an holy man, Sith he alone of mortal men Can help him, if a mortal can. (So tell him all the Scythian folk.) Wherefore he makes a caravan, And finds him. When his prayers invoke The holy knowledge, saith the sage: “This Beast is he of whom there spoke The prophets of the Golden Age: “Mark ! all that mind is, he is not.’” Sir Palamede in bitter rage Sterte up: “Is this the fool, ’Od wot, To see the like of whom I came From castellated Camelot ?” The sage with eyes of burning flame Cried: “Is it not a …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 79

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…f our warrior sires whose victor swords restore us Jephthah! SEMICHORUS II. With angels vast and calm That keep his way, With streams of holy balm, The prayers of them that pray, We go to bring him home and raise to Thee our holy psalm, Elohim ! ELEAZAR. Go ye, make ready for the happy march. [Exeunt Adulah and Maidens.

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1908 · PDF PAGE 52

Amphora

AMPHORA II NSHRINED in cloistral sanctity I sit and worship solemnly. Mary is everything to me. I hail Thee holy Mary. By day and night I sit alone Mute as a monument of stone, And meditate before the throne Of bright and blessed Mary. I see Her glory from afar Gleam like some cold and sacred star Among the solitudes that are The shrines of blessed Mary. Bid Thou these filmy eyes to see ! Turn Thou this heart to grace and gree ! Bring Thou my sense-dulled self to Thee, O bright and blessed Mary ! The song may cease, but through the air Ever sha…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 39

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ft-noted nightingales I love, With the earth below, and the moon above, And the rippling river singing slowly Under the stars serene and holy. Great staring moon before the dawn, Shining young grass, Oh, have ye heard Diana pass Over the lawn ? Oh, dimpling river, murmuring slowly Under the starlight pale, and holy, Oh, little green grasshoppers chirring, chirring, What have ye seen in the bright night stirring? xxxrx

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1912 · PDF PAGE 39

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ft-noted nightingales I love, With the earth below, and the moon above, And the rippling river singing slowly Under the stars serene and holy. Great staring moon before the dawn, Shining young grass, Oh, have ye heard Diana pass Over the lawn ? Oh, dimpling river, murmuring slowly Under the starlight pale, and holy, Oh, little green grasshoppers chirring, chirring, What have ye seen in the bright night stirring? xxxrx

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1911 · PDF PAGE 52

Hail Mary

AMPHORA II NSHRINED in cloistral sanctity I sit and worship solemnly. Mary is everything to me. I hail Thee holy Mary. By day and night I sit alone Mute as a monument of stone, And meditate before the throne Of bright and blessed Mary. I see Her glory from afar Gleam like some cold and sacred star Among the solitudes that are The shrines of blessed Mary. Bid Thou these filmy eyes to see ! Turn Thou this heart to grace and gree ! Bring Thou my sense-dulled self to Thee, O bright and blessed Mary ! The song may cease, but through the air Ever sha…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…il ao yoy 408 Lapis sapphirinus “VEDI JAN Haec mnt [Vide Deut. x. 10, 15] pun © 409 Patriarchs NTN Fathers nas One (fem.) mms Ha-Qadesh; Holy Ones yapn 410 Liberty; a swallow mn Visions, imaginations. [Dan. 77 iv. 2] Metzareph i) ‘The Tabernacle pwn Sacred; Saint wnp Holy yap He heareth yow Hod, 42-fold Name in Yetzirah ‘pur 4ur Elisha yors Briatic Palace of ps bon ‘Tiphareth Fundamenta Terrae ys “DID Habitaculum xwvD Ordo temporum ppt ID Desolation, emptiness. (Ex- AM presses first root of all good) 412 ‘The letter Beth na 43 New. (Ch.) nan Je…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…il ao yoy 408 Lapis sapphirinus “VEDI JAN Haec mnt [Vide Deut. x. 10, 15] pun © 409 Patriarchs NTN Fathers nas One (fem.) mms Ha-Qadesh; Holy Ones yapn 410 Liberty; a swallow mn Visions, imaginations. [Dan. 77 iv. 2] Metzareph i) ‘The Tabernacle pwn Sacred; Saint wnp Holy yap He heareth yow Hod, 42-fold Name in Yetzirah ‘pur 4ur Elisha yors Briatic Palace of ps bon ‘Tiphareth Fundamenta Terrae ys “DID Habitaculum xwvD Ordo temporum ppt ID Desolation, emptiness. (Ex- AM presses first root of all good) 412 ‘The letter Beth na 43 New. (Ch.) nan Je…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 272

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…s, and the Twelve Signs In this grade the lamps on the Pillars are unshaded, showing that you have quitted Altar and the entrance to the Holy Place stood the Laver of Brass, as a symbol of the Waters of Creation.” The Hegemon then explains the sym- bolic drawing of the Zodiac, which is most complicated, but consists mainly of twelve circles and a lamp in the centre to repre- sent the sun, “The whole figure repre- sents the Rose of Creation, and is a synthesis of the Visible Universe, Further- more the twelve circles represent the twelve foundat…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 272

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…s, and the Twelve Signs In this grade the lamps on the Pillars are unshaded, showing that you have quitted Altar and the entrance to the Holy Place stood the Laver of Brass, as a symbol of the Waters of Creation.” The Hegemon then explains the sym- bolic drawing of the Zodiac, which is most complicated, but consists mainly of twelve circles and a lamp in the centre to repre- sent the sun, “The whole figure repre- sents the Rose of Creation, and is a synthesis of the Visible Universe, Further- more the twelve circles represent the twelve foundat…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 97

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 85 Gz De Missa Spiritus Sancti (Of the Mass of the Holy Ghost) OW at last, o my son, may I being thee to under- stand the Truth of this Formula that is hidden in the Mass of the Holy Ghost. For Horus that is Lord of the Æon is the Child crowned and conquering. The formula of Osiris was, as thou knowest, a Word of Death, that is, the Force lay long in Darkness, and by Putrefaction came to Resurrection. But we take living Things, and pour in Life and Nature of our own Will, so that instantly and without Corruption the …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 115

The Soul of Osiris

THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 103 THE PALACE OF THE WORLD. HE fragrant gateways of the dawn Teem with the scent of flowers. The mother, Midnight, has withdrawn Her slumberous kissing hours : Day springs, with footsteps as a fawn, Into her rosy bowers. The pale and holy maiden horn In highest heaven is set. My forehead, bathed in her forlorn Light, with her lips is met ; My lips, that murmur in the morn, With lustrous dew are wet. My prayer is mighty with my will ; My purpose as a sword Flames through the adamant, to fill The gardens of the Lord With musi…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 131

Liber Aleph

…o Universali (Of the Universal Eucharistick Mystery) Y Son, heed also this Word of thine Uncle William O’Neill; Everything that lives is holy. Yea, and more also, every Act is holy, being essential to the Universal Sacrament. Knowing this, thou mayst conform with that which is written in The Book of the Law: to make no Distinction between any one Thing and any other Thing. Learn well to apprehend this Mystery, for it is the Great Gate of the College of Understanding, whereby each and all of thy Senses become constant and perpetual Witnesses of …

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1908 · PDF PAGE 34

Amphora

…d King ! Now, O Thou pitiful and pallid, Who to the cross didst cleave and cling, Thy tears to life from death have rallied Thy SON, the Holy King ! Eater of flesh and soul and spirit, The Lord of Hell on dropping wing His doom of dolour doth inherit From our anointed King. See ! headlong where he reels and plunges To the abyss, a noisome thing ! He falls ! Our sin Thy SON expunges ! Thy SON, the Holy King ! Then, O thou mildest maiden mother, Thou feedest us ! our crowns we fling Here at Thy feet, who art no other Than Lady of our King F 27

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1911 · PDF PAGE 34

Hail Mary

…d King ! Now, O Thou pitiful and pallid, Who to the cross didst cleave and cling, Thy tears to life from death have rallied Thy SON, the Holy King ! Eater of flesh and soul and spirit, The Lord of Hell on dropping wing His doom of dolour doth inherit From our anointed King. See ! headlong where he reels and plunges To the abyss, a noisome thing ! He falls ! Our sin Thy SON expunges ! Thy SON, the Holy King ! Then, O thou mildest maiden mother, Thou feedest us ! our crowns we fling Here at Thy feet, who art no other Than Lady of our King F 27

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