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1911 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…h a mighty effort my comrade put forth all his strength, and we gained upon this one, and greeted him. Thereupon he (and he was a goodly man, and fair) did most heartily welcome me as a fellow—traveller to that house, and confirmed me in my belief that the ark did indeed hold the secret 01 the way thereto. And as for the guide that might convey us through the darkness and the tumult 01 the stream, he spoke (something darkly) of one appointed, and more clearly that he was aware of divers marks upon the way; for, said he, to them that view it from…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…h a mighty effort my comrade put forth all his strength, and we gained upon this one, and greeted him. Thereupon he (and he was a goodly man, and fair) did most heartily welcome me as a fellow—traveller to that house, and confirmed me in my belief that the ark did indeed hold the secret 01 the way thereto. And as for the guide that might convey us through the darkness and the tumult 01 the stream, he spoke (something darkly) of one appointed, and more clearly that he was aware of divers marks upon the way; for, said he, to them that view it from…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e arguing about @ priori and on hearsay.” Then they both rose up against him, and cursed him. “ Unscientific balderdash!” said the Water Man, for the first time speaking respectfully of Science. “‘Blasphemous Nonsense!” said the Inhabitant, for the first time speaking respectfully of Religion. “Wait and see,” said the Judge ; for he was a just Judge. Then the Man with the Microscope explained the uses of this new and strange instrument. And the Judge patiently investigated all sources of error, and concluded in the end that the instrument was a…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e arguing about @ priori and on hearsay.” Then they both rose up against him, and cursed him. “ Unscientific balderdash!” said the Water Man, for the first time speaking respectfully of Science. “‘Blasphemous Nonsense!” said the Inhabitant, for the first time speaking respectfully of Religion. “Wait and see,” said the Judge ; for he was a just Judge. Then the Man with the Microscope explained the uses of this new and strange instrument. And the Judge patiently investigated all sources of error, and concluded in the end that the instrument was a…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 17

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

… is a wholesale firm, I hope !—and practically, I challenge you to draw valid distinctions. All these are states of the consciousness of man; and if you seek to destroy one, all fall together. VII I must, at the risk of appearing to digress, insist upon this distinction between philosophical and practical points of view, or (in Qabalistic language) between Kether and Malkuth. In private conversation I find it hard—almost impossible— to get people to understand what seems to me so very simple a point. I shall try to make it exceptionally clear. …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 88

The World’s Tragedy

… The pedestal is of lapis-lazuli, the space around of malachite. It is strewn with red roses. Before the image of the god stands a naked man, in whose hand is a sharp sword heavy and curved. Its blade is of blue steel, its hilt encrusted with rubies. The man is come to his full strength ; he is very dark with deep-set glittering eyes of green flecked with fire. His beard is short, square, curly, and black mingled with red. It is noon ; the sun stands sole and supreme in the abyss of azure. The grove is completely hidden from the outer world by …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 118

White Stains

112 ‘ • Á¼±ÆÁ¿´¯Ä¿Å ’ O½±Á My hot blood turns to fire, Seeing nor maid nor man. Not maid, not man—the breast Like palaces of gold, Yet where my lips caressed, In the wild dove’s wild nest A dove too soft to hold. No dove that Hylas knew, No dove that Sappho kissed, Nor in wide Heaven there grew This child of stranger dew Than God’s good spirit wist. Yet his wings bare him high, Divine beyond control, And, like for love to die, I felt his arrow fly Within my very soul. Ah Love ! the ambiguous kiss, Not man’s nor woman’s touch, In that ecstatic b…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 18

Gargoyles

…dissolution vile, Fades as the royal truth is known: Though change and sorrow range and roll, There is no self—there is no soul! XII. As man, a primate risen high Above his fellows, work thou well! As man, an incident minute And dim in time’s eternity, Work well! As man, no toy for hell And heaven to wrangle for, be mute! Let empty speculation stir The idle fool, the craven cur! XIII. Myself being idle for an hour I dare one thing to speculate: Namely, that life hath cusps yet higher On this our curve: a prize, a power Lies in our grasp: unthin…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 159

The Star in the West

…hosen wood , Where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise Of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys.? Feeding perhaps first on man's body , the priest soon found , after investing his victim with an immortal soul , that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail , enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven : still death reigns , and God and priests are fed , Man's blood for wine , man's flesh for meat and bread .? And these priests are not dead yet . As the human …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 50

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…4 WHY JESUS WEPT SCENE XII. TWO YEARS LATER. Night: The Strand, opposite the fotel Cectl. “l chemist’s shop behind. A grey, old, wieened man staggers tnto the shop. CHEMIST. This prescription has been made up before, Sir. THE MAN. Yes, I want it renewed, quickly, quickly. CHEMIST. I am afraid, sir, it is marked ‘once only.” THE MAN. You won't? O if you knew what I suffer! I will pay you double. CHEMIST. I’m afraid not, sir. You may try else- where. Trk MAN, O God! O God! [Goes out. To him enter on the pavement a bedrageled female. THE WoMAN. Co…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 106

Konx Om Pax

86 KONX OM PAX It seems to tempt a man to swim. I have as sharp and straight and slim A blade whose glamour makes one reel And dazzles death upon the steel. Oh! the stiletto! supple joy— As if some soft Italian boy With all his slender strength alive Laughed in a deep Narcissus dive. I used to poise its light aloft Above Carlotta sleepy-soft. The dusky gold enamoured eyes And bloom of down would harmonize. She used to scold it in pretence Of envy of its excellence. We laughed—but not at the same joke. All girls are blind with their own smoke. A…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 164

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…the Universe without exception. It must, in the most real intellectual sense, be equally “ The buffet and the ear.” As it is written, “A man of like passions as we are.” It is not possible here or elsewhere, nor is it particularly desirable, to enlarge upon such a subject. Such discussions are as unprofitable as those sterile controversies about the nature of Nirvana, that have done more harm to Oriental thought than all the rest of it has done good. For that which is requisite for every man is the next step, and Frater P. has concentrated His …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 333

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ion ; they are, in fine, a people, and one does not enchain a real people. Persecution stirs up avengers; the idea incarnates itself ina man; Moses springs up; Pharaoh falls; and the column of smoke and flame, which goes before a freed people, advances majestically into the desert. Christ is priest and king by intelligence and by love. He has received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. He comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligence is ex…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 164

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…the Universe without exception. It must, in the most real intellectual sense, be equally “ The buffet and the ear.” As it is written, “A man of like passions as we are.” It is not possible here or elsewhere, nor is it particularly desirable, to enlarge upon such a subject. Such discussions are as unprofitable as those sterile controversies about the nature of Nirvana, that have done more harm to Oriental thought than all the rest of it has done good. For that which is requisite for every man is the next step, and Frater P. has concentrated His …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 333

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ion ; they are, in fine, a people, and one does not enchain a real people. Persecution stirs up avengers; the idea incarnates itself ina man; Moses springs up; Pharaoh falls; and the column of smoke and flame, which goes before a freed people, advances majestically into the desert. Christ is priest and king by intelligence and by love. He has received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. He comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligence is ex…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 2

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…ong the platform to his grub, which he would find in an isolated cottage some three hundred yards away. In strong contrast to the Englishman, with his mous- tache afforesting a whitish face, marked with deep red rings on neck and forehead, his impending paunchiness and his full suit of armour, was the small, active man with the pointed beard whom fate had thrown first into the same compartment, and then into the same hour of exile from all their fellows. His eyes were astonishingly black and fierce; his beard was grizzled and his face heavily l…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 373

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…epeats the same lesson. The Adept may plunge into the work of the world, and undertake his daily duties and pleasures exactly as another man would do, but he is not moved by them as the other man is. 28. Wouldst thou become a Yogi of “Time’s Circle”? Then, O Lanoo: 29. Believe thou not that sitting in dark forests, in proud seclusion and apart from men; believe thou not that life on roots and plants, that thirst assuaged with snow from the great Range—believe thou not, O Devotee, that this will lead thee to the goal of final liberation. 30. Thi…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 3

Berashith

YUN ID O Man, of a daring nature, thou subtle production ! Thou wilt not comprehend it, as when understanding some common thing: Onacuzs oF Zonoastes. J presenting this theory of the Universe to the world, T have but one hope of making any profound impres- sion, viz.—that my theory has the merit of explaining the divergences between three great forms of re now existing in the world—Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, and of adapting them to ontological science by conclusions not mystical but mathematical. Of Mohammedanism I shall not now trea…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 13

Jephthah

…ands to us. CHORUS. Toward what end? For present help is much, But uttermost destruction more, for we Have no strong hope in any hand of man: God is our refuge and our tower of strength. In Him if any man abide; but if He put his faith in horsemen, or the sword, The sword he trusted shall be for an end. ELEAZAR. But evils fall like rain upon the land. CHORUS. Let us not call the hail to give us peace. ELEAZAR. Nor on the sun, lest he too eat us up. CHORUS. The heart of a man as the sea Beats hither and thither to find Ease for the limbs long fr…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 255

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… its Balance you may yourself come to apprehension of how to rule your own life. For, in True Things, all are but images one of another; man is but a map of the universe, and Society is but the same on a larger scale. “Learn then that our Holy Order has but Three True Grades; as it is written in the Book of the Law: The Hermit, The Lover, and the Man of Earth. “It is but for convenience that these grades have been separated into Three Triads. “The Third Triad consists of the degrees from Minerval to Prince of Jerusa- lem. The Minerval degree is…

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