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1906 · PDF PAGE 54

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…e law, The gallows, and the scourge, to awe Brave Irish hearts: their hates deny The right to live—the right to die. Our weapons—be they fire and cord, The shell, the rifle, and the sword! Without a helper or a friend All means be righteous to the End! Look not for help to wordy strife ! This battle is for death or life. Melt mountains with a word—and then The colder hearts of Englishmen ! Look not to Europe in your need ! Columbia’s but a broken reed ! Your own good hearts, your own strong hand Win back at last the Irish land. Won by the stren…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 28

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…lind auguries of madness. PROPHET. Ha! The rose has washed its petals, and the blood Pours through its burning centre from my heart. The fire consumes the light; and rosy flame Leaps through the veins of blue, and tinges them With such a purple as incarnadines The western sky when storms are amorous And lie upon the breast of toiling ocean, Such billows to beget as earth devours | In ravening whirlpool guiphs. My veins are full,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 13

Ambergris

…eas and the dirge of moorlands ; Tempest, thunder, birds, and the breeze of summer Join to augment it. So the sound-world, filled of the fire of all things, Rolls majestic torrents of mighty music Through the stars where dwell the avenging spirits Bound in the whirlwind . . .

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1913 · PDF PAGE 227

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…, the ever-moving wing Of birth, have lent me glamour of desire, And I will go as a god, to mould afresh With my most inner and supernal fire A veil for a soul, a veil of soft, white flesh; Yea! I will mould from out the universe A new blind angel, with a spirit’s curse. (v) The hour of love is passed; we lie asleep Dreaming of love; we wake to love again. Upon my heart you hide your eyes and weep, And so I understand, and share your pain. And when you ask of love I will not speak, But crush your lips for only answering; I feel your hot breath …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 227

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…, the ever-moving wing Of birth, have lent me glamour of desire, And I will go as a god, to mould afresh With my most inner and supernal fire A veil for a soul, a veil of soft, white flesh; Yea! I will mould from out the universe A new blind angel, with a spirit’s curse. (v) The hour of love is passed; we lie asleep Dreaming of love; we wake to love again. Upon my heart you hide your eyes and weep, And so I understand, and share your pain. And when you ask of love I will not speak, But crush your lips for only answering; I feel your hot breath …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 267

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ure of body and soul! The Priestess takes the censer from the child, and places it on the small altar. She puts incense therein. Let the Fire and the Air make sweet the world! (Genu- flects.) Father, be thou adored. She returns West, and makes * with the censer be- fore the PRIEST, thrice as before. Be the PRIEST fervent of body and soul! (The children resume their weapons as they are done with.) The DEacon now takes the consecrated Robe from 253

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1944 · PDF PAGE 47

The Book of Thoth

…er letters, Aleph, Mem, and Shin, which correspond in various interwoven fashions with all the triads that occur in these cards, notably Fire, Water, Air; Fa‐ ther, Mother, Son; Sulphur, Salt, Mercury; Rajas, Sattvas and Tamas. The really important feature of this card is that its number should be 0. It represents therefore the Negative above the Tree of Life, the source of all things. It is the Qabalistic Zero. It is the equation of the Universe, the initial and final balance of the opposites; Air, in this card, therefore quintessentially mean…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 133

The Soul of Osiris

…me ! come away ! but not your mighty sounds ! O wind of all the world ! O silent river ! O sea of seas ! O flower of all the flowers ! O fire ! O spirit ! Beam thou on for ever Through æons of illimitable hours ! Kiss thou my forehead, let thy tender breath Woo me to life, and my desire to death ! I shall be ready for it by-and-by, That sharp initiation, when the whole Body is torn with sundering pangs, and I, The very conscious essence of the soul, Am rent with agony, as when the pale Christ heard the shriek of the dividing veil. That awful my…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 145

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…od Move in the mazes of an Eden, trod Not by the seemly spirits of the sea, But by brave men built wholly of desire And freedom’s mystic fire, To clothe its habitants with glorious attire. Clasp hands, O fair republic of the west, And leave the kingdoms to their sudden fate. With new-born love and ardour unrepressed, Let Lethe steep in its unquiet rest The old years whose red hands have made us great. O fair republic, strong and swift, unbind The shackles of thy mind: More than our kin ye are; henceforth not less than kind. Bind on the splendid…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 21

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…glory springs King of the magical brotherhood of kings; The absolute crown and kingdom of desire, _Earth’s virgin chaplet, molten in the fire, Sealed in the sea, betokened by the wind : “There is one God, the Spirit of Mankind!”

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1901 · PDF PAGE 113

The Mother’s Tragedy

…rth grins open, as it were a tomb, And struggling earthquakes gnash their teeth be- neath her. The night is monstrous: in the flickering fire Strange faces gibber as the brands burn low; Old shapes of hate, young phantoms of desire More hateful yet, shatter and change and grow. There is a sense of terror in the air, And dreadful stories catch my breath and bind me, Soft noises as of breathing: unaware What devils or what ghosts may lurk behind me! Even my horse is troubled: vain it is Invoking memory for sweet sound of youth ; The song, the day…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 56

Clouds Without Water

…and my solitude Are broken by the blazing and the burning Of this dread majesty, this million-hued Brilliance that coruscates its jetted fire Into the infinite aether; this austere And noble countenance set fast in dire And royal wrath, this awful face of fear Before whose glance the ashen world grows grey, Crashes, and chaos crumbles all away.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 53

Ambergris

…nt and the hours. Aloof, alone, unloved, I stand With love and worship in my hand. I commune with the Gods : I wait Their summons, and I fire the brand I speak their Word : and there is Fate. I know no happiness, no pain, No swift emotion, no disdain, No pits : but the boundless light Of the Eternal Love, unslain, Flows through me to redeem the night. Mine is a sad slow life : but I, I would not gain release, and die A moment ere my task be done. To falter now were treachery— I should not dare to greet the sun ! Yet, in one hour I dare not hope…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 190

Book 4 (Part II)

… Sauna. See "Science and Buddhism." SepJiiroth. See " Temple of Solomon," Equinox W Shi?i. "A tooth." Hebrew letter = Sh, corresponds to Fire and Spirit. Shkui Sanliita. A Hindu treatise on physical training for spiritual ends. Skandhas. See " Science and Buddhism.'' Tao. See Konx Om Pax, " Thien Tao," jyj, etc. Tao Teh King. Chinese Classic on the Tao. Taro. See 777^ Equinox III and VIII, etc., etc. Tan. A "cross," Hebrew letter = Th corresponds to "Earth." See 777. Thaumiel. The demons corresponding to Kether. Two contending forces. Theosophi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…t flower still blows Upon the mystic earth, my Rose, my Rose, XIV THE BEGINNING Rose of the gardens of old Babylon, Red, scarlet Rose of fire in the breast of light :— I had a dream of thee, my Babylon ; Yea; all thy petals were crimson with delight: And under the soft stars, the silent night Grew deeper, deeper, till the heart o the world Lay bare before me, with no robe to don Save the lucent veil of spirit, argent-white ; And then there came a voice: Arise! Smite! Smite! Ere the portal of the temple may be won! Crash down the walls! Lend all…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…t flower still blows Upon the mystic earth, my Rose, my Rose, XIV THE BEGINNING Rose of the gardens of old Babylon, Red, scarlet Rose of fire in the breast of light :— I had a dream of thee, my Babylon ; Yea; all thy petals were crimson with delight: And under the soft stars, the silent night Grew deeper, deeper, till the heart o the world Lay bare before me, with no robe to don Save the lucent veil of spirit, argent-white ; And then there came a voice: Arise! Smite! Smite! Ere the portal of the temple may be won! Crash down the walls! Lend all…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 186

The Book of Thoth

DOMINION TWO OF WANDS This card, pertaining to Chokmah in the suit of Fire, represents the Will in its most ex‐ alted form. It is an ideal Will, independent of any given object. “For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.” AL. 1. 44. The background of this card shows the power of the planet Mars in his own sign Aries, the first of the Signs. It there represents Energy initiating a Current of Force. The pictorial representation is two Dorjes crossed. The Dorje is the Tibetan symbol of the thund…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 147

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…‘ Follow.’ hiding in her wing Her glorious head and flowing breast of wine. Though in the hollow of her heart be set So deep and awful a fire, though the net Of all her robes be frail as we are fine, We gather, listening to the living lyre Like falling water shot with amber fire, And blown aloft by winds even to heaven’s desire. Deep starry gems set in a silver sea, Sullen low voices of dark minstrelsy, Light whispers of strange loves, of silver woven, Dumb kisses and wild laughter following: All these as lives of autumn and of spring We are: w…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 186

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… That shake the steeples as they mock at God ? Who reared the stallion wind? Whose foaling flings The billows starward? Whose the steeds fire-shod That sweep throughout the world? What spearman sings The fearful chant of war That fires, and spurs, and maddens all the kings That rule o’er earth, and air, and ocean? Whose hand excites the star | To shatter into fiery flakes? No man,. No petty god, but One who governs all, Slips the sun’s leash, perceives the sparrow’s fall, Too high for man to fear, too near for man to call. O virgin Poesy, the l…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 8

Mortadello

…le Champagne Sauce—to serve as a lustration, an asperging. Then Oeufs aux Ecrévisses—the sunrise tinged with blood—the puri- fication by fire. Then the full rage of that awful noon of God—the Truffles themselves. Then, as if to hold the blaze in heaven, the brandy

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