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1901 · PDF PAGE 124

The Mother’s Tragedy

… land unclouded, Surely her shaft shall find another mark. So dawns the day on Acheron ghost-crowded, And on my bark. I know not how yon world may prove, nor whither Hermes conduct me to what farther end. Yet if these bays abide, this heart not wither, It cannot be I shall not find a friend. Some pale immortal lover draw me thither! To kiss me bend! Moreover, as Apollo re-arisen Flames, with a roaring of the morning sea, Up from the stricken gray, the iron - barred prison, Flashes his face again upon the lea, And diamond dews the woodland Ones …

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1902 · PDF PAGE 64

Tannhäuser

…esperate ; And Heaven bridges the great gulf of Hell. Thy life is met with mine, Transmuted, grown divine. Even in this, the evil of the world ! What agony is this. The first undying kiss From jewelled eyes and lips in passion curled ? O sister and O serpent and O mate. Strike the red fang of hate Steady and strong, persistent to the heart ! So shall this song be made more terrible With the soul-mastering spell. Choke, stagger, know the Evil, Beauty's counterpart ! Whose long-drawn curse runs venom in my veins ? What dragon spouse consumes me w…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 106

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…the Eye of the Most Terrible Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. XII So then I saw my fault; I plunged within The well, and brake the images That I had made, as I must make—Men spin

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1909 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…d, He, doubt-goat, slew the goat of doubt ; And that which inward did for ever tend Came at the last to have come out; And I who had the World and God to friend Found all three foes! Drowned in that sea of changes, vacancies, and woes! XXI Yet all that Sea was swallowed up therein ; So they were not, and it was not, 99

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1909 · PDF PAGE 106

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…the Eye of the Most Terrible Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. XII So then I saw my fault; I plunged within The well, and brake the images That I had made, as I must make—Men spin

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1909 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…d, He, doubt-goat, slew the goat of doubt ; And that which inward did for ever tend Came at the last to have come out; And I who had the World and God to friend Found all three foes! Drowned in that sea of changes, vacancies, and woes! XXI Yet all that Sea was swallowed up therein ; So they were not, and it was not, 99

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1996 · PDF PAGE 125

The Law is for All

…oken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death is Man released only from the Gross Body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the Astral Plane, as he was in his Life. But this Wholeness suffereth Stress, and its Girders are loosened, the weaker first, and after that the stronger. Zk—DE ADEPTIS R.C. ESCHATOLOGIA [193—An Eschatology of the R.C. Adepts] Consider now i…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 104

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…s full heart of mine, There lacks the wine | . Our kisses might pour out for them, they wait, And we are late; Only, my flower ofall the world, the thrush (You hearhim? Hush!)

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1904 · PDF PAGE 54

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…t ever proving by a truly scientific method) that there was nothing like a cock for fucking, and that a tongue was the best thing in the world for suck- ing off. Her classical researches have encouraged a host of other investigators to engage in similar tasks, and thus stimulated all that is best in mod- ern civilization to probe the immense mysteries that ever ring in our puny intelligences, our be- fogged and poxy brains. The digression has been long, but I trust not without edification ; and in our next chapter you may rely on our returning …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 116

Ambergris

…gical scent In the groves of the heart ! O the pleasure that runs over all overmeasure, The wine of Event ! Overmastered the hurl of the world in the hush of our rapture ; Entangled the bird of success

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1938 · PDF PAGE 17

The Heart of the Master

… free from the ruins! XVII. Use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the Phoenix! XVIII. Let the Illusion of the World pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning! XIX. Give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play! XX. Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship! Be every Act the Fiat of a God! Be every Act a Source of radiant Glory! XXI. Treat time and all conditions of Event as Ser…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 242

The Book of Thoth

…mate, bride of Pan; God’s Angel‐Minister to every man. d Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above Thought’s reach: the wholeness of the world is Love. x Sire and inceptor, Emperor and King Of all things mortal, hail Him lord of Spring! v Wisdom to each apportioned to his want By modes of Light, shed forth, great Hierophant! z To each his Understanding sooth discovers Wordless: your mode, immortal Twins and Lovers! h Behold, the Chariot! Through the water floods The Sangraal, life and rapture, Wine’s and Blood’s! e The Lion‐Serpent begets Gods!…

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1947 · PDF PAGE 6

The Last Ritual

… With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks Through solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave ; and I rape and I rip and I rend Everlasting, world without end. Mannikin, maiden, maenad, man, In the might of Pan. Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! Io Pan !

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1904 · PDF PAGE 73

The Sword of Song

…heir labours in other fields? — A. C. More, though the establishment of this new estate of consciousness seems to open the door to a new world, a world where the axioms of Euclid may be absurd, and the propositions of Keynes* untenable, let us not fall into the error of the mystics, by supposin that in this world is necessarily a final truth, or even a certain and definite gain of knowledge. But that a field for research is opened up no sane man may doubt. Nor may one question that the very first fact is of a nature disruptive of difficulty phi…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 16

Moonchild

…t have disgusted you. Yet you stick to her closer than a brother." "That's all true! But she's a sublime genius, the greatest artist the world has ever seen." "She has a genius," distinguished Simon Iff. "Her dancing is a species of angelic possession, if I may coin a phrase. She comes off the stage from an interpretation of the subtlest and most spiritual music of Chopin or Tschaikowsky; and forthwith proceeds to scold, to wheedle, or to blackmail. Can you explain that reasonably by talking of `two sides to her character'? It is nonsense to do…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 52

Jephthah

… charioteers of heaven and hell, In all the Names writ secretly And sacred songs ineffable, In all the words of power that fly About the world, this song they spell : He keepeth Israel. AHINOAM. Ye praise God of full heart: I would to God Your minds were somewhat fuller, and could keep Discretion seated on her ivory throne. What folly is it they will now be at, Gray beards, and goatish manners? Hearken them! CHORUS. In the brave old days ere men began To bind young hearts with an iron tether, Ere love was brief as life, a span, Ere love was lig…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 16

The Poem

…e for vengeance. So far have I risen, but not far enough to forget that you are the most abominable villain that plagues God’s beautiful world with his infesting life. BRANDON [wth sudden calmness]. This to his father! What does the Bible say, you wretch ? PERCY [fo Vaughan}. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [suddenly breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. Percy, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. Brandon, maddene…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 147

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ose isles Which neither live nor die But are immortal . The refrains of love And death and tragedy Seem sad by very changelessness . The world In the forthflow of time So new , is yet so hopeless and so old , That every tear we shed Is but a repetition of those tears Which perhaps Sappho shed . The same chant murmurs in the ageless sea As Homer turned to words , 128

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1913 · PDF PAGE 7

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

…rs; and its chiefs are initiates of the highest rank, and recognized as such by all capable of such recog nition in every country in the world. In more remote times, the O. T. O. included such men as Fohi Laotze Siddartha Krishna Tahuti Ankh.fenckhonsu Herakles Orpheus Odysseus Vergilius Catullus Martialis Apollonius Tyanaeus ‘Simon Magus Manes Basilides Valentinus Bardesanes 6 Hippolytus Merlin Arthur Titurel Amfortas Percivale Wan Mosheh Dionysus Mahmud Hermes Pan Dante Carolus Magnus William of Schyren Frederick of Hohenstaufen Roger Bacon J…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 20

Little Poems in Prose

ing damp; one breathes here now the rancid air of desolation. In this world, so narrow, yet so filled with loathing, one single well-known object smiles on me,—the phial of laudanum; and old and terrible mistress; like all mistresses, alas! fer- tile in caresses and in treacheries. Oh yes, Time has reappeared. Time lords it now, and with the ugly oldster has returned all his devilish rout of memories, regrets, spasms, fears, agonies, nightmares, rages, nerve- storms. I swear to you that the seconds now tick off like a mighty and a solemn bell, …

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