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1910 · PDF PAGE 112

Ambergris

…k Of my big arms ; and uttermost content I have of you, my tiny fairy, eh ? Do you live in a flower, I wonder, and sleep and pray To the good God to send you dew at dawn And rain in rain’s soft season, and sun betimes, And all the gladness of the afterglow When you come shyly out of the folded bud, Unsheath your dainty soul, bathe it in blood Of my heart ? Do you love me ? Do you know How I love you ? Do you love these twittering rimes I string you ? Is your tiny life withdrawn Into its cup for modesty when I sing So softly to you and hold you …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 71

Mortadello

… he come, black pearl of men ? LUCREZIA. He comes to greet your Highness. MONICA. Now ? LUCREZIA. He is on the way. MONICA. Then there’s good hope. Not vain the vow ! LUCREZIA. Oh !—if I may !— While we await him, let me ask your aid in turn. MONICA. Could I refuse you aught ? LUCREZIA. The task is strange and stern. Have you seen an arrow dipped in mud, whose venom’s worth A thousand fold its bulk of blood ? MONICA. Ay, marshy earth Fed by the hydra, by the toad, where witches lurk,

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1909 · PDF PAGE 71

John St. John

…ame at the Dome for a little, I now return home. I thought to myself, “Let me chuck the whole thing overboard and be sensible, and get a good night’s rest"—and perceived that it would be impossible. I am so far into this Operation that pausing to cast one last glance back O’er the safe road—’twas gone !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 192

The Winged Beetle

182 MR TODD CARR. Oh, Todd’s a good sort ! I think I must be going, sir. EUPHEMIA. I wish you would stay and help me with the letters, Mr. Carr. We shall have a great deal to do in the next day or two. CARR. Well, if you really wish it, I will try and be of what service I can. [CARR, with his back to audience, laughs with his hands, behind it. MRS. OSSORY. That is indeed kind of you, Professor ! [CARR’S hand-laugh grows riotous. GRANDFATHER. Where is Nurse ? I want my whisky and milk. MRS. OSSORY. [Rings.] I shall go down to lunch, Alfred. Lunc…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…um The Garden of Eden mp To cry out for help pyt Angel L:T.D. of harp Plenitude of plenitudes "Spm bp 178 The lower part, the loins ym ’ Good pleasure, choice, decision, BM will Quicksilver om HDS 7179 Ligatio mpy 180 A spring, fountain. [Cant. iv. 15] The front part ob wi8r Vicious, faulty nop 182 Deus Zelotes NIP ON Outcry, clamour Mpyt Layer of snares, supplanter; apy’ Jacob King of the Gods smSxm bp Passive [as opposed to bpp Sapna = active]

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1912 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…um The Garden of Eden mp To cry out for help pyt Angel L:T.D. of harp Plenitude of plenitudes "Spm bp 178 The lower part, the loins ym ’ Good pleasure, choice, decision, BM will Quicksilver om HDS 7179 Ligatio mpy 180 A spring, fountain. [Cant. iv. 15] The front part ob wi8r Vicious, faulty nop 182 Deus Zelotes NIP ON Outcry, clamour Mpyt Layer of snares, supplanter; apy’ Jacob King of the Gods smSxm bp Passive [as opposed to bpp Sapna = active]

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1939 · PDF PAGE 35

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…akes for endurance. If you keep in constant practice, you ought to find that about ten minutes in the posture will rest you as much as a good night's sleep. So much for the obstacle of the body considered as static. Let us now turn our attention to the conquest of its dynamics. 22. It is always pleasing to turn to a subject like Pranayama. Pranayama means control of force. It is a generalised term. In the Hindu system there are quite a lot of subtle sub-strata of the various energies of the body which have all got names and properties. I do not…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 19

The Poem

…hem would be to pass where he has passed! But oh! the pity! To leave his greatest task undone! To be stricken down in the last charge, a good soldier to the end! Would God he could come back only

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1909 · PDF PAGE 74

Clouds Without Water

…one terrible caress Of the great Gods of Hell. Ah! surely, dear, Our way is wise, transcending human woe: We are most happy and of great good cheer. What do we know? It matters net. We know, This is enough, that we have slain the Sphinx, Worked out her wizardry, dissolved her doom; And though her wine be death to him that drinks We shall carouse for ever in the tomb. We drank bull’s blood and all our pangs immense Are better than eupeptic innocence.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 8

The World’s Tragedy

…Plymouth in its early days was started in Ireland. It was an aristocratic and intellectual movement. John Nelson Darby, a learned man of good family, reasoned thus : The Bible is the Word of God. If its literal interpretation is once abandoned, the whole structure crashes to earth. This it will be seen is identically the Catholic position, save that for “ literal ” Rome reads “ Ecclesiastical.” Darby, too, found himself forced into the practical admis- sion that “ literal ” meant Darbeian ; for some of the more obvious contradictions and absurd…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

Book 4 (Part I)

… in which he exclaimed: “The universe is composed exclusively of ideas.” , Others say that it gives Hamlet’s feeling: “ There ’8 nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so,” interpreted as literally as was done by Mrs. Eddy.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 154

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… at least — and if they fail , By Jesus , more and more I like the plan : In seeking God they 'll drink a butt of ale . ( Henry enters . Good morning , Henry . Here 's a man has trod Some fifty years upon a fruitless quest Of God . He cannot find Him . Henry . Not find God ! Damn it ! Draw me a gallon of your best ! 135

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1913 · PDF PAGE 173

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…he end ; I know not nor care . If these songs that were wrought in the days of my springtide are fair , Perchance they shall seem to you good in the heart of the night , When you wait for the light that shall come in the wake of the morn . 154

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1954 · PDF PAGE 373

Magick Without Tears

…ve of the mother for the off-spring is something that no man can understand: and you appear to prize it! Well, some men have had a jolly good shot at it, notably Emile Zola. The Usher goes into the corridor, and calls that name in strident and stentorian tones. In he waddles, the squat, obese, bespectacled, studious Jew, with the most devastating of all his thunderbolts under his arm-La Terre, and so what? La Terre to him is indeed the mother of all men, sole source of our essential nourishment, the earth to which we are all bound in chains by …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 95

Liber Aleph

… Spiritus quidam in Corpore recipiatur (Of the Secret, by which a Spirit may be received in a Body) ERE now is another Formula of Power, good to invoke any Being to manifest in thyself. First, invoke him by the Power of all thy Spells and conjurations, with Mind concentrated and Will vehement, toward him, as I have written in many Books. But because thou art NEMO, thou mayst safely invoke him, no matter of what Nature, within thy Circle. Now then do thou confer on him as a Guerdon of his Obedience the Dignity of a Soul seeking Incarnation, and …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…wives” (p. 66). The cure for the present degradation associated with prostitution is a common-sense one—one of not supposing that we are good and others are bad, of carting away our own manure before writing to the sanitary inspector about other people’s dung, and to cease hatching mysteries between the sheets of our family four-poster. If unions were sanctioned outside the marriage bond, even if such unions were only of an ephemeral nature, there would be no necessity to procure young girls, for natural love-making would take the place of stat…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…wives” (p. 66). The cure for the present degradation associated with prostitution is a common-sense one—one of not supposing that we are good and others are bad, of carting away our own manure before writing to the sanitary inspector about other people’s dung, and to cease hatching mysteries between the sheets of our family four-poster. If unions were sanctioned outside the marriage bond, even if such unions were only of an ephemeral nature, there would be no necessity to procure young girls, for natural love-making would take the place of stat…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

John St. John

…described by Paul (not my masseur; the other Paul I) in his Epistle to the Romans, cap. vii. v. 19. I shall arise and go forth. I have a good mind to try violent excitement of the Muladhara Cakkram ; for the whole Sushumna seems dead. This at the risk of being labelled a Black Magician—by clergymen, Christian Scientists, and the “ self—reliant” classes in general. Arrived (partly by cab) at the Place. Certain curious phenomena which I have noticed at odd times—e.g., on Thursday night—but did not think proper to record must be investigated. It s…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 108

Little Poems in Prose

…ber me kindly, and to prove to you that I, of whom people say so much evil, am sometimes—to employ one of your vulgar phrases—a devilish good fellow, to compensate you for the irremediable loss of your soul, I will give you the stake which you would have won had you been lucky, namely, the power to sustain and conquer during your whole life the strange malady called boredom, which is the source alike of all your diseases and of your wretched progress. Never shall you form a desire but I will help you to realize it; you shall reign over your vul…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 135

Liber Aleph

… with thy true Self, singly and wholly bound in hy true Will, before thou durst (in Prudence) invoke the Name of Choronzon, even for thy good Sport and Phantasy. It is but to pretend, thou sayst; and that is Sooth; yet thou must make Pretence so well as to deceive thyself, albeit for a Moment; else were thy Sport savourless. Then, and thou have one point of Weakness in thee, that Thought of thine may incarnate, and destroy thee. Verily, the wise Enchanter is sure beyond Doubt of his Charm ere he toy with a Fanged Cobra; and thou will knowest th…

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