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1922 · PDF PAGE 269

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… have not in the least relieved the monotony of life or whatever their trouble was, and yet they have got into a state very like that of death, in which they are impotent to struggle. No, we must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. e can face that adventure as we've faced the others.”’ The personality of the man radiated energy. The momentary contact with his mind had destroyed the current of thought which had been obsessing ours. Yet it was a fearful pang to be torn away from the fix…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 594

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ficance and predictive value of numbers, and methods of applying Kabalistic theories to numerical processes. (Cheap Edition. Now Ready.) DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOMENA. By Herewarp CariNcToN and JoHN R, MBADER. Ornamental black cloth gilt, 8fin. x SBin., 552 pp. 58. net. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS Prerace. Part I. Physiological.—The Scientific Aspect of Life and Death. The Signs of Death. Trance, Catalepsy, Suspended Animation, etc. Premature Burial. Cremation, Mummification. The Causes of Death. Old Age: Its Scientific study. Conclusions. Parr Il, /…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 594

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ficance and predictive value of numbers, and methods of applying Kabalistic theories to numerical processes. (Cheap Edition. Now Ready.) DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOMENA. By Herewarp CariNcToN and JoHN R, MBADER. Ornamental black cloth gilt, 8fin. x SBin., 552 pp. 58. net. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS Prerace. Part I. Physiological.—The Scientific Aspect of Life and Death. The Signs of Death. Trance, Catalepsy, Suspended Animation, etc. Premature Burial. Cremation, Mummification. The Causes of Death. Old Age: Its Scientific study. Conclusions. Parr Il, /…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 48

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH AA THE SMOKING DOG"’ Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasure in the sport. This is the Comedy of Pan, that man should think he hunteth, while those hounds hunt him. There are no other comedies or tragedies. Cease then to be the mockery of God; in savagery of love and death live thou and die! Thus shall His laughter be thrilled through with Ecstasy.

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1901 · PDF PAGE 100

The Soul of Osiris

…ve, Sullen as night, and sleepy as a wave When tempest lowers and dare not strike, gapes wide, Vomiting pestilence ; the deadly bride Of death, Despair, grins charnel-wise : the gate Of Hope clangs resonant : and starless Fate Glowers like a demon brooding over death. Monstrous and mute, the slow resurgent breath Spreads forth its poison : the pale child at play Coughs in his gutter ; the hard slave of day Groans once and dies : the sickly spouse can feel The cold touch kill the unborn child, and steal Up to her broken heart : the pale hours ha…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 260

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… made time endless to transcend Man's thought to comprehend : Builded the Tower | Of life, and girded it with walls of hell, The name of Death. This limit in all things Baffles the spirit wings, Chains the swift soul; for even Death is bound. In its apparent amplitude I saw, I, who have slept through death, have surely found The old accurséd law, And death has changed to life. alone Shoots to the starry throne : That if man lack not purpose, but succeed, Reaching in very deed Impersonal existence ;—Lo! Man is made one with God, an equal soul. F…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 7

The Writing On the Ground

…ons. Francisco pre- tends to be convinced, but determines to poison himself and his friend. So Francisco proposes to drink the health of Death as a kind of joke, saying= Giovanni; ‘'1 will drink to’our love and Death and thee.’ Francisco: ‘Nay, nay, I favour not that toast, javier What have we two to do with Death?” Francisco : ‘' Sweet feather ! How soon hast thou forgot thy troth of faith ! Consider, chuck, the toast has but this weight, That thou and I are friends, and that King Death Is friend of both, and will not harvest us Before the tim…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 150

The Law is for All

…ey, Collected Works, Vol. II, pp. 267-82. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. Commentary: One'does not need to be constantly popping in and out of Trance. One ought to do both actions with ever- increasing length and strength of swing. Hence one’s life-periods, where time counts, become gradually larger and more vivid, and one’s death-periods, though very short, perhaps, may be unfath- omably intense. The whole question of Time has been thoro…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 67

Gargoyles

IMAGES OF DEATH

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1909 · PDF PAGE 16

Handbook of Geomancy

… Med. | Evil |Veryevil] Med. | Evil | Evil | Med. |Veryevil Sex of Child 6 Son 5 5 5 5 5 ‘Son and, 5 live Sickness 7 | Health |Perilous| Death | Death | Death | Perilous} Health| Asc. Prison 8 | Good |Out with| Death | Come | Come | Come |Soon out) Danger- end pain out jout pun-| out ous ished Journey 9| Evil | Evil |Veryevill Med. | Evil | Evil | Good |Veryevil Thing Lost to | Found Not Not Found} Not Part | Found Not found | found found | found found 150

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1899 · PDF PAGE 13

Tale of Archais

…ose holy incense up to Heaven shall ascend And the souls that stand and shiver On the borders of the River, Shall their arms extend Unto Death as to a lover, knowing Death is not the End.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… Med. | Evil |Veryevil] Med. | Evil | Evil | Med. |Veryevil Sex of Child 6 Son 5 5 5 5 5 ‘Son and, 5 live Sickness 7 | Health |Perilous| Death | Death | Death | Perilous} Health| Asc. Prison 8 | Good |Out with| Death | Come | Come | Come |Soon out) Danger- end pain out jout pun-| out ous ished Journey 9| Evil | Evil |Veryevill Med. | Evil | Evil | Good |Veryevil Thing Lost to | Found Not Not Found} Not Part | Found Not found | found found | found found 150

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1909 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… Med. | Evil |Veryevil] Med. | Evil | Evil | Med. |Veryevil Sex of Child 6 Son 5 5 5 5 5 ‘Son and, 5 live Sickness 7 | Health |Perilous| Death | Death | Death | Perilous} Health| Asc. Prison 8 | Good |Out with| Death | Come | Come | Come |Soon out) Danger- end pain out jout pun-| out ous ished Journey 9| Evil | Evil |Veryevill Med. | Evil | Evil | Good |Veryevil Thing Lost to | Found Not Not Found} Not Part | Found Not found | found found | found found 150

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1912 · PDF PAGE 30

Household Gods

…ill understand. You are bound ‘To Adela within the portico, ‘To me upon this ground. By day, in life, adore the Lares, mant By night, in death, make offering to Pan! Can you cut day from night by any endeavour? If so, both life and death were lost for ever. Come, the stream steepens. Crassus. This road leads to hell. Anicta. The way to heaven is shorter. Crassus. Who can tell? ALICIA. I have measured it. Crassus. You, girl? Aurcta. It is not hard. Crassvs. ‘What did you make the height of it? 33 c

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1996 · PDF PAGE 124

The Law is for All

… usually they die early; and even if they lived forever, what’s the use? The body is itself a restriction as well as an instrument. When death is as complete as it should be, the individual expands and fulfils himself in all directions; it is an omniform samadhi. This is of course “eternal ecstasy” in the sense already explained. But in the time-world karma reconcentrates the elements, and a new incarnation occurs. 45. There is death for the dogs. Commentary: The prigs, the prudes, the Christians, die in a real sense of the word; for although e…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 41

Tannhäuser

…d. This am I : This passion, lion-mouthed and adder-eyed. A mass compressed, a glowing central core. Like molten metal in the crucible ! Death's secret is some sweetness ultimate, Sweeter than poison. Ah ! My very words, Chance phrases, ravel out the tale for me— Sweetness and death — poison and love. Consider How this same striving to the Infinite, Which I intend by "love," is likest to That journey's wonder to the womb of death : 39

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1910 · PDF PAGE 139

The Winged Beetle

…ll the wings and waves of time and thought, So in the quivering flame that hurled Its founts of life to the remotest world Supreme stood Death, and sware Destruction to all things that were ! IV Child, father, warrior, I worshipped Thee before ; Friend, bridegroom, now I yield me to the rod. My God, and very God of very God As breath, as death, as all, as naught, unknown, Known, is there not an end, when one alone Stand I, and thou, and He Arisen above all things that be ?

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1907 · PDF PAGE 192

The Star in the West

…with such dismal darkness . Is there a life eternal ? The grim horror of such a possibility grips us by the throat . Is there an eternal Death ? Ah ! Saviour, deliver us from the misery of our lot ; lead us to the realms of eternal Rest , where rich and poor , good and bad , are made one , lost in the depths of the Lethean sea. And what can all this lead us to , this progress through misery ? To the great archetype the Arahat ship of Buddha . It was by gazing on the sunken eyes of a corpse , so the legend runs , that Gautama forsook pleasure fo…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 81

Orpheus

WINTER Know ye my children? From the old strong breast Not weary yet of life’s grey change, not drawn Into the utter peace of death, the rest Of the dim hour that lingers ere the dawn, Spring these that laugh upon thee. In the snow See forests bare and gaunt, Where wingéd whispers haunt, Lighting the dull sky with a slumberous glow; Hear the strange sounds of winter chaunt; Feel the keen wisdom of the winter thrill Young hearts with passionate foretaste Of death in some wild waste Of deserts darkening at some wild god’s will, Of frozen steppes …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 87

Gargoyles

In death each damnéd minion Of Set, the accursed lord of Hell. Yea! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Druse on Lebanon. Moreover pylon shouldered round To pylon an unearthly tune, Like phantom priests that strike and sound Sinister sistrons at the moon. And death’s insufferable perfume Beat the black air with golden fans As Turki…

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