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1996 · PDF PAGE 208

The Law is for All

…righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may t choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. 59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King con­ cealed! Say you so? F…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 44

Sir Palamedes

… will not, stay!” “T know thy quest. Seek on in vain A golden hart with silver horns! Life springeth out of divers pains. What crown the King of Kings adorns? A crown of gems? A crown of thorns! The Questing Beast is like a king In face, and hath a pigeon’s wing And claw; its body is one fleece Of bloody white, a lamb’s in spring. Enough. Sir Knight, I give thee peace.”

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1906 · PDF PAGE 46

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…r bulk to heaven; and nosnows Tinge evening with rose. No blaze of noon invades those rocks of night, Nor moon’s benignant might. And looking downward he beheld his folk Bound in no tyrant’s yoke ; Knowing no God, nor fearing any man ; Life’s enviable span Free from disease and vice, sorrow and age. Only death’s joys assuage A gathering gladness at the thought of sleep. Never in all the archives, scroll on scroll, Reaching from aeons wrote they ‘‘ Women weep, Men hate, the children suffer.” In the place Where men most walked a tablet of fine br…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 35

The Argonauts

…s whom Demeter tamed. THESEUS. I promise thee, the next time thou art wroth, A second kindness from Alcides’ hand. ARGUS. Spare me that, King, and take, thyself, a club. JASON. King Theseus, thou art far reputed wise. Hast thou not learnt a lesson from the hap Of Heracles supreme in—shipbuilding? I by my meekness will abash thy strength. Good Argus, thou art unsurpassed in art To curve the rougher timbers, to make smooth The joints and girders, and to plane and work The iron and the nailheads, and to lift Row after raw the tiers of benches thri…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 93

The World’s Tragedy

…icy North Thus suddenly sprung forth Come ye to mar mine — ease ? For I was nigh at peace With the great soul of things. IST SATYR Hail, king of Kings ! It is our Master’s will That thou partake Of — this ! So do the goat and snake Dance on the pavement of sapphire To the sound of the wind-haunted lyre. And the light of a lewd understanding Shines in them, and they lick their lips, and spill Slaver of the stars ! Hail, king ! With Him fulfil The sacrament of earth Imperiously commanding That leaps again to birth At the divided flood

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1910 · PDF PAGE 414

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… will not, stay!” “T know thy quest. Seek on in vain A golden hart with silver horns! Life springeth out of divers pains. What crown the King of Kings adorns? A crown of gems? A crown of thorns! The Questing Beast is like a king In face, and hath a pigeon’s wing And claw; its body is one fleece Of bloody white, a lamb’s in spring. Enough. Sir Knight, I give thee peace.”

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1910 · PDF PAGE 414

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… will not, stay!” “T know thy quest. Seek on in vain A golden hart with silver horns! Life springeth out of divers pains. What crown the King of Kings adorns? A crown of gems? A crown of thorns! The Questing Beast is like a king In face, and hath a pigeon’s wing And claw; its body is one fleece Of bloody white, a lamb’s in spring. Enough. Sir Knight, I give thee peace.”

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1906 · PDF PAGE 25

Gargoyles

Habib: In singing of his slave Hath Al Awaz grown eminent. The king: But I, to taste thy lip, My kingdom willingly had spent. Habib: Asylum of the World! My master bade me to present My loveliness to thee, whose brows Like to a Scythian how are bent. The king accepted him to bear His cup of wine, and was content. Let Al Qahar their praises sing: Three souls, one love, one element. Note.—This poem is very much taboo in Persia, as it is supposed to be little better than a pamphlet in favour of Christianity. The later work of Al Qahar, and especia…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 46

The Argonauts

…jesty of light Shed from the splendour of our Queen Athena! mystery and might; These worked invisibly to bring The end of triumph to our King. Great Jason, wronged by hate of man, Shall pass the portals of the deep; Shall seek the waters wide and wan; Shall pass within the land of sleep; And there the guardians of the soil Shall rest at last from pain and toil. O ruler of the empyréan, Behold his fervour conquering The fury of the breed Cadmean, The dragons of the Theban king; And arméd men shall spring from earth In vain to ward the gloomy gir…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 228

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

BOOK II The Scaffolding of the Temple of SOLOMON THE KING and The ten mighty Supports which are set between the Pillars of Death and Life.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 228

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

BOOK II The Scaffolding of the Temple of SOLOMON THE KING and The ten mighty Supports which are set between the Pillars of Death and Life.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 83

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…And sleep and eat a little, and to-morrow Thou shalt have guerdon of thy faithfulness. [Axtt Herald. But now, sir, go to this rebellious king And say to him: Thus Jephthah, judge of Israel, With gentle words answers thy greediness : Israel took not thy land, nor that of Moab: But, coming out of Egypt, through the sea And over wilderness, to Kadesh came. Our people sent a message unto Edom Unto the king thereof, and prayed his grace, To let them pass through his dominions And unto Moab: and they answered Nay. So Israel abode in Kadesh : then Pas…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 49

The Book of Thoth

…his theory was pushed very far; there was probably a great deal of chicanery about this disguised prince. It may well have been that the king, his father, fur‐ nished him with very secret letters of introduction; in short, that the old political game was old even in those primeval times. The custom is therefore developed into the condition so admirably investigated by Fra‐ zer in the Golden Bough. (This Bough is no doubt a symbol of the King’s Daughter herself). “The king’s daughter is all glorious within; her raiment is of wrought gold.” How d…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 80

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…been the wisdom by which He hath created ail things. The “Voice” is necessary as the link between the Adept and his Angel. The Angel is “King”, the One who “can”, the “source of author- ity and the fount of honour”; also the King (or King’s Son) who delivers the Enchanted Princess, and makes her his Queen. He is “Ruler”, the “unconscious Will”; to be thwarted no more by the ignorant and capricious false will of the cons¬ cious man. And He is “Helper”, the author of the infallible impulse that sends the Soûl sweeping along the skies on its prope…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 59

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…y number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret. 16. Iam The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. 17. Hear me, ye people of sighing! The sorrows of pain and regret Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that not know me as yet. 18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. Weare not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. 19. Is a God to live in a dog…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 59

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…y number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret. 16. Iam The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. 17. Hear me, ye people of sighing! The sorrows of pain and regret Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that not know me as yet. 18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. Weare not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. 19. Is a God to live in a dog…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 45

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…op faint, Ivory and silver bow and beam, Dim-figured with the images Divinely quaint Of gold engraved, forth shadowing sorceries. So the king dreamed of love: and passing on The shape moved quicker, winnowing with faint fans The soundlessair of thought : the noonday sun Seemed to the mightiest of a thousand khans Like to a man’s Brief life—a thousand such dream spans !— And so he dreamed of life: and failing _ plumes Wrought through ancestral looms In the man’s brain: and so he dreamed of death. And slower still the grey God wrought Dividing co…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 101

The Law is for All

…ry of it. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & t…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 7

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…JANUS, By AtzisTeR CrowLry THE DREAM CIRCEAN. By Martiat Nay THE LOST SHEPHERD. By Vicror B. Nevsurc A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY THE ORGAN IN KING’S CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. By G. H. S. PINSENT A NOTE ON GENESIS THE FIVE ADORATIONS. By Dost Acumma Kuan ILLUSION D’AMOUREUX. By Francis Benpick THE OPIUM-SMOKER POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS. By Ateister CRowLEY THE WILD ASS. By Atys Cusack THE SPHINX AT GIZEH. By Lorp Dunsany THE PRIESTESS OF PANORMITA. By Exaine Carr , THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (Boox II) AMONGST THE MERMAIDS. By Norman Rog AVE ADONAI. By A…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 7

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…JANUS, By AtzisTeR CrowLry THE DREAM CIRCEAN. By Martiat Nay THE LOST SHEPHERD. By Vicror B. Nevsurc A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY THE ORGAN IN KING’S CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. By G. H. S. PINSENT A NOTE ON GENESIS THE FIVE ADORATIONS. By Dost Acumma Kuan ILLUSION D’AMOUREUX. By Francis Benpick THE OPIUM-SMOKER POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS. By Ateister CRowLEY THE WILD ASS. By Atys Cusack THE SPHINX AT GIZEH. By Lorp Dunsany THE PRIESTESS OF PANORMITA. By Exaine Carr , THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (Boox II) AMONGST THE MERMAIDS. By Norman Rog AVE ADONAI. By A…

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