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1912 · PDF PAGE 224

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…through suffering; pleasure after pain. Sacrifice and trouble, yet strength arising therefrom, symbolized by the position of the rose, as though the pain itself had brought forth beauty. Arrangement, peace restored; truce; truth and untruth; sorrow and sympathy. Aid to the weak; arrangement; justice, unselfishness; also a tendency to repetition of affronts on being pardoned; injury when meaning well; given to petitions; also a want of tact, and asking questions of little moment; talkative. Chokmah of Vau. Quarrel made up, yet still some tension i…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 10

Liber Al vel Legis

… shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart and my tongue, unto Whom I send this kiss. Also, O scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me ! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, Ο prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West ; for from no expected house cometh that chil…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 171

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…hy? Through the dimmed glory of my clouded eye She catches one sharp glint of love for her : She will not leave me ever till I die. Nay, though I die. Beyond the distant gloom Heaven springs, a fountain, out of Change’s womb! Time would all men within the grave inter— For Time himself shall no god find a tomb? Glory and love and work precipitate The end of man’s desire—so sayeth Fate. Man answers: Love is stronger, work more sure, Glory more fadeless than his shafts abate. Though «all worlds fail, the pulse of Life be still, God fall, all darke…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 61

Orpheus

We gather to the sombre sound, as spring Had whispered, “ 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 followi…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 144

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e ocean noises find a tongue To voice the clamour of a righteous boast— That friendship and dominion shall be wrought Out of the womb of thought, And all the bygone days be held for things of nought. What matter though our fathers did you wrong ? Though brave sons brake our bitter yoke? Though we Strove to compel you to a cruel thong? What, though the stronger did defeat the strong? Both, wild and patient as the steep strong sea ? What matter that some strive to waken hate, Traitors to either state, Hang them inchains! Our way to Freedom cannot…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 123

The Scented Garden

…y that in the deserts of Arabia there dwelleth a beast very like a horse, but possessing a great horn. Now I am not at all like a horse, though I am beautiful and swift, but I certainly possess an immense horn.1 Also there is a great bird which, when in danger, placeth its head within the sand, exposing its po- dex. Thou, Habib, though otherwise not at all like a bird, dost expose thy podex, even when in no danger.1 I cannot but think that all this was in the mind of the Mullah, when in his sermon on Friday he reproached us openly with beastlin…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 54

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…, bearing an Ankh, to comfort me. We may now transcribe the Diary. We find the great mind, the complex man, purged through and through of thought, stripped of all things human and divine, centred upon one single Aspiration, as simple as the love of achild for its father. Feb. 12. Continuing these Resolutions. ,, 13. Continuing these Resolutions. Read through Goetia, etc., etc. ,, 14. Thoughts of the Augoeides. 15. Again thoughts of Augoeides. Knowing the In— vocation (Preliminary Invocation in the Goetia) by heart, will repeat same daily. ,, 16.…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 54

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…, bearing an Ankh, to comfort me. We may now transcribe the Diary. We find the great mind, the complex man, purged through and through of thought, stripped of all things human and divine, centred upon one single Aspiration, as simple as the love of achild for its father. Feb. 12. Continuing these Resolutions. ,, 13. Continuing these Resolutions. Read through Goetia, etc., etc. ,, 14. Thoughts of the Augoeides. 15. Again thoughts of Augoeides. Knowing the In— vocation (Preliminary Invocation in the Goetia) by heart, will repeat same daily. ,, 16.…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 6

Amphora

…o Him with gold and frankincense and myrrh. Those Pagans gazing on the Heavenly Host Were blest of FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST ; And me, though I be as an heathen Mage, Thou wilt accept in this my pious page. M

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1905 · PDF PAGE 62

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ose, The garland I made in my sorrow Was woven of infinite peace; The joy that was white on the morrow Made music of viols at ease ; The thoughts of the Ilighest would borrow the rvar of the seas. This pastime of hope and of labour Iled singing through bountiful hours, With sleep for a bride, for a neighbour With Death in the blossoming bowers That slays with his merciless sabre the passion of flowers. This pastime had hope for its metre, And trust in high God for the tune, And passion of sorrow made sweeter Than loves of the leafiest June, Whe…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 171

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…and all its gods. We are worth the three together, if you come to talk of odds! For a day we held up London, and the cursed robber crew, Though they were fifteen hundred, and we were only two. All day we fought the cowards, that dared not break the door. They had soldiers and policemen, all the tools of modern war, With their field—gun and their Maxim and the rifle and the shell ; But they skulked with Winston Churchill, or we'd sent a few to hell! They hid themselves and volleyed, did the braves of Waterloo, They were only fifteen hundred, and Fri…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 171

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…and all its gods. We are worth the three together, if you come to talk of odds! For a day we held up London, and the cursed robber crew, Though they were fifteen hundred, and we were only two. All day we fought the cowards, that dared not break the door. They had soldiers and policemen, all the tools of modern war, With their field—gun and their Maxim and the rifle and the shell ; But they skulked with Winston Churchill, or we'd sent a few to hell! They hid themselves and volleyed, did the braves of Waterloo, They were only fifteen hundred, and Fri…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 6

Hail Mary

…o Him with gold and frankincense and myrrh. Those Pagans gazing on the Heavenly Host Were blest of FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST ; And me, though I be as an heathen Mage, Thou wilt accept in this my pious page. M

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1912 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… and bringer-forth of Material Forces: a force which develops and realizes that of the King: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. It is therefore symbolized bya Figure seated upon a Throne: but also clothed in Armour. TIte Four Primes These Princes are Figures seated in Chariots, and thus borne forward. They represent the Vau Forces of the Name in each suit: the Mighty Son of the King and Queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of Force. A Prince, the son of a King and Queen, yet a Prince of Princes, and a King o…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… and bringer-forth of Material Forces: a force which develops and realizes that of the King: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. It is therefore symbolized bya Figure seated upon a Throne: but also clothed in Armour. TIte Four Primes These Princes are Figures seated in Chariots, and thus borne forward. They represent the Vau Forces of the Name in each suit: the Mighty Son of the King and Queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of Force. A Prince, the son of a King and Queen, yet a Prince of Princes, and a King o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 136

The Scented Garden

…ver’s shuddering brain ?1 Some evil Jinn may haunt the fane ; Some serpent hurt the sugar-cane ; Some rot infect the golden grain ! Nay, though my flesh grow boil and blain, Each sinew cramp, each muscle sprain, Each link dissolve of Nature’s chain, Each nerve disrupt in thoughts inane,2 Each function abdicate its reign, I care not, so this love remain. Dead or alive, insane or sane, The perfect passion of us twain Shall bring us blessing in its train As summer brings the welcome rain. Turn, life’s deceitful weather-vane ! Our love is set as Ch…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 39

Mortadello

…y house. Here ! take my ring. I go to concentrate my power. My sworn allies must know. I join you in an hour. I will make time to-night, though death lurked in the curtain. An hour for our delight, make one dream sure and certain ! Though all else fail, one hour shall spell supreme success, The bee drink of the flower, strength link with loveliness. ORLANDO. Torrents of ravening blood poured from the desolate steeps, Tumultuous fever of flood from the mountain that sweeps I would drain for this inaccessible thing made mine— The ineffable bliss,…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 117

The Scented Garden

…ti- mental men Universalists, and so on. Such a ra- tionalistic view of the Genesis of Creed is uncom- mon enough in Eastern literature, though the gen- eral Fichtean positing of the non-Ego by the Ego implied in the previous stanza is to be found open- ly or obscurely in most sacred books. 3. This stanza is almost certainly spurious. 4. This is the old jest : “ As long as you drink a drop of this medicine daily, you will not die.” Though perhaps the erectio penis of the hanged may give the lie to the jape. 5. In fact, I saw a very beautiful co…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 79

Little Poems in Prose

…d politeness and ill-treated the first-comer as a savage does. I have seen him throw an excel- lent fowl at the waiter’s head because he thought he saw in it some insulting hiero- glyph—how should I say what? The evening, forerunner of profoundest pleasures, spoilt the most toothsome things for him. The second, a man of wounded ambition, became, as the day fell, more bitter, more gloomy, more teasing; indulgent and sociable enough all day, in the evening he was pitiless, and it was not only upon others, but upon him- self also, that his twiligh…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 165

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Short Commons I51 Thirst ! Not the thirst of the throat Though that be the wildest and worst Of physical pangs—that smote Alone to the heart of Christ, Wringing the one wild cry “I thirst!” from His agony, While the soldiers drank and diced: Not the thirst benign That calls the worker to wine; Not the bodily thirst (Though that be frenzy accurst) When the mouth is full of sand, And the eyes are gummed up, and the ears Trick the soul till it hears Water, water at hand, When a man will dig his nails In his breast, and drink the blood Already that…

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