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1905 · PDF PAGE 20

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… apace, Until the glint and glory of the place Grew o’er the blue dim line of ocean. It was a temple never built of man, Being of marble white, and all unhewn, Above a cliff, about whose bdse were strewn Boulders of amethyst or malachite. Save these the cliffs rose sheer, a dazzling white, Six hundred feet from ocean ; so divine Was the tall precipice, that from the shrine A child might fling a stone and splash it in. the brine. Within whose silver courts and lily bowers The Queen of Love led Charicles 3 white flowers Blushed everywhere to scar…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 86

Songs of the Spirit

…an been destroyed in the daylight, Man whom the night could not quell ? What angel fled weeping away ? There in the East there extends a white light devouring the grey light, There the sun rises and brings hope with the dawn of the day, Silence hides certainty—surely voices of angels that pray, Surely the sound of delight, and of praise, and unspeakable glory Rings in the wind like a bell, and wakes the white air of the lea, All the bright sea is aflame, and the caps of it, golden or hoary, Leap in the light of the sun, in the light of the eyes…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 238

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…יSettlement, arrangement, completion). Herein are?'לאאככand?לאתיבAngelic rulers. XLVIII THE LORD OF MATERIAL TROUBLE Five of Pentaclzs A WHITE Radiant Angelic Hand issuing from clouds, and holding a branch of the white rose tree, but from which the roses are falling, and leaving no buds behind. Five Pentacles similar to the Ace. Above and below are 35 and Β. Loss of money or position, Trouble about material things. Labour, toil, land cultivation; building, knowledge and acuteness of earthly things, poverty, carefulness, kind— ness; sometimes mo…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 238

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…יSettlement, arrangement, completion). Herein are?'לאאככand?לאתיבAngelic rulers. XLVIII THE LORD OF MATERIAL TROUBLE Five of Pentaclzs A WHITE Radiant Angelic Hand issuing from clouds, and holding a branch of the white rose tree, but from which the roses are falling, and leaving no buds behind. Five Pentacles similar to the Ace. Above and below are 35 and Β. Loss of money or position, Trouble about material things. Labour, toil, land cultivation; building, knowledge and acuteness of earthly things, poverty, carefulness, kind— ness; sometimes mo…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 9

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…orne over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady ! Roaming as Racchus, with fauns and pards And nymphs and satyrs for thy gnards, On a milk-white ass, corne over the sea To me, to me, Corne with Apollo in hridal dress (Shepherdess and pythoness) Corne with Artémis, silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God, In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount, The dimpled dawn of the amber fount! Dip the purple of passionate prayer In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, The soûl that startles in eyes of blue VII

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1899 · PDF PAGE 240

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…. _ Then all the forces of the earth shall be Untameable, a shield of Liberty. Freedom shall burgeon like a rose, While in the sky A new white sun with ardour glows On Liberty. Men shall sing merrily at work as those Who fear no more to die— Ay! and who fear no more at last to live Since man can love and worship and forgive. Then on these heights of Caucasus A fire shall dwell, Pure as the dawn, and odorous Of bud and bell; A flower of fire, a flame from Heaven to us. All triumph to foretell, A glory of unspeakable delight, A flower.like lightn…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 70

The Soul of Osiris

58 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. Pass, be no more ! The beckoning dawn Woos the white ocean : I must go Wither my soul’s desire is drawn. Whither ? I know not. Even so.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 11

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… Come over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady! Roaming as Bacchus, with fawns and pards And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, On a milk-white ass, come over the sea To me, to me, Come with Apollo in bridal dress (Shepherdess and pythoness) Come with Artemis, silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God, In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount, The dimpled dawn of the amber fount! Dip the purple of passionate prayer In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, The soul that startles in eyes of blue To watch thy wantonness weeping thr…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 390

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… soulless wilderness of stone. Nor grass, nor corn, delight the vales ; Nor beast, nor bird, span space. Immense, Black rain, grey mist, white wrath of gales, Fill the dread armoury of sense. Nor shines the sun; nor moon, nor star Their subtle light at all display ; Nor day, nor night, dispute the scaur: All’s one intolerable grey. Black Ilyns, grey rocks, white hills of snow! No flower, no colour: life is not. This is no way for men to go From Severn-mouth to Camelot. Despair, the world upon his speed, Drive (like a lion from his den Whom hung…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 390

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… soulless wilderness of stone. Nor grass, nor corn, delight the vales ; Nor beast, nor bird, span space. Immense, Black rain, grey mist, white wrath of gales, Fill the dread armoury of sense. Nor shines the sun; nor moon, nor star Their subtle light at all display ; Nor day, nor night, dispute the scaur: All’s one intolerable grey. Black Ilyns, grey rocks, white hills of snow! No flower, no colour: life is not. This is no way for men to go From Severn-mouth to Camelot. Despair, the world upon his speed, Drive (like a lion from his den Whom hung…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 222

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

200 MYSTERIES: LOVE ON THE ISLAND. EEP in the woods where the ocean reaches Up to the walls of a white-sand bay, And the sea waves swing to the noise of beeches Kissed by summer night winds at play, None may look through the silver-gray Moonlit haunts, where the sea-gull screeches, And the nightingale chants the woodland way. None may see where the leaves are parted, Where the nymph and the satyr hide, Where the lips of the tender-hearted Melt for languor and pout for pride, Where the birds of the night abide, Where the songs of the wood are st…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX May he be like a lily-white goat Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for his throat, A scarlet bow for his horns! ELaInE Carr, 216

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1909 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX May he be like a lily-white goat Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for his throat, A scarlet bow for his horns! ELaInE Carr, 216

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1944 · PDF PAGE 94

The Book of Thoth

red. He has exchanged his red blood for her white gluten. (It is impossible to explain these terms to any but advanced students of alchemy.) The equilibrium and counter‐change are carried out completely in the figure itself; the white woman has now a black bead; the black king, a white one. She wears the golden crown with a silver band, he, the silver crown with a golden fillet; but the white head on the right is extended in action by a white arm on the left which holds the cup of the white gluten, while the black head on the left has the black…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 56

Jephthah

…n, the bride. Pure bodies are as lamps below. The shining essence, glorified With fire more cold than fresh-fallen snow, And influences, white and wide, - Descend, re-gather, kindle, grow, Till from one virgin bosom flows a river Of white devotion adamant for ever. Enter Adulah and Chorus of Matdens. ADULAH. Fathers of Israel, we are come to you With many maidens praising God, for this, The victory of my father. Happy girls! Whose brothers struck to-day for Israel, Whose fathers smote the heathen ; happiest, Ye blushing flowers, beyond your you…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 74

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…n, the bride. Pure bodies are as lamps below. The shining essence, glorified With fire more cold than fresh-fallen snow, And influences, white and wide, - Descend, re-gather, kindle, grow, Till from one virgin bosom flows a river Of white devotion adamant for ever. Enter Adulah and Chorus of Matdens. ADULAH. Fathers of Israel, we are come to you With many maidens praising God, for this, The victory of my father. Happy girls! Whose brothers struck to-day for Israel, Whose fathers smote the heathen ; happiest, Ye blushing flowers, beyond your you…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 159

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…us spirit sateth, Nor things that are or were, Nor death, nor sorrows fated, May leave their sweet abated, With thy bright spirit mated, White warden of the air.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 273

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

OFFICERS MERCURY. V7012! Ruhe. FR. and SOR. GEMINI. White Dancing Rab: andB/ack Raäe. VIRGO. Gnm Robe, FOUR PROBATIONERS. Mercury is thi/med Z'etween the??שולטAt the west ofllle Altar Ζ': Virgo, and ?!ןו`צ/?ווחattendants. 95

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1911 · PDF PAGE 273

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

OFFICERS MERCURY. V7012! Ruhe. FR. and SOR. GEMINI. White Dancing Rab: andB/ack Raäe. VIRGO. Gnm Robe, FOUR PROBATIONERS. Mercury is thi/med Z'etween the??שולטAt the west ofllle Altar Ζ': Virgo, and ?!ןו`צ/?ווחattendants. 95

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1901 · PDF PAGE 90

The Soul of Osiris

78 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. SYNTHESIS. HEN I think of the hundreds of women I have loved from time to time, White throats and living bosoms where a kiss might creep or climb, Smooth eyes and trembling fingers, faint lips or mur- derous hair, All tunes of love’s own music, most various and rare ; When I look back on life, as a mariner on the deep Sees, tranced, the white wake foaming, fancies the nereids weep ; As, on a mountain summit in the thunders and the snow, I look to the shimmering valley and weep : I loved you so ! For a moment cease the win…

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