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1912 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…תואבצ a name of GOD re- ferred to Netzach 526 Superliminare?ףוקשמ 527 Σ (1—32) 528 23’ $529 Afl’atura ollaris cum?הך'רקT)": iusculo dulci Day Demon of 3rd Dec. 93?ירופיש 53° The Rose?תלצבח Voices?תלק Tekel, a. word of the ‘wrifing?לקה on the wall’ at Belshazzar’s fabled feast 53I 532 533 Heaven of J'esodלבט ןוליו ?םימש of Malkuth King of Tenorsךלמ תוהלב 534 A certain Name of GOD?קשרלק 535 536תילט הנבל תולטמ A white cloak Sphere of the fixed stars 51 The World of Assiah,םלוע ?הישעה the ‘material’ world 537 Emanatio ; Atzlluth, the?חילצא Archetypal …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…תואבצ a name of GOD re- ferred to Netzach 526 Superliminare?ףוקשמ 527 Σ (1—32) 528 23’ $529 Afl’atura ollaris cum?הך'רקT)": iusculo dulci Day Demon of 3rd Dec. 93?ירופיש 53° The Rose?תלצבח Voices?תלק Tekel, a. word of the ‘wrifing?לקה on the wall’ at Belshazzar’s fabled feast 53I 532 533 Heaven of J'esodלבט ןוליו ?םימש of Malkuth King of Tenorsךלמ תוהלב 534 A certain Name of GOD?קשרלק 535 536תילט הנבל תולטמ A white cloak Sphere of the fixed stars 51 The World of Assiah,םלוע ?הישעה the ‘material’ world 537 Emanatio ; Atzlluth, the?חילצא Archetypal …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 73

Tale of Archais

THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 65 Sunnier days and rivers calm and clear, And music for four seasons of the year, And pleasant people with glad throat and voice To wise to grieve, too happy to rejoice. So came the dawn on Ida to disclose Within her confines a delicious rose Lying asleep, a-dreaming, white of brow, Stainless and splendid. Yea, and fair enow To tempt the lips of Death to kiss her eyes And bid her waken in the sad surprise Of seeing round her the iron gates of hell In gloomy strength : so sweet, so terrible, So fair, her image in the brook m…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 18

Ambergris

…THE SPIRIT Astrology A lonely spirit seeks the midnight hour, When souls have power To cast away one moment bonds of clay, And touch the day With pallid, wistful lips beyond the earth, And bring to birth New thoughts with which life long has travailed ; As if one dead Should rise and utter secrets of the tomb, And from hell’s womb Or heaven’s breast bring all the load of fears, Toils of long years, Sorrows of life and agonies of death, Hard caught-up breath, The labouring hands of love, the cheeks of shame, The gloomy flame Of lust, the cruel t…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 79

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… SCORPION We have left our ladies, you and I, My brothers 1 Το keep our castles, and to sigh | Oh! could some holy hermit give One short day’s dalliance fugitive! Speed hither through the enchanted air Our ladies, for our faith’s rewardl Would it not sharpen every sword And perfume every prayer? Love sharp as holly and pure as snow, And kisses Beneath the moon for mistletoe! SIR RAYMOND. Something ill sung, Jocelyn, and too sadly, forsoothl Here the hermits are foul and malicious. I would clear the land of them. SIR JAMES. Spies, every one. And…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 79

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… SCORPION We have left our ladies, you and I, My brothers 1 Το keep our castles, and to sigh | Oh! could some holy hermit give One short day’s dalliance fugitive! Speed hither through the enchanted air Our ladies, for our faith’s rewardl Would it not sharpen every sword And perfume every prayer? Love sharp as holly and pure as snow, And kisses Beneath the moon for mistletoe! SIR RAYMOND. Something ill sung, Jocelyn, and too sadly, forsoothl Here the hermits are foul and malicious. I would clear the land of them. SIR JAMES. Spies, every one. And…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 126

Mortadello

…dart Home to the grave convent and cloister of my heart, 9. After the fifth foot : Last, to the lords who by their attitude applaud This day of burial to faction, feud, and fraud.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 227

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…uring storm, Glistens with dew made sharp and bright with cold, — And no north wind may drive us to the warm Long-looked-for lands where day, with plumes of gold, Flaps like a lazy eagle in the air, Where night, a bird of prey divinely bold, Wings through the sky, intangible but fair, And pale with subtle passion ; and no wind Turns our prow southward, till the canvas bear No more up into it, but still behind Follow like flame, and lead our love along Into the valleys of the ocean, blind, But seeing all the world awake with song Of many lyres a…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 73

Orpheus

…t Till the shade lengthen on the lawn light-gleaming. Now all the birds change tune, and all the light Glows lowlier, musing on departed day. Strange wings and sombre, heralding the night, Fleet far across the woods; and gleaming bright The evening star looks from the orient way. Shadow and silence deepen: all the woods Take on a tenderer phrase of musical Breezes: the stream-sought homes and solitudes Murmura little where the maiden moods Are sadder as the evening’s kisses fall. 74

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1913 · PDF PAGE 105

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…arf). Ho, Nu! Ho, Nu! Let no man leave the quay Without the tokens of the true degree ! nu [Below]. I hear and I obey. What cargo for to-day? Chorus. There is no gold upon the earth To pay an hundredth of its worth. There is no treasure of sapphire, No hidden ruby to compare ; No diamond hath illustrious fire Beside the burden that we bear ; Nor where the waves of ocean whirl Hath any cavern such a pearl. Not heaven in all its happiest hours Hath such a gracious gift as ours. In it all principles inhere; To it all elements conspire ; From it al…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 179

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…chill The brown leaves swirling, swirling still Where London autumn waxes cold, Where night grows younger, fold on fold. The short, gray day fades softly down To dusk; Night bears the radiant crown 141

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1913 · PDF PAGE 105

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…arf). Ho, Nu! Ho, Nu! Let no man leave the quay Without the tokens of the true degree ! nu [Below]. I hear and I obey. What cargo for to-day? Chorus. There is no gold upon the earth To pay an hundredth of its worth. There is no treasure of sapphire, No hidden ruby to compare ; No diamond hath illustrious fire Beside the burden that we bear ; Nor where the waves of ocean whirl Hath any cavern such a pearl. Not heaven in all its happiest hours Hath such a gracious gift as ours. In it all principles inhere; To it all elements conspire ; From it al…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 179

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…chill The brown leaves swirling, swirling still Where London autumn waxes cold, Where night grows younger, fold on fold. The short, gray day fades softly down To dusk; Night bears the radiant crown 141

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1929 · PDF PAGE 14

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…perhaps on this account that he remembers practically nothing of her during this period. She always antagonized him. He remembers one Sunday when she found him reading Martin Rattler and scolded him. Edward Crowley took his part. If the book was good enough to read on any day, why not on Sunday? To Edward Crowley, every day was the Lord's Day; sabbatarianism was Judiasm. When Alick was eight or thereabouts he was taken by his father to his first school. This was a private school at St. Leonards, kept by an old man named Habershon and his two so…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 57

Jephthah

JEPHTHAH. 53 That bends in you toward summer, faint and fair, Whose lovers bared their swords to-day ; and ye, O reverend heads, most beautiful for gray, The comely crown of age, that doth beseem Your wise sweet beauty, as the ivy wreathes The rugged glory of the sycamore, Have ye heard aught of Jephthah’s home-coming ? For our cheeks tingle with th’ expected kiss Of hardy warriors dear to us, and now By double kinship rendered doubly dear. For O! my father comes to gladden me With those enduring kisses that endow Heart, hope, and life with gla…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 15

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

.PRELUDE. “I say fearlessly to the fanatics and bigots of the present day= You have cast down the Sublime and Infinite One from His throne, and in his stead have placed the demon of unbalanced force ; you have substituted a deity of disorder and jealousy for a God of order and of Love ; you have perverted the teachings. of the Crucified One !”"—McGregor Mathers. EFORE the darkness, earlier than being, When yet thought was not, shapeless and un-- - seeing, Made misbegotten of deity on death, There brooded on the waters the strange breath Of an i…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 52

The Mother’s Tragedy

38 THE FATAL FORCE In the ways of the East and the West Whence the night and the day are discrowned, We pass with the beat of his breast, And the breath of his crying is bound. Unto Toun, the low Lord of the West, let the noise of our chant be the breath Proclaiming him Death! In the ways of the depth and the height, Where the multitude stars are at ease, There is music and terrible light, And the violent song of the seas. Unto Mou, the most powerful Lord of the South, let our worship declare Him Lord of the Air. In the mutable fields that are …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 106

Konx Om Pax

…tence Of envy of its excellence. We laughed—but not at the same joke. All girls are blind with their own smoke. A man may come, his lazy day, Cuddle and coo an hour away, Yet in his heart is bound to feel: “ N o woman '5 worth an inch of steel.” Woman has always played the sphinx. An open secretl How the minx Covers her single aim, poor saint! With many a foxy futile feint. The same thing civilized or wild: “I want a man: I want a child.” Man has a real secret—kept Close as a Rosy Cross adept! The safer that the sapient sheep Have never guessed…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 21

Ambergris

… call Over tempest’s funeral ; Where the horn’d beast is shrill, And the eagle hath its will, And the shadows fall Sharp and black, till day is passed Over to the ocean vast ; Where the barren rocks resound Only to the rending roar Of the shattering streams that pour Rocks by ice eternal bound, Myriad cascades that crowned Once the far resounding throne Of the mountain spirits strong, All the treacherous souls that throng Desolate abodes of stone, Barren of all comely things, Given to the splendid kings, Gloomy state, and glamour dark, Swooping…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 263

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…. EEL. Ayl we deserve it. But our punishment is greater than we can bear. ALL. Woe unto us ! EEL. Wi’ these een hae I seen it! Alack the day! My brethren, d’ye ken wha‘s ta’en the lodging ower Awl‘s shop ? BONES. When? EEL. Last nicht, The very eve ο’ the Blessed Sabbath I [Allgroan. CHIPS. Wha‘ then? EEL. The ’Hoor 0’ Babylon ! ALL. The ‘Hoor ο᾿Babylon ! EEL. A wanton, forward wench! A Babylonish Harlot! BONES. The Lord ha’ mercy on us! EEL. An actress body! ALL. The Lord ha’ mercy on us! CHIPS. Fra‘ Glasgie, I doot? EEL. Waur! ALL. Waur? EEL.…

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