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1903 · PDF PAGE 97

Alice: An Adultery

…We have forgotten all the days of fear, The nights of torment when the kiss expired, Lost upon lips with love not overtired, But fearing many things—the after year, The end, the man—O no, not him ! the tear, The children’s sorrow, and our own shame fired Not less in doing all that love desired : We have forgotten, surely—being here ! We have forgotten every shape of sorrow, Knowing no end to one night’s ecstasy In the night’s kiss from morning that we borrow, From the hard usurer, Eternity— Seeing we have it in our power to die Before the new k…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 177

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…g. White she was, as white as foam 'Neath a moonlit sky, And the treasures of her home On her brow did lie . There he found her , he , a man , Wandering by the sea , And desire through him ran Misty white was she . There he wooed her , wooed her long , Till , within her eyes , Where were erst moonshine and song , Dawned in slow surprise 158

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1919 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…her intellectual gifts in a world in which, though all may be illusory, the God-made illusion of Nature must in the end prevail over the man-made illusions of mythology and metaphysics.” I am perfectly in accord with the political conclusion of this book. He was doubtless paid to write it in this interest. However, I had no idea that Mr. Wil- liam Archer was such an unpleasant thing. The publisher says that he was born at Perth, Scotland. Perhaps, he was one of the famous “twin brothers of Perth, who were—ready to exhibit a positive Wassermann—…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 133

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…mortal joys and sorrows. Also—believe it!—I had proposed a similar play in Book III., to be called ‘* Heracles” or ‘‘ Theseus,” by performance of which Per- sephone should be moved, or Hades over- whelmed. But luckily I was myself overwhelmed first, and it never got a chance at Hades. Book II., then, and its Siamese twin, were written in Hawaii, Japan, China, Ceylon, and South India, where also I began Book III. That also I finished in the Burmese jungle and at Lamma Sayadaw Kyoung at Akyab. During this period I was studying the Buddhist law ; …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 368

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…r patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” His companion—friend or master—bade him keep silent for a while, and we journeyed in silence. When we came in sight of Brighton the motor-car stopped suddenly in front of a large gate. The moment after we entered a park, and the door being opened, I was taken into the house. The man whom, so unhappily for me, I had met in the street was now alone with me. With…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 368

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…r patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” His companion—friend or master—bade him keep silent for a while, and we journeyed in silence. When we came in sight of Brighton the motor-car stopped suddenly in front of a large gate. The moment after we entered a park, and the door being opened, I was taken into the house. The man whom, so unhappily for me, I had met in the street was now alone with me. With…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ecret order, one of the Brothers says—« “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be lightl’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children 01 Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace everything that can poss…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ecret order, one of the Brothers says—« “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be lightl’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children 01 Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace everything that can poss…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ecret order, one of the Brothers says— “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be light!’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children of Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace everything that can poss…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ecret order, one of the Brothers says— “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be light!’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children of Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace everything that can poss…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 119

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ly this decision, for herein true instinct is not liable to err. But now I end, without further words: for in our Holy Books are written many details of the actual practices of Love. And those are the best and truest which are most subtly written in symbol and image, especially in Tragedy and Comedy, for the whole nature of these things is in this kind, Life itself being but the fruit of the flower of Love. It is then of Life that I must needs now write to you, see- ing that by every act of Will in Love you are creating it, a quintessence more …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 430

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…d this is what is called Panic fear, which, originally an individual thing, is applied to a mob, because a mob has no Soul. A very great many elementals are to be found in human form to-day; they are nearly al- ways women, or such men as arenot men. Such beings are imitative, irresponsible, always being shocked, without any standard of truth, although often extremely logical; crim- inal without a sense of right and wrong, and as shameless as they are prudish. Truth of any kind frightens them. They are usually Christian Scientists, Spiritualists…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 229

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…nd destroying his life’s work, they are obliged to admit that he has ‘‘ Accomplished the Great Work’’—of creating Living Beings! “ Every man and every woman 1s a star.” —B. K. L. I don’t like that room. I said nothing about it to Peter ; but the old man was there walking about as large as life. You have to be specially prepared to see these things. Cockie was never spiritually minded. September 18 An alarm of burglars last night. We roused the house—but no traces could be found, The servants here are frightfully stupid. They irritate me all the…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 117

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… ‘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 her shafts abate. Though all worlds fail, the pulse of Life be still, God fall, all darken, she hath not her will Of deeds beyond recall, that shall endure: For us, these three divinest glasses fill, Fill to the brim with lustrous dew, nor fail To leave the blossom and the nightingale, Love’s earlier kiss, and …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 194

The Star in the West

THE CUP 187 " Away , away , out of my sunlight ," waved Diogenes ; he saw before him a man , only a man full of brains and bowels . The maidens of Athens laughed at him , wizened misogynist and dreary sage , yet even the most beautiful of these monthly would spill her crim son libation to the moon . “ Yea ! truly , away, away , out of my sight , O shadow of a king ; but last night wert thou not fingering the delicate chalice of Cam paspe , and a few hours hence will not thy drowsy hand crimson the white womb of thy Mother Earth with the red lee…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 427

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…and would find nothing better to do than to return at top-speed to heaven or to hell, to escape the forget- fulness and the neglect of human kind. Mr. Home, his air sad and disillusioned, was then bid- ding farewell to a noble lady whose kindly welcome had been one of the first happinesses which he had tasted in France. Mme. de B. . . treated him very kindly that day, as always, and asked him to stay to dinner; the man of mystery was about to accept, when, some one having just said that they were waiting for a qabalist, well known in the world …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 427

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…and would find nothing better to do than to return at top-speed to heaven or to hell, to escape the forget- fulness and the neglect of human kind. Mr. Home, his air sad and disillusioned, was then bid- ding farewell to a noble lady whose kindly welcome had been one of the first happinesses which he had tasted in France. Mme. de B. . . treated him very kindly that day, as always, and asked him to stay to dinner; the man of mystery was about to accept, when, some one having just said that they were waiting for a qabalist, well known in the world …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 50

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…had become equal in power to that attributed by theologians to the Creator; yet of ex- ecutive power there was no seed. The impotence of man before circumstance was in him magnified indefinitely, yet without loss of detail or of mass. He understood that The Many was The One without losing or fusing the con- ception of either. He was God, but a God irretrievably damned: a being infinite, yet limited by the nature of things, and that nature solely compact of loathliness. IX I have little doubt that the cremation of my hus- band's body cut short a…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 68

Magick Without Tears

…he extent permitted by his intellectual and moral qualities. Mohammed's intercourse with Gabriel was only effective because of his statesmanship, soldiership, and the sublimity of his command of Arabic. Hertz' discovery of the rays which we now use f or wireless telegraphy was sterile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take his truth, and transmit it to the world of action by means of mechanical and economic instruments.) 22. Every individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to hims…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 14

Jezebel

…Because it wears so holy a garb of light Of perfumed fire immaculately made. These sins are deadly. God is merciless For Love that joins Man’s passion with His power, And makes to bloom on earth a fairer flower Than heaven bears. Our token of success Is that displeasure toward our sin unnamed Of a fierce demon jealous and ashamed.

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