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1907 · PDF PAGE 259

The Star in the West

…e and wither : So shalt thou conquer Space , and lastly climb The walls of Time , And by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God !6 And then : ... there gleams from Heaven The likeness of a Man in glory set ; The sun is blotted , and the skies are riven A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my body and His love are met A new desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether , Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather ." In many other of these poems do we find dep…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…from their slime, bubbling with foul breath, and suck thee down to their mother ooze unspeakable; but if not, then I too (no journalist, God knows!) must praise thee. Thee—not thy work. For the manner thereof is wholly abominable. What have all we done, that for Pegasus we have this spavined and hamstrung Rosinante, for Bucephalus this hydrocephalic hydropath? Even as god Gilbert begat the devil-brood musical comedy, so hast thou begotten the tedious stage-sermons to which our priest-loving, sin-conscious slaves now flock. Refinement of cruelty…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…from their slime, bubbling with foul breath, and suck thee down to their mother ooze unspeakable; but if not, then I too (no journalist, God knows!) must praise thee. Thee—not thy work. For the manner thereof is wholly abominable. What have all we done, that for Pegasus we have this spavined and hamstrung Rosinante, for Bucephalus this hydrocephalic hydropath? Even as god Gilbert begat the devil-brood musical comedy, so hast thou begotten the tedious stage-sermons to which our priest-loving, sin-conscious slaves now flock. Refinement of cruelty…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 366

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…als light, and creates it in using it for its own purposes. The affirmation of atheism is the dogma of eternal night: the affirmation of God is the dogma of light! We stop here at the number Nineteen, although the sacred alphabet has twenty-two letters ; but the first nineteen are the keys of occult theology. The others are the keys of Nature ; we shall return to them in the third part of this work. Let us resume what we have said concerning God, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the Jewish liturgy. It is a page from the qabalistic poe…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 366

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…als light, and creates it in using it for its own purposes. The affirmation of atheism is the dogma of eternal night: the affirmation of God is the dogma of light! We stop here at the number Nineteen, although the sacred alphabet has twenty-two letters ; but the first nineteen are the keys of occult theology. The others are the keys of Nature ; we shall return to them in the third part of this work. Let us resume what we have said concerning God, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the Jewish liturgy. It is a page from the qabalistic poe…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 13

Tale of Archais

PROLOGUE 5 From the poppy’s crimson cup, And the mountain’s hoary mass ; Sea and land are filled with song, God, whom we mistrusted long, We perceive to be a friend : Man at last with flower and tree, Bird and butterfly and bee, Earth and fire and air and sea, Will his voice divinely blend In a song, whose holy incense up to Heaven shall ascend And the souls that stand and shiver On the borders of the River, Shall their arms extend Unto Death as to a lover, knowing Death is not the End.

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1902 · PDF PAGE 84

Tannhäuser

…nd you evermore, Most from the fearful destiny of him Men used to call the minstrel Tannhauser ! Eldest Pilgrim. A sombre blessing ! May God's mercy fall On you and yours ! Tannhauser. On mine, ah mine I Amen Amen to that ! Eldest Pilgrim (smiles). On her you love, my friend ! We will pass onward, by your honour's leave ! Pilgrims. Hail, hail, O Queen, to Thee, Spouse of Eternity ! Av6 Maria ! 82

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1904 · PDF PAGE 42

Why Jesus Wept

…OLLY. How I love you ! Oh, kiss me again ! SIR PERCY. Yet you were best to go. This bites like Hell’s worst agony. ANGELA. Amen ! MOLLY. God be with you ! SIR PERCY. Till we meet again. MOLLY. At moonrise. SIR PERCY. At your door. ANGELA. At moonset he shall crawl away from mine. The dog ! I hate him ! So much the more sure

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1910 · PDF PAGE 91

The Scented Garden

The Peace, the Jealousy, and the Ecstasy of God. 83 6. For the use of the refrain the reader may consult any manual on Persian prosody. El Haji has made several innovations. 7. How beautiful and touching are these si- miles ! No artifice, so straining of the metaphor is involved ; the poet rests in calm and beatific certi- tude of “ a good death, and a joyful resurrection in His holy kingdom ! ” Yet there is no false piety, no arrogance ; and like every straight-living man, he is capable of honest laughter, almost in the same breath.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 54

The Book of Lies

… blasphemy. But without that Experience these words are the Lies of a Looby. Yet a Looby to thee, and a Booby to me, a Balassius Ruby to GOD, may be!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 41

Ambergris

…nd, And seeks the holy mountain of the dead To draw dead fire, and breathe, and give it life ! But thou, be strong for strife, And, as a god, cry out, and let there be The mark of many footsteps on the sea Of angels hastening to fulfil Thy supreme, single will ! Alone, intense, unmoved, not made for change, Let thy one godhead rise To move like morning, and like day to range, A furnace for the skies, That all men cry : The uncreated God ! Formless, ineffable, just, whose period Is as his name, Eternity ! So bear The sceptre of the air ! So maye…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 80

Collected Works (Vol. I)

JEPHTHATII 73 But God had pity upon us, Our evil and fallen way; Ilis mercy was mighty on us ; Ilis lips are as rosy as day Broken out of the sea at the sunrise, as fragrant as flowers in May. Our sin was great in His sight: We chased from our gates our brother, We shamed his father’s might, We spat on the grave of his mother, We laughed in his face and mocked, look- ing slyly one to another. But God beheld, and His hand Was heavy to bring us grief; He brought down fire on the land, And withered us root and Icaf Until we were utterly broken, lo…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 192

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…my eyes Are moist because their passion was so fair, So pure and comely that no sacrifice Seems to waft up a sweeter savour there, Where God’s grave ear takes prayer. O desecrated lovers ! O divine Passionate martyrs, Virgin unto death! O kissing daughters of the unfed brine! O sisters of the west wind’s pitiful breath, There is One that pitieth ! One far above the heavens crowned alone, Immitigable, intangible, a maid, Incomprehensible, divine, unknown, Who loves your leve, and to high God hath said : ‘¢To me these sungs are made !”’ So in a l…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

777

…an Kan . Genius XLV. XLIV.* Magical Powers [Western Mysticism]. Mineral Drugs. The Supreme Attainment. . . . . . . | Carbon o Union with God . Aur. Pot. 1 The Vision of God face to face Phosphorus 2 The Vision of Sorrow Silver 3 The Vision of Love . 4 The Vision of Power. Iron, Sulphur . 5 The Vision of the Harmony of Things (also . 6 The Vision of Beauty Tonmotont . Arsenic . 7 The Vision of Splendour [Ezekiel] Mercury. 8 The Vision of the Machinery of the Universe | Lead . 9 The Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel or of | Mag. Sulph. 10 Adonai …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 319

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ursued by Jokam. I thereupon interposed, ordering him to make the sign of the Qabalistic Cross, which, however, he could not do. ““«What God do you worship?’ I asked. “« Alas! I have no God,’ he answered. Thereupon I allowed Jokam to seize him, and re-entering the cave they sank, uttering most heart-rending yells of agony. “As I once again approached the lake, a great albatross rose from the water, and as she did so, the star fell away from me, and a multitude of birds surrounded me and took me back to the garret which I first visited. “For thi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 319

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ursued by Jokam. I thereupon interposed, ordering him to make the sign of the Qabalistic Cross, which, however, he could not do. ““«What God do you worship?’ I asked. “« Alas! I have no God,’ he answered. Thereupon I allowed Jokam to seize him, and re-entering the cave they sank, uttering most heart-rending yells of agony. “As I once again approached the lake, a great albatross rose from the water, and as she did so, the star fell away from me, and a multitude of birds surrounded me and took me back to the garret which I first visited. “For thi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… expressions of the tendencies of faith at a given epoch. It is that which proves the Church to be infallible, evidentially and in fact. God is necessarily the most unknown of all beings because He is only defined by negative experience ; He is all that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, far from being able to impose them on others, does not even impose them on himself. “These,” says religion, “are graces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… expressions of the tendencies of faith at a given epoch. It is that which proves the Church to be infallible, evidentially and in fact. God is necessarily the most unknown of all beings because He is only defined by negative experience ; He is all that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, far from being able to impose them on others, does not even impose them on himself. “These,” says religion, “are graces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 81

The Sword of Song

APPENDIX I 74 British Governm ent, when he was a baby Nat. “The Queen of Heaven and the Lord of the Gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops, the affaire Hum bert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious m ind to flirt with his distinguished guest ! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford. “While he wa…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 210

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…Three voices has thy frame, Their music is but one. Fool-demon, slave of night and shame, That canst not see the sun ! I am the Lord thy God:? make thou homage and orison !” The wild heads. sank in fear: Then, troubled, to those eyes Remembrance crept of many a year, Barred gates of Paradise. Again the Voice rolled in the deep, mingled with murmuring sighs : ‘¢T mind me of the day One? came from Death to me; His soul was weary of the day, His look was melancholy ; He bade me open in the Name that binds Eternity. ‘‘ Yet though He passed within A…

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