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1899 · PDF PAGE 18

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…Their desecrated Moloch. The impure Godhead is powerless, even on the slave, Who once could scar the forehead of the brave, Break love’s heart pitiful, and reach the strong Through stricken children, and a mother’s wrong. Day after darkness, life beyond the tomb! Manhood reluctant from religion’s womb Leaps, and sweet laughters flash for freedom’s birth That thrills the old bosom of maternal earth. The dawn has broken; yet the impure fierce fire Kindles the grievous furnace of desire Still for the harpy brood of king and priest, Slave, harlot, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 61

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…x of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight ! 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. 45. There is death for the dogs, 46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? 21

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1913 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…grow pale before the eternal cry! Light! Light! The doom of time is thrown to the winds— And I have set the secret wide and still In the heart of thee, my Mother; I have known The incarnate miracle of the birth of man, The twin of Time, the heir of the gods’ debauch ; The shedder of the raiment of the loom Whereon are woven birth and life and death. Yea! Is revealed the Sword, the eye of light! Hail to the fivefold star! The secret awe Of the world unborn ; and thou, that hast the key, Let the lyre sound before thee! Let thy breath 170

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1913 · PDF PAGE 61

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…x of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight ! 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. 45. There is death for the dogs, 46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? 21

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1913 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…grow pale before the eternal cry! Light! Light! The doom of time is thrown to the winds— And I have set the secret wide and still In the heart of thee, my Mother; I have known The incarnate miracle of the birth of man, The twin of Time, the heir of the gods’ debauch ; The shedder of the raiment of the loom Whereon are woven birth and life and death. Yea! Is revealed the Sword, the eye of light! Hail to the fivefold star! The secret awe Of the world unborn ; and thou, that hast the key, Let the lyre sound before thee! Let thy breath 170

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1954 · PDF PAGE 171

Magick Without Tears

…int out that I have implied it constantly, but never given plain instruction. Concentration does indeed unlock all doors; it lies at the heart of every practice as it is of the essence of all theory; and almost all the various rules and regulations are aimed at securing adeptship in this matter. All the subsidiary w 0 r k - awareness, one-pointedness, mindfulness and the rest-is intended to train you to this. All the greetings, salutations, "Saying Will," periodical adorations, even saying apo pantos kakodaimonos with a downward and outward swe…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 121

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ture or in music set it forth ; I may suggest and lighten — that is all . Before the poet 's eye there ever floats A vision of a Land of Heart 's Desire Utopia , Atlantis , Tir - nam - Og , Call it what name you will — where one escapes The ugliness and sordidness of life . In mathematics I have found a land Which jealousy and meanness cannot reach ; A land of ample sweep and vast expanse ; Lifeless and cold indeed , but beautiful With the calm beauty of the Buddhist 's heaven ." And then he spoke of strength , Of the keen sense of power in Rod…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 165

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ith its venom the profound Deep of my spirit with its terrible Sense without speech and horror without sound. A devil intertwining in my heart Its cold and hideous lust, a twiforked dart Even from the fatherly and healing hand— The double death without a counterpart In hell’s own deepest pit, far, far below Phlegethon’s flame and Styx’s stifling flow, Far below Tartarus, below the land Thrust lowest in the devilish vertigo. IfI could weep or slumber or forget! If love once left me, with his eyelids wet With tender memory of his own despair Or f…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 220

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… worship, will, and comprehend. O Mother Nephthys,* fill me up Thine own perfection’s deadly cup! My aspiration quails within me ; ‘* My heart is fixed,” in vain I ery ; The little loves and whispers win me :— + 39 ** Eli, lama sabacthani ! 1 Nature: the beginning. 2 Perfection: the end. ‘© Chomse,! moon-god, grant thy boon, The silver pathway of the moon ! Beyond the Glory of the Dawn, Beyond the Splendour of the Sun, Thy secret Spirit is withdrawn, The plumes of the Concealed One. Amoun !7 upon the Cross I cry, ‘*T am Osiris, even I!” O Thou!…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 75

Ambergris

… The single-eyed desire Of scent and sound and sight and sense perfuses The still and lambent light Of the essential night ; And all the heart of me is fain, and muses, As if for ever doomed to dream Or pass in peace Lethean adown the grey Lethean stream. So deep the sense of beauty, and so keen ! The calm abiding holiness of love Reigns ; and so fallen from the heights above Immeasurable, the influence unseen Of music and of spiritual fire, That the soul sleeps, forgotten of desire, Only remembering its God-like birth Reflected in the deity of…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 198

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…d {or you these sunless years, With bitter blood-drops running down like tears : Oh, dark, dark, dark, withdrawn from joy and light ! My heart is sick with anguish for your bale! Your woe hath been my anguish ; yea, Ι quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the heights and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope Το find some solace for your wild unrest. * Légende: Wieniawski, fWiegenlied: Hauser. 16

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1911 · PDF PAGE 198

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…d {or you these sunless years, With bitter blood-drops running down like tears : Oh, dark, dark, dark, withdrawn from joy and light ! My heart is sick with anguish for your bale! Your woe hath been my anguish ; yea, Ι quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the heights and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope Το find some solace for your wild unrest. * Légende: Wieniawski, fWiegenlied: Hauser. 16

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1913 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nd woes Of old dead lives and lovers and their ill— Because a poet’s curse I bear away, My payment for the vision of the day. Because my heart is as a ten-stringed lyre, I cannot still the music of my mouth ; Because my tongue is wrought of molten fire, I cannot quench my spirit’s ceaseless drouth : - 196

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1913 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nd woes Of old dead lives and lovers and their ill— Because a poet’s curse I bear away, My payment for the vision of the day. Because my heart is as a ten-stringed lyre, I cannot still the music of my mouth ; Because my tongue is wrought of molten fire, I cannot quench my spirit’s ceaseless drouth : - 196

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1961 · PDF PAGE 106

Liber Aleph

… work with thee in Purity, making thee wholly what thou wouldst be, an Engine indefatigable, a Mind clear, calm, and concentrated, and a Heart fierce aglow. n

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1929 · PDF PAGE 11

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…minuteness of accuracy and obtained this figure. At my autopsy,” said Dugues- clin, dramatically, “this should be found engraved upon my heart.” He drew a notebook from his pocket, and rapidly sketched the subjoined figure for the now interested Bevan. “You will note that the figure has eight sides, and that twenty-seven crosses are disposed in groups of

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1901 · PDF PAGE 92

The Soul of Osiris

…. I saw the breaking light, and the clouds fled far away : It was the resurrection of the Golden Star of Day. And now I live in Him ; my heart may trace the years In drops of virginal blood and springs of virginal tears. I love you now again with an undivided song. Because I can never love you, I cannot do you wrong. I saw in your dying embraces the birth of a new embrace ; In the tears of your pitiful faces, another Holier Face. Unknowing it, undesiring, your lips have led me higher ; You have taught me purer songs that your souls did not desi…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ystem may be suited for one seeker, another for another. 22. We therefore who are without the chains of ignorance, look closely into the heart of the seeker and lead him by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ystem may be suited for one seeker, another for another. 22. We therefore who are without the chains of ignorance, look closely into the heart of the seeker and lead him by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 179

Book 4 (Part II)

…uence form. This also is the niyster)- of in- carnation. This Incense is based upon Gum Olibanum, the sacrifice of the human will of the heart. This olibanum has been mixed with half its weight of storax, the earthly desires, dark, sweet, and clinging; and this again with half its weight of lignum aloes, which symbolizes Sagittarius, the arrow,' and so represents the aspiration itself; it is the arrow that cleaves the rainbow. This arrow is "Temperance" in the Taro; it is a life equally balanced and direct which makes our work possible; yet thi…

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