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1913 · PDF PAGE 175

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… And to all those That worship thee, my Rose, My Rose! My Rose! My Rose! For thou dost glance through all the veils of life, Lending thy light unwon, O subtlest syren thou, who wouldst entrance the sun! Behind what secret hill shall I find thee? In what chains shall I bind thee? O Rose! Wert thou but mine I would blind thee With the sacred sign Of five, Making thee mine. Alive Thou wouldst kill me, But dead, dead thou wouldst fill me With the low breath I seek, and I should be The incarnate spring’s gold immortality. Rose of the mire Where cour…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 25

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…birds of the air refuse to fly over it! May it stand as a curse, as a fear, as an hate, among men! May the wicked dwell therein! May the light of the sun be withheld therefrom and the light of the moon not lighten it! May it become the home of the shells of the dead and may the demons of the pit inhabit it! May it be accursed, accursed --- accursed for ever and ever! {63} And still, standing as I stand in the prime of early manhood, free from all the fetters of the body and the mind, do I curse the memory thereof unto the ages. It was a good en…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 207

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…en shrouded, Whose ears are bedinned By hell’s clamour. How did The strength that has sinned Avail in the crowded Abodes of the wind? By lightning of rapture The soul of my song My love doth recapture ; Lead up to the long Years in blithe measure Of summer and ease ; Linger at leisure For passion and peace. Sadness and pleasure Relent and release :— A torrent, a treasure, A garden of Greece ! Selene, our sister, ¢ Our lover and friend, Thy light hath long missed her : That hour hath an end. All zons to squander We chance at our will: We may woo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 145

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… my brother, My sister the sea ; I have called, and they answer and come; and their song is but glory to thee. One other is left me, The light of the earth. If Fate had bereft me, Oh Muse, of thy birth, Still I had cleft me A way in her girth! | I tune the loud lyre once again to the mother of men in her mirth. O mighty and glad In spring-time and summer ! O tearful and sad When the sun is grown dumber, When the season is mad, And the gods overcome her, When the sky is fulfilled of the frost and the fingers of winter numb her ! O marvellous ear…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…cked up energy flames on the universe like a new-born star.* Ananda Metteya then in a lengthy and lucid explanation demonstrates how the light ofa flame giving off the yellow light of sodium may be absorbed by a layer of sodium vapour, * Buddhism, vol. i, No. 2, p. 299, abridged. 137

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1910 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…cked up energy flames on the universe like a new-born star.* Ananda Metteya then in a lengthy and lucid explanation demonstrates how the light ofa flame giving off the yellow light of sodium may be absorbed by a layer of sodium vapour, * Buddhism, vol. i, No. 2, p. 299, abridged. 137

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1930 · PDF PAGE 29

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

… consecrated will in a well-deveioped astral body is such that it can even produce a permanent change in the material upon whose Body of Light you are working, e.g. ; one can heal the sick bv restoring a healthy appearance to their astral forms. On the other hand, it is possible so to disintegrate the the Body of Light even of a strong man that he will fall dead. Such operations demand not only power, but judgment. Nothing can upset the sum total of destiny — everything must be paid for the uttermost farthing. For this reason a great many opera…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 7

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… the Dawn, I say to thee, arise!” Through the ancestral shame and feudal gloom, Through medizval blackness rung thy pzean : Let there be light !—the desecrated tomb Gaped as thy fury smote the Galilean.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 24

Tale of Archais

…oney, and the ivy clips The oak, the wanton streamlet slips Darkly away and shy, The green-leaved trees for passion swoon, When spring’s light kisses shake and sigh Amid the glances of the moon, While o’er their brethren fallen or hewn They wave in melancholy tune Their branches mournfully. Man’s days are dim, his deeds are dust, His span is but a little space, He lusts to live, he lives to lust, His soul is barren of love or trust, His heart is hopeless, seeing he must Perish, and leave no trace ; With impious rage he mocks the bounds Of earth…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 126

Tannhäuser

…r souls are not Of beastliness : I have drawn my father's sword, Hard as your virtue is the easy sort, Heavy to handle as your loves are light, Smooth as your lies, and sharper than your hates ! I know you ! Cowards to the very bone ! [^Driving them out. Who fights me, of this sworded company ? Cannot my words have sting in them enough, Now, to make one of you turn suddenly And stab me from behind ? Out, out with you ! Fling-to the doors ! A murrain on the curs ! So, I am master ! The Unknown Minstrel. Well and merrily done ! But look you to th…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 48

Oracles

… : from His side the gleaming torrent of the spear Withdraws, my soul with joy and fear waits for sweet blood to pour its tide Of warm delight—in vain ! so cold, so watery, so slack it flows, It leaves me moveless as a rose, albeit her flakes are manifold. He hath no scent to drive men mad ; no mystic fragrance from his skin Sheds a loose hint of subtle sin such as the queen Faustina had. Thou drawest me. Thy golden lips are carven Cleopatra wise. Large, full, and moist, within them lies the silver rampart, whence there slips That rosy flame of…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 141

Orpheus

… The plectron’s wizard thrall. Thus as she danced, nor ceased, nor cared, I set the sacred throng Of heroes into acts that fared In Argo light and long, The foes they fought, the feats they dared, In shadow-show and song. (The play of Argonautae 1s shadowed before them by Orpheus’ malice might.) So faded all the dream : so stole Some fearful fondness in her soul; Even as a cloud thrilled sharply through With lightning’s temper keen and true, Splitting the ether: so again Grew on me the ecstatic pain, Seeing her tremble in mid-air, No flower so …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 159

The Scented Garden

…f, supreme in pride, stupendous in the vast ! Even the present gold and white, the Moment ever fleeting fast, Surrendered never ! this delight the Venus-throw hath surely cast.3 Jehannum shall exclaim “ Habib ! ” and light inform its murky fire, Entrancing all the ghouls4 to love, waking the Shaitans to desire ! Rejoicing souls in Paradise shall spurn the Hur al Ayn5 with ire, Opening their lips in pangs of woe, offering their souls in pawn to hire ! Men from the utmost desert lands shall spur their steeds through sand and mire, Even to look up…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 37

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…o thus polarized. Sh is Heaven and Earth, T Male and Female j ShT is Spirit and Matter- one is the Word of Liberty and Love flashing its Light to restore Life to Earth j the other is the act by which Life daims that Love is Light and Liberty. And these are Two-in-One, the divine letter of Silence-in-Speech whose Symbol is the Sun in the arms of the Moon. But Sh and T are alike formulae of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not States of existence, but modes of motion. They are verbs, not nouns. Sh is the Holy Spirit as a “tongue o…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 71

Jephthah

…hrone of night shall be withdrawn ; So moveth she toward the dawn. All peoples and all kings that move By love and sacrifice inspired In light and holiness and love, And seek some end of God desired, Pass, though they seem to sink in night, To dawns more perdurably bright. So priest and people join to praise The secret wisdom of the Lord, Awaiting the arisen rays That smite through heaven as a sword

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1902 · PDF PAGE 50

Tannhäuser

… its fortress wakes, and leaps, And sleeps ! None but the dead can sleep the sleep of love ! Come, love, caress me with endearing eyes ! Light the long rapture that nor fades nor flies ! Love laughs and lingers, frenzies, stabs, and sighs. And dies ! None but the dead can know the worth of love ! [ Tannhduser sleeps. Venus. Sleep on, poor fool, and in thy sleep forlorn Defy the very beauty that thou seekest ! Now is the solemn portal of the dusk Lifted ; and in the gleaming silver-gray, 48

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1904 · PDF PAGE 57

The Argonauts

…! CHORUS. Surely a bane more potent than the first. MEDEA. Love is itself enchantment! CHORUS. Some kind god Whispers from this a little light of hope. MEDEA. Only the hopeless are the happy ones. CHORUS. But didst thou turn him from his gleaming goal? Cover that shame with sweeter shame than this? MEDEA. Thou knowest that his vigil was to keep, Invoking all Olympus all the night, And then to yoke the oxen, and to plough The fearful furrow, sow the dreadful seed, Smite down the armies, and assuage the pest Of slime thrice coiled about the sacre…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 213

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…rim forest menaces. What gardener may dare to prune Those woods to build me palaces? So climb, each ledge an infinite stress, Lustful as light, as lechery loth, From the brutality of Besz To the plumed perjury of Thoth! I held him holy. Holier both Than aught the bearers of the bier, Thoum-aesh-neith and Auramoth, Saw in the hiding-house of fear. The sorceries that span the sphere, The spells that harness star and sun, I whispered in his siren ear— Once, twice, and thrice for every one! Once, twice, and thrice—the boon’s begun ! With four and f…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 213

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…rim forest menaces. What gardener may dare to prune Those woods to build me palaces? So climb, each ledge an infinite stress, Lustful as light, as lechery loth, From the brutality of Besz To the plumed perjury of Thoth! I held him holy. Holier both Than aught the bearers of the bier, Thoum-aesh-neith and Auramoth, Saw in the hiding-house of fear. The sorceries that span the sphere, The spells that harness star and sun, I whispered in his siren ear— Once, twice, and thrice for every one! Once, twice, and thrice—the boon’s begun ! With four and f…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 203

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…4444. Brother Typhon, summon the guests to the banquet of the Father of the Gods ! [TYPHON draws aside weil a: GANYMEDE begins his dame. Light‘s daze/7L] HERMANUBIS. Welcome to the banquet of the Father of the Godsl Bear the bowls of Libation ! (dam). Be silent and secret I For it is by stealth that we are here assembled. Know that Saturn hath been deceived, having swallowed a black stone, thinking it to be his son, the child Jupiter. But Jupiter is here enthroned, and shall overthrow his father. Beware then lest ye break silence—until Jupiter …

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