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1909 · PDF PAGE 182

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ess—the throne of the Spirit : in the Tetragram, the Hé final, and in symbolic language—the Daughter: in the Cycle of Life (Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection), the fourth; in the Keys of the Book Universal, the Empress, Kopy Koepov, the Virgin of the World, Venus, Aphrodite: Centrum in Trigonis Centri—by whatsoever of a myriad names we call Her, still the same in Spirit, the same in Number and in form! And this number is herein formulated by the Concen- tration of the Three in One. 3+ 1 = 4. Now in this Figure II. we behold six certain Paths; an…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 52

Book 4 (Part I)

…ere like unto Him any one! g. Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the Gods and Death To tremble before Thee -?:־ I, I adore Thee!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 78

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Aleister Crowley . Your scent is keen as floral wine , Inviting me and love -- to death . You , whom I kept a sacred shrine, Will Aling the portals to the day ; Where shone the moon the sun shall shine, Silver in scarlet melt away . There is yet a pang ; they gave me this Who can ; and you who could have failed ? Is it too late to extend the kiss ? Too late the goddess be unveiled ? O but the generous flower that gives Her kisses to the violent sun , Yet none the less in ardour lives An hour , and then her day is done . Back from my lips, back …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… tempest toil and flooding fear, From the wild waves o’ th’ west! Blessed are they whose strength and faith Pilot the ship whose name is Death! Advancing ever to the east, The holy pilgrims pace. To the live God comes the dead priest To front Him face to face, If haply He reverse the doom And tear its trophy from the tomb. [The warders now approach and lay the body of the priest, still in its shroud, at the foot of the Tree. Juita. Now be ye witnesses of Truth! Here let love’s lust yield youth! [She raises her hands to heaven. Joanna [Comes for…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… tempest toil and flooding fear, From the wild waves o’ th’ west! Blessed are they whose strength and faith Pilot the ship whose name is Death! Advancing ever to the east, The holy pilgrims pace. To the live God comes the dead priest To front Him face to face, If haply He reverse the doom And tear its trophy from the tomb. [The warders now approach and lay the body of the priest, still in its shroud, at the foot of the Tree. Juita. Now be ye witnesses of Truth! Here let love’s lust yield youth! [She raises her hands to heaven. Joanna [Comes for…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 57

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ike light through the portals they bounded, Their lithe limbs with cruelty curled, And the noise of their crying resounded To kindle the death of the world. For the heaven at sunset is sundered, Its gates to the sages unclose,

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1905 · PDF PAGE 77

Oracles

…se hands The twelvefold Kingdom of my Godhead stands. Six are the mighty seats of living breath, The rest sharp sickles, or the horns of death, Which are, and are not, save in mine own power. Sleep they ? They rise at mine appointed hour. I made ye stewards in the primal day, And set your thrones in my celestial way. I gave ye power above the moving time That all your vessels to my crown might climb. From all the corners of your fortress caves Ye might invoke me, and your wise conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continu…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 108

Konx Om Pax

…er makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns to ill: Art '5 but a crust o’er Nature’s chasms. Death caught her with his comic spasms. They turned her fairly inside out, Jerking her legs and arms about Like a damned dancing marionette. I could not light my cigarette: I started laughing. Laugh? I laughed— ] rocked my body fore and aft-— I fairly yelledl To crown the event Her wonder at my merriment: That beat the band. I really wonder However I came to, by thunder !— Ha! Ha! You hear—it somehow jars. Bad…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 114

The Winged Beetle

…t may move me—I am lost, Exenterate, exhaust ! So therefore, Pan ! a corpse I come before thee To call down Life from thine abode beyond Death. Three times I circle thee : three times my breath Breathes on thy mouth ; three times I do adore Thee, Till thine eyes glitter and thy loose lips curl Make me the innocent alluring girl Of fifteen years—that were ! so to recoil The same sweet garland. . . . Hither comes the lad With shy looks—let me blind him, let me soil His swan-soft body and his soul swan-pure ! Ah ! but my life is glad. Pan smiles !…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 81

Mortadello

… save you, all God’s mercy burn Sin from you. Follow me ! SOLDIERS. Our queen. Sweet saint of God ! GABRIELE. Spew, spew God’s agony and death. Black period Of all my hopes. [He dies. MONICA. There goes to his master a lost soul. SOLDIERS. We’ll follow you. MONICA. Who knows the glory of my goal ? SOLDIERS. To the palace ! MONICA. No, my friends, obey your orders still. It is the prison that ends my passage. All my will

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1919 · PDF PAGE 132

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…cried aloud in my joy, I made songs unto the Lord, the living God. I will follow the Lord all the days of my life, and in the hour of my death let the Lord lead me into the House Ever- lasting. 126

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1906 · PDF PAGE 54

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… coop St. Patrick, turn again Thy mild eyes to the Western main ! Shalt thou be silent? thou forget? Are there no snakes in Ireland yet? Death to the Saxon! Slay nor spare! O God ofJustice, hear us swear! 1 ‘The reader will kindly note such important changes of metre as occur in the two last verses of ‘‘ The Twins” and elsewhere. The careless might suppose that these do not scan; they do, following directly or by analogy a similar change in the Pali. The iron Saxon’s bloody hand Metes out his murder on the land. The light of Erin is forlorn. Th…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 28

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ob us of our dearest. Woe on woe, The overwhelming summit of a wave Too black, too concentrate, too impious, And culminating in a double death, Hangs imminent to crush the slender sides And battered bulwarks of our state. O thou Whose hoary locks and sightless eyes compel Our pity and our reverence, and whose mouth Foams with the presence of some nearer god Insatiate of thy body frail, give tongue, If tongue may so far master deity As give his fury speech, or shape thy words From the blind auguries of madness. PROPHET. Ha! The rose has washed i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 10

Rosa Decidua

…fight. Just so child Hercules Strangled two serpents in his pretty Red fists, achieved twelve labours, won to ease, And was done down to death and madness by The subtle poison that himself distilled. So all the God in life is chilled To a corpse. The informing one ? God’s a cast clout Of a leper ! Leave me here, corruptest of earth’s whores To scrape my sores ! Cry like a dog and run about the city ! There is no word left, now the deed is dead ! No thought of her is in me ; I am a stranger To all that dream of danger And bliss that Rose was. Th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 421

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… sing, and makes his readers reel !1111 impulse.L'/1re Marni»; !₪. ** There is: certain grim power in same or the irnnginings concerning death, as ‘The Dmam’ md ?יThe Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces ;}1:1 his »₪ e. -?ייm Dai/y Telegraph, “ llere is a poet or promise.”—le: Dat'/y C/Woukltr "11 is nor elren nm energy and poelic {:cling are nnired w happily ns 111 uiis liule 1110113417" πω͵-“κ“; Leader. “ There is promise and some fine lines in Ille5e verses-”~77” Timex. TO ΒΕ O…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 421

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… sing, and makes his readers reel !1111 impulse.L'/1re Marni»; !₪. ** There is: certain grim power in same or the irnnginings concerning death, as ‘The Dmam’ md ?יThe Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces ;}1:1 his »₪ e. -?ייm Dai/y Telegraph, “ llere is a poet or promise.”—le: Dat'/y C/Woukltr "11 is nor elren nm energy and poelic {:cling are nnired w happily ns 111 uiis liule 1110113417" πω͵-“κ“; Leader. “ There is promise and some fine lines in Ille5e verses-”~77” Timex. TO ΒΕ O…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 229

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…d, that darts among them serpentwise— And all their warriors fell back a space, _ And all the air rang out with sudden cries, Seeing the death and fury of my face, And feeling the long sword sweep out and kill, Till there was won the slippery path, the place Whence I might sever the white cords, and fill The ship with tangled wreckage of the sail. All this I did, and bore the blade of ill Back, dripping blood, to thee most firm and pale Who held our rudder, all alone, and stood Fierce and triumphant in the rising gale, Bent to my sword, and kis…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 269

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…reate and uncreate, living and dead, The Mystery of Pain. Iam the Mother, I the silent Sea, The Earth, its travail, its fertility. Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To Me!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 147

The Winged Beetle

…fight. Just so child Hercules Strangled two serpents in his pretty Red fists, achieved twelve labours, won to ease, And was done down to death and madness by The subtle poison that himself distilled. So all the God in life is chilled To a corpse. The informing one ? God’s a cast clout Of a leper ! Leave me here, corruptest of earth’s whores To scrape my sores Cry like a dog and run about the city ! There is no word left, now the deed is dead ! No thought of her is in me ; I am a stranger To all that dream of danger And bliss that Rose was. The …

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1928 · PDF PAGE 129

Little Poems in Prose

…hat hath ever lived, that lives, that ever shall live. As I bade farewell to this incomparable beauty I felt myself smitten down even to death, and therefore whenever one of my companions cried “At last!” I was only able to cry “Already!”

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