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1899 · PDF PAGE 8

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…d, and the empyréan Roared: and the thunder of the seas averred The presence of thy recreating word. The stone rolls back: the charioted night, Stricken, swings backwards on her broken pinions: Faith sickens, drunken tyranny reels, the spite Of monarchs, ruinous of their chained dominions: The splendid forehead, crowned with Love and Light, Flames in the starry air: the fallen minions Drop like lost souls through horrid emptinesses To their own black unfathomable abysses! Now Freedom, flower and star and wind and wave And spirit of the unimagin…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 100

Orpheus

Long, tender, rays of night ; my subtle face Burns through the sky-dusk, lightens, fills, and flashes With solemn joy and laughter of love; the grace Of all my body swaying stoops and dashes Swift to the daisy’s dawn of love: and swiftest, O spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest! Dawn shakes the molten fire of my delight From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesse…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 161

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…one) perceive the end, Or listen to the voice of Nature, know it for the voice of God ? EPODE. NATURE. Lo ! in the interstellar space of night, Clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces Abide the dawn of deity and light, Vibrate before the passionless pale faces Shrined in exceeding glory, eremite. The tortoise skies in sombre carapaces Await the expression and the hour of birth In silence through the adamantine girth. I rose in glory, gathered of the foam. The sea's flower folded, charioting me risen Where dawn’s rose stole from its pear…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 216

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…rns Of secret foemen push their lust In vain: my song their fury scorns ; They sink, they grovel in the dust. Hail, self-created Lord of Night! Inscrutable and infinite ! Let Orpheus journey forth to see The Disk in peace and victory! Let him adore the splendid sight, The radiance of the Heaven of Nu; Soar like a bird, laved by the light, To pierce the far eternal blue ! Hail! Hermes! thou the wands of ill Hast touched with strength, and they are shivered! The way is open unto will! The pregnant Goddess is delivered ! Happy, yea, happy ! happy …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 153

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ude-built of pine, whose parents in the storm Of one vast avalanche were swept away Into the valley. Thither we hasted on, And there, as night stretched out a broken wing

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1905 · PDF PAGE 5

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…GS OF THE SPIRIT— DEDICATION . . : . . THE GOAD . . . . . InN Memoriam A. J. BRB. . THE QUEST . . . , . THE ALCHEMIST . . . . SONNETS TO NIGHT. . . THE PHI.OSOPHER’S PROGRESS . SONNET. . . . . . AN ILI. DREAM . . THE PRIEST SPEAKS . . THE VIOLETS LOVE-STORY. THE FAREWELL OF PARACELSUS TO APRILE . . . . A SPRING SNOWSTORM IN WAST- DALE . . . . . IN NEVILLE’S Court, TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE . SUCCUBUS A RKONDEL NIGHTFALL THE INUIIATION VOL. I. 10 16 21 29; 30 31 31: SONGS OF THE SPIRIT— Continued ISAIAH . . THE STORM. WHEAT AND WINE A RONDEL , …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 368

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 547 548 Qliphoth of ~ nya Night Demon of 3" Dec. 95 INT A Name of GOD, myn mx my referred to Tiphareth Qliphoth of = pray 549 Moral win Ventus turbinis myp rn 55° Aquila; decidua. [Vide K.D. 9Y} L.C.K. p. 600; connect with no. 496, Malkuth] A rod of iron. (Ps. ii] Sa paw L.A. Angel of 2 Seow Principes onw Dragons. (Restricted.) on [Ps. lxxiv. 13] 552 552 Desiderium dierum DD) nen 553 Draco magnus bya pan 554 Day Demon of 2" Dec. X WITMD 555 Obscurity Andy 556 Mark, vestige, footstep ww Sharon, (Cant. ii. 1] yw 7557 The First pe…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 368

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 547 548 Qliphoth of ~ nya Night Demon of 3" Dec. 95 INT A Name of GOD, myn mx my referred to Tiphareth Qliphoth of = pray 549 Moral win Ventus turbinis myp rn 55° Aquila; decidua. [Vide K.D. 9Y} L.C.K. p. 600; connect with no. 496, Malkuth] A rod of iron. (Ps. ii] Sa paw L.A. Angel of 2 Seow Principes onw Dragons. (Restricted.) on [Ps. lxxiv. 13] 552 552 Desiderium dierum DD) nen 553 Draco magnus bya pan 554 Day Demon of 2" Dec. X WITMD 555 Obscurity Andy 556 Mark, vestige, footstep ww Sharon, (Cant. ii. 1] yw 7557 The First pe…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 56

The Mother’s Tragedy

42 , THE FATAL FORCE And all its salt springs vanish, and night flee The pinions of the day wide-spread, and pure Fresh fountains of sweet water that endure Assume the crown of the wide world, and lend A star of many summits to his head That rules his fate and compasses his end, 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, intens…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 126

Oracles

…ently heard. (This king was Zôhra’s father) “ Lord and king Of love’s own city, give me leave to wing A fervid flight to yonder hills of night. Not that my soul is weary of the light And lordship of thy presence : but in tender dream I saw myself on the still stream Where the lake goes toward the mountain wall. These little lives and loves ephemeral Seemed in that dream still sweet : yet even now I turned the shallop’s prow With gathering joy toward the lampless mountains. I heard the four bright fountains Gathering joy of music—verily I cannot…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ne, dear, The loves of lambent spring, Our lamp the drooping moon, dear, Our roof, the stars that sing ; The bed, of moss and roses; The night, as long as death! Still, breath! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden, The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover Their warm involving deep— Love, sleep !— And lover lies with lover On air’s substantial steep. Ah! sweeter was September— The amber rain of leaves, The harvest to remembe…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ne, dear, The loves of lambent spring, Our lamp the drooping moon, dear, Our roof, the stars that sing ; The bed, of moss and roses; The night, as long as death! Still, breath! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden, The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover Their warm involving deep— Love, sleep !— And lover lies with lover On air’s substantial steep. Ah! sweeter was September— The amber rain of leaves, The harvest to remembe…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 77

Mortadello

…op. ORLANDO. Trust His wit to find a trick for that ! SOLDIER. So now we fight In the very court. ORLANDO. I’ll hurl me at his throat to-night ! Come, sir, your sword in your left hand ! Strike one last blow ! SOLDIER. I am your servant to command. ORLANDO. [To MONICA.] Now pray ! MONICA. O no ! I will compel the Christ to hear ! My fierce demands Shall strike again the Roman’s spear in those pale hands ! Go, and God guard you ! ORLANDO. Never fear ! our storm-star stands. [ORLANDO, with drawn sword, and the soldier rush out. MONICA kneels agai…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 62

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…on A. The Oath. 1. Thee I invoke, the Bornless One. 2. Thee, that didst create the Earth and the Heavens. 3* Thee, that didst create the Night and the Day. T Thee, that didst create the darkness and the Light. 5. Thou art ASAR UN-NEFER (aMyself made Perfect”) : Whom no man hath seen at any time. 6. Thou art IA-BESZ (“the Truth in Matter”). 7. Thou art IA-APOPHRASZ (athe Truth in Motion”). 8. Thou hast distinguished between the Just and the Unjust. 9. Thou didst make the Female and the Male. 10. Thou didst produce the Seeds and the Fruit. 11. Th…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 292

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…as said to be camped at about two days' march away in the direction of Bhamo; but we resolved to cover the distance in the course of the night. Forrest being my senior, and knowing the language, was evidently marked as chief of the expedition. I put myself unreservedly at his orders. The first thing was to get the horses, which was easy; the second to rout out the Bengali, which was an entirely different proposition. It was after nine o'clock before he joined us at the outskirts of the town. The word forward was given, and Forrest and I gallope…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 117

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… 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 manhood’s glowing prime, These us suffice. Shall man or Fate prevail? Lo, we are blind, and dubious fingers grope In Despair’s dungeon for the key of Hope ;? Lo, we are chained, and with a broken rhyme Would file our fetters and enlarge our scope. Yet ants may move the mountain; none is small But he who stretches out no arm at all; Toadstools have wrecked fair cities in a …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 8

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ened with a kiss, Bid me a joyous welcome there, I wis. My home is on the brink of heaven's delight, But for that endless day a lovelier night Is in my home, that sunset’s arms enfold, Lit with the mellowness of autumn gold. Pillowed on linen of the purest white, Half-hidden by her locks’ luxurious night, Maddened by those soft eyes of melting glow, Enamoured of that breast .of breathing snow, Caught in the meshes of her fine-spun hair, Rocked by the beating of her bosom fair,

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1898 · PDF PAGE 22

Jephthah

…hful servitors, and ruled Mightiest in the desert, and was lord Of all the marches where my spear might throw Its ominous shadow between night and noon. Yet always I considered my revenge, And purposed, seeking out those kin of mine, To make them as those kings that Gideon slew Hard by the bloody waters of a brook. _ And now ye call me to your help, forsooth! CHORUS. Let no ill memory of an ancient wrong, Most mighty, edge thy sword _ Against the prayer of this repentant song. Dire sorrow of the Lord Consumes our vital breath, and smites us dow…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 98

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

76 MYSTERIES: Listen, oh, listen! the nightingale near us swoons a farewell to the blossoming brake. Listen, the thrush in the meadow is singing notes that — move sinuous, lithe as a snake ; The cushats are cooing, the world is awake. Only one hour since you whispered the story out of your heart to my tremulous ear; Only one hour since the light of your eyes was the victor of violent sorrow and fear; Your lips were so set to the lips of me here. Surely the victory ripens to perfect conquest of every- thing set in our way. We must be free as our…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

The Holy Books

…els! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! 64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sun- set; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. 65. To me! To me! 66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end. 12

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