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1910 · PDF PAGE 141

The Scented Garden

…xcludes speculation. 133 To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits, and then Remould it nearer to the heart’s desire. ” 2. [Persian text] huqqah. It is said that this word represents heiroglyphically the process of smoking. [Persian text] the harsh aspirate changed to [Persian text] the smooth aspirate by the me- dium of the force of [Persian text] which Arab mys- tics describe as being “ of a watery, lunar nature, and consonant to dogs, jackals, beetles, pools, old women painted, dreams, water pots, drunkenne…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 137

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…s dedit signum.” It seemed hardly possible that her voice joined his. The lips hardly moved; it was as if an interior voice spoke in her heart. Yet the room was suddenly filled with a pale green light—or was it rosy ?—or was it golden P—or was it like the moon? That was the strange thing about it. To every name one put to it an inward voice answered: No, not that; like that, but not quite that. Luminous, spectral, cloudy, shimmering—it was all these, and something more. He placed his hand upon the girl’s forehead. " Are you perfectly awake ? " “…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 137

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…s dedit signum.” It seemed hardly possible that her voice joined his. The lips hardly moved; it was as if an interior voice spoke in her heart. Yet the room was suddenly filled with a pale green light—or was it rosy ?—or was it golden P—or was it like the moon? That was the strange thing about it. To every name one put to it an inward voice answered: No, not that; like that, but not quite that. Luminous, spectral, cloudy, shimmering—it was all these, and something more. He placed his hand upon the girl’s forehead. " Are you perfectly awake ? " “…

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1914 · PDF PAGE 23

Chicago May

…, no beast, not even God In those pale hours that you and he apart Drain the black poison of the period, Smite all damnation into either heart— (© Jesus! is there pity, is there none? Is there no peace, no passion in the sky? Is there no fervour in the blasting sun To make a symphony of sympathy? ‘Oh, but if I were only with you—when ?— ‘Who knows if all our passion would suffice Us who were forced—we, Laylah now and then To bathe our bodies in the vats of vice? Why is our heaven so critical a point ? Why does life tremble on so tense a string?…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 17

Jezebel

…ir cup overflow ; Hurt me with kisses, kill me with desire, Consume me and destroy me with the fire Of bleeding passion straining at the heart, Touched to the core by sweetnesses that smart ; Bitten by fiery snakes, whose poisonous breath Swoons in the midnight, and dissolves to death ! Ah ! let me perish so, and not endure Thy falsehood who have known thy love was sure, Built up by sighs a palace of long years— Lo ! it was faery, and the spell of tears Dissolves it utterly. O bid them go, These white-faced boys, where calmer rivers flow And bi…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ps as if it were a grape. And the wine of Demeter flushes my cheeks; they burn with joy of youth Why should I greet the world? Because my heart is bursting with love for the world. Love, say 1? Why not lust? Is not lust strength, and merriment, and the famine that only the infinite can stay? And why do I call myself the child of miracle? Because I have entered a second time into my mother’s womb and am born. Because to the knowledge of manhood has come the passion, even the folly, of adolescence ; with all its pride and purity. It is for this tha…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ps as if it were a grape. And the wine of Demeter flushes my cheeks; they burn with joy of youth Why should I greet the world? Because my heart is bursting with love for the world. Love, say 1? Why not lust? Is not lust strength, and merriment, and the famine that only the infinite can stay? And why do I call myself the child of miracle? Because I have entered a second time into my mother’s womb and am born. Because to the knowledge of manhood has come the passion, even the folly, of adolescence ; with all its pride and purity. It is for this tha…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…name thee again, my Rose, my Rose. Through the blue depths of the skies; in the tumbling waters ; Midst the antic winds; through the red heart of the fire; How shall I know thee in the maze of things, In the monotonous gold of the rolling worlds? The mage hath seen thee with the eye of Fire ; The lover hath known thee in the sea of Air. The worlds hath hung all trembling on the lyre That the old god bears still with unwearying hand, Touching the strings to passionate mortal prayer, Answering or answering not, immortal still. Oh, through the maz…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 382

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… accuse us of having separated ourselves from them, and, on the contrary, it is they who wish to separate from us. We wait for them, the heart and the arms wide open. We are, as they are, the disciples of Moses. Like them, we come from Egypt, and we detest its slavery. But we have entered into the Promised Land, and they obstinately abide and die in the desert. Mohammedans are the bastards of Israel, or rather, they are his disinherited brothers, like Esau. Their belief is illogical, for they admit that Jesus is a great prophet, and they treat …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…name thee again, my Rose, my Rose. Through the blue depths of the skies; in the tumbling waters ; Midst the antic winds; through the red heart of the fire; How shall I know thee in the maze of things, In the monotonous gold of the rolling worlds? The mage hath seen thee with the eye of Fire ; The lover hath known thee in the sea of Air. The worlds hath hung all trembling on the lyre That the old god bears still with unwearying hand, Touching the strings to passionate mortal prayer, Answering or answering not, immortal still. Oh, through the maz…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 382

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… accuse us of having separated ourselves from them, and, on the contrary, it is they who wish to separate from us. We wait for them, the heart and the arms wide open. We are, as they are, the disciples of Moses. Like them, we come from Egypt, and we detest its slavery. But we have entered into the Promised Land, and they obstinately abide and die in the desert. Mohammedans are the bastards of Israel, or rather, they are his disinherited brothers, like Esau. Their belief is illogical, for they admit that Jesus is a great prophet, and they treat …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 275

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…te. So mote it be. (THE EARTH) Tue Deacon. Mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart 261

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1954 · PDF PAGE 514

Magick Without Tears

… his friends complacently that the bridge is going up better than he ever expected. Just so, my gibes are directed at incidents ; but my heart's truth is fixed on the grand spiral. 481

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1910 · PDF PAGE 152

The Scented Garden

… and Praise to God ! There is no God but God. Great is He, and protecteth us ; there is no might save in Him, the Exalted One.” 4. The “ Heart of the Q’uran ” ; one of it holiest chapters, recited or read to all good Muslim at the point of death, whenever possible. 5. Musalla, near Shiraz ; as Richmond, near London ; or the Cafe d’Hermenonville, near Paris. 6. Azrael — the angel of death. 7. Arafat — the holy mountain near Mecca. 8. The Vindu-Siddhi, power of retaining the se- men, is one of the most interesting and important branches of Hathay…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 10

The Heart of the Master

…e Energy riseth all Motion of Will of the Master, begetter, destroyer! The Voice of the Pelican. I A O : all that liveth is blood of the Heart of the Master: all stars are at Feast on that Pasture, abiding in Light. The Voice of the Dove. H R I L I U : there is nothing too small, or too great, or too low, or too high; but all things are joined into Joy by the Love of the Master. The Voice of the Ibis. A B R A H A D A B R A : all ways are alike, being endless, eternally coiling in curves of ineffable wonder; each Star has its course, by the mani…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 281

Magick Without Tears

…ledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. (32) 1. Dictated: "the unfragmentary non-atomic fact of my universality .. . (Write this in whiter words. But go forth on)." Ouarda wrote into the MS, later, the five words as in text.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 18

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ortured his palate with extreme desire, And like a Maenad maddened; equal fire leapt in his veins; locked close for love they lie, . The heart’s dumb word exprest without a sigh In the strong magic of a lover’s kiss, And the twin light of love5 but Archais Felt through her blood a sudden chill; her face Blanched and besought a moment’s breath- Ing space ; Her heart’s desire welled up, and then again Whitened her cheeks with the exceeding pain Of uttermost despair. At last her strength Failed, and she flung her weary body at length Amid the brui…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 94

Oracles

… thy car ; Thy love-song unheard or unspoken, and I cannot see thy star. Thou art not cold, but bitter is thy burning cry to me. My tiny heart were fitter for a mortal than for thee. But I cast away the mortal, and I choose the tortured way, And I stand before thy portal, and my face is cold and grey. Thou lovest me with a love more terrible than death ; But thou art in the above, and my wings feel no wind’s breath. Thou art all too fierce and calm, too bitter and sweet, alas ! Thou weavest a cruel charm on my soul that is as glass. I know thee…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 104

John St. John

… ? ? ? ? ? At least this latter view is suggested by the Rosicrucian formula of Reception: May thy mind be open unto the Higher! May thy heart be the Centre of Light ! May thy body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross ! and by the Hindu statement that in the attainedYogin

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1909 · PDF PAGE 118

John St. John

11.18. 1 1.45. 12.151 116 THE EQUINOX The pose over; recited Ritual, now known by heart; then willed Adonai ; hopelessly unconcentrated. . . . To interpret this Record aright, it must, however, be understood that the “ Standard of Living ” goes up at an incredible rate The same achievement would, say five days ago, have been entered as “ High degree of concentration ; unhoped-for success." The phenomena which to-day one dismisses with annoyed contempt are the same which John Ξε. John worked four years continuously to attain, and when attained se…

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