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1910 · PDF PAGE 503

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…rks (Travellers’ Edition). Extra crown 8vo, India paper, 3 vols. in one, pp. 80S+Appendices. Vellum, green ties, with portraits, £3 3s.; white buckram, without portraits, £2 25. This edition contains ‘ Qabalistic Dogma,” “Time,” “The Excluded Middle,” “Eleusis,” and other matters of the highest occult importance which are not printed elsewhere. AMBERGRIS. Medium 8vo, pp. 200, 3s. 6d. (Elkin Mathews.) A selection of lyrics, containing some of great mystical beauty.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 503

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…rks (Travellers’ Edition). Extra crown 8vo, India paper, 3 vols. in one, pp. 80S+Appendices. Vellum, green ties, with portraits, £3 3s.; white buckram, without portraits, £2 25. This edition contains ‘ Qabalistic Dogma,” “Time,” “The Excluded Middle,” “Eleusis,” and other matters of the highest occult importance which are not printed elsewhere. AMBERGRIS. Medium 8vo, pp. 200, 3s. 6d. (Elkin Mathews.) A selection of lyrics, containing some of great mystical beauty.

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1996 · PDF PAGE 288

The Law is for All

…hyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the Angels should be regarded as accurate, , and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the Adept.” In (9.e), and with commentary in (31) and (9.v). [Liber 500, A.'.A.'..] “Sepher Sephiroth sub figura D.” “A dictionary of Hebrew words arranged according to their numerical value.” In (9.h) and (26). [Liber 777, A.•.A.-..] DCCLXXVII Vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Sys- temam Sceptico-Mysticce Vice Explicandce, Fundamentum Hieroglyphic…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 424

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…s (Travellers’ Edition). Extra crown 8vo, India paper, 3 vols. in one, pp. 808 + Appendices. Vellum, green ties, with portraits, £3 3s.; white buckram, without portraits, £2 25. This edition contains ‘ Qabalistic Dogma,” ‘ Time,” ‘The Excluded Middle,” “ Eleusis,” and other matters of the highest occult importance which are not printed elsewhere. AMBERGRIS. Medium 8vo, pp. 200, 3s. 6¢. net. (Elkin Mathews.) A selection of lyrics, containing some of great mystical beauty.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 424

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…s (Travellers’ Edition). Extra crown 8vo, India paper, 3 vols. in one, pp. 808 + Appendices. Vellum, green ties, with portraits, £3 3s.; white buckram, without portraits, £2 25. This edition contains ‘ Qabalistic Dogma,” ‘ Time,” ‘The Excluded Middle,” “ Eleusis,” and other matters of the highest occult importance which are not printed elsewhere. AMBERGRIS. Medium 8vo, pp. 200, 3s. 6¢. net. (Elkin Mathews.) A selection of lyrics, containing some of great mystical beauty.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 596

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…s (Travellers’ Edition). Extra crown 8vo, India paper, 3 vols. in one, pp. 808 + Appendices. Vellum, green ties, with portraits, £3 3s.; white buckram, without portraits, £2 25. This edition contains ‘¢ Qabalistic Dogma,” “Time,” ‘‘The Excluded Middle,” ‘“ Eleusis,” and other matters of the highest occult importance which are not printed elsewhere. AMBERGRIS. Medium 8vo, pp. 200, 38. 6d. net. (Elkin Mathews.) A selection of lyrics, containing some of great mystical beauty.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 596

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…s (Travellers’ Edition). Extra crown 8vo, India paper, 3 vols. in one, pp. 808 + Appendices. Vellum, green ties, with portraits, £3 3s.; white buckram, without portraits, £2 25. This edition contains ‘¢ Qabalistic Dogma,” “Time,” ‘‘The Excluded Middle,” ‘“ Eleusis,” and other matters of the highest occult importance which are not printed elsewhere. AMBERGRIS. Medium 8vo, pp. 200, 38. 6d. net. (Elkin Mathews.) A selection of lyrics, containing some of great mystical beauty.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 14

Collected Works (Vol. II)

8 ORACLES A kiss of fire ; A touch of passionate yearning Steals higher and higiier— And kisses are returning ! The strong white grasp draws me still nigher and nigher, Our fusing forms in one fierce furnace burning ! Fails to us speech In Love’s exultant leaping ! Each merved in each The golden fruit is reaping ! Wilt slumber, dear? One last kiss, I be- seech ! Come to us, Death! My love and I are sleeping! EPILOGUE TO ‘‘GREEN ALPS.”? FAREWELL, my book, whose words I have not given One tithe of those fierce fires that in me dwell ! Now, after …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 41

Konx Om Pax

THE WAKE WORLD 21 sphinxes, one black and one white. The charioteer is a most curious person; he is a great big crab in the most lovely glittering armour, and he can just drivel His name is the mysterious name I told you about with eleven letters in it, but we call him Jehu for short, because he’s only nineteen years old. It’s important to know though because this journey is the most diflicult of all, and without the chariot one couldn’t ever ever do it, because it is so far—much farther than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. The …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 180

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…mmeasurably wide! O star, O sister of my bed! O living lover, at my side Clinging, the spring, the fountain-head Of musical slow waters, white With thousand-folded rays of light ! Come! Once again I call, I call, I call, O perfect soul, to thee, With chants, and murmurs mystical, And whispers wiser than the sea : O lover, come to me! The pall Of night is woven : fair and free, Draw to my kisses; let thy breath Mingle for love the wine of death ! MADONNA OF THE GOLDEN Nicut brings madness; moonlight dips her throat to madden us; Love’s swift pur…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 260

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…illar. But Anubis of the East and the others circumambulate thrice as affirming the completion of the reflexion of the perfecting of the white Triangle on the Altar.” * The circumambulation being completed, the members and remaining officers remain standing whilst the Hierophant repeats the Adoration : “HOLY ART THOU, LORD OF THE UNIVERSE! HOLY ART THOU, WHOM NATURE HATH NOT FORMED! HOLY ART THOU, THE VAST AND THE MIGHTY ONE! LORD OF THE LIGHT AND OF THE DARKNESS!” (At each of these sentences all bow and give the sign, the officers raising thei…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 260

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…illar. But Anubis of the East and the others circumambulate thrice as affirming the completion of the reflexion of the perfecting of the white Triangle on the Altar.” * The circumambulation being completed, the members and remaining officers remain standing whilst the Hierophant repeats the Adoration : “HOLY ART THOU, LORD OF THE UNIVERSE! HOLY ART THOU, WHOM NATURE HATH NOT FORMED! HOLY ART THOU, THE VAST AND THE MIGHTY ONE! LORD OF THE LIGHT AND OF THE DARKNESS!” (At each of these sentences all bow and give the sign, the officers raising thei…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 85

Moonchild

…x, one of the lowest streets in Paris, and turned in at the den where Douglas lodged. S.R.M.D. was lying on a torn soiled sofa, his face white as death; a mottled and empurpled nose, still showing trace of its original aggressive and haughty model, alone made for colour. For his eyes were even paler than the doctor's. In his hand was a bottle half full of raw whisky, with which he was seeking to restore his vitality. "I brought you some whisky," said Balloch, who knew the way to favour. "Put it down, over there. You've got some money." Balloch …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 90

Moonchild

…ut away to the west so as to avoid Fontainebleau, for the sake of the romance of the thing." Lisa did not mind whether she supped at the White Horse, or on one. She realized that she had hold of a man of strength, wisdom, and foresight, far more than a match for their enemies. He stopped to speak to the officer in charge of the cordon as they passed him. "Among the dead: Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Grey. English people. No flowers. Service of the minister." The officer promised to record the lie officially. His deference was amazing. Lisa perceived that…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 38

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… height was drawn’ A veil across the silver dawn On holy wings that hovered.} The music of three thoughts became The beauty, that‘is one white flame, The justice that surpasses shame, The victory, the splendour, The sacred fountain that is whirled From depths beyond that older world A new world to engender.? The kingdom is extended.? Night Dwells, and I contemplate the sight That is not seeing, but the light That secretly is kindled, Though oft time its most holy fire Lacks oil, whene’er my own Desire Before desire has dwindled. I see the thin …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 22

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…h starry air it flew. SONG OF CHARICLES. Within the forest gloom There lies a lover’s bower, A lotus-flower In bloom. O lotus-flower too white, Starred purple, round and sweet, Rich golden wheat Of night ! Pll kiss thee, lotus-flower, I'll pluck thee, yellow grain, Once and again This hour. There coos a dove to me Across the waves of space} O passionate face To see! I’ll woo thee, silver dove, Caress thee, lotus-flower; It is the hour Of Love. Cypris blushed deep; albeit for love did swoon At the song’s sweetness, while the cold dead moon Was s…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 89

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…PHTHAH And my wife’s eyes were welcome more desired Than chains of roses, and the song of children, And swinging palm branches, and milk-white —elders. CHORUS. Fie on thy railing! But his wife is sick, And cannot leave the borders of her house. AHINOAM. But he hath one fair only daughter! Friends, With maidens bearing trimbrels, and with dances, Let her go forth and bring her father home. -JARED [aszde]. Horrible! I must speak and silence this Monstrous impossible villainy of fate. CHORUS. O wise old man, thou speakest cleverly. AHINOAM, So do,…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 128

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ance will go Forlorn to Paphos, wrapt in urgent woe, Her hair funereal swathing her fallen form, Its wind-swept horror holding him ; his white Torn body blushing through tempestuous night. So breaks the life in hell, the year in storm. BALZAC, GIANT, with iron secrecies ennighted, Cloaked, Balzac stands and sees. Immense disdain, Egyptian silence, mastery of pain, Gargantuan laughter, shake or still the ignited Stature of the Master, vivid. Far, affrighted, The stunned air shudders on the skin. In vain The Master of ‘‘ La Comédie Humaine ”’ Sha…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 108

Moonchild

…le all contradictions in a higher Unity. Beginning with such gross things as the colours of the spectrum, which are only partialities of white light, he resolved everything that came into his mind until he reached such abstractions as matter and motion, being and form; and by this process worked himself up into a state of mind which was capable of grasping those sublime ideas which unite even these ultimate antinomies. That was all. Douglas, still in magical touch with that "watcher," could feel it being slowly digested, so to say, by some othe…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 131

Collected Works (Vol. I)

124 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC Your lips’ perfume 3 like lilies on the sea Your white breasts glimmer; let us wait awhile. There is no breeze to drive us down to lee On the cold rocks of yonder icy isle, And your sire’s passion must forget the chase As I forget, the moment that you smile, And sea and sky are brighter for your face— I hear the sound of many oars ; perchance Your father’s, but within this iron place The heavy dragons will not dare advance Where our light vessel barely skimmed the rock : Their anger may grow cool, the while t…

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