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1907 · PDF PAGE 50

The Star in the West

…ssing me over and over ! Better sleep so Than be conscious , and know How death hath a charm to discover . 1 But not until we read “ The Eyes of Pharaoh " do we read one of the most astounding paintings in words , I make bold to say , that has ever been written in any language : And death's insufferable perfume Beat the black air with golden fans As Turkis rip a Nubian's womb With damascenéd yataghans . ? This one astonishing verse upsets the equilibrium of the whole poem , as it would of any poem ; for if the remaining thirteen had been penned…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 49

777

…ng viper. . . . .... . «les 2 and @. - 3) | 17 Bull with gryphon’s wings . 8. - AIT | 18 3 heads (bull, man, ram), snake's tail, flaming eyes. Rides bear, . ‘) . ndy3 19 Wanton eth ducal crown rides gryphon. Trumpeters . . & and d OND | 20 Leopard . 8. -. » Wi} 22 Lion with gryphon’s wings. .@. wee bi) 24 Angel with raven’s head. Rides black wolf, carries sharp sword _wW. VION | 25 Warrior on black horse. . WZ. IND'S | 26 A star in a pentacle . -3NVNIT | 28 Man holding greatserpent. . . ......2....1..9. SNDITION 29 CLXXIII.* CLXXII. Genii of th…

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1947 · PDF PAGE 5

The Last Ritual

…impled dawn of the amber fount ! Dip the purple of passionate prayer In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, The soul that startles in eyes of blue To watch thy wantoness weeping through The tangled grove, the gnarled bole Of the living tree that is spirit and soul And body and brain -come over the sea, (Io Pan ! Io Pan !) Devil or god, to me, to me, My man ! my man ! Come with trumpets sounding shrill Over the hill ! Come with drums low muttering From the spring ! Come with flute and come with pipe ! Am I not ripe ? I, who wait and writhe an…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 231

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… is of stature as a mountain, and, ay me! it shooteth down fresh roots into the aching earth. For the boy grew and became a man; and his eyes kindled with the lust of life and love; and the de- sire stirred him to see the round world and its many marvels. Wherefore he went forth, taking his father’s store of gold, laid up for him against that bitter day, and he took fair maidens, and was their servant. And he builded a fine house and dwelt therein. And he took no thought. But he said: Here is a change indeed ! 1 The common formula for beginning…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 228

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ey fight, and the Englishmen follow— Loose, loose the wide wings! For your The odds are as twenty to one! honour ! Hide, hide thy bright eyes, O Apollo! Let tyranny die! The murder is done.! Remember, this day of your glory, Your fight for the freedom you own. Those years—is their memory hoary? Your chains—is their memory flown? Your triumph is famous in story, But yours is alone. The stones should arise to declare it, Their terror and tyrannous reign ! The earth be unable to bear it, ‘Gape wide, for her motherly pain ! Shalt thou, O Columbia, …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 282

The Star in the West

…, the electric spark of man is drawn Deep in the bosom of the world , to soar New - fledged , an eagle to the dazzling dawn With lidless eyes undazzled , to arise , Son of themorning , ... 3 finds Freedom as his God : And Freedom stands , re - risen from the rod , A goodlier godhead than the broken God ." It was in the winter of 1619 that Descartes made the famous resolution to “ take nothing for truth with out the clear knowledge that it is such ." Thus Jove like he discrowned the authority of a thousand years , and though the symbolization of…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 38

Book 4 (Part I)

…oving, except in the case of absolute neces— 1 Here are four: 1. Sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. (“The God.”) 2. Kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. (“ The Dragon.’ ’) _ 3. Stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand, etc.), free forefinger on lips. (“ The Ibis”) 4. Sit; left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms stretched out over the k…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 18

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…d afar Dim and divine, Archais, like a star. It was no dream, or else the growing dawn Deepened the glory of the misted lawn, For to his eyes, half open now, there seems A figure, fairer than his dearest dreams. He sprang, he caught her to his breast, the maid Sniiled and lay back to look at him. laid Her tender body on the sloping field, And felt her sighs in his embraces yield A sweeter music than all birds. But she, Lost in the love she might not know, may see No further than his face, and yet, aware Of her own fate, resisted like a snare He…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 28

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ar is More fresh than lies, whose divine embrace Flushes the creamy pallor of her face, And, even in those depths of azure sea Where her eyes dwell, bids them glint amorously, While the intense hushed music of his breath Sighs, till her longing grows divine as death— So, fairer far, drew dawn on Ida’s grove. The young sun rose, whose burning lips of love Kissed the green steeps, whose royal locks of flame Brushed o’er the dewy pastures, with acclaim Of tuneful thrushes shrill with mountain song, And noise of nightingales, and murmur long— A sig…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 3

Oracles

… better to entitle the book “ Resurrec- tion Pie ” ; but all’s one.3 They are not completed, and never will be, till they fall under the eyes of the literary heir of the Chicago Professor who rewrote Keats. I cannot complete them, for the men are verily dead who wrote them ;4 yet respect for their memory forbids me to destroy them.5 But they cumber the case of stout leather and royal vellum wherein they have long6 reposed, if writings can repose which evoke but disgust each time the master’s eye7 falls saturnine upon them. The devil take them !…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 317

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES We shall transform ourselves into sweet visions to calm weeping eyes; we shall gather radiant lilies in unknown meadows, and we shall scatter their dew upon the earth. We shall touch the eyelid of the sleeping child, and rejoice the heart of its mother with the spectacle of the beauty of her well-belovéd son! Il THE BINARY TuE binary is more particularly the number of woman, mate of man and mother of society. Man is love in intelligence; woman is intelligence in love. Woman is the smile of the Creator content with Himse…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 317

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES We shall transform ourselves into sweet visions to calm weeping eyes; we shall gather radiant lilies in unknown meadows, and we shall scatter their dew upon the earth. We shall touch the eyelid of the sleeping child, and rejoice the heart of its mother with the spectacle of the beauty of her well-belovéd son! Il THE BINARY TuE binary is more particularly the number of woman, mate of man and mother of society. Man is love in intelligence; woman is intelligence in love. Woman is the smile of the Creator content with Himse…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 71

Ambergris

…d sought a deadlier deep, And in its monotone mood Of supreme solitude Was neither glad nor sad because it did not sleep ; But with calm eyes abode Patient, its leisure the galactic load, Abode alone, nor even rejoiced to know that it was God.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX 51. With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. 53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! 56. Also for beauty’s sake and love's! 57- Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play : all fools despise! 58. But …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX 51. With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. 53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! 56. Also for beauty’s sake and love's! 57- Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play : all fools despise! 58. But …

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1928 · PDF PAGE 54

Little Poems in Prose

…a bleeding morsel of it, with a superb oath in his uncouth dialect. The lawful owner of the cake strove to dig his little claws into the eyes of the usurper; the other used all his force to strangle his adversary with one hand, while with the other he tried to slip the prize of the fight into his pocket. But, re-animated by despair, the bitten one got up again and sent his conqueror rolling to the ground by butting him in the stomach. But why should I describe the hide- ous struggle, which lasted indeed far longer than their puerile powers had …

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1928 · PDF PAGE 120

Little Poems in Prose

…er noticed them; they were tall, almost black, and very proud, although in rags, with the air of having need of nobody. Their large dark eyes became quite brilliant while they made music; a music so surprising, so exciting, that it makes one want first to dance and then to weep and then to do

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1909 · PDF PAGE 9

Alexandra

…d restoration by Dr Verrall and Brugsch Bey : . . . and made allowance for A first attempt. 5. v. I. . . . his Hoffmann’s violet Aniline eyes.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 147

Liber Aleph

…is Viæ (Of the Two Rewards of the Path) ET it be a Treasure in thine Heart, o my Son, this Mystery that I shall next unveil before thine Eyes, O Eagle that art undazzled by the brilliance of Light, that soarest continually with virile Flight to thine august Inheritance. Behold the Beatific Vision is of two Orders, and in the Formula of the Rosy Cross it is of the Heart and is called Beauty; but in the Formula of the Silver Star (id est, of the Eye within the Triangle) it is of the mind, and is called Wonder. Otherwise spoken, the former is of A…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 18

John St. John

…offee and retire, to do I hope a more straightforward type of meditation. So mote it be. Naked, Maryt looks like Corregio’s Antiope. Her eyes are a strange grey, and her hair a very wonderful reddish gold—a colour I have never seen before and cannot properly describe. She has Jewish blood in her, I fancy ; this, and her method of illustrating the axiom “ Post coitum animal triste" made me think of Baudelaire’s “ Une nuit que j'etais pres d'une affreuse Juive ": and the last line Obscurcir la splendour des tes froides prunelles. and Barbey d’Aur…

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