1914 · PDF PAGE 26
Chicago May
…s eternity. Love, the sole substance that abides, Reigns on the land and the lagoon; ‘The drifting sand, the changing tides, ‘The moving light of the dead moon.
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Collected Works (Vol. I)
…F, In the ways of the depth and the height, Where the multitude stars are at ease, I have heard you as a god There is music and terrible light, Immutable. CHORUS. Thou art as proud and calm As statued Memnon. Thou art more than god And less than man. not. Thine eyelids tremble S’AFI. I shall avenge it asa god. The land Shall be made free. AMENHATEP. And the old gods have sway, Re-born from incorruption. S’AFI. The old gods ! I must muse deeply. Keep your ancient ways A little. I must play the part through so. CHORUS. In the ways of the North an…
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1930 · PDF PAGE 26
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)
…dy. T'ry to ima¬ gine how your own body would look if you were standing in its place j try to transfer your consciousness to the Body of Light. Your own body has its eyes shut. Use the eyes of the Body of Light to describe the objects in the room behind you. Don’t say, “It’s only an effort of subconscious memory”...the time to test that is later on. As soon as you feel more or less at home in the fine body, let it rise in the air. Keep on feeling the sense of rising; keep on looking about you as you rise until you see landscapes or beings of th…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 106
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
…through My being as when stars drop in black disastrous dew. x For in that scroll was written how the globe Of space became ; of how the light Broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe Of glory; of how One most white Withdrew that Whole, and hid it in the lobe Of his right Ear, So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear. XI Yea! and the end revealed a word, a spell, An incantation, a device Whereby the Eye of the Most Terrible Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world a…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 106
The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)
…through My being as when stars drop in black disastrous dew. x For in that scroll was written how the globe Of space became ; of how the light Broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe Of glory; of how One most white Withdrew that Whole, and hid it in the lobe Of his right Ear, So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear. XI Yea! and the end revealed a word, a spell, An incantation, a device Whereby the Eye of the Most Terrible Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world a…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 84
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
…k aflame With fairies’ feet, Still wrapped in love, I was caught up, beyond, above The tides of being, The great sight Of the intolerable light Of the whole universe that wove The labyrinth of life and love, Blazed in me. Then some giant will, Mine or another’s, thrust a thrill
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1912 · PDF PAGE 84
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
…k aflame With fairies’ feet, Still wrapped in love, I was caught up, beyond, above The tides of being, The great sight Of the intolerable light Of the whole universe that wove The labyrinth of life and love, Blazed in me. Then some giant will, Mine or another’s, thrust a thrill
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1898 · PDF PAGE 25
Jephthah
…of the well-foughten field, And the children of Ammon are broken, their princes and warriors yield. The captain is chosen for fight, The light of his eye is as fire, And his hand is hardy of might And heavy as dead desire; _— And the sword of the Lord and of Jephthah shall build our dead women a pyre.
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1902 · PDF PAGE 57
Tannhäuser
…y ventures on the way ; At last an old Egyptian ; who bestowed The magic word, which, when I had pronounced, Called up thine evil corpse-light in the sky. He riddled me —ah God ! I see it now ! The bloody winepress .'' The ascending sun ? Thy dawning beauty and thine evil bed ! The double meaning ! I had evil thoughts When I pronounced it —else had She Herself, Hathoor or Mary, risen. Misery! Incessant mystery of the search for Truth ! Venus Search out my mystery a little while ! TannhAuser. There is a flush of passion in thine eyes. An hunger …
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1903 · PDF PAGE 73
The Star and the Garter
… To that quintessence at whose gleam Gold shudders and grows dull ; expel The final dross by intimate stream Of glowing truth, our lunar light! Are you not ready? Who would stay ? Arise, O Queen, O Queen of Night! Arise, and leave the little day! 71
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1905 · PDF PAGE 11
Rosa Mundi
…us Eden surelier breeds the snake. Be silent ! O ! for silence sake ! That asks the impossible. Smite ! Smite ! Profaned adytum of pure light, Smite ! but I must sing on. Nay ! can the orison
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1913 · PDF PAGE 186
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…or thee, Though the age be as ice, In one heart thou hast blossomed ; one was free To sing these things, These things. For ever more the light shall fade from him, His eyes shall wax more dim, His ear more dull. And so the wonderful world less beautiful
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1913 · PDF PAGE 186
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…or thee, Though the age be as ice, In one heart thou hast blossomed ; one was free To sing these things, These things. For ever more the light shall fade from him, His eyes shall wax more dim, His ear more dull. And so the wonderful world less beautiful
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1938 · PDF PAGE 17
The Heart of the Master
…enix! XVIII. Let the Illusion of the World pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning! XIX. Give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play! XX. Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship! Be every Act the Fiat of a God! Be every Act a Source of radiant Glory! XXI. Treat time and all conditions of Event as Servants of thy Will, appointed to present the Universe to thee in the form of thy Plan.
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1944 · PDF PAGE 242
The Book of Thoth
THE ATU: MNEMONICS a Truth, laughter, lust: Wine’s Holy Fool! Veil rent, Lewd madness is sublime enlightenment. b The Word of Wisdom weaves the web of lies, Weds irreducible Infinities. g Mother, moon‐maiden, playmate, bride of Pan; God’s Angel‐Minister to every man. d Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above Thought’s reach: the wholeness of the world is Love. x Sire and inceptor, Emperor and King Of all things mortal, hail Him lord of Spring! v Wisdom to each apportioned to his want By modes of Light, shed forth, great Hierophant! z To each …
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1961 · PDF PAGE 27
Liber Aleph
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 15 x De Via per Empyræum (Of the Way through the Empyrean) ONCERNING thy Travellings in thy Body of Light, or Astral journeys and Visions so-called, do thou lay this Wisdom to thy Heart, o my Son, that in this Practice, whether Things Seen and Heard be Truth and Reality, or whether they be Phantoms in the Mind, abideth this Supreme Magical Value, namely: Whereas the Direction of such Journeys is consciously willed, and determined by Reason, and also unconsciously willed, by the true Self, since without It no Invocati…
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1898 · PDF PAGE 52
Jephthah
…! CHORUS. In the brave old days ere men began To bind young hearts with an iron tether, Ere love was brief as life, a span, Ere love was light as life, a feather, Earth was free as the glad wild weather, God was father and friend to man. AHINOAM. Then when with mildness and much joy our judge Draw hither, let us send to meet his steps
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1899 · PDF PAGE 62
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…se Burn awful in his holy eyes. A moment, and the fire is low Upon the black. stone of the altar, The spilt blood eagerly doth glow, And lightnings lick the light, and falter, Feeling the vast Shekinah shine Above their excellence divine. The Lord is gracious to His own, And hides with glory as a mist The sacrifice and smitten stone, And on the lips His presence kissed Burn the high vows with ample flame That He shall swear to by the Name. JEPHTHAH. Highest of Highest, most Concealed of all, Most Holy Ancient One, Unnameable, Receive for these …
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1899 · PDF PAGE 52
Tale of Archais
…ay a word of him ; No stars, to whom she looked, had seen the grim Abodes of Charicles, for deadly shade Lowered oer their top, nor any light betrayed The horror of their core. Despairing then Of natures prophets, and of gods and men, She cast her arms wide open to the sky, Cried loud, and wept, and girt herself to die. It was a pinnacle of ivory Whereon she stood, the loftiest of three fangs
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1905 · PDF PAGE 148
Orpheus
…hath no bounds: beheld the bliss Of that first wonder of the kiss In its true self: how very love Is God, and hath its substance of Pure light: and how love hath its cause Beyond religions, worlds, and laws ; Is in itself the first: and moves All evolution, and disproves God in affirming God: all this In that one rapture of the kiss I knew, and all creation’s pain Fell into nothing in my brain, As I, remaining man, involved All life’s true purpose, and dissolved The phantoms (of itself create) In a mysterious sweet state, Wherein some tune bega…
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