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1929 · PDF PAGE 19

Moonchild

…ind differ — which might conceivably be a fake but their handwritings, their voices, and that in ways which are quite beyond anything we know in the way of conscious simulation, or even possible simulation. "These personalities are constant quantities; they depart and return unchanged. It is then sure that they do not exist merely by manifestation; they need no body for existence." "You are coming back to the theory of possession, like the Gadarene swine," cried Lisa, delighted. she could hardly say why. Cyril Grey interrupted the conversation …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 23

Carmen Saeculare

…ou again ! The voice of the Lord is uplifted ; The wilderness also obeys ; The flames of the fire they are rifted ; The waves of the sea know His ways. The cedars of Lebanon hear Thee, The desert of Kadesh hath known ; The Sons of Men know Thee and fear Thee, Flee far from the Light of Thy Throne. For Thou art alone. 21

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1911 · PDF PAGE 109

The Vision and the Voice

…nd thrill its excellence. And she hath tired her hair with seven combs, whereupon are written the seven secret names of God that are not known even of the Angels, or of the Archangels, or of the Leader of the armies of the Lord. Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, and blessed be Thy name for ever, unto whom the Aeons are but the pulsings of thy blood. Tam blind and deaf. My sight and hearing are exhausted. I know only by the sense of touch. And there is a trem- bling from within me. Images keep arising like clouds, or veils, exquisite Chinese ivories, a…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 62

The Star and the Garter

To sleep with us: you knew, and I The purport of the eternal curse, The ill design of destiny. You know, and I, O living head Of love! the things that were not said.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 83

Liber Aleph

…OK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 71 Br De Sri Krishna et de Dionyso (Of Sri Krishna, and of Dionysus) RISHNA has Names and Forms innumerable, and I know not His true Human Birth, for His Formula is of the Major Antiquity. But His Word hath spread into many Lands, and we know it to-day as INRI with the secret IAO concealed therein. And the Meaning of this Word is the Working of Nature in Her Changes; that is, it is the Formula of Magick whereby all Things reproduce and recreate themselves. Yet this Extension and Specialisation was rather the Word of Dionys…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 91

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…hiva. (Which is why adepts of this stage wear an eye as a badge.) Of this vision what can one say, save that the Universe, as previously known through Atmadarshana, is annihilated? Yet the negation of this phrase is only apparent ; the sense is that all that negative Atmadarshana is destroyed ; it is only an illusion that goes. Yet there is indeed Nothing in its place—and the only way to express the matter is to spell that Nothing with a capital N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 91

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…hiva. (Which is why adepts of this stage wear an eye as a badge.) Of this vision what can one say, save that the Universe, as previously known through Atmadarshana, is annihilated? Yet the negation of this phrase is only apparent ; the sense is that all that negative Atmadarshana is destroyed ; it is only an illusion that goes. Yet there is indeed Nothing in its place—and the only way to express the matter is to spell that Nothing with a capital N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 67

The Winged Beetle

…rsed, he Secretly laughed at the wrath of the Gods ; For, it chanced, he was not at all hungry or thirsty. So now, are you sure that you know how to use me ? It is certain the game is to win or to lose me ? It is you that stake all—I shall win at the odds ! All I risk is one thing—will you bore or amuse me ? The god in the garden am I with my gross Worn mouth, whose indulgence hath made it morose. I paw your soft flesh, and you waken a mood To lip you, to strip you, to study you close. You are cunning, I know—you stand out for your price ! But …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 81

The World’s Tragedy

…blood ? But who shall understand the Soul of Pan ? Involved in All and still apart from All ! For steeped therein as I am all my life, I know but exquisite beatitude, Knowing the whole, Then who shall know or care What may befall the part ? One must remain ; Many must change. Then all is well. The strife Is but the ferment of the forward still Immune from grief, intolerant of ill, Fronting the double foe — of pain and joy — With equal eye — in the meantime — Dear boy, Wake ! Let us revel it the while we may, Love dawning ever with the dawning d…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 205

The Star in the West

…nd blissful kingdom which shall be our beginning . Kant has said , the business of all philosophy is to answer the question “ What can I know ? ” Huxley , perhaps the astutest philosopher since the days of the magus of Königsberg , observes that it is impos sible to answer the question “ What can I know ? " unless in the first place there is a clear understanding of what is meant by knowledge , and in order to an swer this question , “ we must have recourse to that investigation of mental phenomena , the results of which are embodied in the sci…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 86

The Winged Beetle

…ld. Whereat he marvelled. In Eternity There only lived one wiser God than he. He posed his ‘ Why ? ’. “ Young God ! ” He made retort ; “ Know, the first matter of the Work is naught. “ Know, the pure gold is naught : for all decays. It is the Working of the Work that pays ! “ More, thou mistakest in thy mind of mist Matter for man, and dung for alchemist. “ Woman, for all thy skill of touch and tongue, Remains, poor poet ! only gilded dung. “ But thou, First Matter of the Work that art, Defiled by contact with her hemlock heart, “ Dost blacken …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 20

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ave. It is a better love, exists Only because of these below it: Mountains loom grander in the mists: The lover’s foolish to the poet. I know. Far better strive and earn The rest you give me than remain Ever upon the heights that burn Sunward, and quite forget the plain. Beauteous and bodiless we are; __ Rapture is our inheritance ; You shine, an everlasting star, I, the rough nebula: but whence, Whither, we know not. But we know That if our joy were always so We might not know it. Strange indeed This earth where all is paradox, Pushed to the t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX its horizons. To know all is an impossible dream; but woe unto him who dares not to learn all, and who does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally! They say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX its horizons. To know all is an impossible dream; but woe unto him who dares not to learn all, and who does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally! They say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 60

Songs of the Spirit

… semblance of the Man I love, And fountains and fresh grass by magic spell Are suddenly around me. And above I hear the voice my visions know so well : “ Well striven all this day against the power of Hell ! ” I know these mercies still diviner grow Each day I strive, but should I sit and rest One hour of dawn, and cry, “ I will not go Another step without more sleep,” that blest Dove flies away, the fountains are repressed, The grass is withered, and the angry sky Rages more fierce that day, and from the crest Of black foul mountains comes a b…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 76

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ny prayers, Or perfumes or libations. What must be Will be. Material succour ye demand In vain. But ye may purify yourselves. AMENHATEP. Knows then thy prophecy our final doom ? THE LEPER. , Inquire not of your fate! Myself do know, Mayhap. Ye shall know. I await the event.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 92

The Scented Garden

84 The kiss of consciousness, Human and Divine. XIX. The Cherry Tree I know a cherry-tree by Bendimir1 Whose blossom curves and sways upon the clear Eddies of light ; I have a cedar boat Whose cushions are of dove’s down2 ; let us steer Under that tree and lie alone together What time the West is grey, the stars appear. Then you shall love me as a virgin would ; Shudder a little with a little fear, But yield thy podex to my lotus-wand, Giving some smile twin sister to a tear, Just as the body shudders3 when the soul Gives up to Allah, in its ho…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 9

Oracles

…heart’s soft pulse did go, Devils had it in their bands. Doctors keep it in a row, Now, on varnished wooden stands : And I really do not know If it is in different hands.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 66

Konx Om Pax

…should certainly have brought it in justifiable homicide had the remark been Abel’s. Bowley. Our old friendship— Bones. All very well—you know I should never have made such a remark in real life and it’s dam bad form to give it me in a dialogue where I can’t help myself, but have to say exactly what you like. Bowley. Oh, come! I've given you all the best speeches. The Lord hath given—look out! Bones. I trust to your honour. Where were we? Anyway, I tell you this: it 's a ripping good formula as such. Bowley. Now we come down to the Black Magicia…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 124

The Mother’s Tragedy

I1O EPILOGUE And thou, Persephone, I know thy story, That I must taste the terror of thy wrong: How Hades ride across the promontory, Snatch my pale body in mid over-song ; Drag me from sight of my Apollo’s glory With horses strong. | Nay! as Apollo half the day is shrouded, As Artemis twice seven nights is dark; Surely he shines in other land unclouded, Surely her shaft shall find another mark. So dawns the day on Acheron ghost-crowded, And on my bark. I know not how yon world may prove, nor whither Hermes conduct me to what farther end. Yet i…

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