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1912 · PDF PAGE 231

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…II THE LORD OF MATERIAL WORKS Tlla/ee of Pg;/[lades A VVHITE—WINGEDAngelic Hand,as before, holding a branch of a rose tree, of which two white rosebuds touch and sur— mount the topmost Pentacle. The Pentacles are arranged in an equilateral triangle. Above and below the symbols :3 and vj. Working and constructive force, building up, creation, erection; realization and increase of material things; gain in commercial transactions, rank; increase of substance, influ— ence, cleverness in business, selfishness. Commencement of matters to be established…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 120

The World’s Tragedy

THE WHITE WIND. 67 With face averted that constrains me to him — And this blind worm is avarice. Let me woo him ! Sweet God ! I’ll serve thee. This is Piety Twin-bodied with Hypocrisy that darts His icy slime into my heart of hearts. Here cringing Pity my wet womb inflates, And puffed-out Charity with loose red cheeks And greasy eyes. The Bigotry that sneaks Home to my home ; and once installed there, hates The bleeding wound his mouth is fastened on ; And here is Chastity that slavering sates His lust without the walls, grins, and is gone, Pre…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 112

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…Like sunlight where the wake Was wonderful with flakes of living things That leapt for joy to feel The cold exultant keel Flash, and the white ship dip her woven wings ; Nights when the moon would hold Her lamp of whitest gold To see us on the poop together set With one desire, to be Alone upon the sea And touch soft hands, and hold white bosoms yet, And see in silent eyes More stars than all the skies Together hold within their limits gray, To watch the red lips move For slow delight of love Till the moon sigh and sink, and yield her sway Unto…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 17

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

PRAMONSTRANCE A MANIFESTO OF THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The Preemonstrator of the A.. A.. wishes it to be known that the period of silence, which (according to the Rule of the Order) lasts during every alternate five years, will end at the Equinox of Spring in the year 1919 of the vulgar era. He wishes to call attention to the general principles of the Great White Brotherhood, which is also known as the Primarily, this Body exists for the purpose of conferring Initiation. Secondarily, It prepare…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 127

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…lessened by sublime satiety, But rather crescent, hotter with the flame Of its own burning, that consumes it not, Because it is the pure white flame of God. I shudder, holding thee to me ; thy gaze Is still on me; a thousand years have passed, And yet a thousand thousand ; years they are As men count years, and yet we stand and gaze With touching hands and lips immutable As mortals stand a moment;... The universe is One: One Soul, One Spirit, One Flame, One infinite God, One infinite Love. SONNET TO CLYTIE. CiyTit, beyond all praise, thou goodl…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 60

White Stains

…d room. Yet, did I raise my head, throughout the gloom I might behold thine eyes as red as fire, A tigress maddened with supreme desire. White arms that clasp me, fervent breast that glides An eager snake, about my breast and sides, And white teeth keen to bite, red tongue that tires, And lips ensanguine with unfed desires, Hot breath and hands, dishevelled hair and head, Thy fevered mouth like snakes’ mouths crimson red, A very beast of prey ; and I like thee, Fiery, unweary, as thou art of me. But raise no head ; I know thee, breast and thigh…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 109

Magick Without Tears

…y truly courageous intelligence to the determination to escape from the ferule of the Black Schoolmaster to the outstretched arms of the White Mistress of Life. Let us leave the sinister figure of Schopenhauer for the mysteriously radiant shape of Spinoza! This latter philosopher, in respect at least of his Pantheism, represents fairly enough the fundamental thesis of the White Tradition. Almost the first observation that we have to make is that this White tradition is hardly discoverable outside Europe. It 2. N.B. Christianity was in its fust …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 131

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…y projection, and thence up Popocatapetl, encamped on whose slopes he resolved the w of w into seven Mental Operations: 1. Ray of Divine White Brilliance descending upon the Akasic Egg set between the two pillars. 2. Aspire by the Serpent, and concentrate on Flashing Sword. Imagine the stroke of the Sword upon the Daath junction (nape of neck). 3. Make the Egg grow gray, by a threefold spiral of light. 4. Make the Egg grow nearly white. (Repeat spiral formula.) 5. Repeat 2. Above head. Triangle of Fire (red). 6. Invoke Light. Withdraw. See Gold…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 131

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…y projection, and thence up Popocatapetl, encamped on whose slopes he resolved the w of w into seven Mental Operations: 1. Ray of Divine White Brilliance descending upon the Akasic Egg set between the two pillars. 2. Aspire by the Serpent, and concentrate on Flashing Sword. Imagine the stroke of the Sword upon the Daath junction (nape of neck). 3. Make the Egg grow gray, by a threefold spiral of light. 4. Make the Egg grow nearly white. (Repeat spiral formula.) 5. Repeat 2. Above head. Triangle of Fire (red). 6. Invoke Light. Withdraw. See Gold…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 11

An Appeal to the American Republic

The broad Pacific brightens into blue, And coral isles are white with beating flame Of living water on their strand, live through With million flames candescent as the dew, Red flowers too queenly for a mortal name ! The sea is pregnant with green stars ; the land, The sky, like lovers stand With kiss half-consciously exchanged, hand fast in hand. O lovers fair and free, the wings of peace Bear this voice onward ; linger as your will By moon-wrought glades, and softly murmuring seas, Lands white with summer, and the quiet leas ! Linger, and let…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 104

Sir Palamedes

Yet, those white lips were snapped, like steel Upon the ankles of a slave! That body broken on the wheel Of Time suppressed the groan it gave! “Not there, not here, my quest!” he cried. “Not thus! Not now! Do how and when Matter? Iam, and I abide, Sir Palamede the Saracen!”

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1899 · PDF PAGE 14

An Appeal to the American Republic

…riend, Your loyal hand extend, Let freedom, peace and faith grow stronger to the end. O child of freedom, thou art very fair ! Thou hast white roses on thy eager breast, The scent of all the South is in thy hair, Thy lips are fragrant with the blossoms rare Blown under sea waves when the white wings rest ! Come to our warrior breast, where victory Sits passionate and free— Ring out the wild salute ! Our sister over sea ! CHISWICK PRESS CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON

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1899 · PDF PAGE 12

An Appeal to the American Republic

Burn, changeful purple of the vine’s cool stream ! Burn, like the sunset of a stormy sky When white winds gather, and white horses gleam Upon the ocean, and the meadows steam With haze of thunder, when the crimson eye Dips, and deep darkness falls and lies, and breaks In lightning’s awful flakes, When thunder unto thunder calls and the storm awakes. With maddening hoofs, ye coursers of the sun, Spurn the reverberant air and paw the day, Make east and west indissolubly one, And night fall beaten, for its day is spun, And bid light gird its sword…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 224

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…metimes selfish, sometimes unselfish. Herein rule the Great Angels?לאלזיand 5mm. XXVIII THE LORD OF SORROW Three of Swords or Sþem's THREE White Radiating Angelic Hands, issuing from clouds, and holding three swords upright (as though the central sword had struck apart the two others, which were crossed in the preceding symbol): the central sword cuts asunder the rose of five petals, which in the previous symbol grew at the junction of the swords; its petals are falling, and no white rays issue from it. Above and below the central sword are the sy…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 224

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…metimes selfish, sometimes unselfish. Herein rule the Great Angels?לאלזיand 5mm. XXVIII THE LORD OF SORROW Three of Swords or Sþem's THREE White Radiating Angelic Hands, issuing from clouds, and holding three swords upright (as though the central sword had struck apart the two others, which were crossed in the preceding symbol): the central sword cuts asunder the rose of five petals, which in the previous symbol grew at the junction of the swords; its petals are falling, and no white rays issue from it. Above and below the central sword are the sy…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 13

Jezebel

JEZEBEL 9 To thy white skull, thy palms, thy feet, Clinging, dead, infamous, complete. Now let me die, to mix my soul With thy red soul, to join our hands, To weld us in one perfect whole, To link us with desirous bands. Now let me die, to mate in hell With thee, O harlot Jezebel.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 73

White Stains

RONDELS 67 How the fond ruby rapier glides and slips ’ Twixt the white hills thou spreadest for me there ; How my red mouth immortal honey sips From thy ripe kisses, and sucks nectar rare When each the shrine of God Priapus clips In hot mouth passionate more than man may bear, Boy of red lips !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 129

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ht; third the rose as a circle dextro-rotary). (3) The LVX signs in 5° =6° towards the four cardinal points. (4) Formulate before you in white flashing brilliance the eight letters thus: x (5) Attach yourself to your Kether and imagine you see a 7 white light there. YONTIITN (6) Having thus formulated the letters, take a deep breath h and pronounce the name slowly making the letters flash. x (7) Invoke the Telesmatic image. Let it fill the Universe. 5 (8) Then whilst once again vibrating the Name absorb it y into yourself; and then will your au…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 129

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ht; third the rose as a circle dextro-rotary). (3) The LVX signs in 5° =6° towards the four cardinal points. (4) Formulate before you in white flashing brilliance the eight letters thus: x (5) Attach yourself to your Kether and imagine you see a 7 white light there. YONTIITN (6) Having thus formulated the letters, take a deep breath h and pronounce the name slowly making the letters flash. x (7) Invoke the Telesmatic image. Let it fill the Universe. 5 (8) Then whilst once again vibrating the Name absorb it y into yourself; and then will your au…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 68

The Book of Thoth

…sents the two‐headed eagle crowned with a crimson disk. This represents the red tincture of the alchemist, of the nature of gold, as the white eagle shown in Atu III pertains to his consort, the Empress, and is lunar, of silver. It is finally to be observed that the white light which descends upon him indicates the position of this card in the Tree of Life. His authority is derived from Chokmah, the creative Wisdom, the Word, and is exerted upon Tiphareth, the organized man.

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