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1910 · PDF PAGE 69

The Winged Beetle

…ed life to the lees ! And I—I shall yawn at the end, I’m afraid. When Christ was in hell, Satan came—how he sneered ! “ How’s this for a God ” and he laughed at His beard : “ After Heaven ? and Palestine ? ”—meant to offend. How mild the reply of the Saviour appeared ! “ Between heaven and hell it were easy to choose : These ashes are scarce worth celestial dews. But at least—if you must have it ! Satan, my friend, Your hell may be hot—but I do bar the Jews ! ”

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1913 · PDF PAGE 37

The Book of Lies

…s a symptom of Thought. Yet, silence is but the negative side of Truth; the positive side is beyond even silence. Nevertheless, One True God crieth 2rzliu! And the laughter of the Death-rattle is akin.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 103

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…n of the symbols which he draws. This circle may then be initiated by a circumambulation, during which the magician invokes the names of God that are on it. Any person without sufficient ingenuity to devise proper methods of préparation for the other articles required is unlikely to make much of a magician; and we shall only waste space if we deal in detail with the préparation of each instrument. There is a definite instruction in Liber A vel Armorum, in the Equinox, Volume I, Number IV, as to the Lamp and the Four Elemental Weapons. — 6?

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1930 · PDF PAGE 89

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…hen formulate In thine own mind, luminous, concentrate, The Lion of the Light, a child that stands On the vast shoulders of the Steed of God: Or winged, or shooting flying shafts, or shod With the flame-sandals. Then, lift up thine hands! Centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought Limpid with brilliance of the Light above! Draw into naught Ail life, death, hatred, love: Ail self concentred in the sole desire — Hear thou the Voice of Fire!” ~ 293 —

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1911 · PDF PAGE 127

The Vision and the Voice

…planted upon the holy hill of Zion. Now again I stand in the centre, and all things whirl by with incessant fury. And the thought of the god entereth my mind, and I cry aloud: Behold, the volatile is become fixed; and in the heart of eternal motion is eternal rest. So is the Peace beneath the sea that rageth with her storms; so is the changeful moon, the dead planet that revolveth no more. So the far-seeing, the far-darting hawk is poised passionless in the blue; so also the ibis that is long of limb meditateth soli- tary in the sign of Sulphur…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 92

Moonchild

10 Chapter HOW THEY GATHERED THE SILK FOR THE WEAVING OF THE BUTTERFLY-NET CYRIL GREY made the midnight invocation to the Sun-God, Khephra, the Winged Beetle, upon the crest of the Long Rocher; and he made the morning invocation to the Sun-God, Ra, the Hawk, upon the heights that overlooked the hamlet of Barbizon. Thence, like Chanticleer himself, he woke the people of the Inn, who, in memory of the days Stevenson had spent with them, honour his ashes by emulating the morality of Long John Silver. They were prepared for the breakfast order; but…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 29

Songs of the Spirit

…, and poor fingers grope For those far truths that mock our vague en- deavour, Whilst we may find in thee the secrets grey Of all things God would fain have hid for ever. 19

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1898 · PDF PAGE 113

Songs of the Spirit

…censer (that a cherub swings) Blossomed with wings And floated up, an incense-breathing bird, With songs half heard Before the throne of God. Even so this life Of sordid strife Is made most holy, beautiful, and pure, By this desire, if this desire endure. So to the altar of the Highest aspire Those souls whose fire Has on it cast one grain of pure incense, (Who guesses—whence ?) Those souls that cast their trammels off, and spring On eager wing, 103

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1898 · PDF PAGE 118

White Stains

…ove too soft to hold. No dove that Hylas knew, No dove that Sappho kissed, Nor in wide Heaven there grew This child of stranger dew Than God’s good spirit wist. Yet his wings bare him high, Divine beyond control, And, like for love to die, I felt his arrow fly Within my very soul. Ah Love ! the ambiguous kiss, Not man’s nor woman’s touch, In that ecstatic bliss— Not hell’s heat, as I wis, Had warmed us overmuch.

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1901 · PDF PAGE 88

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ause of—this Skeleton key to charnel-house. My kiss Is the dog’s kiss to Lazarus his ulcers! Mock me, ye clinging lovers, at your peril! God turns to dust the blossom of your youth. The fruit of lust is poisonous with—truth! Its immortality is—to be sterile! This lie of Love hath no abiding: ‘‘Two loves are ended; one, the infant band, Rises more splendid.” Spin the rope of sand! Two loves are one; but O to their dividing! Fertility—distaste’s adoption ! Her body’s growth—desire’s mortality! I look and loathe. Behold how lovers die, And immorta…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 132

Tannhäuser

…ealize utterly how mean, how dull, How fruitless is Philosophy ! Elizabeth. Indeed My brain is baffled. But I see your point. Talking of God, even imagining. Insane! But for aspiring — that I will ! Tannhauser. That is true marriage, in my estimate. Aspire together to one Deity .-' Yes ! But to love thee otherwise than that ? Elizabeth. This one thing clearly do I understand : We shall not marry. It is well, my lord. Tannhauser. Miserable, miserable me ! I bring Hate and disruption and unhappiness Unto all purity I chance to touch. I have no ho…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 153

Oracles

… to the Western main ! Shalt thou be silent ? thou forget ? Are there no snakes in Ireland yet ? Death to the Saxon ! Slay nor spare ! O God of Justice, hear us swear ! The iron Saxon’s bloody hand Metes out his murder on the land. The light of Erin is forlorn. The country fades : the people mourn. Of land bereft, of right beguiled, Starved, tortured, murdered, or exiled ; Of freedom robbed, of faith cajoled, In secret councils bought and sold ! Their weapons are the cell, the law, The gallows, and the scourge, to awe Brave Irish hearts : their…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 167

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…. Neuburg . THE CREATION OF EVE. (After Blake ' s Picture .) SOFTLY she rises , with a child 's clear eyes ; The male still sleeps , the god instructeth her Who , with his fellows , did of late confer On her , who should complete this paradise ; In perfect wisdom he has made her rise ; She stands new - born , the utmost worshipper , For in her being 's depths doth slowly stir The royal knowledge : she is wholly wise . The mystic moon o' erhangs her , whence of late The gods to earth transferred their charge , and she , The perfect Mother of the…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 361

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… as the precursor of verses 88 and 89. 89. Behold! thou hast become the Light, thou hast be- come the Sound, thou art thy Master and thy God. Thou art THYSELF the object of thy search: the VOICE unbroken, that resounds throughout eternities, exempt from change, from sin exempt, the Seven Sounds in one, THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE Om Cat Sat. This is a pure peroration, and clearly involves an ego- centric metaphysic. The style of the whole treatise is characteristically occi- dental. 39

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1928 · PDF PAGE 154

Little Poems in Prose

… beloved mad girl had invited me to dinner, and through the open window of the dining-room I contemplated the moving archi- tecture that God has made of vapour, the mar- vellous buildings of the impalpable, and I said to myself in my contemplation, “All these phantasmagoria are almost as beautiful as the eyes of my beautiful, wild girl with the green eyes.” And then, suddenly, I received a violent blow in the back, and I heard a raucous, charming voice, an hysterical voice, a voice made hoarse by brandy, the voice of my dear, small, well-belove…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 177

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…saw The very limits of the law That 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 mysteriou…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 28

Household Gods

… at her breast. There is a wild Way also—when his dumbness is of death, And there’s a first and second death. Remember To die so that no god's or ange!’s breath May quicken into life the wasted ember! Crassus. lam dead now. Auta. But I must raise you up. The night grows darker; all Pan's light is gone, And you and I are pledged to sup Upon a secret. Crassus. All your secret shone. [She laughs again. Auicta. Oh, when you know it! But you must divine Adela’s shrine. 3

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1912 · PDF PAGE 272

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…up again, There came a spadger hawk And spied the snuggery, And with his claws he tore That to There came a thunderbolt From the hand of God ; It hit that spadger hawk And killed the There is a moral Το this moral story— If you goes up the spout You goes to glory.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 272

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…up again, There came a spadger hawk And spied the snuggery, And with his claws he tore That to There came a thunderbolt From the hand of God ; It hit that spadger hawk And killed the There is a moral Το this moral story— If you goes up the spout You goes to glory.

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1944 · PDF PAGE 90

The Book of Thoth

…ion and perhaps renovation of life. The legend of the Gospels, dealing with the Greater Mysteries of the Lance and the Cup (those of the god Iacchus Iao) as superior to the Lesser Mysteries (those of the God Ion=Noah, and the N‐gods in general) in which the Sword slays the god that his head may be offered on a Plate, or Disk, says: And a soldier with a spear pierced his side; and thereforth there came out blood and water. This Wine, collected by the Beloved Disciple and the Virgin‐Mother, waiting beneath the Cross or Tree for that purpose, in a…

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