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1906 · PDF PAGE 48

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ne colour and one form With the dark leaves; but warm And capable of some diviner air. Her limbs were bare, her face supremely fair, Her soul one shapely splendour, Her voice indeed as tender As very silence: so he would not speak, But let his being fade: that all the past Grew shadowy and weak, And lost its life at last, Being mere dream to this that was indeed Life : and some utter need Of this one’s love grew up in him: he knew The spirit of that dew In his own soul; and this indeed was love. The faint girl bent above With fixed eyes close u…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 138

John St. John

…ness again died and was reborn as the divine, always without shock or stress. How easy is magic, once the way is found! How still is the soul! The turbid spate of emotion has ceased; the heavy particles of thought have sunk

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1912 · PDF PAGE 361

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ed, and of Tiphareth of Briah Turaverunt yaw 429 A lion’s whelp. aS [Gen. xl. 9] Judgment, equity [a)}2 a) pyaw 43° Nephesch, the animal soul of Man Covered with mist ; darkness, Aw) twilight wd) | 45 Membra ppb Full Title of Ninth phy TD" pus Sephirah. “The Righteous is the Foundation of the world” Concealed yey Tohu v-Bohu; see Gen.i. A) 9 Dew bn 431 Notarigon ppm 432 Eventide shadows ay by Earth of Jesod ban 7 433 Day Demon of r* Dec. @ ANDI Merit nor 434 The Lord of War. BMS WIN (Ex. xv. 3] ‘The letter Daleth; door nbs 3% (1—29) 435 Deceive…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 361

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ed, and of Tiphareth of Briah Turaverunt yaw 429 A lion’s whelp. aS [Gen. xl. 9] Judgment, equity [a)}2 a) pyaw 43° Nephesch, the animal soul of Man Covered with mist ; darkness, Aw) twilight wd) | 45 Membra ppb Full Title of Ninth phy TD" pus Sephirah. “The Righteous is the Foundation of the world” Concealed yey Tohu v-Bohu; see Gen.i. A) 9 Dew bn 431 Notarigon ppm 432 Eventide shadows ay by Earth of Jesod ban 7 433 Day Demon of r* Dec. @ ANDI Merit nor 434 The Lord of War. BMS WIN (Ex. xv. 3] ‘The letter Daleth; door nbs 3% (1—29) 435 Deceive…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 2

A Career for an Essay

…N PEOPLE, | ALICE. 21. fs TTHE SWORD OF SONG. 10% JEEHTHAR, 7.6 | Te STAR AND THE GARTER. 1 THE MOTHERS TRAGEDY. 5x ‘THE ARGONAUTS. ‘THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. 5 GOETIA. ats CARMEN SAECULARE. 2 6 WHY JESUS WEFT, a1, (OF which many are almost exhausted. ‘Competitors should order from this list or fom the annexed form.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 170

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…nd lack ; Agony hounds lagoan twist; _ I peak and struggle and grow thinner, And get to hate the sight of dinner. With sacred thirst, I, soul-hydroptic,! Read Levi? and the cryptic Coptic ;3 With ANET’ HER-K UAA EN RaA,! And SM 8I NAD While good MacGregor* (who taught freely us) Bade us investigate Cornelius Agrippa and the sorceries black Of grim Honorius and Abramelin ; ® While, fertile as the teeming spawn Of pickled lax or stickleback, Came ancient rituals,“ whack! whack ! Of Rosy Cross and Golden Dawn.$ * Truth-lover. 164 10 15 20 30

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1911 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e How subtly Fate Weaves its fine mesh, perceiving how to wait ; Or how accumulate The trifies that shall make it master yet Of the strong soul that bade itself forget. [A ciim rea’ light a'a'wns. BESZ enters, leading four PRo- BATIONERS who hear the Pastas. They ;71066 it before the attat/.] ARIES. What is this offering? BESZ. The eater of Flesh is my name. ARIES. Oh, our Lord, our Lord I Arise in thy might, and let thine enemies be scattered! [ARIES ana’ LEO draw vei/. The throne has been east down, On Με black weil i: a great Ved cross, whereo…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…e How subtly Fate Weaves its fine mesh, perceiving how to wait ; Or how accumulate The trifies that shall make it master yet Of the strong soul that bade itself forget. [A ciim rea’ light a'a'wns. BESZ enters, leading four PRo- BATIONERS who hear the Pastas. They ;71066 it before the attat/.] ARIES. What is this offering? BESZ. The eater of Flesh is my name. ARIES. Oh, our Lord, our Lord I Arise in thy might, and let thine enemies be scattered! [ARIES ana’ LEO draw vei/. The throne has been east down, On Με black weil i: a great Ved cross, whereo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 94

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…mbs, a vaulted splendour, Above the intolerable waste. Night the august one, night the tender (Jueens it and brides it unto me. I am the soul serenely free ; I dare to seek the austere ordeal That drags the hoodwink of the Real Back from the Maker’s livid eyes Lustred with hate. At noon I came Blind in the desert, saw the sun Leap o’er the edge, a fury of flame Shouting for rapture over his prize, The maiden body of earth. Outrun The violent rays; the dawn is dashed In one swift moment into dust. Long lies the Jand with sunlight splashed, Bruta…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 17

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ed, and the rosy day Leapt from beneath the splendours of the snow :— ‘Christ, ultimate master of man’s hateful foe, And lord of his own soul and fate, strikes still From man’s own heaven, against the lord of ill ;

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1912 · PDF PAGE 120

Mortadello

…ng wheel of snakes and snow ! [He attacks THE LEGATE, whose attendants flee in fear. THE LEGATE falls. THE LEGATE. Jesu have mercy on my soul ! I’m a dead man ! MORTADELLO. I’ll scalp thy cursèd shaven poll, proud pelican ! MONICA. [Rushing out of the church.] What ! will you see this madman take the Legate’s life ? Cowards ! I’ll face him first, although I am his wife. [She snatches a sword from a bystander and interposes. I am the Pope’s ! I am the Pope’s ! For God and Christ ! Now, Mortadello, we cross swords ! . . . One stroke sufficed. [Pu…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…sed to reason ; it is made necessary by love, it is identical with hope. To love is to believe and hope; and this triple outburst of the soul is called virtue, because, in order to make it, courage is necessary. But would there be any courage in that, if doubt were not possible? Now, to be able to doubt, is to doubt. Doubt is the force 1 This passage is typical of the sublime irony of Levi, and the key to the whole of his paradoxes.—TRANS. 14

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1913 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…sed to reason ; it is made necessary by love, it is identical with hope. To love is to believe and hope; and this triple outburst of the soul is called virtue, because, in order to make it, courage is necessary. But would there be any courage in that, if doubt were not possible? Now, to be able to doubt, is to doubt. Doubt is the force 1 This passage is typical of the sublime irony of Levi, and the key to the whole of his paradoxes.—TRANS. 14

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1922 · PDF PAGE 218

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ttle of poison. I wanted to get away from every one and everything. I didn’t know where I was going. I hated Peter from the depths of my soul. I would have given anything in the world—except the heroin—to be able never to see him again. But he had the money, why shouldn’t we enjoy our abject ruin as we had enjoyed our romance? Why not wallow in the moist, warm mire?

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1909 · PDF PAGE 406

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…HE CONTINUATION OF THE HERB DANGEROUS: “The Poem of Hashish,” translated from the French of Cuarces Baupevarre by AxzisteR Crow Ley. THE SOUL-HUNTER, unpublished pages from the Diary of Dr. Artur Lez, “ The Montrouge Vampire.” AN ORIGIN, by Victor B. Nevsurc. MR. TODD: A Morality, by the author of “ Rosa Mundi.” IN MANU DOMINZ:: A Black Mass. THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH, by Erne: Ramsay. &e 8 &ce. &e.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 406

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…HE CONTINUATION OF THE HERB DANGEROUS: “The Poem of Hashish,” translated from the French of Cuarces Baupevarre by AxzisteR Crow Ley. THE SOUL-HUNTER, unpublished pages from the Diary of Dr. Artur Lez, “ The Montrouge Vampire.” AN ORIGIN, by Victor B. Nevsurc. MR. TODD: A Morality, by the author of “ Rosa Mundi.” IN MANU DOMINZ:: A Black Mass. THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH, by Erne: Ramsay. &e 8 &ce. &e.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 593

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ual fervour, But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate connection between the forces ofthe body and the soul and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes ofself and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed. the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 593

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ual fervour, But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate connection between the forces ofthe body and the soul and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes ofself and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed. the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 181

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…t! Ah! O in the silence, in the dark, In the intangible, unperfumed, Ingust abyss, abide and mark The mind’s magnificence assumed In the soul’s splendour! Here is peace ; Here earnest of assured release. Here is the formless all-pervading Spirit of the World, rising, fading Into a glory subtler still. Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates. and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival. Peace! Peace! Silence of peace! O visionless abode! Cease! Cease! Through the dark veil press on! The veil Is rent asunder, the stars pale, The suns vani…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 103

John St. John

…le John St. John to meditate in comfort. For he is vowed solemnly “to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with his soul.” During lunch he will go on correcting his proofs. Lunch over, and the proofs read through. He will make a few decorations further in his Ritual, and perhaps design the Frontispiece and Colophon. He is very weary, and may sleep. He has done the illumination, as far as may be. He will now lie down as Hanged Man, and invoke Adonai. 101

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