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1907 · PDF PAGE 177

The Star in the West

…Evolution . The growth of the protoplast into man , of evil into good . Khephra , god of the morning emerging from the black thunders of night . Above us flames the Zodiac , the sign of the Balance lies between Virgo and Scorpio , the eagle is the emblem of good , the scorpion of evil , the eagle winged serpent of Good and Evil ; and it is with this doctrine of Good and Evil that we shall now deal . As there was darkness before dobe formed the light , and as knowledge is the outcome of ignorance , so is also virtue the outcome of vice . ERITIS …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 21

The World’s Tragedy

…ute ; but I think I had thrown his fishing-rod into the loch, and thought that it was expedient for him to try and retrieve it. The same night he found me in the heather with Belle Mc. Kay the local beauty (God bless her !), and gave me up as a bad job. So I fought the swine ! They sent me to Malvern, where my weakness made me the prey of every bully, and saved me from the attention of every budding Eulenburg. Sodomy was the rule at Malvern ; my study-companion used even to take money for it. I cunningly used my knowledge of the fact to get tak…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 168

The Vision and the Voice

…nifest unto us even the Mystery of the First Aethyr. (Here followeth the Call of the Aethyr.) The veil of the Aethyr is like the veil of night, dark azure, full of countless stars. And because the veil is infinite, at first one seeth not the winged globe of the sun that burneth in the centre thereof. Profound peace filleth me,—beyond ecstasy, beyond thought, beyond being itself, IAIDA. (This word means “I am,” but in a sense entirely beyond being.) (Note.—In Hebrew letters it adds to 26. In Hebrew letters the name of the Aethyr is 70, ayin; but…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… shall pale—and that alone can guide. For as the lingering sunbeam, that on the top of some tall moun- tain shines, is followed by black night when out it fades, so is 100

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1906 · PDF PAGE 17

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…e draught. sigh ; No change of breast; love’s posture perfectly Once gained, we change no more. The fever grows Hotter or cooler, as the night wind blows Fresh gusts of passion on the outer gate. But we, in waves of frenzy, concentrate Our thirsty mouths on that hot drinking cup, Whence we may never suck the nectar up Too often or too hard ; fresh fire invades Our furious veins, and the unquiet shades Of night make noises in the darkened room. Yet, did I raise my head, throughout the gloom I might behold thine eyes as red as fire A tigress madd…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 23

Berashith

…n in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing. a straw, who was at the soirée of the Carlton Club last Monday night; no doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cow-elephant desiring her bull in the jungles of Geylon.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 217

The Star in the West

210 THE STAR IN THE WEST carouse of the night , and ourselves become as Gods , shall we conceive God . Hic labor , hoc opus est : This is my secret —in a man's delight To lose the stubborn ecstasy for God ! To thus clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell — in the profoundest sky ! This knowledge , the true immortality , I came unto through pain and tears , Tigerish hopes , and serpent loves , and dragon fears , Most bitter kisses , salted springs and dry ; In those deep caverns and slow -moving years , When dwelt I , in the Mount…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 90

Mortadello

… the marriage feast of God begun. There is a song that never tires, and there a light More sweet and strong than all the fires of day or night There is a taste, a savour shed ; is honey sweet, Is moon-wort chaste ? Its flavour fed the Paraclete ! There is a grace and a perfume no earthly bower Showers from its space of lily-bloom and passion flower. There is a touch, sublime, caress beyond all kisses Kissed overmuch in love’s distress—they are not as this is ! Ah, me unworthy of the love of God ! me stained With every sin, and bruised with ever…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 76

John St. John

… white dove tremblingupon Thine altar, its throat stretched out to the knife. I am as a young child bought in the slave-market . . . and night is fallen! I await Thee, Ο my Lord, with a great longing, stronger than Life; yet am I as patient as Death. There was a certain Darwesh whose turban a thief stole. But when they said to him, “ See ! he hath taken the road to Damascus !" that holy man answered, as he went quietly to the cemetery, “I will await him here ! " So, therefore, there is one place, O thou thief of my heart’s love, Adonai, to whic…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 119

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…een taught by her whose purity and strength are even as Earth’s, chosen before the foundation of Time. Lioness with lion, may we walk by night among the ruins 01 great cities, when, weary with happiness too great even 101 our immortality, we turn from the fragrance and fertility 01 Earth. And at the sunrise return where the peopled valleys call us; where, bronzed and buoyant, our children sing aloud as they drive home the spade. Glory be to the Earth and to the Sun and to the holy body and soul of Man ; and glory be to Love and to the Father 01…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 119

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…een taught by her whose purity and strength are even as Earth’s, chosen before the foundation of Time. Lioness with lion, may we walk by night among the ruins 01 great cities, when, weary with happiness too great even 101 our immortality, we turn from the fragrance and fertility 01 Earth. And at the sunrise return where the peopled valleys call us; where, bronzed and buoyant, our children sing aloud as they drive home the spade. Glory be to the Earth and to the Sun and to the holy body and soul of Man ; and glory be to Love and to the Father 01…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 424

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…room. One of them had a habit of talking in his sleep, and, at that time, would answer the questions which his com- rade put to him. One night, he suddenly uttered stifled cries; his companion woke up and asked him what was the matter. “But, don’t you see,” said the sleeper, “don’t you see that enormous stone . . . it is becoming loose from the mountain . it is falling on me, it is going to crush me.” “Oh, well, get out of its way!” “Impossible! My feet are caught in brambles that cling ever closer. Ah! Help! Help! There is the great stone comi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 424

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…room. One of them had a habit of talking in his sleep, and, at that time, would answer the questions which his com- rade put to him. One night, he suddenly uttered stifled cries; his companion woke up and asked him what was the matter. “But, don’t you see,” said the sleeper, “don’t you see that enormous stone . . . it is becoming loose from the mountain . it is falling on me, it is going to crush me.” “Oh, well, get out of its way!” “Impossible! My feet are caught in brambles that cling ever closer. Ah! Help! Help! There is the great stone comi…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 218

Moonchild

… smoking opium "chez Zizi," a delightful girl who lived with a brilliant young English journalist [307] on the Boulevard M Marcel. At midnight, serenely confident that God was in his heaven, as asserted by the late Robert Browning, they decided to finish the night at Cyril's studio. Here

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1909 · PDF PAGE 242

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…hee . . . O silver Christ. . . .” Then all was Nothingness . . . nothing... nothing... nothing; and madly his horse carried him into the night. Thus he set out on his mystic quest towards that goal which he had seen, and which seemed so near; and yet, as we shall learn, proved to be so far away. In the first volume of the diaries, we find him deep in the study of the Alchemistic philosophers. Poring over Paracelsus, Benedictus Figulus, Eugenius and Eirenzeus Philalethes, he sought the Alchemical Azoth, the Catholicon, the Sperm of the World, th…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 242

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…hee . . . O silver Christ. . . .” Then all was Nothingness . . . nothing... nothing... nothing; and madly his horse carried him into the night. Thus he set out on his mystic quest towards that goal which he had seen, and which seemed so near; and yet, as we shall learn, proved to be so far away. In the first volume of the diaries, we find him deep in the study of the Alchemistic philosophers. Poring over Paracelsus, Benedictus Figulus, Eugenius and Eirenzeus Philalethes, he sought the Alchemical Azoth, the Catholicon, the Sperm of the World, th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 43

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… left retaining a stiffer and curved appearance. Lionel felt ashamed of himself. He took his watch in his hand and looked at the time of night. * For reasons which are obvious to anyone who has mixed the Gluten of the White Eagle with the Red Powder, or accomplished the Third Projection, the order of the Tarot trumps cannot any longer be preserved. Nor will their number here exceed seven, 31

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1910 · PDF PAGE 43

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… left retaining a stiffer and curved appearance. Lionel felt ashamed of himself. He took his watch in his hand and looked at the time of night. * For reasons which are obvious to anyone who has mixed the Gluten of the White Eagle with the Red Powder, or accomplished the Third Projection, the order of the Tarot trumps cannot any longer be preserved. Nor will their number here exceed seven, 31

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1922 · PDF PAGE 77

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…HEROINE I STOPPED the taxi in the Place du Tertre. We wanted to walk along the edge of the Butte and let our gaze wander over Paris. The night was delicious. Nowhere but in Paris does one experience that soft suave hush ; the heat is dry, the air is light, it is quite unlike anything one ever gets in England. A very gentle breeze, to which our fancy attributed the redolence of the South, streamed up from the Seine. Paris itself was a blur of misty blue; the Pantheon and the Eiffel Tower leapt from its folds. They seemed like symbols of the hist…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…. Dr. F. Then you mustn’t tell her. W. S. I’m not going to. But she’ll guess. Mothers seem to feel things. Look here, dec., I'm on for a night with the Indians. I‘ll have forgotten about it myself by to-morrow That’s the best way. Dr. F. I’m with you. And in the meantime, remember we doctors know very little. Mrs. Β. (coming forward) I wouldn't believe the whole lot of them if they said I had to die to—morrow. Dr. F. Quite right. [DR. BOB‘S (Be/L SERVANT 6711665 and flows JANE z'm‘o eoizszz/lz‘ng—roo/IL] Dr. F. I’ll be with you in a moment, Jane…

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