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1905 · PDF PAGE 95

Oracles

… am one with all mankind : and the earth is made as we. The stars are spangles bright on the canopy of our bed, And the sun is a veil of light for my lover’s golden head.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… ! [SOR. SCORPIO takes crown of. [A pause. [BROTHER CAPRICORNUS a’anees the dance of Vii/ean to anvil-music in gradually increasing rea’ light, at 8114 rushes to throne and/ind: MARS and SCORPIO, their weafons laid aside, in each other’s arms.] BRO. CAPRICORNUS. Ah, wanton I [sex. SCORPIO takes m'a/in ana’ charms the qflena’ea' deity, who retirespaezfiea’fi] MARS. Brethren in arms, this is not defeat, but victory! For though I be dethroned, not to Me, not to our lady was the glory. For always is the true God hidden—behold ! [One turns on the white…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… ! [SOR. SCORPIO takes crown of. [A pause. [BROTHER CAPRICORNUS a’anees the dance of Vii/ean to anvil-music in gradually increasing rea’ light, at 8114 rushes to throne and/ind: MARS and SCORPIO, their weafons laid aside, in each other’s arms.] BRO. CAPRICORNUS. Ah, wanton I [sex. SCORPIO takes m'a/in ana’ charms the qflena’ea' deity, who retirespaezfiea’fi] MARS. Brethren in arms, this is not defeat, but victory! For though I be dethroned, not to Me, not to our lady was the glory. For always is the true God hidden—behold ! [One turns on the white…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 16

Liber Al vel Legis

…o find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men triumph in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the peo…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 28

Little Poems in Prose

… eas- ily as people generally say, Ten times running the experiment failed, but at the eleventh it succeeded much too well. Another will light a cigar close to a barrel of gunpowder in order to see, to know, to tempt Fate, to force himself to give proof of his en- ergy; to ape the gamester, to know the pleas- ures of anxiety; and this incited by caprice, by idleness, by nothing at all. This kind of energy springs from boredom and reverie, and those in whom it so obsti- nately appears are in general, as I have said, the most indolent and dreamy …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 96

Collected Works (Vol. III)

90 GARGOYLES This man with a light axe did lop The little branches at the top. Then said the poet: ‘‘ Thus why tax Your force? This double-handed axe Were better laid to the tree-trunk.” ~ ‘* Friend, are you natural, or drunk?” Replied the woodsman ; ‘‘ leaf and twig Divert the impact of the big Axe ; chop them first, the trunk is fit For a fair aim, a certain hit. How do you work yourself?” He spoke To empty space—the poet woke ; And catching up a carving-knife He slit the weasand of his wife. A NUGGET FROM A MINE. A MINER laboured in a mine. …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 176

The Star in the West

…l codes of the world . It is the moral prototype , the Favashi of the Zoroastrian , the Tree of Knowledge of Babylonia and Genesis , the Light and Darkness of Isaiah , the Yakheen and Boaz of Solomon , the Unique Athanor of the Qabalist , the Balance of Hegel ; the polarity of the worlds , the great centripetal and centrifugal forces , the harmony of the spheres , the path of the stars , the life of the universe . Without Vice there can be no Virtue , without Virtue there can be no Vice . Without the one , the other becomes absolutely incompreh…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 91

John St. John

…Kether, the Thaumiel, twin giant heads that hate and tear each other. For the horror and darkness have been unbelievable; yet again, the light and brilliance have been almost in- supportable. I was never so far, and never so near . . . But the hour approaches. Let me collect myself, and begin the new day in affirmation of my Unity with my Lord Adonai I The Eighth Day Thus the Eighth day, the Second Week, begins. I am in Asana. For some reason or other, Pranayarna is quite easy. Concentrating on Adonai, Iwas in Kam- bhakham for a whole minute wi…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 34

Mortadello

…You my betrothèd bride—athwart her corpse I stride ! Hide there beneath the porch ! I’ll strike upon the bell, Kindle the fatal torch to light her soul to hell. [He strikes the bell. MAGDALENA appears at the window, dressed. My Magdalena ! You are ready ? Love’s the tune ! Bare me your beauty to the night and the lagoon ! MAGDALENA. I am ready. [She disappears. ORLANDO. To meet God ! your sulky soul must glide In a darker boat than mine, and cross a colder tide. [MAGDALENA opens the door, and comes out. MAGDALENA. See ! but a silken shawl betwe…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 115

Little Poems in Prose

…, but not all, you may believe it, belonged to the lowest class or even to the vulgar. I have kept these letters. And then, of a sudden, light broke in my brain; I understood why the mother was so anxious to take away the cord, and by what commerce she proposed to console herself.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 62

Orpheus

…rs wild and fair Caught nymphwise in the kisses of the air, That flings our songs reverberate from steep to steep, Songs caught in solar light, we are shed Even down beyond the valleys of the dead, And smiled upon in groves ruled by the holy head. Great Pan hath heard us, children of his wooing, Great Pan, that listens to the forest, suing Vainly His peace that dwells even in the desolate halls. The delicately-chiselled flowers nod, Look to the skies, and see thee for a God, O sightless lyre that wails, O viewless voice that calls! Thy sound is…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 160

The Scented Garden

152 The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. Light springs and liberty is fair— o break the intoxicating jar ! It is enough that thou art Near, the shamer of the foolish Far, To glut thy jasmine podex on the member of thine El Qahar ; To glut thine almond member in the podex of thine El Qahar. 1. Riddle. In the Persian are perhaps concealed some details of the Poet’s life and amours. 2. Azrael — angel of death ; Israfel — of the last Judgement, bear respectively a sword and a trum- pet. We have taken Azrael though modern Per- sians usua…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 172

Liber Aleph

…ady to confront the Pyramid, if thou art established as a Sphinx. For It also hath the foursquare Base of Law, and the Four Triangles of Light, Life, Love and Liberty for its Sides, that meet in a Point of Perfection that is Hadith, poised to the Kiss of Nuith. But in this Pyramid there is no Difference of Form between the Sides, as it is in thy Sphinx, for these are wholly One, save in Direction. Thou art then an Harmony of the Four by Right of thy Attainment of Adeptship, the Crown of thy Manhood, but not an Identity, as in Godhead. Therefore…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 173

Liber Aleph

…bestoweth upon thee in thine Adultery with Her. They are then as a Vesture of Honour, and a Reward, that are won by the Intensity of thy Light and of thy Love. So perperly we esteem Men by the Measure of their Intelligence and their Strength, since they are equal in their essential Godhead, so far as concerneth the Quality thereof. See thou closely moreover into it, that if thou be well favoured of Our Lady, thy Lion and thy Dragon grow in like Measure, for the Excess of the Feminine is Dead Weight. The Intellectual without Virility is a Dreame…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 103

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… as the silver ore Plucked? by pale fingers slow In balmy Mexico, A king on thunder throned, his diadem The ruby rocks that flash The sunlight like a lash When sunlight touches, and sweeps over them A crown of light! Behold! The white seas touch the gold, And flame like flowers of fire about the prow. It is the hour for sleep :— Lulled by the moveless deep To sleep, sweet wife, to sleep! Yes, kiss me now ! Vv. THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE? THE wandering waters move about the world, And lap the sand, with quietest complaint Borne on the wings of dying br…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 208

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…conquest here? Where is Eurydice? The god hath faded Back to invisible abodes And on these rocky roads Comes no deep perfume of her hair light- braided. Alas! I listen ! and no breath Assures the walls of death That life remembers, that their hate is quelled. My ears, my scent avail. me nought; My slavish eyes are bought By the command wherewith I am compelled, Alas ! my heart sinks momently. Fear steals and misery. From faith in faith of Hell my thoughts dis- sever. Yet, O my heart! abide, endure! Seek not by sight to assure, Or she is lost to…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 246

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…efore they dwindle Make the cold air fire ; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes. Child of Light ! thy limbs are burning Through the vest which seems to hide them ; As the radiant lines of morning Through the clouds, ere they divide them ; And this atmosphere divinest Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinestl Fair are others ; none beholds thee, But thy voice sounds low and tender Like the fairest, for it folds thee From the sight, that liquid splendour, And all feel, yet see thee never, As I feel now,…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 246

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…efore they dwindle Make the cold air fire ; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes. Child of Light ! thy limbs are burning Through the vest which seems to hide them ; As the radiant lines of morning Through the clouds, ere they divide them ; And this atmosphere divinest Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinestl Fair are others ; none beholds thee, But thy voice sounds low and tender Like the fairest, for it folds thee From the sight, that liquid splendour, And all feel, yet see thee never, As I feel now,…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 166

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…mebeta. Zodacare od Zoda- meranul Odo 0103169331 Zodoreje, lape zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe I A I D A. THE EIGHTEENTH KEY Ο ΤΗου mighty Light and burning Flame of Comfort! that unveilest the Glory of God to the centre of the Earth, in whom the 6332 secrets 01 Truth have their abiding, that is called in thy kingdom “Joy" and not to be measured, Be thou 3 window 01 comfort unto me! Move and Appearl Unveil the mysteries of your Creation, be friendly unto me, for I am the servant 01 the same your God, the true worshipper 01 1116 highest, The Angle…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 166

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…mebeta. Zodacare od Zoda- meranul Odo 0103169331 Zodoreje, lape zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe I A I D A. THE EIGHTEENTH KEY Ο ΤΗου mighty Light and burning Flame of Comfort! that unveilest the Glory of God to the centre of the Earth, in whom the 6332 secrets 01 Truth have their abiding, that is called in thy kingdom “Joy" and not to be measured, Be thou 3 window 01 comfort unto me! Move and Appearl Unveil the mysteries of your Creation, be friendly unto me, for I am the servant 01 the same your God, the true worshipper 01 1116 highest, The Angle…

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