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1922 · PDF PAGE 189

Diary of a Drug Fiend

CHAPTER III THE GRINDING OF THE BRAKES September 9 PETER and I have had a long, nasty quarrel, and I had to pull his hair for him. It broke one of my nails. I’ve let them go very long. I don’t know when I was manicured last. For some reason, they're dry and brittle. I must have them done. I’d send the boy out, but I don’t like the idea of a strange girl coming here. One never knows what may go wrong. It doesn’t really matter, either. The body is merely a nuisance, and it hurts. “So blood wrenches its pain Sardonic through heart and brain.” I am…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 12

Orpheus

…amined), and are about to let it loose on society. The remaining books all share this fatal lack of Archi- tecture ; but they are not so long ; there is some incident, though not much ; and they dre proportionately less dull. Further, the scheme is no longer so ambitious, and the failure is therefore less glaring. I might have done like Burton and his Kasidah, and kept the MS. for twenty years (if I live so long), ever revising it. But (a) I should certainly not live twenty years if I had the accursed manuscript in all sorts and sizes of type a…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 17

Handbook of Geomancy

… 5 5 Son Dau. 5 Son Sickness 7 | Health| Health | Health| Health| Health| Health| Asc. In danger Prison 8 | Death | Come | Come | Come | Long | Come |Late out| Slow out out out out Journey 9 | Med. | Good | Good | Med. | Soon | Med. | Evil | Slow return Thing Lost 10] Found | Not | Found | Not | Found | Found | Found | Found found found Lw. ee * : 32 Amassto “ : : Life, &o. 1| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med, | Mea. | Evia | Evil Money, &, 2| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Mea, | Evil | Evi | Mea. Rank, &, 3 | Med. | Med. | Evil | Good | Mea. | Me…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 5

The Heart of the Master

… I must not sleep because I am a soldier. But of what captain, in what war? I cannot guess. There is but a dim shape as of some disaster long, oh! very long ago—the dusty memory of some leader who failed, some plan that broke its spine—I am sure of this: that all discipline is done, all courage quashed, all purpose perished. Behind me—strange!—the gloom is less obscure than in the East to which the eyes yearn feebly. Do I feel it by instinct—the form of a vast pyramidal hill of stark black rock? I am too weary to turn my head to look. All of a …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 13

Tale of Archais

PROLOGUE 5 From the poppy’s crimson cup, And the mountain’s hoary mass ; Sea and land are filled with song, God, whom we mistrusted long, We perceive to be a friend : Man at last with flower and tree, Bird and butterfly and bee, Earth and fire and air and sea, Will his voice divinely blend In a song, whose holy incense up to Heaven shall ascend And the souls that stand and shiver On the borders of the River, Shall their arms extend Unto Death as to a lover, knowing Death is not the End.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 53

777

…wy DyNy The Small Point. The Profuse Giver. The Primordial Point. The White Head. Amen. Lux occulta. Mirum occultum. Inscrutable Height. Long of Nose. Long of Face. The Ancient of Days. (Also name of seven inferiors !) VAN WN AN YDINYT NP NY NWID NDINY DIY IN MDT NOY wry OOD NN dy son noo aw Existence of Existences. Ancient of Ancient Ones Holy Ancient One. Lux simplicissima. Concealed of the Con- cealed. The Head. Lux interna. The Most High. He. The Head which is Not. LinE 2.—Chokmah has additional titles :-— non Power of Yetzirah. * of Tetrag…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 573

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES that is little more than the prolongation of old age, and one has the right to ask from the science which we profess other privileges and other secrets. To be a long time young, or even to become young again, that is what would appear desirable and precious to the majority of men. Is it possible? We shall examine the question. The famous Count of Saint-Germain is dead, we do not doubt, but no one ever saw him grow old. He appeared always of the age of forty years, and at the time of his greatest celebrity, he pretended …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 573

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES that is little more than the prolongation of old age, and one has the right to ask from the science which we profess other privileges and other secrets. To be a long time young, or even to become young again, that is what would appear desirable and precious to the majority of men. Is it possible? We shall examine the question. The famous Count of Saint-Germain is dead, we do not doubt, but no one ever saw him grow old. He appeared always of the age of forty years, and at the time of his greatest celebrity, he pretended …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 199

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…eep, sleep to-night. Our arms are intertwined, Breath desires breath and hand imprisons hand, Breezes cool faces, rosy with the brand Of long sweet kisses; sun shall dawn and find Two lovers who have passed the land Of sleep—and found Death kind.

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1954 · PDF PAGE 457

Magick Without Tears

…ment as to the general rules of your own private Code of Morals, what is 'right' and what is 'wrong' for you, that will emerge only from long self-analysis such as is the chief work of the Sword in the process of your Initiation. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1909 · PDF PAGE 161

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… 5 5 Son Dau. 5 Son Sickness 7 | Health| Health | Health| Health| Health| Health| Asc. In danger Prison 8 | Death | Come | Come | Come | Long | Come |Late out| Slow out out out out Journey 9 | Med. | Good | Good | Med. | Soon | Med. | Evil | Slow return Thing Lost 10] Found | Not | Found | Not | Found | Found | Found | Found found found Lw. ee * : 32 Amassto “ : : Life, &o. 1| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med, | Mea. | Evia | Evil Money, &, 2| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Mea, | Evil | Evi | Mea. Rank, &, 3 | Med. | Med. | Evil | Good | Mea. | Me…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 161

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… 5 5 Son Dau. 5 Son Sickness 7 | Health| Health | Health| Health| Health| Health| Asc. In danger Prison 8 | Death | Come | Come | Come | Long | Come |Late out| Slow out out out out Journey 9 | Med. | Good | Good | Med. | Soon | Med. | Evil | Slow return Thing Lost 10] Found | Not | Found | Not | Found | Found | Found | Found found found Lw. ee * : 32 Amassto “ : : Life, &o. 1| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med, | Mea. | Evia | Evil Money, &, 2| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Mea, | Evil | Evi | Mea. Rank, &, 3 | Med. | Med. | Evil | Good | Mea. | Me…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 60

Collected Works (Vol. I)

Long avenues of sleepy trees And Lowers arched with love, And kisses woven for a breeze, And lips that scarcely move, Save as long ripples on the seas, That murmur like a dove. T saw the burning lips of God Set fast on Mary’s face, I saw the Christ, with fire shod, Walk through the holy place, And the lilies rosier where he trod Blushed for a little space. I saw myself, and still I sang With lips in clearer tune, Like to the nightingale’s that rang Through all those nights of June ; Such nights when stars in slumber hang Beneath the quiet moon.…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 93

Songs of the Spirit

… God ! what eyes ! The souls grown sharp and strong That my lips made their prize, The ruined souls, the wrecks Of bodies fair of flecks Long since, ere God did vex My soul with sacrifice. Pale youth and bloodless maiden Whose breasts have bled, With wrath or mercy laden, By love or terror led, Reproachful or reviling, Some pure and some defiling, Some fearful and some smiling, Some living and some dead. 83

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1910 · PDF PAGE 128

Ambergris

…! Adonis, awake ! Adonis, awake ! We are colour and song And for, we are muses most tender to take Thy life up to Art that was lost over long. Adonis, awake ! Adonis, awake ! thou has risen above The fear in the forest, the brute in the brake. Thou art sacred to shrines that are higher than Love ! Adonis, awake !

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1911 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… spring! No Godhead could charm her, But manhood awoke— Ο fiery Valkyrie, I invoke, I invoke! [He tears down the wil. [LUNAþlays “θάψω [A long silente. CANCER- 333'333'333- TAURUS. 1. Brother Warden of the Graal, our task is ended. CANCER. Let us depart, it is accomplished. 124 * Chaccone; Bach.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… spring! No Godhead could charm her, But manhood awoke— Ο fiery Valkyrie, I invoke, I invoke! [He tears down the wil. [LUNAþlays “θάψω [A long silente. CANCER- 333'333'333- TAURUS. 1. Brother Warden of the Graal, our task is ended. CANCER. Let us depart, it is accomplished. 124 * Chaccone; Bach.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 130

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… fury to the North, to dye Our prows with seaweed, such as wise men seek For cleansirz of their altars with slow blood Wrenched trom the long dark leaves, with fingers weak With age and toil ; to stem the restless flood That boils between the islands ; to attain The ultimate ice, where some calm hero stood And looked one last time for a sail in vain, And looking upward not in vain, lay down And died, to pass where cold and any pain Are not. So still the night is, like the crown Most white of the high God that glittereth ! The stars surround the…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…r crossing the intervening sea. They took a number of sémmons, or straw bands used in thatching houses, and, tying them together, made a long rope of sufficient length to stretch across the sound. One end was fastened to the top of the Black Craig, and a sentinel was told off to watch that it did not slip. The other end was seized by a long-legged trow called “ Hempie,” the “ Ferry-leuper,” who made an enormous leap 347

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1909 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…r crossing the intervening sea. They took a number of sémmons, or straw bands used in thatching houses, and, tying them together, made a long rope of sufficient length to stretch across the sound. One end was fastened to the top of the Black Craig, and a sentinel was told off to watch that it did not slip. The other end was seized by a long-legged trow called “ Hempie,” the “ Ferry-leuper,” who made an enormous leap 347

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