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1905 · PDF PAGE 229

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…y! let our tears, that fail to sadden, . Extol the truth of love’s disdain ! Let deeper silence shield the deeper rapture ! _ Hardly our eyes reveal the inward Dliss, ' Sealed by no speech and shadowed by no kiss. Love is no wizard to elude recapture | _ In the strong prison of his silences! | Let deeper silence shield the deeper rapture ! Twin souls are Heaven ! Twin souls on earth by earthly bars divided ! But, did thy spirit glide as mine has glided Straight to That Star—no rose-leaves ask to leaven The manna that the Moon of Love pro- vided…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 237

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… and reposes, Love ever quickeneth ! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden,! The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover Their warm involving deep— Love, sleep |— And lover lies with lover On air’s substantial steep. TANNHAUSER. Ah! sweeter was September— The amber rain of leaves, The harvest to remember, The load of sunny sheaves. In gardens deeply scented, In orchards heavily hung, Love flung Away the days demented With lips that curled and clung. Ah! sweeter still Octobe…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 238

Moonchild

…ning on the arm of Sister Cybele, to the room appointed for his prescribed solitude, he beheld a great light. It shone serenely from the eyes of the Mahathera Phang.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 33

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…strip them clear, Truth through the curtain of the dark shall reave. Ye love, O happy ones andl chaste, Ye love, and light indwells your eyes ; Truth is the girdle of your waist, Ye play before the gates of pearl of Paradise. Happy lovers, dwell together In the isles of golden weather, Free of tyranny and tether, Roam the world, linked hand in hand, Moonlight for your sleep, and breezes Fresh from where the Ocean freezes, And the cold Aurora stands With new lilies in her hands. Ilappy lovers, twilight falls. Let us leave you for awhile, Guardin…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 107

The Law is for All

…s for All And he must love this chosen Form, love it with fearful fer­ vour; it is the face of his Fate that craves his kiss, and in her eyes Enigma blazes and smoulders; she is his death, her body his coffin where he may rot and stink, or writhe in damned dreams, self­ slain, or rise in incorruption self-renewed, immortal and identical, fulfilling himself wholly in and by her, splashing all space with sparkling stars his sons and daughters, each star an image of his own infinity made manifest, mood after mood, by her magick to mould him when h…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 169

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…wonderful! He will abide the shock. Death and mute horror fight within his face Against a will made masterful to Fate. ULRIC (raises his eyes and lifts his arm in act to strike). Mother! Treacher- Then I detest you! ous! Vile as the worm that battens on the dead ! CORA. Ulric! He’s mad! this ? [Cora 7s now hysterical, ULRICc does not notice. She shrieks at each mew i12sult. Sweet heaven ! what is Uric, Say rather, what are you? I loved you once Childlike; then came the power of reason- ing, And I beheld you, the unselfish one, Befriending me, t…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 7

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…nitiation! Death dragged away His children with slow savagery; the women He loved drank themselves into delirium and dementia before His eyes, or repaie! His passionate dévotion with toad-cold treachery at the moment when long years of loyalty had tempted Him to trust them. His friend, that bore the bag, stole that which was put therein, and betrayed his Master as thoroughly as he was able. At the first distant rumour that the Pharisees were out, his disciples “ail forsook Him and fled”. Elis mother nailed Him with lier own hands to the cross, …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 34

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e in a distant vision Rise as before me. Here (it seems) my feet by a tiny torrent Press the moss with a glad delight of being : Here my eyes look up to the riven moun- tain Split by the thunder. Rent and rifted, shattered of wind and lightning, Smilten, scarred, and stricken of sun and tempest, Seamed with wounds, like adamant, shod with iron, Torn by the earthquake. Still through all the stresses of doubtful weather IIfold the firm old pinnacles, sky-defying ; Still the icy feet of the wind relentless Walk in their meadows. Fields that flower…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 77

The Goetia

… of torment, out of which thou shalt not rise kakateji niisa pajo-ooaoanu: fetabe are-zodi: sodoreje ca-ol asapeta until thou come to my eyes: visit me in peace: __ be friendly before komeselabe, Do i-be-Da, ole, oanio azodiazoDore olalore, ge-kiaisi the circle in the A in the 24th of a moment in the likeness of a man _ not unto the nore-mo-lape, tol-toregi, q-tofajilo poresa adoianu cadsago, Dorebesa terror of the sons of men the creatures or all things on the face of the earth. Obey na-e-el, marebe koredazodiz00a, Dorebesa jijipabe, oborela D…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…n the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One last stroke, Ο heart-free master, one last certain calm of will, And the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit’s utmost flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre ; lake, rise up in mist to s…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…n the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One last stroke, Ο heart-free master, one last certain calm of will, And the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit’s utmost flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre ; lake, rise up in mist to s…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 39

The Goetia

…st is like that of a Bull; the second is like that of a Man; the third is like that of a Ram. He hath the Tail of a Serpent, and Flaming Eyes. He rideth upon a furious Bear, and carrieth a Goshawk upon his Fist. He * He can nowadays converse in sound though colloquial Coptic.—Eb. 25

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1907 · PDF PAGE 82

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…leétroit, if you please, father. PRIEST (dows). My lord. [Retires. Enter BLANCHE 227 a bridal dress, very shy and ashamed, with downcast eyes. DENYS. [Aside.] Ah! but she is beautiful ! ALAIN, Mademoiselle de Malétroit, allow me to present you to the Damoiseau Denys de Beaulieu. Monsieur Denys, my_ niece. [BLANCHE hears the strange name and ts shocked, looks up and only sees the back of Denys’ head, so low ts he bowing. She understands that he has given another name and regains her self-possession.] Forgive the formality of this introduction, b…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 167

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…s if from the Con- fines of the Universe: but with Puraka as if from the third eye. Whilst doing this in the Saivite A’sanat I found the eyes, without conscious volition, are drawn up and behold the third eye. (Ajna Chakkra.) roth, A day of revelation of Arcana. Ten minutes A’sana and breathing exer- cise. Latter unexpectedly trying. Also practised Mental Muttering whilst in A’sana. Repeating “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum,” which takes, roughly, 86 seconds for 50 repetitions, ze. about 1,000 in half an hour. I practised this Mantra for thirty minut…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 167

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…s if from the Con- fines of the Universe: but with Puraka as if from the third eye. Whilst doing this in the Saivite A’sanat I found the eyes, without conscious volition, are drawn up and behold the third eye. (Ajna Chakkra.) roth, A day of revelation of Arcana. Ten minutes A’sana and breathing exer- cise. Latter unexpectedly trying. Also practised Mental Muttering whilst in A’sana. Repeating “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum,” which takes, roughly, 86 seconds for 50 repetitions, ze. about 1,000 in half an hour. I practised this Mantra for thirty minut…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 143

The Law is for All

…es by undulations like Light, and gives man Wisdom at the price of Toil, Suffering, and Mortality; and the Eagle that soars, its lidless eyes bent boldly upon the Sun. “Death” is, to the initiate, an inn by the wayside; it marks a stage accomplished; it offers refreshment, repose, and advice as to his plans for the morrow. But in this verse the main point is that death is the “crown” of all. The crown is Kether, the Unity; “love under will” having been applied to all Nuit-possibilities of all Khu-energies of any Hadit- central-Star, that Star h…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 58

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…e conquering master-note Subtlety. Faint, stray showers of twilight float In shadows round the well-poised head ; dark, true, Joyous the eyes laugh—and are weeping too, For all the victory of her royal throat. She showed her purse with tantalising’ prace # Some sous, a franc, a key, some stuff, soft grey. The mocking laughter trills upon her tongue : ‘‘There’s all my fortune.” ‘And your pretty face ! What doyoudo?” Wearily, ‘‘ I am gay.” ‘What do you hope for?” Simply, “To die young.” SONNET FOR A PICTURE.?! ‘* rotxtdoOpov’, dbavar’ ’Adpodira.”…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 9

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…eat and tears and blood. 1 Brothel. IV. I crept, a stealthy, hungry soul, to grasp Its vast edge, to look out to the beyond; To know. My eyes strained out, there was no bond, No continuity, no bridge to clasp, No pillars for the universe. Immond,? Shapeless, unstayed, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing! I was afraid. V. That was my sanity. Brought face to face Suddenly with the infinite, I feared. My brain snapped, broke; white oarage- wings ? appeared On stronger shoulders set, a carapace, A chariot. I did essay that weird Unmeasured dome : Fo…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 251

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…sigh. There is a problem infinite again. I have not gained one jot since first I saw The stately bosom of the Venusbherg, Save that mine eyes have seen a little truth, My body found a little weariness. © I am very feeble! Hither comes the hunt! [4 horn winds quite close by. The noble, doomed, swift beauty! Closer yet Pant the long hounds! What heart he has! One, two ! See the brach1 dying by his bloody flank ! So could not Tannhauser awhile ago. My help lay outside and above myself. What skills him he is brave? He ends the same. Poor stag! hunt…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 14

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…t Thy rotten heart and thy polluting breast ! II. | Egg of the Slime! Thy loose abortive lips Mouth hateful things: thy shifty bloodshot eyes Lurk craftily to snare some carrion prize, The dainty morsel whence the poison drips Unmarked: the maskéd infamy that slips Into an innocent maw: corrupter wise ! Sly worm of hell! that close and cunning lies With sucking tentacles for finger-tips. Earth spits on thee, contagious Caliban ! Hell spits on thee; her sin is spiritual, Only the awful slime and excrement That sin sheds off will own thee for a m…

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