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1912 · PDF PAGE 50

Mortadello

32 MORTADELLO ZELINA. Cesspool of lust ! LUCREZIA. See, there’s a beggar might take pity And share his crust with you. ZELINA. You scour-pot of the city ! LUCREZIA. Take care ! ZELINA. Take care of what ? LUCREZIA. Of all your own diseases ! You poison air ; be off, and don’t pollute the breezes. ZELINA. Oh ! I’ll be gone. To talk to you is too degrading. Who ruined John of Padua ? How came Carlo’s roses fading ? How did the brave Bandello die ? I’ the lazar-hole, Cursing. LUCREZIA. You rave. ZELINA. Who sent black Straparola’s soul To hell ? Y…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 350

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ary of a Drug Fiend things out of heroin which I should never have got otherwise. 8. It is dangerous to stop too suddenly. g. I'd better take a small dose now rather than put it off till later; because if I do so, it will disturb my sleep. 10. It is really very bad for the mind to be constantly preoccupied with the question of the drug. It is better to take a small dose to rid myself of the obsession. 11. I am worried about the drug because of my not having any. If I were to take some, my mind would clear up immediately, and I should be able to…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 39

The Star and the Garter

…ms arise and disappear, Obedient to the master’s wand. The incense curls like a pale frond Of some grey garden glory about This room ; I take my sceptre out, My royal crown; invoke, evoke These phantoms in the glimmering smoke ; And you shall see—and take no hurt— The very limb yon garter girt. 37

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1910 · PDF PAGE 29

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…“The obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these shall he learn and teach.”—LiBEr L. I. 37. The Pentacle. Take pure wax, or a plate of gold, silver-gilt or Electrum Magicum. The diameter shall be eight inches, and the thick- ness half an inch. Let the Neophyte by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe. Let his Zelator approve thereof. Let the Neophyte engrave the same upon his plate, with his own hand and weapon. Let it when finished be consecrated as he hath skill to perform, and…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 29

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…“The obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these shall he learn and teach.”—LiBEr L. I. 37. The Pentacle. Take pure wax, or a plate of gold, silver-gilt or Electrum Magicum. The diameter shall be eight inches, and the thick- ness half an inch. Let the Neophyte by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe. Let his Zelator approve thereof. Let the Neophyte engrave the same upon his plate, with his own hand and weapon. Let it when finished be consecrated as he hath skill to perform, and…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 349

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…e must be. However many forces there may be at work, one can always find their resultant. But this was all terribly vague. The desire to take heroin was clear-cut. It no longer produced any particular effect to take it. Now that I was getting down to two or three doses a day, at the most, it seemed as though there were no particular object in taking it, even as dulling the craving for it. I found it in- creasingly difficult to fill column two. King Lamus descended on me one morning, just after I had taken a dose, and was raking my brain for a r…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 71

Amphora

AMPHORA II Consecration of a Nun HE suns of Terra pale ; The mists of Terra flee ; To lift Thy veil we take Thy veil, And give our lives to Thee. Our hopes are sacrificed At Thy pellucid shrine. We worship CHRIST ; to wed with CHRIST We take Thy vows divine. O Thou supremely pure, Cleanse Thou this feeble clay ! Thy grace endure that we endure To that mirific day ! Our virgin brows and pale The holy Crown shall gird. Who took Thy veil shall lift Thy veil And hear the final Word. T 64

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1911 · PDF PAGE 71

Hail Mary

AMPHORA II Consecration of a Nun HE suns of Terra pale ; The mists of Terra flee ; To lift Thy veil we take Thy veil, And give our lives to Thee. Our hopes are sacrificed At Thy pellucid shrine. We worship CHRIST ; to wed with CHRIST We take Thy vows divine. O Thou supremely pure, Cleanse Thou this feeble clay ! Thy grace endure that we endure To that mirific day ! Our virgin brows and pale The holy Crown shall gird. Who took Thy veil shall lift Thy veil And hear the final Word. T 64

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1905 · PDF PAGE 146

Orpheus

Thou take the wife, and risk the fate Eons could hardly culminate To lose thy soul! Not two but one Are ye. Together, as the stone, The oak, the river, or the sea, Mere elements of mine be ye, Or both resolve the dreadful life, And take death’s prize! Take thou the wife, Thou, who didst know. Her ignorance Resolve itself upon a chance! She shall decide the double fate. Be still, my child, and meditate ! This is an hour in heaven.” He ceased And I was silent. She released Her soul from that tremendous birth Of fear in gentle-minded mirth. “ Grea…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 7

Tale of Archais

…hen autumn is in gold arrayed, Or spring is green, or winters send A frosty sun, or summers blend Their flowers in every dainty dye, And take, as you would take a friend, This pleasant tale of Thessaly. Lie on the greensward, while the shade Shortens as morning doth ascend The gates of Heaven, and bud and blade Laugh at the dawn, while breezes lend Their music, till you comprehend The meaning of the world, and sigh— Yet love makes happy in the end This pleasant tale of Thessaly.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 25

Mortadello

…HE ANGEL OF VENICE 7 THE GONDOLIER. Ay ! Ay ! my lord. ALESSANDRO. Outrun the dolphin and the deer ! Murano ! LUCREZIA. [To ALESSANDRO.] Take my waist. ZELINA. [To ALESSANDRO.] And mine. ALESSANDRO. Oh ! not so fervent. I’m anxious to be chaste ; Lorenzo is your servant. LORENZO. I love them ; they despise so poor a thing as I. ALESSANDRO. I laugh at them ; they rise to the occasion. LORENZO. Why ? ALESSANDRO. This was the primal curse, the climax of the rancorous. That girls should be perverse, and cavaliers cantankerous. [The gondola moves of…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 99

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ith the unsound ; but you will never, never, never find a woman or a degenerate who is capable of any trance of type higher than Vedana. Take my word for it! No! take my word for nothing: try all things ; hold fast that which is good ! MaprIp, August 1908, 0.8. 89

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1909 · PDF PAGE 99

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ith the unsound ; but you will never, never, never find a woman or a degenerate who is capable of any trance of type higher than Vedana. Take my word for it! No! take my word for nothing: try all things ; hold fast that which is good ! MaprIp, August 1908, 0.8. 89

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1908 · PDF PAGE 79

Amphora

… with us now to comfort and console That this Thy servant, through Thy maiden might, Achieve the goodly goal ! Or, if Thy pleasure be to take from earth Thy servant to Thy holy house above, That Thou mayst hold her, safe in happier birth, In Thine especial love :— Or, if Thy pleasure be to take the child To join Thy choir of innocents in Heaven, We do assure Thee, Virgin undefiled, The gift is freely given. O 72

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1911 · PDF PAGE 79

Hail Mary

… with us now to comfort and console That this Thy servant, through Thy maiden might, Achieve the goodly goal ! Or, if Thy pleasure be to take from earth Thy servant to Thy holy house above, That Thou mayst hold her, safe in happier birth, In Thine especial love :— Or, if Thy pleasure be to take the child To join Thy choir of innocents in Heaven, We do assure Thee, Virgin undefiled, The gift is freely given. O 72

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1930 · PDF PAGE 135

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…The ûbeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the swordj these shall he learn and teach.” Liber L. II. 37. The Pantacle. Take pure wax, or a plate of gold, silver-gilt or Electrum Magicum. The diameter shall be eight inches, and the thickness half an inch. Let the Néophyte by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe. Let his Zelator approve thereof. Let the Néophyte engrave the same upon his plate with his own h and and weapon. Let it when finished be consecrated as he hath skill to perform, and k…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 99

Mortadello

… Pope. MORTADELLO. All I have played for, all my life long, lost ! MONICA. No, won ! There’s naught beyond recall, no deed to be undone. Take Venice, take the throne, take favour and success All yours and yours alone—in married happiness ! A price to pay that most would call a prize to pluck ! MORTADELLO. Oh, I am like to boast of such a piece of luck ! Not for one instant dream that I’m your dupe. Your hate Glows forth its icy gleam from eyes emasculate ! MONICA. Oh, I will teach you how those eyes can burn and glow, Swear the volcanic vow wit…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 287

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ly ill ; we were actually suffering at the moment from the craving, and embarrassed by the presence of Maisie Jacobs. We did not want to take it in front of her. And yet we knew that we had won the victory. It might be a matter of weeks or months ; we didn’t even care. We were content to have mastered the principle of the thing. It would be easy to attack those clusters of crosses, and eliminate them little by little. King Lamus asked Maisie to sing. Luckily there was a baby grand in the room. He sat down and began to accompany her. I found mys…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 23

The God-Eater

2! He is but a fool. He has lost ! He 1s lost ! Take the staff ! Trace the rule Of the circle crossed ! [She makes a circle and a cross therein.| No light therein ! Mother of sin, Thou hast won ! Death to the sun ! Hail to the glow Of the corpse decayed ! Hail to the maid ! Ho! Ho! [She rambles about the stage, muttering savage runes with dismal laughter. Her words are inarticulate, when with a last Ho! Ho! the curtain falls.| [The scene rises, and we again see the stage as in Scene I. Maurya and Criospa as in the opening. Criospa is, however, …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 32

Clouds Without Water

… secret over me. ; . Worse than this sickening fog of solitude? Your silence was the dumb despair of hell; gees os Who can do worse than take away the sun? Who read it right read love. Strange cruelty, 4 ; They better had take care, I think. One da That who would die for you, sweet murderess, y * . ; . We shall go mad, and take ourseives away. Should find his comfort in your bitterness! 6 , _ 9g — — 39=

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