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…sces Section from 963. [See EQUINOX, No. III., Special Supplement] 5121-11in Brother Hermanubis, summon the guests to the banquet of the Father of the Godsl HERMANUBIS. 4444. Brother Typhon, summon the guests to the banquet of the Father of the Gods ! [TYPHON draws aside weil a: GANYMEDE begins his dame. Light‘s daze/7L] HERMANUBIS. Welcome to the banquet of the Father of the Godsl Bear the bowls of Libation ! (dam). Be silent and secret I For it is by stealth that we are here assembled. Know that Saturn hath been deceived, having swallowed a b…
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THE SCORPION No! I am sorry. Ι am your good friend. I will take you back to your father. He is not dead. I am sure he is not dead. THE CHILD. I do not understand you. LAYLAH. Oh, you shall understand. Yourfather will make you understand! [changing again to roughness]. What was your mother like? Had she your golden hair, and the com- plexion like a shaved sow? And the simper, and the grey eyes? I have grey eyes too; but mine are steel—grey, true as steel; and yours are chill and watery. But you have your father’s temper, and his silence, and his…
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THE EQUINOX he slew his father; and all I look for is for some one to slay me also 1 THE CHILD. But you say his father is my father. LAYLAH. Was! was] THE CHILD. But it is my brother who was slain by Sliman. My father is in Rome; he is coming hither with the next fair wind. LAYLAI-I. Fair wind! God] It is I then who have slain our son. The scorpion I My sole token. [She/"alts on SLIMAN’s corpse] My son 1 only son of my love] one sole jewel of the world wert thou. And the accurséd scorpion has betrayed me. Oh, let me from this hour throw off all…
1911 · PDF PAGE 103
… destroyed. I rallied the right on the centre, and—why, mother, you‘re not listening! LAYLAH [ta/king his swam’]. This sword killed your father. Listen! Sidi Omar was not your father. Your father ravished me, a virgin and a princess, and left me only this for tokens [She takes the jewelled scorpion from her þraut,] I took it for hate and revenge; wherein I lied, for I loved him, and Ilove him. God has punished mylie, making you—the token of love—the minister of revenge So then—— be he avenged ! [She strihes Με neck of SLIMAN and he fel/'s dead.…
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…— ping Haud. SLIMAN. Splendid fun, mother! We should have had the whole city, but those cursed Knights of Malta threatened our flank. And father told me I was a betterleader for withdraw- ing than ifI had gone on and taken the city. There! Aha! little one! you are caged safely, canary. Thanks, mother! Don’t kiss me. I’m all blood. [She smothers him with his-52:. LAYLAH. Oh, you're wounded. Ledmiya, the kerchief, quick. And the Arabian oil, and the balsam. SLIMAN. Nonsense, mother, it’s nothing. But think! I slew twenty knights—they haven't the s…
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THE SCORPION father! [She goes down to corþse] Akbar, my little one! Strong wast thou and greater than thy brothers. Thou hadst the hawk’s eye, and the deer’s foot; and thine hand on the bowstring was surer and stronger than thy father’s ! Three, of my five, my five that should guard me and cherish me! Three taken, and two left! Yet, while one is left . . . LEDMIYA [at window]. The battle is fiercer every moment. Hundreds and hundreds must be killed. But the press is thinner. I can make out the banners. Oh! I can see Sliman’s banner ! LAYLAH. Let …
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…ay, let them camp among the dead I Come back with tidings Ι Tell me, Sliman is safe. Ah! there sounds the horn of truce. THE 01111.9` My father is the Grand Master of the Temple, and he will come and cut all your heads off. LAYLAH [goes down io her]. Thou preposterous little curd of sour milkl Thy father is dead] I saw the Banner of the Temple snap like a dry twig. My brave son Sliman cut it at a single blow. He will whip home the dogs, your friends, and you shall be his toy to play with and break and make sport of. He will twist your skinny ar…
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THE RITE OF MERCURY Iam the image of my Father Trnu, Lord of the City of the Sun ! The God who commands is in my mouth; The God of Wisdom is in my heart: My tongue is the sanctuary of Truth : And a God sitteth upon my lips! My word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself, like that of Ptah when he creates his works. I am Eternal; therefore everything acts according-to my designs, and everything obeys my words. Therefore I say unto Thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the Silence, unutterable Wisdom, All—ligh…
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… with you until the rose strike its root into your breast. Then shall your body be one again with the Mother, and your soul one with the Father, as it is written in the Book 01 the Law. All this have I been 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 …
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….] TAURUS ane! LIBRA draw the imter veil aflarl. LIBRA 761717775 and hneels. LIBRA. Daughter of Glory, child Of Earth’s Dione mild By the Father of all, the [Egis-bearing King! 83
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…of Mount Kithairon. TYPHON. Procul, ο Procul este viril [All mate pmbatz‘ohers retire to bath ofstage. TYPHON Sisters, let us invoke the Father to manifest in the Son. SPHINX. Per Spiritum Sanctum. Amen. [She also retire: to hart/ate on wheel. MAENADS. Evoe ! Evoe Ηο! Iacche! Iacchel TYPHON. Hail, Ο Dionysus! Hail! Winged Son of Semelé! Hail, Ο Hail! The stars are pale; Hidden the moonlight in the vale; Hidden the sunlight in the seat Blessed is her happy lot Who beholdeth God ; who moves Mighty-souled without a spot, Mingling in the godly rout…
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… awake From the silence of utmost eld The grey cold slime oithe snake That her poisonous body held ? By night I ravished a maid From her father’s camp to the cave. I bared the beautiful blade ; I dipped her thrice i’ the wave ; I slit her throat as a lamb’s, That the {aunt of blood leapt high With my clamorous dithyrambs, Like a stain on the shield of the sky. With blood and censer and song I rent the mysterious veil; My eyes gaze long and long On the deep of that blissful bale. My cold grey kissesawake From the silence of utmost eld The grey c…
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…great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour: imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void Ah ! men my friends What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts Ρ Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies; Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. The throne Of the unknown 15 fit for children. We are too well ware How vain is prayer, How nought is great, since all is immanent The vast content Of …
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…! [The light: go out and the rampant)! join in universa! dama] HERMANUBIS. Silence. TYPHON. Silence. C.I.C.’l‘. 1-333. The Secret of the Father is in the Secret of the Son. SPHINX. 22-22. And the Secret of the Son is in the Secret of the Holy Ghost. GANYMEDE. 4444. Gloria Patri. 42
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… ? BRO. ARIES. Unto Jupiter we have given the thunderbolt and the lightning—flash; for we seek to enthrone him in the stead of Saturn his father. But Saturn yet reigns; we need the Sword of Mars. SOR. SCORPIO. My heart and hand are with you, children. [Sheplays.’ [MARS starts up and recites: I. . . . The Dukes of Edam were amazed: Trembling took hold on the mighty of Moab! * Romance in G: Beethoven 5!
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… yourself in a diabolical pact with Satan, whereby he granted the power to change your sex at will, since which time you have become the father of an innumer- able brood of devils, and in particular have travelled by night in the form ofan owl to assault the virtue of many holy servants of the True Faith, notably at the Convent of St Anne in this city, whereby the bodies and souls of the nuns were possessed and destroyed. PROSECUTOR. We say this is plain witchcraft. [LAYLAH lakes no notice. BISHOP. Silence under such a charge is contumacious, a…
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… like the cedar than the palm. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar's mother was a princess from Lebanon. FATMA. He is silent and stem. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar’s father was the holiest man of Syria. He lived alone forty years in the mountain. FATMA. He is relentless in anger, and obeys not. One would say there was Christian blood in him. LAYLAH. On the night of his begetting there was Christian blood on Sidi Omar’s hands. FATMA. He is as fair as a Christian. LAYLAH. The men of Sidi Omar‘s tribe are white men, thou wizened old black witch. FATMA. Ah! Sidi Omar! Sidi Oma…
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…aid: " Come up hither.” And the wild swan said : “ How shall I come up thither ? " I will guide thee.?].י The Swan : Who art thou? I: My Father is the keeper of the King’s Cup: I have prepared a little ship wherein I may go my journeys upon the great river. Who will draw it? The Swan: I will draw it. So we set forth together; and of the horrible tempests that arose it is unworthy discourse. And of what followed after is discourse unprofitable; but the wild swan still guides my ship. 64
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…: “ To—day I am a man, I need thee no more; be my Chamberlain and carry this toy to my mother.” I think she is a princess. THE CHILD. My father is the Grand Master of the Temple, and he is coming to cut all your heads off. LAYLAH. Leave her with us! Ride back on a fresh horse, and bear aid to the prince. [Exit ACHMET LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a tumult in the courtyard, and a great wailing. [Wailing withaul. LAYLAH. The sun will be set in an hour. One hour more of favour and protection for my boy, oh God of Battles! THE CHILD. Our God is lov…
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THE EQUINOX Guna. It is not mere faith healing, this hygiene of Father Kneipp, and his failures are those who retain decorum and melancholy, who follow the letter and not the spirit, cold- blooded treaders upon earth instead of passionate lovers of its strength. It is no accident of mythology that the Titans made war upon the Gods, and in Prometheus overthrew them. It was when Canute failed to drive back the sea that his dynasty was lost to that Norman William who caught hold of Mother Earth with both hands. When I was a child I fell; and the s…