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1905 · PDF PAGE 89

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…epeth Israel: Ie is God ! CHORUS. When God uplifted hands to smite, And earth from chaos was unrolled; When skies and seas from blackest night Unfurled, twin sapphires set with gold ; When tumult of the boisterous deep Roared from its slow ungainly sleep, And flocks of heaven were driven to fold; Then rose the walls of Israel steep, For in Flis promise we behold The sworded Sons of glory leap Our tribes in peace to keep. Deep graven in the rocky girth Of Israel’s mountains, in the sky, In all the waters of the earth, In all the fiery steeds tha…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 128

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…nt woe, Her hair funereal swathing her fallen form, Its wind-swept horror holding him ; his white Torn body blushing through tempestuous night. So breaks the life in hell, the year in storm. BALZAC, GIANT, with iron secrecies ennighted, Cloaked, Balzac stands and sees. Immense disdain, Egyptian silence, mastery of pain, Gargantuan laughter, shake or still the ignited Stature of the Master, vivid. Far, affrighted, The stunned air shudders on the skin. In vain The Master of ‘‘ La Comédie Humaine ”’ Shadows the deep-set eyes, genius-lighted. Epith…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 211

Moonchild

…y clothes, no more in his green robe. The boy was smoking a cigar upon the Terrace where he had read his poem on the day after Walpurgis Night. He did not rise to greet his master. "Tell the Praetor that you have seen Caius Marius a fugitive seated upon the ruins of Carthage!" he exclaimed. "Don't take it so hardly, boy!" cried the old mystic. "The man who makes no mistakes makes nothing. But it is my duty to reprove you, and we had better get it over. Your whole operation was badly conceived; in one way or another it was bound to fail. You sel…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 233

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ot ‘‘will be’’), what end? What is the symbol I am set to find? What is that burning heart of blood to spend Caught in a sunset with the night behind, The Grail of God? I would that I were blind ! Then why travel? To I would that I were desolate and dumb, Naked and poor! That He might mani- fest A crimson glory subtly caught and come, An opal crucible of Alkahest ! 3 And yet—what gain of vital gold expressed? 1 A vessel containing the blood of Jesus. See Malory, ‘‘ Morte d’Arthur.” 2 Sat-Chit-Ananda, the qualities of Atman, the Soul. 3 See Eire…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 102

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ble delight, Let slave and king, let death and dance Shake off their forms, and clothe their light In shrouds of sepulchre, the starless night !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 190

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…of sweet annihilation, The blackness that invades the burning sun, My swart limbs and her limbs adorable ! So nine times dead before the night is done, Even as Styx nine times embraces Hell. LOVE, MELANCHIOLY, DESPAIR! Derr melancholy—O, the child of folly !— Looms on my brow, a perched ancestral bird ; Biack are its plumes, its eyes melancholy, It speaks no word. Like to a star, deep beauty’s avatar 2 Pales in the dusky skies so far above : Seven rays of gladness crown its passionate Star, One heart of love. ! This poem is partially composed o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 354

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… is much of interest to Masons in this little volume. Some of the ancient charges are quite amusing. “That no Fellow go into town in the night time without a Fellow to bear witness that he hath been in honest company ” seems, however, a bit rough on the girls, F. PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY. By J. A. FARRAR. Watts and Co. 6d. A good book which makes us wish we had been born before Christ. AQ. THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. Published at the Offices of M.A. P. 6d. At one time I was acquainted with many of our. London demi-mondaines, and many a charming g…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 354

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… is much of interest to Masons in this little volume. Some of the ancient charges are quite amusing. “That no Fellow go into town in the night time without a Fellow to bear witness that he hath been in honest company ” seems, however, a bit rough on the girls, F. PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY. By J. A. FARRAR. Watts and Co. 6d. A good book which makes us wish we had been born before Christ. AQ. THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. Published at the Offices of M.A. P. 6d. At one time I was acquainted with many of our. London demi-mondaines, and many a charming g…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 42

The Goetia

…us. (63.) AnpDRAS.—The Sixty-third Spirit is Andras. He is a Great Mar- quis, appearing in the Form of an Angel with a Head like a Black Night Raven, riding upon a strong Black Wolf, and having a Sharp and Bright Sword flourished aloft in his hand. His Office is to sow Discords. If the Exorcist have not a care, he will slay both him and his fellows. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits, and this is his Seal, etc. (64.) Haures, or Hauras, or Havrss, or Ftauros.—The Sixty-fourth Spirit is Haures, or Hauras, or Havres, or Flauros. He is a Great Duke…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 161

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…, in the home of a friend, Here, in the mist of a lie, The pageant moves on to the desolate end Under a sultry sky. Noon is upon us, and Night, Spreading her wings unto flight, Visits the lands that lie far in the West, Where the bright East is at peace on her breast : Opposite quarters unite. Soon is the nightfall of Destiny here ; Nature’s must pass as her hour is gone by. Only another than she is too near, Gloom in the sky. One who can never pass over shall sever Links that were forged of Love’s hand ; Love that was strong die away as a song…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 50

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…ing | The Spirit of the Primal Fire. . - 81 from their tombs * , Should contain a demonstration of the Quadrature | The Great One of the Night of Time . 32 of the Cres bs . i Ak: « |82 bis as artis . j . [81 bis

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1929 · PDF PAGE 24

Moonchild

realized itself as a nightmare. To Cyril it was probably the one genuine pleasure of conversation. He went on, in a brisk professional manner, with a suave persuasive smile; "I am trying to affirm the metaphysical dogma enunciated by Schelling in his philosophy of the relative, emphasizing in particular [36] the lemma that the acceptation of the objective as real involves the conception of the individual as a tabula rasa, thus correlating Occidental theories of the Absolute with the Buddhist doctrine of Sakyaditthi! But confer in rebuttal the V…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 71

The Law is for All

…efinement, accept the fact, acquiesce in the foulness, till Love is degraded to guilty grov­ elling. They are dragged in the dirt of the night-cart which ought to have been their “chariot of fire and the horses thereof.”1 1 [II Kings 2:11, paraphrase.] This whole trouble comes from humanity’s horror of Love. For the last hundred years, every first-rate writer on morals has sent forth his lightnings and thunders, hailstones and coals of fire, to burn up Gomorrah and Sodom where Love is either shameful and secret, or daubed with dung of sentiment…

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1943 · PDF PAGE 6

The Oriflamme, Vol. I, No. I

…he Uprising of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Night! At Noon, facing South: Hail unto Thee who art Ahathoor in Thy triumphing, even unto Thee who art Ahathoor in Thy beauty, who travellest over the Heavens in Thy bark at the Mid-course of the Sun. Tahuti standeth, etc. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Morning! At Sunset, facing West: Hail unto Thee who art Tum in Thy setting, even unto Thee who art Tum in Thy joy, who travellest over the Heavens in Thy b…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…emnly repeated, the Hierophant says: “Let the Can- didate rise,” * and then: “Child of Earth! long hast thou dwelt in Darkness! Quit the Night, and seek the day.” Then only at the words: “Let the Candidate rise” is the hoodwink definitely removed. The Hierophant, Hiereus, and Hegemon join their sceptres and sword above the Candidate’s head, thus formulating the Supernal Triad, and assert that they, receive him into the Order of the Golden Dawn, in the words : “Frater X Y Z, we receive thee into the Order of the Golden Dawn !” They then recite t…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…emnly repeated, the Hierophant says: “Let the Can- didate rise,” * and then: “Child of Earth! long hast thou dwelt in Darkness! Quit the Night, and seek the day.” Then only at the words: “Let the Candidate rise” is the hoodwink definitely removed. The Hierophant, Hiereus, and Hegemon join their sceptres and sword above the Candidate’s head, thus formulating the Supernal Triad, and assert that they, receive him into the Order of the Golden Dawn, in the words : “Frater X Y Z, we receive thee into the Order of the Golden Dawn !” They then recite t…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 112

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… sea, my mate, My mistress, till the fires of life abate And leave me languid, man-forgotten, deem- ing I see in sleep, in many-coloured night, More hope than in the flame-waves of the light. Light ! ever light ! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light in- vades My desolate soul, and all the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow . . The bitter draught of Truth; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine; the whole | sea’s plades And hills and springs are v…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 93

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…but difficult to do! TARSHITERING. NEPALI LOVE-SONG.! O KISSABLE Tarshitering ! the wild bird calls its mate—and I? Come to my tent this night of May, and cuddle close and crown me king! Drink, drink our full of love at last—a little while and we shall die, O kissable Tarshitering ! Droop the long lashes: close the eyes with eyelids like a beetle’s wing ! Light the slow smile, ephemeral as ever a painted butterfly, Certain to close into a kiss, certain to fasten on me and sting! Nay? Are you coy? Then I will catch your hips and hold you wild an…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 110

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… of crested snakes, Keen, furious, and too cold. What words are these? The pall of slumber lifts ; The veil of finiteness withdraws. The night Is heavier, life burns low:

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1905 · PDF PAGE 119

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…m heaven we are thrust, we have no more trust. Alas ! Gold hairs and gray ! Red lips and white! Warm hearts, cold clay ! Bright day, dim night ! Our spirits pass Like the hours away. We have no light, Alas! alas! We have no more day, we are fain to say Alas ! In Love’s a cure For Fortune’s hate ; In Love’s a lure Shall laugh at Fate ; We have tolled Death’s knell ; All streams are pure ; We are new-create ; All’s well, all’s well! We have God to endure, we are very sure All’s well ! In such wise rang the challenge unto Death With clear high elo…

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