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1901 · PDF PAGE 42

The Soul of Osiris

30 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. The sleep of bird and flower Proclaims that Heaven has power To guard its gentlest child. The lover knows the hour, And goes with dew for dower To wed in woodland wild. The silvern grasses shake, And through the startled brake Glides the awakened snake, Untamable and mild. The song of stars ; the wail Of women wild and pale, Forlorn and not forsaken ; The tremulous nightingale ; The waters wan that fail By frost-love overtaken, Make sacred all the valley ; And softly, musically, The breezes lull and rally, The pine stirs …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 88

Alice: An Adultery

…sire, her lamentations died. The dove gave place a moment to the swine ! Rapturous draughts of madness ! Out she sighed Uttermost life’s love, and became a bride. Beneath the sonnet, in pencil, and feebler hand, are scrawled faintly the words : Alice ! Alice ! 68

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1904 · PDF PAGE 54

The Argonauts

… this sounding coast of thine. AEETES, Alas! but now his weird is loneliness! CHORUS. Was that from Destiny, or will of thine? AEETES. I love him little. Yet my words were true, Nor would it skill him aught if myriad men Bucklered his back and breast. For when a man Batters with sword-hilt at the frowning gates That lead to the Beyond, not human force— Hardly the favour of the gods themselves— Shall stead him in that peril. CHORUS. Yet we know Courage may conquer all things. AEETES. Such a man Is greater than the gods! CHORUS. If only he Know w…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 39

The Winged Beetle

…self and stands apart. So the heart’s blood flames expanding, Strenuous, urgent, and commanding ; And the key unlocks the door Where his love lies evermore. She is of the faery blood ; All smaragdine flows its flood. Glowing in the amber sky To ensorcelled porphyry. She hath eyes of glittering flake Like a cold grey water-snake.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 92

Sir Palamedes

… right chill —And is not death the Lord of Rest ?) There as he basks upon the cliff He yearns toward the Beast ; his eyes Are moist with love; his lips are fain

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1922 · PDF PAGE 178

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ried to work up the old passion. It was artificial, horrible, repulsive ; a degradation and a blasphemy. Why is it? The snow intensified love beyond every possibility. Yet I love him more than ever. He’s my boy. I think he must be ill. I wish I weren’t so tired. I’m not looking after him properly, and I can’t think about anything except getting H. I don’t seem to mind so much - about C. I never liked C. much. It made me dizzy and ill. We have no amusements now. We get through the day in a dark, dreary dream. I can’t fix my mind on anything. The…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 131

The Law is for All

…lesome, each to his own Taste, to make Clothes according to Fancy, with Variety of Individuality, and to practice the manifold Crafts of Love. These Things being first secured, thou mayst afterward lead them into the Heav­ ens of Poesy and Tale, of Music, Painting, and Sculpture, and into the Lore of the Mind itself, with its insatiable Joy of all Knowledge. Thence let them soar! 59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him. Commentary: We must abolish the shadows…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 135

The Soul of Osiris

…ble and flee ! Gleam in the skies of the dusk, for the Light of the Dawn is in me ! Light on the forehead, and life in the nostrils, and love in the breast, Shine, O thou Star of the Dawning, thou Sun of the Radiant Crest ! Shine, O shine ! Flame through the sky in the strength of the chariot- wheels of the Sun ! R

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1904 · PDF PAGE 73

Why Jesus Wept

… of the old ones, I know. (Enter a footman.) These blinds down ! (The man obeys.) But a tasty little morsel like your Molly — your first love. — Eh, my lad ? There ; there, don’t be angry ! SIR PERCY. Pshaw ! You disgust me. (The footman turns to go.) GLENSTRAE, to footman. Wait ! (To Sir Percy.) would you tell her so ? SIR PERCY. If I deigned speech. GLENSTRAE. Simmons, ask Miss Tyson to step here for a moment. (Exit servant.) After which I shall leave you for an hour, my boy.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 52

Orpheus

What light of love Your depth endued ? Come forth! I invoke ye, O wells, ye dwellers of dim solitude! THE WELLS Deep and calm to heaven’s mirror Through the cedarn grove or ashen, Willow-woven, or cypress terror, To the sky’s less serene fashion Still we look: around our margin Holy priestess, longing lover, Poet musing, vagrant virgin, Nor their own mild looks discover, But the light and glow of that they are meditating over. ORPHEUS O curves unbeholden, Bright glory of bays! Deep gulfs grown golden With dawn and its ways! With sunset enfolden…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 60

Orpheus

…adown, and the gods of the gods are forsaken. To mortals your voices Are mighty and glad. The maiden rejoices : The man is grown mad For love, and his choice is The choice of a lad When a virgin first smiles on his suit, and the summer for envy is sad. Wan grows Aphrodite, And Artemis frail; Apollo less mighty, Iacchus too pale. Dark Hades grows bright, he Alone may avail When the god and the mortal are one, as the mountain is one with the gale. , THE CHILDREN OF EARTH Our hair deep laden with the scent of earth, The colour of her rosy body’s b…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 77

The Winged Beetle

…t cold pale flood Were two red stars of our own blood. We left our laugh, a smouldering coal Upon his naked middle : We ravelled out his love ; we stole His heart-strings for our fiddle : Strange tortured music from his soul We wrung, a writhing riddle ! Yea : our mouths took a subtle curve As we devoured him nerve by nerve. We danced, obscenely delicate, The dance of cup and thyrsus ;

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1914 · PDF PAGE 4

Chicago May

…ard The ferments of the fodder, turn, and fret This inch that is the ruins of a yard. Is there no sparrow, ram, ass, bull can stay The “ love"—dear Jesus |—of Chicago May? u Like salt pools in a marsh her skin is, soiled With labours and abortions, stained and red With her low birth and her high feeding, spoiled With moles and wens, and fat, fat, fat. To Z

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1930 · PDF PAGE 95

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

transcendent Truth of the Beloved to the heart that holds him. The firm répétition of one of these Words ought to enable the Adept to maintain the State of Union for several minutes, even at first. In any case he must rekindle his ardour, esteeming his success rather as an encouragement to more ardent aspiration than as a triumph. He should increase his efforts. Let him beware of the “lust of resuit”, of expecting too much, of losing courage if his first success is followed by a sériés of failures. For success makes success seem so incredible t…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 102

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…one overrun his fellow. 42. Further concerning the value of this Method. — Certain objections arise. Firstly, in the nature of ail human love is illusion, and a certain blindness. Nor is there any true love below the Veil of the Abyss. For this reason we give this method to the Philoso¬ phus, as the reflection of the Exempt Adept, who reflects the Magister Templi and the Magus. Let then the Philosophus attain this Method as a foundation of the higher Methods to be given to him when he attains those higher grades. 402

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1954 · PDF PAGE 18

Magick Without Tears

…behave in such a manner he proceeded to do so, come what may. The verses used are "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" and "Love is the law, love under will." The command is to be found in the third chapter of Liber Legis: "and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no ; it is no odds." He adapted these versicles to the exigences for grace before meals; see Letter A for this dialogue. Furthermore, he insisted that each…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 195

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…steams and shivers Above the sluggish rivers, And birds are dumb, the givers Of melodies untold. Here death has quite forgotten An eager lover waits To pass in yonder rotten Black boat his icy gates. He will not free his lover Till Proserpine discover How near he hangs above her, And yearns towards the Fates. Nor life nor death will hear him, Nor God nor Satan aid ; Though Love no more endear him, Nor Passion make afraid. Too cold, too calm, too holy He stands, consuming slowly In the strong flame that wholly Absorbs his vital shade. 173

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1901 · PDF PAGE 36

The Soul of Osiris

…ng of a chariot grew Frightful through all the city vast, Men were afraid. But I—I knew Jehu was here, whose sword should dip Deep in my love’s adulterous lip. The spirit filled me. And behold ! I saw her dead stare to the skies ; I came to her ; she was not cold, But burning with old infamies. On her incestuous mouth I fell, And lost my soul for Jezebel. I followed him afoot, afire ; Beneath her window he drew rein ; She looked forth, clad in glad attire, I

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1910 · PDF PAGE 71

The Winged Beetle

…e abode By Thee—O Thou Who made me first ! Thou Who hast made me, tortured me, Mocked me with life, mocked me with death, Mocked me with love—O misery Of each god’s death, of each slave’s breath ! Yea, for that Thou didst give me her— Indeed my Dorothy ! the sun That fires my life, the spell to stir My soul’s enchantments every one : For this I curse Thee ! she was fair As day and brighter than the moon And all the gold stung in her hair ; And all the dawn of May—of June !— Kindled her cheeks ; her eyes were blue As all Thy skies, as all Thy se…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 123

The Winged Beetle

…ust !— Ah, God, then, if you must— Wordless still, we’ve won it ! Tall Troy is in the dust ! We’ve done it, done it, done it ! VI Do you love me, dear ? Said the glance you darted. Good cheer ! why fear the year ! Twice one is two, I hear !

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