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1911 · PDF PAGE 79

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…nds as ever swung sword or couched lance. SIR RAYMOND. Netted like a fish 1 SIR JAMES. And now lives in the desert with the witch, a wild man, and banned. SIR RAYMOND. Little better than a robber. And the word goes that he hath apostatized from our holy faith. [ALL cross themselves. JOCELYN [πᾶς;] Heighol Heighol the Crescent and Cross! If the one is a bargain, the others a loss. 71

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1911 · PDF PAGE 79

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…nds as ever swung sword or couched lance. SIR RAYMOND. Netted like a fish 1 SIR JAMES. And now lives in the desert with the witch, a wild man, and banned. SIR RAYMOND. Little better than a robber. And the word goes that he hath apostatized from our holy faith. [ALL cross themselves. JOCELYN [πᾶς;] Heighol Heighol the Crescent and Cross! If the one is a bargain, the others a loss. 71

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1912 · PDF PAGE 126

Mortadello

110 A NOTE ON THE ALEXANDRINE 3. After the second foot : Oh ! but you’re hurt ! Young man ! she must be tended. Well. No ! take my shirt ! Staunch the dear breast. A miracle. 4. After the fourth foot : Serene, august, untroubled, cold, her prayers are worth More than our steel, more than our gold, that bind the earth. 5. After both second and fourth feet : Come, let me hold my crystal cross up to the moon ! A guess of gold were at a loss to tell its tune. 6. After the first foot : Bow down to the cross ! His love purge thee : His Passion save t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 138

Book 4 (Part II)

…ir actions cancel each other out; no sooner is effort made than it is counterbalanced by idleness. Eros gives place to x\nteros. Not one man in a thousand makes even an apparent escape from the commonplace of animal life. Birth is sorrow ; Life is sorrow ; Sorrowfiil are old age, disease, and death; But resurrection is the greatest misery of all.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 534

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ied poverty and sorrow. Axiom VIII When the will is vowed to the absurd, it is reproved by eternal reason. Axiom IX The will of the just man is the will of God himself, and the law of Nature. 236

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1913 · PDF PAGE 534

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ied poverty and sorrow. Axiom VIII When the will is vowed to the absurd, it is reproved by eternal reason. Axiom IX The will of the just man is the will of God himself, and the law of Nature. 236

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1929 · PDF PAGE 430

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… me personally that he is completely baffled and inclined to believe that some occult power is at work. Bert Reece is an Americanized German or Polish Jew from Posen. He was, I suppose, at this time about sixty years old. He commanded enormous fees for consultations. Many of the biggest business men in the States acted habitually on his advice. My own interest was limited to the curiosity aroused by Carrington's statement. I went to see him at the Savoy Hotel in London. His personality is delightful and he received me with charming courtesy. He…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 40

Tannhäuser

…ing-out of smiles Rather the coming of a dull despair. And not at all that keen despair, that sharp Maddening pain that should torment a man With deadliest delight, the self-same hour That he unveils the Isis of desire. These litde lovers strip their maidens bare, And find them—naked ! Poor and pitiful ! Look at our love instead ! I raised Thy veil, Nay, tore Thy vesture from Thee, and behold ! Then only did I see what mystery, What ninefold forest, shade impassible, Surrounds Thy heart, as with a core of light Shut in the mystery of a dead wor…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 7

Rosa Inferni

…twice ! II OME Yankee yelled—I tag it to a rime— “ You can’t fool all the people all the time.” So he of politics ; so I of love. I am a-many folk (let Buddha prove !) And many a month you fooled the lot of us— Your spell is cracked within the ring ! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared the man’s eyes ! So the blind amorous Is blinded with the horror of the truth He sees this moment. Foolish prostitute ! 2 S

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1913 · PDF PAGE 33

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…mmortal essence from the setting sun Had made me godlike. Lonely on the hill I knew myself transfigured , and my will, Responsible to no man , urged me on While all the hosts of darkness mustered round. But when the west had smouldered into ash , The first tree swayed and snapped , and with a crash Hurled down its leafy mass and strewed the ground With splintered boughs . Seven feudal centuries Fell in that ruin ; and , it seemed , the power , Vanquished and driven from its ancestral bower , Took root in me , for to the other trees Strong and r…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 15

John Yarker – In Memoriam

IN MEMORIAM—]OHN YARKER I invite not merely every Very Illustrious Ρ.Ρ., but every decent man, to sustain my protest by following me from this illegally and treacherously convoked assembly. The Convocation was then adjourned sine die by unanimous consent. To this speech we attach an account of the legal proceed- ings on which it is based : IN THE COURT OF THE DISTRICT JUDGE OF CHINGLEPUT O. 5. No. 47 of 1912 J. NARAYANIAH-P!az'7ztzj Versus MRS. ANNIE BESANT—Defendant THE WRITTEN STATEMENT OF THE _PLAINTIFF I. J. NARAYANIAH, the plaintiff above,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 105

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…est behind the audience. The heavens have let loose the fountains Of flood upon the mountains! juLian [4¢ wharf). Ho, Nu! Ho, Nu! Let no man leave the quay Without the tokens of the true degree ! nu [Below]. I hear and I obey. What cargo for to-day? Chorus. There is no gold upon the earth To pay an hundredth of its worth. There is no treasure of sapphire, No hidden ruby to compare ; No diamond hath illustrious fire Beside the burden that we bear ; Nor where the waves of ocean whirl Hath any cavern such a pearl. Not heaven in all its happiest ho…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 105

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…est behind the audience. The heavens have let loose the fountains Of flood upon the mountains! juLian [4¢ wharf). Ho, Nu! Ho, Nu! Let no man leave the quay Without the tokens of the true degree ! nu [Below]. I hear and I obey. What cargo for to-day? Chorus. There is no gold upon the earth To pay an hundredth of its worth. There is no treasure of sapphire, No hidden ruby to compare ; No diamond hath illustrious fire Beside the burden that we bear ; Nor where the waves of ocean whirl Hath any cavern such a pearl. Not heaven in all its happiest ho…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 254

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…mples free 1 Cf., Huxley, cited supra, ‘* possibly, through modes of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are competentto formany. .. .” 2 Cf, ‘* Evolution and Ethics,” note 1. from such possibility of misinterpretation in our own bodies. Compare the longevity of a bone with that of a corpuscle. But it is this ‘¢ Substratum ” universe, which must not be confounded with the substratum, the argu- ments for whose existence Berkeley so utterly shattered, which may conserve memory for a period greatly exceeding that of one of its particu…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 77

Moonchild

… see your results." "I hate to beat about the bush. I say the thing that can never be forgotten," "Or forgiven, sometimes," said the old man in gentle reproof. "But come, my dear, sit down; he meant truth, after all, and truth cuts only to cure. It's a brutal fact that children used to be born blind, literally by the thousand, because it wasn't quite nice to publish the facts about certain diseases; and precautions against them were called 'heartless experiments.' What Cyril is asking you to do is no more than what your whole heart craves for; …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 162

Moonchild

…cause of the glory of his eyes, and a thick scarf, like a cloud, held over his mouth, lest the thunder of it destroy men's hearing. This man was so enormous that his stature spanned all heaven; and his creatures, that moved about him, were all godlike — immensely greater than the human. Yet were they human; but so patriarchal, so intense, that they almost overwhelmed Iliel. On him she dared not look. He had the gift of making every thing a thousand times larger than its natural size. She heard one word of his, a mere call to a pet: "Tiger, tige…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 57

Jephthah

…l great happiness, And vengeance clean forgotten in the land; “ Vengeance is mine, Jehovah will repay.” My father shall not frown on any man.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 115

Orpheus

… loosening his fang To bite more deeply—this inane distress More than despair or death’s detested pang. I live—that shames me! Iam not a man. _ Nothing can I to sharpen or to span My throat with iron fingers, or my sword In my heart’s acid where the blood began Long since to leap, and now drops deadly slow, Clotted with salt and sulphur and strong woe. I shall not die: the first sight of the sward Stained with the spectral corpse had stung me so, Not stabbed me, since I saw her and survive. I shall not die—Ah! shall I be alive? This hath no par…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 59

The Scented Garden

…y the time by giving magical instruction. The mean- ing, therefore, (argal !) of the whole passage is that unredeemed (i.e. uninitiated) man, however ordina- rily devout, is liable to become a sorcerer ! I cannot help thinking that Mahbub must have been hung up by his heels at one time ; nobody could ever think all that out right way up !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 263

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

ELDER EEL GRAB. D‘ye ken—ah! here comes Elder Eel, the guid man. He’ll tell t’ ’e. He’s seen wi’ his ain een ! [En/er L, ELDER EEL, very tall and mm mm’ lantem- jawed, mare salem;:[ ?!םאתמו/ש”משlmn !116 aiitem] GRAB. The Blessing ο’ the Lord be on ye, Elder. Will ye tell the fowk o’ the terrible scandal in Houghmagandie? EEL. The han’ ο' the Lord is heavy upon us for oor Sins. ALL. Ay! Ay! GRAB. We are but puir sinners. EEL. Ayl we deserve it. But our punishment is greater than we can bear. ALL. Woe unto us ! EEL. Wi’ these een hae I seen it! A…

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