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1913 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… Set ’twixt the limbs of the world, hate and desire. I will make me foul as thou that I may be A citizen of the world! I will quench the fire Immortal in me! I will be as thou, Prostitute unto Pan and unto Time.— I will live upon the dreams thou givest me In fee for sated passion! Yea! I will be A vanquisher of genius, a dream palled With life and time, knowing naught else there be But thou, who art slime, whose fingers through the veil Transform the world to dust, the sun to fire, Life unto lust, love to polluted dreams Of rose-buds ruined by …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 216

Magick Without Tears

NECROMANCY AND SPIRITISM 183 infernal fire. Also, of course, they soak up vitality from the sitters, and from the medium herself. Altogether, a most poisonous performance. And what do they get out of it? Even when the "Spirits" are really spirits, they only stuff the party up with a lot of trashy lies. To this summary the Laws of Probability insist that there shall be occasional exceptions. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1898 · PDF PAGE 17

Jezebel

…se strangers go ; Turn to my lips till their cup overflow ; Hurt me with kisses, kill me with desire, Consume me and destroy me with the fire Of bleeding passion straining at the heart, Touched to the core by sweetnesses that smart ; Bitten by fiery snakes, whose poisonous breath Swoons in the midnight, and dissolves to death ! Ah ! let me perish so, and not endure Thy falsehood who have known thy love was sure, Built up by sighs a palace of long years— Lo ! it was faery, and the spell of tears Dissolves it utterly. O bid them go, These white-f…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 46

The Soul of Osiris

… passionate invoke the spring, And seek their loves with weaker, wearier wing. Turn back from safety—Let God’s rivers pour Brimstone and fire, and all his fountains roar Lava and hail of hell upon my head, So be he leave us altogether dead, Burnt in that shameful whirlwind of his ire, Consumed in one tall pyramid of fire Whose bowers of flame shall tell the sky of God How we despised his feet with thunder shod, And conquered, clasping, all the host of death. Turn to me, touch me, mix thy very breath With mine to mingle floods of fiery dew With …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…in, my Rose, my Rose. Through the blue depths of the skies; in the tumbling waters ; Midst the antic winds; through the red heart of the fire; How shall I know thee in the maze of things, In the monotonous gold of the rolling worlds? The mage hath seen thee with the eye of Fire ; The lover hath known thee in the sea of Air. The worlds hath hung all trembling on the lyre That the old god bears still with unwearying hand, Touching the strings to passionate mortal prayer, Answering or answering not, immortal still. Oh, through the maze how can I u…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…in, my Rose, my Rose. Through the blue depths of the skies; in the tumbling waters ; Midst the antic winds; through the red heart of the fire; How shall I know thee in the maze of things, In the monotonous gold of the rolling worlds? The mage hath seen thee with the eye of Fire ; The lover hath known thee in the sea of Air. The worlds hath hung all trembling on the lyre That the old god bears still with unwearying hand, Touching the strings to passionate mortal prayer, Answering or answering not, immortal still. Oh, through the maze how can I u…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 151

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…There the clansmen stood and wondered, As the rock, supremely dire, Split and trembled, cracked and thundered, Lit with living flecks of fire. ‘Spake the chief: “ My trusty clansmen, This is not the day of doom ; This is honour to the mighty ; Clansmen, this is Alpin’s tomb.” Nympsfield Rectory, December, 1893. 129

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1898 · PDF PAGE 119

Songs of the Spirit

There steals through my coldness a fire, Between my slow words is a sword, One lit by the heart of desire, One sharp in the hand of the lord ; To these that sink, sleep, and expire, your welcome accord. With winds and white seas for your raiment Your stature immutably stands : My love, with no claim, as a claimant Came seeking out truth in the sands, Found truth, and must place in poor payment this book in your hands. 109

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1910 · PDF PAGE 67

Ambergris

58 AMBERGRIS Oh, mother, Oh, Demeter, in my burthen Let me assume my sorrow singular ; A branching temple and an altar earthen, A fire of herbs, a clayen water-jar ; An olive grove to bind the sacred girth in Lone woods afar. Let life burn gently thence, as when the ember In one faint incense-puff to shrineward dies. No care, no pain, no craving to remember, One leap toward the knees and destinies, Where shine Her lips like flames, Her breasts like amber, Like moons Her eyes. For my heart turns—ah still !—in Sorrow’s traces, Where sad chill foo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 106

Ambergris

…y of things Beheld in the mirror of truth, The Rose indifferent to God’s gesture, The Rose on moonlight wings That flies to the House of Fire, The Rose of Honey in Youth ! Ah ! No dim mystery of desire Fathoms this gulf ! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future, a dream of the day When athwart the dim glades Of the forest a ray Of sunlight shall flash and the dew die away ! 15. Let there then be obscurity in this ! There is an after rapture in the kiss. The fire, flesh, perfume, music that outpaced All time, fly of…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 97

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…, which has five attributes according to the five elements, thus: Spirit . Atma. Air . . Manas.* The mind or thought faculty. . Spirit. {Fire . Buddhi. The discriminating faculty. Water . Chittam.* The thought-stuff. Earth . Ahankara. Egoity. . Air. The five organs of knowledge. Gnanendriyam. . Fire. The five organs of Action. Karmendriyam. . Water. The five subtle airs or Pranas. . Earth. The five Tatwas. The Atma of Anthak4rana has 5 sheaths, called Kos’as.+ w aaRwnd * Manas and Chittam differ as the movement of the waters of a lake differ fr…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 97

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…, which has five attributes according to the five elements, thus: Spirit . Atma. Air . . Manas.* The mind or thought faculty. . Spirit. {Fire . Buddhi. The discriminating faculty. Water . Chittam.* The thought-stuff. Earth . Ahankara. Egoity. . Air. The five organs of knowledge. Gnanendriyam. . Fire. The five organs of Action. Karmendriyam. . Water. The five subtle airs or Pranas. . Earth. The five Tatwas. The Atma of Anthak4rana has 5 sheaths, called Kos’as.+ w aaRwnd * Manas and Chittam differ as the movement of the waters of a lake differ fr…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 213

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…with the frosty crown Of thousand-twinkling stars, whose hoary crests Burn where light touches them, with diamond points Of infinite far fire, save where the sea Is ebony with sleep, and though the wind Pierces the marrow, since it is the word Of the Almighty, and cuts through the air That may not stay its fury, with a cold Nipping and chill, it is not in the wind ; Nor though the thunder broke, or flashed the fire From all the circle of eternity, Were that the reason ; for thou shudderest To hear the Voice of Love; it is no voice That men may …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 69

The Star in the West

… lyric ; the following are two of its seven beautiful verses : O lamp of love ! The hissing spray shall jet thee with desire And foaming fire , And fire from thee shall move Her spirit to devour , And fuse and mingle us in one transcendent hour . Godhead is less Than mortal love , the garland of the spheres , Than those sweet tears That yield no bitterness To the luxurious cries That love shrills out in death , that murmur when love dies .4 The hour of noon approaches , it falls , and the curse resumes its sway ; a fiery snake winds its coils r…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 16

Jezebel

…ield, how gladly dower Our sin with my own spirit’s quenched gold, Clothe Love with my own soul’s immortal power, Give thee my body as a fire to hold— O love, no words, no songs—your breast my bower !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…here stirs again The flaming heart that is my Rose, my Rose, My secret Rose, whom but to name, to name, Is a sacrament upon the altar of Fire: Oh! yellow Fire! Oh! aureate-petalled Rose! Because swift Sorrow hath stricken me, I sing Here in the wavering gloom, the sunless deep, Calling slow dreams from their immortal sleep ; Wakening the murmuring sigh, the spirit’s spring— The bitter pangs of the birth of everything, Immortal Matter and the wandering Soul. And they have sought to slay me in the night, Because I am blind, and hear not the dark …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…here stirs again The flaming heart that is my Rose, my Rose, My secret Rose, whom but to name, to name, Is a sacrament upon the altar of Fire: Oh! yellow Fire! Oh! aureate-petalled Rose! Because swift Sorrow hath stricken me, I sing Here in the wavering gloom, the sunless deep, Calling slow dreams from their immortal sleep ; Wakening the murmuring sigh, the spirit’s spring— The bitter pangs of the birth of everything, Immortal Matter and the wandering Soul. And they have sought to slay me in the night, Because I am blind, and hear not the dark …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 151

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ass with the song of the mouth Of the notable Lord of the Dawn. Unto Ra, the desire of the East, let the clamour of singing proclaim The fire of his name ! In the ways of the East and the West Whence the night and the day are dis- crowned, We pass with the beat of his breast, And the breath of his crying is bound. Unto Toum, the low Lord of the West, let the noise of our chant be the breath Proclaiming him Death ! And the violent song of the seas. Unto Mou, the most powerful Lord of the South, let our worship declare Him Lord of the Air! In the…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 65

Amphora

AMPHORA XII WAKE the earthly choir To match the host of heaven, Where the seven lamps of mystic fire Shine, and the spirits seven ! In this religious gloom Invoke the light divine As, Mary, in Thy blessed womb GOD made the Daystar shine. This common fruit of earth Be made the Body of grace Even as the flesh by Jesu’s birth Was holy for a space. All things by heavenly power To that redemption come Equal before Thee in the hour Of joy or martyrdom. Amen. A 58

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1909 · PDF PAGE 22

Handbook of Geomancy

…all but love B83 the matter gs 5 Good in most Zw 5 Very evil BE 6 Good Ba 6 Rather good 7 7 In war good, else medium o2 7 Evil, war, and fire 8° 8 Evil a. 8 No good, exc. for magic a) Look for letters gs 9 | Good for science only; bad for|| 9, & 10 Good og journeys ; robbery gg Good in all 8% 10 Evil, save in works of fire EB 12 Very evil BS xr Evil, save for favours oO Bu Rather good g gs a 156

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