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1901 · PDF PAGE 102

The Mother’s Tragedy

88 THE WHORE IN HEAVEN Hate, triumph, justice, with their hardness strove Pity, pure pity; and, I think, the love Of some God’s angel. Now the strife is past; She took her father home with her at last. Now, in that moment, quite a miracle! Through all the shell of miserable sin, Through all the blackness of the gulf of Hell, She sees Truth’s angel. She is locked within No irrefragable bars; her spirit woke From its dull slavery; her passion broke Her history’s prison, from that hour to endure Mighty as tempest and as spring wind pure. After a y…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 6

The Vision and the Voice

….M.A. in Enochian. The Book grows before my eyes and filleth the Whole Heaven. Within: “It is Written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God.” I see above the Book a multitude of white-robed Ones from whom droppeth a great rain of Blood: but above them is a Golden Sun, having an eye, whence a great Light. I turned me to the South: and read therein: Seal up the Book! Speak not that which thou seest and 4

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1912 · PDF PAGE 31

Book 4 (Part I)

…mption “ This is That.” In the Bhagavadgitaa vision of this class is naturally attributed to the apparition of Vishnu, who was the local god of the period. Anna Kingsford, who had dabbled in Hebrew mysticism, and was a feminist, got an almost identical vision; but called the “divine” figure which she saw alternately “ Adonai ” and “ Maria.” Now this woman, though handicapped by a brain that was a mass of putrid pulp, and a complete lack of social status, education, and moral character, did more in the religious world than any other person had do…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 99

Mortadello

…on that prefers your crapulence and crime. MONICA. The people wait ! MORTADELLO. Anon. MONICA. Here is my ring. MORTADELLO. Not yet ! My God ! I stand upon what edge ? MONICA. Forgive : forget.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 98

Book 4 (Part II)

86 This is one of the more exoteric of these rimes. In fact, it is not much better than a sun-myth. Tom is Toum, the God of the Sunset (called the Son of Apollo, the Piper, the maker of music). The only difficulty in the poem concerns the pig; for anyone who has watched an angry sunset in the Tropics upon the sea, will recognize how incom- parable a description of that sunset is given in that wonderful last line. Some have thought that the pig refers to the evening sacrifice, others that she is Hathor, the Lady of the West, in her more sensual …

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1939 · PDF PAGE 51

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…xists, and the great Hebrew sages of old time noted this fact by giving it the title of the supreme idea of reality (behind their tribal God, Jehovah, who, as we have previously shown, is merely the Yoga of the 4 Elements, even at his highest,—the Demiourgos) Eheieh—Asher-Eheieh,— I am that I am. 17. If there is any sense in any of this at all, we may expect to find an almost identical system of thought all over the world. There is nothing exclusively Hebrew about this theogony. We find, for example, in the teachings of Zoroaster and the neo-Pl…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 61

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…MUNDI 85 When he built chaos?) Shall Leviathan Be drawn out with an hook 2?) Enough; [see This I can answer—or Ernst Llaeckel can ! Now, God Almighty, rede this mystery ! What of the love that is the heart of man? Take stars and airs, and write it down ! Mill all the interstices of space With myriad verse——own Thy disgrace ! Diminish Thy renown ! Approve my riddle ! This Thou canst not do. 17. O living Kose ! O dowered with subtle dew Of love, the tiny eternitics of time, Caucht between flying seconds, are well filled With these futilides of fr…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 13

The World’s Tragedy

…ndidates and writing : “ I vote for King Jesus ”. He had started a school for the Sons of Brethren at 51, Bateman Street, Cambridge. May God bite into the bones of men the pain of that hell on earth (I have prayed often) that by them it may be sowed with salt, accursed for ever ! May the maiden that passes it be barren, and the pregnant woman that beholdeth it abort ! May the birds of

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1912 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…i.e. to use words which he does not under— stand), for a man who is really praying cannot bring himself to say a ridiculous thing to his God, even on the latter's mandate.” (From this it appears as if the Augoeides had told Fra. P. the real meaning of Zoroaster’s injunction: “Change not barbarous names of evocation; for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”) ”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite ` From Greenland's Icy Mountains’ (the most ridiculous thing that occurred to his mind)—if with faith, Samadhil …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…i.e. to use words which he does not under— stand), for a man who is really praying cannot bring himself to say a ridiculous thing to his God, even on the latter's mandate.” (From this it appears as if the Augoeides had told Fra. P. the real meaning of Zoroaster’s injunction: “Change not barbarous names of evocation; for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”) ”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite ` From Greenland's Icy Mountains’ (the most ridiculous thing that occurred to his mind)—if with faith, Samadhil …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 85

Book 4 (Part II)

…of all things to the standard of men's welfare. They even became stupid: Bernardin de St. Pierre (was it not?) said that the goodness of God was such that wherever men had built a great city. He had placed a river to assist them in conveying merchandise. But the truth is that in no way can we imagine the Universe as devised. If horses were made for men to ride, were not men made for worms to eat?

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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…der is chosen for each, the conductor whose reputation is greatest and the one most suitable for the post. They then chant hymns made in God's honour in many metres and melodies, sometimes singing in chorus, sometimes one band beating time to the answering chant of the other, (now) dancing to its music, 5

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1913 · PDF PAGE 224

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX Because the priest is risen from the sod, Because he bears the mantle of a god. The hour has struck at last ; henceforth the Way Is sundered from the sunlight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET S…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…der is chosen for each, the conductor whose reputation is greatest and the one most suitable for the post. They then chant hymns made in God's honour in many metres and melodies, sometimes singing in chorus, sometimes one band beating time to the answering chant of the other, (now) dancing to its music, 5

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1913 · PDF PAGE 224

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX Because the priest is risen from the sod, Because he bears the mantle of a god. The hour has struck at last ; henceforth the Way Is sundered from the sunlight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET S…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 18

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…unstained eternity ! There we will rest. Beware! Beware! For I am young, and you are fair. Nay! Iam old in this, you know! Ah ! heart of God! I love you so! XXV. O WHAT pale thoughts like gum exude From smitten stem of tropic tree ! I talk of veils, who love the nude ! Witness the masterpieces three Of Rodin that make possible Life in prosaic Paris, stand About the room, its chorus swell From the irritating to the grand. Shall we, who love the naked form, The inmost truth, to ourselves fail, Take shelter from love’s lightning-storm Behind some …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 203

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. 181 Though for the pleasures of God’s house my heart Has no distaste, yet, should my Love resign The lips and languors it has made as mine And of our Godhead sacrifice a part? Death were a grief, a parting pang to me, And not this Fear that hunts relentlessly All thoughts about the void, whose veiléd dart Poisons before it strikes! I would the sea Swung meabout, a corpse inane and cold On her warm breast of gold! The Fear of Madness! Consciousness knows not Its own decay. I should be happy then, Cast like a leper from the …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 62

Orpheus

…ing Vainly His peace that dwells even in the desolate halls. The delicately-chiselled flowers nod, Look to the skies, and see thee for a God, O sightless lyre that wails, O viewless voice that calls! Thy sound is in our depth and in her womb, Far in Spring’s milky breast, in Autumn’s gloom, In Summer's feast and song, in Winter’s funerals. In the dead hollow of the hills there rings, Sharp song, like frost hissing on silver wings, Or like the swelling tune we listen to for Spring’s. We come, we mountains, crowned and incense-bringing, Robed as …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 97

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… Oh ! Oh I [She runs to LAYLAH and hides in thefolds ofher dress. LAYLAH What now? LEDMIYA. They are bringing in a corpse. LAYLAH. Oh my God—if Achmet lied! [The a’oor opens The corpse of SIDI OMAR is brought in by six eunuehs.] Ah 1 [Shegoes down hall] Lay him there Ι [She rena’s her weil,] Sidi Omar, these twenty years have I been wedded to thee and thou hast not known my heart! Leave me, that I may bewail him as is fitting. [All deþort but FATMA and LEDMIYA and the PIPE-SLAVES with their þrisonerj Fatma, do thou lament. I await tidings of the…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 97

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… Oh ! Oh I [She runs to LAYLAH and hides in thefolds ofher dress. LAYLAH What now? LEDMIYA. They are bringing in a corpse. LAYLAH. Oh my God—if Achmet lied! [The a’oor opens The corpse of SIDI OMAR is brought in by six eunuehs.] Ah 1 [Shegoes down hall] Lay him there Ι [She rena’s her weil,] Sidi Omar, these twenty years have I been wedded to thee and thou hast not known my heart! Leave me, that I may bewail him as is fitting. [All deþort but FATMA and LEDMIYA and the PIPE-SLAVES with their þrisonerj Fatma, do thou lament. I await tidings of the…

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