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1938 · PDF PAGE 14

The Heart of the Master

…rth His Will, that, casting shadows on the clouds of Life, may be half read by him whose eyes are lightened enough by the manhood of his love. Thus then do I learn how best to make myself fit to fulfil my Life, in the Life of the Master, and offer my blood to His Heart. 0. Know Naught! All ways are lawful to Innocence. Pure folly is the Key to Initiation. Silence breaks into Rapture. Be neither man nor woman, but both in one. Be silent, Babe in the Egg of Blue, that thou mayest grow to bear the Lance and Graal! Wander alone, and sing! In the Ki…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 15

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…aye, alone, elect. Shall we then dive in Paris sewers? Ay! but not find you there, nor yet Your likeness. Did you then forget You are my love? Arise and shine ! It was your blasphemy, not mine. XIX, A FAINT sweet smell of ether haunts Yet the remembrance. Hear the wizard His lone and melancholy chaunts Roared in the rain-storm and the blizzard ! The ancient and devoted dizzard ! Appear, thou dream of loveliness! She wore a rose and amber dress, With broidery of old gold. Her hair Was long and starry, gilded red. Her face was laughter, shapen fa…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 285

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…at are so soft and strong, Lead us along! [5012. GEMINI plays aceom’zngly.* [A fame FR. GEMINI. Brother Virgo, wilt thou not join us who love not Speech? VIRGO. Hail unto Mercury. He killeth Sol at the Close of every Twilight, and hangeth up the sky of Night on the Tree of Heaven, fastened up with the Star—headed nails. of thy Virginal Sister. [At Με ena’ ofhis dance, þafa/!: before the altar. GEMINI ana’ all PROBATIONERS circnmmnbn/ate round MERCURY. Brother Gemini, do Thou perform the dance [FR. GEMINI dances. him, Men staþ,facing MERCURY.] *…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 285

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…at are so soft and strong, Lead us along! [5012. GEMINI plays aceom’zngly.* [A fame FR. GEMINI. Brother Virgo, wilt thou not join us who love not Speech? VIRGO. Hail unto Mercury. He killeth Sol at the Close of every Twilight, and hangeth up the sky of Night on the Tree of Heaven, fastened up with the Star—headed nails. of thy Virginal Sister. [At Με ena’ ofhis dance, þafa/!: before the altar. GEMINI ana’ all PROBATIONERS circnmmnbn/ate round MERCURY. Brother Gemini, do Thou perform the dance [FR. GEMINI dances. him, Men staþ,facing MERCURY.] *…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 243

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…nine united. Harmony, pleasure, mirth, subtlety: but if ill dignified—folly, dissipa- tion, waste, silly actions, Chokmah of( ?הMarriage, love, pleasure) Therein rule the Angels?לאעואand .?היונה LV THE LORD OF ABUNDANCE T/Wez of Clla/ires A WHITE Radiating Hand, as before, holds a group of lotuses or water—lilies, from which two flowers rise on either side 01, and overhanging the top cup; pouring into it the white water. Flowers in the same way pour white water into the lower cups‘ All the cups overflow; the topmost into the two others, and these…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 243

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…nine united. Harmony, pleasure, mirth, subtlety: but if ill dignified—folly, dissipa- tion, waste, silly actions, Chokmah of( ?הMarriage, love, pleasure) Therein rule the Angels?לאעואand .?היונה LV THE LORD OF ABUNDANCE T/Wez of Clla/ires A WHITE Radiating Hand, as before, holds a group of lotuses or water—lilies, from which two flowers rise on either side 01, and overhanging the top cup; pouring into it the white water. Flowers in the same way pour white water into the lower cups‘ All the cups overflow; the topmost into the two others, and these…

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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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1909 · PDF PAGE 17

The Holy Books

…s, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men triumph in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the people, 0 my chosen! 26. I am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop I6

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1912 · PDF PAGE 99

Mortadello

…MONICA. Yes ! yes ! you must consent. Come ! I adore a man so stout and excellent. I even adore the scorn and hate wherewith you load My love. MORTADELLO. False witch forsworn ! I loathe you like a toad : Yet, let me own it, stirs deep in some primal slime Some passion 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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1912 · PDF PAGE 107

Mortadello

…he eternal flame. Saints know, and only saints, the horrors of the soul, Its foul and fiery taints, its nigromancer’s scroll. Kneel, and love God. Enough if you would fathom hell ! The Path is straight and rough. MORTADELLO. If only it end well. For me the easy way has always proved the best. MONICA. So it may seem to-day, but death’s a surer test. ALESSANDRO. O ! we are all oppressed by this dull haze that hangs. I laugh at gibe or jest—and only show my fangs. If God would send an air to stir the slack lagoon, We should be flinging care, a bub…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 69

Little Poems in Prose

…rity or with any greed for the visible goods of life was doomed to find himself one day terribly embarrassed by his millions. So, too, a love of beauty and poetic power were given to the son of a dirty rascal, a quar- ryman by trade, who could not in any manner assist the development of the gifts, or supply the needs of his unlucky offspring. I forgot to tell you that the distribution in these solemn cases is without appeal, and that no one may refuse a gift. All the Fairies rose, thinking that their spell of hard labour was at an end, for ther…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 112

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 100 Gu De Sirenis (Of Syrens) ONCERNING the Love of Women, o my Son, it is written in The Book of the Law that all is Freedom, if it be done unto our Lady Nuit. Yet also there is this Consideration, that for every Parsifal there is a Kundry. Thou mayst eat a thousand Fruits of the Garden; but there is one Tree whose name for thee is Poison. In every great Initiation is an Ordeal, wherein appeareth a Siren or Vampire appointed to destroy the Candidate. I have myself witnessed the Blasting of not less than ten of my own Flower…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 128

Konx Om Pax

…PAX THE POET BURY me in a nameless grave! I came from God the world to save. I brought them wisdom from above: Worship, and liberty, and love. They slew me for I did disparage Therefore Religion, Law, and Marriage. So be my grave without a name That earth may swallow up my shame! Arthur! said the big man, more tenderly than he had yet spoken, there was once a man like you. He wished your wish, not with‘tears, but with laughter; he had his wish, as you shall have yours. In spite of all, that nameless man is widely known as any in the world; they…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF MARS But thou, O thou, hast risen from the deep ! All mortals mourn and weep Το see thee, seeing that all love must die Besides thy beauty, see thee and despair ! Deadly as thou art fair, I cry for all mankind—they are slain, even as l ! [SOR. SCORPIO takes crown of. [A pause. [BROTHER CAPRICORNUS a’anees the dance of Vii/ean to anvil-music in gradually increasing rea’ light, at 8114 rushes to throne and/ind: MARS and SCORPIO, their weafons laid aside, in each other’s arms.] BRO. CAPRICORNUS. Ah, wanton I [sex. SCORPIO takes m'a/in …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF MARS But thou, O thou, hast risen from the deep ! All mortals mourn and weep Το see thee, seeing that all love must die Besides thy beauty, see thee and despair ! Deadly as thou art fair, I cry for all mankind—they are slain, even as l ! [SOR. SCORPIO takes crown of. [A pause. [BROTHER CAPRICORNUS a’anees the dance of Vii/ean to anvil-music in gradually increasing rea’ light, at 8114 rushes to throne and/ind: MARS and SCORPIO, their weafons laid aside, in each other’s arms.] BRO. CAPRICORNUS. Ah, wanton I [sex. SCORPIO takes m'a/in …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 224

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…adence of the sigil Whose symbols sing, making the night to swoon, The day to tremble: from my secret vigil I shall return to meet thee, Love, and soon. 186

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1913 · PDF PAGE 224

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…adence of the sigil Whose symbols sing, making the night to swoon, The day to tremble: from my secret vigil I shall return to meet thee, Love, and soon. 186

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1926 · PDF PAGE 16

Liber Al vel Legis

…s, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men triumph in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the people, 0 my chosen! 26. I am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop I6

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1905 · PDF PAGE 262

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…am not clinging thus Despairing to the body of thy sin For mere delight—Ah, deadly is to us The pleasure wrapping us, and holding in All love, all hate—the miserable way ! Dawns no devouring day Still on the infinite slow tune of limbs Moving in rapture ; sleepy echo swims In the dissolving brain, Love conquering lassitude at last to win Pain out of peace, and pleasure from a pang ; Then, scorpion-stung of its own terrible tang, Burnt of its own fire, soiled of its own stain, Falls conquered as a bird Bolt-stricken through the brain, To the res…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 62

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… in the sky, And hovering is sweeter than winging; To live is less good than to die. The secret of secrets is hidden Not in lives nor in loves, but in wills That are free and unchidden, that wander unbidden To home in the hills. A strength that is more than the summer Is firm in that silence and rest, Though stiller the rocks be and dumber That the soul of its slumber oppressed. For stronger control is than urging, And mightier the heart of the sea Than her waves deep-merging and striving and surging That deem they are free. In spirit I stand o…

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