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1919 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX 34. Thy name is Death, it may be, or Shame, or Love. So thou bringest me tidings of the Beloved One, I shall not ask thy name. 35. Where is now the Master? cry the little crazy boys. He is dead! He is shamed! He is wedded! and their mockery shall ring round the world. 36. But the Master shall have had his reward. The laughter of the mockers shall be a ripple in the hair of the Beloved One. 37. Behold! the Abyss of the Great Deep. Therein is a mighty dolphin, lashing his sides with the force of the waves. 38. There is also an harper …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 198

Liber Aleph

…ation, being sorrowful, is not worthy of Acceptance. But he must with Joy unite all he is and hath, heaping the Whole into one Billow of Love, under Will. Yea, o my son, until thou hast brought the Postulant into our Freedom from Sin, and the Sense and Conviction thereof, he is not ready for the Path of our Magick and Illumination; because every Way soever is a Going, and his Sin is an obstacle and a Fetter and an Hoodwink on every one of them, for it is Restriction, whether he set out by the Meditations of the Dhamma, or by Our Qabalah, or by …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 220

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…the grip, yet for others—well, let each man take his sword! The way went through a forest. Now between two trees hung a man by one heel (Love was that tree).° Crossed were his legs, and his arms behind his head, that hung ever downwards, the fingers locked. ‘* Who art thou?” quoth our Father. ‘‘ He that came before thee.” ‘‘ Who am 1?” ‘‘ He that cometh after me.’’ With that worshipped our Father, and took a present of a great jewel from him, and went his ways. And he was bitterly a-cold, for that was the great Water he had passed. But our Fath…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 324

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…א a stone, rock Elihul (Vide 52)?אוהילא The garden 1: Angel of g P.?לאיזה To defend, hide, a wall ; the?,ךמה sun; fury The spleen?לוחט A love!?הבהאמ A basin, bowl, vessel. {JR [Ex. xxiv. 6] Rest 'D'l A Tribe of Israel; to judge, ruler ri [Vide .?!}.סL.C.K. p. 37] Pertaining ω summerםוה 54

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1912 · PDF PAGE 324

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…א a stone, rock Elihul (Vide 52)?אוהילא The garden 1: Angel of g P.?לאיזה To defend, hide, a wall ; the?,ךמה sun; fury The spleen?לוחט A love!?הבהאמ A basin, bowl, vessel. {JR [Ex. xxiv. 6] Rest 'D'l A Tribe of Israel; to judge, ruler ri [Vide .?!}.סL.C.K. p. 37] Pertaining ω summerםוה 54

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1907 · PDF PAGE 19

The Star in the West

…and fair , and the world wakes to a chant : DIONYSUS I bring ye wine from above , From the vats of the storied sun ; For every one of ye love , And life for every one . Ye shall dance on hill and level ; Ye shall sing in hollows and height In the festal mystical revel , The rapturous Bacchanal rite ! The rocks and trees are yours , And the waters under the hill , By the might of that which endures , The holy heaven of will ! I kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star ; Your hair as a comet's horrent , Ye shall see things as they …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 113

The Star in the West

…creates in him a deep cynical disgust for the world : Man , a bad joke ; and God , mere epigram ! If we must come to that . And likewise love .? Only a donkey fastened to a post Moves in a circle.3 He taunts them , insults God ; and tells all , shouting it far and broad , that his road was the road of the Mount of Venus , the road of Lust , the fiery baptism of Vice which impels Virtue . Then the silence breaks , the foul mob of the Self - sufficient , the spawn of ignor ance , and the slime of superstition , let loose their hell - hound voices…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 126

The Star in the West

… told , Other hundreds o'er and o'er . And Propertius to the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadfast pride , And on my neck his foot triumphant press'd . So it is to - day . Conventionalism is passing along its way chaotic and disordered . Mutinus is worshipped at every street corner , and the goat of Mendes slavers over the revellers as they wend their way home with their Gitons and Messalinas . “ The decay of a people , …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 84

John St. John

…t! I was perfect, had I only watched. ButI let my faith run away with me. . . . I wonder. Dinner over, I go on as I am in calm faith and love. Why should I expect a catastrophic effect? Why should not the circumstances of Union with God be compatible with the normal consciousness ? Inter- penetrating and illuminating it, if you like; but not destroying it. Well, I don’t know why it shouldn’t be; but I bet it isn‘t! All the spiritual experience I have had argues against such a theory. On the contrary, it will leave the reason quite intact, supre…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ll concealments; when the Most Holy Ancient One is stripped and driven through the market- place I am still secret and apart. 27. Whom I love I chastise with many rods. 28. All things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me. 29. For there is no holiness where I am not. 30. Fear not when I fall in the fury of the storm; for mine acorns are blown afar by the wind ; and verily I shall rise again, and my children about me, so that we shall uplift our forest in Eternity. 3L Eternity is the storm that covereth me. 32. I am Existence, the Existen…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ll concealments; when the Most Holy Ancient One is stripped and driven through the market- place I am still secret and apart. 27. Whom I love I chastise with many rods. 28. All things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me. 29. For there is no holiness where I am not. 30. Fear not when I fall in the fury of the storm; for mine acorns are blown afar by the wind ; and verily I shall rise again, and my children about me, so that we shall uplift our forest in Eternity. 3L Eternity is the storm that covereth me. 32. I am Existence, the Existen…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 53

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…d Lou’s joy in the cloud. It was I that was wrong. I had not had enough cocaine to be able to accept everything as infinite ecstasy. Her love carried me out of myself up to her triumphal passion. I understood the mist. D.D.F. D

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1961 · PDF PAGE 214

Liber Aleph

… Five of the Air, how it is not real to the Perception of any human Sense, but yet most real to our Lungs, diluting the Oxygen, by whose Love we were else violently combust. s

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1904 · PDF PAGE 33

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…p, at the close of the exciting interlude described in the last chapter, when I first obtained any real satisfaction from the passion of love, which has since done so much to regulate and in- spire my career. The incident occurred on this wise. For some days my ponderous and unwieldy bollocks had become turgid and swollen with the fluid we know, my boy, you dog ! As spunk. Eighty-three pounds and four ounces they weighed on the penny-in-the-slot machine at our village station, and had it not been for the singular ro- bustness of my physique, un…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 45

The Star in the West

38 THE STAR IN THE WEST Pitiful love . Lovelier pity , descend And bring me luck who am lonely and forlorn ." ? Here “ piti " is a trochee ; “ lovelier, " a spondee ; “ pity , ” a trochee . The whole metre breaks up , as if the singer's heart burst in despair . Whilst in “ Bouches d'Enfer ” we find such lines as : From the long -held leash ! The headlong , hot -mouthed girl, in which , as we read , we feel a veritable stretching of the mental leather , as it were ; our minds being held back a space by the introduction of the word “ long .' This…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 123

The Star in the West

…bling .' Or again , in “ The Nameless Quest ," God's heart ! the antics , as they toil and shove ! One grabs a coin , one life , another love . All shriek .2 Cora Vavasour made a pretty just estimate of society when she called its stulti “ prurient licksores of society ,” for that is exactly what they are ; when poor , squalid ; when rich , vulgar ; the men fond of kitchen - maids , and the women painted and cosmetic ized , not only to hide the ravages of debauchery , but to catch new lovers ; the boys a breed of cads , and the girls a breed of…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 183

The Star in the West

…the soul stands on the blood - red field of Aceldama : II. whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head , to wither Love's desire ?? The picture becomes grander still , the child of life becomes old in thought : III . I was a child long years ago , it seems , Or months it may be - I am still a child ! They pictured me the stars as wheeling wild In a huge bowl of water ; but my dreams Built it of Titan oak , its sides were piled Of fearful wood Hewn from God's forests , paid with sweat and tears and blood . Yet to what does …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 32

John St. John

5.50. 6.15. 30 THE EQUINOX just love to bring up Typhon, and curse Osiris and burn his bones and his blood! At least, I now solemnly express a pious wish that the Crocodile of the West may eat up the Sun once and for all, that Set may defile the Holy Place, that the supreme Blasphemy may be spoken by Python in the ears of Isis. I want trouble. I want to say Indra’s mantram till his throne gets red-hot and burns his lotus-buttocks ; I want to pinch little Harpocrates till he fairly yells . . . and I will too! Somehow! I have now got into a sort o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 241

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… you and me and the gate-post ; and poor puny, puling, sickly little Metaphysics, with only one tooth in his upper jaw! Oh, don’t cry! I love you as I always did and always shall. I'll see you through it somehow! But don’t talk foolishness about marriage! We are happy because when I come to see you I come to see you. If we were living together you would soon get to know me as the brute who grumbles at the cooking and wants to shut himself up and work—[mimicking her voice] “ And I wouldn’t mind so much if it were work, but all he does is to sit …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 241

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… you and me and the gate-post ; and poor puny, puling, sickly little Metaphysics, with only one tooth in his upper jaw! Oh, don’t cry! I love you as I always did and always shall. I'll see you through it somehow! But don’t talk foolishness about marriage! We are happy because when I come to see you I come to see you. If we were living together you would soon get to know me as the brute who grumbles at the cooking and wants to shut himself up and work—[mimicking her voice] “ And I wouldn’t mind so much if it were work, but all he does is to sit …

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