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1899 · PDF PAGE 35

Tale of Archais

…an : “ O thou, a child of Heaven, and a man, Even so my lover, shall my woeful song So move thy spirit for my bitter wrong (God-nurtured though thou be) against the rods Laid on me by my mother, whom the gods, Righteous in anger, doomed, for fiery sin Kindled by hell-flames, cherishéd within Her lustful heart, for sin most damnable, To suffer torment in remotest hell, Where the grim fiend grinds down with fiery stones The unrepentant marrow of men’s bones, Or chills their blood with poisonous vials of death, Or dooms them to the tooth and venom…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 15

Orpheus

…; Care nought for his mercy or ire ; Reach impious hands to his lyre. Determined to die or control _ Those strings the immortal at last, though the strings of this heart of me bleed. Come life, or come death ; come disdain Or honour from mutable men, I cry in this passionate pain— My blood be poured out in the pen! 16 .

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1905 · PDF PAGE 14

Rosa Mundi

… rose, sole, sacred, wonderful, Informing all, in all most beautiful, Circle and sphere, perfect in every part, High above hope of Art : Though, be it said ! thou art nowhere now, Save in the secret chamber of my heart. Behind the brass of my anonymous brow. Ay ! let the coward and slave who writes write on ! He is no more harm to Love than the grey snake Who lurks in the dusk brake

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1909 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king. The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained. YOGA AND MAGIC I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea. It has four methods. Gnana-Yoga. Union by Knowledge. Raja-Yoga. Union by Will. Bhakta-Yoga. Union by Love. Hatha-Yoga. Union by Courage. add Mantra-Yoga. Union through Speech. Karma-Yoga. Union through Work. These are united by the supreme m…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king. The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained. YOGA AND MAGIC I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea. It has four methods. Gnana-Yoga. Union by Knowledge. Raja-Yoga. Union by Will. Bhakta-Yoga. Union by Love. Hatha-Yoga. Union by Courage. add Mantra-Yoga. Union through Speech. Karma-Yoga. Union through Work. These are united by the supreme m…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 28

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…HE GoLvEN Boucu, by J. G. Frazer. The Text-Book of Folk Lore. Invaluable to all students. Tue AcE oF Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. Rivers oF LiFe, by General Forlong. An invaluable text- book of old systems of initiation. THREE D1aLocueEs, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of subjective idealism. Essays or Davin Hume. The Classic of Academic Scep- ticism. First Principies, by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism. PROLEGOMENA, by Emanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics. Tu…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 82

In Residence

…fender with ’is ’ead. Ses Sawhones, ‘’E’s a lucky chap, An’ wean't be ’urt by ¢hat mis’ap.’ “« They’ve appleplectic fits,’ ’e ses, ‘An’, though their lives I’m sure to save, Yet each ’ll carry, Ill confess, A ruin’ stummick to ’is grave.’ An’ ’e were right as soon as not: A ruin’ stummick ’tis they’ve got.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 11

Rosa Coeli

…ry-fringéd river, Through lotus gardens of the sleepy gods, On hills where every timid oread tries Blue gentian as disguise From holier (though she think profaner) eyes, On seas where, it may be, (to even the odds !) Each nymph and undine issues from the foam Armed with a pearly mirror and with a coral comb To tire her beauty, lure me to the lakes Of light where strikes the day to hyaline floors Whereon blithe fish and emerald water snakes Play all the day, and all their innocence adores Is some old anchor with its rusty flakes Fallen from God …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 126

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…hour of Sacrament. o. I love you, and you love me. 1. Now and ever may it be! 1. and o. Hand in hand is heart to heart. Love be with us, though we part. [They greet, as before, and depart. 86

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1913 · PDF PAGE 126

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…hour of Sacrament. o. I love you, and you love me. 1. Now and ever may it be! 1. and o. Hand in hand is heart to heart. Love be with us, though we part. [They greet, as before, and depart. 86

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1909 · PDF PAGE 29

The Holy Books

…pon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or smite !, 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down and shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double— wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust and worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the glo…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 72

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…Christ ; to die is gain: For I, I also, I shall come again. THE FIFTH DAY. ‘Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.” Richard Il. ALL thought of work is almost cast aside. I followed like a dog the way she went, Speaking but seldom, very well content To day-dream, oft imagining a bride, A wife, a lover, even a sister, tied By some soft bond of twinning: thus I blent A real joy with a brighter element Of fancy free to wander far and wide. For as I followed by the shore and bended Over her footsteps in the wood, my will Rose to high strength a…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 6

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…the gold from the furnace that melted my loves. Love is not bound to the body, not sparse and adrift with the mind Not secret with soul, though the soul seem one and alone of its kind. The body is naught but a corpse, its growth but a name of decay, A delirious dream of sick gods—where the Shadow hath sway. Concocted of offal and mire, putrescent with cancer of breath, A knot that unravels to naught, a riddle whose answer is Death? The mind is the reek of the fume of the body’s corruption, the mime Of its magotty moods as it rots from its worm-…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 28

Liber Al vel Legis

…pon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or smite !, 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down and shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double— wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust and worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the glo…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 184

Oracles

…re also a number of fine lyrics and dramatic poems in the volume. “ Mr Crowley has paced the literary stage before, not without success, though it were not much more than the success of expecta- tion. He was hailed as a promising young man, and a follower of Swinburne. It is true that young men usually follow somebody or something ; but this does not imply depreciation. It is also true that some critics appear to expect an absolutely impossible origi- nality, and that they forget Emerson’s dictum that the greatest genius is the most indebted ma…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 24

The Goetia

Now in this Book LEMEGEToN is contained the whole Art of King Solo- mon. And although there be many other Books that are said to be his, yet none is to be compared hereunto, for this containeth them all. Though there be titles with several other Names of the Book, as THE Boox HELIsoL, which is the very same with this last Book of Lemegeton called Ars Nova or Ars Nortarlia, etc. These Books were first found in the Chaldee and Hebrew Tongues at Jerusalem by a Jewish Rabbi; and by him put into the Greek language and thence into the Latin, as it is…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 133

Oracles

…ding ever Above the lonely river Aloft : no more I saw than this, The shadowy bending to the first sweet kiss That surely could not end, though earth should end. Therefore my shut eyes blend With sleep’s own secret eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover B…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…he lesser peaks—my will withdrawn To invoke the dayspring from the dawn, Changing that rosy smoke of light To a pure crystalline white ; Though the mist of mind, as draws A dancer round her limbs the gauze, Clothe Light, and show the virgin Sun A lemon-pale medallion! Thence leap we leashless to the goal, Stainless star-rapture of the soul. So the altar-fires fade As the Godhead is displayed. Nay, we stir not. Everywhere Is our temple right appointed. All the earth is faery fair For us. Am I not anointed? The Sigil burns upon the brow At the ad…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…he lesser peaks—my will withdrawn To invoke the dayspring from the dawn, Changing that rosy smoke of light To a pure crystalline white ; Though the mist of mind, as draws A dancer round her limbs the gauze, Clothe Light, and show the virgin Sun A lemon-pale medallion! Thence leap we leashless to the goal, Stainless star-rapture of the soul. So the altar-fires fade As the Godhead is displayed. Nay, we stir not. Everywhere Is our temple right appointed. All the earth is faery fair For us. Am I not anointed? The Sigil burns upon the brow At the ad…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 132

White Stains

…he pangs Of love with hardy limbs, and dolorous fangs, And sweating body, crimsoning with gore, As her mad mouth devoured me. Never more Though years decay ! With them my blood decays, My bones rot inwardly, the venomed days Sink shaft on shaft of agony, the years Bring new distortions, miseries, and fears ; New torture to my spirit, and forgot Of God, and health, and loveliness, I rot.

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