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1911 · PDF PAGE 39

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…the A A 1. Let him greet the Sun at dawn, facing East, giving the sign of his grade. And let him say in a loud voice: Hail unto Thee who art Ra in Thy rising, even unto Thee who art Ra in Thy strength, who travellest over the Heavens in Thy bark at the Uprising of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra- Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Night l 2. Also at Noon, let him greet the Sun, facing South, giving the sign of his grade. And let him say in a loud vome: Hail unto Thee who art Ahathoor in Thy…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 215

The Winged Beetle

205 LE VAMPIRE O THOU, who like a dagger-stroke Art planted in my plaintive heart, Who art come hither like a flock Of fiends, by mad and gilded art Come, of this dark soul and discrowned To make thy bed and thy domain— Vile wretch to whom my life is bound Even as a convict to his chain, Even as a gambler to his game, Even as a drunkard to his thirst, Even as a harlot to her shame— Be thou accurst, accurst, accurst ! I prayed the falchion’s fiery craft To win my freedom in a trice ; And called the treacherous poison-draught To master me my cowa…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 325

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Faith is a greater thing than all religions, because it states the articles of belief with less precision. Any dogma constitutes but a belief, and belongs to our particular communion; faith is a sentiment which is common to the whole of humanity. The more one discusses with the object of obtaining greater accuracy, the less one believes; every new dogma is a belief which a sect appropriates to itself, and thus, in some sort, steals from universal faith. Let us leave sectarians to make and remake their dogmas; let us lea…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 325

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Faith is a greater thing than all religions, because it states the articles of belief with less precision. Any dogma constitutes but a belief, and belongs to our particular communion; faith is a sentiment which is common to the whole of humanity. The more one discusses with the object of obtaining greater accuracy, the less one believes; every new dogma is a belief which a sect appropriates to itself, and thus, in some sort, steals from universal faith. Let us leave sectarians to make and remake their dogmas; let us lea…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… Nu! A devouring fire is thy soul, and the corpses of the dead are enkindled at thy breathe [Returns to his throne. VENUS. Brother Libra, art thou silent? [A pausa. Brother Libra, where art thou? LIBRA, still hidden, recz'fesfwm Swinöume's "Atalanta," We have seen thee, O Love, thou art fair; thou art goodly, Ο Love; Thy wings make light in the air as the wings ofa dove, etc. . . . Famine, and blighting of corn, When thy time was come to be born. [LIBRA appears and confront: her. All these we know of; but thee Who shall discern or declare? etc. …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… Nu! A devouring fire is thy soul, and the corpses of the dead are enkindled at thy breathe [Returns to his throne. VENUS. Brother Libra, art thou silent? [A pausa. Brother Libra, where art thou? LIBRA, still hidden, recz'fesfwm Swinöume's "Atalanta," We have seen thee, O Love, thou art fair; thou art goodly, Ο Love; Thy wings make light in the air as the wings ofa dove, etc. . . . Famine, and blighting of corn, When thy time was come to be born. [LIBRA appears and confront: her. All these we know of; but thee Who shall discern or declare? etc. …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 55

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

… know only that by doing certain things we get certain results, and that the least error I. The main différence between a Science and an Art is that the former admits mensuration. Its processes must be susceptible of the applica¬ tion of quantitative standards. Its laws reject impondérable variables. Science despises Art for its refusai to conform with calculable conditions. But even to-day, in the boasted Age of Science, man is still dépendent on Art as to most matters of practical importance to him; the Arts of Govern¬ ment, of War, of Litera…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 12

Amphora

AMPHORA III E praise thee, blessed maid of GOD, That art the spirit in the sod. Thou art the bird within the bower, And Thou the honey in the flower ! Thou art the moon in Egypt’s night ; The shade from Afric’s blasting light ! In all the world of ill we bow To the one good, and that is Thou. For blazing in Thy blessed womb Glitters the CHRIST, a star of doom To cast the stars of evil kings Into the blind abyss of things. Hail, Mary, hail ! Thou didst conceive The Holy Child whom we believe. Draw Thou our loyal spirits hence In rapture and in r…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 12

Hail Mary

AMPHORA III E praise thee, blessed maid of GOD, That art the spirit in the sod. Thou art the bird within the bower, And Thou the honey in the flower ! Thou art the moon in Egypt’s night ; The shade from Afric’s blasting light ! In all the world of ill we bow To the one good, and that is Thou. For blazing in Thy blessed womb Glitters the CHRIST, a star of doom To cast the stars of evil kings Into the blind abyss of things. Hail, Mary, hail ! Thou didst conceive The Holy Child whom we believe. Draw Thou our loyal spirits hence In rapture and in r…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 92

Orpheus

Art thou elder than they In their mountain of light? Is thy fugitive way Lost in uttermost night? Shalt thou not obey, Or my lyre not affright, If I call thee by Heaven and Earth with a God’s tumultu- ous might? If I curse thee or chide — Shalt thou tremble not, Thou ? Not move thee and hide From the light of my brow? Shall my arrows divide Not the heart of thee now? Art thou cased in strong iron to mock the spells that all others avow ? Art thou muffled or hidden In adamant brass? Is my music forbidden In Orcus to pass? Have I cursed thee and …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 68

White Stains

…hall stain Star-space with blood as the price thou sharest With thy red lovers, whose passing pain Ripens to marvellous after-gain. Thou art the fair, the wise, the divine, Thou art our mother, our goddess, our life, Thou art our passion, our sorrow, our strife, Thou, on whose forehead no lights ever shine, Thou, our Redeemer, our mistress, our wife, Thou, barren sister of deathlier brine, Venus Callipyge, mother of mine !

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1899 · PDF PAGE 183

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. 161 ODE TO POESY. NTO what likeness shall I liken thee, O moon-wrought maiden of my dewy sleep? For thou art Queen of Thoughts, and unto me Sister and Bride ; the worn earth’s echoes leap Because thy holy name is Poesy. Whereto art thou most like? Thou art a Dian, crescent o’er the sea That beats sonorous on the craggy shore, Or shakes the frail earth-dyke. So calm and still and far, that never more Thy silken song shall quiver through the land ; Only by coral isle, by lonely strand Where no man dwells, thy voice re-wakens…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 11

The Goetia

PRELIMINARY INVOCATION. Chee F invoke, the Wornless one. Chee, that didst create the Earth and the heavens: Chee, that didst create the Might and the Dap. Chee, that didst create the Darkness and the Light. Chou art Dsorronophris: Tabom no man hath seen at anp time. Chou art Jabas: Chou art Japos: Chou hast distinguished between the just and the Gnjust. Chou didst make the female and gale. Chou didst produce the Seed and the fruit. Chou Didst form gen to love one another, and to hate one another. Jam gposheh Chp JProphet, unto TAibom Chou didst…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 33

Rodin in Rime

…e Alone; it doth not ask a friend, © Nor shall it bend a fatuous knee To a fantastic deity. What crest or chrism were so good To work as Art, the crown upon Work’s brow? Thy will with love endued Lift up this loftier Parthenon! Thine art the consecrative oil To hallow us the Tower of Toil! 19

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1910 · PDF PAGE 134

The Scented Garden

126 The Vanity of metaphysic. XXXVI SURAIYA1 Sevenfold stands Suraiya in the sky ; Seven virtues do thy podex glorify. First, thou art hotter than Jahim2 itself, And drier than Arabia art thou dry. Third is thy tightness, like an hoop of steel, And O ! thy muscles, their mobility ! Fifth, is thy smell like jasmine-ambergris, And soft thou art like peaches ; seventhly, Such is the beauty of its form that one Seeing it, might be well content to die. [So Allah blazes brighter than the noon ; No water stains His spotless unity. His love once hold t…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 147

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 135 Ee De Duobus Præmiis Viæ (Of the Two Rewards of the Path) ET it be a Treasure in thine Heart, o my Son, this Mystery that I shall next unveil before thine Eyes, O Eagle that art undazzled by the brilliance of Light, that soarest continually with virile Flight to thine august Inheritance. Behold the Beatific Vision is of two Orders, and in the Formula of the Rosy Cross it is of the Heart and is called Beauty; but in the Formula of the Silver Star (id est, of the Eye within the Triangle) it is of the mind, and is c…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 52

John St. John

…isplaced here! Very good. Then how aspire? Who is it that standeth in the Moon-Ray? The Holy Guardian Angel. Aye! Ο my Lord Adonai, Thou art the Beginning and the End of the Path. For as Thou?התאthou art also 406 =?ותTau the material world, the Omega. And as He mn Thou art 12, the rays of the Ineffable Crown. (A disaster has occurred; viz., a sudden and violent attack of that which demands a tabloid of Pepsin, Bis- muth, and Charcoal—and gets it. On my return, [1.34, I continue.) And as?ינאAni “I” thou art also?ויאthe Negative, that is beyond t…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 100

The Vision and the Voice

THE EQUINOX vigilance wearied, and by my talk art thou befooled and tricked, O thou that sayest that thou shalt endure. Knowest thou how nigh thou art to destruction? For thou that art the Scribe hast not the understanding * that alone availeth against Choronzon. And wert thou not protected by the Holy Names of God and the circle, I would rush upon thee and tear thee. For when I made myself like unto a beautiful woman, if thou hadst come to me, I would have rotted thy body with the pox, and thy liver with cancer, and I would have torn off thy t…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 23

The Holy Books

… says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! 71. But exceed! exceed! 72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine—and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous !—death is the crown of all. 73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, Ο man, unto thee. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 218

The Winged Beetle

208 LE BALCON I have the art to evoke delicious hours And live my past again between thy knees ; Why should I seek thy beauty’s languorous dowers Save in thy body’s passion, thine heart’s ease I have the art to evoke delicious hours. These vows, these scents, these kisses infinite Shall be reborn from gulfs we may not sound, So scale the sky, young suns, in choral flight, Winged from their lustral lapse in seas profound ! O vows ! O scents ! O kisses infinite !

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