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1929 · PDF PAGE 102

Moonchild

…rvour and of madness, the madness of things chaste, remote, and inscrutable. At the conclusion she took Lisa by the hand, and gave her a new name, a mystic name, engraved upon a moonstone, set in a silver ring which she put upon her finger. This name was Iliel. It had been chosen on account of its sympathy of number to the moon; for the name is Hebrew, in which language its characters have the value of 81, the square of 9, the sacred number of the moon. But other considerations helped to determine the choice of this name. The letter L in Hebrew…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 61

Songs of the Spirit

…al Where I may drain a fountain never dry, And of Life’s guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satisfy my soul. Each night new failure and each day fresh strength, A sense of something nearer day by day ; Though the ill road’s intolerable length, League upon league, fling back the torrid ray Of the fierce sunlight night can scarce allay With the incessant beating of cool wings, And men’s bleached skeletons infest the way, Yet Hope her passion like a flower brings, And Courage ranks me with unconquerable kings. So, in the power of …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 63

Tale of Archais

…ove Know of such vile morasses ?) in despair Waved angry wings, and, floating through the air, Came unto Aphaca, lewd citadel Of strange new lusts and devilries of hell, Where god Priapus dwelt ; to him she came— She, Love !—and, hiding her fair face for shame, Nor showing aught the quivering scorn that glowed Through all her body, her desire showed In brief sharp words, and the lewd god gave ear (For he shook terribly with bastard fear

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1901 · PDF PAGE 25

The Soul of Osiris

…thless mind A deathless body, whose alloy Is gold and fire, whose passions find The tears of their caress a dew, Fiery, to make creation new. This agony and bloody sweat, This scarring torture of desire, Refine us, madden us, and set The feast of unbegotten fire Before our mouths, that mingle yet In this ; the mighty-moulded lyre Of many stars still strikes above Chords of the mastery of love. This subtle fire, this secret flame, Flashes between us as she goes Beyond the night, beyond the Name, Back to her unsubstantial snows ; Cold, glittering…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 76

Alice: An Adultery

…—Here’s the strange excess : I called, ere waking, on the name Eheieh ! Solve me the riddle of the dream who can ! That night I sought a new toy for a lure, And she would not : but knew how hard to endure Is love like ours, the love of purity. So she : “ Dispute it like a man ! ” and I : “ But I must also feel it as a man ! ” Note. Eheieh is the Hebrew for “ I am that I am.” Its numerical value is 21. I was not aware at the time that this was the 21st day. 56

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1996 · PDF PAGE 125

The Law is for All

…he Dead Man, his Mind holding together for a little his Body of Light, haunteth the Earth, seeking (in its Error, that feareth Change) a new Tabernacle in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death is Man released only from the Gross Body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the Astral Plane, as he was in his Life. But this …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 16

The Poem

…ng life. BRANDON [wth sudden calmness]. This to his father! What does the Bible say, you wretch ? PERCY [fo Vaughan}. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [suddenly breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. Percy, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. Brandon, maddened by the zdea offighting, snatches up a knife and drives tt into his heart. He falls wth a low cry. Vaughan dashes forward and strikes Brandon heavily. He fall…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 56

Tale of Archais

…of those pure tears ; the snowdrop grew Where waking hope her agony shot through, And where the Queen of Love had touched her tears, The new-born lily evermore appears.)

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1913 · PDF PAGE 147

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ie But are immortal . The refrains of love And death and tragedy Seem sad by very changelessness . The world In the forthflow of time So new , is yet so hopeless and so old , That every tear we shed Is but a repetition of those tears Which perhaps Sappho shed . The same chant murmurs in the ageless sea As Homer turned to words , 128

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1899 · PDF PAGE 212

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…re not here; for we, because we love, Are not of earth, but, as the immortals, stand With eyes immutable; our souls are fed On a strange new nepenthe from the cup Of the vast firmament. Nor do we dream, Nor think we aught of the transient world, But are absorbed in our own deity: And our clear eyes reflect—who dares to gaze Shall see and die—the changeless empyréan Eternity, the concentrated void

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1912 · PDF PAGE 292

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

250 THE NEW EVELYN HOPE I BEAUTIFUL Evelyn Hope is dead] Sit and watch by her side an hour. This is her bookshelf by her bed ; Nietzsche, Weininger, Schopenhauer, Small wonder then that her soul should pass ! Much remains to be changed, I think: She died of the swollen head, alas ! That maidens catch from Maeterlinck, II Sixteen years old when she died 1 A Vestal, tending Minerva’s flame; It was not her time to read ; beside, Her life had hardly a hope or aim, Nor duties enough, nor little cares; She was never quiet; her mind was astir, Το Henri…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 292

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

250 THE NEW EVELYN HOPE I BEAUTIFUL Evelyn Hope is dead] Sit and watch by her side an hour. This is her bookshelf by her bed ; Nietzsche, Weininger, Schopenhauer, Small wonder then that her soul should pass ! Much remains to be changed, I think: She died of the swollen head, alas ! That maidens catch from Maeterlinck, II Sixteen years old when she died 1 A Vestal, tending Minerva’s flame; It was not her time to read ; beside, Her life had hardly a hope or aim, Nor duties enough, nor little cares; She was never quiet; her mind was astir, Το Henri…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 113

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… as he was before he ‘‘ died,” The ass is never satisfied. Ife has only been here forty days, And has already writ six plays, Made eight new passes, one new peak, Is bound to do two more this week, And as for meditation! Hard he Soars from Dhyana to Samadhi ; Writes wildly sloka after sloka, Storms the Arupa-Brahma-Loka, Disdains the mundane need of Khana,! Slogs off, like Buddha, to Nibbana :—- Poor devil ! XI, One thing makes me weep. He was wise one way, and scorned sleep. Wherefore he sleeps not, does not hear That still small dreadful voic…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 109

The Book of Thoth

…ok of the Law. It should, by the way, be noted that the name Heru is identical with Hru, who is the great Angel set over the Tarot. This new Tarot may therefore be regarded as a series of illus‐ trations to the Book of the Law; the doctrine of that Book is everywhere implicit. At the bottom of the card we see the letter Shin itself in a form suggestive of a flower; the three Yods are occupied by three human figures arising to partake in the Essence of the new Aeon. Behind this letter is a symbolic representation of the Sign of Libra; this is th…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 135

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ng life. BRANDON [wth sudden calmness]. This to his father! What does the Bible say, you wretch ? PERCY [fo Vaughan}. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [suddenly breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. Percy, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. Brandon, maddened by the zdea offighting, snatches up a knife and drives tt into his heart. He falls wth a low cry. Vaughan dashes forward and strikes Brandon heavily. He fall…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 497

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…imited. THE DEUCE AND ALL. A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. Is. net. READY SHORTLY. Through THE EQUINOX and all booksellers. MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS. Imperial 16mo, pp. 200. Ready immediately. Order through The Equinox, or of any Bookseller. THE TRIUMPH OF PAN. Poems sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG. This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Toe TriumpH oF Pan, includes THE RoMANCE or OLivia VANE. The First Edition will be limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies: Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, wh…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 497

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…imited. THE DEUCE AND ALL. A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. Is. net. READY SHORTLY. Through THE EQUINOX and all booksellers. MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS. Imperial 16mo, pp. 200. Ready immediately. Order through The Equinox, or of any Bookseller. THE TRIUMPH OF PAN. Poems sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG. This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Toe TriumpH oF Pan, includes THE RoMANCE or OLivia VANE. The First Edition will be limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies: Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, wh…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 124

Orpheus

… Flashing through spiritual space, withdrawn Now, and now flung triumphant in the dawn Not of mere sun’s rise, but before the birth Of a new system on the unfolded lawn Of space beyond the sceptre of the Gods! I, seeing all this, would foil Time’s periods For one small woman on this one mean earth, Would spoil the plan of the inane Abodes, 125

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1910 · PDF PAGE 501

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…can be Mr. Gzorce Rarratovicn’s charming volume of Essays and Sketches entitled ON THE LOOSE: PLANETARY JOURNEYS AND EARTHLY SKETCHES. A new popular edition. Price 1s. net. Crown 8v0. Pp. 164. May be obtained through Tur Equinox. The Photograph in this number of “ The Equinox.” ts by the DOVER STREET STUDIOS, 38, DOVER STREET, MAYFAIR.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 501

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…can be Mr. Gzorce Rarratovicn’s charming volume of Essays and Sketches entitled ON THE LOOSE: PLANETARY JOURNEYS AND EARTHLY SKETCHES. A new popular edition. Price 1s. net. Crown 8v0. Pp. 164. May be obtained through Tur Equinox. The Photograph in this number of “ The Equinox.” ts by the DOVER STREET STUDIOS, 38, DOVER STREET, MAYFAIR.

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