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1905 · PDF PAGE 16

Rosa Mundi

…ere is an after rapture in the kiss. The fire, flesh, perfume, music, that outpaced All time, fly off ; they are subtle : there abides A secret and most maiden taste ; Salt, as of the invisible tides Of the molten sea of gold Men may at times behold In the rayless scarab of the sinking sun ; And out of that is won Hardly, with labour and pain that are as pleasure, The first flower of the garden the stored treasure That lies at the heart’s heart of eternity. This treasure is for thee.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 337

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…in her beams! What sacring transubstantiates My flesh and blood, and incarnates The quintessential Pan? What shore Stretches beyond this secret door? Hail! O thou sevenfold star of green, Thou fourfold glory—all this teen Caught up in ecstasy—a boon To pass me singing through the moon! Nay! I knew not what glory shone Gold from the breathless bliss beyond: But this I know that I am gone To the heart of God’s great diamond! I match, &c. 329

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1909 · PDF PAGE 337

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…in her beams! What sacring transubstantiates My flesh and blood, and incarnates The quintessential Pan? What shore Stretches beyond this secret door? Hail! O thou sevenfold star of green, Thou fourfold glory—all this teen Caught up in ecstasy—a boon To pass me singing through the moon! Nay! I knew not what glory shone Gold from the breathless bliss beyond: But this I know that I am gone To the heart of God’s great diamond! I match, &c. 329

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1907 · PDF PAGE 100

Konx Om Pax

8o KONX OM PAX 0 fool! not thus the Intimate Gives up its secret to the soul. Truth flies beyond, inviolate, And slips beside the glancing goal. Who probes the body gains a fact, Yet leaves an equal fact behind; So gathering for the cataract Roll up the rapid waves of mind. Swift as the light at last they leap Into the chasm of despair; Of all their freshet force they keep But froth and smoke and empty air. 0 fool! to deem dissection truth And paint and patches but a blind! The enthusiasm of a youth Is worth the sage and cynic mind. 0 Buddha! co…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 6

Rosa Inferni

…with the ecstasy of blood. Dear love, dear wife, dear mother of the child Whose fair faint features are a match for mine, Lurks there no secret where your body smiled, 1 R

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1913 · PDF PAGE 181

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ROSA IGNOTA Upon thy grave shows bare and white In the chill heart of winter's night. Still shall I feel the wind that blows From the secret grave of thee, my Rose. IV DECADENCE TwILicut, that is the thin gray ghost of day, Holds the dim way of death ; the darkness grows More sanguine-hearted as the hour is sped, And with less light is fed; Thine hour grows, grows alway : Thou art mine, mine own, mine own, thou sanguine Rose. Thou sanguine Rose! Deep-hearted as the hour Thou bearest as a flame; more argent-shod Than the eloquent bringer of the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 181

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ROSA IGNOTA Upon thy grave shows bare and white In the chill heart of winter's night. Still shall I feel the wind that blows From the secret grave of thee, my Rose. IV DECADENCE TwILicut, that is the thin gray ghost of day, Holds the dim way of death ; the darkness grows More sanguine-hearted as the hour is sped, And with less light is fed; Thine hour grows, grows alway : Thou art mine, mine own, mine own, thou sanguine Rose. Thou sanguine Rose! Deep-hearted as the hour Thou bearest as a flame; more argent-shod Than the eloquent bringer of the …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 197

The Book of Thoth

THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF WATER ACE OF CUPS This card represents the element of Water in its most secret and original form. It is the feminine complement of the Ace of Wands, and is derived from the Yoni and the Moon exactly as that is from the Lingam and the Sun. The third in the Hierarchy. This accordingly represents the essential form of the Holy Grail. Upon the dark sea of Binah, the Great Mother, are Lotuses, two in one, which fill the cup with the Life‐fluid, symbolically represented either as Water, as Blood, or as Wine, according to the…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 85

Liber Aleph

…ists made Him the Leader of their Legendary Exodus. Yet they preserved His Word, and it is IHVH, which thou must understand also as that Secret Word which thou hast seen and heard in Thunders and Lightnings in thine Initiation to the Degree thou wottest of. But this Word is itself a Plan of the Fabrick of the Universe, and upon it hath been elaborated the Holy Qabalah, whereby we have Knowledge of the Nature of all Things soever upon every Plane of By-coming, and of their Forces and Tendencies and Operations, with the Keys to their Portals. Nor…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 20

The God-Eater

…A little coarse grass grows in places. Three great menhirs stand up C. Moonlight.| Rupua. The rune of the breath. The saga of death. The secret of earth. The beginning of birth. The speech of woe. Ho! Ho!

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1905 · PDF PAGE 14

Rosa Mundi

…ost 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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1913 · PDF PAGE 11

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

… of the Order of Kadosch, and Companion of the Holy Graal. Grand Inquisitor Commander, Member of the Grand Tribunal, Prince of the Royal Secret. VII? Very Illustrious Sovereign Grand Inspector General. Member of the Supreme Grand Council, VIII? Perfect Pontiff of the Illuminati. IX° Initiate of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis. X° Rex Summus Sanctissimus (Supreme and Most Holy King). to, Every man or woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an indefeasible right to the TII°, Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from t…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 28

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium. ScruTINIuM CHyMicuM, by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy. SCIENCE AND THE INFINITE, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years. Two Essays ON THE WorsHIP OF Priapus, by Richard Payne Knight. Invaluable to all students. THE 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 superstiti…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 216

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… of the Order of Kadosch, and Companion of the Holy Graal. Grand Inquisitor Commander, Member of the Grand Tribunal. Prince of the Royal Secret. Very Illustrious Sovereign Grand Inspector General. Member of the Supreme Grand Council. Perfect Pontiff of the Illuminati. Initiate of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis. Rex Summus Sanctissimus (Supreme and Most Holy King). g. Every man or woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an indefeasible right to the III’. Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body c…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 87

Ambergris

…ntom of the dark ; So in the harbour-horns I stand Till I forget the land. Who sails through all that solemn space Out to the twilight’s secret place, The sleepy waters move below His ship’s imaginary flow. No song, no lute, so lowly chaunts In woods where still Arisbe haunts, Wrapping the wanderer with her tresses Into untold caresses. For none of all the sons of men That hath known Artemis, again Turns to the warmer earth, or vows His secrets to another spouse. The moon resolves her beauty in

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1910 · PDF PAGE 143

Ambergris

…n their course ! O thou self-formulated sire ! Self-master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light ; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name. For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and I to-morrow, born Now and again, on high, on high Travelling on Dian’s naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create

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1913 · PDF PAGE 412

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

FIRST BOOK MAGNETIC MYSTERIES CHAPTER I THE KEY OF MESMERISM MeEsme_Er rediscovered the secret science of Nature; he did not invent it. The first unique and elementary substance whose existence he proclaims in his aphorisms, was known by Hermes and Pythagoras. Synesius, who sings it in his hymns, had found it revealed in the Platonistic records of the School of Alexandria: Mia raya, pia ila Tpupdns Braye poppe Tepi ‘ep ondpewa Tro Xbovds e&dwoe poipas Tlorvdarddrowt pdpars “A single source, a single root of light, jets out and spreads itself in…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 412

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

FIRST BOOK MAGNETIC MYSTERIES CHAPTER I THE KEY OF MESMERISM MeEsme_Er rediscovered the secret science of Nature; he did not invent it. The first unique and elementary substance whose existence he proclaims in his aphorisms, was known by Hermes and Pythagoras. Synesius, who sings it in his hymns, had found it revealed in the Platonistic records of the School of Alexandria: Mia raya, pia ila Tpupdns Braye poppe Tepi ‘ep ondpewa Tro Xbovds e&dwoe poipas Tlorvdarddrowt pdpars “A single source, a single root of light, jets out and spreads itself in…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 492

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ctly limited to 500 copies PRICE 10s. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published also the complete secret magical correspondences of-the G .*. D .*. and R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, etc.…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 492

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ctly limited to 500 copies PRICE 10s. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published also the complete secret magical correspondences of-the G .*. D .*. and R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, etc.…

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