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1898 · PDF PAGE 39

White Stains

…th, Four seasons fair, for love the same, Health, strength and comeliness—forsooth, And thou hast quenched my holy flame, And scorned my name ! “ I gave thee life, life passeth by ; I gave thee youth, that youth is fled. Thinkst thou that I will fructify Now, at thine own good time, thy dead And barren bed ? “ How worship me, yet break my laws ? Art thou a God ? Didst thou devise The infinite world ? Did thy word cause The silver Caucasus to arise ? Art thou all-wise ? “ Or hast thou mocked me, setting high A molten calf, a graven block,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 57

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…et them be . I wrought unbidden , without hope of fame , Such simple work as our plain fathers knew , Content with little honour , and a name Unlauded . Thus my patience reaps its due ; A woman , weary from the vineyard , rests Her laden basket on the plinth , and now Before my Aphrodite stays and sighs , Something of Woman finding in the breasts I made adoring — on the eternal brow Strong contemplation , as of seaward eyes . *" VISION OF HIM .” THROUGH the Uncreated , Unfelt , Untrod , Breathed for a moment Sorrow of God .

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1929 · PDF PAGE 23

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…gave him away, for the street-boys have taken to calling him “old Venus.” But he is wrong; the boys have their aesthetic reasons for the name. Gertrude in any case is much too busy to bother her head about him; for, after a year in the Latin Quarter, if she has failed to surpass Degas and Manet and O’Conor, she has at least conquered the great pianist Wlody- wewsky, and it takes her all her time to manage him and keep the baby out of mischief. Theodore Bugg needs no help of hers in his moral sculpture of the destinies of England.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 62

The Goetia

phurous stinking substances, and burned in this material fire; so in the name IEHovAH and by the power and dignity of these three names, TETRA- GRAMMATON, ANAPHAXETON, and PrimEuMATON, I do cast thee, O thou wicked and disobedient Spirit N., into the Lake of Fire which is prepared for the damnéd and accurséd spirits, and there to remain unto the day of doom, and never more to be remembered before the face of Gop, who shall come to judge the quick, and the dead, and the world, by fire. TueEn the exorcist must put the box into the fire, and by-an…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 8

Moonchild

…acy with the musician: and rumour does not always lie. She took advantage of the situation to caress him. Monet- Knott, for that was his name, took her action as a matter of course. Her passion satisfied alike his purse and his vanity; and, being without temperament — he was the curate type of ladies' man — he suited the dancer, who would have found a more masterful lover in her way. This creature could not even excite the jealousy of the wealthy automobile manufacturer who financed her. But this night she could not concentrate her thoughts upo…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 380

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…gitationis]רשפא ?ןויערה 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 ?;סיImo 901 02 9 Briatic Palace ofלכיה תנבל ?ריפםד Jesod—Malkuth Σ (1—42) 9°3 Secret name of Cagliostm?תאראשא 904 905 906 Licentia. [Videκυ.תושר ?;.ס.א p- 693] Vermisתעלות

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1912 · PDF PAGE 380

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…gitationis]רשפא ?ןויערה 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 ?;סיImo 901 02 9 Briatic Palace ofלכיה תנבל ?ריפםד Jesod—Malkuth Σ (1—42) 9°3 Secret name of Cagliostm?תאראשא 904 905 906 Licentia. [Videκυ.תושר ?;.ס.א p- 693] Vermisתעלות

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1944 · PDF PAGE 226

The Book of Thoth

…aton, where the Earthy component, Hé final, the Daughter, is set upon the Throne of the Mother, to awaken the Eld of the All‐Father. The NAME itself, accordingly, is no longer a fixed symbol, emblem of ex‐ tension and limit, but a continuously revolving sphere; in the words of Zoroaster, “rebounding, whirling forth, crying aloud”. It has been the custom of publishers or designers of packs to set their personal seal upon the Ace of Disks, for grammatical reasons not unconnected with the perhaps arbitrary differentiation 1See The Grands Annales o…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 27

The God-Eater

…fe’s final flash Gleams through the storm. Rupua. l am found ! Ho! Ho! Criospa. What of the power? I bid these waves be calm In Maurya’s name.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 8

Orpheus

… of Glory, child” Continues the tale of his wooing —" I cage the lavish ore and sate” Eurydice’s song—" Who art thou, love, m what sweet name I quicken” . Continues the tale of his wooing—‘‘So by some spelt divinely drawn” Orpheus’ song—'‘‘ Roll, strong life-current of these very veins” Concludes his lament—‘‘ So sped my wooing: now I surely think” PAGE 119 120 132 137 137 139 142 144 145 149 153

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1910 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…is universe. He gazed around; he saw nothing there but himself. Thereupon he cried out at the beginning: ‘It is I? Thence originated the name I. Therefore to-day, when anyone is summoned, he answers first ‘It is 1’; and then only he names the other name which he bears.”+ This Consciousness of “I” is the second veil which man meets on his upward journey, and, unless he avoid it and escape from its hidden meshes, which are a thousandfold more dangerous than the entanglements of the veil of words, he will never arrive at that higher consciousness,…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…is universe. He gazed around; he saw nothing there but himself. Thereupon he cried out at the beginning: ‘It is I? Thence originated the name I. Therefore to-day, when anyone is summoned, he answers first ‘It is 1’; and then only he names the other name which he bears.”+ This Consciousness of “I” is the second veil which man meets on his upward journey, and, unless he avoid it and escape from its hidden meshes, which are a thousandfold more dangerous than the entanglements of the veil of words, he will never arrive at that higher consciousness,…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 42

The Book of Thoth

… him to execute his function. There are thus seventy‐two “Angels” set over the thirty‐six small cards; these are derived from the “Great Name of God” of seventy‐two letters, called Shemhamphorasch. THE SHEMHAMPHORASCH AND THE TAROT This word means the Divided Name. The “Name” is Tetragrammaton: I.H.V.H., com‐ monly called Jehovah. He is the Supreme Lord of the Four Elements which compose funda‐ mentally the whole Universe. There are three verses in Exodus (xiv, 19, 20, 21) each containing seventy‐two letters. By writing down the first of these,…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 51

The Mother’s Tragedy

… song of the mouth Of the notable Lord of the Dawn. Unto Ra, the desire of the East, let the clamour of singing proclaim The fire of his name!

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1903 · PDF PAGE 62

Alice: An Adultery

…th and shame.” For each kiss leaps, a more insistent breath, And adds fresh fuel to the amorous flame, Not quells it—Is not honour but a name ? 42

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1996 · PDF PAGE 199

The Law is for All

…hey are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no differ­ ence made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 23. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all! 24. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty. 25. Divide, …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 71

The Goetia

…zodiazovore olalore od fetabé-are-3odi. Md DoO-0-a-ipé adapebaheta in the likeness of a man; and visit me in peace. And in the ineffable name Cetragrammaton AJebevohbe, gohus, Darebesa: soba sapabe Tetragrammaton Iehovah, I say, Obey! whose mighty sound being elonusabinu nazoda poilape, zoDonugonu cacla3odD holado, perejse exalted in power the pillars are divided, the winds of the firmament groan aloud; the fire je-ialaponu: caosaga 30Daca DO-jiz0Dajazoda, oD tofasilo Salamann burns not; the earth moves in earthquakes ; and all things of the ho…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 28

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… told me they thought it was she, and not poor little Mati Hara, who tipped off the Tanks to the Boche. Did I mention that my sculptor’s name was Owen ? Well, it was, is, and will be while the name of Art endures. He was supporting himself unsteadily with one hand on the table, while with the other he put his guests in their seats. I thought of a child playing with dolls. : , As the first four sat down, I saw two other girls behind them. One I had met before, Violet Beach. She was a queer little thing—Jewish, I fancy. She

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1910 · PDF PAGE 176

The World’s Tragedy

… the stinking stye bemerded With the putrid excrement Of the marriage sacrament. Every scourge and sore and shame Blest in mine accursed name ! Love and beauty under ban ! Wit and wisdom barred to man ! Nature smirched by hideous lies ! Meanness lauded to the skies ! Pain and ruin and disease Praised, as if they made mine ease. Dead be dance and dream and revel ! Thought and courage, things of evil ! Corn and milk, wine and oil, The guerdon of degrading toil ! Life’s bright draught of honied leisure Soured to sick and tasteless pleasure. All th…

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1935 · PDF PAGE 16

One Star in Sight

…entific as chemistry; to rescue it from the ill repute which, thanks both to the ignorant and dishonest quacks that have prostituted its name, and to the fanatical and narrow-minded enthusiasts that have turned it into a fetish, has made it an object of aversion to those very minds whose enthusiasm and integrity make them most in need of its benefits, and most fit to obtain them. It is the one really important science, for it transcends the condi- tions of material existence and so is not liable to perish with the planet, and it must be studied…

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