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1911 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…nim impostorl For the infidel swine Lack our spirit divine ; Their crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! Drink, every knight! God and my right! We’ll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-nightl SIR JAMES. Peace to thy ribaldry! Here comes the Preceptor. To saddle! JOCELYN. Why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? SIR JAMES. Who poises in his mind the destinies of Christendom needs not in his ear thy fool's prattle, or thy fool’s face at his elbow. Though he have seen but five-and- twenty summers he is wiser than many a greybeard…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 160

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…nocent . Ecclesiastical ! Secular is as nothing in His sight. Outside the Church there is not any hope For any man of knowing wrong from right: In Heaven God is the Law , on earth -- the Pope, Moreover learn , O thou vainglorious man , That crimson fires in deepest Hell await All those unfaithful who refuse to scan Him in the mystery immaculate. High on a lofty rock one castle stands , Which , stormed and battered , shall not ever lurch , Impregnable to all the faithless bands : Founded on catholic truth - The Catholic Church , (Caustio enters …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 56

Liber Aleph

…a called Adonis. It is the same with Food and Drink, with Exercise, with Learning itself, the Problem is ever to bring the Appetite into right Relation with the Will. Thus thou mayst fast or feast; there is no Rule than that of Balance. And this Doctrine is of general Acceptation among the better Sort of Men; therefore on thee will I rather impress more carefully the other Part of my Wisdom, namely, the Necessity of extending constantly thy Nature to new Mates upon every Plane of Being, so that thou mayst become the perfect Microcosm, an Image …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 257

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… each Knight is vowed to enforce the decisions of authority. “The Grade of Grand Inquisitor Commander follows. Here every member has the right to a seat on the Grand Tribunal, which body decides all disputes and complaints which have not been composed by the Chapter of Rose Croix or the Lodge Masters. Its verdicts are without appeal, unless a member of the Electoral College give sanction to take the case to the Areopagus of the Eighth Degree. All members of the Order, even of higher grades, are subject to the Grand Tribunal. “The next grade is …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 90

The Mother’s Tragedy

… with the stealthy tread Reverent, in presence of the silent place; Then you burned, afire, caught up the ghastly head, Looked like Hell right into it, and spat upon the face! O Madonna of the Golden Eyes!

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1912 · PDF PAGE 77

Mortadello

OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 61 MONICA. Once—kiss your wife ! The guard comes. Enter a Soldier, covered with blood, his right arm hanging use- less by his side. He staggers and gasps. SOLDIER. Pardon me ! All’s lost. MONICA. Nay, say nothing yet ! Be of good courage. God’s a host they have not met ! ORLANDO. What is it ? SOLDIER. The damned hunchback ’tis so bloodily That bears it. The two gates are his. We can but die. ORLANDO. Is he run mad ? A convent ! SOLDIER. Mad ! he’s mad with lust And blood. Yet by his side he had the Archbishop. ORLANDO. T…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 213

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…eauty with my kiss, · Taught him the tune of pain , with eyelids wet . He loves me , but he needs me not . A man Needs but himself , and right ; but I — but I I need a child ; I need to hush its cry , And be the god on whom its eyes are set . * THE IRISH POET . M Y eyes are blue with gazing on thy deeps , IV My hair is rippled by thy wind , O sea , My lullaby thy song that never sleeps , As thou art limitless , so am I free . O sea , O mountains , make my song to be Mist of the mountains , foam of the sea . 194

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1961 · PDF PAGE 19

Liber Aleph

… the Will to the Great Work may be misunderstood of Men; for this Work must proceed naturally and without Overstress, as all true Works. Right also is that Word that the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth Violence, and the violent take it by Force. But except thou be violent by Virtue of thy true Nature, how shalt thou take it? Be not as the Ass in the Lion.s Skin; but if thou be born Ass, bear patiently thy Burdens, and enjoy thy Thistles; for an Ass also, as in the Fables of Apuleius and Matthias, may come to Glory in the Path of his own Virtue. u

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1910 · PDF PAGE 11

Rosa Decidua

…emains To ask : Will all catch death—how soon ? This head Excites its miserable brains To think the word it knows by intellect To be the right word—pity ! Then reflect : “ Pitiful ! Pitiful ! most pitiful ! The pity of it ! Think of the love past, Blossoms too beautiful ! Think of the hardships conquered comrade-wise ! Think of the babe and its most piteous end ! ” —All these things sound like lies. I do not comprehend Anything of them—“ Pity ! pity ! pity ! ” ’Tis like the dripping of some stagnant rain From the housetops of a ruined city Upon…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 64

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… of faith and will; not at all of wit. Just what I have always lacked Ι) Yesterday’s attribution of the hexagram given in vision clearly right. The descending triangle is the divine drawing down to man, the wedge of blue splitting matter; the upright triangle is the human flame aspiring. (Compare the doctrine of the two arrows in Liber 418.) 2. Worked hard at day at Comment on?!!!לשLegis.- lamentably little result. A good, considering excessive fatigue. 2623*. (the extra day gained on crossing the 180°.) A good—vision like the Milky Way in textu…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 64

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… of faith and will; not at all of wit. Just what I have always lacked Ι) Yesterday’s attribution of the hexagram given in vision clearly right. The descending triangle is the divine drawing down to man, the wedge of blue splitting matter; the upright triangle is the human flame aspiring. (Compare the doctrine of the two arrows in Liber 418.) 2. Worked hard at day at Comment on?!!!לשLegis.- lamentably little result. A good, considering excessive fatigue. 2623*. (the extra day gained on crossing the 180°.) A good—vision like the Milky Way in textu…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 101

Little Poems in Prose

…g every possible deduction from every possible hypothesis. But he brusquely broke into my reverie, repeating my own words, “Yes, you are right; there is no sweeter pleasure than that of sur- prising a man by giving him more than he ex- pects.”

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1905 · PDF PAGE 13

Orpheus

footsteps, and (4) I am literally not the man who wrote it, and, despise him as I may, I have no right to interfere with his work. But I will not be haunted by the ghost of a Banquo that another man has failed to lay; and this kind of ghost knows but one exorcism. One should bury him decently in fine fat type, and erect nice boards over him, and collect the criticisms of an enlightened press, and inscribe them on the tomb. Then he is buried beyond resurrection ; oblivion takes him, and he will never haunt the author or anybody else again. So I …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 9

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…orse and settle the question. Now, there was no precedent for so bold a method, and we are not to be surprised that those holy men arose right wrath- fully and fell upon the youth and beat him sore. Having further immured him in a solitary cell, they resumed debate; but ultimately “in the grievous dearth of theological and historical opinion” declared the problem insoluble, an everlasting mystery by the Will of God. To-day, their successors adopt the same principles with regard to that darkest of horses, the A... A... They have fed A I

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1909 · PDF PAGE 9

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…orse and settle the question. Now, there was no precedent for so bold a method, and we are not to be surprised that those holy men arose right wrath- fully and fell upon the youth and beat him sore. Having further immured him in a solitary cell, they resumed debate; but ultimately “in the grievous dearth of theological and historical opinion” declared the problem insoluble, an everlasting mystery by the Will of God. To-day, their successors adopt the same principles with regard to that darkest of horses, the A... A... They have fed A I

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1910 · PDF PAGE 148

The Winged Beetle

…emains To ask : Will all catch death—how soon ? This head Excites its miserable brains To think the word it knows by intellect To be the right word—pity ! Then reflect : “ Pitiful ! Pitiful ! most pitiful ! The pity of it ! Think of the love past, Blossoms too beautiful ! Think of the hardships conquered comrade-wise ! Think of the babe and its most piteous end ! ” —All these things sound like lies. I do not comprehend Anything of them—“ Pity ! pity ! pity ! ” ’Tis like the dripping of some stagnant rain From the housetops of a ruined city Upon…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 73

Little Poems in Prose

…ls. From this living girdle were suspended alternatively phials full of deadly liquids, shining knives, and surgical instruments. In his right hand he held another phial, filled with a luminous red liquid, and which bore these strange words: “Drink, this is my blood, the perfect cordial.” In the left hand he bore a violin, which he used, no doubt, to sing his pleasures and his sorrows, and to spread the contagion of his folly on the nights of the Witches’ Sabbath. From his delicate ankles dragged some rings of a broken chain of gold and when th…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 71

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…is not to instruct you, but to familiarise you with the ground work, and in particular to prevent you getting the idea that there is any right or wrong in matters of opinion. You pass an examination intended to make sure that your mind is well grounded in this matter, and you become a Probationer. Your reading will have given you some indication as to the sort of thing you are likely to be good at, and you select such practices as seem to you to promise well. You go ahead with these, and keep a careful record of what you do, and what results oc…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 31

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…). Invoking Sutysiung Tue PeNnTAGRAMS OF AIR «N= w/> a4 The signs of 2°=9°: Stretch both arms upwards and out- wards, the elbows bent at right-angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight. (See Illustration.) 21 Name: I H V H (Ye-ho- wau). Invoking Fuyystung

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1909 · PDF PAGE 31

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…). Invoking Sutysiung Tue PeNnTAGRAMS OF AIR «N= w/> a4 The signs of 2°=9°: Stretch both arms upwards and out- wards, the elbows bent at right-angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight. (See Illustration.) 21 Name: I H V H (Ye-ho- wau). Invoking Fuyystung

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