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1907 · PDF PAGE 180

The Star in the West

… to earth , and it is invested with the potency of superior and inferior things . Thou wilt possess by this means the glory of the whole world , and all darkness will depart from thee . It is the strong power of every power , for it will over come all things subtle and penetrate all things solid . It is thus that the world was created .1 Tannhäuser also separated the higher from the lower self , the good from the evil . Christ also at tempted the same course , not living alone for either good or bad , but for the whole , as Jeláládeen sang , “ …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 498

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…of what powers were attri- buted to his ‘wine of Egypt,’ and to his ‘elixir’? What can we add to the stories that they tell of his other-world suppers, where he made appear in flesh and blood the illustri- ous personages of the past? Cagliostro was, however, far from being an initiate of the first order, since the Great White Brotherhood abandoned him! to the Roman Inquisition, before whom he made, if one can believe the documents to his trial, so ridiculous and so odious an explanation of the Masonic trigram, L.°. P.*. D.. But miracles are not…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 498

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…of what powers were attri- buted to his ‘wine of Egypt,’ and to his ‘elixir’? What can we add to the stories that they tell of his other-world suppers, where he made appear in flesh and blood the illustri- ous personages of the past? Cagliostro was, however, far from being an initiate of the first order, since the Great White Brotherhood abandoned him! to the Roman Inquisition, before whom he made, if one can believe the documents to his trial, so ridiculous and so odious an explanation of the Masonic trigram, L.°. P.*. D.. But miracles are not…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 43

The Scented Garden

…rone on his puffing and perspiring Priscilla : the love of Adrian and Antinous is a monument for all ages. Is there better poetry in the world than Wilde’s “...on Adrian’s gilded barge The laughter of Antinous ” or F....’s “ the splendid Syrian youth with scarlet mouth Standing upon the summit of the world ? ” Why, to kiss my boy is a canzonet, to suck him off a sonnet ; his mouth is a madrigal, his lips are lyrics, and his eyes idylls ; to be be-

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1898 · PDF PAGE 22

Songs of the Spirit

…ight, no moon. Chamber furnished with books, alchemic instruments, etc. He gazes some minutes, sighs deeply, but at last speaks. Ph. The world moves not. I gaze upon the abyss, Look down into the black unfathomed vault Of Starland and behold—myself. The sea To give a sense of motion or of sound Washes the wall of this grey tower in vain ; 12

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1910 · PDF PAGE 147

The World’s Tragedy

94 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. ALEXANDER Here come the bottle back, washed bright. Yes, this is certainly the seal Of Solomon. GOVINDA Ifeel That we are on the brink of some strange sight. CHAU The whole event has seemed improbable. Scribes, you record this well ! Or I will have you sliced with the keen steel My cook keeps razor-sharp for salted swine. Nine thousand cuts, nine hundred cuts, And ninety cuts and nine Cut exquisitely fine, And the last slash in your guts If by an hair’s breadth your recital Obscure the true, omit the vital ! ALEXANDER Ou…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 36

Hail Mary

…blessed blood that poured Out of Thine heart at sorrow’s sword Is borne in GOD’s cherubic cars About the sky to make us stars. We in the world of woe who stray Lift up our hearts to Thee and pray : Turn all our pain to virgin might, And all our sorrow into light ! Amen. T 29

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1898 · PDF PAGE 88

Songs of the Spirit

…re fight Two full and urgent streams, Work’s woe and dream’s delight : Like snow and sun they smite, Days battle hard with dreams : On a world of misty beauty the Aurora clearly beams. So labour fought with pride, And love with idleness, My soul was torn and tried With the impassioned tide Of storm and deathly stress— I had never dreamed a lily should arise amid the press. Yet such a flower sprang here Within this soul of mine, 78

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1903 · PDF PAGE 66

Alice: An Adultery

… calls me spouse, And takes me to her arms. This night no sound of breakers be !— Unless my Alice be the sea. Of man and maid in all the world Is stilled the swift caress, Because my lover has me curled In her own loveliness. No kiss be such a night as this !— Unless by Alice be the kiss. 46

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1906 · PDF PAGE 70

Gargoyles

…azily lain, Shows like some stirring of the breeze Fluctuant in the poppied grain, No more at all: the vulgar sense is slain. Of all the world alone abides The faint perfume of Patchouli, That subtle death in love; it glides Across the opening dream, derides The fetich folly, immortality. Awake, O dream! Let distant bells And vague muezzins haunt the ear, Gaunt camels kneel by dusky wells, Imagination greyly hear: Allahu akbar! Allahu kabir! Over inhospitable sands Let the simoom its columns spin ! In snowy vales, untrodden lands, Let there be …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 21

Konx Om Pax

…ZZZAIEOZAZAEEEIIIZAIEOZOAkHO EOOOYTHOEZAOZAEZEEEZZEEZAOZAkHOZAEkHEYEIT YXAALETHYkH—This is the Name which you must speak in the interior;world. Jesus CHRIST. siwmfwziqfirqi Wimmifiqu MAHAPARINIBBANA SUTTA. {in fig? with hifitb, nutty hittfitfl: be white hen uni alien én tum nizt tnat by is: hp Ban moth Ittflt unthaileu. DANIEL HEINZ. Dianae sumus in fide Puellae et pueri integri Dianam pueri integri Puellaeque canamus. CATULLUS. Yllllfihtét¥ ‘fiiilfila2¥ TAO TEH KING (HWAINAN’S V.L.) ’Aa'rtprg per 'p-pi xaAaw o'sitawav diL oivroupu-rrrow'i oarwov r130; o'…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 15

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…able outrage on the decency of English public life that this cad, backed by your wealth, should have the licence to publish to the whole world filthy libels against the personal virtue of noble women. A Baron of England, accessory after the fact to so foul and mean a crime ? I have the honour to be, Your Lordship’s obedient servant, Norman MUDD, M.A., Cambridge : sometime Scholar of Trinity College. Late Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Grey University College, South Africa. 37a Tressilian Road, Brockley, London, S.E.4, August, 1924. — 15 —

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1928 · PDF PAGE 8

Little Poems in Prose

…E MORNING XI. THE WILD WOMAN AND THE SPOILT DARLING XII. CROWDS XIII. WIDOWS XIV. THE OLD MOUNTEBANK XV. THE CAKE XVI. THE CLOCK XVII. A WORLD IN A MANE XVIII. WILL YOU COME WITH ME XIX. THE POOR MAN’S TOY XX. THE FAIRY GIFTS XXI. THE TEMPTATIONS: OR, LOVE RICHES AND GLORY XXII. THE TWILIGHT OF EVEN XXIII. SOLITUDE

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1928 · PDF PAGE 9

Little Poems in Prose

… SOUP AND CLOUDS XLV. THE CEMETERY AND THE SHOOTING GALLERY XLVI. A LOST HALO XLVII. MISS BISTOURI XLVIII. Anywhere, ANYWHERE OUT OF THE World! XLIX. DEATH TO THE Poor! L. IN PRAISE OF GOOD DOGS EPILOGUE

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1898 · PDF PAGE 119

White Stains

…ou mightest bathe in me, Yet in that happy dream Methought my heart did deem We mingled utterly. O sexless ! deathless ! fair Beyond the world to me,

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1903 · PDF PAGE 41

Ahab and Other Poems

… Upon pain, EarH's jop—the fad pormued (train Of @ars and ecftafp. And Here He dwam came floating pale Borne in ay ikory boat, And al He World fighed WW “At cafe.” Tk fhaNop Waiad Woik Y ae Mp languid CimBs aftoat So dtift With exlids (RpWard turned Mp f& He fhawWy dream Slamd fife a Ofer’s fax, Hat Burned; So duifé HWard tHe foul Hat yearned Hor His—the four fupreme! So drifting GF wfigned He (hep Aor wath’s diFiner Blife; As mifés in rain of [pringfix Beep, Rife meld in He WBfall wep Of wath’s Rife in a Bifs. 3

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1905 · PDF PAGE 51

Orpheus

…e. Come forth! I invoke thee, O eagre! dread rival of shoal and typhoon ! THE EAGRE Flings my single billow spuming Into midmost air the world, As the echo of my booming To the furthest star is hurled. Now I hear the lunar clashing That evokes me from the tide, Now I rise, my fury lashing, Rolling where the banks divide— I obey thee, I am with thee, Lord of Lightning, lotus-eyed! ORPHEUS In sacred grove, In silent wood, In calm alcove, In mirrored mood, 52

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1906 · PDF PAGE 137

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…’s ways In mystery of Maurya’s praise. Hear me, thy priest, at eventide ! These subtler throes Than love’s or life’s, invade, divide The world of woes. Thy smile, thy murmur of delight, be enough To fill the world with life and love ! [He bends over into deep reverence, yet with the air of one expecting a grace. [Maurya, dike one in trance, rises slowly, gathers her robes about her, and descends to the altar. Reaching over it, she bends and lifts him by his outstretched arms. She puts her lips to his forehead, and he, with a deep gasp, as of on…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 154

The Scented Garden

…e., through celiba- cy) one becomes like me in glory. 63. The vindu (semen) causes the pleasure and pain of all creatures living in this world, who are infatuated, and are subject to death and de- cay. For the Yogi, this preservation of semen is the best of all Yogas, and it is the giver of happiness. 64. Though immersed in enjoyments, men get powers through its practice. Through the force of his practice, he becomes an adept in due season, in his present life. 65. The Yogi certainly obtains through this practice all kinds of powers at the same…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… which we are taught embrace everything that can possibly be known in regard to God, Nature and Man. Every sage that ever existed in the world has graduated at our school; for without wisdom no man can be wise. We all study only one book, the Book of Nature, in which the keys to all secrets are con— tained, and we follow the only possible method in studying it, that of experience. Our place 01 meeting is the Temple of the Holy Spirit pervading the universe; easily to be found by the elect, but for ever hidden from the eyes of the vulgar. Our se…

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