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1910 · PDF PAGE 48

The World’s Tragedy

…on your purulence and ichorous itch, O English girl, half baby and half bitch, But on the glorious body and soul of her Of whom I am the Lord and worshipper, The brave gay cleanly maiden whose embrace Flushes with shameless fervour the fair face, Fills the whole leaping heaven with the light Till all the world is drunken with delight. You with your own authentic filth defiled Robbed Keats of life, and Shelley of his child, Corrupted Swinburne to your foul disease, Denied Blake bread — are you fed full on these ? You hate the wise, true, beautif…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 72

Jephthah

…y man depart unto his house. CHORUS. He hath made His face as a fire; His wrath as a sword; He hath smitten our soul’s desire; He is the Lord.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 212

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

202 THE EQUINOX II The secret of the House of Set. As a poor pilgrim clambering Toils on the slopes, so I to get Halidom for my lord the King. Faintly and feebly murmuring I uttered the mysterious runes, And bade my body’s sleekness sing Silky, satanic, subtle tunes. Was he not holy? Milk of moons Were not so pallid as his cheek, And roses of a million Junes His mouth left livid. So I seek In all God’s seas a tiny creek Wherein to moor my shallop. Nay! He is a mountain, chill with bleak Stark winds of innocence astray! The fearful passion sweep…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 212

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

202 THE EQUINOX II The secret of the House of Set. As a poor pilgrim clambering Toils on the slopes, so I to get Halidom for my lord the King. Faintly and feebly murmuring I uttered the mysterious runes, And bade my body’s sleekness sing Silky, satanic, subtle tunes. Was he not holy? Milk of moons Were not so pallid as his cheek, And roses of a million Junes His mouth left livid. So I seek In all God’s seas a tiny creek Wherein to moor my shallop. Nay! He is a mountain, chill with bleak Stark winds of innocence astray! The fearful passion sweep…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 487

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

Thrice cried he piteously then Upon our Lord. Then shook his head Sir Palamede the Saracen, As knowing nothing might bestead, When lo! there rose a monster moan, A hugeous cry, a questing dread, As if (God’s death ! ) there coursed alone The Beast, within whose belly sounds That marvellous music monotone As if a thirty couple hounds Quested within him. Now, by Christ And by His pitiful five wounds |— Even as a lover to his tryst, That Beast came questing in the hall, One flame of gold and amethyst, Bodily seen then of them all. Then came he to …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 487

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

Thrice cried he piteously then Upon our Lord. Then shook his head Sir Palamede the Saracen, As knowing nothing might bestead, When lo! there rose a monster moan, A hugeous cry, a questing dread, As if (God’s death ! ) there coursed alone The Beast, within whose belly sounds That marvellous music monotone As if a thirty couple hounds Quested within him. Now, by Christ And by His pitiful five wounds |— Even as a lover to his tryst, That Beast came questing in the hall, One flame of gold and amethyst, Bodily seen then of them all. Then came he to …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 63

Mortadello

… nice young Count Alonzo. SHACKABACK. Good, my sons. I will ask him myself : I lent him money once. Enter ALONZO. Good-day, my dear good lord. I pray you, what’s the news ? ALONZO. Why, nothing that can touch the pockets of the Jews. SHACKABACK. Oh dear, oh dear, you do not understand our ways. ALONZO. No, that I don’t. SHACKABACK. Why, see, whatever happens lays A train of powder—puff it goes—and someone pays ! N

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1913 · PDF PAGE 96

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…CCLX. DCCCLXVIII. CMXIII. CMLXIII. MMDCDXI. 56 THE EQUINOX Vide Sepher Sephiroth. Used for this book because the final revelation is the Lord of the Aon. The number of oxvSw Siloam. The number of Daath. The number of 6 dpifus the Greek word for Number. The number of mcs the sphere of the Fixed Stars. Had fully expanded; thus 7m, "ox, n>; compare 11 where Nu is fully con- tracted. From mvnn, the Gate, and the spelling in full of the name Adonai. See Sepher Sephiroth. The number of the name ynem, The number of I A O in Greek. See Sepher Sephiroth…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 96

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…CCLX. DCCCLXVIII. CMXIII. CMLXIII. MMDCDXI. 56 THE EQUINOX Vide Sepher Sephiroth. Used for this book because the final revelation is the Lord of the Aon. The number of oxvSw Siloam. The number of Daath. The number of 6 dpifus the Greek word for Number. The number of mcs the sphere of the Fixed Stars. Had fully expanded; thus 7m, "ox, n>; compare 11 where Nu is fully con- tracted. From mvnn, the Gate, and the spelling in full of the name Adonai. See Sepher Sephiroth. The number of the name ynem, The number of I A O in Greek. See Sepher Sephiroth…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 319

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…heir rattling; ....No scent but death's grown faint and fugitive; No fight but this their leprous pallor battling ....Weakly with night. Lord, shall these dry bones live? ........O keep us in the hour ........Wherein the King-Ghost hath his power! The King-Ghost girds me with his gibbering creatures, ....My dreams of old that never saw the sun. He shows me, in a mocking glass, their features, ....The twin fiends "Might-have-been" and "Should-have-done". ........Keep us, by Jesu's ruth, ........What time the King-Ghost grins the truth! The King-…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 71

Jephthah

…, Pass, though they seem to sink in night, To dawns more perdurably bright. So priest and people join to praise The secret wisdom of the Lord, Awaiting the arisen rays That smite through heaven as a sword

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1899 · PDF PAGE 61

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… of the light All air with cloudy fragrance fills ; And, born of desolation blind, The young sweet summer burns behind. The Altar of the Lord is set With salt and fire and fervid wine, And toward the east the light is let For shadow for the holiest shrine : One moment hangs the fire of dawn Until the sacrament be sworn. Behold, the priest, our captain, takes The sacred robes, the crown of gold, The light of other sunlight breaks Upon his forehead calm and cold

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1904 · PDF PAGE 88

Why Jesus Wept

…oing well. After the — ah — event we all deplored so, he entered the Benedictines at Fort Augus- tus ; and to-morrow they install him as Lord Abbot.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 63

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… There steals through my coldness a fire, Between my slow words is a sword, One lit by the heart of desire, One sharp in the hand of the Lord; To these that sink, sleep, and expire, your welcome accord, With wrath or repose for its raiment Your power, like a pyramid, stands; My love, with no claim, as a claimant Came seeking out truthin the sands, Found truth, and must placein poor payment this bookin your hands.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 379

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… bifidae in Lulabh?המייח An orchard 857וז יהמואחMy twinrsislen [I: written]? 858 “ Το Theeההא רובג םלועל ?ינרא be Power unto the Ages, my Lord " [Vide 35 s,v. 1אלנא 859וז ,ךלפה לש דיIunctio, copula, phy-? lacterium, ornamentumve manus. [Connect with ?ושגנ 860 0;/?תוי861 862 7:863

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1912 · PDF PAGE 379

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… bifidae in Lulabh?המייח An orchard 857וז יהמואחMy twinrsislen [I: written]? 858 “ Το Theeההא רובג םלועל ?ינרא be Power unto the Ages, my Lord " [Vide 35 s,v. 1אלנא 859וז ,ךלפה לש דיIunctio, copula, phy-? lacterium, ornamentumve manus. [Connect with ?ושגנ 860 0;/?תוי861 862 7:863

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1899 · PDF PAGE 27

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

JEPHTHAH. Eleazar. Pvrophet. Chorus. CHORUS. OW is our sin requited of the Lord. For, scorning Jephthah for an harlot’s son, We cast him forth from us, and said: Begone, Thou shalt not enter in with us; thy mouth Shall thirst for our inheritance in vain ; Thou hast no lot nor part in Gilead. And now, he gathers to himself vain men, Violent folk, and breakers of the law, And holds aloof in rocky deserts, where The land, accurst of God, is barren still Of any herb, or flower, or any tree, And has no shelter, nor sweet watersprings, Save where a l…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 51

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…d us thou shouldst fight for us And save thy people from the Ammonites. JEPHTHAH. Why look you so? He told you other thing. CHORUS. Nay, lord, no saying that we understood. JEPHTHAH. Speak thou its purport ; I may understand. For, know you, in the desert where I dwelt I had strange store of books obscure ; books written Not openly for fools, but inwardly Toward the heart of wise men. And myself Studied no little while upon these things, And, seeking ever solitude, I went Nightly upon a rock that stood alone Threatening the sandy wilderness, and…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 104

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

94 THE EQUINOX With all their thorns ; we came there at the dawn, My lord and I; God sailed across The sky in’s galleon of amber, drawn By singing winds While we wove garlands of the flowers of our minds. IV All day my lover deigned to murder me, Linking his kisses in a chain About my neck ; demon-embroidery! Bruises like far-off mountains stain The valley of my body of ivory ! Then last came sleep. I wake, and he is gone; what should I do but weep? Vv Nay, for I wept enough—more sacred tears |— When first he pinned me, gripped My flesh, and as…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 104

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

94 THE EQUINOX With all their thorns ; we came there at the dawn, My lord and I; God sailed across The sky in’s galleon of amber, drawn By singing winds While we wove garlands of the flowers of our minds. IV All day my lover deigned to murder me, Linking his kisses in a chain About my neck ; demon-embroidery! Bruises like far-off mountains stain The valley of my body of ivory ! Then last came sleep. I wake, and he is gone; what should I do but weep? Vv Nay, for I wept enough—more sacred tears |— When first he pinned me, gripped My flesh, and as…

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