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1913 · PDF PAGE 101

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…INESE accosts JOVIAN. CHINESE. I am the dragon brother of your priest, And we are come from north and south and east To build your god a new and nobler shrine. JOVIAN. Give me the sign. [Done, each gripping the other's throat.| 61

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1913 · PDF PAGE 101

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…INESE accosts JOVIAN. CHINESE. I am the dragon brother of your priest, And we are come from north and south and east To build your god a new and nobler shrine. JOVIAN. Give me the sign. [Done, each gripping the other's throat.| 61

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1905 · PDF PAGE 62

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…t cast one grain of pure incense, (Who guesses—whence ?) Those souls that cast their trammels off, and spring On eager wing, Immaculate, new-born, toward the sky, And shall not die Until they cleave at last the lampless dome, And lose their tent because they find their home. KPILOGUE. LiKE snows on the mountain, uplifted By weather or wind as it blows, In hollows the heaps of it drifted, The splendour of fathomless snows ; So measure and meaning are shifted to fashion a rose, The garland I made in my sorrow Was woven of infinite peace; The joy …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 21

Rodin in Rime

…composition, already far advanced, may be trusted speedily to resolve the remains into the ultimate dust of things, mere matter for some new and hopefuller avatar. Such a worm are you, M. D——, who once, as above described, voided your noxious nastiness in my presence, trusting to conciliate me by the intended compliment that my poems on Rodin were from myself and not from him, and that any other statues would have done as well. I am as little susceptible to flattery as I am to the venomous dicta of spite and envy, and I resent that when I see i…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…14. 26 15. 16 17. THE EQUINOX A sleepy. Am by no means recovered from the fatigues of this journey. A mediocre and unwilling. . (Arrived New York) A . '. better but sleepy. I must really buck up, A better, but “ business ” is a nuisance, and prevents the mind concentrating. 18. A The usual thing. I forget about it till late, 19 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. or at least put it off. A man cannot serve two masters. I began A ; then deliberately stopped, as it was a farce. I appoint Sunday from waking to sleeping as a day of fast and penance. Unable, or …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…14. 26 15. 16 17. THE EQUINOX A sleepy. Am by no means recovered from the fatigues of this journey. A mediocre and unwilling. . (Arrived New York) A . '. better but sleepy. I must really buck up, A better, but “ business ” is a nuisance, and prevents the mind concentrating. 18. A The usual thing. I forget about it till late, 19 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. or at least put it off. A man cannot serve two masters. I began A ; then deliberately stopped, as it was a farce. I appoint Sunday from waking to sleeping as a day of fast and penance. Unable, or …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 9

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…dden under; See, from the crucifixion of Sedan, Thy thought the lightning,and thy word the thunder! See her supreme, kingly, republican, New France arisen, with her heart in sunder— Yet throned in Heaven on ever-burning wheels, Freedom resurgent, sealed with seven seals. The seal of Reason, made impregnable: The seal of Truth, immeasurably splendid : The seal of Brotherhood, man’s miracle: The seal of Peace, and Wisdom heaven-descended : The seal of Bitterness, cast down to Hell : The seal of Love, secure, not-to-be-rended : The seventh seal, E…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 209

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…the stream was sent Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Lycidas. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star. Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. Another Orpheus sings again And loves, and weeps, and dies, MOUNT IDA. THE COMPANY OF THE M<AENADS. M-ENADS. Evoe! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Iacche! Hail, O Dionysus ! Hail ! Wingéd Son of Semelé ! Hail, O Hail! The:stars are pale. Hidden the moonlight in the vale ; Hidden the sunlight in the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 79

Konx Om Pax

…the glad hand, and called out the Indians, and annexed his per sonal property for relics, and otherwise followed the customs of the best New York Society, while the German Band accompanied the famous Ka Ru So to the following delightful ballad: CHORUS. Blow the tom-tom, hang the flute! Let us all be merry! I'm a party with acute Chronic 1. Monday I'm a skinny critter Quite Felicien-Rops-y. Blow the cymbal, bang the zither! Tuesday I have dropsy. Chorus.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 88

Ambergris

…d sea. Not all the wealth that flowers shed, And sacred streams on that calm head ; Not all the earth’s spell-weaving dream And scent of new-turned earth shall seem Again indeed his mother’s breast To breathe like sleep and give him rest ; He lives or dies in subtler swoon Between the sea and moon. So standing, gliding, undeterred By any her alluring word That calls from older forest glades, My soul forgets the gentle maids That wooed me in the scarlet bowers, And golden cluster-woof of flowers ; Forgets itself, content to be Between the moon a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…n their pages :- The Times ( Women 's Supplement ), Country Life , Poetry and Drama , The Poetry Review , The Equinox , The Nation , The New Age , The Westminster Gazette , The Eyewitness , The Cambridge Review , The Cambridge Magazine , and The Granta ; (5) to the following firms of publishers for allowing me to make use of copyright matter : Mr . Heineman , for poems from “ The Bird of Time ," by Sarojini Naidu ; Mr . Edward Arnold , for two extracts from “ Week - day Poems ," by Hugh Owen Meredith ; Messrs . Sidgwick and Jackson , for poems …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 99

The Book of Thoth

…e shows the destruction of existing material by fire. It may be taken as the preface to Atu XX, the Last Judgment, i.e., the Coming of a New Aeon. This be‐ ing so, it seems to indicate the quintessential quality of the Lord of the Aeon1. At the bottom part of the card, therefore, is shown the destruction of the old‐ established Aeon by lightning, flames, engines of war. In the right‐hand corner are the jaws of Dis, belching flame at the root of the structure. Falling from the tower are broken figures of the garrison. It will be noticed that the…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 19

Clouds Without Water

…g all the sensual shrine Of love whose godhead dwells upon your mouth Wherein the kisses clustering overflow With brimming ardour of the new sin’s growth Till round us all the poisonous blossoms blow, And all the cruel things and hideous forms Of night awake and revel in our revel, While in us rage the devastating storms Whose dam is Luxury and their sire the devil... It is well seen, however things intend, The Gods have given for this — no happy end. XI Crown me with poppy and hibiscus! crown These brows with nightshade, monkshood and vervain!…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 180

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…orne breezes float: From thee! the secret word, the note On the lips of a dying god, pierced through By the spear of Dawn. Is Dawn still new, Now thou art faded in the gloom ? Now thou art lost in death and doom? I know not yet; nor shall I know Till thou art faded quite, and snow

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1913 · PDF PAGE 180

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…orne breezes float: From thee! the secret word, the note On the lips of a dying god, pierced through By the spear of Dawn. Is Dawn still new, Now thou art faded in the gloom ? Now thou art lost in death and doom? I know not yet; nor shall I know Till thou art faded quite, and snow

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1898 · PDF PAGE 15

White Stains

…fascinating character was accused, four years later, in Vienna, of poisoning her paramour, but thanks to the wealth and influence of her new lover, she escaped. The legal father, left by himself with a squalling child to amuse, to appease in his tantrums, and to bring up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, was not a little perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his wife. At first he supposed that she had been translated, but, finding that she had not left the traditional mantle behind her, he abandoned this supposition in favour of qui…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 239

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…RITE OF MARS A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shorei Oh, write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death’s scroll must be! Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, All e…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 239

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…RITE OF MARS A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shorei Oh, write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death’s scroll must be! Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, All e…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 177

The Vision and the Voice

…acrifice is made. The High Priestess (image of Babalon) cometh forth upon her Beast and maketh this. 15. The mystic dance by Salome. The new Temple, the signs of the grades are received and the A.E. rejected. 14. The Shrine of Darkness. Final initiation into grade of M.T. 13. The emergence of Nemo into the world; his work therein. This is the first mystery revealed to a M.T. 12. The Second Mystery: the cup-bearer of Babalon the beautiful. The Holy Grail manifested to the M.T., with the first knowledge of the Black Brothers. 11. Now cometh the F…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 93

Liber Aleph

… discreet for thee to unite each element of Sorrow with its Opposite; in whose Triumph of Hymen is Ekstacy, until by Apprehension of the new great Opposite the Idea is again seen as Sorrow. This then is the Issue from Sorrow; and thou mayst understand that I now also am confident in the Necessity of this my Fall to prepare the formula of my Exaltation. Therefore, my Son, thus Hail Me: Blessing and worship to the Beast, the Prophet of the Lovely Star. a

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