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1905 · PDF PAGE 150

Oracles

… earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power ; The seeker find that Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower. Like unto foam this body whoso sees, its mirage-nature comprehends aright, Breaking dread Mara’s flower-pointed shaft he goes, Death’s monarch shall not meet his sight. Like one who strayeth gathering flowers, is he who Pleasure lusteth on ; As the flood whelms the sleeping village, so Death snaps him—he is gone. Like one who strayeth gathering flowers is he whose thoughts to Pleasure clings ; While yet unsatisfied with lusts, th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 438

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…in is but a barren tree— For all the beautiful Design Is but mine own geometry!” With that his wrath brake out like wine. He plunged his body in, and shattered The whole delusion asinine. All the false water-nymphs that flattered He killed with his resounding curse— O fool of God! as if it mattered! So, nothing better, rather worse, Out of the blue bliss of the pool Came dripping that inveterate fool!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 438

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…in is but a barren tree— For all the beautiful Design Is but mine own geometry!” With that his wrath brake out like wine. He plunged his body in, and shattered The whole delusion asinine. All the false water-nymphs that flattered He killed with his resounding curse— O fool of God! as if it mattered! So, nothing better, rather worse, Out of the blue bliss of the pool Came dripping that inveterate fool!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 49

The Scented Garden

…mel-jinn3 And moons4 upon the winds that scud.5 The sun6 I saw ; and night borne up7 upon some dark eternal flood. Ay ! mine Habib ! thy body’s key Is like a scarlet poppy-bud. Strike in my bell thy clapper ; wake The cosmic echo in my blood ! For El Qahar thy beauty broods, Of thy perfections chews the cud. 1. [Persian text] Suli, an impaling stake. A rare word of Sanskrit origin. 2. Chokmah, the “ emanation ” referred to the Sphere of the Stars. 3. Geburah. Curiously reminiscent of Cazotte’s conception of Asmodai. There may be a pun be- tween…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 15

The Winged Beetle

…LI 5 IV Your wine-stained and wine-coloured hair unloosing, Mingle your wine-wise breath, Spiritual siren ! with the scent seducing Your body sheds, scarred with the bleeding kisses My tenderness bit in, Like to a lion feeding in wild white wildernesses, My spirit sensible to your skin : Mingle them to a crescent character That shall set shimmering all the parchment fine And send a steam like wine Laden with ecstasy and pain Choral through all the passion-stained and passion- trembling air. Inspire a closer strain Such as strange orchids give, …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 25

The God-Eater

…n bending over her, leaps up, shrieks.| Criospa. The luck of Maurya ! [He draws quickly his dirk; it flashes on high, he leaps on to the body of Maurya, and plunges it into her heart.| CurRTAIN.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 140

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ghing, that if she ever lived, she is long since dead ; or at least is an old woman, the blonde gold faded, the child-face wrinkled, the body bowed and lax. I laugh at you—at you—for a blaspheming ass. Your folly is too wild to anger me!” “T did not laugh,” said Roderic gravely. “Well,” said the old man, rising, “I fear I have wearied you... I thank you for your patience .. . IknowIl ama mad old fellow. But, if you should happen—you know. Please communicate. Here is my card. I must go now. I am expected elsewhere. I am expected.” Martiat Nay. 1…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 140

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ghing, that if she ever lived, she is long since dead ; or at least is an old woman, the blonde gold faded, the child-face wrinkled, the body bowed and lax. I laugh at you—at you—for a blaspheming ass. Your folly is too wild to anger me!” “T did not laugh,” said Roderic gravely. “Well,” said the old man, rising, “I fear I have wearied you... I thank you for your patience .. . IknowIl ama mad old fellow. But, if you should happen—you know. Please communicate. Here is my card. I must go now. I am expected elsewhere. I am expected.” Martiat Nay. 1…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 45

Gargoyles

…f blood. Dear love, dear wife, dear mother of the child Whose fair faint features are a match for mine, Lurks there no secret where your body smiled, No serpent in the generous draught of wine? Did I guess all, who guessed your life well given Up to my kiss? Aha! the veil is riven! Beneath the smiling mask of a young bride Languorous, luscious, melancholy-eyed; Beneath the gentle raptures, hints celestial Of holy secrets, kisses like soft dew, Beneath the amorous mystery, I view The surer shape, a visage grim and bestial, A purpose sly and dead…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 111

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…rils are shut up; for he Hath not the need of any breath; Nor can the curtain of eternity Cover that head with life or death. So all his body, a slim almond-tree, Knoweth no bough Nor branch nor twig nor bud, from never until now. XXVII This thought I bred within my bowels, I am. I am in him, as he in me; 101

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1909 · PDF PAGE 338

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…UINOX KETHER I am passed through the abyss of flame. Hear ye that I am that I am! THe REtuRN Behold! I clothe mine awful light In yonder body born of night. Its mind be open to the higher! Its heart be lucid-luminous! The Temple of its own desire The Temple of the Rosy Cross! As Horus sped the flame, Harpocrates Receive the flame, and set the soul at ease. I who was One am One, all light Balanced within me, ordered right, As it was ever to the initiate’s ken, Is now, and shall be evermore. Amen. THE ASCENT UNTO DAATH Come unto Me, ye, the Divin…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 111

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…rils are shut up; for he Hath not the need of any breath; Nor can the curtain of eternity Cover that head with life or death. So all his body, a slim almond-tree, Knoweth no bough Nor branch nor twig nor bud, from never until now. XXVII This thought I bred within my bowels, I am. I am in him, as he in me; 101

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1909 · PDF PAGE 338

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…UINOX KETHER I am passed through the abyss of flame. Hear ye that I am that I am! THe REtuRN Behold! I clothe mine awful light In yonder body born of night. Its mind be open to the higher! Its heart be lucid-luminous! The Temple of its own desire The Temple of the Rosy Cross! As Horus sped the flame, Harpocrates Receive the flame, and set the soul at ease. I who was One am One, all light Balanced within me, ordered right, As it was ever to the initiate’s ken, Is now, and shall be evermore. Amen. THE ASCENT UNTO DAATH Come unto Me, ye, the Divin…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 426

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…evement of the quest ! And now the horrid height allows His mastery: day by day from crest To crest he hastens: faster fly His feet: his body knows not rest, Until with magic speed they ply Like oars the snowy waves, surpass In one day’s march the galaxy Of Europe’s starry mountain mass. “Now,” quoth he, “let me find the quest!” The Beast sterte up. Sir Knight, alas! Day after day they race, nor rest Till seven days were fairly done. Then doth the Questing Marvel crest The ridge: the knight is well outrun. Now, adding laughter to its din, Like …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 426

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…evement of the quest ! And now the horrid height allows His mastery: day by day from crest To crest he hastens: faster fly His feet: his body knows not rest, Until with magic speed they ply Like oars the snowy waves, surpass In one day’s march the galaxy Of Europe’s starry mountain mass. “Now,” quoth he, “let me find the quest!” The Beast sterte up. Sir Knight, alas! Day after day they race, nor rest Till seven days were fairly done. Then doth the Questing Marvel crest The ridge: the knight is well outrun. Now, adding laughter to its din, Like …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 204

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…cloudy Thing, That touched my mind a moment, and is past Into the gloomy.kingdom. I may cast The sandals of the night away, and fling My body, like a meteor, far and fast Into the azure, and within the vast Lift up my voice and eloquently sing, Till God delight to hear me at the last, To wed his Love unto my love and me For a new Trinity!

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1907 · PDF PAGE 10

Rosa Coeli

…eath. IV OUR wine-stained and wine-coloured hair unloosing, Mingle your wine-wise breath, Spiritual siren ! with the scent seducing Your body sheds, scarred with the bleeding kisses My tenderness bit in, Like to a lion feeding in wild white wildernesses, My spirit sensible to your skin : Mingle them to a crescent character That shall set shimmering all the parchment fine And send a steam like wine Laden with ecstasy and pain Choral through all the passion-stained and passion- trembling air. Inspire a closer strain 5 Y

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1898 · PDF PAGE 63

Songs of the Spirit

…n The likeness of a Man in glory set ; The sun is blotted, and the skies are riven— A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my body and his love are met A new desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether, Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather. So I am ready to assume the Cross, Start on my journey with the last word said ; Turn my back resolute on dung and dross, And face the future with no twitch of dread, But dare to converse with the holy dead, And taste the earnes…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 52

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36 TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCES CLXXXITI. CLXXXII. Legendary Orders of Being. The Human Body. Sylphs Respiratory Organs . il ‘* Voices,” Witches and Wizards . Cerebral and Nervous System 12 Lemures, Ghosts. . Lymphatic System . 13 Succubi . | Genital System 14 Mania, Erinyes [Eumenides] . Head and Face 1 Gorgons, Minotaurs . Shoulders and Arms . 1 Ominous Appearances, Banshees Lungs 1 Vampires Stomach . a | Horror, Dragons. . . . «© . 6 ee ew we ew Heart 19 Mermaids (and }, its Zodiacal Opposite), Banshees . The Back Incubi, Nightmares . Digestive …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 92

The Scented Garden

… would ; Shudder a little with a little fear, But yield thy podex to my lotus-wand, Giving some smile twin sister to a tear, Just as the body shudders3 when the soul Gives up to Allah, in its hot career, Identity ; impales its sunless self On to the splendour of that sunbright spear, And laughs and weeps, not knowing what it does, Entering the glowing rapture of the sphere Where He is manifestly all ; and all He ; where the I and Thou must disappear. We shall not know if thee I sodomize, Or if thou sodomizest me, my dear !

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