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1910 · PDF PAGE 152

The Winged Beetle

142 IN MEMORIAM E. R. et E. H. STRIP, dear ! Naked-pure you lie— Surely we are done with dreams ! Open to the world’s wide eye ! Let them know, sweet, how it seems (To a love like ours) to die ! So, dear ! Virginal you were When I touched your life with song ; Virgin now to death lie there ! You shall not await him long. (Fold your body in your hair !) Satan, hail ! our consecration ! Lilies, lilies : let them swathe you, Robes baptismal of damnation ! Tuberose and iris bathe you In the sea, annihilation ! All white flowers I build, a fane Fit …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 39

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…nt for the practical magician. Here Yod = 2, Hé = 3, Vau = 4 to 9, Hé final =10. The Number Two represents Yod, the Divine or Archétypal World, and the Number One is only attained by the destruction of the God and the Magician in Samadhi. The world of Angels is under the numbers Four to Nine, and that of spirits under the I. The balance of the Sephiroth: Kether (0 “Kether is in Malkuth, and Malkuth is in Kether, but after another manner.” Chokmah (2) is Yod of Tetragrammaton, and there fore also XJnity. Binah (3) is Hé of Tetragrammaton, and th…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 96

Tale of Archais

…, Gathers roar of seas and the dirge of moor- lands ; Tempest, thunder, birds, and the breeze of summer Join to augment it. So the sound-world, filled of the fire of all things, Rolls majestic torrents of mighty music Through the stars where dwell the avenging spirits Bound in the whirlwind . . . So the cliffs their Song . . . For the mist re- gathers, Girds them bride-like, fit for the sun to kiss them ; Darkness falls like dewfall about the hillsides ; Night is upon me.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 19

The Star and the Garter

VII O Love! and were I with thee ever! Come with me over the round earth, O’er lake and fountain, sea and river ! Girdle the world with angel girth Of angel voyage! Shall we roam In teeming jungles poisonous? Or make ourselves an eyrie-home Where the black ice roars ravenous In glittering avalanche? Or else Hide in some corrie on the fells Of heather and bracken, or delight In grottos built of stalactite ? Or be our lonely haunt the sand Of the Sahara : let us go Where some oasis, subtly planned For love, invites the afterglow! There let us liv…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 11

Why Jesus Wept

…ruth ; you, Jinawaravansa, who esteemed the Yellow Robe more than your Princedom ; you, Achiha, by sticking manfully to your Work in the World, yet no more allowing it to touch your Purpose than waters may wet the lotus leaf (to take the oldest and best simile of your oldest and best poets), must I dedicate this strange drama ; for, like you, I would abandon all ; like you, I see clearly what is of value ; or, if not, at least what is worthless ; already some- thing ! Thus do I wish you and myself the three great boons Sila, Samadhi, and Salam.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 246

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… Thou hast Thy habitation within me, if only I desire Thee and pant after Thee. I went round the Streets and Squares of the City of this World seeking Thee; and I found Thee not, because in vain I sought without for Him who was within myself.” 238

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1909 · PDF PAGE 246

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… Thou hast Thy habitation within me, if only I desire Thee and pant after Thee. I went round the Streets and Squares of the City of this World seeking Thee; and I found Thee not, because in vain I sought without for Him who was within myself.” 238

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1910 · PDF PAGE 104

The World’s Tragedy

… IST SATYR But the boy shall thrust the maid From the sunlight to the shade. He shall make her passion good. 2ND SATYR Nay ! for all the world-decay Rots from sapphirine to grey. All the leprous lichen clings Round the comeliness of things. Brothers ! sisters ! fauns and elves ! Dryads ! Oreads ! Undines ! Fairies, let us hide ourselves

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1913 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ass, Under the willows, The gray sprites pass. In twilight’s glamour The shadows grow,— Cadent life’s clamour ! So low, so low, That the world is hushed As the white light pales ; No longer flushed The daylight fails ; The fading light No longer glows In the west; the night Still deeper grows: O secret Rose ! O secret Rose! O secret Name! The west wind blows As the hot red flame x L 161

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1913 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ass, Under the willows, The gray sprites pass. In twilight’s glamour The shadows grow,— Cadent life’s clamour ! So low, so low, That the world is hushed As the white light pales ; No longer flushed The daylight fails ; The fading light No longer glows In the west; the night Still deeper grows: O secret Rose ! O secret Rose! O secret Name! The west wind blows As the hot red flame x L 161

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1907 · PDF PAGE 17

The Star in the West

…life from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , singing old songs and new , Alinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world , as some stormy petrel shrilly crying to the storm ; or sweet notes of love , soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly . Here are the jewels of Heaven , of Havilah , and of Eden , with not a little of the fire of Hell , the flames of Gehenna , and the darkness of Dûat . If we look for pyramids and colossi disappointment will be our lot ; we cannot hold , as Hanuman of Ind , a mountain in one hand and…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 302

Diary of a Drug Fiend

288 The Diary of a Drug Fiend I couldn’t see the joke, but it was the biggest joke in the world. “It’s really awfully kind of you, my dear Mr. Platt,” I said with unction, feeling that I was cast for the star part in some stupendous comedy. “The obligation is entirely on my side,” returned my guest. ‘‘ You have no idea how your kind approval has set my mind at ease.” I took another sniff. I was fainting away into an inexpressible ecstasy. I re-corked the bottle and put it in my pocket, thanking Platt profusely. “ T can’t imagine your mind being…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 165

Magick Without Tears

… saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me; then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit! This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss . .. . But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! ... Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. There is a veil, that veil is black. It is th(, veil of…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 461

Magick Without Tears

…penned? What lie so base, so false, so nasty, what so devilish and deadly a doctrine? I feel contaminated by the mere fact of being in a world where such filth is possible to conceive. I am all but in tears to think of my beloved sister tortured by so foul a denizen of the Abyss. Cannot you see in this the root of all your toadstool spawn of miseries, of doubts, of fears, of indecisions? As an Artist you are a consecrated Virgin Priestess, the Oracle of the Most High. None has the right to approach you save with the most blessed awe, with arms …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 21

The Soul of Osiris

… of men, and makes and mars ! O thou thrice noble for the deadly scars That answered vainly thy victorious sword ! Wagner ! creator of a world of light As beautiful as God’s, bend down to me, And whisper me the secrets of thy heart, That I may follow and dispel the night, And fight life through, a comrade unto thee, Under Love’s banner with the sword of Art ! O

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1903 · PDF PAGE 15

The Star and the Garter

Vv I ama boy inthis. Alas! Look round on all the world of men! The boys are oft of genus ‘‘ass.” Think yourself lucky, lady, then, If I at least am boy. You laugh? Not you! Is this love’s epitaph, God’s worm erect on Herod’s throne? “ Ah, if I only had not known!” All wrong, belovéd! Truth be ours, The one white flower (of all the flowers) You ever cared for! Ignorance May set its puppets up to dance ; We know who pulls the strings. No sage; A man unwashed, the bearded brute! His wife, the mother-prostitute ! Behind the marionetted stage See th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 69

The World’s Tragedy

I6 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. Let us lie on the moss by the spring, let us share In their silence serene, the languor rare ! For oh ! my lover, I never did see So goodly a company. HERACLITUS Wait but a moment — stand apart, Revolving the light in thine innermost heart ! Content not the soul with the skin of the grape ! — But the truer sense than the eye and the ear Make to appear ! CHRYSIPPUS Verily, master, I obey. I travel the exalted way. I pierce the sense ; I gain the goal, Distill the essence of the soul — HERACLEITUS I shroud thee in the web …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 94

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… we had to grace our flat In Hazel Avenue . But I could walk to Hampstead Heath And crown her head with daisies, And watch the streaming world beneath And men with other Maisies . When I was ill and she was pale And empty stood our store , She left the latchkey on its nail And saw me never more .

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1913 · PDF PAGE 150

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ing his own , His still dominions . Brawling streams Could never make for him a throne . He knows it not , it knows him not , This other world hung in the pool Possession is his lonely lot , Lord of a kingdom deep and cool . 131

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1898 · PDF PAGE 15

Songs of the Spirit

… other streets, and other passengers, Saw him take pleasure where the heathen pray, Saw him relieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep : Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke 5

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