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1904 · PDF PAGE 88

The Argonauts

…who ply the sail Before, the home! behind, the gale! JASON. Ah! I am torn, I am torn! MEDEA. God’s poet, hail! Help us, Apollo! Light of Sun, awake! This is the desperate hour. JASON. I have no strength. MEDEA. Beware the third, the awful ecstasy! ORPHEUS. A higher spell controls a lower song. Listen, they sing! JASON. Joy! Joy! they sing, they sing! LEUCOSIA. O lover, I am lonely here! O lover, I am weeping! Each pearl of ocean is a tear Let fall while love was sleeping. A tear is made of fire and dew And saddened with a smile; The sun’s laugh…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 47

Jephthah

…ld and silver are but wisdom, seeking Rather things incorruptible above Than sordid hopes and fears. But look you, friends, Where in the sun’s eye rolls a speck of cloud Lesser than the ephemeral gnat may make Riding for sport upon a little whirl Of moving breezes, so it glows and rolls, Caught in the furnace of the sun, opaque To eyes that seek its depth, but penetrable By those long filaments of light beyond. See, the spot darkens, and a horseman spurs A flagging steed with bloody flanks, and waves A cloudy sword to heaven—I am sure He brings…

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1943 · PDF PAGE 6

The Oriflamme, Vol. I, No. I

…nd to the living universe about him. He felt his "oneness" with earth, air, sea and stars; and in his fullness of Life he worshipped the Sun as a visible symbol of the Supreme, the Author of all Life, Heat and Energy. In our frivolous ego- centric way of living we have lost much of this essential realization. But that we may once more move toward the Awareness of Life and Beauty, what more appropriate than that we celebrate the Sun in song and ritual? Therefore, four times daily we perform "The Adorations" (Equinox I, VI.) LIBER RESH At Dawn, f…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 65

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ld and silver are but wisdom, seeking Rather things incorruptible above Than sordid hopes and fears. But look you, friends, Where in the sun’s eye rolls a speck of cloud Lesser than the ephemeral gnat may make Riding for sport upon a little whirl Of moving breezes, so it glows and rolls, Caught in the furnace of the sun, opaque To eyes that seek its depth, but penetrable By those long filaments of light beyond. See, the spot darkens, and a horseman spurs A flagging steed with bloody flanks, and waves A cloudy sword to heaven—I am sure He brings…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 64

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…Fire. I invoke Thee, the Terrible and Invisible God: Who dwellest in the Void Place of the Spirit: — AR-O-GO-GO-RU-ABRAO “Thou spiritual Sun! Satan, Thou Eye, Thou Lust! Cry aloud! Cry aloud! Whirl the Wheel, O my Father, O Satan, O Sun!” “Thou, the Saviour!” “Silence! Give me Thy Secret!” “Give me suck, Thou Phallus, Thou Sun!” “Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust!” “Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust!” “Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust!” “Thou self-caused, self-determined, ex- alted, Most High!” The Bornless One. (Vide supra). (The conception is of Fire, glowing, i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

236 THE GNOME LANTERN-LIGHT is over the fells When the sun has sunken low; Lantern-light and the moorland smells, The rain on the good brown soil. Over the moorland we go, we go, Through the wet earth we toil... . Sunken, sunken was the sun Ere ever the moon uprose, And the tall dark trees cast shadows dun Over the lonely way; Over the moorland the long path goes We trod at the close of day. We sped to reach the dark green hill, The Hill of the Bloody Bowl, And the shadows were watching, watching us still As we crept in the shadowless path, Ove…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

236 THE GNOME LANTERN-LIGHT is over the fells When the sun has sunken low; Lantern-light and the moorland smells, The rain on the good brown soil. Over the moorland we go, we go, Through the wet earth we toil... . Sunken, sunken was the sun Ere ever the moon uprose, And the tall dark trees cast shadows dun Over the lonely way; Over the moorland the long path goes We trod at the close of day. We sped to reach the dark green hill, The Hill of the Bloody Bowl, And the shadows were watching, watching us still As we crept in the shadowless path, Ove…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 73

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…worlds is a life of freedom. In the Brihadaranyaka,* king Janaka asks YAjiiavalkhya, “what serves man for light?” That sage answers: The sun serves him for light. When however the sun has set?—the moon. And when he also has set?—the fire. And when this also is extin- guished?—the voice. And when this also is silenced? Then is he himself his own light. This passage occurs again and again in the same form, and in paraphrase, as we read through the Upanishads. In Kathaka 5. 15 we find: There no sun shines, no moon, nor glimmering star, Nor yonder …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 73

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…worlds is a life of freedom. In the Brihadaranyaka,* king Janaka asks YAjiiavalkhya, “what serves man for light?” That sage answers: The sun serves him for light. When however the sun has set?—the moon. And when he also has set?—the fire. And when this also is extin- guished?—the voice. And when this also is silenced? Then is he himself his own light. This passage occurs again and again in the same form, and in paraphrase, as we read through the Upanishads. In Kathaka 5. 15 we find: There no sun shines, no moon, nor glimmering star, Nor yonder …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 24

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

John Alford . Lo, when it shall happen that I am like to die , I shall take me to the top of a mighty mountain at the time of the low sun, And I shall look across the valleys that I have known And shall see the hills that are against me bathed in gold light. And I shall be glad of life, and that the time has come when I may know her whom I have so long desired . And when the sun is no more , my body shall be blown to the four corners of the earth . But I shall be free to mingle with her whom I love . I shall be one for ever with the uttermost p…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 274

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…th petal sweet to smell, Split-hoof of the glad gazelle, Be thou mine as I am thine, As the vine’s ensigns entwine At the sacring of the sun, Thou the even and I the odd Being and becoming one On the abacus of God! Thou the sacred snake that rears Death, a jewelled crest across The enchantment of the years, All my love that is my loss. Life and death, two and one, Hate and love, moon and sun, Light and darkness, never swerve From the norm, note the nerve, Name the name, exceed the excess Of thy lamp of loveliness, Living snake of lazy love, Ith…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 274

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…th petal sweet to smell, Split-hoof of the glad gazelle, Be thou mine as I am thine, As the vine’s ensigns entwine At the sacring of the sun, Thou the even and I the odd Being and becoming one On the abacus of God! Thou the sacred snake that rears Death, a jewelled crest across The enchantment of the years, All my love that is my loss. Life and death, two and one, Hate and love, moon and sun, Light and darkness, never swerve From the norm, note the nerve, Name the name, exceed the excess Of thy lamp of loveliness, Living snake of lazy love, Ith…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 106

The Book of Thoth

XIX. THE SUN This card represents, in heraldic language, “the Sun, charged with a rose, on a mount vert”.1 This is one of the simplest of the cards; it represents Heru‐ra‐ha, the Lord of the New Aeon, in his manifestation to the race of men as the Sun spiritual, moral, and physical. He is the Lord of Light, Life, Liberty and Love. This Aeon has for its purpose the complete emanci‐ pation of the human race. The rose represents the flowering of the solar influence. Around the whole picture we see the signs of the Zodiac in their normal position, …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 96

Tale of Archais

88 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Sphere on sphere unite in the chant of wonder ; Star to star must add to the glowing chorus ; Sun and moon must mingle and speed the echo Flaming through heaven. Night and day divide, and the music strengthens, 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 …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 236

The Book of Thoth

fallow Earth. Populus, moreover, is the Moon retiring from manifestation to her conjunction with the Sun.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 100

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…races it, and the beautiful seed is there; there it rests shining brilliantly like the autumnal moon, with the luminosity of millions of suns, and the coolness of millions of moons. O Goddess! These three (fire, sun and moon) taken together or collectively are called the vija. It is also called the great energy.* In the Mailddhara lotus there also dwells a sun between the four petals, which continuously exudes a poison. This venom (the sun-fluid of mortality) goes to the right nostril, as the moon-fluid of immortality goes to the left, by means…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 100

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…races it, and the beautiful seed is there; there it rests shining brilliantly like the autumnal moon, with the luminosity of millions of suns, and the coolness of millions of moons. O Goddess! These three (fire, sun and moon) taken together or collectively are called the vija. It is also called the great energy.* In the Mailddhara lotus there also dwells a sun between the four petals, which continuously exudes a poison. This venom (the sun-fluid of mortality) goes to the right nostril, as the moon-fluid of immortality goes to the left, by means…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 20

Amphora

… of the Dawn is in me ! Light on the forehead, and life in the nostrils, and love in the breast, Shine, O thou Star of the Dawning, thou Sun of the Radiant Crest ! Shine, O shine ! Flame through the sky in the strength of the Chariot wheels of the Sun ! R 13

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1907 · PDF PAGE 47

Rodin in Rime

…upon the summit. Mother Of ages, daughter of ages, cast The fatal die, and turn to death! Let evolution turn, involving As when the gray sun sickeneth— Ghostly September! so dissolving Into the pale eternal breath. When all is done, shall this be said. When all is said, shall this be done, The aeon exhaust and finished, And slumber steal upon the sun, My dear, when you and I are dead. 27

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1911 · PDF PAGE 20

Hail Mary

… of the Dawn is in me ! Light on the forehead, and life in the nostrils, and love in the breast, Shine, O thou Star of the Dawning, thou Sun of the Radiant Crest ! Shine, O shine ! Flame through the sky in the strength of the Chariot wheels of the Sun ! R 13

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