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1909 · PDF PAGE 177

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ical, and Terrestrial Formule of the Passage of the Incomprehensible Nothingness of the Ain Soph to the Perfection of Creation * Ie, the White Skull. Vide Idra Zuta Qadisha, cap. ii. Distinguish from the skull of Microprosopus. t nx = the First and Last—Alpha and Omega—Aleph and Tau. 167

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1910 · PDF PAGE 50

The Winged Beetle

…rembling steel Electric that made spin the universal Wheel. XVIII With that a goat came running from the cave That lurked below the tall white cliff. Thy name ! cried I. The answer that he gave Was but one tempest-whisper—“ If ! ” Ah, then ! his tongue to his black palate clave ; For on Soul’s curtain Is written this one certainty that naught is certain ! XIX So then I caught that goat up in a kiss, And cried Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Then all this body’s wealth of ambergris (Narcissus-scented flesh of man !) I burnt before him in the sacrific…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…; and ruling as the connecting link between Yetzirah and the Material Plane or Universe. I THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE Are of Wands A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping a heavy club, which has three branches in the colours, and with the sigils, of the scales. The Right— and Left—hand branches end respectively in three Flames, and the Centre one in {our Flames: thus yielding Ten : the Number of the Sephiroth, Two-and-twenty leaping Flames, or Yodh, I53

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1912 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…; and ruling as the connecting link between Yetzirah and the Material Plane or Universe. I THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE Are of Wands A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping a heavy club, which has three branches in the colours, and with the sigils, of the scales. The Right— and Left—hand branches end respectively in three Flames, and the Centre one in {our Flames: thus yielding Ten : the Number of the Sephiroth, Two-and-twenty leaping Flames, or Yodh, I53

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1906 · PDF PAGE 222

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…nth day, a quiver; The eighth day, a stag; The ninth day, an horn; The tenth day, a sandal of silver ; The eleventh day, a silver box of white sandal wood ; The twelfth day, a whisper ; The thirteenth day, a black cat; The fourteenth day, a phial of white gold ; The fifteenth day, an egg-shell cut in two ; The sixteenth day, a glance ; The seventeenth day, an honeycomb; The eighteenth day, a dream; The nineteenth day, a nightmare ; The twentieth day, a wolf, black-muzzled; The twenty-first day, a SOrrOW ; The twenty-second day, a bundle of herb…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 33

The God-Eater

… it thereupon. Rupua and Criospa advance.| Rupua. Look! I uplift the veil. [She unveils the crystal.| Criospa. I see a lofty pyramid sun-white Blaze in immaculate glory to the stars ; Its splendour of itself, since all is dark About, above. Thereon a countless folk, Multitudes many-coloured, grave and tall, Beautiful, make a beautiful murmur, move, In infinite musical labyrinths about. Them doth the soul of love inhabit, them The light of wisdom doth inform, them peace Hath marked and sealed her own. But on their lips e

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1907 · PDF PAGE 16

Rosa Coeli

…ost lamb that seeks the starry fold Within that warm and scented vale Clothed with narcissus, hyacinth, tuberose, Snowdrop and lily, all white, all cream, all gold, With never a blush like dawn’s to flush or fail Upon their garden-close. O wide is the world, wide, wide ! Be sure that I was lost, Lost, lost for ever ; are there palimpsests Wherein a man might study at great cost His journey thence ? O Rose of gramarye, My riddle you shall ree. My head was happy, laid betwixt your breasts. XII NOTHER time I passed the holy well And plunged (as Ph…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 222

The Star in the West

… Without it Idealism becomes Absolute Subjectivity , and Realism Absolute Objectivity. (N.B. The circle of Idealism is the only entirely white circle in the sym bol , and that of Realism the only entirely black one . The ' Jakin ” and “ Bohaz ” of King Solomon's Temple ). Idealism and Realism are further connected by the HYLO-IDEALISTIC circle , which expresses them in terms of science ; and the whole is encircled by the ring of AGNOSTICISM , beyond which philo sophy as philosophy cannot penetrate . The three circles of Mysticism , Hylo - Ideal…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 172

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…d mirror of blue light. The surface was as still and cvol As the broad-breasted night. Engraven of no mortal tool, The granite glistened white. As if to shield from mortal gaze A nymph’s immortal limbs, The shadow of the buttress stays And dips its head and swims, While moss engirdles it with grays And greens that dew bedims. Now, at the last, the western end, Most miracle of all ! The groves of rock dispart and rend Their sacred cincture-wall ; All tunes of heaven their rapture lend To make the waterfall. There, steaming from the haze and mist…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 68

Tale of Archais

… labyrinth of foam, Boiling up into heaven’s unchanging dome Of brightest aether ; then, its womb uncloses To bring to birth a garden of white roses, Whence, on a mystic shell of pearl, is borne A goddess, bosomed like the sea at morn, Glittering in all the goodlihead and grace Of maiden magic ; her delicious face Grew more and more upon the hero’s sight, Till all the hut was filled with rosy light,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 56

The World’s Tragedy

…n the self-luminous blue of the vault. Around the glade are many trees ; the ground is a mass of flowers, and gathe- red roses cover the white limbs of many of the players. One girl is standing, and a full nightingale song trills from her ivory throst. Upon a tall tree of massy foliage sits, hidden from the players, a vulture vast and vague in his black night of shadow. His face is human, of the ovine type, as that of a low-class Jew. He watches the scene throughout in silence, but with intense envy disguised as disgust. DORIS Praise the wine w…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 187

Book 4 (Part II)

…f the book, are sufficiently dealt with later on. In these cases the references in the Index should be turned up. y/ .". A .'. The Great White Brotherhood which is giving this Method of Attainment to the world. See Equinox I. Adeptus Minor. A grade of adeptship, ^S^t'Equinox III. Aethyrs. See Equinox V and VII. Aima. The Great Fertile Mother Nature. Ama. The Great Mother not yet fertile. A?noufi. The God Amen = Zeus = Jupiter, etc., etc. Ankh. The Symbol of " Life." A form of the Rosy Cross. 6*6'^Equinox III. Apophis. The Serpent-God who slew O…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 124

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ast on the sun, To the fear folded in the robes of shame :— Lest he, to all the world plain victor, find Himself mere failure to his own white mind. LE PENSEUR. BLIND agony of thought! Who turns his pen Or brush or lyre to Art, shall see in this The symbol of his battle against men For men, the picture of the torturing bliss Of his necessity : sits clutched and closed Into himself the adept of wizard thought. Gripped in his own embrace he sits: keen- nosed The invisible bloodhounds ache upon the slot! Soon, soon they are on him: soon the fangs …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 420

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…inciples of composition; the use of colour and form to distinguish my characters and compose a visible symphony. MORTADELLO The Doge has white hair, and is seventy years of age. Mortadello has hair died dark auburn, and forty years of age. He is stout, tall and pompous. {669} Alessandro has rough hair of fiery red and is thirty years of age. Lorenzo has scanty ashen hair, and is twenty-eight years of age. Gabriele is a hunchbacked dwarf, very strongly built, with a large and intellectual head. He is bald, and is fifty years of age. Orlando is o…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 121

The Soul of Osiris

…. Night falls, and I must tread the dizzy steep Again, to plunge to the devouring deep. The blessing of the Highest shall be set On your white heads, O monarchs of the snow ! The blessing of the Highest, lightening yet The burdens that ye know. So, as three golden arrows of the sun Strike, may the threefold sacrament be One !

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1904 · PDF PAGE 127

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…lf-crown tarts, I care no more to stuff your toes When Celia farts. IV When Celia pisses, I squat low Upon the floor for golden blisses. White wine of love ! My mouth the po. When Celia pisses. The silky stream is hot : it hisses Between the farts that mumble slow Out of the sticky bum. God misses A lot of fun. He doth not know How urine lubricateth kisses. My cock doth stand : my spunk doth flow When Celia pisses. V When Celia tucks, my giant tool Goes in and out with mighty clucks : My work’s cut out, sir, as a rule When Celia fucks. Worn by …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…EECH A FABLE Tria sunt insaturabilia, et quartum, quod nunquam dicit : Sufficit. Infernus, et os vulvae. . . . —Prov. xxx. 16. Tue Great White Spirit stretched Himself and yawned. He had done an honest six days’ work if ever a man did; yet in such physical training was He from His lengthy “cure” in that fashionable Spa Pralaya that he was not in the least fatigued. It was the Loi du Répos Hebdomadaire that had made Him throw down His tools. “ Anyway, the job’s finished!” He said, looking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assured Him…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…EECH A FABLE Tria sunt insaturabilia, et quartum, quod nunquam dicit : Sufficit. Infernus, et os vulvae. . . . —Prov. xxx. 16. Tue Great White Spirit stretched Himself and yawned. He had done an honest six days’ work if ever a man did; yet in such physical training was He from His lengthy “cure” in that fashionable Spa Pralaya that he was not in the least fatigued. It was the Loi du Répos Hebdomadaire that had made Him throw down His tools. “ Anyway, the job’s finished!” He said, looking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assured Him…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 48

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ky wood , a slumbrous stream , And little kindly winds that creep Round twilight corners , half asleep . In Grantchester their skins are white ; They bathe by day , they bathe by night . The women there do all they ought ; The men observe the Rules of Thought . They love the Good ; they worship Truth ; They laugh uproariously in youth ; ( And when they get to feeling old , They up and shoot themselves , I'm told .) . . . Ah , God ! To see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester ! To smell the thrilling - sweet and rotten Unforgettable…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 110

Tannhäuser

…g it. Volcanic, airy, and celestial. I rose within the elemental ball, And lo ! the Ancient One of Days did sit ! His head and hair were white as wool. His eyes A flaming fire : and from the splendid mouth Flashed the Eternal Sword ! io8

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