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1905 · PDF PAGE 36

Oracles

… quickened with the blood Of that desire which pours its deadly flood Through soul and shaken body ; scarce a thought, But sense through spirit most divinely wrought To perfect feeling ; only through the lips Electric ardour kindles, flashes, slips Through all the circle to her lips again, And thence, unwavering, flies to mine, to drain All pleasure in one draught. No whispered sigh ; No change of breast ; love’s posture perfectly Once gained, we change no more. The fever grows Hotter or cooler, as the night wind blows Fresh gusts of passion on…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 109

Sir Palamedes

…lamede. Life, life, pure life is bubbling in his blood. All youth comes back, all strength, all joy indeed Flaming within that throbbing spirit-flood! 103

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1913 · PDF PAGE 142

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…n bark On the river in the dark: And at the midnight thou shalt go To the mid-stream’s smoothest flow, And strike upon a golden bell The spirit’s call; then say the spell: “ Angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh!” Making the Sign of Magistry With wand of lapis lazuli. Then, it may be, through the blind dumb Night thou shalt see thine angel come, Hear the faint whisper of his wings, Behold the starry breast begemmed With the twelve stones of the twelve kings! His forehead shall be diademed With the faint light of stars, wherein The Eye gleams domina…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 142

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…n bark On the river in the dark: And at the midnight thou shalt go To the mid-stream’s smoothest flow, And strike upon a golden bell The spirit’s call; then say the spell: “ Angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh!” Making the Sign of Magistry With wand of lapis lazuli. Then, it may be, through the blind dumb Night thou shalt see thine angel come, Hear the faint whisper of his wings, Behold the starry breast begemmed With the twelve stones of the twelve kings! His forehead shall be diademed With the faint light of stars, wherein The Eye gleams domina…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 16

Little Poems in Prose

…as seized suddenly with immeasurable rage against this magnifi- cent imbecile, who appeared to me to concen- trate in himself the entire spirit of France.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 41

Collected Works (Vol. I)

SONGS OF THE SPIRIT 34 From dusk to dawn, being poor ; and braided up The loose hair of all trees and flowers, and made Their one white light divide to red and green And violet! and the hues innumerable Lesser than these, and gave man hope at last With the invariable law of death Abundant in new life, and having filled The world with music, dost demand of us ‘Is my work meaningless?” O thou, supreme, Thou, First and Last, most inconceivable All-radiating Unity, thou sphere All-comprehensive, all-mysterious, Spirit of Life and Death, bow down an…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 178

Oracles

…a sorrow divine for my guerdon, A peace in my struggling note. Compassion for earth far extended Beneath me, the swords and the rods, My spirit hath bended, bowed me and blended My self into God’s. But God—what divinity rises To me in the mountainous place ? What sun beyond suns, and surprises Mine eyes at the dawn of His face ?

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1911 · PDF PAGE 214

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…l este viril [All mate pmbatz‘ohers retire to bath ofstage. TYPHON Sisters, let us invoke the Father to manifest in the Son. SPHINX. Per Spiritum Sanctum. Amen. [She also retire: to hart/ate on wheel. MAENADS. Evoe ! Evoe Ηο! Iacche! Iacchel TYPHON. Hail, Ο Dionysus! Hail! Winged Son of Semelé! Hail, Ο Hail! The stars are pale; Hidden the moonlight in the vale; Hidden the sunlight in the seat Blessed is her happy lot Who beholdeth God ; who moves Mighty-souled without a spot, Mingling in the godly rout Of the many mystic Ioves. Holy maidens, du…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 214

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…l este viril [All mate pmbatz‘ohers retire to bath ofstage. TYPHON Sisters, let us invoke the Father to manifest in the Son. SPHINX. Per Spiritum Sanctum. Amen. [She also retire: to hart/ate on wheel. MAENADS. Evoe ! Evoe Ηο! Iacche! Iacchel TYPHON. Hail, Ο Dionysus! Hail! Winged Son of Semelé! Hail, Ο Hail! The stars are pale; Hidden the moonlight in the vale; Hidden the sunlight in the seat Blessed is her happy lot Who beholdeth God ; who moves Mighty-souled without a spot, Mingling in the godly rout Of the many mystic Ioves. Holy maidens, du…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 56

Little Poems in Prose

…end over towards my beauti- ful Féline, so well named, who is at once the glory of her sex, the pride of my heart, and the incense of my spirit, whether it be night, or whether it be day, in broad daylight or thick darkness, in the abyss of her adorable eyes I always read the hour most clearly. This hour is always the same; vast, solemn, wide as space, without division into minutes or seconds; a

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1907 · PDF PAGE 67

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…s ! Night winds whirl about the avenger city ; Darkness rides on desolate miles of moor- land ; Thou and I, disparted a little, part not Spirit from spirit. Strange and sister songs in the middle ether Grow, divide ; they hover about, above us. We, the song consummate of love, give music Jack to the mortal. Here, my love, a garden of spice and myrtle ; Sunlight shakes the rivers of love with laughter ; Tere, my love, abide, in the amber ages, Lapped in the levin. Linger, linger, light of the blessed moonrise ! Hull-orbed sweep immaculate throug…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 178

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…cross. White limbs in amorous slumber toss Like sleeping foam, whase silver gleams* On motionless dark seas ; it seems As if some gentle spirit stiricel Their lazy brows with sume swift word. So, in the secret of the shrine, Night keeps them nestled ; so the gloom Laps them in waves as smooth as wine, As glowing as the fery womb Of some young tigress, dark as doom, And swift as sunrise. Love’s content Builds its own mystic monument, And carves above its vaulted tomb The Phoenix on her fery plume, To their own souls to testify Their kisses’ immo…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 28

The Mother’s Tragedy

14 THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY Sweetheart, my passion overwhelms your soul. Your virginal sweet spirit cannot reach My fury. You are silent. Yet you love! I read it in the terror of your eyes, The crimson of your burning face. I know, I know you love me! Cora, Cora, tell me! O she will die! I would not—I was rough— My overmastering desire to you— My queen, my wife, this maddens me. CORA, recovering. You fool! You beast! I hate you for your stupid self! I am defiled! Go! Touch me not! Speak not! I am accursed of the Lord my God. [Shrieks. ULRIC. Darlin…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 78

The Mother’s Tragedy

…shame By strange ways: I will strike one blow to save The land from its invaders. In the name Of all our gods, I here invoke on thee The spirit of my leprosy. Have at you! [Springs at the King of Syria, only to be transfixed on his drawn sword; but he succeeds tn clasping the King, who staggers. His soldiers, with a shout, rush forward, drag down the Leper and attack the priests. Allare slain. Stlence: then a shield drops, clanging on the ground. KING OF SYRIA (assuming crown and sitting on throne). Salute the conqueror of the Egyptian land! [ …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 373

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… Crowley symp apr [Rabbi Battiscombe Gunn’s v.1.] ‘The number 5, which is HON NT 6 (NM), on the Grand The womb Scale Qliphoth of >¢ pres Spirit of © mp Ommo Satan, the ‘Evil {MD YWby Triad’ of Satan-Typhon, Apophras, and Besz The Name Jesus men ow 667 The oil for lighting MWB yow 668 Negotiatrix mand 669 670 my Deprecatus any 671 Ferens fructum TMp Mwy The Law ayn The Gate ayn 1 See Equinox, V & VII, for further details.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 373

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… Crowley symp apr [Rabbi Battiscombe Gunn’s v.1.] ‘The number 5, which is HON NT 6 (NM), on the Grand The womb Scale Qliphoth of >¢ pres Spirit of © mp Ommo Satan, the ‘Evil {MD YWby Triad’ of Satan-Typhon, Apophras, and Besz The Name Jesus men ow 667 The oil for lighting MWB yow 668 Negotiatrix mand 669 670 my Deprecatus any 671 Ferens fructum TMp Mwy The Law ayn The Gate ayn 1 See Equinox, V & VII, for further details.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 330

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…mference of the Sphere of Sensation or M. M. of the U. And this is the reason why there are so many and multifarious errors in untrained Spirit Visions: for the untrained Skryer (i.e., Seer)—even supposing him free from the delusions of Obsession,* doth not know or understand how to unite his consciousness : still less what are the correspondences and harmonies between his Sphere of Sensation and the Universe—the Macrocosmus. . . . The Art of Skrying is further explained inaG .-. D.-. manuscript entitled “Of Travelling in the Spirit Vision,” in…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 330

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…mference of the Sphere of Sensation or M. M. of the U. And this is the reason why there are so many and multifarious errors in untrained Spirit Visions: for the untrained Skryer (i.e., Seer)—even supposing him free from the delusions of Obsession,* doth not know or understand how to unite his consciousness : still less what are the correspondences and harmonies between his Sphere of Sensation and the Universe—the Macrocosmus. . . . The Art of Skrying is further explained inaG .-. D.-. manuscript entitled “Of Travelling in the Spirit Vision,” in…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 32

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…f the earth are tanned With the sun and the sea and the yellow sand And the face of earth is dark with love Of the lords of hell and the spirits above That move in the foggy air of night, And the spirit of God, most like a dove, Hovers, and lingers, and wings his flight, Spurned and rejected and lost to sight; But we desire him, a holy bird, And we turn eyes to the hollow hills ; For God is strong, and His iron word Mocks at the gods of the woods and rills. For .our God is as a fire That consumeth every one That is underneath the sun, And our u…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 29

The Soul of Osiris

…COURT OF THE PROFANE. 17 One sonnet-thought, the metre cannot die But urges, but compels me to compose More and still more, and still my spirit goes Striving up glittering steeps of symphony. There is an angel who is guardian. Surely her wings are rosy, and her feet Black as the wind of frost ; but oh ! her face ! Whoso may know it is no more a man, But walks with God, and sees the Lady sweet Whose body was the vehicle of grace. III. Eternal beauty in eternal truth, Isis ! And Thoth, the scribe of destiny, And Mary’s excellent virginity ! Ye ar…

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