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1898 · PDF PAGE 41

Jephthah

JEPHTHAH. 37 As the lives before remember the perished hours of gold. [Exeunt all but Jephthah. JEPHTHAH. Surely, my God, now I am left alone Kneeling before Thy throne, I may grow beautiful, even I, to see Thy beauty fair and free. For on the vast expanses of the wold I hear the feet of gold, And over all the skies I see a flame That flickers with Thy Name. Therefore, because Thou hast hid Thy face, and yet Given me not to forget The foaming cloud that shaped itself a rose, Whose steady passion glows Within the secretest fortress of my heart, …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 75

The Star in the West

…hen it comprises a total unison of mind , body and soul , of sympathies and passions ; outwardly that it is a perpetual seal , sealed by God . Dr. Maudsley once said , “ No one can escape the tyranny of his organization ,” but woe to the man who cannot dis semble that he can ! Marriage , the hackneyed sexual union , is a lie to love , a legalizing of prostitution , an abortive horror , over which broods the grinning form of the Jew - God — God of lechers and harlots , of David and Rahab . What sight more truly pitiable than to be hold the tende…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…l. Working upon Eastern lines he had laid stone upon stone, and yet when the work was completed, magnificent though it was, there was no God yet found to indwell it. It was indeed but an empty house. Though we have now arrived at this turning point, it will be necessary before we review the contents of this chapter to narrate the events from the present date—March 1902, down to the 11th of August 1903; when, by the chance (destined) meeting with Ouarda the Seer, he was eventually enabled to set in motion the great power he had gained, and by wr…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…l. Working upon Eastern lines he had laid stone upon stone, and yet when the work was completed, magnificent though it was, there was no God yet found to indwell it. It was indeed but an empty house. Though we have now arrived at this turning point, it will be necessary before we review the contents of this chapter to narrate the events from the present date—March 1902, down to the 11th of August 1903; when, by the chance (destined) meeting with Ouarda the Seer, he was eventually enabled to set in motion the great power he had gained, and by wr…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 139

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… cloud, about me, and I could not see—and I am so happy. VAUGHAN. Esmé, I am here, your father. ESME, Ah! it comes back. He is dead. Oh, God! Oh, God! And we were to have been married a month to-day. . VAUGHAN. And he left the poem and could not finish it. ESME [ pointing to scattered papers on a table}, What have you been doing with those papers, father ?

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1909 · PDF PAGE 29

The Holy Books

… prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust and worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globéd priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and bless- ing no longer be poured to the Hawk-headed mystical Lord! ᾽ 35. The half of the Word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraatand Ra-Hoor-Khut. 36. Then said the prophet unto the God: 37. I adore thee in the song- I am the Lord of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; 28

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1913 · PDF PAGE 187

Book 4 (Part II)

…'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 Osiris. See Equinox III. Babalon., Our Lady. 5tv Equinox V, The Vision and the \'oice, 14th Aethyr. Babe of the Abyss. See Equinox VIII, Temple of Solomon. Bhagavadij^ita. Sacred Hymn of India, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold in the "Song Celestial." Bi7iah. Understand…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 12

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX Of the living tree that is spirit and soul And body and brain—come over the sea, (Io Pan! Io Pan!) Devil or god, to me, to me, My man! my man! Come with trumpets sounding shrill Over the hill! Come with drums low muttering From the spring! Come with flute and come with pipe! Am I not ripe? I, who wait and writhe and wrestle With air that hath no boughs to nestle My body, weary of empty.clasp, Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp— Come, O come! Iam numb With the lonely lust of devildom. Thrust thy sword through the galling fetter, Al…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 9

The World’s Tragedy

… ? To the Greeks foolishness, etc. The wisdom of man is foolishness, etc. We must have faith. THE W. M. — In men ? THE P. B. — Never. In God ! THE W. M. — But you believe in the Bible ? THE P. B. — Every word of it, thank God ! THE W. M. — In the Protestant or the Catholic Bible ? The Bible was written by men, translated by men, criti-

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1926 · PDF PAGE 28

Liber Al vel Legis

… prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust and worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globéd priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and bless- ing no longer be poured to the Hawk-headed mystical Lord! ᾽ 35. The half of the Word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraatand Ra-Hoor-Khut. 36. Then said the prophet unto the God: 37. I adore thee in the song- I am the Lord of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; 28

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1907 · PDF PAGE 217

Collected Works (Vol. III)

LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 231 Idalian Aphrodite, strong as fair, Strong not to loosen Godhead’s crown by deed To blind eyes not a God’s Life, Apollo in his splendour, whom I praise Most, being his, and this song his, and his All my desire and all my life, and all My love, albeit he hath forsaken me. These are One God in many: praise ye Him ! : and praise pure AGAVE, We praise indeed who made the choral world And stars the greatest, and all these the least Flowers at our feet: but also we may praise This Dionysus, lord of life and joy, In whom we…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 59

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

JEPHTHAH. 37 As the lives before remember the perished hours of gold. [Exeunt all but Jephthah. JEPHTHAH. Surely, my God, now I am left alone Kneeling before Thy throne, I may grow beautiful, even I, to see Thy beauty fair and free. For on the vast expanses of the wold I hear the feet of gold, And over all the skies I see a flame That flickers with Thy Name. Therefore, because Thou hast hid Thy face, and yet Given me not to forget The foaming cloud that shaped itself a rose, Whose steady passion glows Within the secretest fortress of my heart, …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 112

Oracles

…above Immeasurable, the influence unseen Of music and of spiritual fire, That the soul sleeps, forgotten of desire, Only remembering its God-like birth Reflected in the deity of earth, Becometh even as God. The pensive period Of night and day beats like a waving fan No more, no more : the years, Reft of their joys and fears, Pass like pale faces, leave the life of man Untroubled of their destines, Leave him forgotten of life and time, immortal, calm and wise. Only the ceaseless surf on coral towers, The changeless change of the unchanging ocean…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 73

Songs of the Spirit

…blest, Burns. Will there come to me Rest ? By these suppressed Desires my soul must flee, By heaven’s crest, I pray that secretly Toward God’s breast I draw, to find, maybe, Rest ! 63

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1912 · PDF PAGE 11

Sir Palamedes

God’s angel, standing sinister, Unfurls this scroll—a sable stain : “Who wins the spur shall ply the spur Upon his proper heart and brain.” He gave the sign of malison On traitor knights and perjured men ; And ever by the sea rode on Sir Palamede the Saracen.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 9

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH H OYK ETI KE@AAH O!+ THE FIRST TRIAD WHICH IS GOD I AM. I utter The Word. I hear The Word. THE ABYSS The Word is broken up. There is Knowledge. Knowledge is Relation. These fragments are Creation. The broken manifests Light.? 7

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1898 · PDF PAGE 132

White Stains

…myself. I hate myself, alas ! More than all these. I cannot rid me of Myself, my hates, my tortures, or my love ; My golden-haired Greek goddess, who divines In me a god, who cannot read the lines Of anguish on my forehead, neither scent The poison of breast, blood, and excrement ! I gnash my teeth in impotent despair That I may never hold her heavenly hair Again, nor bite her lips, as once my teeth Met in her cheek, to cull a rosy wreath Of blood upon it, nor assuage the pangs Of love with hardy limbs, and dolorous fangs, And sweating body, cr…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 177

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…e ’s a lure Shall laugh at Fate; We have tolled Death’s knell ; All streams are pure; We are new-create; All’s well, all’s well! We have God to endure, we are very sure All ’s well! In such wise rang the challenge unto Death With clear high eloquence and happy breath, So did a brave sad heart grow glad again 155 And mock the riddle that the dead Sphinx saith. When I am dead, remember me for this That I bade workers work, and lovers kiss; Laughed with the Stoic at the dream of pain, And preached with Jesus the evangel—bliss. When I am dead, thin…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 17

Rosa Mundi

…oh fool ! Is not thy back yet tender from the rod ? Is there no learning in the poet’s school ? Wilt thou achieve what were too hard for God ? I call Him to the battle ; ask of me When the hinds calve ? What of eternity When he built chaos ? Shall Leviathan Be drawn out with a hook ? Enough ; I see This I can answer — or Ernst Haeckel can ! Now, God Almighty, rede this mystery ! What of the love that is the heart of man ? Take stars and airs, and write it down ! Fill all the interstices of space With myriad verse — own Thy disgrace ! Diminish T…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 504

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX God and the devil are the ideals of absolute good and evil. But man never conceives absolute evil, save as a false idea of good. Good only can be absolute; and evil is only relative to our ignorance, and to our errors. Every man, in order to be a God, first makes himself a devil; but as the law of solidarity is universal, the hierarchy exists in hell as it does in heaven. A wicked man will always find one more wicked than himself to do him harm; andwhen the evil is at its climax, it must cease, for it could only continue by the anni…

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