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1909 · PDF PAGE 223

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…he art of the mage, And the cold grey blank of the prison! An end to the adamant age! The ambrosial moon is arisen. I have bought a lily-white goat For the price of a crown of thorns, A collar of gold for its throat, A scarlet bow for its horns. I have bought a lark in the lift For the price of a butt of sherry: With these, and God for a gift, It needs no wine to be merry! I have bought for a wafer of bread A garden of poppies and clover; For a water bitter and dead A foam of fire flowing over. From the Lamb and his prison fare And the owl’s bl…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 223

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…he art of the mage, And the cold grey blank of the prison! An end to the adamant age! The ambrosial moon is arisen. I have bought a lily-white goat For the price of a crown of thorns, A collar of gold for its throat, A scarlet bow for its horns. I have bought a lark in the lift For the price of a butt of sherry: With these, and God for a gift, It needs no wine to be merry! I have bought for a wafer of bread A garden of poppies and clover; For a water bitter and dead A foam of fire flowing over. From the Lamb and his prison fare And the owl’s bl…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 50

The Holy Books

…liant God, a god of music and beauty, - even as a young god in his strength, playing upon the lyre. 7. Thou hast appeared unto me as the white foam of Ocean gathered into limbs whiter than the foam, the limbs of a miracle of women, as a goddess of extreme love, bearing the girdle of gold. 8. Thou hast appeared to me as a young boy mischievous and lovely, with Thy winged globe and its serpents set upon a staff. 9. Thou hast appeared to me as an huntress among Thy dogs, as a goddess virginal chaste, as a moon among the faded oaks of the wood of y…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 190

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…led Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Druse on Lebanon. Moreover pylon shouldered round To pylon an unearthly tune, Like phantom priests that strike and sound Sinister sistrons at the moon, And death’s insufferable perfume Beat the black air with golden fans As Turkis rip a Nubian's womb With damascenéd yataghans. Also the taste of dust long dead Ofancient queens corrupt and fair Struck through the …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 190

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…led Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Druse on Lebanon. Moreover pylon shouldered round To pylon an unearthly tune, Like phantom priests that strike and sound Sinister sistrons at the moon, And death’s insufferable perfume Beat the black air with golden fans As Turkis rip a Nubian's womb With damascenéd yataghans. Also the taste of dust long dead Ofancient queens corrupt and fair Struck through the …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 244

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ot overflow. An Angelic Hand grasps a branch of lotus, from which ascends a stem bearing one flower at the top of the card, from which the white water flows into the two upper cups. From the centre two leaves pass right and left, making, as it were, a cross between the four cups, Above and below are the symbols v and !₪ for the Decan. Success or pleasure approaching their end. A stationary period in happiness, which may, or may not, continue It does not mean love and marriage so much as the previous symbol. It is too passive a symbol to represent …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 244

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ot overflow. An Angelic Hand grasps a branch of lotus, from which ascends a stem bearing one flower at the top of the card, from which the white water flows into the two upper cups. From the centre two leaves pass right and left, making, as it were, a cross between the four cups, Above and below are the symbols v and !₪ for the Decan. Success or pleasure approaching their end. A stationary period in happiness, which may, or may not, continue It does not mean love and marriage so much as the previous symbol. It is too passive a symbol to represent …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 10

An Appeal to the American Republic

Swords that clang sharp on heaven’s anvil, white With heat of God’s own forehead that beholds The building broken that is made of might, Nor builded firm on justice’ iron height, Nor is not cast in mercy’s sliver mould :— Swords sharp to slay, when vengeance must its fill Drink of the bloody rill Wherein men lave their mouths, arise and smite and kill. Listen all lands, and wonder ! For the night Rolls back her beaten iron, and the day Breaks, and the passionate heralds of the light, Armoured with love for panoply of might, Rush on the portals …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 228

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…, And looking upward not in vain, lay down And died, to pass where cold and any pain Are not. So still the night is, like the crown Most white of the high God that glittereth, The stars surround the moon, and Nereids drown Their rippled tresses in her golden breath. Let us keep watch, my true love, caught at last Between my hands, and not remember death. Only bethink us of the daylight past, The long chase oversea, the storm, the speed Whereby we ran before the leaping blast, And left the swift pursuers at our need With one wrecked dragon and o…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 54

The Mother’s Tragedy

… and all the seas, And all the air, and all the periods Of seasons and of stars gave ear, and these Vaults of the heaven heard The great white Light that shaped its secrecies Into one holy terrible word, | Higher than all words spoken; for He said: ‘‘ Death is made change, and only change is dead.” For the most holy spirit of a man Burns through the limit of the wheels that ran Through all the unrelenting skies When Icarus died, And leaps, the flight of wise omnipotent eyes, When Deedalus espied

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1912 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… 53I 532 533 Heaven of J'esodלבט ןוליו ?םימש of Malkuth King of Tenorsךלמ תוהלב 534 A certain Name of GOD?קשרלק 535 536תילט הנבל תולטמ A white cloak Sphere of the fixed stars 51 The World of Assiah,םלוע ?הישעה the ‘material’ world 537 Emanatio ; Atzlluth, the?חילצא Archetypal World Medulla spinalis?הררשהmn Apertio uteriרטפ ?םהר 538 Daughter of the Voice—תב ?לוק Echo. [The Bath Q01 is & particular and very sacred method of divi- nation] 539 540 Lumbi; the upper part?םיכחמ ?וז54] Israel?לארשי 542 543 “Existence isה'הא רשא ?היהא Existence," the NAM…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… 53I 532 533 Heaven of J'esodלבט ןוליו ?םימש of Malkuth King of Tenorsךלמ תוהלב 534 A certain Name of GOD?קשרלק 535 536תילט הנבל תולטמ A white cloak Sphere of the fixed stars 51 The World of Assiah,םלוע ?הישעה the ‘material’ world 537 Emanatio ; Atzlluth, the?חילצא Archetypal World Medulla spinalis?הררשהmn Apertio uteriרטפ ?םהר 538 Daughter of the Voice—תב ?לוק Echo. [The Bath Q01 is & particular and very sacred method of divi- nation] 539 540 Lumbi; the upper part?םיכחמ ?וז54] Israel?לארשי 542 543 “Existence isה'הא רשא ?היהא Existence," the NAM…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 27

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

E . N . da C. Andrade . A gleaming edge to sunder truth from lies, To cleave white love and wantonness apart, An edge against the banded infamies That throng the road , and powerful through the mart To pass unstained , a splendour through the dust, A sword to lay across the throat of lust, To make the liars fear to tell their lies . - Oh , you are fair , my love , and keen your kiss , Who shall avail to make your glories his, Who wed with you , my sword -like Thoralis ? DIANA IN THE OPEN . As the strong sun that leaps upon the sea, She runs ami…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 356

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX railway platform in the Kingdom, the White Slave Traffic will continue to flourish the more it is persecuted, and become more criminal and degrading than ever. Money is not the basis of this so-called evil,as suggested, and public indigna- tion will not work a cure any more than public indignation against the Metropolitan Water Board will stop people drinking water. We must cease globe-polishing virtue and sand-papering vice. Away with our moral Monkey Brand and our ethical Sapolio, and back to a little genuine common-sense elbow-gr…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 356

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX railway platform in the Kingdom, the White Slave Traffic will continue to flourish the more it is persecuted, and become more criminal and degrading than ever. Money is not the basis of this so-called evil,as suggested, and public indigna- tion will not work a cure any more than public indignation against the Metropolitan Water Board will stop people drinking water. We must cease globe-polishing virtue and sand-papering vice. Away with our moral Monkey Brand and our ethical Sapolio, and back to a little genuine common-sense elbow-gr…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 256

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…eight thousand pounds of food for the coolies to a depot as near the Yalung glacier as possible. The government transport officer, Major White, very kindly undertook to oversee this part of the transport and I left it entirely in his hands. Unfortunately, things did not go as well as could be desired. The coolies in this part of India compare very unfavourably with the Baltis and the Kashmiris. They are Tibetan Buddhists with an elaborate priestcraft and system of atonement which persuaded early Jesuit travellers that Satan had perpetrated --- …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 73

Tale of Archais

…wise to grieve, too happy to rejoice. So came the dawn on Ida to disclose Within her confines a delicious rose Lying asleep, a-dreaming, white of brow, Stainless and splendid. Yea, and fair enow To tempt the lips of Death to kiss her eyes And bid her waken in the sad surprise Of seeing round her the iron gates of hell In gloomy strength : so sweet, so terrible, So fair, her image in the brook might make A passionless old god his hunger slake By plunging in the waters, though he knew His drowning body drowned her image too. Yet she seemed gentle…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 14

The God-Eater

12 [She begins to carry him to the great door, then notices his white robe.| This must come off : they must not see the holy robes. Criosda! my darling dear brother, do look at me! [She has removed the robes. Criospa is now seen to be dressed in a dark-green tartan kilt and quasi-milttary tunic with silver buttons. 4 dirk hangs at his side. Its hilt is of unusual shape, being surmounted by the circle and cross familiar to visitors to Iona.| Criosda! Ah yes, look up, look up ! How pale you are! There is no blood in your lips. CRIOSDA. [Starting …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 479

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…oxicating! Hush! the heart’s beat! Across the moor Some dreadful god rides fast, be sure ! The listening Palamede bites through His thin white lips—what hoofs are those? Are they the Quest? How still and blue The sky is! Hush—God knows—God knows ! Then on a sudden in the midst of them Is a swart god, from hoof to girdle a goat, Upon his brow the twelve-star diadem And the King’s Collar fastened on his throat. Thrill upon thrill courseth through Palamede. Life, life, pure life is bubbling in his blood. All youth comes back, all strength, all joy…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 479

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…oxicating! Hush! the heart’s beat! Across the moor Some dreadful god rides fast, be sure ! The listening Palamede bites through His thin white lips—what hoofs are those? Are they the Quest? How still and blue The sky is! Hush—God knows—God knows ! Then on a sudden in the midst of them Is a swart god, from hoof to girdle a goat, Upon his brow the twelve-star diadem And the King’s Collar fastened on his throat. Thrill upon thrill courseth through Palamede. Life, life, pure life is bubbling in his blood. All youth comes back, all strength, all joy…

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