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1905 · PDF PAGE 138

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…oftness of her skin. Her pleasures and her passions purr For the delight I have of her. Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons; my eyes Absorb her eyelids’ lazy light, And read her bosom to devise I'resh blossoms of the heart of hell And secret joys of Jezebel. Her lips are fastened to my breast To suck out blood in feverish tides ; The token of her I possessed, Still on my withered cheek abides. Thus slowly the desire grows To kill and have her yet—who knows? Part II. T know. When Ramoth-Gilead's field Grew bloody with ho…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 175

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…kwards: Tem. o. h. p. ab. =Templi omnium hominum pacis pater (Heb. Ab, father). Some assert the word to be really a synthesis of a great body of secret doctrine, discoverable by any one who knows the Qabalistic meaning of each letter. Fall down, my baby ; worship him with me. There, go; I give you to his monster kisses ! Take her, my God, my God, my infamy, My love, my master! take the fruit of me! — Shrieks every soul and every demon hisses ! Out ! out ! the ghastly torches of the feast ! Let darkness hide us and the night discover The shamele…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 127

John St. John

… drank a few drops of water. (N.B.—To—night have drunk several times, a mouthful at a time; other nights, and days, no. All entries into body recorded duly.) Have done 10 Breath»Cycles ; am quite awake. It will therefore now be lawful again to sleep. Awoke at 7.40, read a letter which arrived, and tried quite vainly to concentrate. Have risen, written a letter. Will break my fast— cafe croissant—and go a walk with the New Mantra, using my recently invented method of doing Prana— yarna on the march. The weather is again perfect. Breakfast—~eaten…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e in Investigation of the physical facts of Nature on Scientific lines is already actively sought after by a powerful and well-organised body of men of perfect probity and high capacity. 4. There is no hope in Faith, for there are many warring Faiths, all equally positive. 5. The adepts of Spiritual Experience promise us won- derful things, the Perception of Truth, and the Conquest of Sorrow, and there is enough unity in their method to make an Eclectic System possible. : 6. We are determined to investigate this matter most thoroughly on Scient…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e in Investigation of the physical facts of Nature on Scientific lines is already actively sought after by a powerful and well-organised body of men of perfect probity and high capacity. 4. There is no hope in Faith, for there are many warring Faiths, all equally positive. 5. The adepts of Spiritual Experience promise us won- derful things, the Perception of Truth, and the Conquest of Sorrow, and there is enough unity in their method to make an Eclectic System possible. : 6. We are determined to investigate this matter most thoroughly on Scient…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF JUPITER HERMANUBIS. Accursed! Accursedl be the soul of impurity, the body of Sin! C.I.C.T. I. Irreconcilable, my children, how shall ye partake of the Banquet of Jupiter, or come to the centre of the wheel? For this is the secret of Jupiter, that He who created you is in each of you, yet apart from all; before Him ye are equal, revolving in Time and in Space; but he is unmoved and within. [A fame. TYPHON. l. [TYPHON recites. Sweet, sweet are May and June, dear, The loves of lambent spring, Our lamp the drooping moon, dear, Our roof,…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF JUPITER HERMANUBIS. Accursed! Accursedl be the soul of impurity, the body of Sin! C.I.C.T. I. Irreconcilable, my children, how shall ye partake of the Banquet of Jupiter, or come to the centre of the wheel? For this is the secret of Jupiter, that He who created you is in each of you, yet apart from all; before Him ye are equal, revolving in Time and in Space; but he is unmoved and within. [A fame. TYPHON. l. [TYPHON recites. Sweet, sweet are May and June, dear, The loves of lambent spring, Our lamp the drooping moon, dear, Our roof,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 564

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX selfishness, the limbs dry up or become encumbered with fat. Nature, in making of our body the portrait of our soul, guarantees its resemblance for ever, and tirelessly retouches it. You pretty women who are not good, be sure that you will not long remain beautiful. Beauty is the loan which Nature makes to virtue. If virtue is not ready when it falls due, the lender will pitilessly take back Her capital. Perversity, by modifying the organism whose equilibrium it destroys, creates at the same time a fatality of needs which urges it t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 564

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX selfishness, the limbs dry up or become encumbered with fat. Nature, in making of our body the portrait of our soul, guarantees its resemblance for ever, and tirelessly retouches it. You pretty women who are not good, be sure that you will not long remain beautiful. Beauty is the loan which Nature makes to virtue. If virtue is not ready when it falls due, the lender will pitilessly take back Her capital. Perversity, by modifying the organism whose equilibrium it destroys, creates at the same time a fatality of needs which urges it t…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 15

Liber Aleph

…Thus the Tabus of savage Tribes in such matter as Love constrain that True Love which is born in us; and by this Constraint come ills of Body and Mind. Either the Force of Repression carries it, and creates Neuroses and Insanities; or the Revolt against that Force, breaking forth with Violence, involves Excesses and Extravagances. All these Things are Disorders, and against Nature. Now then learn of me the testimony of History and literature as a great Scroll of Learning. But the Vellum of the Scroll is of Man’s Skin, and its Ink of his Heart’s…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 137

Collected Works (Vol. I)

130 JEZEBEL; AND OTHER TRAGIC POEMS The desert wind my body burns, The voice of flesh consumes my soul; My body towards the city turns, My spirit seeks its fierier goal ; In wells of heaven to quench my thirst, And take God’s hand among the first. I conquered self; I grew at last A prophet chosen of the Lord ; I blew the trumpet’s iron blast That called on Zimri Omri’s sword; My voice inflamed the fiery steel That was to smite upon Jezreel. And now, I haste from yonder sands, With fervour filled, to say God’s doom To Ahab of the bloody hands, T…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ng daughter of the Jinn; to ravish from her poisonous scarlet lips the kisses of death, to force her serpent-smooth and serpent-stinging body down to some infernal torture- couch, and strike her into spasm as the lightning splits the cloud-wrack, only to read in her infinite sea-green eyes the awful price of her virginity—black madness. Even supreme Richard Burton, who solved nigh every other riddle of the Eastern Sphinx, passed this one by. He took the drug for months “with no other symptom than increased appetite,” and in his general attitude…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ng daughter of the Jinn; to ravish from her poisonous scarlet lips the kisses of death, to force her serpent-smooth and serpent-stinging body down to some infernal torture- couch, and strike her into spasm as the lightning splits the cloud-wrack, only to read in her infinite sea-green eyes the awful price of her virginity—black madness. Even supreme Richard Burton, who solved nigh every other riddle of the Eastern Sphinx, passed this one by. He took the drug for months “with no other symptom than increased appetite,” and in his general attitude…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 12

Jezebel

… admit My lordship over her—and it. The host is lifted up. Behold The vintage spilt, the broken bread ! I feast upon the cruel cold Pale body that was ripe and red. Only, her head, her palms, her feet, I kissed all night, and did not eat. So, and not otherwise, the word Of God was utterly fulfilled. So, and not otherwise. I heard Her spirit cry, by death not stilled : “ My sin is perfect in thy blood, And thou and I have conquered God.” Now let me die, at last desired, At last beloved of thee my queen ; Now let me die, with blood attired, Thy s…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 209

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…heus bore The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory body down the stream was sent Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Lycidas. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star. Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. Another Orpheus sings again And loves, and weeps, and dies, MOUNT IDA. THE COMPANY OF THE M<AENADS. M-ENADS. Evoe! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Iacch…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 36

777

… Eecth, Bdes ° 10 mim SyJ | and Hell CIV. CIII.* CII.* CI. The Ten Earths The Ten Divisions of the The Revolution of . in Seven Palaces. Body of God. Adonai in Assiah, | English of Col. C. 0 Cranium JN | Holy living creatures 1 ys Cerebrum dextrum . 3°IN | Wheels . 2 Cerebrum sinistrum . “I93N | Active ones, thrones 3 -. PIDIW | Brachium dextrum . “I3°N | Brilliant ones . 4 » &°§ | Brachium sinistrum. ...|. . JN | Fiery serpents 5 °w”9 | Totum corpus a gutture usque NIT | Kings 6 _ ad membrum sanctum - TPN | Pesdexter. .... INIT | Gods. 7 NPN |…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 197

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

ILLUSION D’AMOUREUX SHE lay, the gilded lily with geranium lips, in the midst of the flower of night. Kindlier than the moon, her body glowed with more than harvest gold. Fierier than the portent of a double Venus, her green eyes shot forth utmost flames. From the golden chalice of love arose a perfume terrible and beau- tiful, a perfume strong and deadly to overcome the subtler fragrance of her whole being with its dominant, unshamed appeal. She lay with arms outstretched, as if awaiting the visita- tion of some god. Some ghastly god, for sure…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 197

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

ILLUSION D’AMOUREUX SHE lay, the gilded lily with geranium lips, in the midst of the flower of night. Kindlier than the moon, her body glowed with more than harvest gold. Fierier than the portent of a double Venus, her green eyes shot forth utmost flames. From the golden chalice of love arose a perfume terrible and beau- tiful, a perfume strong and deadly to overcome the subtler fragrance of her whole being with its dominant, unshamed appeal. She lay with arms outstretched, as if awaiting the visita- tion of some god. Some ghastly god, for sure…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 93

Mortadello

… Men ! are you men ? To the attack ! The tyrant’s in our hands ! God is for us ! Strike hard ! Drag forth the caitliff from his hireling body-guard ! Forward the crucifix ! Do you dare loose ? For God And His insulted church ! The path St. Peter trod ! [Brandishing a crucifix, she charges down upon MOR- TADELLO, the crowd following her. MORTADELLO. Stand firm, men ! She is mad ! ALL. Down with the tyrant, down ! ABBESS. Forward, the victor’s wreath waits, or the martyr’s crown ! Venice and Freedom !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 97

Mortadello

…d you spare my life just now ? MONICA. Why, first of all, I want to be your wife. MORTADELLO. Dear God forbid ! MONICA. To enthrall You, body and soul, to win the prize my rival won. Do you think there is a sin I would have left undone ?

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