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1912 · PDF PAGE 230

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…r to that of the Ace. They are united by a green-and-gold serpent, bound about them like a figure of 8. It holds its tail in its mouth. A White RadiantAngelic Hand holds the centre ofthe whole. No roses enter into this card. Above and below are the symbols of u and ,?שיIt is a revolving symbol. The harmony of change, alternation of gain and loss ; weakness and strength ; everchanging occupation ; wandering, discontented with any fixed condition of things ; now elated, then melancholy; industrious, yet unreliable; fortunate through prudence of man…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 9

The God-Eater

…ve her is a rude painted board, representing the Winged Globe in many colours. Before the altar Criospa is kneeling ; he is dressed in a white robe, a blue sash, a leopara’s skin is over his shoulders, clasped with a golden clasp about his neck. He bears an‘ ankh” in his left hand, in his right a caduceus wand. On his head ts the winged helmet of Mercury, and his sandals are winged also. He is muttering low some fervent prayer, and anon casts incense upon the censer. The low muttering continues for a considerable time, Maurya remaining quite st…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 5

The Vision and the Voice

…t God Harpocrates. This cube is surrounded by a sphere. About me are four archangels in black robes, their wings and armour lined out in white. In the North is a book on whose back and front are A.M.B.Z. in Enochian characters. Within it is written: I AM, the surrounding of the four. Lift up your heads, O Houses of Eternity: for my Father goeth forth to judge the World. One Light, let it become a thousand, and one sword ten thousand, that no man hide him from my Father’s eye in the Day of Judgment of my God. Let the Gods hide themselves: let th…

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1914 · PDF PAGE 10

Chicago May

CHICAGO MAY vit Ah, but the monstrous jewels that you wear, Until you look like a shop window struck By lightning, its white velvet soaked—these flare, ure sparkles kindled in a mass of muck By the great light—O God |-of the pure Sun, Which you avoid “because it freckles one.” Ah, yes, the rings that sink into your fat, ‘The chains and earrings, theirs no beauty faded1 You are worth hunting (after all) for that, ‘While there is one fair maiden that unaided By this may fail to have her will of art And me—God bless her for her loyal heart | ‘Men …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 121

Collected Works (Vol. I)

114 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC Passionate roses I seek not, whose glories Now are too fierce for the spring, While the white flames of the frost flake that hoar is Flicker, on wing. Only a primrose, a violet laden With the pale perfume of dawn ; Only a snowdrop, my delicate maiden ; These have no thorn. Old-fashioned love, yet you feel it a fountain Springing for ever, most pure ; Old-fashioned love, yet as adamant mountain Solid and sure. Yes, tender thoughts on your lips will be breaking By-and-by into a smile ; Love, ere he springs up d…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 82

The Soul of Osiris

…om bare, And madness more than will was my content. I moved, and as I moved I was aware ! The plain is covered with a many dead. Glisten white bone and salt-encrusted head, Glazed eye imagined, of a crystal built. And see ! dark patches, as of murder spilt. Ugh ! “ So thy fellows of the quest are sped ! Thou shall be with them : onward, if thou wilt ! ” So was the chilling whisper at my side, Or in my brain. Then surged the maddening tide Of my intention. Onward ! Let me run ! Thy steed, O Moon ! Thy chariot, O Sun ! Lend me fierce feet, winged…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 101

Liber Aleph

… Thought and Action, so that thou mayst direct it inwards unto its Core, that is Thyself in thy Name HADIT. For thereby is thy Will made white with Heat, so that no Dross may cling to it. But this Work is the Great Work, and standeth alone. b

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1905 · PDF PAGE 137

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…iler of his father’s tomb, The slayer of the vineyard king. God’s judgment, and his fate, I bring. The city gleams afar; I see Samaria’s white walls on high ; The mountains echo back to me The vengeful murmur of the sky; All heaven and earth on me attend To prophesy the tyrant’s end. The-gates are closed because of night Whose heavy breath iafects the air5 The dog-star gleams, a devilish light : I thought I saw behind me glare The eyes of fiends. IT thought I heard An evil laugh, a mocking word. The gates swing open at the Name, Without a warde…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 98

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…r strength for our limbs for the heat of the fray: The battle is ours if you say me not nay. Fly with me far, where the ocean is bounded white by the walls of the northernmost shore, | Where on a lone rocky island a castle laughs in its pride at the billows that roar, My home where our love may have peace ever- more. Yes, on one whisper the other is waiting patient to catch the low tone of delight. Kiss me again for the amorous answer, close your dear eyelids and think it is night, The hour of the even we fix for the flight.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

Alexandra

…perhaps St John. But Patmos is a rocky, not a wooded, island. Obscure. 20. Not a painted miniature, of course. More probably a black and white reproduction, or possi- bly a coloured one, of a sketch or photo- graph. Only the gentlemen and noblemen about the court would be in a position to order a painting on ivory by an artist such as Sargent or Herkomer from such sketch or photograph. 21. The nautical reference is, on the authority of Lloyd’s journal, obscure. 22. Cancelled passage, vv. XXXI, XXXII. XXXI Who turn ? Why, Arthur, Bertie, Charles…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 86

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…2thyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the Angels should be regarded as accurate, and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the Adept. The account of the Master of the Temple should in particular be taken as authentic. The instruction in the 8th A‘thyr pertains to Class D, z.é. it is an Official Ritual, and the same remarks apply to the account of the proper method of invoking Athyrs given in the 18th A&thyr. Crasses “A” and “B” Liper DCCCCLXIII.—OHSAYPOY EIAQAQN. …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 86

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…2thyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the Angels should be regarded as accurate, and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the Adept. The account of the Master of the Temple should in particular be taken as authentic. The instruction in the 8th A‘thyr pertains to Class D, z.é. it is an Official Ritual, and the same remarks apply to the account of the proper method of invoking Athyrs given in the 18th A&thyr. Crasses “A” and “B” Liper DCCCCLXIII.—OHSAYPOY EIAQAQN. …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 202

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…of immortality, Child-cry of Man at the eternal Breast. SYNTHESIS. WHEN I think of the hundreds of women I have loved from time to time, White throats and living bosoms where a kiss might creep or climb, Smooth eyes and trembling fingers, faint lips or murderous hair, All tunes of love’s own music, most various and rare ; When I look back on life, as a mariner on the deep Sees, tranced, the white wake foaming, fancies the nereids weep ; As, on @ mountain summit in the thunders and the snow, I look to the shimmering valley and weep: I loved you …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 12

Jezebel

…famy, my pain, Seal my subjection and her reign. My veins poured out her marriage cup, For holy water her cruel tongue ; For blessing of white hands raised up, These perfumed infamies unsung ; For God’s breath, her sharp tainted breath ; For marriage bed, the bed of death. The hounds that scavenge, fierce and lean, Snarl in the moonlight ; in the sky The vulture hangs, a ghost unclean ; The lewd hyaena’s sleepless eye Darts through the distance ; these admit My lordship over her—and it. The host is lifted up. Behold The vintage spilt, the broke…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 27

Clouds Without Water

…XI So Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! peals, And Lola! Lola! Lola! echoes back, Till Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! reels The world in a dance of woven white and black Shimmering with clear gold greys as hell resounds With Lola! Lola! Lola! and heaven responds With Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! — swounds All light to clustered dazzling diamonds, And Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! rings Ever and again on these inchaunted ears, And Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! swings My soul across to those inchaunted spheres Where Lola is God and priest and wafer and wine — O Lola! Lola! mystic…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 101

Oracles

…Wisdom and Eternal Power ! I woke ! and in a well’s untroubled pool I saw my face—and I was ugly now ! Blood-spattered ebony eyelash and white brow ! Blood on my lips, and hair, and breast ! “ Thou fool ! ” A horrid torture in my heart—and then I licked my lips : the tigress tasted blood. My changèd features—wash them in the flood Of murder ! This is power over men And angels. I will lift the twisted rod, And make my power as the power of God ! I made my beauty as it was before. I learned strange secrets ; by my love and skill I bent creation t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 39

Mortadello

…for this inaccessible thing made mine— The ineffable bliss, the song of the spring, to be thine ! I would drink molten gold, and walk on white-hot steel, Once, only once to hold your body, once to feel The annihilation of sense and spirit in your caress, The imminent and intense bolt of your loveliness. MONICA. Well, yours the right reward of love and death. Time calls. Hell’s master hath toward a banquet in his halls. I am the whirlpool’s leap wherein the state shall founder There’s many now asleep next week shall slumber sounder. [She glides …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 72

Oracles

…ss and O Lord of Light ! Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods ! O Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy King Ineffable, O Consciousness Divine I whose white Presence, even I, a god, A god of gods, prostrate myself and say : I am the spark of Thine abundant flame. I am the flower, and Thou the splendid Sun Wherefrom my Life is drawn ! All hail to Thee, For Holy, Holy, Holy, is Thy Name ! Holy art Thou, O Universal Lord ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, the Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light ! I see the Dar…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 227

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT each cup. From these flowers a white glistening water flows into the cups as from a fountain, but they are not yet full. Above and below are 0 and?דיווreferring to the Decan. Commencement of steady increase, gain and pleasure; but commencement only. Also affront, detection, knowledge, and in some instances contention and strife arising from unwarranted self-assertion and vanity. Sometimes thankless and presumptuous; sometimes amiable and patient. According to dignity as usual. Tiphareth of( ?הBeginning of wis…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 227

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT each cup. From these flowers a white glistening water flows into the cups as from a fountain, but they are not yet full. Above and below are 0 and?דיווreferring to the Decan. Commencement of steady increase, gain and pleasure; but commencement only. Also affront, detection, knowledge, and in some instances contention and strife arising from unwarranted self-assertion and vanity. Sometimes thankless and presumptuous; sometimes amiable and patient. According to dignity as usual. Tiphareth of( ?הBeginning of wis…

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