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1898 · PDF PAGE 28

Songs of the Spirit

The lips of death upon the moon’s dark face, So that her silver lustre might rejoice The fiery lover, the sharp nightingale, And those pale mortals whom the day beholds. Asleep, because the many bid them slave 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…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 418

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… and all those who abandon themselves to the delirium of a passion. They have heard the fatal music, they have entered into the dance of death; and they feel themselves dragged away into the whirl of vertigo. You speak to them, they no more hear you; you warn them, they no longer understand you, but your voice annoys them; they are asleep with the sleep of death. Death is a current which carries you away, a whirlpool which draws you down, but from the bottom of which the least movement may make you climb again. The force of repulsion being equa…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 418

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… and all those who abandon themselves to the delirium of a passion. They have heard the fatal music, they have entered into the dance of death; and they feel themselves dragged away into the whirl of vertigo. You speak to them, they no more hear you; you warn them, they no longer understand you, but your voice annoys them; they are asleep with the sleep of death. Death is a current which carries you away, a whirlpool which draws you down, but from the bottom of which the least movement may make you climb again. The force of repulsion being equa…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 134

The Law is for All

…that is only a matter of convenience. 66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. Commentary: The first part of this text appears to be a digression in the nature of a prophecy. The word “Come!” is a summons to reenter the full Trance. Its essence is declared in the last six words. Notice that the tr…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 189

The World’s Tragedy

I36 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. PUBLIUS Death was duty’s one divorcement. AGRIPPA Pooh ! The stern old Roman ! Fudge ! Even Horatio would budge. Kill that Jew, men ! A SOLDIER Heard and done. ISSA It is finished ! PUBLIUS Ill begun When the Roman virtue sleeps ! AGRIPPA Death, man ! See the tide that sweeps From his side, a pinkish flood Of foaming water mixed with blood. It swells; it washes all the hill —

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1905 · PDF PAGE 180

Oracles

THE HILLS I75 Not death as ye name in derision The change to a cycle of pain, To a cycle of joy as a vision Ye chase, and may capture in vain. Endeth you peace, and your change is Like the change in a measure that shrills And slackens and ranges ; your passion estranges The love of the hills ! Nay ! death is a portal of passing To miseries other but sure. Yet the snow on the hills amassing The wind of an hour may endure ; But as day after day grows the summer The crystals melt one after one. The hill—shall they numb her ? Their frost overcome h…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 97

Book 4 (Part I)

…may or may not bring as far as its results in our lives are concerned. We began this book, it will be remembered, with considerations of death. Death has now lost all meaning. The idea of death depends on those of the ego, and of time; these ideas have been destroyed; and so “ Death is swallowed up in victory.” We shall now only be interested in what Samadhi is in itself, and in the conditions which cause it. Let us try a final definition. Dhyana resembles Samadhi in many respects. There is a union of the ego and the non-ego, and a loss of the se…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 204

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 192 Zi De Morte (Concerning Death) HOU hast made Question of me concerning Death, and this is my Opinion, of which I say not: this is the Truth. First in the Temple called Man is the God, his Soul, or Star, individual and eternal, but also inherent in the Body of Our Lady Nuith. Now this Soul, as an Officer in the High Mass of he Cosmos, taketh on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhabiteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And his Tabernacle is Subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse reactin…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 163

Moonchild

This is a most dangerous place. Why did you bring us here? Surely you know that to touch the cone is certain death to us?" Iliel understood. The human souls had long since made themselves perfect, true images of the cosmos, by accepting the formula of Love and Death; they had made the great sacrifice again and again; they were veterans of the spiritual world-war, and asked nothing better than to go back to the trenches. But these others were partial souls; they had not yet [230] attained humanity; they had not understood that in order to grow o…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 98

The Soul of Osiris

…, as if a sword of light, Rayed of the very Dawn, would strike within The limitations of this deadly night That folds me for the sign of death and sin— O Light ! descend ! My feet move vaguely on In this amazing darkness, in the gloom That I can touch with trembling sense. There shone Once, in my misty memory, in the womb Of some unformulated thought, the flame And smoke of mighty pillars ; yet my mind Is clouded with the horror of this same Path of the wise men : for my soul is blind Yet : and the foemen I have never feared I could not see (if…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 218

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… maybe, for Love sits weeping In my desolate heart, nor know I what can ail him, Save it be that thou art fled; immortal Love And mortal Death, and are ye separate still, Even as I and as the unknown Rose? Maybe the Rose is Death, and I am Love, Wed to young Life, and jealous of desire Of Death! Oh, in the cool green colonnades I have lingered late, even till the night’s slow fall, And I have heard the dying voices of day, The market-women’s chatter growing faint In the twilight, and the drovers plodding home With their heavy beasts; and the da…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 218

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… maybe, for Love sits weeping In my desolate heart, nor know I what can ail him, Save it be that thou art fled; immortal Love And mortal Death, and are ye separate still, Even as I and as the unknown Rose? Maybe the Rose is Death, and I am Love, Wed to young Life, and jealous of desire Of Death! Oh, in the cool green colonnades I have lingered late, even till the night’s slow fall, And I have heard the dying voices of day, The market-women’s chatter growing faint In the twilight, and the drovers plodding home With their heavy beasts; and the da…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 263

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…t up thine hands ! Centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought Limpid with brilliance of the Light above ! Draw into nought All life, death, hatred, love : All self concentred in the sole desire— Hear thou the Voice of Fire! This hope was Zoroaster’s—this is mine! Not one but many splendours hath the Shrine: Not one but many paths approach the gate That guards the Adytum, fortifying Fate ! Mine was, by weariness of blood and brain, Mere bitter fruit of pain Sought in the darkness of an harlot’s bed, To make me as one dead : To loose the gird…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 39

777

… . . | . wee 1 hale] Grave . . . Oy Earth (dry). . - 2 “DIT AWS . : 3 Lucifuge . | Perdition . - JYTAN | Redearth . 4 - AYNWR® | Clay of Death. - MW 9 | Undulating ground 5 Belphegor NUM | Pit of Destruction . pO | Pasture . 6 - WIDOW | Shadow of Death Tmo syy | Sandy earth 7 Adramelek . . bxe55 | Gates of Death . -nipdy | Earth 8 . m505 | Hen . 9 . OMS | Wet Earth . MOY) 10 CXVv.* CXIV. CXIIL. CXII. Officers in a Masonic Passwords of the | : ws Alchemical Tree Lodge. Grades, | “A!chemical Metals (ii.). of Life (i.). a | _ Silence *. Metallic R…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 185

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 173 #p De Viis Mortis et Diaboli, Arcanis tou Tarot Fraternitatis R∴C∴ (Of the Paths of Death and the Devil, Arcana of the Tarot of the R.C. Fraternity) T shall profit thee much, o my Son, or I err, that I instruct thee in the Mysteries of the Paths of Nun and of Ayin, that in our Rota are figured in the Atu called Death, and that called the Devil. Of these Nun joineth the Sun with Venus, and is referred to Scorpio in the Zodiac. This Path is perilous, for it seeketh the Level, and may abase thee, except thou take He…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 156

Little Poems in Prose

…rks amid the murmur of a muffled sym- phony. Then, under the sun which warmed his brain and in the atmosphere of the burning perfumes of death, he heard a voice whisper beneath the tomb where he was seated, and this voice said, “Accursed be your targets and your guns, ye noisy folk that are alive, who care so little for the dead and their divine rest! Accursed be your ambitions, accursed be your calculations, impatient mortals, who come to study the art of slaying so close to the sanctu- ary of death! If you knew how easy the prize was to gain,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 5

The Tango Song

1» V v >1 nh, Kiss - es suck - ing —_ Sf up my breath__ Give me pass- ion! Give me death! = 4 4 __ J _p fe es > > |t> = |f 2 rae { = = vs . : : + v —$ = ess = = —— oe: 4 Give me dan- cing! Give me wine! Bright eyes glan-cing Yours in mine! i: *! mrAll if 1} ——— = : =: a Z 7 [SS Se up my breath__ Give me pass-ion! Give me death! — : a } a a a ia ha be , > z | oe ——— Mhoad Nh dd v ie rey Ws OO.

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1902 · PDF PAGE 30

Tannhäuser

I am the mother ! I the speaking sea ! I am the earth and its fertility ! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! Hathoor am I, and to my beauty drawn All glories of the Universe bow down, The blossom and the mountain and the dawn, Fruit's blush, and woman, our creation's crown. I am the priest, the sacrifice, the shrine, I am the love and life of the divine ! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness are surely mine- Are mine ! Venus am I, the love and light of earth. The wealth of kisses, the delight of tears. The ba…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 123

Tannhäuser

Draw into nought All life, death, hatred, love : All self concentred in the sole desire— Hear thou the Voice of Fire ! This hope was Zoroaster's —this is mine ! Not one but many splendours hath the Shrine : Not one but many paths approach the gate That guards the Adytum, fortifying Fate ! Mine was, by weariness of blood and brain, Mere bitter fruit of pain Sought in the darkness of an harlot's bed, To make me as one dead : To loose the girders of the soul, and gain Breathing and life for the Intelligible ; Find death, yet find it living. Deep a…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 63

John St. John

…? We may admit their unsubstantiality without denying their power; the phantoms of absinthe and love are potent enough to drive a man to death or marriage; while reverie may end in anti-vivisectionism or nut— food-madness. On the whole, I prefer to explain the many terrible catastrophes I have seen caused by magic misunder— stood by supposing that in magic one is working with some very subtle and essential function of the brain, whose disease may mean for one man paralysis, for another mania, for a third melancholia, for a fourth death. It is n…

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