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1905 · PDF PAGE 106

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…to hide in light The sorrow of the day that was the night. So I rode slowly in the morning gray, And all the meadows with the frost were white. And lo! between the mountains there uprose The winter sun; and all the forest glows, And the frost burns hke fire before my eyes, While the white breeze awoke with slum- berous sighs And stirred the branches of the pine; it knows, t surely knows how weary are the wise! Even my horse my sorrow understands, Would turn and bear me to those western lands ; In love would turn me back ; in love would bring My…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 66

The Book of Thoth

…he Empress is two‐fold: on the one side, the Pelican of tradition feed‐ ing its young from the blood of its own heart; on the other, the White Eagle of the Alchemist. With regard to the Pelican, its full symbolism is only available to Initiates of the Fifth degree of the O.T.O. In general terms, the meaning may be suggested by identifying the Pelican herself with the Great Mother and her offspring, with the Daughter in the formula of Tetra‐ grammaton. It is because the daughter is the daughter of her mother that she can be raised to her throne.…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 7

Jezebel

…traps for fervent feet ! The morrow beaconed, and I came By where the golden groves of wheat In summer glories fiercely flame ; To those white courts, by princes trod, Where Ahab sat, and mocked at God. Where Ahab sat :—but lo ! I saw No king, no tyrant to be curst ; But she, who filled me with blind awe, She, for whose blood my thin veins thirst ; The blossom of a painted mouth And bare breasts tinctured with the south. For lo ! the harlot Jezebel ! Her hands dropped perfume, and her tongue (A flame from the dark heart of hell, The ivory-barre…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 73

Clouds Without Water

… unnatural thing, Some Minotaur of shame, no egg of pride To hatch the miniature of love and spring In your own image, subtly glorified. White swan you were! not Zeus but Cerberus Hath ravished you; you brood on harpy eggs — Sweet sister! is the wine too sour for us? Wehave drunk deep — nay! nay! but to the dregs! And ail their bitterness is braver brew Than the dull syrup of the pious crew.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 75

Clouds Without Water

…e gate of sleep On tiptoe ! win away the maiden life On velvet pinions to his azure steep; At ease, at peace, to woo her for a wife! His white horse waiting quietly without Let him push gently the delicious door And take us. We have lived. How should we doubt Or fear? we have lived well. For ever more We must be well. The cypress cannot daunt, Nor the acacia’thrill; we are content To wander in the shadowy groves, to haunt The dark delight of our own element ; Or — could we send a messenger — to tell Our brothers of the happiness of Hell! — 125 …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 211

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF JUPITER O sleeper through dawn and through daylight, O sleeper through dusk and through night! Ο shifted from white light to gray light, From gray to (he one black light! Ο silence and sound In the {ar profound! Ο serpent of scales as an armour To bind on the breast oia lord! Not deaf to the Voice of the Charmer, Not blind to the sweep of the sword! I strike to the deep That thou stir in thy sleep! Rise up from mine innermost being! Lift up the gemmed head to the heart! Lift up till the eyes that were seeing Be blind, and their life…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 211

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF JUPITER O sleeper through dawn and through daylight, O sleeper through dusk and through night! Ο shifted from white light to gray light, From gray to (he one black light! Ο silence and sound In the {ar profound! Ο serpent of scales as an armour To bind on the breast oia lord! Not deaf to the Voice of the Charmer, Not blind to the sweep of the sword! I strike to the deep That thou stir in thy sleep! Rise up from mine innermost being! Lift up the gemmed head to the heart! Lift up till the eyes that were seeing Be blind, and their life…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 237

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…rving grass and the sun -heavy air were around us ... ... ... ... Here does she sit, her foot upon the wing ... Here in the evening curl white mists How did we meet , my love and I ... How splendid in the morning glows the lily 185 198 133 96 215 I built a palace high up in air I can hear the children clapping I faint . I can go no further ... I found a childish letter in a drawer ... If ever thou didst turn aside ... If there be breath of God in ocean 's rise and fall ... ... ... If there be soul in wood and strings ... If you will meet me whe…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…der in; Where Love sits crowned, a blind and wingéd thing, Winged for delight of roving, blind to sin. This temple of Desire is pure and white, Transparent to the sunlight and the day! Most deeply calm under the star-lit night: Love's lamp guides lonely pilgrims on their way. My staff hath flowered with love’s immortal Rose; And I, that long be excommunicate, At early noon wait till the gates unclose: I loll in the sunshine at the Eastern gate.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…der in; Where Love sits crowned, a blind and wingéd thing, Winged for delight of roving, blind to sin. This temple of Desire is pure and white, Transparent to the sunlight and the day! Most deeply calm under the star-lit night: Love's lamp guides lonely pilgrims on their way. My staff hath flowered with love’s immortal Rose; And I, that long be excommunicate, At early noon wait till the gates unclose: I loll in the sunshine at the Eastern gate.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 6

Jezebel

…er 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 Samarina’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 close because of night Whose heavy breath infects the air ; The dog-star gleams, a devilish light : I thought I saw behind me glare The eyes of fiends. I thought I heard An evil laugh, a mocking word. The gates swing open at the Name, Without a warde…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 203

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…mbrace ! TISIPHONE, She conquers. MEGAERA. Ile hath moved. ALECTO. [le hath kissed her! TISIPHONE. Ifa! the worse hate of hate in love’s white dress. MiGAERA. And lewdness tricked to look like loveliness. ALECTO., Uttermost pain in pleasure’s hour supreme. MEG-ERA. Hate’s nightmare waking love’s unreal dream. ALECTO. Claws, teeth, and poison! TISIPHONE, How she plies her pest ! MEGARA. Strangling she holds him. ALECTO. In the inmost breast Her hands defile him. TISIPHONE., In his rotting brain IIe teeth, her breath, pass all imagined pain. MEG-…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 20

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

xx PRELUDE. _Completing Truth in its amazing span :— “ Godhead is made the Spirit that is Man.” To whose white mountains, and their arduous ways, Turn we our purpose, till the faith that slays Yield up its place to faith that gives us life, The faith to conquer in the higher strife ; Our single purpose, and sublime intent, With their spilt blood to seal our sacrament, Who stand among the martyrs of the Light; Our single purpose, by incarnate might Begotten after travail unto death, To live within the light that quickeneth ; To tread base though…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…[wil/mul]. 4444—1. [BRO. ARIES extingui;/tes all lights, [SCORPIOplays !07/8 þoemfr [MARS recites: Who is this maiden robéd for a bride, White shoulders and bright brows adorable, The flaming locks that clothe her, and abide, As God were bathing in the fire of Hell? * Polonaise: Vieuxtemps. 1” Romance: Franz Ries. 55

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1911 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…[wil/mul]. 4444—1. [BRO. ARIES extingui;/tes all lights, [SCORPIOplays !07/8 þoemfr [MARS recites: Who is this maiden robéd for a bride, White shoulders and bright brows adorable, The flaming locks that clothe her, and abide, As God were bathing in the fire of Hell? * Polonaise: Vieuxtemps. 1” Romance: Franz Ries. 55

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1912 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…porum ppt ID Desolation, emptiness. (Ex- AM presses first root of all good) 412 ‘The letter Beth na 43 New. (Ch.) nan Jesus GOD pnbs myn White whorl poy Celsitudo superna poy on A longing for man Azoth, the fluid. A+Z (Lat.) TYIN +0 (Grk.) +N (Heb.). In- itial and final in 3 tongues The Limitless Light VWs 5D ps Meditation. [Ps. xlv. 4] nun Going forth. [Videno. 770] DYOMIWE The Voice of the Chief 937 ANIIN Seer Sister Mins The Holy One; Sodomite wpa Work mwy Angel of 10 C. movy Thought, meditation awn A pledge paw Olive mt Arca, (Noah’s Ark) m…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…porum ppt ID Desolation, emptiness. (Ex- AM presses first root of all good) 412 ‘The letter Beth na 43 New. (Ch.) nan Jesus GOD pnbs myn White whorl poy Celsitudo superna poy on A longing for man Azoth, the fluid. A+Z (Lat.) TYIN +0 (Grk.) +N (Heb.). In- itial and final in 3 tongues The Limitless Light VWs 5D ps Meditation. [Ps. xlv. 4] nun Going forth. [Videno. 770] DYOMIWE The Voice of the Chief 937 ANIIN Seer Sister Mins The Holy One; Sodomite wpa Work mwy Angel of 10 C. movy Thought, meditation awn A pledge paw Olive mt Arca, (Noah’s Ark) m…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 15

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ht reed Shrilling dim visions of things glorious, And saw the maiden, that disported thus, And worshipped. Then in doubt he stood, grown white And wonderful, with passion’s perfect might Viring his veins and tingling in his brain, He stood and whitened, and waxed red again. His oat' unheeded glanced beneath the wave, llis eyes grew bright and burning, his lips clave— A sudden cry broke from him: from the height His swift young body, like a ray of light, Divides the air, a moment, and the pool Flings up the spray like dew, divinely cool : A mome…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 23

Jephthah

JEPHTHAH. And blossom ; as when two-and-thirty men, The sons of Jair, on milk-white asses rode, And judged us righteously, and each abode Safe in the shadow of his vine ; as when The peace of Joshua lay upon the land, And God turned not away His piteous eyes, Nor smote us with the fury of His hand, Nor clouded over His mysterious skies, And storm and wind had no more might at all, And death and pestilence forgotten were, And angels came to holy men that call, And gracious spirits thronged the happy air; When God was very gracious to all folk, A…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 423

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…. It is my will.” The features of the sleep-waker become terrible to behold ; her hair stands on end; her wide-opened eyes show only the white; her breast heaves, and a sort of death-rattle escapes from her throat. “Go there. It is my will,” repeats the magnetizer. “Tam there!” says the unhappy girl between her teeth, falling back exhausted. Then she no longer answers; her head hangs heavy on her shoulder; her arms fall idly by her side. They approach her. They touch her. They try to 125

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