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1930 · PDF PAGE 3

The Banned Lecture

… ” In order till Fust set his engine at work ! What trash will come flying from Jew, Moor and Turk. When, goosequill, thy reign o’er the world is abolished ? Goose—ominous name ! With a goose woe began : Quoth Huss—which means “ goose ” in his idiom un- polished— “ Ye burn now a Goose: there succeeds mea Swan Ye shall find quench your fire ! ” Fust. I forsee such a man. (Browning.)

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1907 · PDF PAGE 118

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… Inscribe thou on the Tower of Toil! Those who have striven to limn the mind, Paint, model, tune, or hymn the light, Their vision of the world refined By mastery of superior sight : Honour their might! the gain have these Of all men’s woes and ecstasies ! High soul; no benediction seek From any spirit but our own ! Crown not the mighty with the weak! The Tower be a Tower, and not a Throne! In man-carved stone the endless coil Arise untopped, the Tower of Toil ! Deem not that prayer or sacrifice Will ever cause the work to end! Serene, sufficien…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 25

The Star and the Garter

By pain would put an end to pain, And jumped,—and struggled against death, I doubt not. Ye courageous men That scorn to flee the world, ye slaves Of commerce, ye that ply the pen, - That dig, and fill, and loathe your graves | Ye counter-jumpers, clergy, Jews, All Paris, smug and good, that use To point the index scorn, deride The courage of that suicide— I ask you not to quit us quite, But—will you take a bath to-night? Money might make you. Well: but he, What was his wage, what was his fee? Fear fiercer than a mortal fear. Be silent, cowards,…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 16

Rosa Coeli

…nowdrop and lily, all white, all cream, all gold, With never a blush like dawn’s to flush or fail Upon their garden-close. O wide is the world, wide, wide ! Be sure that I was lost, Lost, lost for ever ; are there palimpsests Wherein a man might study at great cost His journey thence ? O Rose of gramarye, My riddle you shall ree. My head was happy, laid betwixt your breasts. XII NOTHER time I passed the holy well And plunged (as Phoebus in the western ocean) Into a forest of fine flame that crowned The holy hill ; all was enchaunted ground, The…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 128

The Winged Beetle

…he crossing of the Path of Pe) Now swift, thou azure shaft of fading fire, Pierce through the rainbow ! Swift, O swift ! how streams The world by ! Let Sandalphon and his quire Of Angels ward me ! Ho ! what planet beams This angry ray ? Thy swords, thy shields, thy spears ! Of meteors war and blaze ; but I am I, Horus himself, the torrent of the sky Aflame—I sweep the stormy seas of air Towards that great globe that hangs so golden fair. I match, &c.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 35

White Stains

…ove, and lead my kisses on From night to night upon the purple bed Of dark embraces ; till the summer is gone We will forget in love the world of tears Whose tumult reaches not our amorous ears. 3 Come with me thither. Let the chaster snow Blush at the sunset, when our limbs grow fain To twine close caressing, let it blush Redder at sunrise, when our eyelids grow Weary of kissing, and our arms again Slowly unclasp, and our fair cheeks do flush With memory’s modesty. The mountains glow Warmer and whiter, dreamland’s power shall wane While the su…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 405

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… With ravine, shriek’d——” is but a termagant. “ Ring out, wild bells” suggests no tocsin (as it might, for they symbolise the stupendous world-tragedy of the Atone- ment) but at most the pastoral summons to a simple worship, at least the dinner-gong—a dinner whose Turkey cooed, not gobbled; a Plum Pudding innocent of brandy. Yet these lines are the most forcible one can remember; and if these things are done in the green tree ? Lady Clara Vere de Vere feels (or is supposed to feel) a ladylike repugnance to the sight of a suicide’s scarred throa…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 405

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… With ravine, shriek’d——” is but a termagant. “ Ring out, wild bells” suggests no tocsin (as it might, for they symbolise the stupendous world-tragedy of the Atone- ment) but at most the pastoral summons to a simple worship, at least the dinner-gong—a dinner whose Turkey cooed, not gobbled; a Plum Pudding innocent of brandy. Yet these lines are the most forcible one can remember; and if these things are done in the green tree ? Lady Clara Vere de Vere feels (or is supposed to feel) a ladylike repugnance to the sight of a suicide’s scarred throa…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 51

The Winged Beetle

THE GARDEN OF JANUS 41 And that which inward did for ever tend Came at the last to have come out ; And I who had the World and God to friend Found all three foes ! Drowned in that sea of changes, vacancies, and woes ! XXI Yet all that Sea was swallowed up therein ; So they were not, and it was not. As who should sweat his soul out through the skin And find (sad fool !) he had begot All that without him that he had left in And in himself All he had taken out thereof, a mocking elf ! XXII But now that all was gone, great Pan appeared. Him then I …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 187

Book 4 (Part II)

…e references in the Index should be turned up. y/ .". A .'. The Great White Brotherhood which is giving this Method of Attainment to the world. See Equinox I. Adeptus Minor. A grade of adeptship, ^S^t'Equinox III. Aethyrs. See Equinox V and VII. Aima. The Great Fertile Mother Nature. Ama. The Great Mother not yet fertile. A?noufi. The God Amen = Zeus = Jupiter, etc., etc. Ankh. The Symbol of " Life." A form of the Rosy Cross. 6*6'^Equinox III. Apophis. The Serpent-God who slew Osiris. See Equinox III. Babalon., Our Lady. 5tv Equinox V, The Visi…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 42

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…treachery. ELEAZAR. Lift up your hands, all people of this land, And swear with me this oath my lips pronounce: By Wisdom, father of the world, we swear;

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1905 · PDF PAGE 19

Rosa Mundi

… the fair fresh Delight of Love ; not in mere lips and eyes The secret of these bridal ecstasies, Since thou art everywhere, Rose of the World, Rose of the Uttermost Abode of Glory, Rose of the High Host Of heaven, mystic, rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows) How every word awakes its own reward In a thought akin to thee, a shadow of thee ; And every tune evokes its musical Lord ; And every rhyme tingles and shakes in me The filaments of the great web of Love. O Rose all roses far above …

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1914 · PDF PAGE 9

Chicago May

…the ruins of your skin, ‘The pioneers know where to delve, for there Hell's beacon burns, a brazier to absorb Al fats and powders in the world, and flare A portent, a vast venerable orb ! Redder and shinier sure no sunset glows— Hail in his setting to the ripe red nose

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1906 · PDF PAGE 60

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…p, twitching, and loathlier than all mesh of hates and lusts, defiling; nor any voice it had, nor any motion, it was infinite in its own world of horror, irredeemably bad as everywhere sunlit, being this world, forget not ! being this world, this universe, the sum of all existence; so that opposing fierce resistance to the all-law, stood loves and joys, delicate girls, and beautiful strong boys, and bearded men like gods, and golden things, and bright desires with wings, all beauties, and all truths of life poets have ever prized. .So showed th…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 27

Konx Om Pax

THE WAKE WORLD 7 beautiful Palace that ever was. On the sunset side were all the baths, and the bedrooms were in front of us as we were. The baths were all Of pale olive-coloured marble, and the bedrooms had lemon-coloured everything. Then there were the kitchens on the sunrise side, and they were russet, like dead leaves are in autumn in one’s dreams. The place we had come through was perfectly black everything, and only used for offices and such things. There were the most horrid things everywhere about; black beetles and cockroaches, and goo…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 79

Moonchild

…"Spiritualism and Christian Science, which are either fraud or bluff or misinterpretation of facts, have spread all over the Anglo-Saxon world because there is no true critical spirit among the half-educated. But we are not willing to have our laboratories invaded by reporters and curiosity-mongers; we are dealing with delicate forces; we have to train our minds we with an intensity which no other study in the world demands. Public indifference and incredulity suit us perfectly. The only object of advertisement would be to get suitable members;…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 69

The Sword of Song

…ons ( 1-5) produce unusual brain-changes; hence their summary (6) is of unusual kind. Its projection back into the apparently phenomenal world is therefore unusual. Herein then consists the reality of the operations and effects of ceremonial magic,† and I conceive that the apology is ample, so far as the “effects” refer only to those phenomena which appear to the magician himself, the appearance of the spirit, his conversation, possible shocks from imprudence, and so on, even to ecstasy on the one hand, and death or madness on the other. But ca…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 53

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…n none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind. IV. FLOWERS. O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s ! power ! Who find the well taught Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower? 1 Hades plus Minos; he both rules and judges the dead, according to Hindu mytho- logy. The seeker shall subdue this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power; The seeker find that Path as skill of t herbist finds the proper flower. Like unto foam this body whoso sees, its mirage-nature comprehends ar…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 112

Orpheus

…still—Eurydice! Come back to me! Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power! Cast the dead laurel in the dust! The flower Of all the world is marred, the day’s desire Distorted in the eclipse, the sun’s dead hour. Let me fall down beside thee! Let me take The kisses that thou canst not give, and slake Despair in purposeless caresses, dire Shames fang-wise fastened of the eternal snake. Is there no warmth where beauty is so bright? No soul still flickering in the lambent light Still shed from all the body’s excellence? No lamp unchidden of t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 377

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… Binah to Chesed be taken as=3. For } connects Arikh Anpin with Zauir Anpin One is the YM DYSON MD ANN Ruach of the Elohim of Lives ‘The World of Shells mavopn pdy 778 779 780 I dwell, have dwelt. (Mot ‘13 written.) [ILR.Q. 11225 Prov. viii. 12] Shore, bank ny 61 781 782 783 J784 pene 785 786 nw 787 788 ‘The Secret Wisdom: 4D) ASIN ie, The Qabalah. [Vide 58] Qliphoth of oo Smooth 789 79° My presence. [LLR.Q. 1122; MID Prov. xii.] 79% 792 [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 460, myyw and Ps. xviii. 51] 793 794 795 796 mbyainn p> 7797 798 Mount Gaerisim byy my …

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