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1909 · PDF PAGE 8

The Holy Books

…ites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein three grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is. Restriction. Ο man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! 0 lover, if thou 7

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1909 · PDF PAGE 10

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…Even formally, ’tis a clumsy monster. Essentially, it seems to involve a great deal beyond our original statement. We compass heaven and earth to make one syllogism; and when we have made it, it is tenfold more the child of mystery than ourselves. We cannot here discuss the whole problem of the validity (the surface-question of the logical validity) of the syllogism; though one may throw out the hint that the doctrine of distributed middle seems to assume a knowledge of a Calculus of Infinites which is certainly beyond my own poor attain- ments…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 141

The Winged Beetle

…ers Lingers ; all’s drowned in the accursed stench Of this damned present. The past years abort And this is found. Foul waters drench My earth. All’s filth. With what cold eye one scans This body that was—so long since—two years ! I wrench

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1913 · PDF PAGE 145

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… yet the glory clings Declare this mystery magical | I am yet borne on those blue wings Into the Essence of the All. Now, now I stand on earth again, Though, blazing through each nerve and vein, The light yet holds its choral course, Filling my frame with fiery force Like God’s. Now hear the Apocalypse New-fledged on these reluctant lips ! I tremble like an aspen, quiver Like light upon a rainy river ! Do what thou wilt! is the sole word Of law that my attainment heard. Arise, and lay thine hand on God! Arise, and set a period Unto Restriction!…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 145

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… yet the glory clings Declare this mystery magical | I am yet borne on those blue wings Into the Essence of the All. Now, now I stand on earth again, Though, blazing through each nerve and vein, The light yet holds its choral course, Filling my frame with fiery force Like God’s. Now hear the Apocalypse New-fledged on these reluctant lips ! I tremble like an aspen, quiver Like light upon a rainy river ! Do what thou wilt! is the sole word Of law that my attainment heard. Arise, and lay thine hand on God! Arise, and set a period Unto Restriction!…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 282

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…umes it. Silence. The Priestess takes, uncovers, and offers the Cup, as before. Tue PRIEST. In my mouth be the essence of the joy of the earth! He takes the Cup, makes * on the PRiEstTEss, drains it and returns it. Silence. 268

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1899 · PDF PAGE 28

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…such a purple as incarnadines The western sky when storms are amorous And lie upon the breast of toiling ocean, Such billows to beget as earth devours | In ravening whirlpool guiphs. My veins are full,

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1904 · PDF PAGE 64

The Argonauts

…eholding Some Fate, some distant grief. Then, catching sight Now of the glory of his gain, he seemed: Caught in an ecstasy, treading the earth As in a brighter dream than Aphrodite Sent ever to a man, he turned himself (We could not see him for the golden flame Burning about him!) moving hitherward. But I took horse and hasted, since reward May greet such tidings, and for joy to see Your joy exceed my joy. MEDEA. Reward indeed Awaits thee from such folk as us, who stand

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1910 · PDF PAGE 10

Rosa Decidua

…stilled. So all the God in life is chilled To a corpse. The informing one ? God’s a cast clout Of a leper ! Leave me here, corruptest of earth’s whores To scrape my sores ! Cry like a dog and run about the city ! There is no word left, now the deed is dead ! No thought of her is in me ; I am a stranger To all that dream of danger And bliss that Rose was. The green shoots

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1926 · PDF PAGE 7

Liber Al vel Legis

…ites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein three grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is. Restriction. Ο man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! 0 lover, if thou 7

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1905 · PDF PAGE 201

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…reaches from the outer wall, And seeks the centre. This I comprehend. But in the first: ‘I can—-but what is worth ?”’ And in the second: earth !” ‘*T am dust and THE TWO WISDOMS. SOPHIE! I loved her, tenderly at worst. Yet in my passion’s highest ecstasy, When life lost pleasure in desire to die And never taste again the deadly thirst For those caresses ; even then a curst Sick pang shot through me: looking far on high, Beyond, I see Zogca in the sky. The petty bubble of Love’s pipe is burst ! Yea! through the portals of the dusky dawn I see th…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 172

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…be, is real. By His might Begot the universe within the night; If He had prayed to His Own mind’s weak lies Think’st thou the heaven and earth had stood upright ?

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1905 · PDF PAGE 269

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… and suns, all moons that wax and wane, Create and uncreate, living and dead, The Mystery of Pain. Iam the Mother, I the silent Sea, The Earth, its travail, its fertility. Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To Me!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 147

The Winged Beetle

…stilled. So all the God in life is chilled To a corpse. The informing one ? God’s a cast clout Of a leper ! Leave me here, corruptest of earth’s whores To scrape my sores Cry like a dog and run about the city ! There is no word left, now the deed is dead ! No thought of her is in me ; I am a stranger To all that dream of danger And bliss that Rose was. The green shoots

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1911 · PDF PAGE 277

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… circling and all comprehending Divine Bearer of the Wand, hail! Coelestial, aethereal, inter-aethereal, water like, air like, fire like, earth like, like unto light, like unto darkness, shining as do the Stars, moist, hot, cold Spirit, hail to Thee, ever laughing Child-God, all-knowing. Through Thee alone can we hope to reach Light and Truth. [Returns to his seal. [SOR. GEMINI þlays una;/dingk? [A Mea/[fame. MERCURY. At the Ending of the Light, At the Limits of the Night, Stood Mercury before the Unborn ones of Time. Then was formulated the Uni…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 277

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… circling and all comprehending Divine Bearer of the Wand, hail! Coelestial, aethereal, inter-aethereal, water like, air like, fire like, earth like, like unto light, like unto darkness, shining as do the Stars, moist, hot, cold Spirit, hail to Thee, ever laughing Child-God, all-knowing. Through Thee alone can we hope to reach Light and Truth. [Returns to his seal. [SOR. GEMINI þlays una;/dingk? [A Mea/[fame. MERCURY. At the Ending of the Light, At the Limits of the Night, Stood Mercury before the Unborn ones of Time. Then was formulated the Uni…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…wers of Water. 3. The Ace of Swords is called the Root of the Powers of Air. 4. The Ace of Pentacles is called the Root 01 the Powers of Earth. 5. The Knight 01 Wands is " The Lord of the Flame and Lightning: the King of the Spirits of Fire.” 6. The Queen of Wands is " The Queen 01 the Thrones of Flame." 7. The King of Wands is “The Prince 01 the Chariot 01 Fire.” 8. The Knave 01 Wands is ”The Princess of the Shining Flame: the Rose of the Palace of Fire." 9. The Knight of Cups is “The Lord of the Waves and the Waters: the King 01 the Hosts 01 …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…wers of Water. 3. The Ace of Swords is called the Root of the Powers of Air. 4. The Ace of Pentacles is called the Root 01 the Powers of Earth. 5. The Knight 01 Wands is " The Lord of the Flame and Lightning: the King of the Spirits of Fire.” 6. The Queen of Wands is " The Queen 01 the Thrones of Flame." 7. The King of Wands is “The Prince 01 the Chariot 01 Fire.” 8. The Knave 01 Wands is ”The Princess of the Shining Flame: the Rose of the Palace of Fire." 9. The Knight of Cups is “The Lord of the Waves and the Waters: the King 01 the Hosts 01 …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 227

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…SA IGNOTA O love, my love; I make my songs while waiting, My lips in missing thine but idly prating. (vy) For all the glowing panoply of earth The wingéd god must stand responsible; The mavis’ song, the roses’ scent, the mirth Of spring, the spirit’s passion, aping hell. So I, knowing my love, am girded round With all the armour of the wanton spring And her pagan festivals; the swelling ground, The ripe blue sky, the ever-moving wing Of birth, have lent me glamour of desire, And I will go as a god, to mould afresh With my most inner and superna…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 227

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…SA IGNOTA O love, my love; I make my songs while waiting, My lips in missing thine but idly prating. (vy) For all the glowing panoply of earth The wingéd god must stand responsible; The mavis’ song, the roses’ scent, the mirth Of spring, the spirit’s passion, aping hell. So I, knowing my love, am girded round With all the armour of the wanton spring And her pagan festivals; the swelling ground, The ripe blue sky, the ever-moving wing Of birth, have lent me glamour of desire, And I will go as a god, to mould afresh With my most inner and superna…

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