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1929 · PDF PAGE 60

Moonchild

…t morning I visited in turn these respectable tradesmen, the third of whom [86] remembered the sale of a quail to a lady on the previous day. Both quail and lady answered to the descriptions I had in mind. "It had been the custom of my guests to walk abroad in the afternoons, now singly, now together, now with one or another of the members of my household. "On this particular day, I begged the medium to permit me the honour of escorting her. She agreed with characteristic amiability; and, once in the street, I pleaded with her, like a child, to…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 45

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…sepulchre, And every hill a vantage ground whereon Hard-breathing fighting men get scanty sleep Till the dawn lift his eyebrows, and the day Renew the battle? Will ye follow me Through slippery ways of blood to Ephraim To beat with sturdy swords unwearying Our foemen to their Ammon, and to grapple With red death clutching at the throat of us, With famine and with pestilence, at last To reach a barren vengeance, and perchance An hundred of your thousands to return Victors—so best God speed us—and for worst Death round our cities horrible and vas…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 52

The Soul of Osiris

…A queen is my lover, I say, With a crown of the lilies of light— For a maiden they crowned her in May, For the Queen of the Daughters of Day That are flowers of the forest of Night. They crowned her with lilies and blue, They crowned her with yellow and roses, They gave her a sceptre of rue, And a girdle of laurel and yew, And a basket of pansies in posies. They led her with songs by the stream, They brought her with tears to the river, They danced as the maze of a dream, They kissed her to roses and cream, And they cried, “ Let the queen live …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 22

Alice: An Adultery

…ternal inner laughter. We have heard what a woman he married in the end. Our poet is one of the most annoying in the world. His fiftieth day is an outrage on mankind in its sudden and hideous close. He himself feels it, and writes the two following sonnets to discuss (and so to modify) the hateful impression. But through pig-headedness, or in very despair, he leaves the detestable fact standing, the very instant after the lovers part, as ugly and mean a summary of the whole affair as it is possible to imagine. Of the bad taste of the whole poem…

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1914 · PDF PAGE 27

Chicago May

…h, love! and may the night discede? ‘The dawn that wakes us warn us? Nay! The lyre is lively as the reed, ‘The night less loyal than the day. ‘These dunes, these stars, these holy trees ‘That sentinel our sleep, the moan Of the tired sea, the birds, the breeze, ‘The moon, all these things are our own, ‘We made them for our love ! our home, Our palace of eternal rest — Here, by the starlight and the foam, Fold me, a flower, to your breast !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 60

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…akes no lightning in the broken East ; His awful thunders listen and are dumb; Earth gapes not for that sin; the skies renew At break of day their vestiture of blue. ASTROLOGY. A LONELY spirit seeks the midnight hour, When souls have power To cast away one moment bonds of clay, And touch the day With pallid wistful lips beyond the earth, And bring to birth New thoughts with which life long has travailed ; As if one dead

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1901 · PDF PAGE 37

The Mother’s Tragedy

…, [He picks up his mother’s Bible, tears it, and casts tt into the fire. And swear before the Spirit of the World, In sight of God, this day: I love you still With carnal love and spiritual love! And I will have you, by the living God, To be my mistress. If I fail in this, Or falter in this counsel of despair, May God’s own curses dog me into hell, And mine own life perpetuate itself Through all the ages of eternity. Amen! Amen! Come, Cora, to my heart! [He stoops to embrace her. Horror and madness catch him, and he runs about the room wildly, …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 32

The God-Eater

…f our Lady. and Prizst. [Whispers.| Who is with her? 1st Prizst. [Whispers.| The first disciple. 2nd Priest. [Whispers.| Blessed is this day, O brother!

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1904 · PDF PAGE 18

Why Jesus Wept

4 WHY JESUS WEPT. (All unsuspicious of the weird : “ One day a person with a beard Shall write of thee, and write a lot Too like the late Sir Walter Scott). Sir Percivale de Percivale (Begin again !) was over all The pangs of death foreseen ; his eye Sought the high rafter vacantly. A week, and he would see no more ! His lady long had gone — O Lor’ ! I hear ‘ St. Agnes’ Eve ’ suggest To this 8’s better a far best ; Spenserian solemnity Fits this part of my minstrelsy. Now is the breath of winter in the hall. The logs die out — the knight would …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 104

Mortadello

…d already. ALESSANDRO. Late in June It went to seek my heart that I had lost in May. LUCREZIA. I wish I had the art to find them both to-day. ALESSANDRO. What would you do with them ? LUCREZIA. Why, throw them to the fish. MONICA, And I’ve got a stratagem to win the wench her wish. ALESSANDRO. You jest ? MONICA. Not I ! MORTADELLO. Indeed, the Princess never smiles. MONICA. You wrong yourself. I need the City of the Isles.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 358

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…?) 393 Cutsing 394 Essence; “ the ” Table. [Vide no. 388]?ןחלוש Robustus (virilitas)Iacobרשא ?בקעי The Heavens Oil Manasseh Second Judge Day Demon of xSt Dec.?חן Lux Interna. (Title of Kether) Fifty Book Angel L.’I‘,D. of `?'ץ Pride; esp. of gait 20” To use Magic, witchcraft Erudiens, a title of Yesod SEPHER SEPHIROTH 391 Sensus literalis. [Vide K.D4?הטושפ 395 Sought into, or after Tested, purified Filia?שמשה A spider?!םשה Paths?השנמ D?הנש The Stone ; Sapphire?טפוש 396 Law, edict.?שש םנרק סינכיש .קש ,, רדא תא m? שקב ררב תב שיבכע !יליבש 403 ןבא ר…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 358

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…?) 393 Cutsing 394 Essence; “ the ” Table. [Vide no. 388]?ןחלוש Robustus (virilitas)Iacobרשא ?בקעי The Heavens Oil Manasseh Second Judge Day Demon of xSt Dec.?חן Lux Interna. (Title of Kether) Fifty Book Angel L.’I‘,D. of `?'ץ Pride; esp. of gait 20” To use Magic, witchcraft Erudiens, a title of Yesod SEPHER SEPHIROTH 391 Sensus literalis. [Vide K.D4?הטושפ 395 Sought into, or after Tested, purified Filia?שמשה A spider?!םשה Paths?השנמ D?הנש The Stone ; Sapphire?טפוש 396 Law, edict.?שש םנרק סינכיש .קש ,, רדא תא m? שקב ררב תב שיבכע !יליבש 403 ןבא ר…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 117

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…stricken ; sought half - blind the door ; Sobb 'd that I had not seen the half before . . . Whose curses , think you , had He heard that day ? Whose hands had beaten in upon His Face ? The Romans ? Jews ? Dull , blind , and ignorant they ! He saw no traitor till He looked my way . 98

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1919 · PDF PAGE 9

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

MAY MORN The artist represents the dawn of the day following the Witches’ rout. The witch is hanged, and the satyr joyfully looks out from behind the tree; in the background all is Spring, and the nymph dances joyfully to the piping of the shepherd. The picture is symbolical of the New on. From the blasted stump of dogma, the poison oak of ‘original sin’, is hanged the hag with dyed and bloody hair, Christianity, the glyph thus commemorating ‘sa vie horizontale et sa mort verticale.’ The satyr, a portrait of Frater D. D. S., one of the Teachers…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 105

Book 4 (Part I)

…e is this anchor for the beginner,that his work is cumulative: every act directed towards attainment builds up a destiny which must some day come to fruition. May all attain! 1 Yet all this has come of our desire to be as modest as Yajna Valkya!

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1912 · PDF PAGE 369

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…7 2 A chastening con.הוהי ?ךיהלא [Deut. xxviii. 58,[ ?}וcounted as final] ]eschurun man He was touched. [I.RQ.?בצעמו x 1?ו7] Active?לבקתמ Day Demon of [* Dec. )(?רופרופ 573 574 Chaldee. [Hath a general?ןושחרו meaning of movement. SD, p, 87] 53 575 Beerschebha, Fons Sep‘ראב ?עבש tenarii. [2 Sam. xxiv. 7 —Gen. xxi. y.] [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 183] « And theרמאיו םיהלא יהי ?רוא GODS said, Let there be LIGHT” 24’ 4’576 Wands?תולקמ The tenth?רושע "577 The Concealed ofהרטנט ?זירמטר the Concealed ; a name of GOD most High 578 579 Media noxתוצח ?הליל Qliph…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 369

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…7 2 A chastening con.הוהי ?ךיהלא [Deut. xxviii. 58,[ ?}וcounted as final] ]eschurun man He was touched. [I.RQ.?בצעמו x 1?ו7] Active?לבקתמ Day Demon of [* Dec. )(?רופרופ 573 574 Chaldee. [Hath a general?ןושחרו meaning of movement. SD, p, 87] 53 575 Beerschebha, Fons Sep‘ראב ?עבש tenarii. [2 Sam. xxiv. 7 —Gen. xxi. y.] [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 183] « And theרמאיו םיהלא יהי ?רוא GODS said, Let there be LIGHT” 24’ 4’576 Wands?תולקמ The tenth?רושע "577 The Concealed ofהרטנט ?זירמטר the Concealed ; a name of GOD most High 578 579 Media noxתוצח ?הליל Qliph…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 130

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…s in her golden breath. Let us keep watch, my true love, caught at last Between my hands, and not remember death. Only bethink us of the daylight past, The Jong chase oversea, the storm, the speed Whereby we ran before the leaping blast, And left the swift pursuers at our need With one wrecked dragon and one shattered; yea! And on their swiftest many warriors bleed, Having beheld, above the gray seaway Between them and the sun, my sword arise, Like the first dagger flashing for the day, My sword, that darts among them serpent- wise— And all the…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 181

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…olden Eyes! ‘‘Come with me,” you whispered, ‘‘ come, and let the moon Lend her light to madden us through the hours of pleasure ; Let thedayspring pass and brighten intonoon! Yet no limit find our love, nor passion find a measure !” O Madonna of the Golden Eyes! Dawn brought reason back, and the violet eyes are sadder :-— O they were golden once, and I call them golden still ! Dawn has brought remorse, the sting of a foul swamp-adder— I hate you! beast of Hell! Love’s manacle ! O Murderess of the hateful eyes ! I have snapped O and you fix them…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 10

Oracles

… a smile and opened with a kiss, Bid me a joyous welcome there, I wis. My home is on the brink of heaven’s delight, But for that endless day a lovelier night Is in my home, that sunset’s arms enfold, Lit with the mellowness of autumn gold. . . . . . . Pillowed on linen of the purest white, Half-hidden by her locks’ luxurious night, Maddened by those soft eyes of melting glow, Enamoured of that breast of breathing snow, Caught in the meshes of her fine-spun hair, Rocked by the beating of her bosom fair, Held by her lips too tempting and too warm…

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