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1899 · PDF PAGE 145

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…nt _ In one long curve, where folk were making feast. So with no heart to feast, I joined the mirth, Mingled the dances that resound the earth, And laughing looked in every face of guile, And answered fans with quick and subtle smile ; Ten thousand little loves were brought to birth, Ten thousand loves that laughed a little while. No; for one woman did not laugh, too wise, But came so close, and looked within my eyes So deeply that I saw not anything. Only her eyes grew, as a purple ring Shielding the sun, they grew, they uttered lies— They fas…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 209

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…many mystic loves. Holy maidens, duly weave Dances for the mighty mother ! Bacchanal to Bacchus cleave! Wave his narthex wand, and leave Earthy joys to earth to smother!

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1911 · PDF PAGE 283

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF MERCURY Worship, and liberty, and love. So be my grave without a name That earth may swallow up my shame! [50R. GEMINI ;5103/5 her saddest yet swiflest melody. * [A þause. VIRGO. O, who art Thou, most lovely form that killeth me with the pleasure of Thy Vision? MERCURY. 1 am thyself—that which is of thyself and dependent upon thyself. VIRGO. Sister and Brother Gemini, kneel ye before the greatest of all Gods. FR. GEMINI. Alas, Brother! 15 the Speech greater than the Silence? VIRGO. I. Brethren, kneel ye before the greatest of all God…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 283

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF MERCURY Worship, and liberty, and love. So be my grave without a name That earth may swallow up my shame! [50R. GEMINI ;5103/5 her saddest yet swiflest melody. * [A þause. VIRGO. O, who art Thou, most lovely form that killeth me with the pleasure of Thy Vision? MERCURY. 1 am thyself—that which is of thyself and dependent upon thyself. VIRGO. Sister and Brother Gemini, kneel ye before the greatest of all Gods. FR. GEMINI. Alas, Brother! 15 the Speech greater than the Silence? VIRGO. I. Brethren, kneel ye before the greatest of all God…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 161

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… smile . I diagnose a man 's religious creed By testing the condition of his bile . [ Joseph arrives . God , in the end , and heaven and earth will sink Back to eternal Chaos whence they came . Both He and you are tottering on the brink Of epilepsy , 142

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1899 · PDF PAGE 115

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…g, We went forth blindly to the horrible Damp darkness of the pines above. And there Strange beasts crossed path of ours, such beasts as earth Bears not, distorted, tortured, loathable, Mouthing with hateful lips some recent blood, Or snarling at our feet. But these attacked No courage of our hearts, we faltered not, And they fell back, snake’s mouth and leopard’s throat, ) Afraid. But others fawning came behind With clumsy leapings as in friendliness,

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1909 · PDF PAGE 19

Clouds Without Water

X We tread on earth in our divine disdain And crush its blood out into purple wine, Staining our feet with hot and amorous stain, The foam involving all the sensual shrine Of love whose godhead dwells upon your mouth Wherein the kisses clustering overflow With brimming ardour of the new sin’s growth Till round us all the poisonous blossoms blow, And all the cruel things and hideous forms Of night awake and revel in our revel, While in us rage the devastating storms Whose dam is Luxury and their sire the devil... It is well seen, however things …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 12

The Holy Books

…my Book are aright ; but ï is not the Star. This also is secret; my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: cer- tainty, not faith, While in life, upon death; peace unalterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods and gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60. My number is II, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, and the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, bu…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 280

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…st SeMicHorus. Men. Glory to thee from gilded tomb! SECOND SEMICHoRUS. WoMEN. Glory to thee from wait- ing womb! Men. Glory to Thee from earth unploughed! Women. Glory to Thee from virgin vowed! MEN. Glory to Thee, true Unity Of the eternal Trinity! Women. Glory to Thee, thou sire and dam And self of Iam that Iam! MEN. Glory to Thee, beyond all term, Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! Women. Glory to Thee, eternal Sun, Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One! Cuorus. Glory and worship unto Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! (These words…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 15

White Stains

…the boat with him by stealth. A small sailing vessel conveyed them to Malta, where they disappeared. The only trace left in the books of earth records that this fascinating character was accused, four years later, in Vienna, of poisoning her paramour, but thanks to the wealth and influence of her new lover, she escaped. The legal father, left by himself with a squalling child to amuse, to appease in his tantrums, and to bring up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, was not a little perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his wife. At fir…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 133

Ambergris

…heir keepers Low for pure love of morning’s dewy hand. The morning shakes its ocean-bathed tresses, The bright sun broadens over all the earth. The green leaves fall, fall into his caresses, And all the world’s heart leaps, again addresses Its life, and girds it in the golden girth. Then noon full-fashioned lies upon the steep. The large sun sighs and turns his bridle-rein, Thinks of the ocean, turns his heart to sleep, Laughing no longer, not yet prone to weep, Feeling the prelude of the coming pain. The hills and dales are dumb beneath the he…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 11

Liber Al vel Legis

…my Book are aright ; but ï is not the Star. This also is secret; my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: cer- tainty, not faith, While in life, upon death; peace unalterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods and gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60. My number is II, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, and the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, bu…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 229

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…hat he is a vile man and a losel of little worth or worship; a dog, an unclean swine, a worm of filth, a festering sore in the vitals of earth : such an one is liar and murderer, debauched, drunken, sexless, and spatulate ; an ape-dropping, a lousy, flat-backed knave: from such an one keep ye well away! Use hath he little: ornament maketh he nothing: let him be cast out on the dunghills beyond Jordan ; let him pass into the S. P. P., and that utterly ! With that our Father sighed deep and laid back his reverend head, and was silent. But from hi…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 169

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… to Me? How petty looks Thy will to My desire? Hebe and Hera to Eurydice ? O sceptred Splendour! dost I, knowing all the progress of the earth, The dim procession, altering death and birth, The Seven Stairs, the gusts of life in fire And Love in Life, and all the serpent girth Of sevenfold twining worlds and sevenfold ways And nights made sevenfold of the sevenfold days All the vast scheme evolving into man, And upward, onward, through Olympian haze Into the crowning spiritual mist, Where spirit in the spirit may subsist, Evolve itself in the a…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 10

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…fire Caught him) stoop not thy spiritual splendour, And sacred-seeking eyes to our desire, But mould one memory yet, divinely tender, Of earth, and leave thy mantle, and thy lyre, A double portion of thy spirit to render, That yet the banner may fling out on high, And yet the lyre teach freemen how to die!

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1899 · PDF PAGE 185

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…riend - Whose love were silence, whose affection knows To press my hand and close my dying eyes There, at the endless end. I am alone on earth, and from the skies Sometimes I seem so far—and yet, thy kiss Re-quickens Hope ; through zther’s emptiness Thou guidest me to touch the Hand of Him who Is Thou hadst a torch to lume my lips to song ; Thou hast a cooler fountain for my thirst, Lest my young love should work thy fame a wrong ; So the grape’s veins in purple ardour burst, And opiates in bloomless gardens throng, And Life, a moon, wanes fast…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 42

Oracles

…eep Far in the arms of a god of snow. Conquer the world, that her throne may keep More of its pride, and its secret woe Flow through all earth as the rivers flow. Which of the gods is like thee, our queen ? Venus Callipyge, nameless, nude, Thou with the knowledge of all indued, Secrets of life and the dreams that mean Loves that are not, as are mortals’, hued All rose and lily, but linger unseen, Passion-flowers purpled, garlands of green !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 64

Orpheus

…answer of our dancing throng. Joy, sleep, peace, laughter, thought, remembrance, came Even at our prelude, a death-quickening flame, And earth rejoiced throughout to hear Demeter’s name. We come, in bass deep-swelling, rocks and caves, A hollow roar across the golden waves Hidden in islands set deep in the untravelled sea. Across the corn from storm-cleft mountain-sides Our voice peals, like the thunder of the tides, Into the darkling hills that fringe Eternity. Dire and divine our womb unfruitful bears Deep music darker than tempestuous airs W…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 16

The Holy Books

…lk that not know me as yet. 18. These are dead, these fellows ; they feel not. We are not for the poor and for the sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched and the weak: this …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 143

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ο. So for others; The remaining 12 Keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tablets, the order of the elements being Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Pronounce Elemental language (also called Angelic 0r Enochian) by inserting the next following Hebrew vowel between consonants, e.g. c after b (bEth), i after g (gImel), a after (:1, etc. 101

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