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1912 · PDF PAGE 143

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…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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1913 · PDF PAGE 399

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…rit of force? “He must come,” says the Catholic liturgy, “and it will be, as it were, a newcreation ; and He will change the face of the earth.” “To laugh at philosophy is already to philosophize,” said Pascal, referring to that sceptical and incredulous philosophy which does not recognize faith. And if there existed a faith which trampled science underfoot, we should not say that to laugh at such a faith would be a true act of religion, for religion, which is all charity, does not tolerate mockery; but one would be right in blaming this love f…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 399

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…rit of force? “He must come,” says the Catholic liturgy, “and it will be, as it were, a newcreation ; and He will change the face of the earth.” “To laugh at philosophy is already to philosophize,” said Pascal, referring to that sceptical and incredulous philosophy which does not recognize faith. And if there existed a faith which trampled science underfoot, we should not say that to laugh at such a faith would be a true act of religion, for religion, which is all charity, does not tolerate mockery; but one would be right in blaming this love f…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 9

The Book of Thoth

…oscere (George Cecil Jones) as host or guest of one of these Adepts. He continued these studies alone during his first Voyage around the earth in search of the Hidden Wisdom. On 8th, 9th and 10th April, 1904 e.v., he received the Book of the Law. Chosen bv the Masters to carry out Their sublime plan, he began to prepare the way for the establishment of the New Aeon, as They instructed him. (See The Equinox of the Gods for a very full and de‐ tailed account of this, the most important event in his career). He accordingly published the previously…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 168

Liber Aleph

… is Maim, the Water that conformeth itself perfectly with its Vessel, that seeketh constantly its Level, that penetrateth and dissolveth Earth, that resisteth Pressure maugre its Adaptability, that being heated is the Force to drive great Engines, and being frozen breaketh the Mountains in Pieces. O my Son, seek well to know! l

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1905 · PDF PAGE 44

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…on to Death ! PRIEST SPEAKS. Duy 1V. Vale VET) THE ( Proccdee to. LAY them together for the sake of Love Within a little plot of piteous earth, When life’s last flower is faded in the sun. Lay them together in the tender ground That summer showers may shed a trembling lear, And summer breezes whisper melodies Of pity. Lay them there, and when the sky Opens a lingering eyelash of deep cloud, And the sea sparkles out from under it To kiss the earth into awakening From the dream-slumbers that its fancies weave— ‘ancies Of starlight on the lucent s…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 193

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…above, Your passion’s fiercest flakes shall catch new gold, The sun of an inmeasurable love More beautiful shall touch the chaos cold Of earth that is grown old. Then, shameful sisterhood of earth’s disdain, Your lips shall speak your hearts, and understand ; Your lovers shall assuage the amorous pain With spiritual lips more keen and bland, And ye shall take God’s hand. THE NAMELESS QUEST.! Tue king was silent. In the blazoned hall Shadows, more mute than at a funeral True mourners, waited, waited in gloom ; Waited to hear what child was in th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 136

Ambergris

…om Mist-like of the moon’s light, A slumberous haze of quietude Shed o’er the hardy limbs, and lustihood, And boldness, and great might. Earth knows her daring daughter, and the sea Breaks into million-folded mystery Of flower-like flashes in the pale moonrise,

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1912 · PDF PAGE 116

Mortadello

100 MORTADELLO My passion’s lime in love and crime ; I hiss, the snake Of the mad earth, I writhe in mirth, I fix my fangs In the red eye of the Most High, the orb that hangs So high, so fierce—my poisons pierce, my cold gray lips Climb, cling, and close, devour the rose in black eclipse. MORTADELLO. Ah ! what a dance and what a song ! ALESSANDRO. These desert girls Show all their hideously hot hearts in the whirls That make us drunk. MORTADELLO. Oh ! let us drink ! ZELINA. Pass round the wine ! I have a fear, a fret. MORTADELLO. O damnably div…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 273

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…tion is given. Vv OF THE OFFICE OF THE COLLECTS, WHICH ARE ELEVEN IN NUMBER (THE SUN) Tue Deacon. Lord visible and sensible of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpetual radiance hearten us to continual labour and en- joyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sus- tenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. THE PEopLe. …

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1926 · PDF PAGE 15

Liber Al vel Legis

…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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1930 · PDF PAGE 26

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…herhood. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. i. The Order of the Star called S. S. is, in respect of its existence upon the Earth, an organised body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qualities here enumerated. They exist in their own Truth, which is both universal and unique. i. The Name of The Order and those of its three divisions are not disclosed to the profane. Certain swindlers hâve recently stolen the initiais A A.-, in order to profit by its réputation. 230 -

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1905 · PDF PAGE 93

Oracles

…ope of things ; Passion and pleasure and pain have stung me, and lost their stings. Only abides there a hollow, void as the heart of the earth. Echo may find it and follow, dead from the day of her birth. Life, of itself not insatiate ; death, not presuming to be ; Share me intense and emaciate, waste me, are nothing to me. Still in the desolate place, still in the bosom that was Even as a veil for thy face, thy face in a breathed-on glass, Hangs there a vulture, and tears with a beak of iron and fire. I know not his name, for he wears no feath…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 218

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…, And it endeth never. And this is the mystical stranger, The subtle Arcadian God That lurks as for sorrow and danger, Yet rules all the earth with his rod. Abiding in spirit and sense Through the manifold changes of man, This soul is alone and intense And one—He is Pan. More subtle than mass as ye deem it He abides in the strife that is dust. Than spirit more keen as ye dream it, He is laughter and loathing and lust. He is all. Nature’s agonies scream It ; Her joys quire it clear ; in the must Of the vat is His shape in the steam. It Is Fear, …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 103

Orpheus

…hty breast of foam Thalassian, Bear on my bosom, jutting plenilune, Maiden, the fadeless Rose of the Creation ! The whole flower-life of earth and sky and sea From me was born, and shall return to me! I am: for men and beings passionate, For mine own self calm as the river-cleaving Lotus-borne lord of Silence: I create Or discreate, both in my bosom heaving: My lightest look is mother of a Fate: My fingers sapphire-ringed with sky are weaving Ever new flowers and lawns of life, designed Nobler and newer in mine olden mind. Iam: I am not, but al…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 34

Clouds Without Water

VITI One writes, and all is easy. Drop the pen, And Paradise is blotted out ! The earth, Fair as it seemed, becomes a hideous den, And all life’s promises of little worth. Like to a mother whose one child is dead I wander, aching for the sight, the sound, The touch — familiar, now inhibited. The child is under ground — is under ground— The child is under ground-— who comforts her ? The bastard fool her priest ? The useless clod Her husband? The accursed murderer Her God ? — if so be that she hath a God. Foul curses from my life’s envenomed floo…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 72

Clouds Without Water

… beneath the flamy wing So that the héart of heaven breaks and bleeds. That poisoned shaft fed with corrupting germs Hath stricken us to earth : the wound corrodes, Breeding within us all its noisome worms, All the black larvae of the accurst abodes : — The virgin of our reed-shrill ecstasies Raped by the stinking satyr of disease! -— 18— ! Il! I who have loved you — shall I love you now, Your teeth dropt out, your fair flesh fallen away, The Crown of Venus on your itching brow, The coppery flush, the leprous scurf of grey? The god that rots th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 27

Mortadello

OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 9 She has heaven’s voice whose silence drowns earth’s crazy cries— MORTADELLO. You are nervous, sweetheart, MAGDALENA. When she frowns, my spirit dies. MORTADELLO. Then, before God, I swear it, she shall drink of steel ! I go now to give order. Be at peace. MAGDALENA. I will. And so good night. My hand is yours to bend and kiss. Let its blood pulse what breast allures to burning bliss. I would—I would—I know not what I would. But you Divine it. MORTADELLO. Ah ! MAGDALENA. The night is hot, no wind beats through The hushe…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 73

Mortadello

…ache with impotence. MONICA. Where is she ? LUCREZIA. Know you not ? MONICA. For the sake of God ! LUCREZIA. Offence Alike to Heaven and Earth, she is now the universe To Mortadello ! MONICA. Ha ! LUCREZIA. Vow changed for vow ! MONICA. My curse. Changed for your curse ! Disdain swells every nerve and vein. Oh ! we shall laugh again when she lies stark. LUCREZIA. My brain Throbs with high fever to imagine it. MONICA. Ah, go ! I hold the lever, lure her to her overthrow I must be alone. Device must dovetail with device.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 159

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…or plan That I am worse or cowardlier than He , I openly defy Prout ( who has entered unobserved ). Arrest that man ! I stand for God on earth ; I am His law , And faithfully will discharge my sacred trust . His hand was raised to strike you when He saw Me here with mine uplifted — so I must . That you have been an enemy to Christ ; That you have no religion or belief ; That you may even be an anarchist , All that I waive .-- For me you are a thief ; An outcast from society , a blot , 140

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