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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…aden the winds of March with roses. Groans of travail announce the babe to be. Now the waves of the pool are stirred; the ocean Labours; Earth is awake; a murmured motion Marks the end of the tragic theme. Behold How the garden of Pan with subtle laughter Shakes, how Bacchus and Ceres, leaping after, Link extravagant limbs of rose and gold ! [Zn silence, lastly, a great Beetle emerges from the pool, holding 72

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…the old forgetfulness, ere I Was risen to life’s surface, virgin-pure To tinge my soul with the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we, being dead, shall lose each other never! (111) I turn to mortal love ; imagining Hath made a world that I may wander in; Where Love sits crowned, a blind and wingéd t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…aden the winds of March with roses. Groans of travail announce the babe to be. Now the waves of the pool are stirred; the ocean Labours; Earth is awake; a murmured motion Marks the end of the tragic theme. Behold How the garden of Pan with subtle laughter Shakes, how Bacchus and Ceres, leaping after, Link extravagant limbs of rose and gold ! [Zn silence, lastly, a great Beetle emerges from the pool, holding 72

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…the old forgetfulness, ere I Was risen to life’s surface, virgin-pure To tinge my soul with the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we, being dead, shall lose each other never! (111) I turn to mortal love ; imagining Hath made a world that I may wander in; Where Love sits crowned, a blind and wingéd t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 373

Magick Without Tears

…olts under his arm-La Terre, and so what? La Terre to him is indeed the mother of all men, sole source of our essential nourishment, the earth to which we are all bound in chains by our inexorable bodies, our ineluctable need of life-and death. Sublime the thesis? What does he make of it? Theme No. I in the first chapter: rural love. How exquisite, how delicate, first flush of dawn upon the glowing meadows! The young man who is courting is not idle, either; he serves great Nature in yet other ways. He is taking a prize cow to be "served": on hi…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 96

The Sword of Song

… he is a vile m an and a losel of little worth or worship ; a dog, an unclean swine, a worm of filfth, a festering sore in the vitals of earth: such an one is liar and murderer, debauched, drunken, sexless and spatulate ; an ape-droppi ng, a lousy, flat-backed knave: from such an one keep y e well away ! Use hath he little : ornam ent maketh he nothing : let him be cast out on the dunghills bey ond 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 fro…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 6

Jezebel

… city gleams afar ; I see Samarina’s white walls on high ; The mountains echo back to me The vengeful murmur of the sky ; All heaven and earth on me attend To prophesy the tyrant’s end. The gates are close because of night Whose heavy breath infects the air ; The dog-star gleams, a devilish light : I thought I saw behind me glare The eyes of fiends. I thought I heard An evil laugh, a mocking word. The gates swing open at the Name, Without a warder roused from sleep ; I pass, with face of burning flame, That is not quenched, although I weep. (Fo…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 128

The Book of Thoth

…is my form. And this is the reason of existence, that in this dance which is delight, there must be both the god and the adept. Also the earth herself is a saint; and the sun and the moon dance upon her, torturing her with delight.”

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1909 · PDF PAGE 33

The Holy Books

…ss before all men! 45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see and strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit. ;} 46. I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: i the Eighties cower before me, and are abased. I will bring you to victory and joy: I will be at your arms in battle and ye shall delight to slay. Success is your proof; cour- age is your ardour; go on, go on, in my strength; and ye shall turn not b…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…holy spot under the skies Kept sacred from the screaming herd : there lies The silent singer, and the dreamer asleep, Calm in the mother-earth, and sunken deep From all the toil of the world and the heat of day, Buried and quite forgotten ; hidden away From jarring strife, the myriad tongues that shout Their petty shibboleths of faith and doubt. One truth, one knowledge, and one thing shall save: The cool, dark temple of the silent grave. One knowledge and one truth: one thing alone Shall yield the calm man seeks— the upright stone. One life, o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 214

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… cloudy, the skies no more are blue, And grayness reigning solitary makes music Drearily on the wind-harp. The dripping rain Soddens the earth, and the stones lie thick and wet Among the leaves ; and the trees wave naked arms In despair to the sky. The light is quickly dying, And there is no more day ; the dull red sun, A sore and aching eye in a face of gray, Droops down to slumber. All the world seems dead. Rose! Rose! Where art thou? Omy Rose! my Rose! My secret Rose! Art lost among the gray? There is no voice in the silence; in the woods Th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…holy spot under the skies Kept sacred from the screaming herd : there lies The silent singer, and the dreamer asleep, Calm in the mother-earth, and sunken deep From all the toil of the world and the heat of day, Buried and quite forgotten ; hidden away From jarring strife, the myriad tongues that shout Their petty shibboleths of faith and doubt. One truth, one knowledge, and one thing shall save: The cool, dark temple of the silent grave. One knowledge and one truth: one thing alone Shall yield the calm man seeks— the upright stone. One life, o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 214

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… cloudy, the skies no more are blue, And grayness reigning solitary makes music Drearily on the wind-harp. The dripping rain Soddens the earth, and the stones lie thick and wet Among the leaves ; and the trees wave naked arms In despair to the sky. The light is quickly dying, And there is no more day ; the dull red sun, A sore and aching eye in a face of gray, Droops down to slumber. All the world seems dead. Rose! Rose! Where art thou? Omy Rose! my Rose! My secret Rose! Art lost among the gray? There is no voice in the silence; in the woods Th…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 23

Jephthah

…y air; When God was very gracious to all folk, And lifted from us the Philistian yoke, And all the iron power of Edom broke, And all the Earth was fair! Now, seeing that we are sinners, wilt not thou Relent thy hateful brow, And bend on us a forehead full of peace, And bid thine anger cease, And speak sweet words most comfortable, and lose The bitter memory of the wrong long dead And be the lord and prince we gladly choose And crown the mercy of thy royal head, And be the chief, and rule upon thy kin, And be not wroth for sin? For surely in the…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 32

Liber Al vel Legis

…ss before all men! 45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see and strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit. ;} 46. I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: i the Eighties cower before me, and are abased. I will bring you to victory and joy: I will be at your arms in battle and ye shall delight to slay. Success is your proof; cour- age is your ardour; go on, go on, in my strength; and ye shall turn not b…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 105

Liber Aleph

… thee, making easy the Way of Analysis, so that thou comest to learn thyself of what Elements thou art compact. Lastly, of the Nature of Earth are the direct Hypnotics, which operate by Repose, and restore thy Strength by laying thee as a Child in the Arms of the Great Mother, I say rather of Her material and physiological Vicegerent. c

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…st thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I fall in swoon unstained by earth’s gray mire, Being wrapped about in a sheet of scarlet flame. Lo! through the fire the mantram comes to me, Shouted by the world in chorus, and I lie In utter rapture; the virginity Of the inmost Light, that knows not how to die. Oh, cast thy mantle over me! I am taken By the goddess! Sprinkle water on my head, Lest I in rapture care not to awaken, Knowing the utter glory of the dead. Oh! I am back, wet-…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…st thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I fall in swoon unstained by earth’s gray mire, Being wrapped about in a sheet of scarlet flame. Lo! through the fire the mantram comes to me, Shouted by the world in chorus, and I lie In utter rapture; the virginity Of the inmost Light, that knows not how to die. Oh, cast thy mantle over me! I am taken By the goddess! Sprinkle water on my head, Lest I in rapture care not to awaken, Knowing the utter glory of the dead. Oh! I am back, wet-…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 25

Clouds Without Water

…a’s kiss. VII AMfine. ’Tis impossible, but so it is. My mouth is Lola’s and my Lola’s mine When in the trance, the death we call a kiss, Earth is done down, and the immanent divine Exists! Impossible! no mortal yet Suffered such bliss from the all-envious gods ; Whence we may guess we are immortal, set From the beginning over the periods Of ages, set on thrones of jasper and pearl, Wreathed with the lilies of Eternity, While on our brows the starry clusters curl Like flashes from the sunkissed jewelry, Dew on the flowers our garlands. Ay! you a…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

Clouds Without Water

…hers, simply having found each other. Were we to part for ever, breast from breast, Now, even now, there would not be another In all the earth that should not envy aright With plenty cause our short-lived happiness. No life can hold one half-an-hour’s delight Such as we had — this morning! Why then, bless, Biess all that lives and moves and hath its being ! Bless all the Gods, without omitting one! Bless all the company of heaven, agreeing To veil their fires to our stupendous sun! Bless all the lesser glories that excite In the great gladness …

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