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1907 · PDF PAGE 16

Rosa Coeli

…ose. O wide is the world, wide, wide ! Be sure that I was lost, Lost, lost for ever ; are there palimpsests Wherein a man might study at great cost His journey thence ? O Rose of gramarye, My riddle you shall ree. My head was happy, laid betwixt your breasts. XII NOTHER time I passed the holy well And plunged (as Phoebus in the western ocean) Into a forest of fine flame that crowned The holy hill ; all was enchaunted ground, The flames like scented tendrils of a vine Or sensitive rays that spell Strange curves to match their master-god’s emotio…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 128

The Winged Beetle

…spears ! Of meteors war and blaze ; but I am I, Horus himself, the torrent of the sky Aflame—I sweep the stormy seas of air Towards that great globe that hangs so golden fair. I match, &c.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

Book 4 (Part II)

CHAPTER V THE HOLY OIL THE Holy Oil is the Aspiration of the Magician; it is that which consecrates him to the performance of the Great Work; and such is its efficacy that it also consecrates all the furniture of the Temple and the instruments thereof. It is also the grace or chrism ; for this aspiration is not ambition ; it is a quality bestowed from above. For this reason the Magician will anoint first the top of his head before proceeding to consecrate the lower centres in their turn. This oil is of a pure golden colour; and when placed upon…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 151

Book 4 (Part II)

…nd of pure gold, on the front of which stand three pentagrams, and on the back a hexagram. The central pentagram contains a diamond or a great opal; the other three symbols contain the Tau. Around this Crown is twined the golden Uraeus serpent, with erect head and expanded hood. Under the Crown is a crimson cap of maintenance, which falls to the shoulders. Instead of this, the Ateph Crown of Thoth is sometimes worn; for Thoth is the God of Truth, of Wisdom, and the Teacher of Magick. The Ateph Crown has two ram's horns, showing energy, dominion…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 23

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…hat are unworthy , more than I even , of the knowledge and love of night . And , sore distressed , I listened for her in the time of the great stillness , and was not disappointed . She came to me as a prophet to a stricken people , And her voice I heard vibrating from one wall of the darkness to the other , Crying “I am, I am .”

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1906 · PDF PAGE 204

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…of Boundless Love, That this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. He might have been so great! He missed Heaven! ‘Think kindly of him! 169. Correctly rhymes.41—Such lines, how- ever noble in sentiment, as: ‘‘A bas les Anglais! The Irish up!” will not be admitted to the competition, Irish is accented on the penultimate—bad cess to the bloody Saxons that made it so! The same with Tarshish (see Browning, Pippa Passes, I1., in the long:speech of Blu- phocks) and many others. 173. The liar Copleston.4…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 29

The Holy Books

…: though with fire and sword it be burnt down and shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double— wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust and worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globéd priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and bless- ing no longer be poured to the Hawk-headed myst…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 51

The Winged Beetle

…ot All that without him that he had left in And in himself All he had taken out thereof, a mocking elf ! XXII But now that all was gone, great Pan appeared. Him then I strove to woo, to win Kissing his curled lips, playing with his beard, Setting his brain a-shake, a-spin, By that strong wand, and muttering of the weird That only I Knew of all souls alive or dead beneath the sky. XXIII So still I conquered, and the vision passed. Yet still was beaten for I knew Myself was He, Himself, the first and last ; And as an unicorn drinks dew

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1912 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…he geomantic figure Populus, Above and below them are the symbols 0 and "I; for the Decan. Over-careful in small things at the expense of great: ”Penny wise and pound foolish ": gain of ready money in small sums; mean; avaricious; industrious; cultivation of land; hoarding, lacking in enterprise. Hod of( ?הSkill: prudence: cunning). Therein rule those mighty Angels?היאכאand?לאחהג XXV THE LORD OF MATERIAL GAIN Nine of Pan/ades A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, holding a rose branch with nine white roses; each of which touches a Pentacle. The Pentac…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…he geomantic figure Populus, Above and below them are the symbols 0 and "I; for the Decan. Over-careful in small things at the expense of great: ”Penny wise and pound foolish ": gain of ready money in small sums; mean; avaricious; industrious; cultivation of land; hoarding, lacking in enterprise. Hod of( ?הSkill: prudence: cunning). Therein rule those mighty Angels?היאכאand?לאחהג XXV THE LORD OF MATERIAL GAIN Nine of Pan/ades A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, holding a rose branch with nine white roses; each of which touches a Pentacle. The Pentac…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 12

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ct of thorny thigh, And the word of madness and mystery, O Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan, Tama man: Doas thou wilt, as a great god can, O Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Iam awake In the grip of the snake. The eagle slashes with beak and claw;

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1907 · PDF PAGE 124

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…elpmeet of the silent home ! Shall who sings Art not worship womanhood ? There is depth of calm beneath the sea’s fine foam ; Behind the great there is ever found the good. Honour and glory to the sacred house And ark of the covenant of holy trust, The unseen mother and the secret spouse Ever availing in the sorrow and dust That aye avenge the artist’s victory won, That cover up his monuments of fame, That twist his sight, once steadfast on the sun, To the fear folded in the robes of shame :— Lest he, to all the world plain victor, find Himself…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 245

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ndary, and in its limitation as applied to volition, an inconceiv- able idea. H. Spencer, of. czt. This con- sideration alone should add great weight to the agnostic, and a fortiori to the Buddhist, position. 2 See H. Spencer, ‘* First Principles,” ‘‘ The Knowable,” for afairsummary of the facts under- lying this generalisation; which indeed he comes within an ace of making iin so many words. It may be observed that this law is nearly if not quite axiomatic, its contrary being enormously difficult if not impossible to formulate mentally. As to …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 80

Orpheus

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, Exulting also, now the sun is faded, | With joy of her supreme fertility And glowing masteries Of autumn summer-shaded, The golden fruit of all the blossoming sky. And now the watcher to the bright breasts blind Loses the seemly shape, the loud swift song; “Now the moon falls, and all the gold is gone, And round the storm-caught shape hard gusts of wind Blow, and her leaves are torn, a flyin…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 19

Rosa Mundi

… akin to thee, a shadow of thee ; And every tune evokes its musical Lord ; And every rhyme tingles and shakes in me The filaments of the great web of Love. O Rose all roses far above In the garden of God’s roses, Sorrowless, thornless, passionate Rose, that lies Full in the flood of its own sympathies And makes my life one tune that curls and closes On its own self delight ; A circle, never a line ! Safe from all wind, Secure in its own pleasure-house confined, Sure lord of its own rapture, deaf and blind To aught but its own mastery of song

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1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…HORSELEECH A FABLE Tria sunt insaturabilia, et quartum, quod nunquam dicit : Sufficit. Infernus, et os vulvae. . . . —Prov. xxx. 16. Tue Great White Spirit stretched Himself and yawned. He had done an honest six days’ work if ever a man did; yet in such physical training was He from His lengthy “cure” in that fashionable Spa Pralaya that he was not in the least fatigued. It was the Loi du Répos Hebdomadaire that had made Him throw down His tools. “ Anyway, the job’s finished!” He said, looking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assur…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…HORSELEECH A FABLE Tria sunt insaturabilia, et quartum, quod nunquam dicit : Sufficit. Infernus, et os vulvae. . . . —Prov. xxx. 16. Tue Great White Spirit stretched Himself and yawned. He had done an honest six days’ work if ever a man did; yet in such physical training was He from His lengthy “cure” in that fashionable Spa Pralaya that he was not in the least fatigued. It was the Loi du Répos Hebdomadaire that had made Him throw down His tools. “ Anyway, the job’s finished!” He said, looking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assur…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 28

Liber Al vel Legis

…: though with fire and sword it be burnt down and shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double— wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust and worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globéd priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and bless- ing no longer be poured to the Hawk-headed myst…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 64

Little Poems in Prose

…as you walk by the inns below the trees, make presents of them to poor stranger children that you may meet. You will see their eyes grow great out of all knowl- edge. At first they will not dare to accept; it will seem too good to be true; then their hands will fasten lively on the present, and they will dash off as cats do, who go far away to eat the morsel you have given them, having learned to distrust man. On a road, behind the pale of a large gar- den, at the end of which shone the whiteness of a pretty house bathing in the sun, was a

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1928 · PDF PAGE 158

Little Poems in Prose

…s matter for surprise in this.” “My dear boy, you know how horses and carriages frighten me; just now, as I was crossing the street in a great hurry, tip-toeing in the mud, across the moving chaos where Death arrives at a gallop from every side at once, my halo, in the course of a sharp move- ment, slipped from my hand into the mire of the street. I had not the courage to pick it up. I thought it less unpleasant to lose my decora- tions than to break my bones. And then I said to myself—’Every cloud has a silver lining; I shall now be able to wa…

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