1961 · PDF PAGE 15
Liber Aleph
…the testimony of History and literature as a great Scroll of Learning. But the Vellum of the Scroll is of Mans Skin, and its Ink of his Hearts Blood. k
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Collected Works (Vol. II)
…he bleeding flesh apart ! See ye all my hellish grin While the straining vitals smart. Never mind! Go in and win, Till you reach my gory heart ! While my heart’s soft pulse did go, Devils had it in their bands. Doctors keep it in a row, Now, on varnished wooden stands : And I really do not know If it is in different hands. SPOLIA OPIMA. | My home is set between two ivory towers, | Fresh with the fragrance of a thousand flowers. And the twin portals of a ruby door, Portcullissed with the pearls of India’s shore, Loosed with a smile and opened wi…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 98
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…t — move sinuous, lithe as a snake ; The cushats are cooing, the world is awake. Only one hour since you whispered the story out of your heart to my tremulous ear; Only one hour since the light of your eyes was the victor of violent sorrow and fear; Your lips were so set to the lips of me here. Surely the victory ripens to perfect conquest of every- thing set in our way. We must be free as our hearts are, and gather strength for our limbs for the heat of the fray: The battle is ours if you say me not nay. Fly with me far, where the ocean is bou…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 107
Book 4 (Part I)
…l, or whatever you may prefer to call it, is always present; but veiled or masked by the thoughts of the mind, just as one cannot hear a heart-beat in a noisy city. . Yes? . Then to obtain knowledgeof That, it is only necessaryto still all thoughts.
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1913 · PDF PAGE 101
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…d ware, Three hundred blades of steel are bare. Their threescore corporals stand steady. Five captains, all alert and ready, Watch, lion-heart, against surprise, As each man had an hundred eyes. [4 gain, the clash of steel. Then music played (joa and ORCHESTRA), growing ever softer. As it fades away, enter from the trees three men: a CHINESE armed witha scourge and a rope, a ved man, like an Aras, with a hammer and three nails, and a warrior chief, like a zuvu, with an assegat. They move somewhat furtively, and as if afraid. The CHINESE accosts…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 172
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
134 THE EQUINOX Oh! Woe to me whose soul’s wings are unfurled, Within my heart’s core ever shall be curled A little tendril softly that doth cling, Softly impearled, a thing from heaven hurled ; Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! A minstrel through a forest wayfaring Hath brought his love a shy and tender thing, A gentle bloom of the gods’ gardening. Oh! woe to me who have to tell this thing! The Rose doth sing : my song hath here its sting: Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! O Rose Unknown! I heard the secret Call Out of the da…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 101
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…d ware, Three hundred blades of steel are bare. Their threescore corporals stand steady. Five captains, all alert and ready, Watch, lion-heart, against surprise, As each man had an hundred eyes. [4 gain, the clash of steel. Then music played (joa and ORCHESTRA), growing ever softer. As it fades away, enter from the trees three men: a CHINESE armed witha scourge and a rope, a ved man, like an Aras, with a hammer and three nails, and a warrior chief, like a zuvu, with an assegat. They move somewhat furtively, and as if afraid. The CHINESE accosts…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 172
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
134 THE EQUINOX Oh! Woe to me whose soul’s wings are unfurled, Within my heart’s core ever shall be curled A little tendril softly that doth cling, Softly impearled, a thing from heaven hurled ; Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! A minstrel through a forest wayfaring Hath brought his love a shy and tender thing, A gentle bloom of the gods’ gardening. Oh! woe to me who have to tell this thing! The Rose doth sing : my song hath here its sting: Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! O Rose Unknown! I heard the secret Call Out of the da…
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1905 · PDF PAGE 163
Collected Works (Vol. I)
…A. Rest, sunny head! A little while to sleep, And then—perhaps the Mother in a dream May comfort you. A woman’s love is this To have one heart, an undivided love ; But Hers—division in the universe Makes multiple each part. Sweet Madeline, Believe me, She will come to maiden dreams, Bestow Her peace, and so direct the life That is not unto God unconsecrate For being dedicated unto love ! [#xzt MADELINE. Cora remains thinking. I was no bolder twenty years ago ! Time, Time, thou maker and destroyer both, Only in resurrection hast no part ! [ Broo…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 9
The Honourable Adulterers
…, riding ever to the stubborn east, . I came upon a shore whose ocean bent _ 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…
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1911 · PDF PAGE 249
The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)
THE RITE OF SOL ARIES. Brother Leo, the Law is made so that the wise may break it at their need. LEO. Brother Aries, in my heart is fidelity—fidelity— fidelity. ARIES. Brother Leo, a god has whispered in mine ear: it is folly—folly—folly. LEO. The sun will be obscured in a moment: and no pilgrims can come to.night. ARIES. Νο pilgrims can come to-night. LEO. There will be no more sacrifice. ARIES. There will be no more sacrifice. [SATAN—TYPHON, SCORPIO—APOPI-IIS, am! BESZ 6771'67' silent/y in ῤγσσεπίσπ. The [ig/zl grows maium/wil)! dimmer] ARIEs. Hai…
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1911 · PDF PAGE 249
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)
THE RITE OF SOL ARIES. Brother Leo, the Law is made so that the wise may break it at their need. LEO. Brother Aries, in my heart is fidelity—fidelity— fidelity. ARIES. Brother Leo, a god has whispered in mine ear: it is folly—folly—folly. LEO. The sun will be obscured in a moment: and no pilgrims can come to.night. ARIES. Νο pilgrims can come to-night. LEO. There will be no more sacrifice. ARIES. There will be no more sacrifice. [SATAN—TYPHON, SCORPIO—APOPI-IIS, am! BESZ 6771'67' silent/y in ῤγσσεπίσπ. The [ig/zl grows maium/wil)! dimmer] ARIEs. Hai…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 171
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
THE PROEM A MINSTREL, through a forest wayfaring, Feeling his heart stirred in him, seized his lyre, And tuned his strings, and so began to sing : Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! The sun uprose, and his song mounting higher, Reached to the summit of the Olympian hill, Filling the gods with new and strange desire To stain earth’s mire with their immortal fire : Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! He sang of blood, and how men mar and spill; He sang of love, and how men love and kill; He sang the world as never yet twas sung; He…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 171
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
THE PROEM A MINSTREL, through a forest wayfaring, Feeling his heart stirred in him, seized his lyre, And tuned his strings, and so began to sing : Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! The sun uprose, and his song mounting higher, Reached to the summit of the Olympian hill, Filling the gods with new and strange desire To stain earth’s mire with their immortal fire : Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! He sang of blood, and how men mar and spill; He sang of love, and how men love and kill; He sang the world as never yet twas sung; He…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 166
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… (With bloodshot eyes dull-glassed The screaming Malay staggers Through his village aghast). So blood wrenches its pain Sardonic through heart and brain. Every separate nerve Awake and alert, on a curve Whose asymptote’s name is “ In a hyperbolic “ for ever!” A bitten and burning snake Striking its venom within it, As if it might serve to slake The pain for the tithe of a minute. never ” Awake, for ever awake! Awake as. one never is > While sleep is a possible end, Awake in the void, the abyss Whose thirst is an echo of this That martyrs, world…
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1961 · PDF PAGE 132
Liber Aleph
…Verily, his is the Truth, and unto it did also Dionysus and Tahuti and Sri Krishna set the seal of their Witness. Cleanse herefore thine Heart, o my son, in the Waters of the Great Sea, and enkindle it with the Fire of the Holy Ghost. For his is His peculiar Work of Sanctification. n
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1907 · PDF PAGE 46
Collected Works (Vol. III)
…is no place for tears. Cold adamant disaster Is lord there, and I overlord. So flits out, like a sword Flashed through a duellist’s live heart, My thought ; in all the abodes of sense, The shrines of love and art, The adytum of omnipotence, I am supreme, through thee, sweet Angela ! For all the beauties of the universe, The glories hidden in the flower’s cup, All, all that wakes the soul to worship, verse, Ripe verse, all wines, all dreams that the soft God lifts up: All these are eidola, Mere phantom will 0’ the wisps, thy love the real ! Ther…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 9
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…ucifixion of Sedan, Thy thought the lightning,and thy word the thunder! See her supreme, kingly, republican, New France arisen, with her heart in sunder— Yet throned in Heaven on ever-burning wheels, Freedom resurgent, sealed with seven seals. The seal of Reason, made impregnable: The seal of Truth, immeasurably splendid : The seal of Brotherhood, man’s miracle: The seal of Peace, and Wisdom heaven-descended : The seal of Bitterness, cast down to Hell : The seal of Love, secure, not-to-be-rended : The seventh seal, Equality: that, broken, God s…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 145
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…, riding ever to the stubborn east, . I came upon a shore whose ocean bent _ 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…
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1905 · PDF PAGE 101
Oracles
…gly now ! Blood-spattered ebony eyelash and white brow ! Blood on my lips, and hair, and breast ! “ Thou fool ! ” A horrid torture in my heart—and then I licked my lips : the tigress tasted blood. My changèd features—wash them in the flood Of murder ! This is power over men And angels. I will lift the twisted rod, And make my power as the power of God ! I made my beauty as it was before. I learned strange secrets ; by my love and skill I bent creation to my wanded will. I tuned the stars, I bound the bitter shore Beyond the Pleiads : until the …
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