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1907 · PDF PAGE 141

The Star in the West

…ove baulked turning to the foulest lust . He is passionately in love with her , lustfully in love ; all the exuberance of his youth runs fire in his veins ; he sees in the object of his adoration - as Percy saw in Angela — the only waters that would quench his flaming desire . He knows not Cora to be his mother ; Cora Vavasour of the halls , and himself her bastard son . My wife ! O Cora , I have loved you so ! My heart is like a fountain of the sea . I burn , I tremble ; in my veins there swims A torrid ecstasy of madness . Ah ! Ah , God ! I k…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e lights went out; the black god gathered himself together; his mighty form outran the limits of space. He gathered himself in force and fire; he concentrated himself ; as a black cloud he wrapped her round—body and soul. He ate her up with his first kiss; his arms crushed her into his mouth as a boy might crush some golden grape; the majesty of his passion clove her with white-hot steel; her life rushed headlong down the steeps of annihilation. Yet in her rose the awful dawn of a new life, vast and 189

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1909 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e lights went out; the black god gathered himself together; his mighty form outran the limits of space. He gathered himself in force and fire; he concentrated himself ; as a black cloud he wrapped her round—body and soul. He ate her up with his first kiss; his arms crushed her into his mouth as a boy might crush some golden grape; the majesty of his passion clove her with white-hot steel; her life rushed headlong down the steeps of annihilation. Yet in her rose the awful dawn of a new life, vast and 189

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1919 · PDF PAGE 92

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…s certain. O Lord, be my helper, and bring me to the bliss of the Beloved! 30. I came to the house of the Beloved, and the wine was like fire that flieth with green wings through the world of waters. 31. I felt the red lips of nature and the black lips of per- fection. Like sisters they fondled me their little brother; they decked me out as a bride; they mounted me for Thy bridal chamber. 32. They fled away at Thy coming; I was alone before Thee. 33. I trembled at Thy coming, O my God, for Thy mes- senger was more terrible than the Death-star. …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 131

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…g. - B® Summer. ” y® Autumn, » 66 Winter. Semichorus y® The Years. » 6° The Lustres. Spint In harmony Water | developing Earth the five- Fire fold idea. Semichorus «© The Centuries. a’ Centuries 87 Mahakalpas y’ Manwantaras 5? Eternity Semichorus | Str, y Orpheus Ant. y Death— (Suppressed antistrophe, Death being silent. His reply is really given in Books II., III., IV.) Parabasis : The Poet. Epode : Nature. BOOK II. Orpheus laments his wife—‘‘ Come back, come back, come back, Eurydice.” “ Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power.” Compla…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 357

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…s thou seest, thou canst not hear. To hear and see, this is the second stage. This is an obscure verse. It implies that the qualities of fire and Spirit commingle to reach the second stage. There is evidently a verse missing, or rather omitted, as may be understood by the row of dots; this presumably refers to the third stage. This third stage may be found by the discern- ing in Liber 831. 74. When the Disciple sees and hears, and when he smells and tastes, eyes closed, ears shut, with mouth and nostrils stopped; when the four senses blend and …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 525

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…STERIES we find traces of them in Hesiod, who expressly forbids that linen, stained by a pollution of any sort, should be dried before a fire. Persons who are obsessed by phantoms are usually exalted by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. Fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spirit, born from the excesses of the spirit and the disorders of the body. These wandering media may be attracted by certain degenerates who are fatally sympathetic to them, and who lend them at …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 525

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…STERIES we find traces of them in Hesiod, who expressly forbids that linen, stained by a pollution of any sort, should be dried before a fire. Persons who are obsessed by phantoms are usually exalted by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. Fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spirit, born from the excesses of the spirit and the disorders of the body. These wandering media may be attracted by certain degenerates who are fatally sympathetic to them, and who lend them at …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 64

The Goetia

…y Angels above the fixed stars : Ophanim. To be assisting and aiding Thy servant: Tophiel. That I may command all spirits of air, water, fire, earth, and hell: Masloth. So that it may tend unto Thy glory and unto the good of man. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer: Elohim. God with us, God be always present with us: Binah. Strengthen us and support us, both now and for ever: Aralim. In these our undertakings, which we perform but as instru- ments in Thy hands: Zabbathi (should be Shabbathii). In the hands of Thee, the great G…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 118

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ve. “ The wingéd words with which my song would pierce Into the heights of love’s rare universe _ Are chains of lead about its flight of fire, I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire. ” I noticed, in fact, that our physical selves seemed to be acting as projections of our thought. We were both breathing rapidly and deeply. Our faces were flushed, suffused with the sunlight splendour of our bloods that beat time to the waltz of our love. | Waltz? No, it was something wilder than a waltz. The Mazurka, perhaps. No, there was something still more savag…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 201

Moonchild

…ernal stress, Extremes that cancel out in Nothingness. Light thrills through Light, the spindle of desire, Cross upon Cross of elemental Fire; Life circles Life, the Rose all flowers above, And in their intermarriage they are Love. Lo! on each spear of Splendour burns a world Revolving, whirling, crying aloud; and curled About each cosmos, bounding in its course, The sacred Snake, the father of its force, Energized, energizing, self-sustained, Man-hearted, Eagle-pinioned, Lion-maned, Exulting in its splendour as it lashes

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1909 · PDF PAGE 41

777

…ale image shows 2 some aspect of Chokmah Darkness 8°= 3° Magister Templi \ Almost any female image shows 3 some aspect of Binah Hail and Fire . = 49 Adeptus Exemptus | 3 ( : A mighty crowned and enthroned 4 | 4 Boils. . . .{ 6°= 5° Adeptus Major . fo) : A mighty warrior in his chariot, 5 | mo | armed and crowned Murrain . 5°= 6° Adeptus Minor. . & . A majestic king, a child, a cru- 6 cified god Flies. . . .| 4°= 7 Philosophus. . . f . A beautiful naked woman . 7 Lice . 3°= 8° Practicus. bs An Hermaphrodite 8 a) Frogs a°= 9" Theoricus . . . } 6 …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 490

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…°. The four imponderable fluids are nothing but the diverse manifestations of one same universal agent, which is light. 2°. Light is the fire which serves for the Great Work under the form of electricity. 3°. The human will directs the vital light by means of the nervous system. In our days this is called Magnetism. 4°. The secret agent of the Great Work, the Azoth of the sages, the living and life-giving gold of the philosophers, the universal metallic productive agent, is MAGNETIZED ELECTRICITY." The alliance of these two words still does not…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 490

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…°. The four imponderable fluids are nothing but the diverse manifestations of one same universal agent, which is light. 2°. Light is the fire which serves for the Great Work under the form of electricity. 3°. The human will directs the vital light by means of the nervous system. In our days this is called Magnetism. 4°. The secret agent of the Great Work, the Azoth of the sages, the living and life-giving gold of the philosophers, the universal metallic productive agent, is MAGNETIZED ELECTRICITY." The alliance of these two words still does not…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 67

The Star in the West

…ereon she stood , the loftiest of three fangs Thrust up by magic , in the direst pangs Of Earth , when Earth was yet a whirling cloud Of fire and adamant , a ceaseless crowd Of rushing atoms roaring into space , Driven by demons from before the face . ? So beautiful was she , that “ the sun forgot his chariot , nor would set " ; and in this mystic hour , the marriage of Day and Night , she prayed fervently to Aphrodite , fond goddess of lovers , and there amidst the thunder -smitten stone , beautiful and piteous , she waited , longing for that …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 15

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

… and 3x 1 =1 isa lie; though, sceptically, both statements may be false or unintelli- gible. Practically, Franklin’s method of obtaining fire from heaven is better than that of Prometheus or Elijah. I am now writing by the light that Franklin’s discovery enabled men to use. Practically, “I concentrated my mind upon a white radiant triangle in whose centre was a shining eye, for 22 minutes and 10 seconds, my attention wandering 45 times” is a scientific and valuable statement. ‘I prayed fervently to the Lord for the space of many days ” means an…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 28

The Vision and the Voice

…h me in the chariot. It was an Angel of golden hair and golden skin, whose eyes were bluer than the sea, whose mouth was redder than the fire, whose breath was ambrosial air. Finer than a spider’s web were her robes. And they were of the seven colours. All this I saw; and then the hidden voice went on low and sweet: Come away! The price of the journey is little, though its name be death. Thou shalt die to all that thou fearest and hopest and hatest and lovest and thinkest and art. Yea! thou shalt die, even as thou must die. For all that thou ha…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 132

The Scented Garden

…pass the crude expe- dients of the Kama Soutra. 1. The Spider’s Legs. Tickle the penis with fingers, lips, tongue, and eyelashes. 2. The Fire-drill. With flat palms rub the penis vigorously in a di- rection perpendicular to its axis. The tip of the pe- nis is held firmly in the mouth. 3. The Mouse-trap. Nibble and kiss the penis all over, like a mouse at a piece of cheese. Suddenly nip hard on to it and finish, like the closing of the trap. 4. Les affaires sont les affaires. Swallow the penis whole, rocking the head fu- riously backwards and fo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nvey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra- Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat! 12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. 13. But not now. 14. Ye shall see that hour, o blesséd Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine of his desire! 15. Ye shall be sad thereof. 16. Deem…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nvey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra- Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat! 12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. 13. But not now. 14. Ye shall see that hour, o blesséd Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine of his desire! 15. Ye shall be sad thereof. 16. Deem…

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