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1937 · PDF PAGE 1

Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War

…HOU WILT shall be the whole of the Law. Franco is a common murderer and pirate: should swing in chains at Execution Dock. Mussolini, the secret assassin, possibly worse. Hitler may prove a “prophet”; time will judge. Love is the law, love under will.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 176

Oracles

…asleep in his fastness, Or a warrior leant on his spear, The hill stands up in the vastness, And the stars grow strangely near ; For the secret of life and its gladness Are hidden in strength that distils A potion of madness from berries of sadness Grown wild in the hills. Though the earth be disparted and rended, Thus only the great peaks change That their image is moulded and bended Into all that a fancy may range ; And the silence my song could refigure To the note of a bird did I will, Of glory or rigour, of passion or vigour— The change we…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 238

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…orld. Thou formless sense of gloom and terror! Thou Upas,! new tree of life—by sinister Cherubim with averted faces kept ! Nay! This one secret I suspect, and gloat Over the solemn purport of the dream With subtle shuddering of joy,—and that Keener delight, a sense of deadly fear ! This secret : Thou art darkness in Thyself, and evil wrapped in light, and ugliness Vested in beauty! Therefore is my love No petty passion like these country-folk’s : No fertile glory (as the Love of God) : But vast and barren as the winter sea, Holding I know not w…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 42

Tannhäuser

…ee : No man can look upon the face of God ! Yet Moses looked upon His hinder parts. And I —yes, goddess ! in this passionate Life in our secret mountain, well I know Thy beauty, and Thy love, (although they be Infinite, far beyond the mortal mind, Body, or soul to touch, to comprehend. And dwell in) that the utter intimate Knowledge of Thee, if once I ravelled out Thy secret, laid Thee naked to the bone— Nay, to the marrow ! were to come, aware. Face to face full with deity itself And this I strive at ! Therefore is my love Wholly in tune with …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 165

The Law is for All

… John,” The Equinox 1(1) (1909).] 38. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Turn, Of Khephra and of Ahathoor. I am thy Theban, O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour, O …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…or still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Tum, Of Khephra and of Ahathoor. Iam thy Theban, O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu ! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour, O N…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…or still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Tum, Of Khephra and of Ahathoor. Iam thy Theban, O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu ! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour, O N…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 149

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…l of the precipice! Master the cornice, gain the breach, And learn what next the ridge can teach! Yet—not the ridge itself may speak The secret of the final peak. All ridges join at least. Admitted, O thou astute and subtle-witted | Yet one—loose, jagged, clad in mist! Another—firm, smooth, loved and kissed By the soft sun! Our order hath This secret of the solar path, Even as our Lord the Beast hath won The mystic Number of the Sun. These secrets are too high for me. Nay, little brother! Come and see! Neither by faith nor fear nor awe Approach…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 149

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…l of the precipice! Master the cornice, gain the breach, And learn what next the ridge can teach! Yet—not the ridge itself may speak The secret of the final peak. All ridges join at least. Admitted, O thou astute and subtle-witted | Yet one—loose, jagged, clad in mist! Another—firm, smooth, loved and kissed By the soft sun! Our order hath This secret of the solar path, Even as our Lord the Beast hath won The mystic Number of the Sun. These secrets are too high for me. Nay, little brother! Come and see! Neither by faith nor fear nor awe Approach…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 399

Magick Without Tears

366 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS ineffably delicious secret, of a moonlight revel of Pan with his retinue of Satyrs, nymphs and fauns. I shall say no more, save to express the hope that you have understood this story, and the Truth and Beauty of this answer. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666

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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…JOHN. Thou, who art I, beyond all I am, Chorus. 78 Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but Thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehic…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ot Death ; I think it is not Love. For I have tasted death and love, and these Shall not suffice; for love and death are one; In all the secret star-wrought harmonies, By married death and love is man undone. There is some secret thing I wot not of; It is not death; I know it is not love. So do my songs end here ; the hour is fled, And there are no more roses; I am fain To cease from singing. Wait! the hour is sped, My songs are turning into dreams again. Oh! now the hour is dead, and I am fain Awake life's young song back to soul again! THE EP…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…JOHN. Thou, who art I, beyond all I am, Chorus. 78 Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but Thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehic…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ot Death ; I think it is not Love. For I have tasted death and love, and these Shall not suffice; for love and death are one; In all the secret star-wrought harmonies, By married death and love is man undone. There is some secret thing I wot not of; It is not death; I know it is not love. So do my songs end here ; the hour is fled, And there are no more roses; I am fain To cease from singing. Wait! the hour is sped, My songs are turning into dreams again. Oh! now the hour is dead, and I am fain Awake life's young song back to soul again! THE EP…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 131

Ambergris

122 AMBERGRIS Her secret wonders grow and glow, limned in the luminous patine. Worship, the sculptor’s, clean forgot in worship of her body lithe And time forgotten with his scythe, and thought, the Witenagemot, Confused in rapture : peace is culled a flower from the arboreal root, The vision dulled, the singer mute, shattered the lute, the song annulled.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF JUPITER HERMANUBIS. Hail unto Thee, that hast the secret of Jupiter! Declare unto us, we beseech Thee, the mystery whereby we may approach the centre of the wheel. [SPHINX þlays a fiddling5076015166 musie.* [TYPHON goes to his [Slate in terror. [HERMANUBIS goes to hisplace m wonderment. SPHINX. Neither by sloth nor by activity may even my secret be attained. Neither by emotion nor by reason may even I be understood. How then should ye come to the centre of the wheel? HERMANUBIS. Mother of mystery, what is thy position on Olympus ? SP…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF JUPITER HERMANUBIS. Hail unto Thee, that hast the secret of Jupiter! Declare unto us, we beseech Thee, the mystery whereby we may approach the centre of the wheel. [SPHINX þlays a fiddling5076015166 musie.* [TYPHON goes to his [Slate in terror. [HERMANUBIS goes to hisplace m wonderment. SPHINX. Neither by sloth nor by activity may even my secret be attained. Neither by emotion nor by reason may even I be understood. How then should ye come to the centre of the wheel? HERMANUBIS. Mother of mystery, what is thy position on Olympus ? SP…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 284

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…) Note. The Priestess and other officers never partake of the Sacrament, they being as it were part of the PRIEST himself. Note. Certain secret Formulae of this Mass are taught to the PRIEST in his Ordination.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 217

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ed nothing but this worthless painted face. I do not care that she is ugly, nor that she has painted her face, so that she only lure his secret from Time. Time dallies like a fool at her feet when he should be smiting cities. Time never wearies of her silly smile. There are temples all about her that he has forgotton to spoil. I saw an old man go by and Time never touched him. Time that has carried away the seven gates of Thebes! She has tried to bind him with ropes of eternal sand, she had hoped to oppress him with the Pyramids. He lies there …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 217

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ed nothing but this worthless painted face. I do not care that she is ugly, nor that she has painted her face, so that she only lure his secret from Time. Time dallies like a fool at her feet when he should be smiting cities. Time never wearies of her silly smile. There are temples all about her that he has forgotton to spoil. I saw an old man go by and Time never touched him. Time that has carried away the seven gates of Thebes! She has tried to bind him with ropes of eternal sand, she had hoped to oppress him with the Pyramids. He lies there …

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