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1910 · PDF PAGE 146

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…s, behind each in the highest worlds, the highest of all.”§ Once logically having crushed out the idea of an individual soul, a personal God and then an impersonal God had to be set aside and with them the idea of a First Cause or Beginning; concerning which question Buddha refused to give an answer. For, he well saw, that the idea of a Supreme God was the greatest of the dog-faced demons that seduced man from the path. “There is no God, and I refuse to discuss what is not!” cries Buddha, “but there is Sorrow and I intend to destroy it.” IfI ca…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 81

Mortadello

…s. He staggers and reels. GABRIELE. I am slain. O torture her ; she hath poisoned me [He falls, and writhes in agony. MONICA. Too true ! God’s pain is deadly poison for a fiend like you Sent from the pit to plague mankind. O soldiers, turn Your hearts, that it may save you, all God’s mercy burn Sin from you. Follow me ! SOLDIERS. Our queen. Sweet saint of God ! GABRIELE. Spew, spew God’s agony and death. Black period Of all my hopes. [He dies. MONICA. There goes to his master a lost soul. SOLDIERS. We’ll follow you. MONICA. Who knows the glory …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 51

The Mother’s Tragedy

THE FATAL FORCE 37 PACHAD. I have heard you as a god Immutable. CHORUS. Thou art as proud and calm As statued Memnon. Thou art more than god And less than man. Thine eyelids tremble not. PACHAD. I shall avenge it as a god. The land Shall be made free. AMENHATEP. And the old gods have sway, Re-born from incorruption. PACHAD. The old gods! - I must muse deeply. Keep your ancient ways A little. I must play the part through so. CHORUS. In the ways of the North and the South, Whence the dark and the dayspring are drawn, We pass with the song of the …

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1941 · PDF PAGE 10

Thumbs Up! A Pentagram – A Pantacle to Win the War

… Of deathless glory, let us come United in our glad array To hymn our fathers’ martyrdom. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. They died—they died—and we are free. Take up their cross! Deserve their crown! The stainless flag of liberty By man shall not be trodden down! Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. In war and earthquake, wreck and wrong, Still let the flag of freedom fly In peace and safety, still be strong! For we will live as we would die. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In Go…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 386

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX God of the Christians under the figure of a man with an ass’s head. Christians will shrug their shoulders when they see this knavery, and pray God for the poor ignorants who imagine that they insult them. M. the Count Joseph de Maistre, after having, in one of his most eloquent paradoxes, represented the hangman as a sacred being, and a permanent incarnation of divine justice upon earth, suggested that one should raise to the old man of Ferney a statue executed by the hangman. There is depth in this thought. Voltaire, in effect, als…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 386

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX God of the Christians under the figure of a man with an ass’s head. Christians will shrug their shoulders when they see this knavery, and pray God for the poor ignorants who imagine that they insult them. M. the Count Joseph de Maistre, after having, in one of his most eloquent paradoxes, represented the hangman as a sacred being, and a permanent incarnation of divine justice upon earth, suggested that one should raise to the old man of Ferney a statue executed by the hangman. There is depth in this thought. Voltaire, in effect, als…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 33

Gargoyles

Nay, let all light, all things, but cease! Sense is the seal of double rule. The million oracles that run Out of the mouth of God the fool are not myself. To nothing turn! To nothing look! Then, then !—discern Nothing, that one may one remain. So I am paid the horrible pain That these my brothers ordered me. I look upon their brows—I see Signs many and deep of torture past; A star, yon star, true peace at last. (There approach an aged man, riding upon an ass, with a led ass, and a Nubian servant.) The Adept. In the name of God, the One, the Gre…

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1941 · PDF PAGE 6

Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of The V Sign

… Of deathless glory, let us come United in our glad array To hymn our fathers’ martyrdom. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. They died—they died—and we are free. Take up their cross! Deserve their crown! The stainless flag of liberty By man shall not be trodden down! Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. In war and earthquake, wreck and wrong, Still let the flag of freedom fly In peace and safety, still be strong! For we will live as we would die. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In Go…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 89

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…this Monstrous impossible villainy of fate. CHORUS. O wise old man, thou speakest cleverly. AHINOAM, So do, and praise be given you from God. ELEAZAR., God, Who this day has slumbered not, nor slept ; He only keepeth Israel: Ie is God ! CHORUS. When God uplifted hands to smite, And earth from chaos was unrolled; When skies and seas from blackest night Unfurled, twin sapphires set with gold ; When tumult of the boisterous deep Roared from its slow ungainly sleep, And flocks of heaven were driven to fold; Then rose the walls of Israel steep, For …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 140

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…his slime is Chaos." “ Ararita! ” he breathed the word upon her brow. " Don‘t touch me! don’t touch mel " she screamed. “I am holy! I am God! I am I!” Her face was black and distorted with sudden passion. “ It‘s quite different to my own experience in many ways,” thought the watcher. ”Yet—is it not the essence of all ordeal, all initiation, that it should be unexpected? Other- wise, the candidate would have passed through the gate before he approached it. Which is absurd." The last word must have been audible. “Absurd!” she cried. “Indeed, it i…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 140

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…his slime is Chaos." “ Ararita! ” he breathed the word upon her brow. " Don‘t touch me! don’t touch mel " she screamed. “I am holy! I am God! I am I!” Her face was black and distorted with sudden passion. “ It‘s quite different to my own experience in many ways,” thought the watcher. ”Yet—is it not the essence of all ordeal, all initiation, that it should be unexpected? Other- wise, the candidate would have passed through the gate before he approached it. Which is absurd." The last word must have been audible. “Absurd!” she cried. “Indeed, it i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 8

Rosa Decidua

… of her mother’s fate, To keep from heritage thereof, To shield from the world’s scoff, To watch, stamp out the seeds of madness in her. God ! that hast held me back from hate, Be merciful to me a sinner And ward me, warding her ! As it is written : Excepting Adonai build the house, they labour In vain that build it. And Again : Excepting Adonai keep the city, The watchman watcheth but in vain. God, if there be a God, be Thou my Neighbour ; And if that God have pity, have Thou pity ! For never man was smitten as I am smitten ; Nor from Time’s y…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 145

The Winged Beetle

… of her mother’s fate, To keep from heritage thereof, To shield from the world’s scoff, To watch, stamp out the seeds of madness in her. God ! that hast held me back from hate, Be merciful to me a sinner And ward me, warding her ! As it is written : Excepting Adonai build the house, they labour In vain that build it. And Again : Excepting Adonai keep the city, The watchman watcheth but in vain. God, if there be a God, be Thou my Neighbour ; And if that God have pity, have Thou pity ! For never man was smitten as I am smitten ; Nor from Time’s y…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 160

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Harold Monro . A beast without a home, a coward, a scourge : God never would have made you , had He not Made me as well to punish and to purge. He, by a ruling immemorial , Is Master of the judges of the land ; My pen inscribes the sentence , but in all He stands behind me, and directs my hand . Should I invent one truthless explanation , Or fail one sacred precedent to keep , I could no more kneel down in adoration I think I could not even eat or sleep . So, in the name of God , on your confession , Thief, I arrest you, that His wrath may fall…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 111

Gargoyles

…wont. Punch said to would-be bridegrooms: Don’t! Might I advise the same to those Shapeless and senseless embryos Who seek to live? Yes, God is wise Enough to set a snare for lies As well as truths. The soul content On earth in his own element Will be content from flesh released. But he who strives to be a beast Or strives to be a god; would gain Long bliss for a few hours of pain, Or struggles for no matter what, Continues. I would rather not. Vv. That puzzle’s grief I did not share Because on earth I did not care. I met a grave philosopher— H…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE EQUINOX Magus, the card numbered ι, the first departure from 0, but referred to Beth, 2, Mercury, the god of Wisdom, Magic and Truth. And this Magus has the twofold aspect of the Magician himself and also of the “ Great Magician " described in Liber 418 (EQUINOX, No. V., Special Supplement, p. 144). Now the formula of the mystic is much simpler. Mathematically, it is 1- 1 :0. He is like a grain of salt cast into the sea; the process of dissolution is obviously easier than the shock of worlds which the magician contemplates. “ Sit down, and f…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE EQUINOX Magus, the card numbered ι, the first departure from 0, but referred to Beth, 2, Mercury, the god of Wisdom, Magic and Truth. And this Magus has the twofold aspect of the Magician himself and also of the “ Great Magician " described in Liber 418 (EQUINOX, No. V., Special Supplement, p. 144). Now the formula of the mystic is much simpler. Mathematically, it is 1- 1 :0. He is like a grain of salt cast into the sea; the process of dissolution is obviously easier than the shock of worlds which the magician contemplates. “ Sit down, and f…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 12

Jezebel

8 JEZEBEL Her murders and her blasphemies, Her whoredoms, God has paid at last ; Upon my bosom close she lies ; Her carnal spirit holds me fast. My blood, my infamy, my pain, Seal my subjection and her reign. My veins poured out her marriage cup, For holy water her cruel tongue ; For blessing of white hands raised up, These perfumed infamies unsung ; For God’s breath, her sharp tainted breath ; For marriage bed, the bed of death. The hounds that scavenge, fierce and lean, Snarl in the moonlight ; in the sky The vulture hangs, a ghost unclean ; …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 163

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…I walk. Man’s darkness is a leathern sheath, Myself the sun-bright sword ! I have no fear, nor doubt, nor sorrow now, For I give Self to God—I give my best Of soul and blood and brain To my poor Art—there comes to me somehow This fact: Man’s work is God made manifest; Life is all Peace again. And Dreams are beyond life. Their wider scope, Limitless Empire o’er the world of thought, Help my desires to press Beyond all stars toward God and Heaven and Hope; And in the world-amazing chase is wrought Somehow—all Happiness.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 32

White Stains

26 THE RAINBOW Come down, O Lord God, and deliver Our souls from the wheel and the chain, That Love may lie fragrant and shaded, And Joy may spread wings unto flight, And Peace stand above, unupbraided, As splendid as night. No longer the sun shall cast shadow, No longer the flower shall lack rain, The word shall be fair as a meadow, And Love know no tincture of pain ; The Glory of God shall be on us, And over the kingdom unpriced The Spirit of Love is upon us, A crucified Christ ! O rapture ! O glory ! O gladness ! When Satan is fled from the …

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