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1913 · PDF PAGE 454

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… to relieve sufferers, and cast out devils, but him, I cannot see him again, and, until I have seen him, I shall be sad to the day of my death. Formerly, he was always near me, he sometimes touched me, and he used to wake me up in the night to tell me all that I needed to know. Master, I beg of you, let me see him again!” “See whom ?” “ Adonai.” “ Do you know who Adonai is?” “No, but I want to see him again.” “ Adonai is invisible.” “T have seen him.” “ He has no form.” “T have touched him.” “ He is infinite.” “ He is very nearly of my own heig…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 454

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… to relieve sufferers, and cast out devils, but him, I cannot see him again, and, until I have seen him, I shall be sad to the day of my death. Formerly, he was always near me, he sometimes touched me, and he used to wake me up in the night to tell me all that I needed to know. Master, I beg of you, let me see him again!” “See whom ?” “ Adonai.” “ Do you know who Adonai is?” “No, but I want to see him again.” “ Adonai is invisible.” “T have seen him.” “ He has no form.” “T have touched him.” “ He is infinite.” “ He is very nearly of my own heig…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 219

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ld alarms. O Horus,® Light in Darkness, bless My failure with thine own success ! My suffering is keen as theirs That in Amenti taste of death ; 1 The Dawn-God. 2 The Beetle-Headed God, who brings light out of darkness, for He is the Sun at Mid- night. 3 God of Silence. child. 4 The bowed Goddeéss of the Stars. Shown as a naked woman, her hands and feet on the earth, the arms and legs much elongated, so that her body arches the firmament. 5 The Hawk-headed Lord of Strength, the Avenger of Osiris’ death. Usually shown as a Not mine own pains cre…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 102

Orpheus

…th the rose ; The deep dim prison-house of corn and wine, Flowers, children, stars, with flame far subtler glows Formless, all-piercing, death-defying, divine, A sweet frail lamp whose shadow gleams and shows No darkness, is as light is where its rays Cross, interweave, and marry with the day’s! I am: the heart that flames from central Me Seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till the vast floods of the man’s being tingle And glow, self-lost within my soul and sea Of love, and sun of utter light, …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 188

The Winged Beetle

178 MR TODD CARR [solemnly]. Truly, my dear sir, in the midst of life we are in death. [EUPHEMIA looks up and darts a furious glance at him for she knows that he is mocking British solemnity and cant. DELHOMME. Crushed—crushed in a moment—— MRS. OSSORY [very piously]. Without a warning. Ah well, we must hope that—— [Her voice becomes a mumble. DELHOMME. I will bid you good morning ; I am sure you will not wish strangers to intrude upon your grief. If there is anything that I can do— MRS. OSSORY [“ conventionally ”]. Pray do not leave us yet, Mo…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 31

Mortadello

…is hatched. I dare This hour the fearful fate. Stay hidden here ; beware Count Mortadello ! MONICA. He ? ORLANDO. He is now gone to take Death’s warrant from the Three.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 568

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…rthwith, in this last book, by what means the true initiates have made themselves the masters of life, how they have overcome sorrow and death; how they work upon themselves and others the transforma- tion of Proteus; how they exercise the divining power of Apollonius; how they make the gold of Raymond Lully and of Flamel; how in order to renew their youth they possess the secrets of Postel the Re-arisen, and those alleged to have been in the keeping of Cagliostro. In short, we are going to speak the last word of magic. CHAPTER I OF TRANSFORMAT…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 568

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…rthwith, in this last book, by what means the true initiates have made themselves the masters of life, how they have overcome sorrow and death; how they work upon themselves and others the transforma- tion of Proteus; how they exercise the divining power of Apollonius; how they make the gold of Raymond Lully and of Flamel; how in order to renew their youth they possess the secrets of Postel the Re-arisen, and those alleged to have been in the keeping of Cagliostro. In short, we are going to speak the last word of magic. CHAPTER I OF TRANSFORMAT…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 73

Clouds Without Water

IV Yea! but we love. We win. The body’s curse Is bitter, but he hath not won the whole. There’s more than life in this brave universe. Death cannot touch the secret of the soul! Nor shall we shrink, although this further pang Strike through the liver with its fiery dart, The hope — the horrid hope — whose gleaming fang Now stirs, a serpent’s, underneath your heart! For lo! not vainly we invoked the god That looseneth the girdle of a maid; Even now draws nigh the dreadful period That maketh all the mother-world afraid. With rotten fruit your bel…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 74

Clouds Without Water

…matters net. We know, This is enough, that we have slain the Sphinx, Worked out her wizardry, dissolved her doom; And though her wine be death to him that drinks We shall carouse for ever in the tomb. We drank bull’s blood and all our pangs immense Are better than eupeptic innocence.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE SCORPION —and at last he is hurled fighting into the hungry mouth of death. LAYLAH. The cloud grows. RINALDO. Indeed you love me, if you bid me waste no time. LAYLAH. Oh nol . . . I must respect you. You treat me as if I were a pebble in the sand. Nothing moves you. RINALDO. Love moves me‘ LAYLAH. We are opposites in all. RINALDO. So Nature hath ordained. Man hates his neighbour : but when he finds his opposite, he loves it. All joy is the warfare of enemies, from the clash of lance and sabre, when Saracen meets Christian on the plain to—this…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE SCORPION —and at last he is hurled fighting into the hungry mouth of death. LAYLAH. The cloud grows. RINALDO. Indeed you love me, if you bid me waste no time. LAYLAH. Oh nol . . . I must respect you. You treat me as if I were a pebble in the sand. Nothing moves you. RINALDO. Love moves me‘ LAYLAH. We are opposites in all. RINALDO. So Nature hath ordained. Man hates his neighbour : but when he finds his opposite, he loves it. All joy is the warfare of enemies, from the clash of lance and sabre, when Saracen meets Christian on the plain to—this…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ng daughters That, devout in the hour of wastrel waters, Hither bore from its house of eld the shrine. Dreams, and devils, and things of death together, Chorus glorious, wild as wind and weather, Mocking; Shine, O our God! Lord God, now shine! Is the symbol of Life indeed departed? Hath-the augur indeed found bloodless-hearted Firstling lamb, and the dove without entrails? Is the hope of the world for ever sunken? Was the dream of us dark, demented, drunken? All in vain are we vowed before the veils? Were we false to the faith? Did hope desert …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… love hath murdered me With one soft touch of her most tender lips ; For dying on her breast, love’s face I see: Love calls me back from death; my spirit slips Back to the old forgetfulness, ere I Was risen to life’s surface, virgin-pure To tinge my soul with the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ng daughters That, devout in the hour of wastrel waters, Hither bore from its house of eld the shrine. Dreams, and devils, and things of death together, Chorus glorious, wild as wind and weather, Mocking; Shine, O our God! Lord God, now shine! Is the symbol of Life indeed departed? Hath-the augur indeed found bloodless-hearted Firstling lamb, and the dove without entrails? Is the hope of the world for ever sunken? Was the dream of us dark, demented, drunken? All in vain are we vowed before the veils? Were we false to the faith? Did hope desert …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… love hath murdered me With one soft touch of her most tender lips ; For dying on her breast, love’s face I see: Love calls me back from death; my spirit slips Back to the old forgetfulness, ere I Was risen to life’s surface, virgin-pure To tinge my soul with the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 98

Little Poems in Prose

…y and bitterness, even while he ostensibly applauded the talents of his old friend, the strange buf- foon who made such excellent fun of death. At a certain moment I saw His Highness lean back towards a little page-boy who was standing behind him and whisper in his ear. The merry countenance of the pretty child lit up with a smile; then he hurriedly left the royal box as if to execute an urgent commission. Some minutes later a sharp and prolonged hiss interrupted Fanciullo in one of his best moments, tearing asunder at one and the same moment e…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 10

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…m awake In the grip of the snake. The eagle slashes with beak and claw; The gods withdraw: The great beasts corne, Io Pan! I am borne To death on the horn Of the Unicom. I am Pan ! Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! VIII —

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1954 · PDF PAGE 373

Magick Without Tears

…e of our essential nourishment, the earth to which we are all bound in chains by our inexorable bodies, our ineluctable need of life-and death. Sublime the thesis? What does he make of it? Theme No. I in the first chapter: rural love. How exquisite, how delicate, first flush of dawn upon the glowing meadows! The young man who is courting is not idle, either; he serves great Nature in yet other ways. He is taking a prize cow to be "served": on him depend our milk, cheese, butter veal and beef. He also contributes to our Wienerschnitzel Holstein,…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 61

The Mother’s Tragedy

… is found among the stars That wander in the deep, or made secure As the high throne of her that dwells in heaven, Fruitful for life and death, Wisdom her name, 47

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