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1912 · PDF PAGE 97

Mortadello

…re my life just now ? MONICA. Why, first of all, I want to be your wife. MORTADELLO. Dear God forbid ! MONICA. To enthrall You, body and soul, to win the prize my rival won. Do you think there is a sin I would have left undone ?

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1913 · PDF PAGE 370

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…RELIGION RELIGION exists in humanity, like love. Like it, it is unique. Like it, it either exists, or does not exist, in such and such a soul; but, whether one accepts it or denies it, it is in humanity; it is, then, in life, it is in nature itself; it is an incontestable fact of science, and even of reason. The true religion is that which has always existed, which exists to-day, and will exist for ever. Some one may say that religion is this or that; religion is what it is. This is the true religion, and the false religions are superstitions i…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 370

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…RELIGION RELIGION exists in humanity, like love. Like it, it is unique. Like it, it either exists, or does not exist, in such and such a soul; but, whether one accepts it or denies it, it is in humanity; it is, then, in life, it is in nature itself; it is an incontestable fact of science, and even of reason. The true religion is that which has always existed, which exists to-day, and will exist for ever. Some one may say that religion is this or that; religion is what it is. This is the true religion, and the false religions are superstitions i…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 11

Jezebel

…ned, And her deep eyes with hatred burned. “ Ah ! prophet, come to mock at me And gloat on mine exceeding pain ? ” “ Nay, but to give my soul to thee, And have thee spit at me again ! ” She smiled—I know she smiled—she sighed, Bit my lips through, and drank, and died !

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1899 · PDF PAGE 115

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…f one majestical With waving beard, most ancient, beautiful, Concealed and not concealed; and I awoke, Feeling a strong compulsion on my soul To go some whither.” And the dreams were one (We somehow knew), and, looking such a kiss As lovers’ eyes can interchange, our lips Met in the mute agreement to obey. So, girding on our raiment, as to pass Some whither of long doubtful journeying, We went forth blindly to the horrible Damp darkness of the pines above. And there Strange beasts crossed path of ours, such beasts as earth Bears not, distorted,…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 136

The Scented Garden

…les his wain3 That lights to love the amorous swain.4 On one love rest my life ; in vain The evil Jinn may pour their pain, Torture this soul again, again, With wrath and will, with might and main ; High Allah can their hate restrain— Our loves their goodly shape retain. Though Shaitan5 should the court profane, He spits against the loftier plane In empty malice. Who would deign To mark him ? By our lion’s mane6 I swear ! to tread the lonely lane Of death to me is royal gain, Since I with my Habib have lain,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 165

The Winged Beetle

… god may watch thy beacon, Feed it from hell or heaven, ere it weaken, From some anointed sceptre, fiery dew For this appointed, that my soul win through ? Nay ! all we know not anything. Yet raise, Though we must throw our hearts to feed its blaze, The aspiring flame, the passionate glow, the bloom Whose root is shame, whose fruit the trackless tomb. I wail “ I know not,” louder and livelier Who laugh, and go not, shaveling sinister !

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1907 · PDF PAGE 195

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…And all the joy of earth, and gathered close The darkness and the death-wind and the snows On us on whom the sun of air once shone. What souls are left alive Vainly lament and strive, For they. shall join the dead of utmost eld; The concourse mystical Who see the seasons fall Shall soon behold what all we have beheld :— The accursed stream, the intolerable veil Of night and death and hell, disastrous woof Of anguish overproof That fruitless wills assail Ever in vain: good fortune stands aloof And all kind gods : we, taking up the tale Of dead m…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 164

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…’S TRAGEDY 157 Weaves its fine mesh, perceiving how to wait ; Or how accumulate The trifles that shall] make it master yet Of the strong soul that bade itself forget. CORA. Let me not shrink! Truth always purifies. I will go through those two impossible Actual years. The city was itself; Hard thinking if hard drinking —sober- sides ! One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something, found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer. And I lay— A storm of weep…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 168

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…no Jaugh of all those laughs of hers, Those tender thrills of laughter I used to know. Nor in all nature weep the careless eyes, Nor any soul of life may sympathise, All I once was in this is torn and rended— Scorned and forsaken the lone lyre lies. Hath that not yet some sympathy with me? That lyre that was myself, my heart’s decree And ruler, subtle at the dawn, and splendid Noonwards, and soft at day’s declivity! I flung it in my anguish to the ground, I raise it, and its music hath not found One string or snapped or loosened, and the tune I…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 18

White Stains

… men and things was truly to be envied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esau guzzled, who sold soul and body to Satan for sheer love of sin, whose mere lust of perversion is so intense that it seems to absorb every other emotion and interest. Never since God woke light from chaos has such a tragedy been unrolled before men, step after step toward the lake of Fire ! At his house all his writings were seized, and, it is believed, destroyed. The single most fortunate exception is that of a superbly jewelle…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 77

The Soul of Osiris

…kiss and never tire ! Thy queen, quick-breathing for your twin desire ! ” I shudder, for the mystery of bliss ; I go, heart crying and a soul on fire ! “ Resolve all question by a moonward tread. Follow the moon ! ” Even so the king had said.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ltar, For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and Ι to—morrow, born Now and again, on high, on high Travelling on Dian’s naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath. I come from the sequestered state; My birth is from the House of Death [He uah/ames fo altar. Hail l ye twin hawks high pinnacled That watch upon the universe! Ye that the bier of God beheld! That bore it onwards, ministers Of peace within the House of Wrath, Servants of him that cometh forth At dawn with many-coloured lights, Mounting from underneath …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ltar, For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and Ι to—morrow, born Now and again, on high, on high Travelling on Dian’s naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath. I come from the sequestered state; My birth is from the House of Death [He uah/ames fo altar. Hail l ye twin hawks high pinnacled That watch upon the universe! Ye that the bier of God beheld! That bore it onwards, ministers Of peace within the House of Wrath, Servants of him that cometh forth At dawn with many-coloured lights, Mounting from underneath …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 64

Orpheus

…waken, Their wind-swept waves by Dzdal music taken Into a golden heaven of festal song. We shake and glisten in the sun, we see The very soul and majesty of thee Thrill in the lyre and leave the lazy long Notes for crisp magic of sharp rustling sound, And thy life quickens and thy loves abound, Listening the answer of our dancing throng. Joy, sleep, peace, laughter, thought, remembrance, came Even at our prelude, a death-quickening flame, And earth rejoiced throughout to hear Demeter’s name. We come, in bass deep-swelling, rocks and caves, A ho…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 145

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… Multitudes many-coloured, grave and tall, Beautiful, make a beautiful murmur, move, In infinite musical labyrinths about. Them doth the soul of love inhabit, them The light of wisdom doth inform, them peace Hath marked and sealed her own. their lips Is one imagined silence like a sigh. Unanimous the hushéd harmony Flows forth from heart to mouth; and mouths bloom red With ripe and royal repetition ; kisses Flow like thick honey-drops in honeysuckle. That is their worship. RupHa. Whom then worship they? But on CRIOSDA. Maurya ! [Recalled to him…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 47

Clouds Without Water

… Ah, devil! devil! when you grip me and glare Into mine eyes, and answer all the prayer! Il A virgin with the lusts of Messaline, A goat-soul in the body of a saint, You writhe on me with cruel and epicene Phrenzy and agony of acute restraint. You ache — you burn — you dizzy me with blows — You call me coward and eunuch, who say No. Volcanic child ! upon your masking snows I will not raise my rod, that forth may flow Torrents of blazing lava, that shall hiss And roar, and ruin all the glad green world. I like the attack of your seducing kiss, T…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 363

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH The Animal Soul, in its 7M WH) fullness ; i.e. including the Creative Entity or Ego, Chiah 454 Sigillum onin The “Holy Ones”; Con- owsp secrated catamites kept by the Priesthood 455 . 456 Formido maxima ans ‘The Mountain of Myrrh. 9)". 57 (Cant. iv. 6] Paries bm Crura pp The Fig-tree and fruit msn 7457 Olives ont 458 A covenant; an engagement ; yan a betrothed Contusores; cloudy heavens; opm Heaven of Netzach 459 460 [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 371] NMID Qliphoth of 1 ye abby “Holy unto TETRA. py’ wp GRAMMATON.” [Ex. xxxix. 30] 461 [V…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 363

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH The Animal Soul, in its 7M WH) fullness ; i.e. including the Creative Entity or Ego, Chiah 454 Sigillum onin The “Holy Ones”; Con- owsp secrated catamites kept by the Priesthood 455 . 456 Formido maxima ans ‘The Mountain of Myrrh. 9)". 57 (Cant. iv. 6] Paries bm Crura pp The Fig-tree and fruit msn 7457 Olives ont 458 A covenant; an engagement ; yan a betrothed Contusores; cloudy heavens; opm Heaven of Netzach 459 460 [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 371] NMID Qliphoth of 1 ye abby “Holy unto TETRA. py’ wp GRAMMATON.” [Ex. xxxix. 30] 461 [V…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 194

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ic glass of air: expire The dumb black hours in fear: but I am ware, Well ware, by instinct surer still and higher Than the own sight of soul that they are there, No mockery of their presence: so even hither My mother’s might is on me, on I flare Into wild war of song: my keen notes wither The flowers of frost about me and I turn Ever the strength and mastering frenzy thither With energy of madness: yea, I burn! My soul burns up upon the lyre! I lend My whole life’s vigour to one song, to earn Their guerdon of the gods, a god to friend, And see…

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