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1907 · PDF PAGE 276

The Star in the West

…ble .” May I reach That purest heaven , be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony , Enkindle generous ardour , feed pure love , Beget the smiles that have no cruelty , Be the sweet presence of a good diffus'd And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world . In the song of Orpheus we listen to the glittering and mystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! L…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 128

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…years younger, six inches taller, and twelve inches longer reach to his credit. And a twenty—four times harder skull.” “ It’s his skin I love." " The only thing a woman ever can love." “ And his activity” " Exactly. You cannot understand Being, which is Peace.” “ Don’t! You are near my secret, now." “ Wait till the grey hours I " She dropped three napoleons on the plate, and disdaining to wait for the change, took Edgar’s arm in hers‘ They hailed a fiacre. "By the way, I don’t know your name," he began, as they clattered down the Boul’ Mich’. 12…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 128

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…years younger, six inches taller, and twelve inches longer reach to his credit. And a twenty—four times harder skull.” “ It’s his skin I love." " The only thing a woman ever can love." “ And his activity” " Exactly. You cannot understand Being, which is Peace.” “ Don’t! You are near my secret, now." “ Wait till the grey hours I " She dropped three napoleons on the plate, and disdaining to wait for the change, took Edgar’s arm in hers‘ They hailed a fiacre. "By the way, I don’t know your name," he began, as they clattered down the Boul’ Mich’. 12…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 210

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…yself I seemed No more myself but some strange battlefield , Whereon they fought against an unseen foe . I saw my mother ; and him whose love had made My life an ecstasy of joy and pain . Between these two an angel stood , all grey , With grey wings softer than a seamew 's breast And eyes all shrouded from the gaze of men . " Lo , this is Death ,” I mused , “ all robed in grey ." And still th' enchanted drowsy stream flowed on, Beating some rhythmic music in my ears Until the sea should silence all at last . Overhead my children slept . And I t…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 146

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

124° MYSTERIES : Lifted, and in the shadow far behind Dim and divine, within the shadow blind. My own love’s face most amorously draw Out of the deep toward my cloudy mind. And suddenly I felt a kiss enclose My whole live body, as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey-bee. I felt a perfect soul embracing me, And in my spirit like a river flows A passion like the passion of the sea.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 99

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

She shoves it up her bumb, Those buttocks fat dividing. Ah ! Soon his head is hiding : For love hath no abiding, But dies before the come ; So hath it been, so be it ! Get out of bed and pe ! It Is time the doctor see it, Or smell it : — care I which ? Lest all who loved and licked your Fat oyster get a stricture : For though you are a picture, You are a rotten bitch. [101]

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1909 · PDF PAGE 9

Alexandra

…I will not be a bad Cassandra. (i.e. a seer of future misfortunes.) O spring ! make me a poet (poetess) concerning thee ! Reign ! Live ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Alexandra ! I being unarmed. (Because Mrs Cox is a woman. Cf. Voltaire : “ O che sciagura essere sin cogl . . .”) Reign ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Live ! Out of the citizen desire goes to thee. We will give grateful mutual thanks to God if I shall . . . (I do not know what futuam can mean. (Look up your Latin Dic., though I admit it is an unusual word in this con- nection, and may seem unjusti…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 318

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… fire : the?רואThunder; w meditate; he 18-?הנה special ‘fire’ or ‘light’ of the moved Sacred Magic of Light, Life, A City of Edom 11,1 and Love ; hence “Odic Here; this?וז Force” &c. Cf. 9 and 207 A locust?בגה Where?יאHe shall come?אבי When?אובב Το 'e"! cut, mac“ Tu Rhamnus; a thorn, spine?ךמאGold (Οι)?בהרRising ground; Earth of?איג Proud, haughty?דוGeburah. (See 777) To conceal?אנחSacrifice v. & s. (Ch.). (?)?חבך A circularity of form or motion ;?גהLove, beloved; David?ךח 2‘ fem Give, give! [Videבה ?בה . "πα I7. 1`?בהHe longed for, missed?הואTo g…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 318

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… fire : the?רואThunder; w meditate; he 18-?הנה special ‘fire’ or ‘light’ of the moved Sacred Magic of Light, Life, A City of Edom 11,1 and Love ; hence “Odic Here; this?וז Force” &c. Cf. 9 and 207 A locust?בגה Where?יאHe shall come?אבי When?אובב Το 'e"! cut, mac“ Tu Rhamnus; a thorn, spine?ךמאGold (Οι)?בהרRising ground; Earth of?איג Proud, haughty?דוGeburah. (See 777) To conceal?אנחSacrifice v. & s. (Ch.). (?)?חבך A circularity of form or motion ;?גהLove, beloved; David?ךח 2‘ fem Give, give! [Videבה ?בה . "πα I7. 1`?בהHe longed for, missed?הואTo g…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 302

The Law is for All

General Index 301 and “love under will” 77 and necessity 54.96 and sex 42.54.56.61,128.130.133, 137 and sexual magick 67-70 harmony with will of the partner 70 conscious 41,67 doing one’s 101,102,119.124,131, 149 errors in determining the 148 expressed Qabalistically 119 free 51,185 and fate 77 of woman 173,176,177,181 hindrances to, as sin 41,92 in psychology 163 lack of, in the average man 183 magical 70 non-identity of any two wills 70 of the father, effect on child 67 of the soul 74 program for realization of 40 -41 pure 46 subconscious 66,…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 331

Magick Without Tears

…oof. And yet I feel their truth much more strongly than I have ventured to express. How many times have I warned you against 'feelings'? Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1954 · PDF PAGE 352

Magick Without Tears

… sympathy for others , the craving to pass their miseries on to more sensible people by persecuting them: these traits are symptomatic . Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666

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1954 · PDF PAGE 403

Magick Without Tears

…rson who has a natural bent towards this particular Art you will be able to develop it on your own lines, guided by your own experience. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1961 · PDF PAGE 157

Liber Aleph

…y Syllogism that, since every Change soever, be it the Creation of a Symphony, or a Poem, or the Putrefaction of a Carcass, is an Act of Love, and since we are to make no difference between any Thing and any other Thing, therefore all Changes are equal in Respect of our Praise. For though this be a right Conclusion in the Term of thy Comprehension as a Master of the Temple, yet it is false in the Eyes of the Mind that hath not attained this Understanding. So there- fore any Change (or phenomenon) appeareth noble or base to the imperfect Mind, a…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 64

Songs of the Spirit

…billow rears And I must pass to seek an unknown sky ; We dare not see each other’s face for tears, And the last kisses—Did we only die ! Love ! Ah ! One kiss ! One kiss ! One kiss ! Good-by, Good-by ! 54

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1910 · PDF PAGE 115

Ambergris

106 AMBERGRIS OTHER LOVE SONGS Eileen Under the stars the die was cast to win. The moonrays stained with pale embroidered bars The iridescent shimmer of your skin, Under the stars. Great angels drove their pearl-interwoven cars Through the night’s racecourse : silence stood within The folded cups of passion’s nenuphars. You were my own ; sorrowless, without sin, That night this night. Sinks the red eye of Mars ; The hand of Hermes guides us as we spin Under the stars.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 237

The Winged Beetle

227 EN SOURDINE CALM in the twilight of the lofty boughs Pierce we our love with silence as we drowse ; Melt we our souls, hearts, senses in this shrine, Vague languor of arbutus and of pine ! Half-close your eyes, your arms upon your breast ; Banish for ever every interest ! The cradling breeze shall woo us, soft and sweet, Ruffling the waves of velvet at your feet. When solemn night of swart oaks shall prevail Voice our despair, musical nightingale !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 41

The World’s Tragedy

…rmal or informal pledged to the guardianship of mankind. With this postulate the way is clear. In the prologue we find innocence : Pagan love, Pagan music, Pagan mysticism, and we find the Sabbatarians pretty sick about it, like the fox that lost his tail. We next find Alexander, one of the guardians, anxious about humanity. He is not squeamish about a little blood, his own or another’s, and he discovers the plot. Next we find the dove achieving his foul purpose, not on a pure laughing Pagan girl, but on a furtive lecherous girl, already half a…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 207

Magick Without Tears

174 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS pain," for instance, may be read XVII x 22 "the expression of Star-love," and so on: all too complicated for this time and place!) V.32: Then the joys of my love (Le., the fulfilment of all possible experiences) will redeem ye from all pain. V.58: I give unimaginable joys on earth; certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace) unutterable, rest ecstasy. Cap. II, v. 9: Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. (The…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 144

The Star in the West

THE MOTHER 137 power of love caught in the arms of restraint slowly smoulder into a burning desire : Passion to feed upon your shoulders bare , And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair . Give thee my body as a fire to hold O love, no words , no songs—your breast my bower ! In “ Jezebel ” we find the same desire , but unfanned by restraint , in whose place stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, …

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