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1910 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…rgy that results in the formation of a new being when he dies. ... We may then consider the moment of John Smith’s death... . During his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the ther, he has been affecting the structure of his own brain. So that at the moment of his death all his own life, and all his past lives are existing pictured in a definite and characteristic molecular structure, a tremendous complicated representation of all that we have meant by the term John Smith—the record of the thoughts and doings of …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…rgy that results in the formation of a new being when he dies. ... We may then consider the moment of John Smith’s death... . During his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the ther, he has been affecting the structure of his own brain. So that at the moment of his death all his own life, and all his past lives are existing pictured in a definite and characteristic molecular structure, a tremendous complicated representation of all that we have meant by the term John Smith—the record of the thoughts and doings of …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 390

Magick Without Tears

… is the key to the puzzle of my character. But, as a child, what did I see? I cannot think of anyone person who subsequently devoted his life to Magick who has not at least one early experience of seeing angels, or fairies, or something of the sort. But A.C.? Nary a one. I was brought up on the Bible, a literalist, fundamentalist-all that a Plymouth Brother could wish. It never occurred to me to doubt a word of what I was told. Perhaps the Wolf's Tail of an healthy scepticism gleamed pale at the age of I 0, when I asked my form master how it wa…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 126

Tannhäuser

…s swooned. Tannhauser. Who are you, sir, stood smiling, nonchalant, At all the turmoil, ridiculing it ? You knew the secret symbol of my life, You forced me to that miserable song. The Unknown Minstrel. My name, sir, at your service, is Geschicht. 124

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1902 · PDF PAGE 131

Tannhäuser

…" See, the sun is dead ! " It shines elsewhere. You from your tiny perch, The corner of the corner of the earth, Itself a speck in solar life ; the sun. For all I know, a speck among the stars, Themselves one corporate molecule of space !— You from your perch judge, label, limit Him ! Not that your corner is not equally R 129

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1903 · PDF PAGE 21

Ahab and Other Poems

… of Wellzfeing. Would God Hat FJ Gad flayed, and (mow Mp fakburie aptain Brough He fart, Caught mp poung mugher Sp He Hroat, And ory ber life and CimBs apart, SeBked mp queey wad: wmorfe for Hele Might ape, not match, Hele miferies. ‘or, Gard ReGind tHe palaw gae, oe fpied a Binepard fair and fine, Banging Bish purple joy, and Weight Of goldoey rapture of He Bine: And Here G Bare my chariower Stay, and Sid Waboth fo aypear. %

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1905 · PDF PAGE 48

Oracles

…ove, the spring of blood at my light bidding spilt ; And thy desires, if aught thou wilt, are softer at my suffering. Fill up with Death Life’s loving-cup ! Give me the knowledge, me the power For some new sin one little hour, provoking Hell to belch us up.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 100

The Scented Garden

… to be ranked among the herd that are in subjection to Fate.” Lyd. De men- sis. Taylor. 3. Once union with God is attained, the whole of life (or perhaps religion) becomes pleasant. 4. May perhaps refer to the “ horror of great darkness ” which comes, say the Mystics, to an As- pirant on the Threshold of Illumination. (We must beg students to observe that Major Lutiy seems to have written these notes in two moods, one in which he admits his own personal knowledge of, and identification with, mysticism ; the other in which (as here) he writes as…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 21

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ilities in the service of your king and your country, and deem the knowledge you have this day attained the happiest acquisition of your life. " Recall to memory the ceremony of your initiation; learn to bridle your tongue and to govern your passions: and ere long you will have occasion to say: ‘In becoming a M,Y I truly became the man; and while I breathe will never disgrace a jewel that kings may prize.’ “ If I live, my son, to reap the fruits of this day‘s labour, my happiness will be complete. I will meet death without terror, close my eyes…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 21

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ilities in the service of your king and your country, and deem the knowledge you have this day attained the happiest acquisition of your life. " Recall to memory the ceremony of your initiation; learn to bridle your tongue and to govern your passions: and ere long you will have occasion to say: ‘In becoming a M,Y I truly became the man; and while I breathe will never disgrace a jewel that kings may prize.’ “ If I live, my son, to reap the fruits of this day‘s labour, my happiness will be complete. I will meet death without terror, close my eyes…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 31

Liber Aleph

…wn Nature, without Desire, and they oppose no Resistance to the Operations of Time. Such are called Happy, and in their Way of Vegetable Life it is so; for they are free of any Poison. m

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1905 · PDF PAGE 237

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…lamp the drooping moun, dear, Our roof, the stars that sing ; The bed, of moss and roses ; The night, as long as death ! Still, breath ! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth ! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden,! The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover Their warm involving deep— Love, sleep |— And lover lies with lover On air’s substantial steep. TANNHAUSER. Ah! sweeter was September— The amber rain of leaves, The harvest to remember, The load of sunny sheav…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 221

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…light, is ruin, may breed love aloud ; jo j s . again, Four angels trumpet, and earth shivers: the Even as darkness brecds the day: when life is slain, heavens shroud Their faces in blank terror for the sound of ° . . . . them : O who will hear my chant, my cry ; my The mountains are disturbed and roar ° the voice who hear, azure hem Even in this weary misery, this danker mere, (hat laps all lands is broken, lashed in fiery Me, in mine exile, who am driven from foam, yonder mountains And all God’s thunderbolts are crashel— Blue-gray, and highla…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 37

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… Sh is Heaven and Earth, T Male and Female j ShT is Spirit and Matter- one is the Word of Liberty and Love flashing its Light to restore Life to Earth j the other is the act by which Life daims that Love is Light and Liberty. And these are Two-in-One, the divine letter of Silence-in-Speech whose Symbol is the Sun in the arms of the Moon. But Sh and T are alike formulae of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not States of existence, but modes of motion. They are verbs, not nouns. Sh is the Holy Spirit as a “tongue of fire” manifest …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 54

Songs of the Spirit

…And binds the stars in adamantine band, And yearns towards the children of His mind. I left their summer and their dewy strand To pass a life of work, alone, unkind, To fight a way toward heaven, mute, desolate and blind. The dusty desert glimmers in the night, A solitary palm-tree shades the well ; I am alone, a weary eremite Striving the secrets of the stars to tell, And every blade of grass that makes the dell Is counted and divined by me, who stare With eyes half blinded by the fires of Hell That my wild brain imagines everywhere, Roaring a…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 120

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…o often flashing at the column-head) Within. I think my lord has written this. And for the child, whose rearing is my care, And in whose life is left my single hope, This writing shall conclude the book of song His father made in worship and true love Of his fair lady, and these songs shall be His hope, and his tradition, and his pride. Thus have I written for the sake of truth, And for his sake who bears his father’s sword— I pray God under my fond guardianship As worthily. Thus far, and so—the end:

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1901 · PDF PAGE 43

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ct love and—I am feeling ill [CORA recovers her mental balance. CORA. A blood-grey vapour and a scorpion steam To poison the unrighteous life of God! [ULRIC looks on in a completely dazed manner, uncomprehending. CORA Zakes razor and puts tt in his hand. Kill yourself. ULRIC, smiling, as tf with some divine and ineffable joy, draws the razor across his throat, cutting in deeply. He falls bleeding. My dear! CORA. That is my duty to my motherhood. Let me now think of all this happening. [She sinks slowly into a chair trembling. She puts her hand …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 77

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…s and bars we strive against in vain , Far o'er the world , and all its triple iron And brazen chain ; Far from the change that men call life ; fled higher Into the world immutable of sleep , We see our loved one , and vain eyes desire In vain to weep . Woeful our gaze , if on lone Earth descendent , To view the absence of yon flame afar Yet in the Heavens , anew , divine , resplendent , Behold a star ! One light the less , that steady flamed and even Amid the dusk of Earth 's uncertain shore ; One light the less , but in Jehovah 's Heaven One …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…pzean! I am the eternal one Winged and white, the flowering rod, I the fountain of the sun, Very God of very God! Iam he that lifteth up Life, and flingeth it afar; I have filled the crystal cup; I have sealed the silver star. I the wingless God that flieth Through my firmamental fane, Iam he that daily dieth, And is daily born again.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…pzean! I am the eternal one Winged and white, the flowering rod, I the fountain of the sun, Very God of very God! Iam he that lifteth up Life, and flingeth it afar; I have filled the crystal cup; I have sealed the silver star. I the wingless God that flieth Through my firmamental fane, Iam he that daily dieth, And is daily born again.

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