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1899 · PDF PAGE 109

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…or spite of it! O love, Too pure and fond for those pale gods above, Too perfect for their iron rods to break, Arise, awake, and die for death’s own sake That one forgetfulness may take us three, Still three, still one, to the Lethean sea, That all its waters may be sweet as those We wandered by, sweet sisters of the rose, That perfect night before we fled, we two Who were so silent down that avenue Grown golden with the moonlight, who should be No longer two, but one; nor one, but three. And now it is the spring, the ice is breaking, The water…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 19

Handbook of Geomancy

… | Med. 5 6 Wife, &c. Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Evil Med. Sex of Child 5 5 5 Son Dau. | Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 | Health} Death | Health| Health| Asc. | Health| Health |Perilous quickly Prison 8 | Come | Come | Hard |Longin| Come | Sorrow) Come Die out out | prison | prison | out out Journey 9| Good | Med. | Good | Late | Good | Med. | Med. | Evil good Thing Lost 10| Found | Found| Part | Found | Not Not Not | Found found found | found | found CHAPTER V THE GENERAL MEANING OF THE SIXTEEN FIGURES IN THE TWELVE HOUSES HEREIN follow…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…n the legal advisers of the Order to defend them against their enemies in case of need. EIGHTH HOUSE 63. All Brethren are entitled after death to the proper dis- posal of their remains according to the rites of the Order and their grade in it. 64. If the Brother so desire, the entire amount of the fees and subscriptions which he has paid during his life will be handed over by the Order to his heirs and legatees. The Order thus affords an absolute system of insurance in addi- tion to its other benefits. NINTH HOUSE 65. The Order teaches the only…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 4

The Banned Lecture

…merely shows how badly brought up he must have been ; and explains how it was that he became a dirty little atheist, and repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. No ! No ! that would be quite impossible bad manners. I shall assume that you know everything about Gilles de Rais ; and that being the case, it would evidently be impertinent for me to tell you anything about him. So that we can consider the lecture at an end, and (after the usual vote of thanks) pass on immediately to the discussion, which I think ought to be more amusing, if…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 171

Liber Aleph

…rate of he Ideal. For this Rule, this Uniformity, is proper only to a Prison, and a Man Liveth by Elasticity, nor endureth Rigor save in Death. But whoso groweth bodily by a Law foreign to his own Nature, he hath a Cancer, and his whole Œconomy shall be destroyed by that small Disobedience. b

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1906 · PDF PAGE 139

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…eart! Ah though! If she were a dog I could not do it. She is my sister—— |Zurns wth a cry to throne and flings up his hands. and I will! Death! Death! It is a year to-night. I arrayed her first In yon gold ornaments—-My brain is sick ! I want coffee—or hashish—No! That is for her ! I must be very clear and calm, very clear, very calm, How I must be ill— [Correcting himself with effort.) I I must be. Ha! [Goes to altar, opens it, takes out a flask filled with a clear pale blue liquor with rosy stars of light in 7t, pours it into a long vial, and…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 33

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ny sun or star ; On earth there blooms no rose, no nenu- phar; No cross is set for hope of sacrifice. I cannot sleep, I cannot wake; and death Passes me by with his desiréd breath. No shadow in my mind to prove a sun ; No sorrow to declare that joy exists ; A cycle of dim spectres in the mists Moves just a little; lastly there is One, One central Being, one elusive shape, Not to aspire to, not to love; alas! Only a memory in the aged mass Of chained ones bound to me without escape ! Oh, doom of God! Oh, brand how worse than Cain’s ! Divided bei…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 145

The Star in the West

…f white hands raised up , These perfumed infamies unsung ; For God's breath , her sharp tainted breath ; For marriage - bed , the bed of death . The host is lifted up . Behold The vintage spilt , the broken bread ! I feast upon the cruel cold Pale body that was ripe and red . Only , her head , her palms , her feet , I kissed all night , and did not eat .' 1 Jezebel , vol . i, pp . 131-132 .

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1914 · PDF PAGE 23

Chicago May

…rd to answer the eternal Why, No spell that may subdue the eternal woe ‘That “ you” are somehow different from 11" Lost, lost! O may not death discover spells? Has not the spasm of dissolution charms?

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1898 · PDF PAGE 17

Jezebel

… Touched to the core by sweetnesses that smart ; Bitten by fiery snakes, whose poisonous breath Swoons in the midnight, and dissolves to death ! Ah ! let me perish so, and not endure Thy falsehood who have known thy love was sure, Built up by sighs a palace of long years— Lo ! it was faery, and the spell of tears Dissolves it utterly. O bid them go, These white-faced boys, where calmer rivers flow And birds less passionate invoke the spring Or seek their loves with weaker, wearier wing. Turn back from safety ! Let God’s rivers pour Brimstone an…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 60

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

… like a weeping willow, save that it would not weep ; I left the remains of my Stevie. Not without an effort to get even with the robber Death ! I flung myself upon the dear corpse ; I buggered him night and [58]

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1910 · PDF PAGE 134

Ambergris

… and muse before the midnight calls. The darkness is most deep in hollow dells. There, blacker than Cocytus, lurk the shades Darker than death’s, more terrible than hell’s, Uttering unwritten words : the silent wells Keep their sweet secret till the morning maids

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1904 · PDF PAGE 27

Why Jesus Wept

…not will be. O blind ape ! All these are shapeless ; thou art but a shape, A blind, bad-blooded bat ! Ugh ! Ugh ! The snake Wriggling to death amid his burning brake Is wiser, holier, lordlier. Open, page Of the old Rabbi ! tell me of the mage ; Of him who would ; of him who dared and did ; Of him who feared and failed ; of him who fell ; One peering lightwards through a coffin-lid, One aching heavenwards — and achieving hell ! O let me do and die as they ! The wand, The lamp, the sword, come eager to my hand ; — Or, if I wander now upon the mo…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… | Med. 5 6 Wife, &c. Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Evil Med. Sex of Child 5 5 5 Son Dau. | Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 | Health} Death | Health| Health| Asc. | Health| Health |Perilous quickly Prison 8 | Come | Come | Hard |Longin| Come | Sorrow) Come Die out out | prison | prison | out out Journey 9| Good | Med. | Good | Late | Good | Med. | Med. | Evil good Thing Lost 10| Found | Found| Part | Found | Not Not Not | Found found found | found | found CHAPTER V THE GENERAL MEANING OF THE SIXTEEN FIGURES IN THE TWELVE HOUSES HEREIN follow…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… | Med. 5 6 Wife, &c. Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Evil Med. Sex of Child 5 5 5 Son Dau. | Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 | Health} Death | Health| Health| Asc. | Health| Health |Perilous quickly Prison 8 | Come | Come | Hard |Longin| Come | Sorrow) Come Die out out | prison | prison | out out Journey 9| Good | Med. | Good | Late | Good | Med. | Med. | Evil good Thing Lost 10| Found | Found| Part | Found | Not Not Not | Found found found | found | found CHAPTER V THE GENERAL MEANING OF THE SIXTEEN FIGURES IN THE TWELVE HOUSES HEREIN follow…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 28

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ea Where her eyes dwell, bids them glint amorously, While the intense hushed music of his breath Sighs, till her longing grows divine as death— So, fairer far, drew dawn on Ida’s grove. The young sun rose, whose burning lips of love Kissed the green steeps, whose royal locks of flame Brushed o’er the dewy pastures, with acclaim Of tuneful thrushes shrill with mountain song, And noise of nightingales, and murmur long— A sigh half-sad, as if remembering earth And all the massy pillars of her girth ; Half-jubilant, as if foreseeing a world Fresher…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 18

The God-Eater

…Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma-juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be ! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death

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1905 · PDF PAGE 94

Oracles

…nd I choose the tortured way, And I stand before thy portal, and my face is cold and grey. Thou lovest me with a love more terrible than death ; But thou art in the above, and my wings feel no wind’s breath. Thou art all too fierce and calm, too bitter and sweet, alas ! Thou weavest a cruel charm on my soul that is as glass. I know thee not, who art naked ; I lie beneath thy feet Who hast called till my spirit achèd with a pang too deathly sweet. Thou has given thee to me dying, and made thy bed to me. I shiver, I shrink, and, sighing, lament i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 147

The Scented Garden

…mber slayeth thy podex with its terrible thrusts, he is the living one ! and he pleadeth for all the joys of thy podex, like Azrael6 for death, as- suaging thy desire. My member is the only one that will fit thy po- dex, and he is the most holy on, as the Beyt Ullah is the most holy among mosques ; he is the sole member, like Arafat7 among mountains, assuaging thy desire. My member is unaccompanied in thy podex ; powerful is he, yea ! most mighty, and hasteneth from orgasm to orgasm, like a man bringing tidings of victory, assuaging thy desire.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Book of Lies

…e him king. . Oe=Island, a common symbol of Nibbana. . PS Ain. PY Ayin. . Scil. of Shiva. . Cf. Bagh-i-Mualtar for all this symbolism. . Death=Nun, the letter d¢fore O, means a fish, a symbol of Christ, and also by its shape the Female principle. II2

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