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1909 · PDF PAGE 259

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…lows the purification of the Hall and the members by water and by fire, after which the Hierophant orders the Mystic Circumambulation to take place in the Path of Light. The procession of officers and members is then formed in the North, in readiness for the Mystic Circumambulation in the Path of Light. It is formed in the North beginning from the station of the Stolistes, the symbol of the waters of creation attracting the Divine Spirit, and therefore alluding to the creation of the world. Whilst the « Reverse Circumambulation ” has its rise f…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 259

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…lows the purification of the Hall and the members by water and by fire, after which the Hierophant orders the Mystic Circumambulation to take place in the Path of Light. The procession of officers and members is then formed in the North, in readiness for the Mystic Circumambulation in the Path of Light. It is formed in the North beginning from the station of the Stolistes, the symbol of the waters of creation attracting the Divine Spirit, and therefore alluding to the creation of the world. Whilst the « Reverse Circumambulation ” has its rise f…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 54

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…mes upon the ground) knights him to-day. Sir HERPEs Z. I knew he had the O.M. and the F.Z.S.; but this knighthood? StR GRABSON J. He has taken up political economy. He will marry a duchess, Greumoch, too, is doing well. After the—ah—event we all deplored so, he entered the Benedictines at Fort Augustus; and to-morrow they instal him as Lord Abbot. Sir HERPES Z, What? And he a Highlander? S1R GRABSON J. It seems that was a mere disguise; his true name was Jchann Schmidt.! Sir HERPES Z. So? Why the deception? S1R GRABSON J. A Jesuit, no doubt! Bu…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 102

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…w How perfectly I love to watch you so. Wake, lover, wake, but stir not yet the child : Wake, and thy brow serene and low and mild Shall take my kisses, and my lips shall seek The pallid roses on thy perfect cheek, And kiss them into poppies, and thy mouth Shall lastly close to mine, as in the south We see the sun close fast upon the sea ; So, my own heart, thy mouth must close on me. Art thou awake? Those eyes of wondering love, Sweet as the dawn and softer than the dove, Seek no quick vision—yet they move to me And, slowly, to the child. How …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 321

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e devil, as Shaw so bombastically tells it todo. The phantoms which confront the free man are really just hollow turnips in churchyards. Take poor Ambrose, for example. He occu- pies one of the most important positions in New York City. He lives his own life for 15 years or so. Nobody is offended. Nobody is injured. Nothing whatever happens. A pleasant time is had by all. Then, suddenly some one discovers this appalling state of circumstances, and there is Ambrose in peril of Sing-Sing and Matteawan, and all those pretty places on the Hudson. H…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 105

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…rd moping down the street, That youth—scarce thirty—bowed like sixty?” ‘* Oh, A woman jilted him.” ‘‘ Absurd!” ‘ Con- ceit ! Some youths take life—are Puritans, you know!” I heard it, sitting in the window—glowed, Rushed to my wife and kissed her. Lithe and young The rapture of some ardent madness flowed ; And — bye-and-bye —its miracle found tongue. Guess, guess the secret why I burn for you These years so cold to woman as I was! Guess why your laugh, your kiss, your touch run through My body, as it were a tunéd glass ! 1 Holy Queen-—one of th…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 188

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…g toils, and in the blood Mixed with thy poison finds its stibtle rood, Intoxdvating my divinity ! Disaainful hands behind thee, PE imay take Wha joys Towill but thou walt not awike. MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE! TN my distress Pmade complaint to Death : Thy shadow strides across the starry airs Thou comest as a serpent unaware, Striking love’s heart and crushing out min’s Dreath : Thy destiny is even as God saith To mark the impotence of human prayer, Choke hope, sting all but Love; and never care . If man or flower or sparrow perisheth. The…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 125

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… laughter-tuned numbers? So, sun, do you tremble to shake The dews of the night from our slumbers? Yvonne ! So, breeze, too reluctant to take The dews of the night from our slumbers? Light breaks, and the breezes caress Cool limbs and soft eyes and fair faces ; The nightingales carol to bless The dawn of our maiden embraces, Yvonne! The woods wear a lovelier dress In the dawn of our maiden embraces ! PERDURABO.! EXILE from humankind! The snow’s fresh flakes Are warmer than men’s hearts. My mind is wrought Into dark shapes of solitary thought Th…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 11

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…aris, smug and good, that use To point the index scorn, deride The courage of that suicide— I ask you not to quit us quite, But—will you take a bath to-night? Money might make you. Well: but he, What was his wage, what was his fee? Fear fiercer than a mortal fear. Be silent, cowards, leave him here Dead in the Morgue, so waxen pale ! He failed: shall ye not also fail? Ah! love! the strings are little ; The cords are over strong ; The chain of life ts brittle ; And keen the sword of song. Will you not seize in one firm grip Now, as I hold you, l…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 187

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…gs vain I pour in desperate fervour from the lyre. So, baffled by the echoes of hell’s pain, Blinded by grisly glamour of hell’s fire, I take my refuge in the solitude And grandeur of that irony of ire, That mockery of mercy: thus I brood Apart, alone, upon the cause of Things And wait those fearful Three. A lifeless mood Stirs my grey being: ay! no passion springs In flowerless halls as these: awhile the mind Wanders on void unprofitable wings No whither : gains new strength at last to find Custom breed sight and hearing: in the hal] The sound…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 155

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…hey smile and call it love, Or, mocking, call it hatred: it is Fate. These grey eyes close to the deceitful dream Of death that will not take the tired for ever, Again, again, revolves the orb; the stream, The dew, the cloud, the ocean, and the river, My magic wand and cup and sword and spell Languish, forgotten fears. The cup is filled with tears ; The sword is red with blood; the pentacle Builded of flesh; the wand its snake- head rears Swift energy : my labour is but lost. I, who thus thought all things to end, Find in the void no friend. I …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 191

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…o are ye? Poor judges of the dead, In your stern eyes the sadness is mine own, Mingled with sense that all your forces dread Are vain to take the spirit from one stone. I would have called to ye in wild strong joy; ** Arise, O Lords of Justice, and be girt With lightnings, and be ardent to destroy This Fool’s creation and to heal its hurt !’? Ye are vain, But yet the damned With swift annihilation Alas! poor powers ! rejoice Hearing the splendour, prophet in my strain, And certain comfort in my mighty voice. For this shall be, that in the utter…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 203

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…n | That coils its nameless terrors, and its dire | fear round my heart ; a devil cold as ice Breathes somewhere, for I feel his shudder take My veins: some deadlier asp or cockatrice Slimes in my senses: I am half awake, Half automatic, as I move along Wrapped in a cloud of blackness deep .as hell, i Hearing afar some half-forgotten song As of disruption ; yet strange glories dwell | Above my head, as if a sword of light, | Rayed of the very Dawn, would strike within

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1909 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…d form of Osiris between Isis and Nephthys. And in this position doth the fourth and final consecration by the Goddesses of the Balances take place; the Aspirant for the first time standing between the pillars, at the point wherein are localised the equilibrated forces of the Balances, and meanwhile the Kerux goeth to the North in readiness for the Circumambulation, so as to link the latter with the final consecration of the Candidate. The Stolistes then says: “ Frater X Y Z, I finally consecrate thee by water.” And the Dadouchos : “ Frater X Y…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…d form of Osiris between Isis and Nephthys. And in this position doth the fourth and final consecration by the Goddesses of the Balances take place; the Aspirant for the first time standing between the pillars, at the point wherein are localised the equilibrated forces of the Balances, and meanwhile the Kerux goeth to the North in readiness for the Circumambulation, so as to link the latter with the final consecration of the Candidate. The Stolistes then says: “ Frater X Y Z, I finally consecrate thee by water.” And the Dadouchos : “ Frater X Y…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 243

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ENUS. Let its old sleepy fragrance lull thee now, Yet madden thee in brain and sense and soul, Mixing success with infinite despair. So; take our secret back to sleep with us :— And in that sleep I know that thou wilt choose

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1907 · PDF PAGE 253

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ands, ili, 115 Whence the black lands shudder, ii. 55 When God bethought Him, i. 10 When God uplifted hands to smite, i, 82 When I go to take Pansil, ii. 194 When illegitimate criticism is met with a smart swing on the point of the jaw, lil. 10g When I think of the hundreds of women, i. 195 When the chill of earth black-breasted, ii. 283 When the countenance fair, i. 76 When the wearily falling blossom of midnight, iii, 67 Where, in the coppice, oak and pine, i. 169 Where was light when thy body came, ii. 9 Whether we adopt Herbert Spencer's di…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 257

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e Chapter of Rose Croix or the Lodge Masters. Its verdicts are without appeal, unless a member of the Electoral College give sanction to take the case to the Areopagus of the Eighth Degree. All members of the Order, even of higher grades, are subject to the Grand Tribunal. “The next grade is that of Prince of the Royal Secret. Every member of this degree is devoted to the Propagation of the Law in a very special manner; for this grade is the first in which the Beginning of the Inmost Secret is declared openly. He will therefore, by his personal…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 316

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…And we have yet another complaint. He has apparently gone over almost wholly to the Spiritists, and he has allowed him- self at times to take a very crude flag-waving attitude about National psycho- logies. I should like to point out that every case of supernormal phenomenon is ex- plained fully if we accept the Rosicrucian teaching with regard to elementals. There is no space for detailed exposition of these points, but those familiar with the theory will find no difficulty at all in applying it to any particular case. This book is decidedly s…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 129

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…reedy—gold and feast Pour from the poor folk to their hands. The doubtful power from heaven to strike The levin bolt they claim alike. I take no heed of trickery played By cunning mad Elijah’s skill, When the great test of strength was made On Carmel’s melancholy hill, And on the altar-stone the liar Cried ‘‘ Water,” and poured forth Greek fire ! Then while the fools peer heavenward, Even as he prays, to see the skies Vomit the flash, his furtive sword Fast to the flinty altar flies. Whoof! the wild blaze assures the clods Jehovah is the God of…

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