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1906 · PDF PAGE 89

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…most perish, with one thought Crowned and completed, consecrate and shrined : A perfect temple of fine amber wrought, Whose shrine’s the body and whose lamp the mind. The heart is priest and sacrifice in one ; And, where it sinned or sorrowed, shall atone. 1 Proserpine, ravished by Hades, was sought by her mother Demeter. But as she had eaten (a pomegranate) in Hell, Hades retained a claim upon her for half the year. See Forty- eighth Day. THE FORTY-SIXTH DAY. “ Because I love you, I will let you‘know : cee ee my wife . . . like a fountain with…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 52

Moonchild

…, and was at present engaged on writing a scenario for moving pictures in which he was to incorporate the facts of psychical research. Nobody in the world was better aware than he that everything reliable could be packed into a single reel, and rattle, but he had undauntedly contracted for a series of fifty five-part pictures. He chewed his chocolate — his latest specific for averting the perils of more complex nutrition — with no idea that these activities might damage his reputation as a research student. And he was really a very clever man, …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 246

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ssionate hatred, what infernal pains, Mixed with thy being in the womb of Death? Blistering fire runs, Scorching, terrific suns, Through body and soul in this abominable Marriage of demon power Subtle and strong and sour, A draught of ichor of the veins of Hell! Curses leap leprous, epicene, unclean, The soul of the Obscene Incarnate in the spirit: and above Hangs Sin, vast vampire, the corrupt, that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world, and flaps for lust of Death —and Love! VENUS. This man was drained of music! Five new songs Chase the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 67

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…sty when I sing So softly to you and hold you in my hands, Do you love these You wild, wee wonder of wisdom? Now I bring My lips to your body and touch you reverently, Knowing as I know what Gabriel under- stands When he spreads his wings above for canopy When you would sleep, you frail angelic thing Like a tiny snowdrop in its own life curled— But oh! the biggest heart in all the world! XI. MARY. Mary, Mary, subtle and softly breathing, Look once eager out of the eyes upon me, Draw one sigh, resign and abide in maiden Beauty for ever ! Love me…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 178

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ant band, Rises more splendid.” sand ! Two loves are one ; but O to their dividing! Spin the rope of Fertility—distaste’s adoption ! Her body’s growth—desire’s mortality ! I look and loathe. Behold how lovers die, And immortality puts on corruption ! ASMODEL.! Cat. down that star whose tender eyes Were on thy bosom at thy birth ! Call, one long passionate note that sighs ! Call, till its beauty bend to earth, Meet thee and lift thee and devise Strange loves within the gleaming girth, And kisses underneath the star Where on her brows its seven r…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…eived a star and crescent above me, and a cross dimly formu- lated in the background. After this, the astral seemed to coincide with the body; but consciousness of the astral surroundings was still clear. Continued to raise consciousness, and to send out thoughts of Love. Perceived around me innumerable streams of thought, interlacing and like a net-work, and when the Love-thought was sent out, the whole net sparkled, as with little specks of gold. Continued in this thought for some minutes, and gradually returned to normal. Gave thanks and ent…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 92

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…e tongue licks mine, twin asps like moons that curl, Red moons of blood! claws, Like a white swan raping a jet-black girl, Whose catlike body Mine, with hysteric laughter! O white cat! QO windy star blown sideways up the sky ! Twin cat, twin star, ’lis night; the owl and bat Ifoot, scream; ‘tis us they call--to love or (ie. Twin cat, our broomsticks wait: we’ll fly afar ! We'll blaze about the unlighted sky, twin star ! ALI AND HASSAN, FROM TIT ALF LAYLAIL WA LAYLALL, Att bade Hassan to his house to sup. They ate, passed round the full forbidde…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 124

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…r, One long regret, one agony of shame, Lost in the fragrance, speeding, subtle and rare, Up to the sky, an avenue of Hamc! My soul, thy body, in the same sin curled, With vivid lust annihilate the world. A WVODLAND IDYLL. FResH breath from the woodland blows sweet O’er the flowery path we are roaming, On the dimples of light lover’s feet In the mystical charm of the gloaming, Yvonne! On the buds that blush bright as we meet In the mystical charm of the gloaming ! A tear for the stars of the night, And a smile for the avenue shady, A kiss for t…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 187

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…et Black as the wind of frost ; but oh! her face ! Whoso may know it is no more a man, But walks with God, and sees the Lady sweet Whose body was the vehicle of yrace. WEDLOCK. A SONNET. I saw the Russian peasants 1! build a ring Of glowing embers of the bubbling pine. In the green heart o’ the salamander line They scatter roses. Now the youngsters spring Within, who with hard-shut eyes hope to bring Irom out the fiery circle one divine Blossom of rose, as from a poisonous mine Gold comes to gird the palace of a king. Envious I sprang—and found…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 4

John Yarker – In Memoriam

… been admitted in 1823 and 1833. In 1869 he was admitted into L’Ordre du Temple, the continuation of the Knights Templars in Paris. This body claims an uninterrupted succession of Grand Masters from the time of Jacques de Molay, who, it is said, invested as Grand Master Marc Larmenius in 1307, when the Order was first impugned, before he himself perished at the stake. Later, Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, and several scions of the French Royal Family, were Grand Masters. It was a time of much activity, a Masonic Renaissance, in which the Very Illustr…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 73

Moonchild

…come down to a simple practical point. Here is a soul anxious to communicate with other souls. He can only do it by obtaining a mind and body. Now you'll notice, taking that cone image of ours again, that any section of it is always one of three regular curves. It would not fit into a square, for example, however you turned it. And so our soul has to look about for some mind which will fit one of his sections. There is a great deal of latitude, no doubt; for the mind grows, and is at first very plastic. But there must be some sort of relation. …

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1935 · PDF PAGE 11

One Star in Sight

…atever he does leaves him without temptation to wander from the way of his True Will. Secondly, he must keep silence, while he nails his body to the tree of his creative will, in the shape of that Will, leaving his head and arms to form the symbol of Light, as if to make oath that his every thought, word and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty—symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… been admitted in 1823 and 1833. In 1869 he was admitted into L’Ordre du Temple, the continuation of the Knights Templars in Paris. This body claims an uninterrupted succession of Grand Masters from the time of Jacques de Molay, who, it is said, invested as Grand Master Marc Larmenius in 1307, when the Order was first impugned, before he himself perished at the stake. Later, Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, and several scions of the French Royal Family, were Grand Masters. It was atime of much activity, a Masonic Renaissance, in which the Very Illustr…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… been admitted in 1823 and 1833. In 1869 he was admitted into L’Ordre du Temple, the continuation of the Knights Templars in Paris. This body claims an uninterrupted succession of Grand Masters from the time of Jacques de Molay, who, it is said, invested as Grand Master Marc Larmenius in 1307, when the Order was first impugned, before he himself perished at the stake. Later, Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, and several scions of the French Royal Family, were Grand Masters. It was atime of much activity, a Masonic Renaissance, in which the Very Illustr…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 35

Moonchild

…tood the wines in cohorts. There was hock from the cellars of Prince Metternich; there was Burgundy — a Chambertin that could have given body to a ghost, and hardly lost its potency; there was a Tokay that really was Imperial; there was 1865 brandy made him 1865 — which is as rare as radium in pitchblende. Simon Iff took it upon himself to explain his apparent lack of hospitality toward the visitors. "Akbar Pasha came here for blood: a drop of your blood, my dear; Cyril's and mine are not in his power — you saw how contemptuously the boy played…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 85

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…_ I am lost In thought beyond all cost— Nay, but my spirit breaks chain That held it down. The pain Of death is past and I am free. This body, dead, must lie Till Thou come home again, O soaring Soul. The gates supernal roll ! Flash through them, O white-winged, white- blossom ghost ! Ah, God! for I am lost. [ JEPHTHAH remazis motzonless.* [Morning dawns. the slender Nay, I, Enter JARED, Soldiers, Prophet. SOLDIERS. Hfail, captain! We are ready now for death, Or victory, if shining wings are fain To hover over dauntless hearts. Behold Our ready…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 168

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… 2.15 I climbed up towards the mountain till I found a secluded spot; there I knelt down and did breathing exercise. Felt Prana all over body. Invoked Adonai and tried to unite with Him. A brilliant White light filled sphere of consciousness. Arose as Adonai, performed the Ritual of Pentagram, then prayed aloud and fluently, trying to unite consciousness with all Nature. Knelt again in Meditation, and arose much strengthened and with a feeling of the Divine Presence. (This is excellent for a beginner. But remember—all these divine illumina- tio…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 181

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…low the words creep forth as a sleepy and deadly flood. They glitter, those Satanic eyes ! now. with ‘‘ Beast! I gave you my soul and my body to.all your lust ! feast ! I am damned in Ilell for the kisses we sucked from death ! Now remorse is yours, and love is fallen in dust-— I shal] seek Him again for its sacramental breath ! Yes, fear the gold that glitters from these eyes !” She took a dagger, and I could not stir. She pierced my silent fascinated breast. She held me with the deadly look of her. I cried to Mary in the House of Rest : ‘‘Q M…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 44

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…utiful woman wreathed with myrtle. She | A man with distorted face and hands, a horse’s | 18 holds a lyre and sings of love and gladness body, white feet, and a girdle of leaves man crowned with a white myrtle wreath | A man in sordid raiment, with him a nobleman | 19 holding a bow on horseback, accompanied by bears and dogs Tall, fair, large man, with him a woman holding | A virgin clad in linen, with an apple or pome- | 20 a large black oiljar granate . A man, dark, yet delicious of countenance . . | A dark man, in his right hand a spear and …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 55

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…s this bear on the case ? SIR GRABSON J. Dying without issue, he has left all to Sir Percy here ; the King (cheers from large but unseen body of retainers, who have been eavesdropping), moreover, unwilling that the Marquisate should die out, will bestow it on the same lucky young fellow. SiR HERPES Z, This is marvellous news ! S1R GRABSON J. Again, Lady Baird has just perished in awful agony. Having suffered for twenty years from a hideous and incurable disease, she brought matters to a climax last night by falling into a barrel of boiling sulp…

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