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1907 · PDF PAGE 117

Konx Om Pax

… To match her with the equal boy that shall be master of her fate. “ She shall attain a man to excel her strong satanic womanhood: Their love shall break the mask of wood, reveal the authentic face of Hell." All this the craftsman heard with pride: he called: his sickness and his whore Together at his vitals tore, and rent him that he laughed and died. 50, with the last convulsive shred of spending life, his fingers fold So subtly on that face of gold that all its peace is perfected. 1- * a» i- i- it And there it hangs, a thought obscene, to hau…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 300

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… need of believing is closely linked with the need of loving; for that reason our souls need communion in the same hopes and in the same love. Isolated beliefs are only doubts: it is the bond of mutual confidence which, by creating faith, composes religion. Faith does not invent itself, does not impose itself, does not establish itself by any political agreement; like life, it manifests itself with a sort of fatality. The same power which directs the phenomena of nature, extends and limits the supernatural domain of faith, despite all human for…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 300

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… need of believing is closely linked with the need of loving; for that reason our souls need communion in the same hopes and in the same love. Isolated beliefs are only doubts: it is the bond of mutual confidence which, by creating faith, composes religion. Faith does not invent itself, does not impose itself, does not establish itself by any political agreement; like life, it manifests itself with a sort of fatality. The same power which directs the phenomena of nature, extends and limits the supernatural domain of faith, despite all human for…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 45

Magick Without Tears

… can be turned neatly enough as "Let there be" ; by avoiding the First Pronoun one gets the idea of "the absorption of the Self in the Beloved," which is exactly what you want. "The creative Force of the Universe" is quite ready-made. Pyramis,' a pyramid , is that force in its geometrical form ; in its biological form it is Phallus ,' the Yang or Lingam. Both words have the same numerical value, 831. These two words can therefore serve you as the secret object of your Work. How then can you construct the number 83l? The letter Kaph,2 Jupiter (J…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 127

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… horrible things I see, and try to find beauty in them, or to make beauty; and I write about all the beautiful things I only dream of. I love them all ; yes, even that woman yonder.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 243

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… souls Than so to strive and fighting fall ? Think you that He who sees you, and controls, Did not devise it all? The mountains that you loved have taken you, And we who love you will not weep. Shall we begrudge? Your last look saw sky blue; You will be glad to sleep. Your pure names (thine renowned, yours fresh with youth And full of promise) shall be kept Still in our hearts like mirrors of the truth, As if you had not slept.

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1908 · PDF PAGE 82

Amphora

… word. Accept our prayer, accept our praise, O Thou all praise and prayer above ! O fix our weak and wavering will On Thee, the Queen of Love ! Amen. O 75

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1910 · PDF PAGE 165

The World’s Tragedy

…est ; And if there lack some detail — ISSA Thou art wise Enough to write in all the prophecies Fulfilled. That’s settled, then. JOHN I’d love to see The goggling eyes of duped posterity, Its mouth agape (while priests scoop out its poke) At the wild sequel of our harmless joke. ISSA Only one further fret balls up my brain : — The nuisance, if I have to rise again. JOHN Fear not ! The style suffices. ISSA Then be off, And tell the Seventy my bitter scoff

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1911 · PDF PAGE 21

Hail Mary

…th flowers for a virginal gaud ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Light and the flame of the down-rushing Sword ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Love for maiden and Mother and wife ! Hail unto Mary ! Hail ! for She is the Lady of Life ! Mary crowned ! Amen. 14

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1907 · PDF PAGE 154

Collected Works (Vol. III)

148 ORPHEUS His ray, strange deeps unknown and feared to uncover. But now the ancient root Of some wise oak betrays her to her lover: She stumbles and falls prone: the forest noon Guesses life’s law; all nature’s tune Tells that the hour is come when May musf grow to June. Then in the broad glare of the careless sun Apollo’s light is on her and within ; His shafts of glory pierce her one by one; His kisses darken, shivering and keen, Swift glories cold and clean Of that chaste bridal, and the earth gets gladness, Till the last winter’s traces F…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

777

… . . . . | Carbon o Union with God . Aur. Pot. 1 The Vision of God face to face Phosphorus 2 The Vision of Sorrow Silver 3 The Vision of Love . 4 The Vision of Power. Iron, Sulphur . 5 The Vision of the Harmony of Things (also . 6 The Vision of Beauty Tonmotont . Arsenic . 7 The Vision of Splendour [Ezekiel] Mercury. 8 The Vision of the Machinery of the Universe | Lead . 9 The Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel or of | Mag. Sulph. 10 Adonai Divination . . fll Miracles of Healing, Gift of Tongues, Know- | Mercury. 12 The White linet, Clairvoyance…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 9

Songs of the Spirit

… Priest Speaks. (Boccaccio. Day IV. Tale VIII.) 32 Passover ............................................................ 36 The Violet’s Love-Story ....................................... 37 The Farewell of Paracelcus to Aprile ................... 41 A Spring Snowstorm in Wastdale ........................ 55 In Neville’s Court, Trinity College, Cambridge ..... 59 Succubus .......................................................... 60 A Rondel ............................................................ 63 Nightfall ..............................…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 93

Songs of the Spirit

…ng since, ere God did vex My soul with sacrifice. Pale youth and bloodless maiden Whose breasts have bled, With wrath or mercy laden, By love or terror led, Reproachful or reviling, Some pure and some defiling, Some fearful and some smiling, Some living and some dead. 83

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1910 · PDF PAGE 128

Ambergris

…e ! Adonis, awake ! thou has risen above The fear in the forest, the brute in the brake. Thou art sacred to shrines that are higher than Love ! Adonis, awake !

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1911 · PDF PAGE 82

Hail Mary

… word. Accept our prayer, accept our praise, O Thou all praise and prayer above ! O fix our weak and wavering will On Thee, the Queen of Love ! Amen. O 75

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1913 · PDF PAGE 28

The Book of Lies

…kness, this Heaven which draweth me into Her Womb, this Dome which hideth, which absorbeth, Me. This is The Night wherein I am lost, the Love through which I am no longer I.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 37

The Star in the West

…fe was borne on the dark stream of death Down whirling aeons , linked abysses , columns Built of essential time " 2 we In “ The Violet's Love Story ,” or in “ Dora , have as simple a poem as could be written , and in one of the verses of a chorus in “ Jephthah , " beginning “ There flashes the heart of a rose , one of the most mystical . Here is a furious inspiration in blank verse (the prophet in “ Jephthah " speaks ) : Ha ! The rose has washed its petals , and the blood Pours through its burning centre from my heart . The fire consumes the li…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 183

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…our marriage-melody, We are careless, we Achzean Moulders of our destiny. Hell, it may be, for his playing, Renders Orpheus the decaying Love—in Hell, if Hell there be, I would seek Eurydice ! If she be the demon sister Of my brain's mysterious womb ; If she brand my soul and blister Me with kisses of the tomb; If she drag me where the bistre Vaults of Hell gape wide in gloom ; Little matter ! I have kissed her ! Little matter ! as a loom She has woven love around me, As with burning silver bound me, Held me to her scented skin For an age of de…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 109

Songs of the Spirit

…st bring all the load of fears, Toils of long years, Sorrows of life and agonies of death, Hard caught-up breath, The labouring hands of love, the cheeks of shame, The gloomy flame 99

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1901 · PDF PAGE 97

The Mother’s Tragedy

…han the snowiest violet. So I forge the chains of fire Round our single-souled desire. Heaven and Hell we reck not of, Being infinite in love. Come, my demon-spouse, to fashion The fluidic marriage-bed! Let the starry billows splash on Both our bodies, let them shed Dewfall, as the streams Thalassian On Selene’s fallen head ! Let us mingle magic passion, Interpenetrating, dead, Deathless, O my dead sweet maiden! Lifeless, in the secret Aidenn ! Let our bodies meet and mix On the spirit’s crucifix!

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