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1905 · PDF PAGE 36

Orpheus

… Nor Space, nor Time. Above, the Supernal ! Below, the infernal! Of all am I master. On Earth, the diurnal! In all things eternal! Life, love, or disaster! Abiding unshaken, I sleep and I waken On wonderful wings ; In depth and in height, In darkness and light, In weakness and might, In blindness and sight, In mercy and spite, In day and in night, Averse or aright, For dule or delight, I am master of things. ORPHEUS O mother, I fear me! The might of the lyre! 37

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1913 · PDF PAGE 353

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…have fallen the bride will stretch her perfumed veil, and draw them to her. O ye people, clap your hands, and praise the last triumph of love! Death alone will remain dead, and hell alone will be consumed! O nations of Europe, to whom the East stretches forth its hands, unite and push back the northern bear! Let the last war bring the triumph of intelligence and love, let commerce interlace the arms of the world, and a new civilization, sprung from the armed Gospel, unite all the flocks of the earth under the crook of the:same shepherd! Such wi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 353

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…have fallen the bride will stretch her perfumed veil, and draw them to her. O ye people, clap your hands, and praise the last triumph of love! Death alone will remain dead, and hell alone will be consumed! O nations of Europe, to whom the East stretches forth its hands, unite and push back the northern bear! Let the last war bring the triumph of intelligence and love, let commerce interlace the arms of the world, and a new civilization, sprung from the armed Gospel, unite all the flocks of the earth under the crook of the:same shepherd! Such wi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 97

John St. John

…th Adonai, save only if he mean Adonai. And Daleth the Door of the Pylon, is that Tree where- on the Adept of Man hangeth; and Daleth is Love Supernal, that if it be inserted in the word ANI, “ I,” giveth ADNI, Adonai. Subtle art thou and deadly, O Dweller of the Thres- hold (P.S.-—~This name is a bad one. Dweller beside [he Pylon is a better term ; for he is not in the straight path, which is simple and easy and open. He is never “ overcome ” ; to meet him is the proof of having strayed. The Key fits the Door perfectly ; but he who is drunken o…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 271

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ICAE me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich head-dress. Ilove you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come untome! Tome! Tome! Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Drink to me, for I love you! Iloveyou. Jam the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the volup…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 123

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…nd craft of the Magus but glamour. How shall He destroy Himself ? o. Y et the Magus hath power upon the Mother both directly and through love. And the Magus is Love, and bindeth together That and This in His Conjuration. 1. In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth, and send forth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soûl. Yet therein is the Mystery of Rédemption. 2. By his Wisdom made He the Worlds: the World that is God is none other than He. 3. How then shall He end His Speech with Silence ? For He is Speech. 4. He is the First and the La…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 20

Aceldama

…n to sin A damnéd incense in the hellish fire Of human lust—earth’s joys no heaven may win, Pain holds the prize In blood-stained hands; Love laughs, with anguish in His eyes. 2 0

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1904 · PDF PAGE 53

Why Jesus Wept

…’ll be master then ! SIR PERCY. Shame, sweetheart ! ANGELA. You have the strength of mind to defy convention : we dine together : we — O love, how dare you look such looks as these ? — At moonset ride you back, and none the wiser. This always : for did we marry, the law would have its word to say.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 41

Gargoyles

… goal of peace or fame. Sinister, sombre, horrors and hates Lurk in the shadows, under the walls. Light deceives, and the darkness lies. Love there is none; he is child of peace: Joy there is none; she is bride of force: Thought there is none; it is birth:—there fell 35

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1907 · PDF PAGE 50

Rodin in Rime

…! Adonis, awake! thou hast risen above The fear in the forest, the brute in the brake. | Thou art sacred to shrines that are higher than Love! Adonis, awake! 1 Properly the sequel to Mort d’ Adonis on p. 62. 30

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1910 · PDF PAGE 5

The Scented Garden

…........... 81 IX. — The Cherry-Tree ........................... 84 XX. — The Qazi ....................................... 87 XXI. — The Love-Potion ............................ 89 XXII. — The Forehead-Writing ................... 91 XXIII. — Mirrikh ......................................... 93

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1919 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…tion’s cramp. Now were the Desolation fain to stamp The congealed Spirit of Man into the pit, Save that, unquenchable because unlit, The Love of God burns steady, like a Lamp. It burns! beyond the sands, beyond the stars. It burns! beyond the bands, beyond the bars, And so the Expanse of Mystery veil by veil Burns inward, plume on plume still folding over The dissolved heart of the amazéd lover— The angel wings over the Holy Grail!

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1907 · PDF PAGE 250

Collected Works (Vol. III)

INDEX OF FIRST LINES 245 O Self Divine! O Living Lord of Me, ii. 20 O sleep of lazy love, be near, ii. 115 O tearless sorrow of long years, li. 82 O the deep wells and springs of tears! iii. 63 O the gloom of these distasteful tomes, li. 25 O there is edged the waning moon, iii. 36 O the time of dule and teen, i. 87 O thou, of Angels fairest and most wise, ii. 15 O triple form of darkness! Sombre splendour ! iil, 177 Our hair deep laden with the scent of earth, iil, I41 Our love takes on a tinge of melancholy, i. 84 Out of the seething cauldron…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 415

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…erse 18 is really little more than a statement that an irritable frame of mind is bad for meditation. Of course anybody who really ‘bore love,’ etc., as requested would be suffering from softening of the brain. That is, if you take all this in its obvious literal sense. There is a clean way of Love, but it is not this toshy slop treacle-goo. 19. Of teachers there are many; the MASTER-SOUL is one, Alaya, the Universal Soul. Live in that MASTER as ITS ray in thee. Live in thy fellows as they live in IT. Here the killing of the sense of separatene…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 9

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…pon her cheek is deeper red, Half glad, and half repenting what she said. A moment’s struggle, as her form I press :— One soft sad sigh. Love conquers. I possess. A WELCOME TO JABEZ,)} Reprinted from the ‘‘ Eastbourne Chronicle.” GREAT Liberator, come again, Thy country needs thee sadly ; In Scotland Yard they all complain They ‘‘ want” thee, oh! so badly. Thou canst not tell the sighs and sobs That for thy presence yearn ; And the great heart of England throbs With joy at thy return. For many a year prolong thy stay By Portland’s shady harbour…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 216

The Star in the West

… , nor up , but inwards mystically Involving self in self, and light in light . And this was not a pain , but peaceable Like young -eyed love , reviving ; it consumed And consecrated and made savour sweet To our changed senses . And the dual self Of love grew less distinct and I began To feel her heart in mine , her lips mine . Then mistier grew the sense of God without , And God was I , and nothing might exist , Subsist , or be at all , outside of Me , Myself Existence of Existences . This magnificent passage is the very consummation of ideali…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 12

Aceldama

…give up sunlight for that mystic day That beams its torture whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head, to wither Love’s desire ? 1 2

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1899 · PDF PAGE 18

Tale of Archais

10 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Across the velvet sward, towards the brook, That now sang dances over pebble bed, Now sighs of vain love-longing whisperéd, Now broke in madrigals, and now forsook The cadence of its various melody For music’s deepest mood—a silence dim, Now under willows bubbled to the brim, Now over mosses murmured quietly, And now spread out into an azure pool Whose floor was pearl, whose walls were adamant, Behold there came a sylph, whose dreamy eyes Lit all the lawn, clear-glancing, deep and cool ; Whose curls were billowy gold luxu…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 31

Oracles

“ ’TIS PITY—” —FORD. BLOW on the flame ! The charcoal’s vaporous fume Shall hide our shame ! Come, love, within the gloom ! For one last night, sweet sister, be the same ; Come, nestle with me in sweet Death’s hot womb ! Two sunny eyes ! And this is all my ruin ! Two gleaming thighs ! And all to my undoing ! Far-swelling curves in ivory rapture rise Warm and too white—bethink you of the wooing ! A kiss of fire ; A touch of passionate yearning Steals higher and higher— And kisses are returning ! The strong white grasp draws me still nigher and n…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 213

The Winged Beetle

203 L’AMOUR ET LE CRANE Love is seated on the skull Of humanity ; And the mad, malicious fool, Laughing brazenly, Gaily blows his bubbles high In the air apace. Will they reach the stars that lie At the end of space The shining globe—O fragile veil ! Gives one leap supreme, Breaks and spits its soul out, frail As a golden dream. Groans the skull at every puff : “ Peace, I pray thee, peace ! The game is fierce and fond enough— Will it never cease ? “ That which thy babe’s mouth, cruelly fain, Squanders in the scud, Monstrous assassin is my brain…

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