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1907 · PDF PAGE 53

The Star in the West

… I am the Soul that doth create The Gods , and all the kin of Breath . I come from the sequestered state ; My birth is from the House of Death . I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather , and my wings the world enfold . I alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light ; Companies of Spirits follow me ; adore the Lords of Night . Yea , with gladness did they pæan , bowing low before my car , In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. I have risen ! I am gathered as a love…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 189

The Star in the West

… till the flaming forms of Paolo and Francesca rise before us , an everlasting answer to the eternal word of Love . Nay ? kiss in double death -pang , if dare ! Or one day I will strangle you within My heavy hair !? Slowly , and solely through temptation can man be purified . Burns, who was possessed with the happiest knack of striking the nail full on the head , driving it home at one blow , describes this well in his “ Address to the Unco Gude " : What's done we partly may compute But kenna what's resisted . It is this resistance alone which …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 268

The Star in the West

…ar, My sun , my star, the vault that span , Rush in their rude, impassive rages Down to some centre guessed afar By mindless Law ? Their death embrace A simple accident of space ? ? “ In the category of existing things , space being infinite , for on that hypothesis we are still working , either matter fills or does not fill it . In the former , matter is infinitely great ; if the latter , infinitely small . Whether the matter -universe be 1010000light -years in diameter , or half a mile , it makes no difference ; it is infinitely small-in effe…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

777

…ng Illusions . 29 The Red Tincture, Power of Acquiring Wealth 30 Evocation, Pyromancy. . ..... Nitrates . . (31 Works of Malediction and Death Lead . 32 Alchemy, Geomancy, Making of Pantacles . | Bismuth. . 182 bis Invisibility, Transformations, Vision of the | Carbon . . {31 bis

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1913 · PDF PAGE 349

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your greatness : pardon him! “ But is it forbidden to kill the tiger which threatens us?” “Tf it isa tiger with a human face, it is finer to let him devour us,—yet, for all that, morality has here nothing to say.” “But if the tiger…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 349

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your greatness : pardon him! “ But is it forbidden to kill the tiger which threatens us?” “Tf it isa tiger with a human face, it is finer to let him devour us,—yet, for all that, morality has here nothing to say.” “But if the tiger…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 251

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…s So fearfully glaze, beholding Terrors and infamies Like filthy flowers unfolding? Laughter widowed of ease, Agony barred from sadness, Death defeated of peace, Is she not madness ? ” Over and over again he said it, and over and over again I told him the answer. I had indeed been a personifica- tion of the seductress, of the destroying angel. But it had been a nightmare. I had awakened, and he must awake. But he saw not me any more, but his ideal enveloping me congealed into my form. No matter what I said, his fixed idea became constantly stro…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 52

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…e name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost being whose radiance, enlightening the worlds, is also the breath that maketh every God even and Death to tremble before thee — by the Sign of Light appear thou glorious upcn the throne of the Sun. Make open the path of création and of intelligence between us and our minds. Enlighten our understanding. Encourage our hearts. Let thy light crystallize itself in our blood, fulfilling us of Résurrection. A ka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu nur af an nuteru! The PRIESTESS. There is no law beyond Do what thou…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 24

The Sword of Song

…s damned and I was God ! Ay! Let him rise and answer me That false creative Deity, Whence came his right to rack the Earth With pangs of death,70 disease, and birth : No joy unmarred by pain and grief : Insult on injury heaped high In that quack-doctor infamy The Panacea of—Belief ! Only the selfish soul of man Could ever have conceived a plan Man only of all life to embrace, One planet of all stars to place Alone before the Father’s face ; Forgetful of creation’s stain, Forgetful of creation’s pain Not dumb !—forgetful of the pangs Whereby eac…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 35

John St. John

…ness does not now contain. But I swear by Thine own glory that I will not be satisfied with this, that I will go on even unto madness and death if it be Thy will—but I will know Thee as Thou art. It is strange how my cries died down; how I found myself quite involuntarily swinging back to the old mantra that I worked all yesterday. However, I shall try a little longer in the Position of the Hanged Man, although sleep is again attacking me. I am weary, yet content, as if some great thing had indeed happened. But if I lost consciousness— a thing n…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 98

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…t Enter a Messenger. 2ND MESSENGER. The duty οί my lord to his mother! We keep the hounds at bay now. Prince Sliman is like the Angel of Death. No man can stand before him. The Christians tremble, and give back when he rides against them. LAYLAH. A man! A man! He is not hurt? 2ND MESSENGER. Scratches. As if a lion were at play with kittens ! [.₪/1.1111 I am glad he has scratches. Every one shall be sung by the poets as if it were the axe-blow of old Duke Walter. [Again the mailing surges in lhe courtyard. LEDMIYA rushes in. LEDMIYA. Alas, alas,…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 98

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…t Enter a Messenger. 2ND MESSENGER. The duty οί my lord to his mother! We keep the hounds at bay now. Prince Sliman is like the Angel of Death. No man can stand before him. The Christians tremble, and give back when he rides against them. LAYLAH. A man! A man! He is not hurt? 2ND MESSENGER. Scratches. As if a lion were at play with kittens ! [.₪/1.1111 I am glad he has scratches. Every one shall be sung by the poets as if it were the axe-blow of old Duke Walter. [Again the mailing surges in lhe courtyard. LEDMIYA rushes in. LEDMIYA. Alas, alas,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 258

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ckfiring, missing a dead-centre, and eventually trying to climb a tree on Clapham Common. After being announced, he was ushered into the death- 220

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1913 · PDF PAGE 409

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nd fertilizes itself, it struggles, triumphs, destoys, renews; but never aban- dons itself to inertia, because inertia, for it, would be death. It is this original substance to which the hieratic recital of Genesis refers when the word of the Elohim creates light by commanding it to exist. The Elohim said, ‘Let there be light!” and there was light. This light, whose Hebrew name is Wx, aowr, is the fluidic and living gold of the hermetic philosophy. Its positive principle is their sulphur; its negative principle, their mercury; and its equilibra…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 258

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ckfiring, missing a dead-centre, and eventually trying to climb a tree on Clapham Common. After being announced, he was ushered into the death- 220

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1913 · PDF PAGE 409

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nd fertilizes itself, it struggles, triumphs, destoys, renews; but never aban- dons itself to inertia, because inertia, for it, would be death. It is this original substance to which the hieratic recital of Genesis refers when the word of the Elohim creates light by commanding it to exist. The Elohim said, ‘Let there be light!” and there was light. This light, whose Hebrew name is Wx, aowr, is the fluidic and living gold of the hermetic philosophy. Its positive principle is their sulphur; its negative principle, their mercury; and its equilibra…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 37

The Star in the West

30 THE STAR IN THE WEST And verily My life 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 …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 41

777

TABLE IV (continued) 25 CXXII. CXXI1.* CxXX. the ene The Grades of the Order. Magical Images of the of= 0° ‘ . 0 al Death of First- | ro°= 19 Ipsissimus . . . & + e Ancient bearded king seen in pro- 1 born e Locusts . g°= 29 Magus. .... 3 Almost any male image shows 2 some aspect of Chokmah Darkness 8°= 3° Magister Templi \ Almost any female image shows 3 some aspect of Binah Hail and Fire . = 49 Adeptus Exemptus | 3 ( : A mighty crowned and enthroned 4 | 4 Boils. . . .{ 6°= 5° Adeptus Major . fo) : A mighty warrior in his chariot, 5 | mo | arm…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…igorously. His moral force no doubt saved the Europeans of Tengyueh from a panic which might easily have resulted in massacre. After the death, perhaps by poison, of the Consul, the admirable and undervalued Litton, he was the only person who kept his head, and knew how to assert the authority of the white man. So that we must understand that this “black insanity" of which Fra. P. speaks was a private little insanity of his own; it in no way interfered with the normal working of his magnificent and heroic brain. Not to be turned aside from any p…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…igorously. His moral force no doubt saved the Europeans of Tengyueh from a panic which might easily have resulted in massacre. After the death, perhaps by poison, of the Consul, the admirable and undervalued Litton, he was the only person who kept his head, and knew how to assert the authority of the white man. So that we must understand that this “black insanity" of which Fra. P. speaks was a private little insanity of his own; it in no way interfered with the normal working of his magnificent and heroic brain. Not to be turned aside from any p…

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