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1913 · PDF PAGE 563

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…are only its instruments, in- struments which sound false in contact with a degraded soul. The wicked can feel nothing, because they can love nothing: in order to love one must be good. Consequently for them everything is empty, and it seems to them that Nature is im- potent, because they are so themselves ; they doubt everything because they know nothing; they blaspheme everything because they taste nothing; they caress in order to degrade; they drink in order to get drunk; they sleep in order to forget; they wake in order to endure mortal bor…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 336

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…to shut one’s self up in one’s own universe. It is not by the exclusion of the Non-Ego that saintship is attained, but by its inclusion. Love is the law, love under will. 14

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1899 · PDF PAGE 7

Tale of Archais

…Heaven, and bud and blade Laugh at the dawn, while breezes lend Their music, till you comprehend The meaning of the world, and sigh— Yet love makes happy in the end This pleasant tale of Thessaly.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 97

Rodin in Rime

… the King Exists, no more; is it a little thing? King Demos, hear my parable! We pass, We poets, see you grovel at our feet, Despise our love, and tender flesh, and wheat, Clamour for lust, and carrion, and grass. 61

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1911 · PDF PAGE 25

Hail Mary

… clod ! Kindle hope in our despair ! Be His saving mercy spilt Like a fountain on our sin ! Match His Godhead with our guilt ! Light the love of GOD within ! O majestic ! O Divine ! O most merciful and pure ! Let our spirits at Thy shrine Humbled, gladden and endure ! Help the weakness of our sight Blind before Thy radiant face ! Bring us to Thy full delight By the ardour of Thy grace ! Darkling doors and dangerous In the ways of life and death :— Cleanse us ! help us ! succour us By the beatific breath ! M 18

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1911 · PDF PAGE 66

Hail Mary

…Mary, cleanse Thine acolyte ! Accept this offering of pain ! Receive Thy neophyte’s devotion, Till to Thy peace he rise again, O star of love on sorrow’s ocean ! Amen. B 59

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1913 · PDF PAGE 37

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Francis Békássy. Over endless waters wind , Chase the fast stream faster ; All but love is left behind : Death shall prove the master ! Now the sparrows cease their cry ; Silence stands appalling. Still and far and deep I'll lie, Where the snow is falling . FRAGMENTARY VIEWS . 1. Waters . ARCHES all green and chestnuts hardly white , Rough grass , and clumpy marigolds I see Within the water : but how changed quite ! A world begins , where tree doth grow from tree . What dusky Earths , what Fires at all compare With thee , what Air , what Shadow…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 451

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…LAWS—eternal Harmony, Alaya’s SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light of everlasting Right, and fitness of all things, the law of Love eternal. Here again is apparently a serious difficulty. The idea of Klesha, here identified with Love of worldly enjoyment, seems to put one back almost before the beginning. Is it now only that the almost-Arhat no longer wants to go to the theatre? It must not be interpreted in this low sense. At the same time, it is difficult to discover a sense high enough to fit the passage. With Tanha it is easier to…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 83

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elementa themselves. But their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. He then, by conscious compréhension of them separatefy and together, becomes the “Angel” of his Angel, as Hermes is the Word of Zeus, whose own voice is Thunder. Thus in this section the adept utters articulately so far as words may, what his Angel is to Himself. He says this, with his Scin-Laeca wholly withdrawn into his physical body, con- straining His Angel to indwell his heart. Line 1. “I am He” ass…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 138

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ck from death’s womb infernal pains, Whose fire consumes, destroys, devours Through night’s insatiable hours. And altogether filled with love, And altogether filled with sin, The little sparks and noises move About the softness of her skin. Her pleasures and her passions purr For the delight I have of her. Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons; my eyes Absorb her eyelids’ lazy light, And read her bosom to devise I'resh blossoms of the heart of hell And secret joys of Jezebel. Her lips are fastened to my breast To suck out…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 175

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…c, the devouring pleasure! the un- A curse of God is on them !—ha ! the curse, The curse that locks them in obscene em- braces ! See how love mocks the melancholy hearse Dressed as an altar: is she nun or nurse, The priestess chosen of the half-formed faces ? An abbess, child of the unsullied eyes ! Why? To blaspheme! Sweet child, dance grows madder. O I am faint with pleasure! Ah! be wise; One measure more, and then—the sacrifice? What victim? Guess—a woman or an adder? the Nay, fear not, baby! In your mother’s hand . You must be safe? that ba…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 450

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…o the exclusive affirmation of passion and diplomacy. It is the perverted and material translation of that great word of St. Augustine: ‘Love, and do what you will!” Compare now this sign with the doctrine of Mr. Madrolle: Ze most imperfect and the most apparently guilty act of love is worth more than the best of prayers. And you will ask yourself what is that force which, independently of the will, and of the greater or less knowledge of man (for Vintras is a man of no education), formulates its dogmas with signs buried in the rubbish of the a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 450

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…o the exclusive affirmation of passion and diplomacy. It is the perverted and material translation of that great word of St. Augustine: ‘Love, and do what you will!” Compare now this sign with the doctrine of Mr. Madrolle: Ze most imperfect and the most apparently guilty act of love is worth more than the best of prayers. And you will ask yourself what is that force which, independently of the will, and of the greater or less knowledge of man (for Vintras is a man of no education), formulates its dogmas with signs buried in the rubbish of the a…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 99

Songs of the Spirit

… is one flame, Whose holy hand Gathers this earth, who built the vaults of space, Moulded the stars, and fixed the iron sea, Because His love lights through my face And all of me. Because my hand may fasten on the sword If my heart falter not, and smite Those lampless limits most abhorred Of iron night, 89

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1899 · PDF PAGE 45

Tale of Archais

…Pale scents, the whole sweet meadow steams. Forth, glittering shoulders, golden head, And tune our lutes to tender themes Among the lost loves of the dead, Snow-hills and streams. The queen clapped dainty hands, caressed of dew, And bade the love-lorn wanderer sing anew. His muse came trembling, soon through starry air it flew. SONG OF CHARICLES Within the forest gloom There lies a lover’s bower, A lotus-flower In bloom.

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1902 · PDF PAGE 101

Tannhäuser

… Forgotten of these younger days, and now Come back among us to receive reward For those long sufferings ; in days of peace. In fruitful love, and marriage happiness. So, to the poet's tourney. Wolfram. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. Landgrave. Ha ! He is not here ! 99

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1908 · PDF PAGE 46

Amphora

…s in pious praise. How then when risen and pure of heart In heaven we see Thee as Thou art ? O let the film of earth and sin Each day by love grow clear and thin ! O let Thy worship done aright Prepare us for the eternal Light ! Amen. A 39

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1905 · PDF PAGE 198

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…The queen had given—how her beauty stank Now in mine eyes, where once their passion drank Its secret sweets of poison. Let the spring Of love once dawn—all else hath little thank! Yet resolute I put my love away. It could not live in this.amazing day. Love is the lotus that is sickly sweet, That makes men drunken, and betrays their feet : Beauty, the sacred lotus: let me say The word, and make my purity complete. The whole is mine, and shall I keep a part ? O Beauty, I must see thee as thou art! Then on my withered gaze that Beauty grew— Rosy q…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 450

Magick Without Tears

…ime will find not much but hobbling! More of this when I answer your letter (just in as I drew rein to read this over) about Education . Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 P.S. On reading this, I note that I passed over with deserved

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1907 · PDF PAGE 161

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…oral and annihilated land, Or though the swarthy hand Or foot misshapen of the Hephaestian, (Hating the air-breathing man, In such sweet love as dwells, above all other places Ilere, in our hearts and faces, Nature’s and man’s) if his coarse hand or foot, The implacable forceful brute, Shifted towards the bellows, and one blast Blew through all the air aghast And in one vast ‘Vitanic war, Almighty avenging roar, Oahu flung skywards blown in dust—and was no more— Even then immortal stands This loveliest of all lands, Lovelier even than they Know…

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