The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS When the sun sinks, and royal rays Of moonrise flash across the day‘s. [He rise: and/"aces altar. 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 paean, 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 lovely hawk of gold, I the first—born of the Mother in her ecStasy of old. Lo! I come to face the dweller in the sacred snake of Khem; Come to face the Babe and Lion, come to measure force with them! Ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth’s before the Sun, As the earth’s before the sunset, and the God and I are One. I who entered in a Fool, gain the God by clean endeavour; I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever. [He lurus and falls dasþing SOL'S feel. All þmsz'mte themselves in adoration. SOR. SCORPIO film/5 her solar?ששחה [SOL in ARIES recites : The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn ; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star. Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. * Papillon: Bohm.