The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 327 (Locke , Hume ), or a mass of consciousness (Berkeley and Fichte ) , all is unity , controversy is verbal , dispute the mere beating of the winds with a tattered fan . Religion is bankrupt , philosophy is bankrupt , science is bankrupt , none will be discharged , we must fend for ourselves . .. Hark ! . We are the poets ! We are the children of wood and stream , of mist and mountain , of sun and wind ! We adore the moon and the stars , and go into the London streets at midnight seeking Their kisses as our birthright . We are the Greeks - and God grant ye all , my brothers , to be as happy in your loves ! and to us the rites of Eleusis should open the door of Heaven , and we shall enter and see God face to face . Under the stars I go forth , my brothers , and drink of that lustral dew : I will return , my brothers , when I have seen God face to face , and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free . Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis , oh ye brave hearts , and cool eyes , and trembling lips ! I will put a live coal upon your lips , and flowers upon your eyes , and a sword in your hearts , and ye also shall see God face to face . Thus shall we give back its youth to the world , for like tongues of triple flame we shall brood upon the Great Deep - Hail unto the Lords of the Groves of Eleusis !' That which was to be said hereon is spoken , Amen without lie , Amen and Amen of Amen . 1 Eleusis , vol . iii , pp . 229 , 230 .