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…o art Thou ? o. Omari tessala marax etc. [The Ritual of the S....0of R.... is in silence accomplished. Ix° CLOSING 1. Mouth to mouth and heart to heart! o. For the moment we must part. 1. Time and space renew the illusion. o. Love is swallowed in confusion. 1. Love sustains us eminent Till the hour of Sacrament. o. I love you, and you love me. 1. Now and ever may it be! 1. and o. Hand in hand is heart to heart. Love be with us, though we part. [They greet, as before, and depart. 86
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ROSA IGNOTA For the maidens that float In the heart of the river; And the secret note Sets the waves aquiver Till the naiads arise To hear the choir Of the star-lit skies, And the secret fire Of death and desire. And the rim of the flame Is pierced and torn With the spirits made tame By the breath of the morn, And the life of the fire That surges and swells From the swamp and the mire, From the million hells, And the one soft heaven Where meetly blooms The heart of the seven Supernal dooms. The water of life Still flashes and flows From the hea…
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…hen the wind blows The notes of the lyre To me, O lost Rose! My rose of the world, My rose of the mire, With petals soft-curled O’er the heart of desire,— I am he who shall bear thee; who knows not and knows; Whose heart is impearled In the heart of the Rose. By the bow that is bent, By the veil that is torn, By the strength that is spent, By the babe that is born, By the river of starlight that ceaselessly flows By the god’s starlit tent, Oh, I hail thee, my Rose. So day and her lover, And night and her dream, Have passed thee, Rose, over; And…
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…before thee, and alone, Bearing the fallen mantle of a star; Rose of the world! Istar! Istar! Istar! XV THE BLUE CIRCLE For all the blue heart of the shifting summer, And all the grace of green, the fire of spring Grown olden in the world of space and time— Let the twin worlds rejoice! The sacrilege Of the mystery is unveiled ; there is no word Uttered within the bosom of the spring. But the hornéd satyrs under the beechen boughs Still linger, as the hour of triumph grows In the Ram’s mouth: and the heart of day is torn With the fear of the new…
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… And the waters of the world and the Underworld Are stirred by the quickening breath of the unknown god. Life, a strong pulse within the heart of Day, Glows in the western skies; the morning pales Before the influx of this newer dawn.— This for the argent dream that stands apart, The image of Activity unveiled, The violation of Life by the thorn of Time. Ah! fever of a strong distempered god, Stirred into life by the mystery of birth : Sure and secure is set the secret Way Through all this endless maze of whirling things. Ah! let me pierce to t…
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…Honorius: “Choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke. “ Kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and reduce them to powder. “Eat no meat and drink no wine, that day. “On Tuesday, at dawn, say a mass of the angels. “Trace upon the altar itself, with the feather of the cock dipped in the consecrated wine, certain diabolical signatures (those of Mr. Home’s pencil, and the bloody hosts of Vintras). “On Wednesday, prepare…
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180 THE EQUINOX In the mist, and in the sunshine, and the day! Thou art married to Love, maybe, for Love sits weeping In my desolate heart, nor know I what can ail him, Save it be that thou art fled; immortal Love And mortal Death, and are ye separate still, Even as I and as the unknown Rose? Maybe the Rose is Death, and I am Love, Wed to young Life, and jealous of desire Of Death! Oh, in the cool green colonnades I have lingered late, even till the night’s slow fall, And I have heard the dying voices of day, The market-women’s chatter growing …
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…IGNOTA Vv OF THE ROSE “Tuat love and the lover Are mingled in me Night shall discover: Dreams shall not be The veil of the world that my heart doth disclose : The long night is over, And I am the Rose. “Night, like a cancer, Spread over my breast; There was no answer, No truce to this rest, That, holding the world in a shower of white snows, Chilled the mad dancer Who bore me, the Rose. “ Day, like a vision, Before me is fled; Hate and derision Have fouled my soft bed. In the heart of the water the quenched vision glows ; Unborne, in division, …
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…e, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most inner and supernal dawn, Thou that bearest the torch for the feast of the gods ! In the heart of eld I found thee, and a rose Was thy heart, and a rose thy crown, and tiny rosebuds Girt thy green mantle, and thy yellow hair, Glittered with the dust of the stars! By the river-side Thou camest to me! Oh, the secret night WhenI stared into the water under the moon, Singing and tumbling on its way to the seal The soft stream flowed under the milky stars; And there were poplars by the water-side, Gazi…
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…ce to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to pro- tect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not ; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap th…
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…HE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES It is by charity, finally, that the folly of the cross has become the wisdom of the nations, because every noble heart has understood that it is greater to believe with those who love, and who devote themselves, than to doubt with the egotists and with the slaves of pleasure. II
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…agination makes its creator an idolater; he is obliged to believe in it, and worship it. Our spirit should be silent before Him, and our heart alone has the right to give Him a name: Our Father!
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ROSA IGNOTA When for an age of craft-long loveliness L lay mine head against thy beating heart, And hear thy bosom throb, and soft sighs start Through all thy hot young breath, ah! canst thou guess How the artist longs to frame thy murmured “ yes” In Pavian marble, wrought with subtle art To immortal wonder, so to vend apart The curtains of the tomb with easy stress ? Ah! wert thou here, sweetheart, I would not sing These foolish songs. I only turn to rime When thou art absent ; for thine eyes would bring A light too dazzling for mine eyes; but…
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…ing me up to death; the cool, strong death, Even death I shall slay in the cool, strong colonnades: I shall bear the Rose of life to the heart of death. And death shall lead me back to the shadowy river, The murmuring waters shall mock me then no more. I shall know, and knowing I shall strive again, Shall ever strive until the petals fall! There is no way for me, my darling, now, Save one ; the hour is passed, and I have chosen. I have chosen, and the mellow river calls Insistently; the darkness grows more deep, And night more luminous, yieldin…
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…lies in unknown meadows, and we shall scatter their dew upon the earth. We shall touch the eyelid of the sleeping child, and rejoice the heart of its mother with the spectacle of the beauty of her well-belovéd son! Il THE BINARY TuE binary is more particularly the number of woman, mate of man and mother of society. Man is love in intelligence; woman is intelligence in love. Woman is the smile of the Creator content with Himself, and it is after making her that He rested, says the divine parable. Woman stands before man because she is mother, an…
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…ayer is the flowering of the soul in eternal wisdom and in eternal love. It is the gaze of the spirit towards truth, and the sigh of the heart towards supreme beauty. It is the smile of the child upon its mother. It is the murmur of the lover, who reaches out towards the kisses of his mistress. It is the soft joy of a loving soul as it expands in an ocean of love. It is the sadness of the bride in the absence of the bridegroom. It is the sigh of the traveller who thinks of his fatherland. It is the thought of the poor man who works to support h…
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…st: the woman who complains of her husband to another man; the man who confides to another woman the disappointments or the hopes of his heart,—these do, indeed, betray conjugal faith. The surprises which one’s senses spring upon one are only infidelities on account of the impulses of the heart which abandons itself more or less to the whispers of pleasure. Moreover, these are human faults for which one must blush, 48
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…liquary three hosts, one whole, the two others almost like paste, and as it were kneaded with blood. The whole host bore in its centre a heart in relief on both sides; a clot of blood moulded in the form of a heart, which seemed to have been formed in the host itself in an inexplicable manner. The blood could not have been applied from without, for the imbibed colouring matter had left the particles adhering to the exterior surface quite white. The appearance of the phenomenon was the same on both sides. The Master of Magic was seized with an i…
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… absolute God can no more be denied than He can be proved; He is a reasonable supposition in whom one believes. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God,” said the Master; to see with the heart is to believe; and if this faith is attached to the true good, it can never be deceived, provided that it does not seek to define too much in accordance with the dangerous inductions which spring from personal ignorance. Our judgments in questions of faith apply to 16
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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The devil is the giddiness of the intelligence stupefied by the irresolution of the heart. It is a monomania of nothingness, the lure of the abyss; independently of what it may be according to the decisions of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman faith, which we have not the temerity to touch. As to the reproduction of signs and characters by that universal fluid, which we call astral light, to deny its possi- bility would be to take little account of the most ordinary phenomena of Nature. The mirage in the steppes of Rus…