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…llations shone ; Numberless aeons brought us hither ; Niumberless aeons beckon us on. The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Here, in the Dusk of Gods, I linger; The world awaits a Word of Truth. Kindle, O lyre, beneath my finger ! Evoke the age’s awful youth! To arms against the inveterate wrong ! Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Sand-founded reels the House of Faith ; Up screams the howl of ruining sect ; Out from the shrine flits the lost Wraith ; ‘God hath forsaken Ilis elect !” Confusion sweeps upon the throng— Awa…
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…ne Of very Time, and plunge success False-winged into sure-foot distress ! Hail to black Ares! Warrior, hail ! Thou glory of the shining sword ! What proven armour may avail Against the vengeance of the Lord? Athena’s favour must withdraw Before the justice of thy law ! Hail to the Lord of glittering spears, The monarch of the mighty name, The Master of ten thousand Fears Whose sword is as a scarlet flame ! Hail to black Ares! Wild and pale The echo answers me: All Hail! EXPLICIT ACTUS QUINTUS.
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…rificed to that goat! a crown every day. The second a phallus. The third a silver vase of blood. The fourth a royal sceptre. The fifth a sword. The sixth a heart. The seventh a garland of flowers. The eighth a grass-snake. The ninth a sickle. And the tenth week did he daily offer up his own body. Said the goat: ‘‘Though I be not an ox, yet am la sword.” ‘‘ Masked, O God!” cried the Adept. ‘‘ Verily, an thou hadst not sacrificed—’”’ There was silence. And under the Goat's throne was a rainbow? of seven colours: our Father fitted himself as an ar…
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…oat and teeth the lie ! | JASON. Boy’s bluster ! MADNESS. Justice will be satisfied. It will be best to flee! JASON, But what is this? A sword? I scorn a sword. I scorn a boy. Let none suppose me fearful ! MEDEA, Give not back ! MADNESS. It will be finer far to go away As those disdaining aught but their own love. MEDEA. Ay ! let us leave these folk’s ingratitude, My husband ! in thy love alone I rest. This splendour and this toil alike resume Our life from the long honeymoon of love We wish at heart.
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…thering simples for her daughter that had died to bury her withal. Now no simples grew in the desert. Therefore our Father drew with his sword lines of power in the sand, so that a black and terrible demon appeared squeezing up in thin flat plates of flesh along the sword-lines. So our Father cried: ‘¢Simples, O Axcaxrabortharax, for my mother!” Then the demon was wroth and shrieked : ‘‘ Thy mother to black hell! She is mine!” So the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that fiend of the pit. But our Father paid no…
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ACTUS PRIMUS 87 JASON. Where is the son of ‘Tyro and Poseidon? MEN. Iolchus’ King has here a dwelling-place. WOMEN. See you the sword shake—and the iron hand Not shaking? The man’s mood is full of wrath. MEN. Peace, foolish! Were it so, we would not see. WOMEN. Ay me! this stranger seems most ominous. JASON, Where is the son of Tyro and Poseidon? MEN. This is the Palace-place of Pelias, Son of Poseidon, of Iolchus King. JASON. Iolchus’ King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great A…
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… head, and rejoiced in that Kingdom for the space of two hundred and thirty and one days * and nights, and turned him toward the Flaming Sword.? Now the Sword governeth ten mighty King- doms, and evil, and above them is the ninefold lotus, and a virgin came forth unto him in the hour of his rejoicing and propounded her riddle. The first riddle : + Griphus I. The maiden is blind. Our Father: She shall be what she doth not. And a second virgin came forth to him and said : The second riddle: Detegitur Yod. Griphus IT. Quoth our Father: The moon is…
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…, and from that the eyelid had been torn. A prodigious beard had she, and all of white: and they wist he would have smitten her with his sword. But he would not, and she propounded unto him the tenth riddle: Countenance beheld not countenance. So thereto he answered: Our Father, blessed be thou !— Countenance ? Then they brought him the Sword and bade him smite withal: but he said : If countenance behold not countenance, then let the ten be five. And they wist that he but mocked them; for he did bend the sword fivefold and fashioned therefrom a…
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…d she laughed and let him pass. Now is our Father come to the Unstable Lands, ’Od wot, for the Wheel whereon he poised was ever turning. Sworded was the Sphinx, but he out-dared her in riddling : deeper pierced his sword: he cut her into twain: her place was his. But that would he not, my Brethren ; to the centre he clomb ever: and having won thither, he vanished. As a hermit ever he travelled and the lamp and wand were his. In his path a lion roared, but to it ran a maiden, strong as a young elephant, and held its cruel jaws. By force he ran t…
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…enger? JASON. Her cause is Jason’s. Jason therefore speaks. PELIAS. Aha! A suppliant to our clemency ! I did mistake the gesture and the sword Angrily gripped, the foot flung terribly Foremost, the fierce, constrainéd attitude. But—as a suppliant ! Tell thy woeful tale, Sad youth ! Some woman thou hast loved and lost ? JASON. Thou hast robbed me of this kingdom. Thou hast kept My father (poor half-witted man !) a slave And parasite about thy court (one grief The more I add to this account of thine !) Myself a babe thou didst seek out to slay, A…
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CONTENTS Vil THE SWORD OF SONG PRELIMINARY INVOCATION— NOTHUNG . . INTRODUCTION TO ‘‘ ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST ” ASCENSION Day. PENTECOST . . . . NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST— NOTE TO INTRODUCTION NOTES ‘}O ASCENSION DAY. NOTES TO PENTECOST. AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS RO- SARUM PAGE 140 141 141 144 164 185 190 203 212 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS— I. IT, Ill, IV. V. VI. VI. VITl. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. 225 226 226 226 227 227 227 228 228 229 230 231 231 nMwvsxia— AN ESSAY IN ONTOLOGY . SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM-- I. IT. ITT. IV. V. VI. VII. VITI. I…
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184 THE SWORD OF SONG Christian mystics not true Christians, What think ye of Crowley? His interlo- cutor dis- missed, not with a jest, but with a warning. Poet yawns. cum ! Now who dares Call me no Christian? And, who cares? Read ; you will find the Master of Balliol, Discarding Berkeley, Locke, and Paley, ’Il Resume such thoughts and label clear “My Christianity lies here !” With such religion who finds fault? Stay, it seems foolish to exalt Religion to such heights as these, Refine the actual agonies To nothings, lest the mystic jeer ‘‘ So l…
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THE SWORD OF SONG CALLED BY CHRISTIANS THE BOOK OF THE BEAST 1904 TO MY OLD FRIEND AND COMRADE IN THE ART BHIKKHU ANANDA METTEYA AND TO THOSE FOOLS WHO BY THEIR SHORT-SIGHTED STUPIDITY IN ATTEMPTING TO BOYCOTT THIS BOOK HAVE WITLESSLY AIDED THE CAUSE OF TRUTH I DEDICATE THESE MY BEST WORDS [This book is so full of recondite knowledge of various kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage, this has been done.} ‘“You are sad!” the Knight said, in an anxious tone; ‘‘let me sing you a song to comfort you.” * ‘*Ts it very…
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198 THE SWORD OF SONG all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. But always to the very end his power is un- exhausted, immense, terrible. His delirium does not amuse; it appals! A man whocould conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of Boundless Love, That this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. He might have been so great! He missed Heaven! ‘Think kindly of him! 169. Correctly rhyme…
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…cant throne. Dogs! Who dares break on me? ‘‘ Dread lord ! Mightiest of monarchs !”—‘‘ Cease, thou crow ! Thine errand ! ere the eunuch’s sword Snatch thy bald head off at a blow.” “* Mercy, World’s Light !” Swings clear and clean The call ‘‘ Room for the Queen! The Queen !” Strong as a man, the Queen strides in. Even she shrank frighted !—my aspect More dreadful than all shapes of sin Her dreams might shape or recollect, Hideous with fasting, madness, grief, Beyond all speaking or belief. But the first glance at those bold eyes! Ah! let me flin…
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170 THE SWORD OF SONG Recapitulation of principal cos- mic theories.. Bard check- mates himself. Consciousness and Christi- anity. , Dhyana and Hinduism. Sammasa- madhi and Buddhism. — You know for me the soul is nought “6 Save a mere phantom in the thought, That thought itself impermanent, Save as a casual element With such another may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity, But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state. (Ask chemists else!) So I must claim Spirit and ma…
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180 THE SWORD OF SONG Destroying passion, feeling, thought, 630 The very practice you have sought Unconscious, when you work the best. I carry on one step firm-pressed Further than you the path, and you For all my trouble, comment : “ True! 635 “ Auto-hypnosis. Very quaint!” No one supposes me a Saint—* Some Saints to wrath would be inclined With such a provocation pecked ! But I remember and reflect , 640 That anger makes a person blind, And my own “ Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. Objec…
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150 THE SWORD OF SONG Lord George Sanger * on the Unknowable. How the crea- tures talk. He tells me when I cite the “ Fall” ‘‘ But those are legends, after all.” He has a hundred hills * to he in, But finds no final ditch * to die in. ‘“* Samuel was man ; the Holy Spook Did not dictate the Pentateuch.” With cunning feint he lures me on To loose my pompoms on Saint John ; And, that hill being shelled, doth swear His forces never had been there. I got disgusted, called a parley, (Here comes a white-flag treachery !) Asked: “ Is there anything you…
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176 THE SWORD OF SONG Fact replacing folklore, the Christian snig- gers. Let him beware, For I speak subtly. Resultsof prac- tice. ‘The poet abandons all to find ‘Truth. Known as I know my consciousness, That all division’s hosts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind! Why, fool, I think { am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, O…
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154 THE SWORD OF SONG My own vague optimism. Im- possibility of tracing cause back or effect forward to the ultimate. Ethics individual. Exactly ! Grown my mental stature, I ponder much: but never yet © Can I get over or forget That bitter text’s accursed nature, The subtle devilish omission,*” The cruel antithesis implied, The irony, the curse-fruition, The calm assumption of Hell’s fevers As fit, as just, for unbelievers— These are the things that stick beside And hamper my quite serious wish To harbour kind thoughts of the “ Fish.” °8 Here g…