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…tter is My Name. I am the Heart of Jesus girt about With the Swift Serpent ! I, Osirified, Stand in this Hall of Twofold Truth and say : Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, O Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light ! Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods ! O Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy King Ineffable, O Consciousness Divine I whose white Presence, even I, a god, A god of gods, prostrate myself and say : I am the spark of Thine abundant flame. I am the flower, and Thou…
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THE NATIVITY CHRISTMAS 1897 THE Virgin lies at Bethlehem. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) The root of David shoots a stem. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) She lies alone amid the kine. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) The straw is fragrant as with wine. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) Mine host protects an honest roof. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) His spouse sniffs loud and holds aloof. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) The Angel has not come again. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) Why did God deal her out such pain ?…
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… INVOCATION The clinging skirts of Time. My place is fixed In the abyss beyond all Stars and Suns. I AM, the Resurrection and the Life ! Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, the Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light !
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30 THE NATIVITY Joseph drinks deep outside the inn. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She is half hated by her kin. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) The agony increases fast. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) Each spasm is a holocaust. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) There are three kings upon the road. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice cursed the name of God. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) There stands her star above the sky. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice prayed that she may die. (O Holy …
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…tiation’s dangerous path And groping aspiration, came I forth Where the White Splendour shone upon the Throne, Even to the Temple of the Holy Ones : Now, by that Light, come forth, I say, to me, My Lady of the Starlight and the Moon ! Come and be absolute within my mind, That I may take no dim remembrance back To drown this glory with earth’s quivering gloom. But, O abide within Me ! Every hour I need the lofty and the limpid stream Of that White Brilliance : Leave me not alone, O Holy Spirit ! Come to comfort me, To draw me, and to make me man…
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…upon the Universe Are set in rolling clouds, in thunder-gusts, In vivid flame, and tempest : but to me, Balanced between them, burns the holy light Veilless, one liquid wheel of sacred fire, Whirling immutably within itself And formulating in the splendid sun Of its white moony radiance, in the light Of its immaculate eternity, Thy glorious vision ! O thou Starlight face, And crownèd diamond of my self and soul, Thou Queenly Angel of my Higher Will, Form in my spirit a more subtle fire Of God, that I may comprehend the more The sacred purity of…
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…hee, thee, thee only I invoke ! O Soul Of my own spirit, let thy fervid eyes Give me their light : for thou dost stand, as God Among the Holy Ones. Before the gods Thy music moves, coequal, coeterne, Thou, Lord of Light and Life and Love ! Come forth ! I call thee in the holiest name of Him Lord of the Universe, and by His Name, Osiris perfected through suffering, Glorious in trial : by His Holy Name, Jesus, the Godhead passing through the gates Of Hell, that even there the rescuers Might find the darkness, and proclaim the light ; For I invoke…
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…e Supernal Gleam Through the red Cross of Calvary : Come forth, My actual Self ! Come forth, O dazzling one, Wrapped in the glory of the Holy Place Whence I have called thee : Come thou forth to me, And permeate my being, till my face Shine with thy light reflected, till my brows Gleam with thy starry symbol, till my voice Reach the Ineffable : Come forth, I say, And make me one with thee : that all my ways May glitter with the holy influence, That I may be found worthy at the end To sacrifice before the Holy Ones : That in thy Glory, Strength,…
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…odhead shine Through all the luminous aethers of the air Even to earth, thy footstool ; unto me Who by these sacred invocations draw The holy influence within myself, To strengthen and to purify my will And holy aspiration to thy Life. Purge me and consecrate until my heart Burn through the very limit of the veil, And rend it at the hour of sacrifice * Versified from the Manuscript called “ ”.2Z ni ש fo ש 6I
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…be hurled, rib-shattered by the shock ; And the loud populace exclaimed “ Alack ! ”, Their favourite foiled. But oh ! the royal stock Of holy kings from Christ to Charlemagne Hailed him, anointed him, fair lock by lock, With oil that drew incalculable gain From those six olives in the midst whereof Christ prayed the last time, ere the fatal Wain
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… the latter-day poets.”— Cambridge Magazine. Songs of the Spirit. 3s. 6d. A collection of delicate lyrics, illustrative of the vague yet holy aspirations of adolescence. “ We shall be sorry if any one who cares much for verse in itself, who is curious of new tendencies in contemporary poetry, and values the articulate expression of an individuality, should miss a little book of unusual quality called ‘ Songs of the Spirit,’ by Aleister Crowley (Kegan Paul and Co., 8vo, pp. 109, 3s. 6d.). We have read it with admiration for its intense spiritual…