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…ught me, and held me, and bound me, In the lands where no flower may grow His voice is a spell, Hath enchanted me well ! I am his, and I will it or no. But I will it, I will it, I will it ! His speck of a soul in its cars Shall lift up immensity ! fill it With light of his lyrical bars. His soul shall concentre All space ; he shall enter The beautiful land of the stars. He shall know me eternally wedded To the splendid and subtle of mind ; For thee pious, the arrogant-headed, He shall know they nor seek me nor find. O afloat in me curled ! Cry …
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…ome folk would make it ! Godshould you stretch out a hand, Who can be quicker to take it ? Then you have pacted an oathjudge you if He will forsake it ! I have had hope in the spring Trust that the God who has given Flowers, and the thrushes that sing Dawnwards all night, and at even Year after year, will be true now we are speaking of heaven.
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… may end Out into darkness, and our circle bend Round to all glory, in a sudden sweep, And speed triumphant with the sun to friend. Love will not leave my home. She knows my tears, My angers and caprices ; still my ears Listen to singing voices, till I weep Once more, less sadly, and set hounds on fears. She will not leave me comfortless. And why ? Through the dimmed glory of my clouded eye She catches one sharp glint of love for her ; She will not leave me ever till I die : Nay, though I die ! Beyond the distant gloom Heaven springs, a founta…
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…ng-Ghost boasts eternal usurpature ; For in this pool of tears his fingers fret I had imagined, by enduring nature, The twin gods Thus-will-I and May-be-yet. God, keep us most from ill, What time the King-Ghost grips the will ! Silver and rose and gold what flame resurges ? What living light pours forth in emerald waves ? What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges ? Shrieking thy fly, the King-Ghost and his slaves. Lord, let Thy Ghost indwell, And keep us from the power of Hell ! Amen.
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34 AMBERGRIS The lotus is afire for love, Its yearnings are immortal still ; But in its bosom, fed thereof, Lust, like a child will have his will. Immortal fervour, strangely blent With mystic sensual sacrament, Fills up its cup, its petals tremble With faint desires that dissemble The fierce intention to be wed One with the spring suns head. The fountains of the river yearn Toward the sacred temple-walls, They foam upon the sands that burn With springs delirious festivals. They flash upon the gleaming ways, They cry, they chant aloud the pra…
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
…hip ; I forbid thee to sing or to write ! The Star-Goddess guideth us her ship ; The sails belly out with the light. Beautiful head ! We will sing on our bed Of the beautiful law of the Night ! We are lulled by the whirr of the stars ; We are fanned by the whisper, the wind ; We are locked in unbreakable bars, The love of the spirit and mind. The infinite powers Of rapture are ours ; We are one, and our kisses are kind.
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…strife, And, as a god, cry out, and let there be The mark of many footsteps on the sea Of angels hastening to fulfil Thy supreme, single will ! Alone, intense, unmoved, not made for change, Let thy one godhead rise To move like morning, and like day to range, A furnace for the skies, That all men cry : The uncreated God ! Formless, ineffable, just, whose period Is as his name, Eternity ! So bear The sceptre of the air ! So mayest thou avenge, all-seeing, blind, The wrath of this consuming fire, that licks The rafters and the portals of the hous…
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…alf hidden in your hair. There is the night : unseen I stand And look to seaward still : We would not look upon the land Again, had I my will. The ship is trim : to sea ! to sea ! Take life in either hand, Crush out its wind for you and me, And drink, and understand !
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…is volume, thus almost ostentatiously de- mocratic, is therefore now submitted to the British Public with the fullest confidence that it will be re- ceived with exactly the same amount of acclamation as that to which I have become accustomed. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
AMBERGRIS 87 FROM THE STAR AND THE GARTER Song Make me a roseleaf with your mouth, And I will waft it through the air To some far garden of the South, The herald of our happening there ! Fragrant, caressing, steals the breeze ; Curls into kisses on your lips : I know interminable seas, Winged ardour of the stately ships, Space of incalculable blue And years enwreathed in one close crown, And glimmering laughters echoing you From reverend shades of bards renown : Nature alive and glad to hymn Your beauty, my delight : her God Weary, his old e…
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…ed in her forlorn Light, with her lips is met ; My lips, that murmur in the morn, With lustrous dew are wet. My prayer is mighty with my will ; My purpose as a sword Flames through the adamant, to fill The gardens of the Lord With music, that the air be still, Dumb to its mighty chord. I stand above the tides of time And elemental strife ; My figure stands above, sublime, Shadowing the Key of Life, And the passion of my mighty rime Divides me as a knife. For secret symbols on my brow, And secret thoughts within, Compel eternity to Now, Draw the…
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… : I reign : For I am master of desire. Silent, I pass amid the folk Caught in its mesh, slaves to its yoke. Silent, unknown, I work and will Redemption, godheads master-stroke, And breaking of the wands of ill. No man hath seen beneath my brows Eternitys exultant house. No man hath noted in my brain The knowledge of my mystic spouse. I wait the centuries wax and wane. Poor, in the kingdom of strong gold, My power is swift and uncontrolled. Simple, amid the maze of lies ; A child, among the cruel old, I plot their stealthy destinies. So patie…
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… love On the weary way ; Where the ibex chant and call Over tempests funeral ; Where the hornd beast is shrill, And the eagle hath its will, And the shadows fall Sharp and black, till day is passed Over to the ocean vast ; Where the barren rocks resound Only to the rending roar Of the shattering streams that pour Rocks by ice eternal bound, Myriad cascades that crowned Once the far resounding throne Of the mountain spirits strong, All the treacherous souls that throng Desolate abodes of stone, Barren of all comely things, Given to the splendi…
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…Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One last stroke, O heart-free master, one last cer- tain calm of will, And the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirits ut- most flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name ! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre ; lake, rise up in mist to sun ; Sun, dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Mas- ters work is done. Nectar perfume gently stealing, masterful and sweet and strong, Cleanse the world…
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… rime ? my heart was full Of greater longings, more divinely wrung By love and pity and regret and trust, High hope from heaven that God will be just, Spurn not the child because his mind was dull, Still less condemn him for his fathers lust. Yet I think priests shall answer Him in vain : Their gospel of disgrace, disease, and pain, Shall move His heart of Love to such a wrath O Heart ! Turn back and look on Love again !
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…e In that supreme unquiet quietude. I am the master of my own deep mood. I am the master. Yea, no doubt I rule The whole mad universe by will extended Who whispers then, O miserable fool ! This night thy might and majesty are ended ; Thy soul shall be required of thee ? I heard This voice, and knew it for my proper word !
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…the shuddering Hill, and the unbeating wing Of the legions of His Father, and so died. But I, should I be still, Poised between fear and will ? Should I be silent, I, and be unsatisfied ? For solitude shall bend Self to all selffulness, and have one friend, Self, and behold one God, and be, and look beyond the End. VI, O Solitude ! how many have mistaken Thy name for Sorrows, or for Deaths or Fears ! Only thy children lie at night and waken How shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears ? O soul of Tears ! For never hath fallen as dew th…
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…No voice, no song might pierce or penetrate That enviable universal state. The sun and moon beheld, stood still. Only the spirits axis, will, Considered its own soul and sought a deadlier deep, And in its monotone mood Of supreme solitude Was neither glad nor sad because it did not sleep ; But with calm eyes abode Patient, its leisure the galactic load, Abode alone, nor even rejoiced to know that it was God.
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136 AMBERGRIS Hail ! Hermes ! thou the wands of ill Hast touched with strength, and they are shivered ! The way is open unto will ! The pregnant Goddess is delivered ! Happy, yea, happy ! happy is he That hath looked forth upon the Bier That goeth to the House of Rest ! His heart is lit with melody ; Peace in his house is master of fear ; His holy Name is in the West When the sun sinks, the royal rays Of moonrise flash across the days ! I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the worl…
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… Gods Sit, star-wed, in old Egypt by the Nile ; The same calm pose, the inscrutable, wan smile On every lip alike. Time hath not had his will to strike At them ; they abide, they pass through all. Though their most ancient names may fall, They stir not nor are weary of Life, for with them even as with us, Life is but Love. They know, we know ; let, then, the writing go ! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14. It may be in the centuries of our life Since we were man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love.