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THE RITES OF ELEUSIS AS PERFORMED AT CAXTON HALL WESTMINSTER IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 1910 BY MISS LEILA WAD- DELL AND MR ALEISTER CROWLEY WITH DIS- TINGUISHED ASSISTANCE
62 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS SOR. SCORPIO. Let us depart in love. MARS. Let us depart in peace. [The officer: leave the ,?/??שושMARS mm’ SCORPIO escorting SOL m ARIES, ARIES and CAPRICORNUS fol/owing at the head of the Guard of PROBATIONERSJ
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS MAGISTER TEMPLI. Brethren! let us humbly seek for help behind the veil l [He throws veil oflen, showing [he?!!!”!לטshrine. BRO. CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS must have well dissimulat/ed himself 50 that he is not discovered. MAGISTER ?ןיט/}ץמdraws wil again. CAPRICORNUS puls out light] MAGISTER TEMPLL Alas! there is no God! [Returns to hi: ihrone. All move confusedlyabout wailing aloud] MAGISTER TEMPLI, I. Silence. [All resume παῖς. Behold, I declared it unto you and ye believed me not! [A pause. 14
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS [She draws LEO u;) to her. The others lanee! in adoration. SCORPIO-APOPHIS flay: her 50ft waluþluou: melody.*] ARIES. Brother Leo, what is the hour? LEO. The evening star is arisen. ARIES. The sacrifice is accomplished. LEO. What is the sacrifice? ARIES. Man. LEO. Who is the priestess? ARIES. Woman. LEO. Unto what God ? ARIES. It is hidden from me. LEO. Let every man depart unto his house, ARIES. 1-333-1-1. LEO. 1-333-1-1. SCORPIO- APOPHIS. 1-1-333-1, * Romance: Saint Saens.
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS By the mystical union Of (airy and faun, Unspoken, unbroken— The dusk to the dawn !— A secret communion, Unmeasured, unsung, The listless, resistless, Tumultuous tongue !— O virgin in armour Thine arrows unsling, In the brilliant resilient First rays of the spring! No Godhead could charm her, But manhood awoke— Ο fiery Valkyrie, I invoke, I invoke! [He tears down the wil. [LUNAþlays “θάψω [A long silente. CANCER- 333'333'333- TAURUS. 1. Brother Warden of the Graal, our task is ended. CANCER. Let us depart, it is accomplished…
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THE RITES OF ELEUSIS MERCURY. Come, Sister, no Divine Being can be reached, save through Mei [He descends, and joins Με PROBATIONERS, leading SOROR GEMINI by Με hand] [VIRGo, left now alone before the empty shrine of MERCURY, walks slowly infront of ll.] VIRGO. Hail unto the Lord Mercury! [A þanse, during which all PROBATIONERS bend their heads low. MERCURY slanols »?₪/! with SOR. GEMINI VIRGO stands slz'll before the shrine, hooded] MERCURY. And this word I speak unto ye: [He is heardwhl¢erlng StiBeTTChePhMeFShiSS [A flame. MERCURY (loudly). Ko…
40 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Ist MA‘ZNAD. Are of us for ever. Evoe! Evoe! AUTONOE. Agave! He cometh! AGAVE. Cry hoI Autonoe! ALL. ΗοΙ Ho! Evoe, Ho! Iacche! Evoel Evoel AGAVE. The white air hummeth With force of the spirit. We are heirs : we inherit. Our joys are as theirs ; Weave with your prayers The joy of a kiss I Ηο ! for the bliss Of the cup and the rod. He cometh 1 0 lover! O friend and Ο God, Cover us, cover Our faces, and hover Above us, within us 1 Daintily shod, Daintily robed, His witcheries spin us A web of desire. Subtle as fire He comet…
36 THE RlTES OF ELEUSIS ΑυτοΝοΕ. Sisters, Ο sisters! AGAVE, Say, are our brothers of the rocks awake? ΑυτοΝοΕ. The lion roars. M/ENADS. O listen to the snake! AUTONOE. Evoe, Ho! Give me to drink! AGAVE. Run wild! Mountain and mountain let us leap upon Like tigers on their prey! MAENADS. Crush, crush the world I AGAVE, Tread earth as ’twere a winepressl AUTONOE. Drink its blood, The sweet red wine! M/ENADS. Ay, drink the old earth dry! AGAVE. Squeeze the last drops out till the frame collapse Like an old wineskin! AUTONOE. So the sooner sup Amon…
38 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Caught in that fiery wave, Her love and life she gave With one last kissing cry the unborn child to save. And thou, Ο Zeus, the sire Of Bromius—hunter dire !4- Didst snatch the unborn babe from that Olympian fire: In thine own thigh most holy That offspring melancholy Didst hide, didst feed, on light, ambrosia, and moly. Ay ! and with serpent hair And limbs divinely {air Didst thou, Dionysus, leap forth to the nectar air ! Ay! thus the dreams of fate We dare commemorate, Twining in lovesome curls the spoil of mate and mate…
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS And of the Ether, Of the Earth, And under the Earth, On dry land, And in the Water, Of whirling Air, And of rushing Fire, And every spell and scourge of God, may be obedient unto Me! [A pause. [MERCURYgoes to his throne. FR. GEMINI. 1. Brother Virgo, didst thou hear the Voice? VIRGO. Ay, Brother. FR. GEMINI. Tell me, Brother, is not Mercury a great God .< VIRGO. Indeed, Son of Maia, the greatest of all Gods that tread upon the Milky Way. FR. GEMINI. It is so. SOR. GEMINI. Yet, Brother, there is the Sun-God! VIRGO. Is not Me…
30 ΤΗΕ RITES OF ELEUSIS Ah! sweeter still October, When russet leaves go grey, And sombre loves and sober Make twilight of the day. Dark dreams and shadows tenser Throb through the vital scroll, Man’s souli Lift, shake the subtle censer That hides the cruel coal ! Still sweeter when the Bowman His silky shaft of frost Lets loose on earth, that no man May linger nor be lost. The barren woods, deserted. Lose echo of our sighs— Lovkdies ?— Love lives—in granite skirted, And under oaken skies. But best is grim December, The Goatish God his power; T…
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS HERMANUBIS. 1. Mother of Mystery, hast thou the secret of Jupiter? [SPHINX plays a triumphant mehai/.* TYPHON. Brother Hermanubis, what is the place? HERMANUBIS. The Summit of Mount Kithairon. TYPHON. Procul, ο Procul este viril [All mate pmbatz‘ohers retire to bath ofstage. TYPHON Sisters, let us invoke the Father to manifest in the Son. SPHINX. Per Spiritum Sanctum. Amen. [She also retire: to hart/ate on wheel. MAENADS. Evoe ! Evoe Ηο! Iacche! Iacchel TYPHON. Hail, Ο Dionysus! Hail! Winged Son of Semelé! Hail, Ο Hail! The…
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS As in the blood of murdered things The afirighted augur shaking skries Earthquakeand ruinous fate of kings, Famine and desperate destinies, So in the eyes of Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damned minion Of Set, the accursed lord of Hell. Yea! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Drus…
18 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS I find no hint throughout the Universe Ofgood or ill, of blessing or of curse; l find alone Necessity Supreme; With infinite Mystery, abysmal, dark, Unlighted ever by the faintest spark For us the flitting shadows ofa dreamt Ο Brothers of sad lives! they are so brief; A few short years must bring us all relief: Can we not bear these years of labouring breath ? But if you would not this poor life fulfil, Lo, you are free to end it when you will, Without the fear of waking after death. [Blow out red lights. [BRO. CAPRICORNUS EM…
84 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Spouse, daughter, mother of God, Queen of the blest abode In Cyprus’ splendour singly glittering. Sweet sister unto me, I cry aloud to thee! I laugh upon thee laughing, Ο dew caught up from sea! Drawn by sharp sparrow and dove, And swan’s wide plumes of love, And all the swallow’s swifter vehemence, And, subtler than the Sphinx, The ineffable iynx Heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, When (rom the bluest bowers And greenest—hearted hours Of Heaven thou smil'st toward earth, a miracle of flowers! Down to the loveless…
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS TAURUS. Thyself, the Warden of the Holy Graal. Myself, the Lord of the Bow. A nymph, a satyr— PAN, I. And Pan! CANCER. Brother Pan, I command thee to honour our Lady Artemis. TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation ! CANCER 333-333'333— [PAN reeifes [horas/rain Swi'nbnrne’s “ Atalanta.” When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces . . . The wolf that follows, the fawn that flies. TAURUS. The goddess stirs not. CANCER. Silence is the secret of our Lady Artemis. PAN. Hath no man lifted her veil? CANCER No man hath lifted her veil…
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS ARIES. [To BESZ.] But who art thou, brother? [BEsz begins to stammer. LEO. Who art thou? [They threaten him with their spears. BESZ crunches in terror and lunb: toward West,] SATAN-TVPHON. I would have speech with my brother the Sun. ARIES. It is well. LEO. It is not well. There is danger herein to my Lord. [He hers the way. ARIES. Speech cannot harm our Lord. LEO. Brother, if thou be indeed our brother, what wilt thou say? SATAN-TYPHON. Ο Sun, my brother, is it thy will that 1 have speech with thee? For I lay with thee nin…
32 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Lift up this love of peace and bliss, The starry soul of wine, Destruction’s formidable kiss, The lamp of the divine: This shadow of a nobler name Whose life is strife, whose soul is lame! 1 rather will exalt the soul Of man to loftier height, And kindle at a livelier coal The subtler soul of light. From these soft splendours of a dream 1 turn, and seek the Self supreme. This world is shadow-shapen of The bitterness of pain. Vain are the little lamps of love! The light of life is vain! Life, death, joy, sorrow, age and y…
58 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Twine, and the disk of flaming light Is on thee, seated in the prow Of the Sun’s bark, enthroned above With lapis-Iazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round With leopard's pell, and golden sound Of planets choral in their course! [He rises. O thou self-formulated sire! Self~master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light; Thine heart a secret sun of flame! I adore the insuperable might: I bow before the unspoken Name. [He !?₪/:, the” lum: toward altar, For I am Yest…