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…e 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 youth Are phantoms of a further truthi Be…
1911 · PDF PAGE 33
…balon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast. 2. Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. 3. Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep not back one drop. 4. Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun. 5. Then shall the winds gather themselves tog…
1911 · PDF PAGE 279
…rsing in my veins Shoot dazzling pains, The Word of Selfhood integrate of Nought, The Ineffable Amen! the Wonder wrought. Bring death if life exceed! Bid thy pale Hermit bleed, Yet life exude; And Wisdom and the Word of Him Drench the mute mind grown dim With quietude! Fix thy sharp lightnings in my night! My spirit free! Mix with my breath and life and name thy mood And self of Thee. [SOR. GEMINI plays meow’z'nglyf [A short fame. FR. GEMINI. Master, be it thy pleasure to perform the In- vocation of Mercury. [All PROBATIONERS rise and/27in the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 245
…advancing, recites chorus from “ Aia/anm in Cab/aim.” Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man . . . etc. . . . His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep. [Returns A pause. ARIES. 333-333. 1350- 333'333᾿ ARIES. Brother Leo, what is the place? LEO. The Temple of the Sun upon the Mountain of Abiegnus! ARIES. Brother Leo, what is the hour? LEO. Sunsetl ARIES. It is the hour of sacrifice. LEO. Brother Aries, what is the sacrifice? ARIES. It is hidden from me. [51767168. SOL. I-22-22-1. ARIES. Hark! it is the Sum…
1911 · PDF PAGE 266
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS I am the mother! I the speaking sea! I am the earth and its fertility! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! Hathoör am I, and to my beauty drawn All glories of the Universe bow down, The blossom and the mountain and the dawn, Fruit’s blush, and woman, our creation’s crown. I am the priest, the sacrifice, the shrine, I am the love and life of the divine! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness are surely mink Are mine ! Venus am I, the love and light of earth, The wealth of kisses, the delight o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 234
…thine opiate breath, And lull me to the everlasting sleep, That, closing from the kisses of disdain To ecstasy of pain, I may sob out my life into their dangerous deep. Who cometh from the mountain as a tower Stalwart and set against the fiery foes? Who, breathing as a jasmine—laden bower? Who, crowned and lissome as a living rose? Sharp thorns in thee are set ; In me, in me beget The dolorous despair of this desire. Thy body sways and swings Above the tide of things, Laps me as ocean, wraps me round as fire! Ye elemental sorceries ofsong, Surge,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…ed are called, but of these few many are chosen. 10. This is the nature of the Work. 11. First, there are many and diverse conditions of life upon this earth. In all 01 these is some seed of sorrow. Who can escape from sickness and from old age and from death ? 12᾿We are come to save our fellows from these things. For there is a life intense with knowledge and extreme bliss which is untouched by any of them. 13. To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the servants 01 V.V.V.V.V., have attained thereunto. 14. It is impossible to tel…
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
…te no Being’s gall. It was the dark delusion ofa dream, That living Person conscious and supreme, Whom we must curse for cursing us with life; Whom we must curse because the life He gave Could not be buried in the quiet grave, Could not he killed by poison or by knife. This little life is all we must endure, The grave’s most holy peace is ever sure, We fall asleep and never wake again ; Nothing is of us but the mouldering flesh, Whose elements dissolve and merge afresh In earth, air, water, plants, and other men. We finish thus ; and all our wret…
1911 · PDF PAGE 254
…, is as light is where its rays Cross, interweave, and marry with the day’s ! I am : the heart that flames from central Me, Seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching.…
1911 · PDF PAGE 255
…n the mighty breast of foam Thalassian, Bear on my bosom, jutting plenilune, Maiden, the fadeless Rose of the Creation ! The whole flower-life of earth and sky and sea From me was born, and shall return to me! I am: for men and beings passionate, For mine own self calm as the river-cleaving Lotus—barne lord of Silence: I create Or discreate, both in my bosom heaving : My lightest look is mother ofa Fate: My fingers sapphire-ringed with sky are weaving Ever new flowers and lawns of life, designed Nobler and newer in mine older mind, I am: I am not,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 209
…ur lamp the drooping moon, dear, Our roof, the stars that sing ; The bed, of moss and roses; The night, as long as death! Still, breath! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden, The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover Their warm involving deep— Love, sleep !— And lover lies with lover On air’s substantial steep. Ah! sweeter was September— The amber rain of leaves, The harvest to remember, The load of sunny sheaves. In gardens…
1911 · PDF PAGE 211
…eep! Rise up from mine innermost being! Lift up the gemmed head to the heart! Lift up till the eyes that were seeing Be blind, and their life depart! Till the Eye that was blind Be a lamp to my mind! Coil fast all thy coils on me, dying, Absorbed in the sense of the Snake! Stir! leave the flower-throne, and up-flying! Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake! Then crown me and cling! Flash forwardaand spring ! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ; Till the Three Worlds flicker and falter, And life and her love be de…
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
…the seeker and lead him by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.
1911 · PDF PAGE 280
…y, to-day, and the brother of The Morrowl Iam born again and again. Mine is the unseen force from which the Gods are sprung; that giveth life unto the dwellers in the watch—towers of the Universe. I am the charioteer of the East, Lord 01 the Past and the Future. I see by mine own inward light; Lord of Resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is from the House of Death. Ο ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles, who keep Watch over the Universe! Ye who company the bier unto the House of Rest. Ye who pilot the Ship of Ra, eve…
1911 · PDF PAGE 159
THE AUTUMN WOODS The grave of desolation 1 I am weary Of all things; let me sleep my life away! The breast 01 Fate is pregnant with despair Got on her by the piercing shaft of Time. Ah ! Unborn child of Fate and Time, I am weary Of them that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…red than smiled, rather gloated than sneered. One instinctively muttered the word cmn/liba]. She had a perfect and perverse enjoyment of life, a perfect and perverse con- tempt of life; the contempt of the philosopher, the enjoyment of the wallowing pig. Porcus e grege Epicuri. This much Edgar Rolles smelt rather than saw; for as he turned to her, he caught her eyes. They were the eyes of an enthusiast, of a saint, of an ascetic—but of a saint who, strong in his agony through faith and hope and love, still endures the Dark Night of the Soul. "Y…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…guage of the world within the next two years. Your overworked Editor, too, has been able to take the longest and happiest holiday of his life. River and forest have given him all that nature can ; and this was the least part of his contentment. Moreover, he has been able to prepare, under sublime guidance, a dozen Official Instructions of A.'.A.'., to conclude the great Qabalistic Dictionary of Gematria, and to begin the almost equally important Greek Dic- tionary on similar lines. He has had leisure to produce more plays, sketches, poems, and s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 118
…on glacier, upon great plains and upon lonely crags, in heat and cold, fair weather and foul; and my blood is the blood of the earth. My life is hers, and as she is a spark thrown off from the whirling brilliance of the sun, so do I know myself to be a spark of infinite Godl Seek earth, and heaven shall be added unto you! Back to our mother, drive the shining spade into her wombl Wrinkle her with your furrows, she will only smile more kindly! Let your sweat, the sweat of your toil, which is your passion, drip like benediction from on High upon h…
1911 · PDF PAGE 165
… even the strongest to apply these correctives: first, the sceptical or scientific attitude, both in outlook and method; second, a healthy life, meaning by that what the athlete and the explorer mean; third, hearty human com- panionship, and devotion to life, work, and duty. Let him remember that an ounce of honest pride is better than a ton of false humility, although an ounce of true Ι57
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
…n my mouth is only the savour of an infinite kiss. The moist earth burns my lips; my fingers search down about the roots of the grass. The life of earth itself is my life: I shall be glad to be buried in the earth. Let my body dissolve into hers, putrefy in her reviving limbeck. He never loved who let them case him in a coffin from the supreme embrace. It is from the earth, bride of the sun, that all bodily strength derives. It is no figure that Antæus regained all his force when he touched earth. It is no pedantry and folly of the Hindus, who (fea…