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…rehending Divine Bearer of the Wand, hail! Coelestial, aethereal, inter-aethereal, water like, air like, fire like, earth like, like unto light, like unto darkness, shining as do the Stars, moist, hot, cold Spirit, hail to Thee, ever laughing Child-God, all-knowing. Through Thee alone can we hope to reach Light and Truth. [Returns to his seal. [SOR. GEMINI þlays una;/dingk? [A Mea/[fame. MERCURY. At the Ending of the Light, At the Limits of the Night, Stood Mercury before the Unborn ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe; Then came forth…
1911 · PDF PAGE 212
… 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 Beyond the splendour of the world, False glittering of the gold, A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom’s sacred cold, Life is the flaming of …
1911 · PDF PAGE 284
…ld Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness! Base and blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour: imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void Ah ! men my friends What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts Ρ Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies; Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. The throne Of the u…
1911 · PDF PAGE 278
ΙΟΟ MERCURY. II The Temf/e in Darkness Ο Light in Light! Ο flashing wings of fire ! The swiftest of the moments of the sea 15 unto thee Even as some slow-foot Eternity With limbs that drag and wheels that tire. Ο subtle-minded flame of amber gyre, It seems a spark of gold Grown purple, and behold! A flame of gray! Then the dark night-wings glow With iridescent indigo, Shot with some violet ray ; And all the vision flames across the horizon The millionth of no time—and when we say: Hail !—Thou art gone! The Moon is dark beside thy crown ; the Sun See…
1911 · PDF PAGE 187
THE RITE OF SATURN PART I BROTHER CAPRICORNUS enters and turns qi Blue light. Red lamps are brought in by BROTHER CAPRICORNUS and the LEADER OF THE CHORUS. First the Temple is lighted by two red lamps. PRO- BATIONERS chant the Capricornus and Aquarius sectionsfrom 963 while other: wait without in darhnexs. Red lights are then hidden within veil. BROTHER CAPRICORNUS turns on the Blue light. The Temþle beingin darkness, and the assistant:seated, let BROTHER CAPRICORNUS arise from his throne, and hnoeh thrice with his spear-butt upon the floor. MAG…
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 211
THE RITE OF JUPITER O sleeper through dawn and through daylight, O sleeper through dusk and through night! Ο shifted from white light to gray light, From gray to (he one black light! Ο silence and sound In the {ar profound! Ο serpent of scales as an armour To bind on the breast oia lord! Not deaf to the Voice of the Charmer, Not blind to the sweep of the sword! I strike to the deep That thou stir in thy sleep! 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…
1911 · PDF PAGE 252
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Exeunt OMNES ext. SOL. This ends in eomflete a’arh— ness. Silence. There is aflash oflight, and the stage is shewn empty. Only a glimmer remains. New SCORPIO-APOPHIS steals 071 to the stage, 01,175/?!ןטשקa low secret melody)“ The red lights ina/ease. She uncovers and embmees the corpse. Then covers it again, goes to the throne, and instals herself therean. The green light dawns andglows brighterandbrighter, as the red light dwindles ana’goes out] SCORPIO-APOPHIS. 7777777. [The PROBATIONERS and other 5/?!שלפשenter, ereet. SCO…
1911 · PDF PAGE 275
THE RITE OF MERCURY MERCURY. 22-333—333. [Full light The Speech in the Silence. The Words against the Son of Night. The Voice of Mercury in the Universe in the Presence of the Eternal Gods. The Formulas of Knowledge. The Wisdom of Breath The Radix of Vibration. The Shaking of the Invisible. The Rolling Asunder of the Darkness. The Becoming Visible of Matter. The Piercing of the Coils of the Stooping Dragon. The Breaking Forth of the Light. [All being seated, the FOUR PROBATIONERS rise from among the alher PROBATIONERS and march to the allow] FI…
1911 · PDF PAGE 299
…e roar of the sea, as the storm of the air, As the quake of the earth—let it soar for a boon, for a bane, for a snare, For a lure, for a light, {or a kiss, for a rod, for a scourge, for a sword— Bring us thy burden of bliss—Bring us the word of the Lord! TAURUS. In vain thou askest speech from our Lady of Silence: CANCER. Bear the Cup of Libation ! PAN- 333'333—333- [Recites. Roll through the caverns of matter, the world’s irremovable bounds! Roll, ye wild billows of ether! the Sistron is shaken and sounds ! Wild and sonorous the clamour, vast …
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
… attraction of either of these, suddenly mine eyes were gladdened with a marvellous vision. Infinitely far off, as it seemed, a ray of sunlight shot through the Saturnine gloom of the skies, and lit the surface of the water. And then I perceived that upon the river there floated, within that small circle of light, an ark, or as it might be, a coffin. Then looking up into that pierced cloud I saw within the light a certain house surrounded by a grove. Within, all was dark; yet from it proceeded a ray as silvery as the first ray was golden. And I des…
1911 · PDF PAGE 136
… our darkness we who presume to declare it are liars—Charlatans, groping quacks at the best. Will the sun never dawn? For us on whom the lightning of ecstasy hath flashed for a moment—‘much may be seen by its light’—the light of the tempest. But the Light of the Silver Star? Oh, my Brothers (be began to speak aloud) give me wisdom as you have given me under- standing! Knowledge and grace and power? These are nothing and less than nothing. Is not this a precious thing that you have given into my charge? Am not I too young among you to bear so won…
1911 · PDF PAGE 65
… of a man that hung upon a gibbet by one heel. This, said the fair man, is a most notable sign that we travel the right road. Now by the light 01 the triangle I perceived another wonder; {or my friend was not swimming as I was in the stream, but was borne by a boat, frail indeed, yet sufficient. Within this shallop or cockleshell he pulled me, and set me at the bench. Then (still by the light of the triangle) I saw a dark man at the thwart, rowing a strong stroke. We pulled on almost in silence; for when I asked of the fair man his name he answe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 160
…p, under the firmament. There shall be no more roses, no more roses, Until the spring of the stars shall fall on the world, Then shall be light again, Ο secret Rose, And thou shalt be born anew, with radiant star-light For dew, and all thy petals shall be dreams Crystallised of the gods who swing the chains Of the worlds in space ; and at the heart of thee Shall be the secret knowledge, the sacred word, The logos of the throbbing universe. And the years shall pass in myriads over the tree Whereon thou bloomest, O my Rose of the worlds 1 And one …
1911 · PDF PAGE 200
…nt 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 EMISSARIUS runs out with tom-tom and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 283
…s ta the throne. MERCURY. Peace upon thee, beloved! . . . But the Brethren say sooth. Even Mercury liveth not for ever. [He recites. The light streams stronger through the lamps of sense. Intelligence Grows as we go. Alas: its icy glimmer Shows dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed? Their light dismayed * Scherzo: Tschaikowski. 105
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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…
1911 · PDF PAGE 63
… other was a sombre and fantastic lamp, whose fascination was its horror. If I swam lazily towards either of these, it was because their light, confused and difficult on the one part, and tenebrous on the other, was yet light in comparison with that aimless and abiding gloom which had now settled upon the bosom of 55
1911 · PDF PAGE 285
… and palsied (and so wise !) Lift up our eyes To little children, as the storm~tossed bark Hails in the dark Some hardly visible harbour light; we hold The hours of gold To our own breasts, whose hours are iron and brass :— So swift they pass And grind us down :—we hold the wondrous light Our scattering sight Yet sees, the one star in a night of woe. We trust, and so Lift up our voices in the dying day Indeed to pray : 0 little hands that are so soft and strong, Lead us along! [5012. GEMINI plays aceom’zngly.* [A fame FR. GEMINI. Brother Virgo,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 281
…s, and everything obeys my words. Therefore I say unto Thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the Silence, unutterable Wisdom, All—light, All—power! Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Odin, by whatever name I call Thee, Thou art still un-named and nameless to Eternity] Come thou forth, I say, and aid and guard me in this Work of Art. Thou, Star of the East that didst conduct the Magi! Thou art the same, all present in Heaven and in Hell. Thou that vibratest betwixt the Light and the Darkness. Rising, descending; changing ever, yet ever the same! The…