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Page 132 of 1961928 · PDF PAGE 41
…prived. He adopts as his own all the professions, all the joys, and all the miseries which chance brings under his notice. What men call love is very small, very re- stricted, very weak compared with this ineffa- ble orgy, this holy prostitution of the soul, which gives itself altogether, all its poetry, all its good will, to every unexpected object, to the stranger who passes by. It is sometimes well to teach the happy of this world, were it only to humiliate for a mo- ment their foolish pride, that there are pleas- ures superior to theirs, pl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…ave lain and watched the night diminish, Fade and fall into the arms of day, Caring not if earth itself should finish, Caring only if my lover stay ; Listening to her breathing, Laughing, lover-weaving All the silken gold and glory of her head, Kissing as if time Forgot its steeps to climb, Made eternity’s, one with all the dead. Str. Y- CALLIOPE. Listen, then listen, O Thracian ! Oeager lay on the lea: I, from my heavenly station ; I, from my house of creation, Stooped, as a mortal to be Passionate, mother and bride ; Flashed on wide wing to h…
1901 · PDF PAGE 22
…y rag, Prurient licksores of society, Gave it a different father. Am I sure Myself? The shameful Mammon was his name, Glittering gold! I loved my opulence, Cursed my “misfortune.” Childbirth sobered me. I loved the child, the only human love I ever tasted, and I sacrificed The popularity, the infamy,
1912 · PDF PAGE 30
…that glimmers Chaste, yet embraced, serenest element Lapping my life as the sea laps a swimmer’s; Thou, by whose strength and purity and love I leave this land, attain to the above, Come thou rose—red, break on my soul like dawn And gild my peaks, and bid their fountains flow; For in thine absence all their life withdrawn Congealed my being to a sterile snow, Snow fallen from some accursed star to ban All the high hope and heritage 01 man. Come thou, a gleaming goddess of pure pearl, Price of mine homage to the great glad god! Come, saint and sa…
1912 · PDF PAGE 30
…that glimmers Chaste, yet embraced, serenest element Lapping my life as the sea laps a swimmer’s; Thou, by whose strength and purity and love I leave this land, attain to the above, Come thou rose—red, break on my soul like dawn And gild my peaks, and bid their fountains flow; For in thine absence all their life withdrawn Congealed my being to a sterile snow, Snow fallen from some accursed star to ban All the high hope and heritage 01 man. Come thou, a gleaming goddess of pure pearl, Price of mine homage to the great glad god! Come, saint and sa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 209
…atch the coast - line flee . But I was born to see my ships set sail , And sit at home and shiver in the gale . And I was born to see my loved ones go, And set my hopes a- sail through mist and rain , Knowing that love , which burns at parting so, Shall be a light to draw them home again . * THE PRAYER . A S when the lone sea calls With swift strong voices of the ebbing tide , And the river , deep between its borders , Goes hurrying down to the remorseless sea So flowed my life away . And the sea lay Grey as the wings of God 's death - angel ar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
66 ROSA MUNDI, AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS I everywhere abide, and I control Olympian glories and the Pythian goal. What isle unfurls yonder life’s glimmering scroll? This be thy shrine, and all its splendours these ! Awake to dream! Two desolate nudities Woven through sculpture into ecstasies, XXIV. AuM! I unfold the tinted robe, My love's embroideries one by one, Unveil her glories, globe on globe, And find beneath the quivering probe A shaking skeleton. The smile of vermeil lips is past ; The skull’s black grin awhile remains ; The fallen flesh dis…
1935 · PDF PAGE 13
… the Aeon, and exert them- selves to establish His reign upon Earth. They must acknowled; that “The word of the Law is @EAHMA” and that “Love is the law, love under will.” Each member must make it his main work to discover for him- self his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else. He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true will, and execute the same to the letter with all the energy, courage, and ability that he can command. This applies especially to th…
1901 · PDF PAGE 128
… : beneath the deadly deep ! Infinite rings of luminous ether move At first amid the blackness that I seek : Infinite motion and amazing love Deaden the lustre of the night. I speak
1905 · PDF PAGE 100
ASSUMPTA CANIDIA 95 The legend, “ Here is beauty, here delight, Here the embraces of the Sons of Night ! Here love made more desirable than thine, Fiercer than light, more dolorous than wine. Come, sister, come ; come, lonely queen of breath ! Here are the lustres and the flames of death.” Hence I was whirled, as in a wind of light, Out to the fragrance of a loftier air, A keener scent, and rising unaware Out of the Palace of Luxurious Night, I came to where the Gate of Heaven shone, Battled with comet and with meteor. Behold within that creste…
1907 · PDF PAGE 11
…erein I long to drown me ! Your hair is like a waterfall above me, A waterfall of sunset ! In your bosom I hear the racing of a heart to love me. Your blood is beating like a wind-blown blossom With rapture that you mingle it in mine ! Your breath is fresh as foam and keen as wine ! Intoxicating glories are your glances ! Your bodily beauty grips my soul and dances 6 T
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
… of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I! Appear, most awful and most mild, As it is lawful, to thy child | So from the Father to the Son The Holy Spirit is the norm: Male-female, quintessential, one, Man-bei…
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
… of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I! Appear, most awful and most mild, As it is lawful, to thy child | So from the Father to the Son The Holy Spirit is the norm: Male-female, quintessential, one, Man-bei…
1905 · PDF PAGE 129
…buve All shameful deeds, is Lying, from whose tongue Drops Envy, wed with Hatred, to sow Strife. These twain are bitter; but the last is Love. THE RAPE OF DEATH. ARGUMENT.—Sir Godfrey, a knight of Nor- mandy, leapeth into a light vessel of Jarl Hungard, while they sit at feast, and, slay- ing the crew, seeketh the high seas with the Lady Thurla. He slayeth the swiftest pur- suers, and escapeth in a great tempest ; which on the second day abating, he maketh the inside of a bar, and must await the breeze. Jarl Hungard coming with his men and two …
1910 · PDF PAGE 302
…mpressed by his great breadth of mind, his sweet charity, and his loving kindness for every living thing. ... These teachings... breathe love and kindness, and dwell upon the joys of pure clean living.” Forewarned is to be forearmed, and I had read the same type of “ puff” on many a patent pill box! On entering 70, Margaret Street I was shown upstairs and ushered into the den of Tiger Sri Agamya. Besides himself, there were three people in the room, two men and 284
1910 · PDF PAGE 302
…mpressed by his great breadth of mind, his sweet charity, and his loving kindness for every living thing. ... These teachings... breathe love and kindness, and dwell upon the joys of pure clean living.” Forewarned is to be forearmed, and I had read the same type of “ puff” on many a patent pill box! On entering 70, Margaret Street I was shown upstairs and ushered into the den of Tiger Sri Agamya. Besides himself, there were three people in the room, two men and 284
1913 · PDF PAGE 117
…, he insuhed me: In whom such thoughts find harbourage, hatred will never cease to be. And this hatred is the thought which inhibits the love whose apothe- osis is Samadhi.
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
…t Within Proceed from fear - if thou wouldst but confess . Thy God is but thy one besetting sin Innate , unconquerable laziness . I, who love all adventure , and the play 139
1913 · PDF PAGE 114
…now approach and lay the body of the priest, still in its shroud, at the foot of the Tree. Juita. Now be ye witnesses of Truth! Here let love’s lust yield youth! [She raises her hands to heaven. Joanna [Comes forward and invokes at the shrine). Now let my lord declare His power This equinoctial hour! If there be virtue in the dance, And life abide within the lance, And if the wine within the cup Be the right draught for gods to sup— Then be my sister's music dowered With answering song, and roses showered! [JuLia dances and plays around the cor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 140
…s Pacific swoon. Third, let thy life be pure and calm Swayed softly as a windless palm. Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound To the one love of the Profound. Fifth, let the thought, divinely free From sense, observe its entity. Watch every thought that springs ; enhance Hour after hour thy vigilance ! Intense and keen, turned inward, miss No atom of analysis ! Sixth, on one thought securely pinned, Still every whisper of the wind! So like a flame straight and unstirred Burn up thy being in one word! Next, still that ecstasy, prolong Thy medita…