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Page 139 of 1961898 · PDF PAGE 18
…nvied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esau guzzled, who sold soul and body to Satan for sheer love of sin, whose mere lust of perversion is so intense that it seems to absorb every other emotion and interest. Never since God woke light from chaos has such a tragedy been unrolled before men, step after step toward the lake of Fire ! At his house all his writings were seized, and, it is believed, destroyed. The single most fortunate exception is that of a superbly jewelled writing-case,
1901 · PDF PAGE 77
…ATE OF THE SANCTUARY. 65 Yet the thought chilled me as I touched the reins. Ah ! the poor horse, he will not. So remains, Divided in his love. With mastered tears I stride toward the parapet. My ears Catch his low call ; and now a song complains. The bridge is bleeding and the river hears. Ah ! God ! I cannot live for pity deep Of that heart-quelling chant—I could not sleep Ever again to think of it. I close My hearing with my fingers. Gently goes A quivering foot above them as they weep— I weep, I also, as the river flows. Slowly the bridge su…
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…th the triumph of his steeds behind. The bright air winnowed by the plumeless leapers Laughs, and the low light pierces to the bed Where lovers linger, where the smiling sleepers Stir, and the herds unmindful of their keepers Low for pure love of mornings dewy hand. The morning shakes its ocean-bathed tresses, The bright sun broadens over all the earth. The green leaves fall, fall into his caresses, And all the worlds heart leaps, again addresses Its life, and girds it in the golden girth. Then noon full-fashioned lies upon the steep. The lar…
1911 · PDF PAGE 236
…S 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 Yesterday, and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 239
THE RITE OF MARS A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shorei Oh, write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death’s scroll must be! Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, A…
1911 · PDF PAGE 236
…S 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 Yesterday, and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 239
THE RITE OF MARS A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shorei Oh, write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death’s scroll must be! Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, A…
1919 · PDF PAGE 281
…s spiritual food unto our bodies, bestowing upon us health and wealth and strength and joy and peace, and that fulfilment of will and of love under will that is perpetual happiness. He makes ¥ with Paten and kisses it. He uncovers the Cup, genuflects, rises. Music. He takes the Host, and breaks it over the Cup. He replaces the right-hand portion in the Paten. He breaks off a particle of the left-hand portion. TOUTO ECTI TO SIERMA MOU. HO IIATHP ECTIN HO HUIOC DIA TO IINEUMA HAGION. AUMN. AUMN. AUMN. He replaces the left-hand part of the Host. T…
1961 · PDF PAGE 51
…lesome, each to this own Taste, to make Clothes according to Fancy, with Variety of Individuality and to practise the manifold Crafts of Love. These Things being first secured, thou mayst afterward lead them into the Heavens of Poesy and Tale, of Music, Painting, and Sculpture, and into the Lore of the Mind itself, with its insatiable Joy of all knowledge. Thence let them soar! s
1961 · PDF PAGE 93
…ictoria per Nomen BABALON (Of his Victory through the Name BABALON) ND after? This Dawn (for I have toiled through the Night in my great Love and Care of thee) how is it with me? it is well. For I have found myself; I have found my Will; the Obstacles that daunted me are seen to be by the Shadows of Shadows. Grace be unto Lady BABALON. Thus it is written in The Book of the Law: Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. Learn then that it is in th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
… I, knowing all the progress of the earth, The dim procession, altering death and birth, The Seven Stairs, the gusts of life in fire And Love in Life, and all the serpent girth Of sevenfold twining worlds and sevenfold ways And nights made sevenfold of the sevenfold days All the vast scheme evolving into man, And upward, onward, through Olympian haze Into the crowning spiritual mist, Where spirit in the spirit may subsist, Evolve itself in the amazing plan Through many planes, as shining amethyst Melts to the sapphire’s sombre indigo, And lifts…
1906 · PDF PAGE 145
…des many-coloured, grave and tall, Beautiful, make a beautiful murmur, move, In infinite musical labyrinths about. Them doth the soul of love inhabit, them The light of wisdom doth inform, them peace Hath marked and sealed her own. their lips Is one imagined silence like a sigh. Unanimous the hushéd harmony Flows forth from heart to mouth; and mouths bloom red With ripe and royal repetition ; kisses Flow like thick honey-drops in honeysuckle. That is their worship. RupHa. Whom then worship they? But on CRIOSDA. Maurya ! [Recalled to himself, he…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…ore. The angels deem us hurled from the above, Burnt out of bliss, blasted from sense and thought, Barred from the beauties of celestial love And branded with the annihilating Naught. O! pallid triumph: empty victory! When we sit smiling on the infernal thrones Starred with our utmost gems of infamy, Builded with tears, and cushioned with the groans Of these the victims of our joys immense — Child! I aspire to that bad eminence! Vil Hell hath no queen! But, o thou red mouth curving In kisses that bring blood, shall I be alone? What of the accom…
1909 · PDF PAGE 47
…f blazing lava, that shall hiss And roar, and ruin all the glad green world. I like the attack of your seducing kiss, The lashes of your love about me curled, Better than slack delight and murmuring sigh — Flowers by the road to sad satiety.
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
…oodly therefore : dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, When,Where and with whom ye will '. But always unto me. 52. If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto 9
1961 · PDF PAGE 175
… not God. Whereby he affirmeth and confirmeth the Demon, that is Duality. Be thou instant therefore, o my Son, to turn from every Act of Love at he Moment of full satisfaction, flinging the invoked Might hereof against a new Opposite; for the Formula of every Dragon is Perpetual Motion or Change, and therefore to dwell in the Satisfaction of thy Nature is a Stagnation, and a Violation thereof, making the Duality of Conflict, which is the Falling Away to Choronzon. v
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…, I move Deathlike for dearth and for despair of soul ; At last Idrop. From Heaven there comes a Dove Bearing the semblance of the Man I love, And fountains and fresh grass by magic spell Are suddenly around me. And above I hear the voice my visions know so well : ‘Well striven all this day against the power of Hell!” I know these mercies still diviner grow Each day I strive. But should I sit and rest One hour of dawn, and cry, ‘‘I will not go Another step without more sleep,” that blest' Dove flies away, the fountains are re- pressed, 1 J,e,, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 98
…e of dim spectres in the mists Moves just a little ; lastly there is One, One central Being, one elusive shape, Not to aspire to, not to love ; alas ! Only a memory in the agèd mass Of chained ones bound to me without escape ! Oh, doom of God ! Oh, brand how worse than Cain’s ! Divided being, undivided pains ! What is this life ? (To call it life that grows No inch throughout all time.) This bitterness Too weak and hateful to be called distress ? Slow memory working backward only knows There was some horror grown to it for kin ; Some final lepr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
AMBERGRIS 127 FROM ORPHEUS Autumn Full amber-breasted light of harvest-moon, And sheaves of corn remembering the un Laughing again for love of that caress When night is fallen, and the sleepy swoon Of warm waves lap the shoreland, one by one ; Forgetful kisses like a dreams possess All the low-lying land, And statelier than the swaying form Of some loud God, lifting the storm In his disastrous hand, Steps the sweet-voiced, the mellow motherhood Glad of the suns kiss, full of life, well wooed And won and brought to his bed, Proud of her rhythm…
1919 · PDF PAGE 273
…substance or effulgence for ever. THE PEopLe. So mote it be. (THE LORD) Tue Deacon. Lord secret and most holy, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant and 259