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…e. Singly or in concert with his comrades, each Knight is vowed to enforce the decisions of authority. “The Grade of Grand Inquisitor Commander follows. Here every member has the right to a seat on the Grand Tribunal, which body decides all disputes and complaints which have not been composed by the Chapter of Rose Croix or the Lodge Masters. Its verdicts are without appeal, unless a member of the Electoral College give sanction to take the case to the Areopagus of the Eighth Degree. All members of the Order, even of higher grades, are subject …
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
…rch from the magic lyre, And half the triumphs in my heart unsung, Surpassing, as such triumphs must, all praise Of golden strings and human- fashioned tongue. But now I follow the uprising ways By secret paths indubitably drawn Straight from the centre of the trackless maze To light of earth and beauty of the dawn, A sure swift passage taught of wit divine To the wide ocean, the Achzean lawn. For, wit ye well, not easy is that shrine Of access to the mortal, as some tell, Not knowing : easy and exact the line Of light to upper air: but awful s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 177
…iverse. Amen. And now I will go out and wish R. and baby a Happy New Year. A Summary Comment. By Fra O.M. 7°=49 I think you are the real man, and will attain. You work hard and regularly, and keep the record well. And you have the Root of the Matter in you. These are your dangers. (1) You are emotional. This is very bad, and must be got rid of. It’s a form of Egoism, and leads to the Left-hand Path. You say: “I object to my wife being run over by a motor-car,” and think you are stating an Eternal Truth. Now no elephant in Siam cares whether she…
1906 · PDF PAGE 129
AHAB 123 The blood alike of man and beast The worship of each God demands. All priests are greedy—gold and feast Pour from the poor folk to their hands. The doubtful power from heaven to strike The levin bolt they claim alike. I take no heed of trickery played By cunning mad Elijah’s skill, When the great test of strength was made On Carmel’s melancholy hill, And on the altar-stone the liar Cried ‘‘ Water,” and poured forth Greek fire ! Then while the fools peer heavenward, Even as he prays, to see the skies Vomit the flash, his furtive sword F…
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
…te flower (of all the flowers) You ever cared for! Ignorance May set its puppets up to dance; We know who pulls the strings. No sage ; A man unwashed, the bearded brute ! His wife, the mother-prostitute ! Behind the marionetted stage See the true Punch-and-Judy show, Turn copper so to silver! Know, And who can help forgiving? So Said some French thinker! Here’s a drench Of verse unquestionably French To follow ! so, while youth is youth, And time is time, and I am I, Too busy with my work to lie, Or love lie’s prize—or work’s, forsooth !— Too s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 20
…and the birds flew on apace, Until the glint and glory of the place Grew o’er the blue dim line of ocean. It was a temple never built of man, Being of marble white, and all unhewn, Above a cliff, about whose bdse were strewn Boulders of amethyst or malachite. Save these the cliffs rose sheer, a dazzling white, Six hundred feet from ocean ; so divine Was the tall precipice, that from the shrine A child might fling a stone and splash it in. the brine. Within whose silver courts and lily bowers The Queen of Love led Charicles 3 white flowers Blush…
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…hed, and brown With the sharp lips that fawn and taste, The crimson snakes that minister To those unwearying lusts of her. And all her woman’s scent did drift A steam of poison through the air; The haze of sunshine seems to lift And toil in tangles of black hair, The hair that waves, and winds, and bites, And glistens with unholy lights. For lo! she saw me, and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, Laughed with strong scorn, whose music knelled The empire of God’s universe. And on my haggard face upturned She spat! Ah God! how my cheek…
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…ning of the mute SLANCIIE, ALAIN, I thank you, sir; then I will leave you. [Zurns to go, stops.| Sir, you are young, you think me a hard man, and perhaps a coward. Remember, pray, that the tears of age are frozen at the heart ere they can spring to the eyes. You may yet think better of the lonely old Sire de Malétroit, and the honour of his house may one day be your own. [Axzt. [BLANCHE comes over to DENYS, who remains leaning heavily on the table. BLANCHE. Oh, sir, how cruelly have I done in my girl’s folly, to bring a gallant gentleman to suc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…re, Mingling, tingling, mixed with thee Even to all Eternity. These, and all that of them is, Take from Calliope in this Single-hearted, many mouthéd, kiss. ORPIHIEUS, SEATED UPON OLYM.- PUS, TUNES HIS LYRE. ORPHEUS. First word of my song, First tune of my lyre, Muse, loved of me long, Be near and inspire! Bright heart! Mother strong! Sweet sense of desire ! Be near as I lift the first notes impassioned of fervour and fire! Not ever before Since Nature began Hath one cloven her core, Found the soul of her span ; No son that she bore Her spirit …
1905 · PDF PAGE 163
156 THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY CORA. Rest, sunny head! A little while to sleep, And then—perhaps the Mother in a dream May comfort you. A woman’s love is this To have one heart, an undivided love ; But Hers—division in the universe Makes multiple each part. Sweet Madeline, Believe me, She will come to maiden dreams, Bestow Her peace, and so direct the life That is not unto God unconsecrate For being dedicated unto love ! [#xzt MADELINE. Cora remains thinking. I was no bolder twenty years ago ! Time, Time, thou maker and destroyer both, Only in resurr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 16
…veins with such a measure As the garden’s lord Makes his votaries dance to, death Draws with soft delicious breath To the maiden and the man. Love and life are both a span.
1905 · PDF PAGE 236
…thou priced, A portion in the all-pervading bliss, Thou, whom I value at my ageless kiss? Chosen of Me! Thou heart of hearts, thou mine, Man! Stamping into dust the Soul Divine By might of that mere Manhood! Sense and thought Reel for the glory of thee kissed and caught In the eternal circle of iny arms ! Woven in vain are the mysterious charms Endymion taught Diana! For one gaze; One word of my unutterable praise ; And I was utterly and ever lost, Lost in the whirlwind of thy love, and tossed A wreck on its irremeable sea ! Life! Life! This ki…
1906 · PDF PAGE 223
… The second riddle: Detegitur Yod. Griphus IT. Quoth our Father: The moon is full. So also a third virgin the third riddle: Griphus II]. Man and woman: O fountain of the balance! To whom our Father answered with a swift flash of his sword, so swift ‘she saw it not. Came out a fourth virgin, having a fourth riddle: Griphus IV. What egg hath no shell? And our Father pondered a while and then said: On a wave of the sea: on a shell of the wave: blessed be her name ! The fifth virgin issued suddenly and said : Griphus V. I have four arms and six sid…
1906 · PDF PAGE 224
…thren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox?4 that was our Father in his peace that he had won into, and that so hardly. For of this shall no man speak. Now therefore let it be spoken of our Father’s journeyings in the land of Vo® and of his suffering therein, and of the founding of our holy and illustrious Order. Our Father, Brethren, having attained the mature age of three hundred 1 Kether adds up to 620, 2 These are the letters of Ain Soph Aur, the last two of which he destroys, so as to leave only Ain, Not, or Nothing. 3 To (1+10+ 50) 3 x 2 he a…
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40 WHY JESUS WEPT And poet over-man! - To thee, To thee I owe transfiguration, peace, The wide dominion of the wan Abyss of air. I can look out and see Beyond the stars, black seas Wherein no star may swim, Thence, far beyond the vast revolving spheres Dark, idle, grim, . Full of black joys and shadowy unspoken fears, Whercin I am master. There is no place for tears. Cold adamant disaster Is lord there, and I overlord. So flits out, like a sword Flashed through a duellist’s live heart, My thought ; in all the abodes of sense, The shrines of lov…
1919 · PDF PAGE 175
… star on brow, till I arrived at a circular room at the end, lit by one candle placed on a round table at which sat an old white-bearded man writing in a book. I approached him, and said: “Why writest thou, Father?” and he replied “That those who read may live.” (I seem to have asked him an- other question, but cannot remember what.) Then I said: “What writest thou, Father?” And he replied: “Death, always Death.” And I said: “Show me thy writing, Father” and looking he wrote the word HARTHA. And I said “This is a mystery to me” so he pointed to…
1906 · PDF PAGE 130
… akin to fear or pain. Yet it is there. To yield to such And brood, will not avail me much. Ho! harness me my chariot straight, My white-maned horses fleet and strong ! Call forth the trumpeters of state| Proclaim to all Samaria’s throng: The King rides forth! Hence, slaves! Away | Haste ye! The King rides forth to-day. 1 Circumcision, medically commendable, is both ridiculous and obscene if considered asa religious rite. Gen, xvil. 9-14. Part ITI, WOULD God that I were dead! My punishment I cannot bear. There is a deep corrosive pain Invades m…
1935 · PDF PAGE 15
the correct order of events, as they are arranged in Nature; and in no case is it safe for a man to neglect to master any single detail, however dreary and distasteful it may seem. It often does so, indeed; that only insists on the necessity of dealing with it. The dislike and contempt for it bear witness to a weakness and incom- pleteness in the nature which disowns it; that particular gap in one’s defences may admit the enemy at the very turning-point of some battle. Worse, one were shamed for ever if one’s inferior should happen to ask for a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 258
… their own laws, and prosecute their own good, in all matters pertaining to their labour and means of livelihood. Each Guild chooses the man most eminent in it to represent it before the Areopagus of the Eighth Degree; and all disputes between the various Guilds are argued before that Body, which will decide according to the grand principles of the Order. Its decisions pass for ratification to the Sanctuary of the Gnosis, and thence to the Throne. “Epopts and Pontiffs of this exalted grade are bound to live in isolation for four consecutive mon…
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
…t hurts me not at all, Struck by a stronger buffet: let me call All deaths! they come not, seeing I am broken In this one horror where a man may fall. I am alive, and live not: I am dead, And die not: on my desolated head No dew may drop, no word of God be spoken, None heard, if by some chance some word be said. The wheels of Fate are over me; quite crushed Lies my pale body where her body blushed, Quite dead! there is no single sob that stirs, No pulse of blood of all that filled and flushed Her cheek and mine, her breast and mine: and lo! How…