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…ty and marvellous is this Weakness, this Heaven which draweth me into Her Womb, this Dome which hideth, which absorbeth, Me. This is The Night wherein I am lost, the Love through which I am no longer I.
…y HE cool December breezes Appease the glowing sun. The agonies and eases Of all the year are done :— When eastward through the lampless night There shone a strange and splendid light. The noise of pomp and battle Of Israel died away. Amid the lowing cattle The Holy Mother lay, While at Her breast the Child Divine Drank in the starry milk and wine. Three magians Chaldean Have bowed their royal knees Before the Galilean, The GOD of stars and seas, And tasted all the fervent grace That shone from Mary’s maiden face. T 56
…ile over the court , the naked universe Arched with its laughter of a million suns , And every orb , out of the sea Of that unfathomable night blue , Sang - Gloria in excelsis deo ! While little don Perkins Played double dummy , And old Dowbiggin Slumbered sonorous , 214
THE EQUINOX without Mme. A——,, or Desbarrolles, or Eliphas hearing the unknown young priest spoken of. In the course of the night between the 1st and 2nd of January, 1857, Eliphas Levi was awakened suddenly by the emotions of a bizarre and dismal dream. It seemed to him that he was in a dilapidated room of gothic architecture, rather like the abandoned chapel of an old castle. A door hidden by a black drapery opened on to this room; behind the drapery one guessed the hidden light of tapers, and it seemed to Eliphas that, driven by a curiosity f…
THE EQUINOX without Mme. A——,, or Desbarrolles, or Eliphas hearing the unknown young priest spoken of. In the course of the night between the 1st and 2nd of January, 1857, Eliphas Levi was awakened suddenly by the emotions of a bizarre and dismal dream. It seemed to him that he was in a dilapidated room of gothic architecture, rather like the abandoned chapel of an old castle. A door hidden by a black drapery opened on to this room; behind the drapery one guessed the hidden light of tapers, and it seemed to Eliphas that, driven by a curiosity f…
viii CONTENTS PAGE VENUS 87 ASSUMPTA CANIDIA 92 NIGHT IN THE VALLEY 99 MARCH IN THE TROPICS I02 METEMPSYCHOSIS I03 ADVICE OF A LETTER I04 ON WAIKIKI BEACH I05 THE DANCE OF SHIVA I09 SONNET FOR A PICTURE I I I THE HOUSE I I2 ANIMA LUNAE I I6 THE TRIADS OF DESPAIR I29 “ SABBÉ PI DUKKHAM ” I33 DHAMMAPADA I37 ST PATRICK’S DAY 1902 I48 THE EARL’S QUEST I51 EVE I58 THE SIBYL I59 LA COUREUSE I60 TO “ ELIZABETH ” I6I SONNET FOR A PICTURE I62 RONDELS (AT MONTE CARLO) I63 IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH I65 THE HILLS I69
…y HE cool December breezes Appease the glowing sun. The agonies and eases Of all the year are done :— When eastward through the lampless night There shone a strange and splendid light. The noise of pomp and battle Of Israel died away. Amid the lowing cattle The Holy Mother lay, While at Her breast the Child Divine Drank in the starry milk and wine. Three magians Chaldean Have bowed their royal knees Before the Galilean, The GOD of stars and seas, And tasted all the fervent grace That shone from Mary’s maiden face. T 56
…e jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! “I am the blue‐lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night‐sky. “To me! To me! “The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”
…ing with solar fire, The single-eyed desire Of scent and sound and sight and sense perfuses The still and lambent light Of the essential night ; And all the heart of me is fain, and muses, As if for ever doomed to dream Or pass in peace Lethean adown the grey Lethean stream. So deep the sense of beauty, and so keen ! ‘The calm abiding holiness of love Reigns; and so fallen from the heights above Stern and free, | Immeasurable, the influence unseen Of music and of spiritual fire, That the soul sleeps, forgotten of desire, Only remembering its Go…
… Blush from the lilac bed. Like a young star even at its birth Shines out the golden head. Sad violets are the maiden girth, Pale flames night-canopied. O gentlest lady ! Lift those eyes, And curl those lips to kiss ! Melt my young boyhood in thy sighs, A subtler Salmacis ! Hide, in that peace, these ecstasies ; In that fair fountain, this ! 16
…s are deep ! O let me fall from death to dream, Eternal monotone ; Faint eventide of sleep supreme With thee and love alone ! A jewelled night of star and moon Shall watch our bridal chamber, Bending the blue rays to the tune Of softly-sliding amber. Dim winds shall whisper echoes of Our slow ecstatic breath, Telling all worlds how sweet is love, How beautiful is death.
…lue surface of her eyes. The windows of her soul are open wide Toward the morning and the summer skies . Emerging from the portal of the night, She lingers with one foot upon the way , Then springs, a sudden vision of delight, Swift, with her arms outstretched , to meet the day . 132
…y are called Brother and Sister, but it is not so. They are called Husband and Wife, but it is not so. The reflection of All is Pan: the Night of Pan is the Annihilation of the All. Cast down through The Abyss is the Light, the Rosy Cross, the rapture of Union that destroys, that is The Way. The Rosy Cross is the Ambassador of Pan. How infinite 1s the distance from This to That ! Yet Allis Here and Now. Nor is there any 19
Voice of the thunder ! Light of the levin ! I worship and wonder, O maker of Heaven ! The night falls asunder ; The darkness is riven ! Light, O eternal ! Life, O diurnal ! Love, O withdrawn ! Heart of my May, spring Far to Thy dawn ! God of the dayspring ! Sun on the lawn ! Hail to Thy splendour, Holy, I cry ! Mary shall bend her Face from the sky. Subtle and tender— Then I can die ! Tannhauser. The simple love of life and gladness there ! Merely to be, and worship at the heart. How complex, the machinery of me ! Better ? I doubt it. Hark ! he…
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…n hour earlier than his custom, to the accompaniment of a terrific thunderstorm that rolled up from the valley of the Loing and fell like night upon the forest, like a dark winter's night that afternoon of May. He was wet to the skin before he reached his hut. Opening the door, he glowered with dull surprise. Equally wet, standing in one corner and wringing out a blouse, was a girl of about twenty years old, an Amazon maid. He could see that she was a lady—that is, that she was not a villager; but he had no means of knowing that she was the Hono…
…n hour earlier than his custom, to the accompaniment of a terrific thunderstorm that rolled up from the valley of the Loing and fell like night upon the forest, like a dark winter's night that afternoon of May. He was wet to the skin before he reached his hut. Opening the door, he glowered with dull surprise. Equally wet, standing in one corner and wringing out a blouse, was a girl of about twenty years old, an Amazon maid. He could see that she was a lady—that is, that she was not a villager; but he had no means of knowing that she was the Hono…
…arjol is safe. This is all GEdipus-Complex. Why not “Safe in the arms of Jesus”? Devil fly away with this ‘eternal rest’ stuff! Give mea night’s rest now and again; a dip into the Tao, and then —off we go again! 74. Know, Conqueror of Sins, once that a Sowani hath cross’d the seventh Path, all Nature thrills with joyous awe and feels subdued. The silver star now twinkles out the news to the night-blossoms, the streamlet to the pebbles ripples out the tale; dark ocean waves will roar it to the rocks surf-bound, scent-laden breezes sing it to the…
… A crazy hovel on the edge of the squalid village. The clamour of Syrian dogs. A young girl stealing through the shadows of the moonless night, craftily. THE GIRL They have not stirred. I am unseen, unheard. Now for some honey of note Plucked from the black lion’s throat ! There is no moon : earth is too still. A heat, yet bitter chill, Is in the air, the windless air. O for a breath of snow-wind on The crest of Lebanon ! I would that boy that laughed
THE GREY NIGHT. I33 THE GREEK Demented ! JOHN Here is the argument Ehud invented ! (He thrusts a dagger into the belly of the Greek disciple from Alexandria. The dirt comes out. To the Bystander, Say Homoousios ! PUBLIUS Surely they will While his logic is backed with such surgical skill. TWO BYSTANDERS We fly to do as you desire us. JOHN And bring me up a clean papyrus ! These chapters will make of no account The ridiculous sermon on the mount. Where was I ? With twelve aeon-chains Somewhere revolving in these brains; Synoches, teletarchs, iyn…