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…ath, Adulah, white and lissome, with the flames Of dawn forth blushing through her flower-crowned hair. . CHORUS. Behold a virgin to the Lord! Behold a maiden pale as death, Whose glance is silver as a sword, And flowers of Kedar fill her breath, Whose fragrance saturates the sward, Whose sunny perfume floating saith : From my ineffable desire is drawn The awful glory of the golden dawn. Behold her bosom bare and bold Whose billows like the ocean swing! The painted palaces of gold, Where shell-born maidens laugh and sing,
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…ow pleasantly you must have smiled : I left them, and I left them wild : Though certainly they had abhorred The task of locking up a lord. For a more tragic rôle you played Your master neatly who betrayed. His shame and torture turned your leer To a snarl !your drabs smile to a sneer,
1954 · PDF PAGE 481
…ly, there lived in Bristol an "Open Brother" named Muller, who was a wizard at this; Grace before breakfast, the usual palaver about the Lord and His blessings and His bounty et cetera, da capo; to conclude "and, Blessed Lord, we would Humbly venture to remind Thee that this morning Thou art £3 4s. 6 1/2d. short in the
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
…rth in all that multitude. ‘* Brother Abhavananda,? little friend,” said the Buddha, ‘‘ what can we predicate of allexisting things?” ‘* Lord !” replied the neophyte, “they are unstable, everything ‘is sorrow, in them is no inward Principle, as some pretend, that can avoid, that can hold itself aloof from, the forces of decay.” ‘*And how do you know that, little Brother ?”’ smiled the Thrice- Honoured One. ‘‘Lord, I perceive this Truth whenever 1 Thirst: z.e. desire in its evil sense. 2 Ignorance. 3 Doubt. + ‘* Bliss-of-non-existence.'’ One of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…Lying at his feet as dead, I saw The leaping-forth of Law : Division of the North wind and the South, The lightning of the armies of the Lord ; East rolled asunder from the rended West ; Height clove the depth : the Voice begotten said : Divided be thy ways and limited ! Answered the reflux and the indrawn breath : Let there be Life, and Death !
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
… light pours forth in emerald waves ? What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges ? Shrieking thy fly, the King-Ghost and his slaves. Lord, let Thy Ghost indwell, And keep us from the power of Hell ! Amen.
1912 · PDF PAGE 238
…anner, at times insincere, etc. Chesed of ( ?יSettlement, arrangement, completion). Herein are?'לאאככand?לאתיבAngelic rulers. XLVIII THE LORD OF MATERIAL TROUBLE Five of Pentaclzs A WHITE Radiant Angelic Hand issuing from clouds, and holding a branch of the white rose tree, but from which the roses are falling, and leaving no buds behind. Five Pentacles similar to the Ace. Above and below are 35 and Β. Loss of money or position, Trouble about material things. Labour, toil, land cultivation; building, knowledge and acuteness of earthly things, p…
1912 · PDF PAGE 238
…anner, at times insincere, etc. Chesed of ( ?יSettlement, arrangement, completion). Herein are?'לאאככand?לאתיבAngelic rulers. XLVIII THE LORD OF MATERIAL TROUBLE Five of Pentaclzs A WHITE Radiant Angelic Hand issuing from clouds, and holding a branch of the white rose tree, but from which the roses are falling, and leaving no buds behind. Five Pentacles similar to the Ace. Above and below are 35 and Β. Loss of money or position, Trouble about material things. Labour, toil, land cultivation; building, knowledge and acuteness of earthly things, p…
1898 · PDF PAGE 43
… of the light All air with cloudy fragrance fills ; And, born of desolation blind, The young sweet summer burns behind. The Altar of the Lord is set With salt and fire and fervid wine, And toward the east the light is let For shadow for the holiest shrine : One moment hangs the fire of dawn Until the sacrament be sworn. Behold, the priest, our captain, takes The sacred robes, the crown of gold, The light of other sunlight breaks Upon his forehead calm and cold
1899 · PDF PAGE 72
…ath, Adulah, white and lissome, with the flames Of dawn forth blushing through her flower-crowned hair. . CHORUS. Behold a virgin to the Lord! Behold a maiden pale as death, Whose glance is silver as a sword, And flowers of Kedar fill her breath, Whose fragrance saturates the sward, Whose sunny perfume floating saith : From my ineffable desire is drawn The awful glory of the golden dawn. Behold her bosom bare and bold Whose billows like the ocean swing! The painted palaces of gold, Where shell-born maidens laugh and sing,
1899 · PDF PAGE 81
…ver and red gold, And all sweet natures marvels manifold Combine together in the twilight dim To harmonize in the thalamic hymn. HYMN O Lord our God ! O woodland king! O thou most dreadful God ! Who chasest thieves and smitest with thy rod, That fearful rod, too sharp, too strong For thy weak worshippers to bear !
1901 · PDF PAGE 53
…ble feet That dance to an infinite lyre On the heart of the world as they beat, In the flowers of the bride of the flame, in the warrior Lord of the Fire, There burns our desire! AMENHATEP. Cry now, bewail the broken house, bewail The ruin of the land; cry out on Fate! CHORUS. Slow wheels of unbegotten hate And changeless circles of desire, Formless creations uncreate, Swift fountains of ungathered fire, The misty counterpoise of time, Dim winds of ocean and sublime Pyramids of forgotten foam Whirling, vague cones of shapeless sleep And infinit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
WHY JESUS WEPT 3 That Crowley, ever versatile And lord of many a new bad style Should still in’s gun have one more cartridge, And who Ixtaccihuatl’s smart ridge Achieved should still be full of mettle To go up Popocatapetl. As song then chills or aches or burns, The metre shall slew round by turns. The gross and bestial demand prose. (Glance at the page, lass, stop your nose, And turn to where short lines proclaim That purity has won the game !) But stow your prudery, wives and mothers, You know as much muck as — those others ! Your modest home…
1910 · PDF PAGE 60
…That shines in the Bull above I can rein the riotous car Of galloping, galloping Love ; And straight to the steady ray Of the Lion-heart Lord I career, Pointing my flaming way With the spasm of night for a spear ! O moon ! O secret sweet ! Chalcedony clouds of caresses About the flame of our feet, The night of our terrible tresses ! It is a wonder, then If the people are mad with blindness, And nothing is stranger to men Than silence, and wisdom, and kindness ? Nay ! let him fashion an arrow Whose heart is sober and stout !
1911 · PDF PAGE 22
… Let spring that fountain in eternal halls. And this: Sulphur, Salt, and Mercury: Which is master of the three? Salt is Lady of the Sea; Lord of Air is Mercury. Now by God’s grace here is salt Fixed beneath the violet vault. Now by God’s love purge it through With our right Hermetic dew. Now by God wherein we trust Be our sophic salt combust. Then at last the Eye shall see Three in One and One in Three, Sulphur, Salt, and Mercury, Crowned by Heavenly Alchemy!
1911 · PDF PAGE 22
… Let spring that fountain in eternal halls. And this: Sulphur, Salt, and Mercury: Which is master of the three? Salt is Lady of the Sea; Lord of Air is Mercury. Now by God’s grace here is salt Fixed beneath the violet vault. Now by God’s love purge it through With our right Hermetic dew. Now by God wherein we trust Be our sophic salt combust. Then at last the Eye shall see Three in One and One in Three, Sulphur, Salt, and Mercury, Crowned by Heavenly Alchemy!
1961 · PDF PAGE 30
…satisfied cometh a Lunar or physical Sleep appointed to refresh and recreate by Cleansing and Repose; but on him that is bodily pure the Lord bestoweth a Solar or Lucid Sleep, wherein move Images of pure Light fashioned by the True Will. And this is called by the Qabalists the Sleep of Shiloam, and of this doeth also Porphyry make mention mention, and Cicero, with many other Wise Men of Old Time. Compare, o my Son, with this Doctrine that which was taught thee in the Sanctuary of the Gnosis concerning the Death of the Righteous; and learn moreo…
1898 · PDF PAGE 9
JEPHTHAH. Eleazar. Pvrophet. Chorus. CHORUS. OW is our sin requited of the Lord. For, scorning Jephthah for an harlot’s son, We cast him forth from us, and said: Begone, Thou shalt not enter in with us; thy mouth Shall thirst for our inheritance in vain ; Thou hast no lot nor part in Gilead. And now, he gathers to himself vain men, Violent folk, and breakers of the law, And holds aloof in rocky deserts, where The land, accurst of God, is barren still Of any herb, or flower, or any tree, And has no shelter, nor sweet watersprings, Save where a l…
1898 · PDF PAGE 33
…d us thou shouldst fight for us And save thy people from the Ammonites. JEPHTHAH. Why look you so? He told you other thing. CHORUS. Nay, lord, no saying that we understood. JEPHTHAH. Speak thou its purport ; I may understand. For, know you, in the desert where I dwelt I had strange store of books obscure ; books written Not openly for fools, but inwardly Toward the heart of wise men. And myself Studied no little while upon these things, And, seeking ever solitude, I went Nightly upon a rock that stood alone Threatening the sandy wilderness, and…
1905 · PDF PAGE 90
…ghs out the offering, accepts the pain, Hearing the pæan of the unprofane ! Lycian, listen ! God of the fiery face, the eyes inviolate ! Lord of soundless thunders, lightnings lightless ! Hear me now, for joy that I see thee sightless, Fervent to follow. Grant one boon ; destroy me, let me die elate, Blasted with light intolerant of a mortal, That the undying in me pass thy portal ! Hear me, Apollo. Hear me, or if about thy courts be girded Paler some purple softening the sunlight Merciful, mighty, O divide the one light Into a million Shattere…