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Page 35 of 1541905 · PDF PAGE 28
IN A LESBIAN MEADOW I UNDER the summer leaves In the half-light Love his old story weaves Far out of sight. Here we are lone, at last. Heaven is overcast Yet with no night. Ere her immortal wings Gather the thread of things Into her might, Up will the moon arise Through the black-azure skies : Birds shall sing litanies Still of delight. II Let my lips wander where Tender moss grows, Where through their dusky air Beams a red rose. Where the bee honey sips Let my desirous lips, Kissing, unclose 23
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…nd “ darting long rugged fingers and deep eyes ” reaches to the sceptre with his word and will : Buds , roses , blossoms ! Lilies of the Light ! Bloom , bloom , the fragrance shed upon the air ! Out flames the miracle of life and love ! Out, out the lights ! Flame , flame , the rushing storm ! Darkness and death , and glory in my soul ! Swept , swept away are pope and cardinal, Palace and city ! There I lay beneath The golden roof of the eternal stars , Borne upon some irremeable sea That glowed with most internal brilliance ; 2 And verily My l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 242
…and vultures whose bald heads were clotted with rotten blood. ‘Ah! the world, the world ... the failure of the world.” And then an amber light surged round him, the fearful tapestry of torturing thought was rent asunder, the voices of many angels sang to him. ‘Master! Master!” he cried, ‘I have found Thee . . . O silver Christ. . . .” Then all was Nothingness . . . nothing... nothing... nothing; and madly his horse carried him into the night. Thus he set out on his mystic quest towards that goal which he had seen, and which seemed so near; and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 242
…and vultures whose bald heads were clotted with rotten blood. ‘Ah! the world, the world ... the failure of the world.” And then an amber light surged round him, the fearful tapestry of torturing thought was rent asunder, the voices of many angels sang to him. ‘Master! Master!” he cried, ‘I have found Thee . . . O silver Christ. . . .” Then all was Nothingness . . . nothing... nothing... nothing; and madly his horse carried him into the night. Thus he set out on his mystic quest towards that goal which he had seen, and which seemed so near; and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 105
…a secret meaning of blessing.) The Shew-stone is of soft lucent white, on which the Rose- Cross shows a brilliant yet colourless well of light. And now the veil of the stone is rent with a clap of thunder, and I am walking upon a razor-edge of light suspended over the Abyss, and before me and above me are ranged the terrible armies of the Most High, like unto those in the 11th Aethyr, 103
1944 · PDF PAGE 88
…o as to form an equilateral triangle; this gives the symbol of the Triangle surmounted by the Cross, which represents the descent of the light into the darkness in order to re deem it. For this reason there are green disks‐green, the col‐ our of Venus, signifies Grace‐at the terminations of the limbs and of the head. The air above the surface of the water is also green, infiltrated by rays of the white light of Kether. The whole figure is suspended from the Ankh, another way of figuring the formula of the Rose and Cross, while around the left f…
1898 · PDF PAGE 45
Of the lone spirits of the empty tomb, And there I see the lovers piteous Splendidly flash within the silver sphere Of light, and there I lose them at the last Most wonderfully passed within the veil Of Time ; caught up into the Infinite. Lay them together. And the hollow hill Shall echo me “ together,” and the sky, And the wide sea, and all the fragrant air, Shall linger in the tumult of the dawn. Lay them together. And the still small voice Shall whisper “ Peace,” and in the evening “ Peace.” 35
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
…! HERACLES. Too great for a god’s strength! THESEUS. Speak! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death! ORPHEUS, Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEUS. What spake That Silence? HERACLES. “This is not a quest Where strength availeth aught.” I shall not go. JASON. Nay, brother. The voice was: “The end is sorrow!”
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
DEDICATION AND COUNTER-DEDICATION xi To you, Konx Om Fax—Light in Extension—is your natural home. You have written these essays by my pen; not on you need I bestow them; but— To all and every person in the whole world who is without the Pale of the Order; and even to Initiates who are not in possession of the Password for the time being; and to all those who have resigned demitted, or been expelled I dedicate this Revelation of the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence.
1907 · PDF PAGE 314
…dowy idealism of Berkeley , or the self -refuted Monism of Haeckel . All these men got our results , and interpreted them in the partial light of their varied intellect , their diverse surroundings and education . But the result is the same physiological phenomenon , from Plato and Christ to Spinoza and Çankaracharya , from Augustine and Abelard , Boehme and Weigel in their Christian communities to Trismegistus and Porphyry , Mohammed and Paracelsus in their mystic palaces of Wisdom , the doctrine is essentially one : and its essence is that ex…
1919 · PDF PAGE 436
… in which no breeze, however strong, can waft an earthly thought within. Thus purified, the shrine must of all action, sound, or earthly light be void; e’en as the butterfly, o’ertaken by the frost, falls lifeless at the threshold—so must all earthly thoughts fall dead before the fane. Again another phase of this task. Complete detachment, perfect silence, absolute will; this must be that pure Chiah which is utterly removed from Ruach. 63. Behold it written: “Ere the gold flame can burn with steady light, the lamp must stand well guarded in a s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 305
…thin the water ! Glows The pale pure water , shakes and slides The glittering sun through emerald tides , So that faint ripples of young light Laugh on the green . Is there a night So still and cold , a frost so chill , That all the glaciers be still ? Yet in its peace no frost . Arise ! Over the mountains steady stand , O sun of glory in the skies Alone , above , unmoving ! Brand Thy sigil , thy restless might , The abundant imminence of light ! 1 Science and Buddhism , vol . ii, pp . 207-208 .
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…ly by its highest initiates; but it may be said openly that it teaches Hermetic Science or Occult Knowledge, the Pure and Holy Magick of Light, the Secrets of Mystic attainment, Yoga of all forms, Gnana Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakta Yoga and Hatha Yoga, and all other branches of the secret Wisdom of the Ancients. In its bosom repose the Great Mysteries 5 its brain has resolved all the problems of philosophy and of Ii Te possesses the secret of the Stone of the Wise, of the Elixir of Immortality, and of the Universal Medicine. Moreover, it possesses a…
1961 · PDF PAGE 201
…, and in Contempt of men, and in Pain of Disease, and so forth, mocking us, and holding our Magick for Delusion. But they behold not our Light, how it guideth us in our Path unto a Goal that is not in their Comprehension, so that we crave not that which seemeth to them the Sole Food and Comfort of Life. Also, this which we attain, though it be the Essence of Omniscience and Omnipotence, informeth and moveth the Material World (so to call it) only according to the Nature of that which is herein. For the Light of the Sun (by His very Wholeness it…
1901 · PDF PAGE 106
…ry of the living day Shall shine among the dead. Thy faith shall have a holier task, thy strength a goodlier stead.” Then I withdrew the light Of mine own Godhead up, As stars that close with broken night Their adamantine cup. I sought the solar airs : my soul on its own tears might sup. For in the vast profound Still burns the rescuing sign ; Beyond all sight and sense and sound The symbol flames divine. For He shall make all life, all death, His solitary shrine.
1906 · PDF PAGE 54
A heart of love, a crown of light, An infinite music of delight ;— This, but no more; let fancy sway But never fix the transient ray! All things are lawful, so they be At most a marshalled imagery. Dream of Earth's glories higher and higher, Mounting the minaret, desire; Never attaining to the sky, Realization—lest thou die. So dream, possessing all; so dream, Possessing nothing: I esteem These twain as one, since dreams they are. Thus mayst thou journey far and far And far! to climes unguessed, to seas Proud with seignorial argosies, 48
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
A TERZAIN King of myself, I labour to espouse An equal soul. Alas ! how frail I find The golden light within the gilded house. Helpless and passionate, and weak of mind ! Lechers and lepers ! — all as ivy cling, Emasculate the healthy bole they haunt. Eternity is pregnant ; I shall sing Now— by my power — a spirit grave and gaunt Brilliant and selfish, hard and hot, to flaunt Reared like a flame across the lampless west, Until by love or laughter we enchaunt, Compel ye to Kithairon’s thorny crest — Evoe! Iacche ! consummatum est. — XxI —
1911 · PDF PAGE 28
THE EQUINOX II. I pour you lustral wine, that giveth you delight both at the sunset and the dawn. 12. Come with me, and I will give you allthat is desirable upon the earth. 13. Because I give you that of which Earth and its joys are but as shadows. 14.. They flee away, but my joy abideth even unto the end. 15. I have hidden myself beneath a mask: Iam a black and terrible God. 16. With courage conquering fear shall ye approach me: ye shall lay down your heads upon mine altar, expecting the sweep of the sword. 17. But the first kiss of love shall b…
1911 · PDF PAGE 28
THE EQUINOX II. I pour you lustral wine, that giveth you delight both at the sunset and the dawn. 12. Come with me, and I will give you allthat is desirable upon the earth. 13. Because I give you that of which Earth and its joys are but as shadows. 14.. They flee away, but my joy abideth even unto the end. 15. I have hidden myself beneath a mask: Iam a black and terrible God. 16. With courage conquering fear shall ye approach me: ye shall lay down your heads upon mine altar, expecting the sweep of the sword. 17. But the first kiss of love shall b…
1911 · PDF PAGE 78
…QUINOX of truth, and all that power and beauty that they have made of themselves, is cast from them, as itis written, “ I saw Satan like lightning fall from Heaven.” And as a flaming sword is it dropt through the abyss, where the four beasts keep watch and ward. And it appeareth in the heaven of Jupiter as a morning star, or as an evening star. And the light thereof shineth even unto the earth, and bringeth hope and help to them that dwell in the darkness of thought, and drink of the poison of life. Fifty are the gates of understanding, and one…