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THE EQUINOX I feel a secret Joy to-night. The unaccountable inner Joy which transforms everything and frees the soul from its shackles. All seems so good to-night; this simple life, the tent by the sea, the night air, the happy tired feeling after the day’s work, the presence of my two dear ones, and all the dear ones of which I am a part, the presence of Adonai within and without. It is good to have lived for this. (This is dreadful! You must not mistake ‘feeling good’ for a mystic state. O.M.) Aug. 9, 9.59 to 10.26 P.M. During this meditation…
1905 · PDF PAGE 122
…Creation hymns its God with an united voice. There is a storm without. The hoary trees Stagger; the foam is angry on the sea: I know the secret mountains are at ease, And in the deepest ice-embroidery Where great men’s spirits linger there is peace. Heed not the unquiet wind! Dawn’s finger shall be raised, its wrath shall cease, The sun shall rouse us whom the tempest lulled, And thy poor poet’s mind For respite by its own deep anguish dulled Shall wake again to watch the cruel day Drift slowly on its chill and. wasted way With but thy smile to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
…My shuddering body swoons; my eyes Absorb her eyelids’ lazy light, And read her bosom to devise I'resh blossoms of the heart of hell And secret joys of Jezebel. Her lips are fastened to my breast To suck out blood in feverish tides ; The token of her I possessed, Still on my withered cheek abides. Thus slowly the desire grows To kill and have her yet—who knows? Part II. T know. When Ramoth-Gilead's field Grew bloody with hot ranks of dead, IT smote amain with sword and shield ; My brows with mingled blood were red ; And on my cheek the kiss of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 175
…Tem. o. h. p. ab. =Templi omnium hominum pacis pater (Heb. Ab, father). Some assert the word to be really a synthesis of a great body of secret doctrine, discoverable by any one who knows the Qabalistic meaning of each letter. Fall down, my baby ; worship him with me. There, go; I give you to his monster kisses ! Take her, my God, my God, my infamy, My love, my master! take the fruit of me! — Shrieks every soul and every demon hisses ! Out ! out ! the ghastly torches of the feast ! Let darkness hide us and the night discover The shameless myste…
1905 · PDF PAGE 214
…thine unselfish soul ; And as thou lovest, so let Love increase Upon thee and about thee: till thy ways Gleam with the splendour of that secret goal Whose long war grows the great abiding peace. THE ROSICRUCIAN. A SA MAJESTE JACQUES IV D'ECQSSE.” I ser the centuries wax and wane. I know their mystery of pain, The secrets of the living fire, The key of life: I live: I reign: For I am master of desire. Silent, I pass amid the folk Caught in its mesh, slaves to its yoke. Silent, unknown, I work and will Redemption, godhead’s master-stroke, And bre…
1905 · PDF PAGE 203
…s have led me higher ; You have taught me purer songs that your. souls did not desire ; You have led me through your chambers, where the secret bolt was drawn, To the chambers of the Highest and the secrets of the Dawn ! You have brought me to command you, and not to be denied ; You have taught me in perfection to be unsatisfied ; You have taught me midnight vigils, when you smiled in amorous sleep ; You have even taught a man the woman’s way to weep. So, even as you helped me, blindly, against your will, So shall the angel faces watch for your…
1907 · PDF PAGE 196
…heedeth anything, Whose mind lamenting turns to ancient days And Nysian meadows and the hour of spring. Yea, but perchance to touch that secret chord Were to awake that sorrow into life ; Sting, as a wound a deep-envenomed sword, The inmost soul of the Aidonean wife. Listen ! I tune my music to that hour ; The careless maidens and the virgin laughter, The bloom of springtide and the fatal flower, And all that joy the sorrow echoing after. So that, dread Hades, thou mayst hear and yield, Thyself unmastered and inexorable, The gentle maid as cryi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…som and brain. Surely, O Mother, thou knowest! not followed thy star? I have gone whither thou goest, bitterly followed afar, Have I 1 A secret Order, probably established by Crowley himself, Buried my heart in thy sorrow, cast down my soul at thy knees. Thou, thou hast left me no morrow. Days and desires, what are these? Nay, I have torn from my breast passion and love and despair : Sought in thy palaces rest, sleep that awaited me there ; Sleep that awaits me in vain: I have done with the hope of things ; Passion and pleasure and pain have st…
1905 · PDF PAGE 177
… bread With blood made one, the sacrifice To those, the living, who are dead— Strange gods and goddesses, that shed Monstrous desires of secret things Upon their worshippers, from wings One lucent web of light, from head One labyrinthine passion-fed Palace of love, from breathing rife With secrets of forbidden life. But not the sunlight, nor the stars, Nor any light but theirs alone, Nor iron masteries of Mars, Nor Saturn’s misconceiving zone, Nor any planet’s may be shown, Within the circle of the grove, Where burn the sanctities of love : Nor…
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
… its old sleepy fragrance lull thee now, Yet madden thee in brain and sense and soul, Mixing success with infinite despair. So; take our secret back to sleep with us :— And in that sleep I know that thou wilt choose
1906 · PDF PAGE 18
… their blossom smiles. They murder with the old perfume that maddens all men’s blood; we die Fresh from some corpse-clothed memory, some secret redolence of gloom, Some darkling murmurous song of lust quite strange to man and beast and bird, Silent in power, not overheard by any snake that eats the dust. No crimson-hooded viper knows ; no silver- crested asp has guessed The strange soft secrets of my breast ; no leprous cobra shall disclose The many-seated, multiform, divine, essential joys that these Dank odours bring, that starry seas wash wh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 194
…orrow and subdued its dart. Then he ‘Go! and the blessing of high God attend Thy path, and lead thee to the doubtful end. No tongue that secret ever may reveal. Thy soul is God-like and thy frame is steel ; Thou mayst win the quest—the king, thy friend, Gives thee his sword to keep thee—Gereth, kneel ! ‘¢T dub thee Earl; arise!” rings The queen’s voice: match the king’s? Here, from my finger drawn, this gem of power Shall guard thee in some unimagined hour. And then there “Shall my love not It hath strange virtue over mortal things. I freely gi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
…sung, 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 spell And dire demand the inward journey needs : That is the l…
1906 · PDF PAGE 129
…ng Jezebel? Scornful of me as all her lovers, More scornful as we love her well ! ‘*Good king, this rage of doubt discovers The long-hid secret! All thy mind A little shadow lurks behind.”
1906 · PDF PAGE 144
… flowers, which the priests receive and cast before the throne. RUPHA motions CRIOSDA fo he silent. Ist PRIEST. Glory unto thee, Maurya, secret Lady of the Stars ! | CHORISTERS. Who wast born on earth! 2nd PRigestT. Glory unto thee, Maurya, Lady of Life ! CHORISTERS. Who didst die for us! ALL. Glory for ever unto Maurya ! THE WORSHIPPING FOLK. Maurya, hear us ! [All bend deeper and deeper in adora- tion. Silence awhile. They rese, and the priests see RUPHA and CRIOSDA. Ist PRIEST. [Whzspers.] Itis the Mother of our Lady. 2nd PRIEST. [Whispers.|…
1907 · PDF PAGE 46
…pease These amorous longings with grave ecstasies, The holy act of uttermost communion, The sacrament of life! Awake, awake ! There is a secret in our subtle union That masters the grey snake. Ay! let him lurk! The Tree of Knowledge we Have fed our fill of; this is Eden still. Awake, O Love ! and let me drink my fill Of thee—and thou of me! [ANGELA wakes, chaos, from the husks of ANGELA. Ah, Percy, bend you over me! Bend deep! Kiss my own eyelids out of tender sleep Into exasperate love! Bend close] Fill me, thy golden rose, With dew of thy dea…
1905 · PDF PAGE 218
…and not to drag it down !} O holiest Lord of the divine white flame Of brilliance sworded in the temple sky ! O thou who knowest my most secret name, Who whisperest when only thou and I Make up our universe: bestow thy kiss: Arise! Come, let us pierce the old abyss ! Rise! Move! Appear! Tet us go forth together, Into the solemn passionless profound, Into the darkness, and the thrilling weather, Into the silence louder than all sound, Into the vast implacable inane ! Come, let us journey thither once again ! THE CHANT TO BE SAID OR SUNG UNTO OUR…
1919 · PDF PAGE 292
…s leaden metal into gold transmute.” The sublime appears phantastically shapen out of nothing, literally without effort. And this is the secret of life. This is the sublime and sacred jest of the Gods, to take the gross, the stupid, the banal, and suddenly to manifest a flower. For this reason I wish to put it upon record, that I think that Alexander Harvey is the greatest realist alive to-day. The dull rationalist dribbles of cause and effect, neither perceiving the one, nor understanding the other. Alexander Har- vey has the mystery of Pan. A…
1943 · PDF PAGE 5
…hat from the Law spring four Rays or Emanations: so that if the Law be the center of your own being, they must needs fill you with their secret goodness. And these four are Light, Life, Love and Liberty. By Light shall ye look upon yourselves and behold All Things that are in Truth One Thing only, whose name hath been called No Thing for a cause which later shall be declared unto you. But the substance of Light is Life, since without Existence and Energy it were naught. By Life therefore are you made yourselves, eternal and incorruptible, flami…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…hat deathless and divine ! Not by a faint and fairy tale We shadow forth the immortal way. No symbols exquisitely pale Avail to lure the secrets grey Of his endeavour who proceeds By doing to abolish deeds. Not by the pipings of a bird In skies of blue on fields of gold, But by a fierce and loathly word The abomination must be told. The holy work must twist its spell From hemp of madness, grown in hell, Only by energy and strife May man attain the eternal rest, Dissolve the desperate lust of life By infinite agony and zest. Thus, O my Kali, I d…