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Page 75 of 2031913 · PDF PAGE 274
…I am thine, As the vine’s ensigns entwine At the sacring of the sun, Thou the even and I the odd Being and becoming one On the abacus of God! Thou the sacred snake that rears Death, a jewelled crest across The enchantment of the years, All my love that is my loss. Life and death, two and one, Hate and love, moon and sun, Light and darkness, never swerve From the norm, note the nerve, Name the name, exceed the excess Of thy lamp of loveliness, Living snake of lazy love, Ithyphallic that uprears Its Palladium above The enchantment of the years !
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…ges into the waves of destiny , “ And with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped . ” Onward he swims striving against Poseidon , god of the ocean , who heaps the sea foam against him , as he makes for the Paphian isle to seek aid from the goddess of Love ; and in his blinding anger he sees her not , though she is by his side journeying homeward from Rome . She raises the swimmer to her pearly car and carries him to her fair home , where in the following beautiful symbolic action she promises to restore him his lost love-Archais . Then A…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…tley. The nymph of Spring, Syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but Breath to fill the world with Music, attracts Pan, the Goat-God of Ecstatic Lust, by whose Work the glory of Summer is established anew. It is obvious that “The length of thy longing” varies with the number of potentialities to be satisfied. In other words, the more complex the Khu of the Star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his own imperfections of the scope of his work, and of his need to achieve it. 75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: 76. 4…
1906 · PDF PAGE 207
…If thou wilt that of Egypt’s crocodile.” 746. Lost / Lost! Lost / 78—See The Lay of the Last Minstrel. 759. Ain Elohim.78—‘' There is no God!” so our Bible. But this is really the most sublime affirmation of the Qabalist. ‘‘ Ain is God.” For the meaning of Ain, and of this idea, see ‘‘Berashith,” zzfra. The ‘ fool” is He of the Tarot, to whom the number O is attached, to make the meaning patent to a child. ‘‘T insult your idol,’’ quoth the good missionary; ‘‘he is but of dead stone. He does not avenge himself. He does not punish me.”’ ‘‘ [insul…
1906 · PDF PAGE 109
…r luxuries are cheaply paid Since Satan introduced Free Trade; And necessaries—woe is me !|— Are furnished to the damned soul free. Ill. God’s hell, Earth’s heaven, are not so far. Dinner brought oysters, caviar, ) Anchovies, truffles, curried rabbit (Bad for the apoplectic habit) While ancient brandy and champagne Washed down the dainties. Once again 1 Money-changer. Mexican dollars were long the sole currency on the Chinese coast. 101
1906 · PDF PAGE 112
The same fool’s problem. I explain The simple state of things in vain. He chose to study God, and die in it. He made his bed, and he must lie in it. VI. After my dinner I debate (Urged to the task by habit’s Fate) The project of a poisoning. In hell one finds that everything Is easy. Poison to my hand; A cunning potion cool and bland Fit to administer the draught :— How like old times! I nodded, laughed, Poisoned my neighbour, a young girl Sent here for marrying an earl. Of course she did not die. But then On earth I never killed my men; They o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 406
… brazen towers, and here The sculptured rocks, the marble shrine Where to a tall black stone they rear The altars due to the divine. The God they deem in sensual joy Absorbed, and silken dalliance: To please his leisure hours a boy Compels an elephant to dance. So majesty to ridicule Is turned. To other climes and men Makes off that strong, persistent fool Sir Palamede the Saracen.
1910 · PDF PAGE 406
… brazen towers, and here The sculptured rocks, the marble shrine Where to a tall black stone they rear The altars due to the divine. The God they deem in sensual joy Absorbed, and silken dalliance: To please his leisure hours a boy Compels an elephant to dance. So majesty to ridicule Is turned. To other climes and men Makes off that strong, persistent fool Sir Palamede the Saracen.
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
…ough the moon ! Nay ! I knew not what glory shone Gold from the breathless bliss beyond : But this I know that I am gone To the heart of Gods great diamond ! I match, &c. KETHER I am passed through the abyss of flame ; Hear ye that I am that I am ! THE RETURN Behold ! I clothe mine awful light In yonder body born of night. Its mind be open to the higher ! Its heart be lucid-luminous ! The Temple of its own desire The Temple of the Rosy Cross !
1898 · PDF PAGE 25
…ly opens out Its willing petals to the tender dawn, My soul may open to the knowledge of A dawn of new thought that may lead—— Voice. To God. Ph. Hope hardly dared to name it ! 15
1901 · PDF PAGE 21
… thou thrice noble for the deadly scars That answered vainly thy victorious sword ! Wagner ! creator of a world of light As beautiful as God’s, bend down to me, And whisper me the secrets of thy heart, That I may follow and dispel the night, And fight life through, a comrade unto thee, Under Love’s banner with the sword of Art ! O
1903 · PDF PAGE 15
…n! The boys are oft of genus ‘‘ass.” Think yourself lucky, lady, then, If I at least am boy. You laugh? Not you! Is this love’s epitaph, God’s worm erect on Herod’s throne? “ Ah, if I only had not known!” All wrong, belovéd! Truth be ours, The one white 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, …
1908 · PDF PAGE 70
…Y SPIRIT, shadow her !) There are three Kings upon the road. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice blest the Name of GOD. (O HOLY SPIRIT, shadow her !) There stands her star above the sky. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice blest the TRINITY. (O HOLY SPIRIT, shadow her !) Her joyful ardour hath sufficed. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She is delivered of the CHRIST. (The angels come to worship Her !) Amen. T 63
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
…at we seemed a stillnesswhiter than The stars, more silent than the stars, a crown Of stars ! For in the icy kiss of death I found that God that is denied to man So long as love and thought And life avail him aught.
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…anned by a Thessalian witch, Lie like twins — royally rich In this casket wrought with gems Fit for Mogul diadems. MIRIAM O dogs, kings, gods, begone ! Bone splits from bone. I am ripped up like a sweating sow On the horn of a buffalo ! What care I for your gifts, unless They might relieve this wretchedness ? God ! I am split asunder Like a cloud by a clap of thunder !
1913 · PDF PAGE 150
…Evening . ITIS clear and cold 1 This Christmas night With snows that linger , And the great moon In her praise -light Like jewel worn on God 's ring -finger Is blurred , as the church -bell rings, By the young angels' wings. THE SWAN . THE other lights , the other trees , 1 The other houses hung in the pool Are his : he is the lord of these . It is a kingdom deep and cool . Preoccupied and white as dreams , He bends his head , watching his own , His still dominions . Brawling streams Could never make for him a throne . He knows it not , it know…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…oet’s lifted soul ; To him thou givest youth, and hope, and life, And pride, this treasure of all beggar’s strife That gives us triumph, Godhead, for its dole. CHALDEAN FOOLS. CHALDEAN fools, who prayed to stars and fires, Believed there was a God who punished liars. These gods of theirs they often would invoke, Apparently with excellent effect: They trusted to escape the penal smoke By making Truth the trade-mark of their sect. How fortunate that we are Christian Folk, And know these notions to be incorrect ! CALL OF THE SYLPHS)} BEHOLD, I am;…
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
… that is set before him, must dave to endure the cross, despising the shame; if he would be “set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews, xii, 2. ¢ “If there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God” (1 Corinthians, xiv, 28) has more than one meaning, § “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (Rev. viii, 1). 77
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
… that is set before him, must dave to endure the cross, despising the shame; if he would be “set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews, xii, 2. ¢ “If there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God” (1 Corinthians, xiv, 28) has more than one meaning, § “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (Rev. viii, 1). 77
1898 · PDF PAGE 110
104 VICTORY And thus from foe to foe betrayed, No pain or pleasure but we knew Its utterest essence, whence we made All agonies, that God has paid With rotting blood, save one, that few Could dream of, so divine it is, So exquisite, so rich to do, The which to-night we meet unto— To consummate the angry bliss Of all excesses of delight ; The pain of this divine disease, The luxury of the obscene kiss, The carnal anguish, and the sight Of sore bloody breasts and thighs, The bright green river foamed with white, The horrid spasms of the night. Lo…