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… kindling, as the fleet Implacable untiring feet Weave mystic figures manifold That draw down angels to behold The moving music, and the fire Of their intolerable desire. For, maddening to fiercer thought, The fiery limbs requicken, wheel In formless furies, subtly wrought Of swifter melodies than steel That flashes in the fight : the peal Of amorous laughters choking sense, And madness kissing violence, Rings like dead horsemen ; bodies reel Drunken with motion ; spirits feel The strange constraint of gods that dip From Heaven to mingle lip an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
… compelled to spend six months of the year in Hades. And, to forget her, found due somnolence In such a warm brown bosom as thine own Is fire and amber. Then I came away :— I heard of knights no better horsed than I, No better sworded, with no gift of song, Who, caught by one ineffable desire, Kode on by old mysterious watersheds, Traversed strange seas, or battled with strange folk, Held vigil in wild forests, all to seek The vision of the Holy Grail. And I Rode forth on that same foolish wandering, And found a-many ventures on the way ; At la…
1906 · PDF PAGE 56
…ted her ; she took the blade Blessed by a mage, who slew the harmless kid With solemn rite and water poured athwart In stars and sigils,—fire leapt out amid, And blazed upon the blade; and stark cold Swart Demons came hurtling to enforce the spell, Until the exorcisms duly wrought Fixed in the living steel so terrible A force nor man nor devil might assail, Nay— might approach the wary warrior we}., So long as he was clothed in silver mail Of purity, and iron-helmeted With ignorance of fear : so through the hail Of flowers, of cries, of looks, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…e noise of the dawn in our ears Burst out like a storm or a snake Or the rush of the Badawi spears. Dawn of desire ! But thy kiss was as fire To thy lovers and princes and peers. Then the ruin of night we beheld As the sun stormed the heights of the sky With his myriad swords, and compelled The pale tremblers, the planets, to fly. He drave from their place All the stars for a space, From their bastioned towers in the sky. Thrilled through to the marrow with heat We abode (as we glode) on the river. Every arrow he launched from his seat, From th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 177
…y, and that is why the Sephira is attributed to Jupiter, who is the Demiurge. The Four of Cups is called Luxury. The masculine nature of fire permits the Four of Wands to appear as a very p6sitive and clear‐cut conception. The weakness in the element of water threatens its purity; it is not quite strong enough to control itself properly; so the Lord of Pleasure is a little unstable. Pu‐ rity has somehow been lost in the process of satisfaction.
1905 · PDF PAGE 194
…iends! terrible Rings in the manly music that they swell. They are all caught in this immense desire Deeper than heaven, tameless as the fire. All catch the fear—the fear of Her—as well, And dare not—even afraid, I must aspire. Yet something 1 Correct for ‘‘ Michael.” A_ piece of pedantry pardonable in a youth of 25. A spirit walking in a dream, I went To the high throne—they shook the firma- ment With foolish cheers. queen And wept in silence. Then, as it had been An angel’s voice and touch, her face she bent, Lifted and kissed me—oh! her lips…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…beyond all’’; And cast his shadow to the deep, to shame That oneness in its own division’s thrall ; So that Himself appears in cloud and fire Distorted in the world’s distorted mirror; And dark convulsion and confusion dire Stands for his form of error and of terror. But I perceive, I Orpheus, Lord of Song, And every Lord of Song that me shall follow Down steeps of time’s own agony and wrong, Shall see the lightning bridge the dreadful hollow With jagged flame of master-music, hear The blind curse thunder forth against in vain When the swift gl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 177
…er by visions the nature of the Alchemical principles, Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt. How do they differ from the 3 Gunas, and the elements Fire, Water, Air? 1(This sort of thing is all wrong. It isn’t really meditation at all. You let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. Samadhi never occurs in such conditions. O.M.) 2(This Examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to Flattery. It is a much harder paper than would be set in most cases. O.M.) 169
1906 · PDF PAGE 129
…the great test of strength was made On Carmel’s melancholy hill, And on the altar-stone the liar Cried ‘‘ Water,” and poured forth Greek fire ! Then while the fools peer heavenward, Even as he prays, to see the skies Vomit the flash, his furtive sword Fast to the flinty altar flies. Whoof! the wild blaze assures the clods Jehovah is the God of gods ! Nor do I set peculiar store By tricks twin-born to this they show When, with well-simulated lore Of learning, Baal’s great hierarchs go Into the gold god’s graven shell And moan the ambiguous oracl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 20
…hee? For I am she thou seekest. Come with me And tell me all thy grief; thy prayer is heard Before thy spirit clothes in wintry word The fire it throbs with.” So her eager doves Waited. From seas grown calm the wanton loves Lifted the hero to the pearly car, Whose floor was azure and whose front a star Set in seven jewels girt with ivory. Then the light rein the goddess left to lie Unheeded, and the birds flew on apace, Until the glint and glory of the place Grew o’er the blue dim line of ocean. It was a temple never built of man, Being of marb…
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…t a warder roused from sleep; I pass, with face of burning flame, That is not quenched, although I weep. (For even my tears are tears of fire, For loathing, madness, and desire.) Ah God ! the traps for fervent feet ! The morrow beaconed, and I came By where the golden groves of wheat In summer glories fiercely flame; To those white courts, by princes trod, Where Ahab sat, and mocked at God. Where Ahab sat :—but lo! I saw No king, no tyrant to be curst ; But she, who filled me with blind awe, She, for whose blood my thin veins thirst; The blosso…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…k you, sir." The tutor read through the letter, made no comment, asked no questions. He tore it slowly in pieces and threw them into the fire. "May I hope that you will be with us at breakfast tomorrow?" "Thank you, sir." "Good morning, Mr. Wilkinson." "Good morning, sir." I confess that it seems to me that the method of Oxford in such matters errs in two different directions. On the one hand, the undergraduate is treated as an irresponsible infant, to be dragooned into decency; and on the other, punished with a sternness which postulates that …
1905 · PDF PAGE 62
…e Is nade most holy, beautiful, and pure, By this desire, if this desire endure. So to the altar of the Highest aspire Those souls whose fire as on it cast one grain of pure incense, (Who guesses—whence ?) Those souls that cast their trammels off, and spring On eager wing, Immaculate, new-born, toward the sky, And shall not die Until they cleave at last the lampless dome, And lose their tent because they find their home. KPILOGUE. LiKE snows on the mountain, uplifted By weather or wind as it blows, In hollows the heaps of it drifted, The splend…
1906 · PDF PAGE 223
…sabachthani ! (For wit ye well, there be two Arcana therein.) Then said the sixth virgin openly: Gripbus VI. Power lieth in the river of fire. And our Father laughed aloud and answered: I am come from the waterfall. So at that the seventh virgin came forth: and her countenance was Griphus VII. troubled. The seventh riddle: The oldest said to the most beautiful: What doest thou here? 1 This is obscure. 2o+it2+ ... +21=231. 3 ‘The Seplinoth. + The maiden (Malkuth) is blind (unredeemed). Answer: She shall be what she doth not, z.e. see. She shall …
1905 · PDF PAGE 90
…win fawns, the daughters of the rosy day. Behold, the arms of her desire Wave, weave, and wander in the air, Vines life-endued by subtle fire So quick and comely, curving bare. The white diaphanous attire Floats like a spirit pale and fair. The dance is woven of the breeze ; the tune Is like the ocean silvered by the moon. Behold the maidens following ! O every one is like a flower, Or like an ewe lamb of the king That comes from water at the hour Of even. See, the dancers swing Their censers ; see, their tresses shower Descending flames, and p…
1905 · PDF PAGE 248
…Seductive, sombre, moving amorously, Droop the long eyelids, purple with young blood, The lazy lashes and the flowing mane, The flame of fire from head to feet of me! The subtle fervours, drunken heats and ways, And perfumes maddening from the soul of spring ! The little nipples, and the dangerous pit Set smiling in the alabaster ; thine, The glowing arms are thine, the desperate Fresh kisses, and the gold that lurks upon The sunny skin, the marble of these brows, The roses, and the poppies, and the scent Subtle and sinful—thine, all thine, are…
1929 · PDF PAGE 318
…y uttering that supreme song of the initiate beginning: "I am He, the Bornless Spirit, having sight in the feet; strong and the Immortal Fire!" (Thus performed, the invocation means about half an hour of the most intense magical work imaginable --- a minute of it would represent the equivalent of about twelve hours of Asana.) Despite the distracting influence of the varied adventures described in the last chapter, I stuck steadily to my practice. On leaving Hong Kong, however, being once again a lonely Wanderer of the Waste, I did feel freer to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
…d the archangel’s wing recedes in night :— Ay ! even God seems perturbed and afraid Because it wears so holy a garb of light Of perfumed fire immaculately made. These sins are deadly. God is merciless For Love that joins Man’s passion with His power, And makes to bloom on earth a fairer flower Than heaven bears. Our token of success Is that displeasure toward our sin unnamed Of a fierce demon jealous and ashamed. A SAINT'S DAMNATION. You buy my spirit with those peerless eyes That burn my soul; you loose the torrent stream Of my desire ; you ma…
1906 · PDF PAGE 229
…mon Ozoz, the back left part of the skull; To the demon Olcot,! the back right part of the skull ; To ten thousand myriads of spirits of fire, each one hair ; To ten thousand myriads of spirits of water, each one hair ; To ten thousand myriads of spirits of earth, each one hair; To ten thousand myriads of spirits of air, each one hair ; To the archangel Zazelazel, the brain; To the angel Usbusolat, the medulla; To the demon Ululomis, the right nostril ; To the angel Opael, the left nostril ; To the spirit Kuiphiah, the membrane of the nose ; To…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
…our! dost I, knowing all the progress of the earth, The dim procession, altering death and birth, The Seven Stairs, the gusts of life in fire And Love in Life, and all the serpent girth Of sevenfold twining worlds and sevenfold ways And nights made sevenfold of the sevenfold days All the vast scheme evolving into man, And upward, onward, through Olympian haze Into the crowning spiritual mist, Where spirit in the spirit may subsist, Evolve itself in the amazing plan Through many planes, as shining amethyst Melts to the sapphire’s sombre indigo, …