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Page 82 of 871907 · PDF PAGE 15
…f strong distilled delight. She showered Wit and soft laughter and desire About her breasts in bliss embowered, And subtle and devouring fire Leapt in live sparks about her limbs. Her spirit shields me, and bedims My sight: she needs me: I need her. Destiny ; manhood; fear; delight; Desire; accomplishment ; ere night Dipped her pale plumes to greet the sun She was not ; all is past and done. A dream? I wake from blissful sleep, But is it real? Well, I keep An accidental souvenir Whence thus to chronicle small beer 31 There is the garter. Launch…
1906 · PDF PAGE 134
… The bitterness of death ; the lyre Broken to bid the viol weep : And like a Maenad’s chants are madness, And like a Maenad’s chants are fire, And like a Maenad’s chants are sleep. A house of pain is her bedchamber. Her skin electric clings to mine, Shakes for pure passion, moves and hisses $ Whose subtle perfumes half remember Old loves, and desolate divine Wailings among the wildernesses ; And like a Hathor’s skin is amber, And like a Hathor’s skin is wine, And like a Hathor’s skin is kisses. Gray steel self-kindled shine her eyes. They rede …
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
…eaves The womb of night, another mightier world. Lost is my soul, and faded The light of life that braided Its comet tresses into golden fire, Fade, fade, the phantoms of desire ! Speed, speed the song of love upon the living lyre! Lo! I abide not, and my lover's glory Abides not: in the swaying of those tides Gathers beneath some mighty promontory One mightier wave, deep drowns it, and abides. . Save that one wave alone Nought in the void is known, That wave of love, that sole exultant splen- dour Throned o’er all being, supreme; A single-shin…
1944 · PDF PAGE 60
…h end, which was probably connected with the dual polarity of electricity; but it is also the hollow wand of Prometheus that brings down fire from Heaven. On a table or altar, behind which he is standing, are the three other elemental weapons. “With the Wand createth He. With the Cup preserveth He. With the Dagger destroyeth He. With the Coin redeemeth He. Liber Magi vv. 7‐10.” The present card has been designed principally upon the Graeco‐Egyptian tradition; for the understanding of this idea was certainly further advanced when these philosoph…
1907 · PDF PAGE 20
…ers over pain, And lords of peace : the rays of light We fling to the awakening globe ; The cavern of the eremite Shall glow with inmost fire, a robe Of diamond energy, shall flash Even to the confines of wide space; Comets their tails in fury lash To look on our irradiate face. And we will heal them. Dragon men And serpent women, worm and clod, Shall rise and look upon us then, And know us to be very God, Finding a saviour in the sight Of power attaining unto peace, And meditation’s virgin might Pregnant with twins—love and release.
1906 · PDF PAGE 62
…s to heed. Night is above her, and brings her no lover ; And day, but no deed. Such a sense is up and within me, A tongue as of mystical fire ! Love, beauty, and holiness win me ‘To the end of the great desire, Where I cease from the thirst and the labour, As the land that no ploughman tills Lest the robber his neighbour unloosen the sabre From holds in the hills. From love of my life and its burden Set free in the silence remote, Grows a sorrow divine for my guerdon, A peace in my struggling note. Compassion for earth far extended Beneath me, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 175
…hair About the body brave and bare Starred in the sunlight by the spray, And laughed upon me as I lay Watching the change: First dawn of fire ! First ghost of nightfall’s grey desire ! First light of moonrise! Then, as June Leaps out of May, her lips took tune To song most soft, a spiral spell, A siren breathing in a shell. The notes were clustered round the well Like angels clustering round a god. Let memory wake from its abode Of dim precision lost for long The grace and grandeur of the song ! Who art thou, love, by what sweet name I quicken …
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…ouse of lies ! We change and change and fade, strange avatars In all the skies, Ill. One way sets free. That way is not to tread Through fire or earth or spirit, air or sea. That secret is not gathered of the dead. One way sets free. Not to desire shall lead to mot to be. There is no hope within, none overhead, None by the chance of fate’s august decree. It is a path where tears are ever shed. There is no joy—is that a path for me? Yea ! though F track the ways of utmost dread, One way sets free. IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH.} I SAw in a tran…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
…ke a lash When sunlight touches, and sweeps over them A crown of light! Behold! The white seas touch the gold, And flame like flowers of fire about the prow. It is the hour for sleep :— Lulled by the moveless deep To sleep, sweet wife, to sleep! Yes, kiss me now ! Vv. THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE? THE wandering waters move about the world, And lap the sand, with quietest complaint Borne on the wings of dying breezes up, To where we make toward the wooded top Of yonder menacing hill. The night is fallen Starless and moonless, black beyond belief, Tremend…
1905 · PDF PAGE 24
… Whereon she stood, the loftiest of three fangs Thrust up by magic, in the direst pangs Of Earth, when Earth was yet a whirling cloud Of fire and adamant, a ceaseless crowd Of rushing atoms roaring into space, Driven by demons from before the Face. And these gleamed white, while Flelios lit the heaven, Like tusks; but at the coming of the even Were visions wonderful with indigo ; And in the glory of the afterglow Were rosy with its kiss ; and in the night Were crowned with that unutterable light That is a brilliance of solemn black, Glistening …
1905 · PDF PAGE 29
…ts of blue More golden and more far Than earthly stars and flowers That beam lasciviously through night’s em- purpled hours ! O: well of fire ! O fountain of delicious spurting flame Grown sad with shame, Whose imminent desire Drinks in the dew of earth, Gives its own limpid streams to man’s deathly dearth. quench
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…e my Virgin Splendour ! I aspire No longer as a maiden to thy Love. We twain are set in majesty above : My cloud is mighty as thy mystic Fire.” Vanished the mist, the light, the sense, the throne ! Vanished the written horror of the curse ; Vanished the stars, the sun, the Universe. I was in Heaven, lost, alone. Alone! A new curse gathered as a sombre breath: ‘“Power without Wisdom is the Name of Death !” And therefore from my devastating hand (For I was then unwilling to be dead) I loosed the lightning, and in hate and dread Despairing, did I …
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…als. "O Thou Great Architect of the Universe," the old man sobbed out in rage, "why dost Thou not wither this impudent impostor with Thy fire from heaven? Sir, begone! You are not a Mason at all! As all the world knows, the people in Z--- are atheists and live with other men's wives." I thought this a little hard on my Reverend Father in God, my proposer; and I noted that, of course, every single English or American visitor to our Lodge in Z--- stood in peril of instant and irrevocable expulsion on detection. So I said nothing, but walked to an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…s I always will, You unprofaned and uncaressed, Silent, majestical, and still. Back ! for I love you. Even yet Do you not see my deepest fire Burn through the veils and coverings set By fatuous phantoms of desire?
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…ent. On his left a fair woman, her arms giving the sign of Water—an inverted V on the breast. On his right a dark man giving the sign of Fire—an upright L\ on the forehead. Linz 82.—An ellipse, composed of 400 lesser circles. At the corners of the card a Man, an Eagle, a Bull, and a Lion. Within the circle a naking shining figure with female breasts, with closed eyes in the sign of Earth —right foot advanced, right hand advanced and raised, left hand lowered and thrown back. The hands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiral, the right hand be…
1906 · PDF PAGE 225
…pened the Portal and came to him and woke him. But during his long sleep the roses had grown over him, crimson and flaming with interior fire, so that he could not escape. Yet they withered at his glance; withat he knew what fearful task was before him. But slaying his disciples with long Nails, he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. May all we die so! And what further befell him ye shall also know, but not at this time. Going forth of that Mountain he met alsothe Fool. Then the discourse of that Fool, my Bre…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…he dead. So, ere the dying autumn-tide was fled, There, in a lonely cleft of riven rock, Whose iron fastnesses disdain and mock Fury and fire with impassivity, Archais rested, there alone must’she Wait the event of Aphrodite's wiles. There, like a statue, ’mid the massy piles Of thunder-smitten stone, as motionless As Fate she sat, in manifold distress, Awaiting and awaiting aye the same One strong desire of life, that never came. For Aphrodite sought in vain the woods, The silent mountains, and impetuous floods In all the world, nor had she kn…
1905 · PDF PAGE 216
… bring salvation unto Hell. O angel of my spiritual desire !? O luminous master of the silver feet ! O passionate rose of infinite white fire ! O cross of sacrifice made bitter-sweet ! O wide-wing, star-brow, veritable lord ! O mystic bearer of the flaming sword ! O brows half seen, O visionary star Seen in the fragrant breezes of the East ! O lover of my love, O avatar Of the All-One, O mystical High Priest ! O thou before whose eyes my weak eyes fail, Wonderful warden of the Holy Grail! 1 The ‘‘Genius” of Socrates; the ‘‘ Holy Guardian Angel”…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
… years ago—logical, I say !—and I will drink, for parenthetical is a poor substitute—- [ Drinks. Why, how thou fir’st me ! with that icy fire Of adamant thought. Kt well befits this hour If I recoil the chain whose last smooth link Slides o’er Time’s cogwheel. In the be- ginning then The vastness of the heavens and the earth Created the idea of (od. So Levi once Sarcastic in apostasy ; @ rebours. So Miiller, mythopoeic in his mood Of the unmasking mythopoeia, Now Profounder science, Spencer’s amplitude, Allen’s too shallow erudition, Frazer’s R…
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…he hour of birth ; And like the sea by limits of pale sand Be utterly confined; but so He planned To vivify the body with the soul, That fire and air were wedded to control The heavy bulk beneath them, so His breath Touched the warm clay and violated death, Gave to the spirit wings and hade it rise To seek its Maker with aspiring eyes, Gave to the body strength to hold awhile The spirit, till the passions that defile Should waste and wither, and the free soul soar. But evil lusted with the soul, and bore A thousand children deadlier than death …