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Page 85 of 1001909 · PDF PAGE 267
…ne of the East, the red Cavalry Cross is astrally formulated above the astral White Triangle of the Three upon his forehead ; so that so long as he belongeth unto the Order he may have that potent and sublime symbol as a link with his Higher Self, and as an aid in his search for the Forces of the Light Divine for ever, if he only will it. But the Higher Soul or Genius returneth unto the Invisible Station of Harpocrates, into the Place of the hidden centre, yet retaining the link formulated with the Candidate. The address of the Hierophant then …
1905 · PDF PAGE 98
…here pleasure seeks In vain a wiser happiness. And so Our whispers low Shall dim the utmost beauty of thy gaze Through moveless days And long nights equable with pleasure : So love at leisure Shall make his model of our clinging looks, And burn his books To write a new sweet volume deeper much, And frail to touch, Being the mirror of a gossamer Too soft and fair. is the hour when all the world is sleeping ; The winds are keeping A lulling music on the frosty sea. The air is free, trancéd This
1906 · PDF PAGE 57
…ntom airy ! Solid and warm, short snatches of light song Issuing cheery now and then. ‘‘ Be wary!” Quoth the wise Earl, ‘‘ I wander very long Far from my quest, assuredly to fall Sideways each step towards the House of Wrong, ‘Were but one choice demented. Choice is small Here though. (A flash of insight in his mind) Which of these three gets answer to its call? ‘‘Yon shallop?—leave to Galahad! Re- signed Yon hermit be to welcome Lancelot ! For me—the inn—what fate am I to find ? ‘Who cares? wot P— But in the outré, the obscure, the occult? My …
1907 · PDF PAGE 11
… sepulchre of day. The moon is up: upon the prow We stand and watch the moon. A star is lustred on your brow ; Your lips begin a tune, A long, low tune of love that swells Little by little, and lights The overarching miracles Of love’s desire, and Night’s. It swells, it rolls to triumph-song Through luminous black skies ; Thrills into silence sharp and strong, Assumes its peace, and dies. There is the night: it covers close The lilies folded fair Of all your beauty, and the rose Half hidden in your hair.
1905 · PDF PAGE 275
…itten in Hebrew Characters. Then the Attributions of them to the Zodiac and to Planets are substituted, and the Names of Egyptian Gods belonging to these are invoked. The Christian Idea of I.N.R.I. is confirmed by these, while their Initials form the sacred Word of the Gnostics. That is, IAO. From the Character of the Deities and their Functions are deduced their Signs, and these are found to signal (as it were) the Word Lux (WS), which itself is contained in the Cross. A careful Study of these Ideas, and of the Table of Correspondences, which …
1906 · PDF PAGE 36
… breath. I am nought—and thou the whole? It were not love, but Death. Give me thy life and strength, let us struggle for mastery, As the long shore’s rugged length that battles with the sea. I am thine, I am thine indeed! My form is vaster grown, And our limbs and lips shall bleed on the starry solar throne. My life is made as thine; my blessing and thy curse Beget, as foam on wine, a different universe. I foam and live and leap: thou laughest, fightest, diest ! In agony swift as sleep thou hangest as the Christ. My nails are in thy flesh ; my …
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…l To some abyss past resurrection’s might ! For the old whispers of my old life call Accursed hopes, accursed fears, accursed pleasures. Long-suffering of all life! Changed consciousness at strife! No dancer treads the melancholy measures Unchanged for one short tune: no dancer flags, The hateful music luring them to move Weary and desolate ; And as the rhyme revolves and shrills and drags Their limbs insane they smile and call it love, Or, mocking, call it hatred: it is Fate. These grey eyes close to the deceitful dream Of death that will not …
1939 · PDF PAGE 19
…metimes it is hook-swinging or Sati; sometimes consubstantiation or supra-lapsarianism; they do not mind what they are brought up in, as long as they are well brought up. They do not want to be bothered about it. The Old School Tie wins through. They never suspect the meaning of the pattern on the tie: the Broad Arrow. You remember Dr. Alexandre Manette in A Tale of Two Cities. He had been imprisoned for many years in the Bastille, and to save himself from going mad had obtained permission to make shoes. When he was released, he disliked it. He…
1905 · PDF PAGE 197
…ssimilate, nor heart believe The horror of that Thing without a Name. Full on me, boasting, like Death’s hand it came, And struck me headlong. I weave The web of mine old agony and shame. Linger, while A little shadow of that hour of mine Touches thy heart? Fill up the foaming wine, And listen for a little! How profound Strikes memory keen-fanged; memory, the hound That tracks me yet ! a shiver takes ny spine At one half-hint, the shadow of that sound. Where am I? Seven days my spirit fell, Down, down the whirlpools and the gulfs of hell : Seve…
1905 · PDF PAGE 214
…ul ; 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 breaking of the wands…
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…e content, And certain I should meet no death least. Soon, riding ever to the stubborn east, I came upon a shore whose ocean bent In one long curve, where folk were making feast. at So with no ‘heart to feast, I joined the mirth, Mingled the dances that delight the earth, And laughing looked in every face of guile. Quick was my glance and subtle was my smile; Ten thousand little loves were brought to birth, Ten thousand loves that laughed a little while. No; for one woman did not laugh, too wise ! But came so close, and looked within my eyes So…
1905 · PDF PAGE 208
…rm that rocks and rolls Through desolation: my Name. What is thy purpose, Master of the Flame ?” ‘Thou hast known I made demand: through long appalling hours Stayed he to tempt and try my adamant Purpose: at last the legionary powers Behind him sank affrayed ; his visage lowers Less menacing: his head is turned aslant In vain : I bid him kneel and swear : the earth Rocked with the terror of that deadlier birth. He swore: he vanished: the wide sky resounds With echoing -thunders: through the blinding night The stars resume their courses: at the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
…n heaven of festal song. We shake and glisten in the sun, we see The very soul and majesty of thee Thrill in the lyre and leave the lazy long Notes for crisp magic of sharp rustling sound, And thy life quickens and thy loves abound, Listening the answer of our dancing throng, Joy, sleep, peace, laughter, thought, remem- brance, came Even at our prelude, a death-quickening flame, And earth rejoiced throughout to hear De- meter’s name. We come, in bass deep-swelling, rocks and caves, A hollow roar across the golden waves Hidden in islands set dee…
1904 · PDF PAGE 93
… and three on each side. The Word of Power, double in the Voice of the Master. Ain Elohim. Four sounds of four force. O the Snake hath a long tail ! Amen. Ain Elohim. Sudden death: thick darkness: ho ! the ox ! One, and one, and one: Creater, Preserver, Destroy er, ho ! the Redeemer ! Thunder-stone: whirlpool: lotus-flower: ho ! for the gold of the sages ! Ain Elohim. And he was silent for a great while, and so departed our Father from Him. Forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bear- ing a bright crown of gold, studded w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 56
…, his quest when fair and first He flung the last, the strongest horseman back With such a buffet that no skill amerced Its debt but headlong in his charger’s track He must be hurled, rib-shattered bythe shock; And the loud populace exclaimed ‘‘ Alack !”, Their favourite foiled. stock Of holy kings from Christ to Charlemagne Hailed him, anointed him, fair lock by lock, But oh! the royal With oil that drew incalculable gain From those six olives in the midst whereof Christ prayed the last time, erethe fatal Wain! Stood in the sky reversed, and u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…is to and fro March of hell’s dancers. I perceive a key To lock the prison of the world on him That built the iron walls and made decree Long past in zeons now grown gray and dim, Like halls ancestral whence their folk have fled, The marbles all are broken, and the weeds Grown o’er the bones of the unquiet dead, And time’s remorse avails not on its deeds. I see thatitime is one: future and past Are but one present; space is one, the North And South and all the sixfold shame holds fast No more: the poet’s fiat hath gone forth And tamed the maste…
1939 · PDF PAGE 63
…y that one discovers them, but with regard to the 'tendency,' this is not the case, at least it was not so for my own part. It took me a long while before I understood what was meant by 'tendency.' To help you to realise this I should like to find a good illustration. For instance, a clock does nothing at all but offer indications of the time. It is so constructed that this is all we can know about it. We can argue about whether the time is correct, and that means nothing at all, unless, for example, we know whether the clock is controlled elec…
1906 · PDF PAGE 129
…es laughing 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 137
THE GOD-EATER 131 Wilt thou not lull it into rest, Some strong repoge More satisfying than pale sleep ; Than death more long, more deep? Hail! at the twilight as at dawn! The sunset close Even on the lake as on the lawn! The red ray glows Across the woven stardrift’s ways In mystery of Maurya’s praise. Hear me, thy priest, at eventide ! These subtler throes Than love’s or life’s, invade, divide The world of woes. Thy smile, thy murmur of delight, be enough To fill the world with life and love ! [He bends over into deep reverence, yet with the a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 20
…from his goal; his cloak he stripped, Then in the waves his sudden body dipped And with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped. ? Long had he struggled (for Poseidon’s hand Heaped foam against him) toward the seemly strand, But that Love’s Mother, journeying from Rome, Passed in her car the swimmer, while her home Scarce yet was glimmering o’er the waste wide sea Against whose wrath he strove so silently ; Whom now beholding, checked her eager team, Dipped to the foam from which she sprang. whose gleam Bore the sweet mirage of her eyes, …