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…ring of thy pigritude, Incestuous wedlock with the Pharisees That hail the Christ a son of thee! Our knees Bend not before thee, and our earth-bowed brows Shake off their worship, and reject thy spouse, The harlot of the world! For, proud and free, We stand beyond thy hatred, even we: We broken in spirit beneath bitter years, Branded with the burnt-offering of tears, Spit out upon the lie, and in thy face Cast back the slimy falsehood ; to your place, Ye Gadarean swine, too foul to fling Into the waters that abound and spring ! Back, to your mo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 130
…! At one look I read my foe as in a book. The beast ! He grovelled in the dust. I heard the teeth gride as he bowed [lis forehead to the earth. Still just, Still patient, passionless, and proud, I ruled my heavy wrath. I passed That hidden insult: spake at last. I spake him fair. My memory held Him still a member of my folk ; A warrior might be bold of eld, My hardy spearman when we broke The flashing lines of Syrians. Yea! I spake him fair. Alas the day!
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
… 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 make my lips your prize, And on them burns the whole life’s hope: you deem You buy a heart; but I am well aware How my damnation dwells in…
1943 · PDF PAGE 5
…en as the Sun standeth eternal in the heavens, equal at midnight and at noon. He riseth not: he setteth not: it is but the shadow of the earth which concealeth him, or the clouds upon her face. Let me then declare unto you this Mystery of the Law, as it hath been made known unto me in divers places, upon the mountains and in the deserts, but also in great cities, which thing I speak for your comfort and good courage. And so be it unto all of you! Know first, that from the Law spring four Rays or Emanations: so that if the Law be the center of y…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…pped poison in a water spring !) To fill me with the utmost sense Of some divine experience. For who but she, the adulterous queen, Made earth and heaven with all its stars, The storm, the hunger epicene, The raging at invisible bars, The hideous cruelty of the whole ?— These are of Kali, O my soul ! The sterile force of bronze and gold Bends to my passion, as it grips With feverish claws the metal cold, And burns upon the brazen lips That, parted like a poppy bud, Have gemméd curves like moons of blood. The mazes of her many arms Delude the ey…
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
…ad taken of itself an inner light, And its own blackness filled night’s coronet With a new jewel: so I see aright Where no light is like earth’s. grows broad And lofty, till the whole hall springs to sight, The path And I am standing where the dreaded Lord And Lady of the region of the lost Hold awful sway: yet here the flaming sword Of sight is broken by the deadly frost That clusters round their thrones: a mist of fire Congealed to vital darkness: yet exhaust Like a seer’s magic glass of air: expire The dumb black hours in fear: but I am ware…
1905 · PDF PAGE 54
…God! From all the caverns of the hollow sea, And all the fortresses that guard the air, And all the fearful palaces of fire, And all the earth’s dwarf-ridden secrecy, They come, they gather, and they ride, to bear Destruction and disorder and desire ; They cling to him who braves the gale of night, And mock his might. They rush upon him like a wave, and break In fiery foam against him, and they shake Life in its citadel. They open Tell To let the Furies and the Fates spring forth On their wild chargers of the icy North To quench the holy lamp. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
…ide Thy sorrowful god’s brow, O sculptor, mage, Child of eternity, father of an age? Thou hast seen, thou hast showed, that as it was on earth So shall it be in resurrection birth. The cycle of weariness and passionate pain Is and was ever and must be again. There is no death! Ah! that is misery ! For this, Lord Christ, is it that thou wouldst be, Thou yesterday, to-day, and thou to-morrow ? The mystery of this our life is sorrow. LYETERNEL PRINTEMPS. I. THE eternal spring is in the heart of youth. | They are nearest to the secret of the world,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…e, The essential engine that approves The will to live : and these frail friends, The women I shall draw you, fail Of more importance to earth’s ends | Than to my hfe a finger-nail. "Twere pain, no doubt, were torn away One, a minute distemperature.
1905 · PDF PAGE 219
… is the Sun at Mid- night. 3 God of Silence. child. 4 The bowed Goddeéss of the Stars. Shown as a naked woman, her hands and feet on the earth, the arms and legs much elongated, so that her body arches the firmament. 5 The Hawk-headed Lord of Strength, the Avenger of Osiris’ death. Usually shown as a Not mine own pains create these prayers : For them I claim the living Breath. O Lord Osiris,’ bend and bring All winters to thy sign of Spring ! Poor folly mine: I cannot see Save from one corner of one star ! So many millions over me; So many, and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
…— We are past on eagle wings, and the silence is here at last. The last low wail of the lyre, be it soft with a tear For the children of earth and fire that have brought us here. Give praise, O masterful maid, to Nina, and all as they die! The moon makes blackest of shade: the star’s in the swarthiest sky. | Be silent, O radiant martyr! Let the world fade slowly afar! | But—had it not been for the Garter, I might never have seen the Star. ON OTN ATNOOQN ETZEBEIZ TOTTON EQ POAON! KATAITEAAQ ZOI 1 The quotation is altered from Acts xvii. 23, ‘‘ W…
1905 · PDF PAGE 81
…eople from the land So far, shalt not encroach upon their places One furlong more, lest quickly I destroy Thee and thy host from off the earth. thus ; Ride for thy life, and bring me speedy word. [ Axzt Herald. Say CHORUS. Not wingéd forms, nor powers of air, Nor sundered spirits pale and fair, Nor glittering sides and scales, did bring The knowledge of this happy thing That is befallen us unaware. In likeness to the lips that sing Ring out your frosty peal, and smite Loud fingers on the harp, and touch Lutes, and clear psalteries musical, And …
1944 · PDF PAGE 66
… fluid element. In her right hand she bears the lotus of Isis; the lotus represents the feminine, or passive power. Its roots are in the earth beneath the water, or in the water itself, but it opens its petals to the Sun, whose image is the belly of the chalice. It is, therefore, a living form of the Holy Grail, sanctified by the blood of the Sun. Perching upon the flamelike uprights of her throne are two of her most sacred birds, the sparrow and the dove; the nub of this sym‐ bolism must be sought in the poems of Catullus and Martial. On her r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…nd sit beside Our tent a little, bring us news Of the great world we have lost for—this ! What fool exclaims—‘‘to lose!”? To lose ? Ay ! earth and heaven for one small kiss ! But he shall sing beside our fire The epic of the world’s desire; How Freedom fares, how Art yet revels Sane in the dance of dogs and devils. His thunder voice shall climb and crash, Scourge liars with tongue’s lightning lash, Through ranks of smitten tyrants drive, Till bosoms heave, and eyes outflash, And it is good to be alive. He shall ride off at dawn, and we Shall lo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 118
…g, in '‘ ‘The Householder.” And yet the days stream by; night shakes the day From his pale throne of purple, to allay The tremors of the earth ; day smiteth dark With the swilt poignard dipped in Helios’ ray. The days stream by; with lips and cheeks grown pale On their indomitable breast we sail. There is a favouring wind ; our idle bark Lingers, we raise no silk to meet the gale. The bank slips by, we gather not its fruit, We plant no seed, we irrigate no root True men have planted ; and the tare and thorn Spring to rank weedy vigour ; poisons…
1905 · PDF PAGE 15
…s barren of love or trust, His heart is hopeless, seeing he must Perish, and leave no trace ; With impious rage he mocks the bounds - Of earth, albeit so wholly base ; Ilis ears are dead to subtle sounds, His eyes are blind, for Zeus confounds His vain irreverence, and astounds High Heaven with wrathful face.
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
…!” He whispered me a Word.! ‘Beware! Beware ! ‘“ Two voices are there in the sullen sea’; ‘* Two functions hath the inevitable fire ; ‘‘ Earthquake hath earth, and yet fertility: ‘* See to thy purpose, and thy set desire! ‘ Else, dire the fate—the ultimation dire !” Vague threats and foolish words! Quite meaningless The empty sounds he muttered in mine ear. Why should their silly mystery impress My thoughtful forehead with the lines of fear? (This riding saps my courage as my cheer.) 1 [Tt is a tradition of magic that all words have a double ef…
1905 · PDF PAGE 199
192 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST One moment, and I should have passed be- yond Linked unto Spirit by the fourfold bond. Not dead to earth, but living as divine, A priest, a king, an oracle, a shrine, A saviour! Yet my misty spirit conned The secret murmur: ‘‘ Gereth, Iam thine !” [ must have listened to the voice of hell. The earthly horror wove its serpent spell Against the Beauty of the World: I heard Desolate voices cry the doleful word “*Unready !”’ All the soul invisible Of that vast desert echoed, and concurred. The voices died in mystery…
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
418 Are one as they were one ere time began, Are one on earth as they are one in heaven; Where the soul is given a new name, Confirming with an oath the same, And with celestial wine and bread Is most delicately fed, Yet suffereth in itself the curse Of the infinite universe, Having made its own confession Of the mystery of transgression; Where it is wedded solemnly With the ring of space and eternity; And where the oil, the Holiest Breath, With its first whisper dedicateth Its new life to a further death. This experience lasted throughout the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 211
…ilver gate Flames to my fierier face? What angel, as I contemplate The unsubstantial space? Move with my lips the laws of Fate That bind earth’s carapace? 1 For the '' Flaming Sword” is the ‘‘ Penta- gram unwound.” 2 The arms being extended, and the magus being clad in a Tau-shaped robe and a nemmes, the sacred Egyptian headdress, his figure would cast a shadow resembling the Ankh, or ‘' Key of Life.” 3 Khabs am Pekht. Konxom Pax. Light in Extension. The mystic words which seal the current of light in the sphere of the aspirant. 4 Cf. Omar Khay…