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Page 98 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 113
…hs. [Juxta plays a music still slow and sad, but with a central core of faith, hope and love. Joanna. Eternal home of light and love, Of life and liberty, Thou shrine of seraph, dome of dove, Soul of the sacred Tree, Ark of the sanctuary, Cup Wherein God's blood is treasured up! From the abyss thou reappearest, Thou The divinest and the dearest! Moon of our love, most wondrous womb, Mount of the Cave, red rose— Mighty as light, transcend the tomb, Thou tomb of all our woes! White moon, pale moon, chaste moon, arise Upon our smitten sanctuaries!…
1913 · PDF PAGE 387
…ing, the rite without reason, faith become insensate through isolating itself. It is in consequence the corpse of religion, the death of life, stupefaction substituted for inspiration. Fanaticism is superstition become passionate, its name comes from the word fanum, which signifies “temple,” it is the temple put in the place of God, it is the human and temporal interest of the priest substituted for the honour of priesthood, the wretched passion of the man exploiting the faith of the believer. In the fable of the ass loaded with relics, La Font…
1913 · PDF PAGE 113
…hs. [Juxta plays a music still slow and sad, but with a central core of faith, hope and love. Joanna. Eternal home of light and love, Of life and liberty, Thou shrine of seraph, dome of dove, Soul of the sacred Tree, Ark of the sanctuary, Cup Wherein God's blood is treasured up! From the abyss thou reappearest, Thou The divinest and the dearest! Moon of our love, most wondrous womb, Mount of the Cave, red rose— Mighty as light, transcend the tomb, Thou tomb of all our woes! White moon, pale moon, chaste moon, arise Upon our smitten sanctuaries!…
1913 · PDF PAGE 387
…ing, the rite without reason, faith become insensate through isolating itself. It is in consequence the corpse of religion, the death of life, stupefaction substituted for inspiration. Fanaticism is superstition become passionate, its name comes from the word fanum, which signifies “temple,” it is the temple put in the place of God, it is the human and temporal interest of the priest substituted for the honour of priesthood, the wretched passion of the man exploiting the faith of the believer. In the fable of the ass loaded with relics, La Font…
1919 · PDF PAGE 32
…apologues, and recounts many tales of folk- lore and magical rites. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling. An admirable study of East- ern thought and life. Many other stories by this author are highly suggestive and informative. For Mythology, as teaching Correspondences: Books of Fairy Tales generally. Oriental Classics generally. Sufi Poetry generally. Greek and Latin Classics generally. Scandinavian and Teutonic Sagas generally. Celtic Folk-Lore generally. This course is of general value to the beginner. While it is not to be taken, in all cases, too ser…
1906 · PDF PAGE 15
… mine and rested there ; Lightnings of love were eager to eclipse That earlier sunshine, and her whole soul clips } My soul—I kissed out life within her hair Upon her lips. We parted lips from lips and soul from soul To new strange passions in unholy lands, Where love’s breath chars and scorches like a coal. So she is dead to-day—the sweet bells toll A lost, lost soul, a soul in Satan’s bands, A lost, lost soul ! ODE TO VENUS CALLIPYGE.! WHERE was light when thy body came Out of the womb of a perished prayer? Where was life when the sultry air,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 8
…now ! Hell’s enough If hell would only burn And silence the one devil-word of love. Ay ! death slinks off. I have a child that claims my life To keep from knowledge of her mother’s fate, To keep from heritage thereof, To shield from the world’s scoff, To watch, stamp out the seeds of madness in her. God ! that hast held me back from hate, Be merciful to me a sinner And ward me, warding her ! As it is written : Excepting Adonai build the house, they labour In vain that build it. And Again : Excepting Adonai keep the city, The watchman watcheth b…
1919 · PDF PAGE 107
…ions: so that if the Law be the centre of your own being, they must needs fill you with their secret goodness. And these four are Light, Life, Love, and Liberty. Io1r
1928 · PDF PAGE 80
…pths of the East:these are but imitations of all the complex feelings which struggle within the heart of man in the solemn hours of his life. Or lone like liken thee unto one of those strange dresses that dancing girls wear, where a dark transparent gauze lets glimmer the slain splendours of a shining skirt, as through a black present pierces the delicious past, and the vacillating stars of gold and silver with which it is sown represent those flames of fancy which do not truly kindle save under the deep mourning of Night.
1944 · PDF PAGE 156
…hy part of Water; in particular, the faculty of crystallization. She represents the power of Water to give substance to idea, to support life, and to form the basis of chemical combination. She is represented as a dancing figure, robed in a flowing garment on whose edges crystals are seen to form. For her crest she wears a swan with open wings. The symbolism of this swan reminds one of the swan in oriental philosophy which is the word AUM or AUMGN, which is the symbol of the entire process of creation.1 She bears a covered cup from which issues…
1961 · PDF PAGE 87
…aw, love under will do I write this Epistle for thee, that thou mayst fulfil this inmost Will of Mankind, making them capable of Light, Life, Love and Liberty by the Acceptance of this Law. And the Hindrance thereunto is but as the Shell of its Egg to an Eaglet, a Thing foreign to itself, a Protection till the Hour strike, and then no more! o
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…y gods design—if gods be froward I am a man, nor fear to drain the bowl. Now some old devil, dead no doubt and damned, But living in her life, had wisely crammed Her fierce bronze throat with such a foul device As made her belly yearn for sacrifice. She leered like love on me, and smiled, and shammed, And did not pity for all her breast of spice. They thrust me in her hateful jaws, and I Even then resisted not, so fain to die Was my desire, so weary of the fight With my own love, so willing to be quite Sure of my strength by death ; and eagerly…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…rn thereon, and pass ; I, who have stood upon the four-square stone ! I, who have twice been One——! Woe, woe is me! Lost, lost, upon the lifeless, deathless plane, The desert desolate, the air inane; Fallen, O fallen to eternity ! I, who have looked upon the Lord of Light ; I, Iam Nothing, and dissolved in Night ! (THE SPIRIT OF GOD, DESCENDING, ASSUMETH HER INTO THE GLORY OF Gon.) VENUS. Written in the temple of the L.I.L.,1 No. 9, Central America. MISTRESS and maiden and mother, im- mutable mutable soul! Love, shalt thou turn to another? I gi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 30
…e shall despoil her ; these shall ruin him. Yes, I shall clutch him to these sagging breasts Stained, bruised, — enough ! — and take his life in mine — Ugh ! pleasure of Hell ! Sir Percy Percivale, Here is a strumpet. Ha ! have you a sword ? Enough. I am dressed. I am lovely, have communed With my dark heart : I see my way to it : — Oh joy ! joy ! joy ! — Hortense, these candles out ! The maid blows out the mirror candles. I will go down. Prepare my scented paper, My rosy wax against my coming here — When, girl ? I’ th’ morn, i’ th’ morn ! When…
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
…onalities, the thoughts of one being within entirely different limits from that of the other, the common ground being the necessities of life.* Of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betrayed into thinking that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. Feareth not the Ox the Goad of the Ploughman? 3. Thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. Thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, u…
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
…onalities, the thoughts of one being within entirely different limits from that of the other, the common ground being the necessities of life.* Of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betrayed into thinking that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. Feareth not the Ox the Goad of the Ploughman? 3. Thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. Thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, u…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…now ! Hells enough If hell would only burn And silence the one devil-word of love. Ay ! death slinks off. I have a child that claims my life To keep from knowledge of her mothers fate, To keep from heritage thereof, To shield from the worlds scoff, To watch, stamp out the seeds of madness in her. God ! that hast held me back from hate, Be merciful to me a sinner And ward me, warding her ! As it is written : Excepting Adonai build the house, they labour In vain that build it. And Again : Excepting Adonai keep the city, The watchman watcheth b…
1912 · PDF PAGE 26
8 MORTADELLO MAGDALENA. I thank you, my good lord. This hand I place in yours. Shall help you to hold fast our land, while life endures. The faith of Mortadello guard, his love keep warm. Alike his city and his ward, from hate and harm. MORTADELLO. God grant it. All is now arranged, the council firm. The houses hostile or estranged all brought to term, The Doge content, the Church well bribed, the navy ours, None left that might have circumscribed our parted powers. That blessed hour that joins our hearts and hands in one Sees also the States …
1914 · PDF PAGE 10
… unaided By this may fail to have her will of art And me—God bless her for her loyal heart | ‘Men hunt the ermine for its fur; ‘tis said Life's pedlars all have treasure in their load ; ‘The toad has got a jewel in its head— O Christ of God | I wish you were a toad! A toad is cold and clammy, it is true; But you are hot and sticky, and smell too. VIIL ““T thought I was worth something!” Yes, you are; ‘Worth what the jeweller and the old-clothes-man ‘And the pork-butcher offer. Soul's a star, (And that is why no woman ever loathes man.) Tf you'v…
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
…ousness ! I banish both. I cross the crimson wall— My spirit shall reach up to and attain That other. VENUS. So Persephone must hold Thy life divided in Her dark domain.” TANNHAUSER. Already I have tasted once of this In its own lesser way. en years ago I loved a maiden called Elizabeth. A child she was, so delicate and frail, Far, white, and lonely as the coldest star Set beyond gaze of any eye but God’s ; 1 The semi-divine woman, between Aphro- dite the divine, and Eve the human. 2 Persephone was compelled to spend six months of the year in H…