Oracles

INVOCATION 63 And the continual fervour of my soul Have led me to this hour of victory, This throne of splendour. O thou Beauty’s Self, Thou holiest Crown thus manifest to me, Come forth, I say, come forth ! With mightier cries Than Jesus uttered on the quivering cross : “ Eli, Eli, lamma sabachthani,” Thee, thee, thee only I invoke ! O Soul Of my own spirit, let thy fervid eyes Give me their light : for thou dost stand, as God Among the Holy Ones. Before the gods Thy music moves, coequal, coeterne, Thou, Lord of Light and Life and Love ! Come forth ! I call thee in the holiest name of Him Lord of the Universe, and by His Name, Osiris perfected through suffering, Glorious in trial : by His Holy Name, Jesus, the Godhead passing through the gates Of Hell, that even there the rescuers Might find the darkness, and proclaim the light ; For I invoke thee by the sacred rites And secret words of everlasting power : By the swift symbol of the Golden Dawn And all its promise, by the Cross of Fire, And by the Gleaming Symbol : by the Rose And Cross of Light and Life : the holy Ankh, The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold. By these I say, Come forth ! My holy Spouse,