Oracles

66 INVOCATION In darkness, but the darkness understands No ray of that initiating light ! ” Now, by Initiation’s dangerous path And groping aspiration, came I forth Where the White Splendour shone upon the Throne, Even to the Temple of the Holy Ones : Now, by that Light, come forth, I say, to me, My Lady of the Starlight and the Moon ! Come and be absolute within my mind, That I may take no dim remembrance back To drown this glory with earth’s quivering gloom. But, O abide within Me ! Every hour I need the lofty and the limpid stream Of that White Brilliance : Leave me not alone, O Holy Spirit ! Come to comfort me, To draw me, and to make me manifest, Osiris to the weeping world ; that I Be lifted up upon the Cross of Pain And Sacrifice, to draw all human kind And every germ of matter that hath life, Even after me, to the ineffable Kingdom of Light ! O holy, holy Queen ! Let thy wide pinions overshadow me ! I am, the Resurrection and the Life ! The Reconciler of the Light and Dark. I am the Rescuer of mortal things. I am the Force in Matter manifest. I am the Godhead manifest in flesh. I stand above, among the Holy Ones.