228 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE MAGICIAN 
 
[TRANSLATED FROM ELIPHAZ LEVI’S VERSION OF THE 
FAMOUS HYMN] 
 
O LORD, deliver me from hell’s great fear and gloom !   
Loose thou my spirit from the larvæ of the tomb !   
I seek them in their dread abodes without affright :   
On them will I impose my will, the law of light. 
 
I bid the night conceive the glittering hemipshere. 
Arise, O sun, arise !  O moon, shine white and clear !   
I seek them in their dread abodes without affright :   
On them will I impose my will, the law of light. 
 
Their faces and their shapes are terrible and strange. 
These devils by my might to angels I will change. 
These nameless horrors I address without affright :   
On them will I impose my will, the law of light. 
 
These are the phantoms pale of mine astonied view, 
Yet none but I their blasted beauty can renew ;   
For to the abyss of hell I plunge without affright :   
On them will I impose my will, the law of light.