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THE STAR IN THE WEST
bleached
bones , ' and
salt encrusted heads,
of those
who have
failed
:
So I press
on .
Fresh strength from day to day
Girds up my loins and beckons me on high .
So I depart upon
the desert way ,
So I strive ever toward the copper sky ,
With lips burnt black and blind in either eye .
I move for ever to my mystic goal
Where I may drain a fountain never
dry ,
And of Life's guerdon gather in the whole ,
And on celestial manna
satisfy my soul.3
All
the
“ Unholy
phantom
faces ” . of self, and of
sin
,
will
be
lost
,
and
all
the
misty distortions
that
crowd
the brain
will fade and wither
:
So
shalt thou conquer Space
,
and lastly climb
The walls
of
Time
,
And
by
the golden path
the great have trod
Reach
up
to
God
!6
And then
:
...
there
gleams from
Heaven
The likeness
of
a
Man
in
glory set
;
The sun
is
blotted
,
and the skies are riven
A
God flames
forth my spirit
to
beget
;
And where my body and His love are met
A
new desire possesses
altogether
My whole new self
as
in
a
golden net
Of transcendental love one fiery tether
,
Dissolving
all
my woe into one sea
of
weather
."
In
many other
of
these
poems
do
we
find depicted
other phases
of
the philosophy
of
the Qabalah
;
one
,
Songs
of
the Spirit
,
vol
.
i,
p
.
42
.
?
The Temple
of
the Holy Ghost
,
vol
.
i,
p
.
190
.
•
Songs
of
the Spirit
,
vol
.
i,
p
.
42
.
4
Ibid
.
vol
.
i,
p
.
50
.
5
Ibid
.
vol
.i,
p
.
42
.
6
Ibid
.
vol
.
i,
p
.
54
.
?
Ibid
.
vol
.
i,
p
.
43
.