The Star in the West

252 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 .