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266 APPENDIX when identical with, or a Multiple or Subniultiple of, or a Metathesis of. that of another Word. (6) The Method of finding the Least Number of a Word, by adding (and re-adding) the Digits of its total Number, and taking the corresponding Key of the Taro as a Key to the Meaning of the Word. (c) The Method of Analogies drawn from the Shape of the Letters. (2) The Method of Deductions drawn from the Meanings and Correspondences of the Letters. (¢) The Method of Acrostics drawn from the Letters. ‘This Mode is only valid for Adepts of t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 205
…hought Was less than She I sought, It was as nought ! I drew my soul, I dived beneath the burning lake. Thrice, in the vault of Hell, my Word was born, Abortive, in the empty wilderness. False echoes, made malicious, turn to scorn The awful accents, the Supreme address. The Fourth, the final word ! All chaos shrank and heard The terror that vibrated in the breath. Hell, Death, and Sin must hear, Tremble and visibly fear, Shake the intangible chain that hungereth. That Mother of Mankind Sprang in the thunder-wind ! The strong words bind For ever…
1905 · PDF PAGE 272
…inite positive Idea which happens (see MUNI, 22/ra, vol. ii., for a more careful study, though I must not be understood to indorse every Word in our Poet-Philosopher’s Thesis) to be Light, WW. This word “N& is most important. It symbolises the Universe immediately after Chaos, the Confusion or Clash of the infinite Opposites. is the Egg of Matter; is &, the Bull, or Energy-Motion ; and ‘1 is the Sun, or organised and moving System of Orbs. The three Letters of WIN thus repeat the three Ideas. The Nature of TN is thus analysed, under the figure …
1905 · PDF PAGE 255
…ist) .But wickedness ! TANNHAUSER (aside). This is my punishment ! This faith, this hope, this love—to me—to me! ELIZABETH. Yet, once my word went forth into the world, Suddenly came the fear that you were still Accessible to men—might hear, might come ! The kind, grave face of you—that light out- shone The mystical ideal. Therefore too I minded me cf our old baby-love, And—marriages are made in heaven, you know! Besides—Our Lady showed me in a dream How you would come. TANNHAUSER. And now? So sure are you The loving word you spoke an hour ago …
1905 · PDF PAGE 264
…es! Are your faces painted thus Not to hide wrinkles of debauchery? To catch new lovers? LANDGRAVE. Stop the lying mouth! Friends, your sword-service ! TANNHAUSER. Will they answer you? My arm is weary as your souls are not Of beastliness: I have drawn my father’s sword, Hard as your virtue is the easy sort, Heavy to handle as your loves are light, Smooth as your lies, and sharper than your hates ! I know you! Cowards to the very bone! [Driving them out. Who fights me, of this sworded company? Cannot my words have sting in them enough, Now, to …
1905 · PDF PAGE 166
…ld not give that sunny fruit of yours For twenty such frail flowers as Madeline. IT am a man—you mate me with a girl ! CORA. Stop! not a word! My blasphemy to hear, Yours to speak out—when you are told the truth ! ULRIC. What truth? sound. , The truth! hell If but it stand between us and our love ! This word hath first an ugly God curse it to His blackest
1905 · PDF PAGE 190
…melancholy—O, the child of folly !— Looms on my brow, a perched ancestral bird ; Biack are its plumes, its eyes melancholy, It speaks no word. Like to a star, deep beauty’s avatar 2 Pales in the dusky skies so far above : Seven rays of gladness crown its passionate Star, One heart of love. ! This poem is partially composed on Mr. Poe's scheme of verse—zzde ‘‘ The Philosophy of Composition.”—A, C. * Incarnation, The fringing trees, marge of deep-throated Seas, Move as I walk: lke spectres whispering The spaces of them: let me leave the trees— It…
1905 · PDF PAGE 155
…gh. My hour is at hand! CHORUS exter and ctrcumarntbulate. Even as the traitor’s breath Goeth forth, he perisheth By the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. Even as the profane hand Reacheth to the sacred sand, Fire consumes him that his name be forgotten in the land. Even as the wicked eye Seeks the mysteries to spy, So the blindness of the gods takes his spirit : he shall die. Even as the evil priest, Poisoned by the sacred feast, Changes by its seven powers to the misbe- gotten beast : Even as the powers of ill, Broken by the wan…
1905 · PDF PAGE 274
APPENDIX 267 is WM, a Circle or Orbit; WW, to seethe or boil; and some other Words, which we will neglect in this Example, though we should not dare to do so if we were really trying to find out a Thing we none of us knew. To help our Deduction about Redemption, too, we find 11M, to brighten or make glad. We also work in another Way. I is the Straight Line or Central Pillar of the Temple of Life; also it stands for Unity, and for the Generative Force. A is the Pentagram, which means the Will of Man working Redemption. O is the Circle from which…
1905 · PDF PAGE 156
…RUS. The silence of the awaiting soul asleep ! RATOUM. The murmur of the fountain of my life! CHORUS. The whole dead universe awaits the Word. RATOUM. Now is the hour of life ; my voice leaps up In the dim halls of death, and kindling flame Roars like the tempest through forgetfulness. This is my son, whose father is my son, From my own womb complete and absolute, And in this strong perfection of myself Stands the triumphant power of my desire, Manifest over self, and man, and god ! For in the sacred coffin lies his corpse Who shall arise at th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 275
…Egyptian Gods belonging to these are invoked. The Christian Idea of I.N.R.I. is confirmed by these, while their Initials form the sacred Word of the Gnostics. That is, IAO. From the Character of the Deities and their Functions are deduced their Signs, and these are found to signal (as it were) the Word Lux (WS), which itself is contained in the Cross. A careful Study of these Ideas, and of the Table of Correspondences, which one of our English Brethren is making, will enable him to discover a very great Deal of Matter for Thought in these Poems…
1905 · PDF PAGE 198
… and the guarded name. The quest was mine! And yet my thoughts confute My intuition ; and my will was mute. My voice—ah! flashes out the word of flame : ‘* Eternal Beauty, One and absolute !” As a flash there The overwhelming sweetness ofa voice Filled me with Godhead. ‘Still remains the choice! Thou knowest me for Beauty! bear The fuller vision, the abundant air?” I only wept. The elements rejoice ; No tear before had ever fallen there. Canst thou I thought within myselfa bitter thing, Standing abased. The golden marriage ring The queen had gi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 208
… hand seeks the lamen. Once again Fearless I front the awful shape before me, earless I speak his Name. My trembling brain Vibrates that Word of Power. I cry amain: ‘‘Down, Dweller of the Darkness, and adore me! fam thy Master, and thy God! Behold The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold !3 “Jam thy Saviour!” At the kindling word Up springs the dawn-light in the broken bowls ; Up leaps the glittering circle. Then I heard A hoarse shrill voice, as if some carrion bird Shrieked, mightier than the storm that rocks and rolls Through desolation: my Na…
1905 · PDF PAGE 163
…nd, mindful of the deadliest sin, Hint: ‘‘ Sinful woman, look within !” 1 To search, with the idea of looking more deeply. The grotesque word is used to suggest the quaint inspection of the malicious goblins. CORA. Ah me! if she could look within a glass! With spells and pantacles? well fortified ! I have a glass whose bitter destiny No wizard may conjure. Arise ye there, Old hours of horror, clear by one and one, In the confused and tossing ocean, Where memory picks spar and spar from out The dreadful whirlpool hardly yet appeased, To join tog…
1905 · PDF PAGE 236
…ur sorrow and intense desire All worlds are caught and sealed! The stars are taken In love’s weak web, and gathered up, and shaken ! Our word is mighty on the magic moon! The sun resurges to our triple tune! (See, it is done !) Ochosen of the Christ ! My knight, and king, and lover, wast thou priced, A portion in the all-pervading bliss, Thou, whom I value at my ageless kiss? Chosen of Me! Thou heart of hearts, thou mine, Man! Stamping into dust the Soul Divine By might of that mere Manhood! Sense and thought Reel for the glory of thee kissed a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 82
…n my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Father ; but my lips must wreathe smiles no more, But set in fearful strength of purpose toward The blood of enemies, in horrid …
1905 · PDF PAGE 118
…asures of o’erflowing life, Wine tasteless, tired the brain, and cold the breast ! Ah! but if with it is one good deed wrought, One kind word spoken, one immortal thought Born in thee, all is paid; the weary strife Grows victory. ‘‘ Love is all and Death is nought.” Such an one wrote that word! as I would meet, Lay my life’s burden at his silver feet, Have him give ear if I say ‘‘ Master.” Yea! I know no heaven, no honour, half so sweet ! Ife passed before me on the wheel of Time, He who knows no Time—the intense sublime Master of all philosoph…
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…ught her trembling, as a tender bride At the first kiss ; he caught her, and compelled Her answer, in his arms securely held. And she no word might say; her red lips quailed, Ifer perfect eyelids drooped, her warm cheek paled, A tear stole over it, Ilis lips repent With vain weak words—O iron firmament ! How vain, how cold are words !—his lips repeat Their faint sweet savour, but her rosy feet Held in his hands and touched with reverent lips Revived her soul more perfectly. Soon slips Her gentle answer ; now her timid eyes So tender with the li…
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
…st. man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him: he bade me not despair. An holy ‘* The Blouu of the Osiris !”” was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) ‘‘The life, the tears, the tomb ! ‘¢The Love of Isis is its name!” (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses bloom. For the Three Maries (so he said) were One: Three aspects of the mystic spouse of God, Isis! This pagan! ‘‘ Look towards the Sun”? (Quoth he), ‘‘and seek a winepress to be trod; ‘With Beauty girdled, garlanded, and shod. ‘* Thus,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 199
…to the voice of hell. The earthly horror wove its serpent spell Against the Beauty of the World: I heard Desolate voices cry the doleful word “*Unready !”’ All the soul invisible Of that vast desert echoed, and concurred. The voices died in mystery away. I passed, confounded, lifeless as the clay, Somewhere I knew not. Many a dismal league Of various terror wove me its intrigue, And many a demon daunted: day by day Death dogged despair, and misery fatigue. Behold ! T came with haggard mien again Into the halJ, and mingled with the train, A corp…