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…others , and drink of that lustral dew : I will return , my brothers , when I have seen God face to face , and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free . Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis , oh ye brave hearts , and cool eyes , and trembling lips ! I will put a live coal upon your lips , and flowers upon your eyes , and a sword in your hearts , and ye also shall see God face to face . Thus shall we give back its youth to the world , for like tongues of triple flame we shall…
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…le of the Nile : The strong and sunbright lie whose name was France Arose against the sun of truth , whose glance Laughed large from the eyes of England fierce as fire Whence eyes wax blind that gaze in truth askance . 2 Rodin in Rime , vol . iii, p . 119 . 3 Ibid .
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…st , His soul is barren of love or trust, His heart is hopeless , seeing he must Perish , and leave no trace.5 He bids her gaze into his eyes , With love, my cheeks with passion burn As thy clear eyes may well discern By gazing into mine . 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p. 7. 3 Ibid . vol. i, p. 8. • Ibid . vol. i, p. 9. 2 Ibid . vol. i, p. 8. 4 Ibid . vol. i, p. 8. 6 Ibid . vol. i, p. 9.
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…n all this lead us to , this progress through misery ? To the great archetype the Arahat ship of Buddha . It was by gazing on the sunken eyes of a corpse , so the legend runs , that Gautama forsook pleasure for a life of pity . Life is feodal to Death , and our ultimate sleep is greater than our first awakening . The womb was dark ; from out it sprang the thought less ; the tomb is darker still ; into it creeps the thoughtful . The dead are our gods , soon we shall strike our tent for the last time and join the great caravanserai of the departe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…raint was as ephemeral as the fleeting hour . “ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was pleasant to the eyes , and a tree to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat , and gave also unto her husband with her ; and he did eat .” ( N.B. — Husband : neither church nor registry office is mentioned !) Linked in the tiny shelf upon the ship , My blind eyes burned into her mild ones : limbs Twined to each other while fine dew bedims Their quivering skins : lip fastened unto lip : Whole …
1907 · PDF PAGE 321
314 THE STAR IN THE WEST beauty of bodies, nor the glory which passes , nor the light which our eyes love ; it is not the varied harmony of sweet songs , nor the aroma of perfumes and sweet flowers , nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No , it is none of these that I love when I love my God ; and yet in this love I find a light , an inner voice , a perfume, a savour , an em brace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself . There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space, there a word is heard which has no…
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… Thy face , O mother ! Splendour of the Gods ! Behold ! amid the glory of her hair And light shed over from the crown thereof, Wonderful eyes less passionate than Peace That wept ! That wept ! O mystery of Love ! Clasping my hands upon the scarlet rose That flamed upon my bosom , the keen thorns Pierced me and slew ! My spirit was withdrawn Into Her godhead , and my soul made One With the Great Sorrow of the Universe, The Love of Isis ! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above ,…
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…FACE 7 Why Jesus Wept . Oracles . Orpheus . Rosa Mundi . Gargoyles . Collected Works , vols . i , ii , and iii . By which , if they have eyes to perceive , they will become sacramental and holy , through the fire - bap tism of a new birth , and will hold the key of all mysteries locked in the esoteric sign of the Sabbatic Goat , the Baphomet of Mendes , the signatures of Solve and Coagula , -“ The Everlasting Yea and Nay ." A.M.E.N. My faults are more numerous than I care to think of ; yet it is without fear or trepidation that I offer this ess…
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…re borne down their unfathomable depths . Similarly in the following : Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons ; my eyes Absorb her eyelids ' lazy light , And read her bosom 2 The extra half - step in “ shuddering ” in place of dis cordantly jarring on the metre produces a keener sense of agony in the reader's mind than a word which scanned correctly would do . In the next passage , taken from “ Tannhäuser , ” we find the introduction of a spondee carrying with it a curious sensation of slowness : Chaos , a speck ; and spac…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
… draw my breath ; my face Loses its lustre in the grace of her quick bosom ; sinister The raving spectres reel ; I see beyond my Circe's eyes no shape Save vague cloud - measures that escape the dance's whirling witchery . Clothed with my flower - bride I sit , a harlot in a harlot's dress , And laugh with careless wickedness . And with our laughter's nails refix his torn flesh faster to the wood , And with more cruel zest make good the shackles of the Crucifix .3 | The Argonauts , vol . ii, p . 100 . 2 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . …
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…ssing me over and over ! Better sleep so Than be conscious , and know How death hath a charm to discover . 1 But not until we read “ The Eyes of Pharaoh " do we read one of the most astounding paintings in words , I make bold to say , that has ever been written in any language : And death's insufferable perfume Beat the black air with golden fans As Turkis rip a Nubian's womb With damascenéd yataghans . ? This one astonishing verse upsets the equilibrium of the whole poem , as it would of any poem ; for if the remaining thirteen had been penned…
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…, the electric spark of man is drawn Deep in the bosom of the world , to soar New - fledged , an eagle to the dazzling dawn With lidless eyes undazzled , to arise , Son of themorning , ... 3 finds Freedom as his God : And Freedom stands , re - risen from the rod , A goodlier godhead than the broken God ." It was in the winter of 1619 that Descartes made the famous resolution to “ take nothing for truth with out the clear knowledge that it is such ." Thus Jove like he discrowned the authority of a thousand years , and though the symbolization of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…eet hot body's rush Lithe to embrace him , and a cataract Of amber - scented hair hissing about His head , and in the darkness two great eyes Flaming above him , and the whole face filled With fire and shapen as kisses . And those arms | The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 170 . 2 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 91 . ---
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… WEST Of mingling fire , and stars and roses swart In the long flame of hair that leaps athwart , Live in each tingling gossamer ! Dread eyes ! Each flings its arrow of sharp sacrifice , Eating me up with poison ! I am hurled Far through the vaporous confines of the world With agony of sundering sense , beholding Thy mighty flower , blood - coloured death , unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled , Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus , the false Isis , L…
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…not reach My fury .... Thus in the intoxication of his desire he raves , in her silence he sees her affection , and in the terror of her eyes her love . Cora is horror -stricken : “ you beast !” “ you fool !” “ I am defiled .” He stands dazed and wondering . Then in the following pages she tells him : “ I am the mother of thy bastard birth ” ; he prays , he threatens , and shrieking hurls insult on insult at her : Me , the sole pledge of your debaucheries , You keep - your love, the mere maternity You share with swine and cattle !... I love you…
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…t off and slay the dragon of their despair . The horror of this mental struggle is well depicted in “ Jephthah ” when Jared says : Those eyes upon me, torturing my soul And threatening revenge ? Those fingers gross , Purple , and horrible , to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat . O Hell ! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To putrefy this fair green earth with blood , But make not me the devilish minister Of such a deed as this !! Such was the almost frenzied exclamation of Jared , when he tried to shake off the awful power that was…
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…t, the great nuptials with the Lords of Lust : An agony is this That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands , thy feet Ooze blood , thine eyes weep blood ; thine anguish is More keen than death . At last — there is no deeper vault of hell beneath ! Then comes the great reward . We have travelled knee deep through the mire of life , yet if our souls be spotless our abasement , “ ... bringeth back the sheaves ” XV . Of golden corn of exaltation , With strange intoxications mad and manifold . It is this curious phase , yearning towards Perfection ,…
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…undred more ; Other thousands still be told , Other hundreds o'er and o'er . And Propertius to the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadfast pride , And on my neck his foot triumphant press'd . So it is to - day . Conventionalism is passing along its way chaotic and disordered . Mutinus is worshipped at every street corner , and the goat of Mendes slavers over the revellers as they wend their way home with their Gitons and M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…ure more divine arise ; The Christ usurps the horizon for me, And He requickens the forgotten skies ; His golden locks are burning on my eyes , And he with rosy finger points the way , The blood -wrought mystic path of Paradise , That leads at last through yonder icy spray Of Death to the blue vault of the undying day . In the last verse of “ A Spring Snow Storm in Wastdale ," there grows a wavering doubt , which leaps out furiously in the “Preliminary Invocation " in “ Jephthah ,” addressed to A. C. S. , breaking the shackles of the “ improvin…
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…scarded all proportion just , And thundered in our ears “ I know ,” And bellowed in our brains “ ye must . " 1 In “ Why Jesus Wept ” our eyes are startled with the following horrid blasphemy , “ The badger Jesus skulketh in his holt ," ? which , after all , is not a quarter so blasphemous as to suppose that Jesus , the Son of God , the Very God , resides in a loaf and a bottle , as the Plymouth brethren did in the same satire - vide scene xiii . Finally , instead of allowing this most un fortunate of unfortunate individuals to peacefully ascend…