FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
53 matching pages
Page 1 of 31907 · PDF PAGE 305
…na or Samâdhi itself , the whole quintessence of the five senses reflecting their full glory on the mirror of their own quiescence : the sun raised to the power of a quintillion flaming on the surface of an in finite facetless diamond . There is a lake amid the snows Wherein five glaciers merge and break . Oh ! the deep brilliance of the lake ! The roar of ice that cracks and goes Crashing within the water ! Glows The pale pure water , shakes and slides The glittering sun through emerald tides , So that faint ripples of young light Laugh on the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 196
THE CUP 189 Sun unto thyself , and with thine own beams shalt thou paint the hueless ocean of thy Godhead . Thou shalt see things as they are ; and all shall dissolve around thee , and thou around all , till unity itself become but nothingness in the unutterable bliss of a boundless rapture . O wine of lacchus , O wine , wine , wine .
1907 · PDF PAGE 308
THE NEW WINE 301 Let human thought itself expand Bright Sun of Knowledge , in me rise ! Lead me to those exalted skies To live and love and understand ! Paying no price , accepting nought The Giver and the Gift are one With the Receiver -O thou Sun Of thought , of bliss transcending thought , Rise where division dies ! Absorb In glory of the glowing orb Self and its shadow ! 1 And , Within the charméd space is nought Possible unto thought . There in their equilibrium They float —how still , how numb ! There must they rest , there will they stay…
1907 · PDF PAGE 49
…owing four verses in " Saida ” superb : The spears of the night at her onset Are lords of the day for a while , The magical green of the sunset , The magical blue of the Nile . Afloat are the gales In our slumberous sails On the beautiful breast of the Nile . are We have swooned through the midday exhausted By the lips -- they are whips - of the sun , The horizon befogged and befrosted By the haze and the grays and the dun Of the whirlings of sand Let loose on the land By the wind that is born of the sun . Thrilled through to the marrow with he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…curls as high as the flashing flames , and tears wash out smiles , and blushing cheeks dry tears ; all is effluent glory , glorious as a Sun of gold lingering on the blushing bosom of Dawn : We lay in naked chastity , caressed Child - like or dreaming , till the dawn repressed Our sighs : that nuptial yet hath never ceased .? Still the future rises up before them , as a serpent , " prescience of next year ;" the Minotaur , “ prodigious offspring of the fatal graft ?” But the present is a sublime kiss , and the future as hollow as the emblem of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…E STAR IN THE WEST breaks a primal sea gemmed with all the colours of the opal , deepening into a limitless amethyst , darkens , and the sun goes out . The spangled pall of Night is drawn , and the lull of death is o'er us ; but no , hark ! the distant boom of a beetle is carried across the still glowing welkin , it is the signal drum announcing the marriage of Night and Day . The crescent moon rises , diaphanous and fair , and the world wakes to a chant : DIONYSUS I bring ye wine from above , From the vats of the storied sun ; For every one of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…uter world is an illusion , then the inner world of self is but a delusion , a mere mirrored reflection of shadows cast by some blinding sun ; so hope some of us , as Orpheus did when he sang : This world is shadow -shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow, age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . This is but the chant of the Brahmin and the Buddhist as it has risen and fallen over the East for hundreds and thousands of years . There no sun shines , no …
1907 · PDF PAGE 325
… . ii . Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name ! Shatter , lake -reflected spectre ; like , rise up in mist to sun ; Sun , dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Master's work is done . Nectar perfume gently stealing , masterful and sweet and strong , Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong ! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed ! Open wide the mystic portals , and be altogether lost !! The ecstasy of the saints and mystics , is , this enter ing into the kingdom of G…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…l time . And lo ! the light Shed from Her shoulders whom I dimly saw ; Crowned with twelve stars and hornéd as the moon ; Clothed with a sun to which the sun of earth Were tinsel ; and the moon was at Her feet A moon whose brilliance breaks the sword of song Into a million fragments ; so transcends Music, that starlight-sandalled majesty ! Then-shall I contemplate the face of Her ? 1 Tannhäuser, vol . I, p. 260. 2 Ibid . vol . i, p. 261.
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
…n the dedication to “ Jephthah ,” which is addressed to Algernon Charles Swinburne , we read the following : As streams get water of the sun -smit sea , Seeking my ocean and my sun in thee . 1 And this discipleship to the greatest and last of the Victorian poets has given us many a subtle and enthralling line . The scene when Charicles wakes and catches Archais to his breast is worthy of the bard who sang of “ Tristram and Iseult.” It is as follows : He sprang , he caught her to his breast ; the maid Smiled and lay back to look at him . He laid…
1907 · PDF PAGE 290
…would that I were the sky that I might be all eyes to behold thee ,” till the stars circle about us , and the wild comets speed by , and suns embrace suns , and the moons melt shrieking through the firmament . Then all powers will dissolve , and the great golden dawn effulgent will flash through the portals of night , standing before us bride of our desire , robed in a million suns , the stars flaming in her hair , incarnate symbol of perpetual youth . So we feel with Crowley that : Time and again , in the History of Science , a period has arri…
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine , and the disc of flaming light Is on thee , seated in the prow Of the Sun's bark , enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee , thee girt round With leopard's pell , and golden sound Of planets choral in their course ! O thou self-formulated sire ! Self -master of thy dam's desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light ; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name . For I am…
1907 · PDF PAGE 268
…ty be an identical part of that infinity .' Laugh , thou immortal Lesbian ! Thy verse runs down the runic ages. Where shalt thou be when sun and star, My sun , my star, the vault that span , Rush in their rude, impassive rages Down to some centre guessed afar By mindless Law ? Their death embrace A simple accident of space ? ? “ In the category of existing things , space being infinite , for on that hypothesis we are still working , either matter fills or does not fill it . In the former , matter is infinitely great ; if the latter , infinitely…
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…nt , a ceaseless crowd Of rushing atoms roaring into space , Driven by demons from before the face . ? So beautiful was she , that “ the sun forgot his chariot , nor would set " ; and in this mystic hour , the marriage of Day and Night , she prayed fervently to Aphrodite , fond goddess of lovers , and there amidst the thunder -smitten stone , beautiful and piteous , she waited , longing for that strong desire of love that had been so rudely snatched from her. Again , Love in the form of Aphrodite listens to her prayer , but is helpless to help …
1907 · PDF PAGE 20
…ill to hill of delight : My rosy rivers lave you In innermost lustral light. I lead you , lord of the maze , In the darkness free of the sun ; In spite of the spite that is day's , We are wed , we are wild , we are one !! I “ Orpheus ,” vol . iii , p . 207 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
… ended ; The toils are unwoven , the battle is done ; My lover comes back to my arms , to the splendid Abyss of the air and abode of the sun . The sword be assuaged, and the bow be unbended ! The labour is past, and the victory won . The arrows of song through Hell cease to hurtle. Away to the passionate gardens of Greece , Where the thrush is awake , and the voice of the turtle Is soft in the amorous places of peace , And the tamarisk groves and the olive and myrtle Stir ever with love and content and release . O bountiful bowers and O beautif…
1907 · PDF PAGE 263
…othing , but it does not believe in the absolute annihilation of anything which has ever existed . “ There is not anything new under the sun ." Not any Thing ,' says the Zohar , is lost in the universe , not even the vapour which goes out of our mouths , as all things , it has its place and destination , and the Holy One , blessed be It ! makes it concur to Its works ; not anything falls into the void , not even the words and the voice of man , but all has its place and its destination ." “ All things of which this world is composed , spirit as…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…us in search for the Asphodel of Love , Wisdom , and Beauty . Here , as we turn some beetling height , the dying rays of the Swinburnian sun sink , those rays that ruffled the vestal purity of the clouds to the rosy blush of a lover's kiss , and in the departing light we again find the mystic Trinity midst the hellebore and thistles of existence , en throned , eternal . The sun sinks , and the last notes of the nightingale die into the stillness of falling night . The emerald sky like the robe of some car - borne Astarté , slashed with an infin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…S 47 Come to face the Babe and Lion , come to measure force with them ! Ah ! these locks flow down , a river , as the earth's before the Sun , As the earth's before the sunset , and the God and I are One. I who entered in a Fool , gain the God by clean endeavour ; I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever. Such is the living poetry that abides and ever lives on , knowing no youth or age, alone an eternal man hood . Lavishly scattered , we find it throughout the works before us ; in “ Aceldama ,” “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…e kisses of Pasiphae ; across the Elysian fields of myrtle and asphodel , up the eagle -crested slopes of Olympus , and over the shining sun -scorched sands of Ammon , tawny and silken as the crouching form of some colossal lion , to the cool groves of Eleusis child -like dreaming in the bosom of silvery Attica by the blue Ægean sea . Yet those who would drink deeper of the wine of this magical Eucharist , spilt with due reverence on the pages of this volume , they must seek it in the Sibyl line verses of those books from which this one has dra…