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Page 1 of 31911 · PDF PAGE 266
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS I am the mother! I the speaking sea! I am the earth and its fertility! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! Hathoör am I, and to my beauty drawn All glories of the Universe bow down, The blossom and the mountain and the dawn, Fruit’s blush, and woman, our creation’s crown. I am the priest, the sacrifice, the shrine, I am the love and life of the divine! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness are surely mink Are mine ! Venus am I, the love and light of earth, The wealth of kisses, the delight o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 305
…luminates his subject with a pleasing humour, and his book is readable and interesting as well as instructive.” —The Yorkshire Observer. DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOMENA. By Herewarp CarrINncToN and JouN R. MEADER. Ornamental black cloth, gilt, 8 in. x 5} in., 552 pp., 8s. 6d, net. CONTENTS PREFACE. Pant I. Physiological.—I. The Scientific Aspect of Life and Death. II, The Signs of Death, III, Trance, Catalepsy, Suspended Animation, etc, 1V. Premature Burial. V. Burial, Mum: mification. "VI. The Causes of Death. VII.’ Old Age: Its Scientific Stu…
1911 · PDF PAGE 239
…nd loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shorei Oh, write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death’s scroll must be! Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and good Th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 263
…S. Brother Saturn, what is the hour? SATURN. Twilight. VENUS. Sister Pisces, from whose house are we come out? PISCES. From the House of Death. VENUS. Brother Taurus, what is stronger than death? TAURUS. Love. VENUS. Brother Libra, what is the place? LIBRA. The Mountain of Venus, that hangeth from the navel of the Universe over the Great Abyss. VENUS. Let us celebrate the Rite of Venus. [LUNA plays a waltz tune. The PROBATIONERS dame taget/ter,] ?־ VENUS. Children of Love, what is the hour? ALL. [A confused murmur.] It is the hour of love. [ALL…
1911 · PDF PAGE 297
…m the mate for ye all; I am the passionate Pan. Come, O come to the dance, Leaping with wonderful whips, Life on the stroke of a glance, Death in the stroke of the lips ! I am hidden beyond, Shed in a secret sinew, Smitten through by the fond Folly of wisdom in you! Come, while the moon (the moon 1) Sheds her ambrosia! splendour, Reels in the redeless rune InetTably, utterly, tender! Hark! the appealing cry Ofdeadly hurt in the hollow :— Hyacinth! Hyacinth! Ay! Smitten to death by Apollo Swift, O maiden moon, Send thy ray-dews after; Turn the d…
1911 · PDF PAGE 190
…arthquakeand ruinous fate of kings, Famine and desperate destinies, So in the eyes of Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damned minion Of Set, the accursed lord of Hell. Yea! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Druse on Lebanon. Moreover pylon shouldered round To pylon an unearthly tune, Like phantom pries…
1911 · PDF PAGE 212
…Self supreme. 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 truthi Beyond the splendour of the world, False glittering of the gold, A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom’s sacred cold, Life is the flaming of that flame Death is the naming of that name, The forehead of the snake is bright With one immortal star, Lighting her coils with living light To where the nenuphar Sleeps for her couch. All darkness dream…
1911 · PDF PAGE 188
…eel, break not fetters nor compel : So be distant, Ο profane! Children of the hurricane! Lest the sword of fire destroy, lest the ways of death be plain I So depart, and so be wise, Lest your perishable eyes Look upon the {armless fire, see the maiden sacrifice! So depart, and secret flame Burn upon the stone of shame, That the holy ones may hear music of the sleepless Name! Holy, holy, holy spouse Of the sun-engirdled house, With the secret symbol burning on thy multiscient brows l . . , Even as the traitor’s breath Goeth forth, he perisheth By th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 234
…osom bare. 0 maiden, maiden queen! The lightning flows between Thy mounting breasts, too magically fair. Draw me, 0 draw me to a dreaming death ! Send out thine opiate breath, And lull me to the everlasting sleep, That, closing from the kisses of disdain To ecstasy of pain, I may sob out my life into their dangerous deep. Who cometh from the mountain as a tower Stalwart and set against the fiery foes? Who, breathing as a jasmine—laden bower? Who, crowned and lissome as a living rose? Sharp thorns in thee are set ; In me, in me beget The dolorous …
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…h writing but literature. Art is the expression of divine Truth; Mr Underhill, being no artist, expresses only human error. CANDLESTICK. DEATH. HEREWARD CARRINGTON and JOHN R. ΜΕΑυΕκ. Wm. Rider & Son. S:. 64’. net. A most interesting and fairly able book. Mr Carrington’s hysteria is thoroughly diluted by Mr Meader, or else he has taken a little nourishment and feels better. The Vitality book was the scream of a. schoolgirl. The “ theories " of these writers are, however, too comic to discuss seriously. One believes in “Life,” a mystical entity …
1911 · PDF PAGE 88
…u may mark The slow ooze of my springs, But you know Not the glow Where the soul of me sings. Truth comes bubbling to my brim ; Life and death are one to Him! There is cold In the old Grey gloom of my caves; There is heat In the beat Of my passionate waves. Truth comes bubbling to my brim ; Love and hate are one to Him. [They dance and return to the well. R. and L. are now seen öehimi the grasses, she sowing uþan his sima/der.] 80
1911 · PDF PAGE 191
…pings of the tomb, With eyes whose horror flits and flares Like corpse~lightsglimmering in the gloom Till all’s a blaze, one roar of flame, Death universal, locked and linked :— Aha! one names the awful Name— The twin red planets are extinct. [A flame. [The lamp burn: out, and darkness covers all. [LEADER οι: THE CHORUS setretly removes hell-broth vase.
1911 · PDF PAGE 187
…ht: the hell-broth and recites :] 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.
1911 · PDF PAGE 53
…for drouth Of the passion-flower fallen from the other side Of time and space the tedious tide. Lie there, lie there, and let me bleed To death in the breath of the murderous mouth I 45
1911 · PDF PAGE 195
…hat art encamped upon the Great Sea! MAGISTER TEMPLI. Hail, brethren! CAPRICORNUS. Master, what is Increased Knowledge? MAGISTER TEMPLI. Death. AQUARIUS. Master, what is the Ark thereof? MAGISTER TEMPLL The grave. AQUARIUS and CAPRICORNUS. Master, how shall we enter it? MAGISTER TEMPLI. Arise and follow me! [He rises and eircninamhn/ates the 6/?!שושwiddershins. CAPRICORNUS flutes forth every third flerson and makes themfol/ow hiinY continuing this girum-s nntil one only is left. T0 this one MAGISTER TEMPLI addresses the allata/ion, as he hates hi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 160
… years shall pass in myriads over the tree Whereon thou bloomest, O my Rose of the worlds 1 And one shall pluck thee forth, and love and death Shall lie together, and there shall be born He who shall bear for ever into life The rose-tipped lilies under the silent stars, The silent stars, and the red-blushing roses. O Rose, my Rose of the world, my Rose of Roses, Thou shalt be born anew, and live for ever! VICTOR ]. Ι. NEUBURG. 152
1911 · PDF PAGE 35
… the Beginning; for if ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love; but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or to the Beast whereon She rideth; nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beg…
1911 · PDF PAGE 150
…othing, had never cared, would never have given a hair of her head {or all his body and soul. Understanding was to his brain a momentary death. Then with a silent snarl he sprang at her. She and her chair crashed backwards to the floor, and the black leopard was upon her, his teeth sunk in her throat. Edgar Rolles was only just in time. His boot caught the murderer behind the ear—and Edgar Rolles had played football The beast was dead. Edgar stooped and caught her up, blood leaping from her throat, while Ninon, shriek upon shriek rising in torme…
1911 · PDF PAGE 200
…labouring breath ? But if you would not this poor life fulfil, Lo, you are free to end it when you will, Without the fear of waking after death. [Blow out red lights. [BRO. CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS runs out with tom-tom and dances wildly. At the conclusion AQUARIUS and CAPRICORNUS run up, tearing the veil asunder. BRO. CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS fling: himself at foot of altar. CHORAGOGE lights salt again, or other glare. MAGISTER TEMPLI is discovered lying dead, his head supportedby MATER CCELI weeping] [CAPRICORNUS exting uishes the light. [AQUARIUS …
1911 · PDF PAGE 250
…n the womb of our mother; for we have loved as none have loved; for 1 am closer knit with thee than light and darkness, or than life and death! SOL, 22-1-1-22. [LEO gives way and returns to his throne, very sad. [SATAN—TYPHON advances to SOL and ARIES closes the vei! on them.] [BEszjumþs up and runs ofleronehz'ngly. [The h'ghts go ant. [SCORPIO-APOPHIS play: her serpent me!ody.* [LEO recites. Mortals never learn from stories How catastrophe becomes; How above the Victor’s glories In the trumpets and the drums * Andante Religioso : Thome. 72