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1917 · PDF PAGE 5

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

4 ALEISTER CROWLEY [feel the Spring, the all-devouring Dawa, Rash with my Rising. There, beyond the gol, The Veil is rent! Yes: let the veil be drawn, The Rose and the Cross UT of the seething cauldron of my woes, Where sweets and salt and bitterness I lung; Where charméd music gathered from my tongue, ‘And where I chained strange archipelagoes Of fallen stars; where fiery passion flows A curious bitumen; where among ‘The glowing medley moved the tune unsung Of perfect love: thence grew the Mystic Rose. Its myriad petals of divided light; Tits …

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1917 · PDF PAGE 1

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

…een, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone a8 the void uncovered: ‘The silence of deep height was drawn A veil across the silver dawn ‘On holy wings that hovered + ‘The music of three thoughts became The beauty, that is one white lame, ‘The justice that surpasses shame, ‘The victory, the splendour, ‘The sacred fountain that is whitled From depths beyond that older world ‘A new world to engender.* ‘The kingdom is extended? Night Dwells, and I contemplate the sight ‘That is not seeing, but the light ‘That secretly i…

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