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Page 11 of 1541913 · PDF PAGE 111
…ur lost shrine. Jutta. Persuasion of the pit Made us abandon it. JOANNA. Nay, by inscrutable Law of all Life it fell. Jutta. Is that the light? JOANNA. The boon Of the pure moon? [Far above glimmers a crescent, and sheds a wan light. A horvible discord arises: the howling of wolves, the moaning of dogs, the wailing of cats, the crying ofjackals. And in the half light appear first marsh-lights wandering, then giant illusions of gods and men, all of which disappear in turn, their evanishment awaking a peal of mocking laughter. The women shrink in…
1898 · PDF PAGE 20
That is not seeing, but the light That secretly is kindled, Though oft time its most holy fire Lacks oil, whene’er my own Desire Before desire has dwindled. I see the thin web binding me With thirteen cords of unity Toward the calm centre of the sea. (O thou supernal mother !) The triple light my path divides To twain and fifty sudden sides Each perfect as each other. Now backwards, inwards still my mind Must track the intangible and blind, And seeking, shall securely find Hidden in secret places Fresh feasts for every soul that strives, New li…
1899 · PDF PAGE 119
LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. Involving self in self, and light in light. And this was not a pain, but peaceable Like young-eyed love, reviving; it consumed And consecrated and made savour sweet To our changed senses. And the dual self Of love grew less distinct and I began To feel her heart in mine, her lips in mine, Her spirit absolutely one with mine. Then mistier grew the sense of God without, And consciousness denied external things, And God was I, and nothing might exist, Subsist, or be at all, outside of Me, Myself Existence of Existences.. ¢ # …
1906 · PDF PAGE 37
…rike, strike the louder chord! Draw, draw the flaming sword, Crowned child and conquering Lord: Horus, avenger. Vi. Dawn-star of flaming light, Five rays in one unite, Light, Life, Love, Mercy, Might, Star of the Magi. VII. Lift, lift the Cross of Light,_: Rose, golden, green, and white, Rise, rise athwart the night! Mighty Aeshuri ! VIII. Flame, flame, thou Blazoned Sun! Seal-Star of Solomon ! Seven Mysteries in One ! Godhead and Mankind ! IX. Beauty and life and love ! Let fly thy darling dove ! Bend to us from above, Lady Ahathor ! Xx. Where…
1907 · PDF PAGE 292
… to be found in the phenomenal world . Thus your natural reason does not possess its true essence , but only the appearance of truth and light ; and the more the essence of light inwardly fades , and the man confuses him self with this appearance , and gropes vainly after the dazzling phantasmal images he conjures . This appearance of Truth is practically what the Hindu would call “. maya ,” in which all created beings live . There is a way which leads beyond it, and any man can discover it, if he be fit and willing , and this way leads to God …
1909 · PDF PAGE 265
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING hoodwink is slipped up to give a glimpse of the Light as dimly seen through Darkness yet heralding a Glory which is in the Beyond. The Hierophant, then slowly lowering his sceptre, says: “Child of Earth! remember that Unbalanced Force is evil. Unbalanced Mercy is but weakness: Unbalanced Severity is but oppression. Thou hast known me; pass thou on unto the Cubical Altar of the Universe.” Thus formulating the Force of the Hidden Central Pillar. The Hierophant then leaveth his throne and passeth between the pillars,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 265
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING hoodwink is slipped up to give a glimpse of the Light as dimly seen through Darkness yet heralding a Glory which is in the Beyond. The Hierophant, then slowly lowering his sceptre, says: “Child of Earth! remember that Unbalanced Force is evil. Unbalanced Mercy is but weakness: Unbalanced Severity is but oppression. Thou hast known me; pass thou on unto the Cubical Altar of the Universe.” Thus formulating the Force of the Hidden Central Pillar. The Hierophant then leaveth his throne and passeth between the pillars,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 254
236 THE GNOME LANTERN-LIGHT is over the fells When the sun has sunken low; Lantern-light and the moorland smells, The rain on the good brown soil. Over the moorland we go, we go, Through the wet earth we toil... . Sunken, sunken was the sun Ere ever the moon uprose, And the tall dark trees cast shadows dun Over the lonely way; Over the moorland the long path goes We trod at the close of day. We sped to reach the dark green hill, The Hill of the Bloody Bowl, And the shadows were watching, watching us still As we crept in the shadowless path, Ove…
1910 · PDF PAGE 254
236 THE GNOME LANTERN-LIGHT is over the fells When the sun has sunken low; Lantern-light and the moorland smells, The rain on the good brown soil. Over the moorland we go, we go, Through the wet earth we toil... . Sunken, sunken was the sun Ere ever the moon uprose, And the tall dark trees cast shadows dun Over the lonely way; Over the moorland the long path goes We trod at the close of day. We sped to reach the dark green hill, The Hill of the Bloody Bowl, And the shadows were watching, watching us still As we crept in the shadowless path, Ove…
1910 · PDF PAGE 73
… true desires, his part in all worlds is a life of freedom. In the Brihadaranyaka,* king Janaka asks YAjiiavalkhya, “what serves man for light?” That sage answers: The sun serves him for light. When however the sun has set?—the moon. And when he also has set?—the fire. And when this also is extin- guished?—the voice. And when this also is silenced? Then is he himself his own light. This passage occurs again and again in the same form, and in paraphrase, as we read through the Upanishads. In Kathaka 5. 15 we find: There no sun shines, no moon, n…
1910 · PDF PAGE 73
… true desires, his part in all worlds is a life of freedom. In the Brihadaranyaka,* king Janaka asks YAjiiavalkhya, “what serves man for light?” That sage answers: The sun serves him for light. When however the sun has set?—the moon. And when he also has set?—the fire. And when this also is extin- guished?—the voice. And when this also is silenced? Then is he himself his own light. This passage occurs again and again in the same form, and in paraphrase, as we read through the Upanishads. In Kathaka 5. 15 we find: There no sun shines, no moon, n…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
…st is risen from the sod, Because he bears the mantle of a god. The hour has struck at last ; henceforth the Way Is sundered from the sunlight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
…st is risen from the sod, Because he bears the mantle of a god. The hour has struck at last ; henceforth the Way Is sundered from the sunlight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 43
…The maiden must hear and obey. THE DEW Life trembling on leaves, Sunrise shed in tears, Love’s arrow that cleaves The veil of the years, Light gathered in sheaves Of tenderest fears As dayspring enweaves My soul into spheres— I hear, and I nestle upon thee, O lyrist supreme, Light loves in a dream. 44
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…aust and finishéd, And slumber steal upon the sun, My dear, when you and I are dead. LA CASQUE D’OR. A NINA OLIVIER, You laughing little light of wickedness, low ripples round you love and coils And twists the Casque of Gold about the child-face with a child-caress. O glory of the tangled net! O subtle vase of scented oils! You laughing little light of wickedness ! Through all the misty wind of light that glamours round you, sorceress, Your face shines out with feline grace, exults, a tiger in the toils! They shall not hold your passion in: fli…
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…, and pressed themselves to death upon the thorns; and one’s whole body became a single eye, 50 that one saw as if the unborn thought of light Qflvngé. brooded over an eternal sea. Then was light as the lightning flaming Zlilrb‘llrsi-bus spe- out of the east, even unto the west, and it was fashioned as the swift ness of a sword. By and by one rose up, then one seemed to be quite, quite dead, and buried in the centre of a pyramid of the most brilliant light it is possible to think of. And it was wake-light too; and everybody knows that even wake-…
1910 · PDF PAGE 123
…nce hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may shoot Some flower at least to blossom in the night, Since vital light Is sure to fail us on the hideous way. What ? Must we pray ? Verily, O thou littlest babe, too weak To stir or speak, Capable hardly of a thought, yet seed Of word and deed ? To thine assured fruition we may trust This weary dust. We who are old, and palsied, (and so wise !) Lift up our eyes To little children, as the storm-tossed bark Hails in the dark Some hardly visible harbour light ; we hold The hou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 199
…flows From the heart of a faded Rose. XII THE SEER Over the billows Of soft green grass, Under the willows, The gray sprites pass. In twilight’s glamour The shadows grow,— Cadent life’s clamour ! So low, so low, That the world is hushed As the white light pales ; No longer flushed The daylight fails ; The fading light No longer glows In the west; the night Still deeper grows: O secret Rose ! O secret Rose! O secret Name! The west wind blows As the hot red flame x L 161
1913 · PDF PAGE 199
…flows From the heart of a faded Rose. XII THE SEER Over the billows Of soft green grass, Under the willows, The gray sprites pass. In twilight’s glamour The shadows grow,— Cadent life’s clamour ! So low, so low, That the world is hushed As the white light pales ; No longer flushed The daylight fails ; The fading light No longer glows In the west; the night Still deeper grows: O secret Rose ! O secret Rose! O secret Name! The west wind blows As the hot red flame x L 161
1996 · PDF PAGE 165
166 The Law is for All Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! Commentary: Stanza 3 suggests the Rosicrucian Benediction: May thy Mind be open unto the Higher! May thy Heart be the Centre of Light! May thy Body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross!1 1 [These are the words of Reception in the Adeptus Minor 5°=6° ritual of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Israel Regardie, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984), vol. 7, p. 52. This passage is omitted …