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Page 141 of 1541910 · PDF PAGE 361
…eful. “Solve” is the cry to-day; the Sabbatic finger of the Goat points upwards, yet on the clouds of darkness does it scrawl a sigil of light. A new God stirs in the Womb of its Mother; we can see his form, dim and red, in the cavern of Time. Dare we pronounce his name? Yea! It is Horus, Horus the Child, reborn Amsu the Good Shepherd, who will lead us out of the sheepish stupidity of to-day. How many understand this mystery? Perhaps none save those who have seen and subscribed to the Law of Thelema, LECF. THE LosT VALLEY. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD…
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
…ventures on the way ; At last an old Egyptian ; who bestowed The magic word, which, when I had pro- nounced, Called up thine evil corpse-light in the sky. He riddled me—ah God! I see it now! The bloody winepress? The ascending sun? Thy dawning beauty and thine evil bed! The double meaning! I had evil thoughts When [ pronounced it—else had She Herself, Hathoor or Mary, risen. Misery ! Incessant mystery of the search for Truth ! VENUS, Search out my mystery a little while ! TANNHAUSER. There is a flush of passion in thine eyes, An hunger in them;…
1906 · PDF PAGE 18
I2 ORACLES Far from sun, sea, and spring, from love or light, Imbedded in impenetrable night ; Deeper than ocean, higher than the sky, Vaster than petty loves that dream and die, Insatiate, angry, terrible for lust, Who shrivel God to adamantine dust By our fierce gaze upon him, who would strive Under our wrath, to flee away, to dive Into the deep recesses of his heaven. But we, one joy, one love, one shame for leaven, Quit hope and life, quit fear and death and love, Implacable as God, desired above All loves of hell or heaven, supremely wed, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
94 GARGOYLES Call ‘homo sapiens ” him who thinks ; Talkers and doers—missing links ! Such songs are twilight’s, when I stretch My limbs, and wander down to fetch My water from the cool cascade, My wood from the enchanted glade, My berries from the rustling bough :— Return, and eat, and sleep. Allow For me, the silence and the night 3 Life, peace ; and death, a welcome wight. SAID. 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 slum…
1906 · PDF PAGE 239
…ing them to ontological science by conclusions not mystical but mathematical. Of Mohamme- danism I shall not now treat, as, in whatever. light we may decide to regard it (and its esoteric schools are often orthodox), in any case it must fall under one of the three heads of Nihilism, Advaitism, and Dvaitism. Taking the ordinary hypothesis of the universe, that of its infinity, or at any rate that of the infinity of God, or of the infinity of some substance or idea actually existing, we first come to the question of the possi- bility of the co-ex…
1905 · PDF PAGE 20
…nton loves Lifted the hero to the pearly car, Whose floor was azure and whose front a star Set in seven jewels girt with ivory. Then the light rein the goddess left to lie Unheeded, and the birds flew on apace, Until the glint and glory of the place Grew o’er the blue dim line of ocean. It was a temple never built of man, Being of marble white, and all unhewn, Above a cliff, about whose bdse were strewn Boulders of amethyst or malachite. Save these the cliffs rose sheer, a dazzling white, Six hundred feet from ocean ; so divine Was the tall pre…
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
… To prophesy the tyrant’s end. The-gates are closed because of night Whose heavy breath iafects the air5 The dog-star gleams, a devilish light : I thought I saw behind me glare The eyes of fiends. IT thought I heard An evil laugh, a mocking word. The gates swing open at the Name, Without a warder roused from sleep; I pass, with face of burning flame, That is not quenched, although I weep. (For even my tears are tears of fire, For loathing, madness, and desire.) Ah God ! the traps for fervent feet ! The morrow beaconed, and I came By where the g…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…eus’ serpent-motion Moves the deep waves of eternity ; As the star-space lingers and moves on ; As the comet flashes and is gone; As the light, the music, and the thunder Of moving worlds retire ; As the hoarse sounds of the heaven wonder When Zeus flings forth his fire ; As the clang of swords in battle ; As the low of home-driven cattle ; As the wail of mothers children-losing ; As the clamorous cries of darkening death ; As the joy-gasp of love’s chosen choosing ; _As the babe’s first voluntary breath ; As the storm and tempest fallen at eve…
1905 · PDF PAGE 146
…sun, Spurn the reverberant air and paw the day, Make east and west indissolubly one, And night fall beaten, for its day is spun, And bid light gird its sword to thigh, dis- play ) The shield of heaven’s blue, and call the deep To watch the warrior sleep Of two fast friends that wake only if brave men weep. Wake, western land so fair, and this shall be! Speak and accomplish, let no ardour slip, A sullen hound, and be brought shamefully Back, and resurge the tremor of the sea, And spoil a perfect kiss from free land’s lip. O fair free sister coun…
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
…and makes and mars ! O thou thrice noble for the deadly scars That answered vainly thy victorious sword ! Wagner ! creator of a world of light As beautiful as God’s, bend down to me, And whisper me the secrets of thy heart, That I may follow and dispel the night, And fight life through, a comrade unto thee, Under Love’s banner, with the sword of Art! THE TWO EMOTIONS. [low barren is the Valley of Delight ! Swift the gaunt hounds that nose the warm close trail Ofall my love’s content ; in vain I veil My seeret of remorse ; from their keen sight …
1906 · PDF PAGE 224
… And they wist that he but mocked them; for he did bend the sword fivefold and fashioned therefrom a Star, and they all vanished in that light; yet the lotus abode nine-petalled and he cried, ‘‘ Before the wheel, the axle.” So he chained the Sun,? and slew the Bull, and exhausted the Air, breathing it deep into his lungs: then he broke down the ancient tower, that which he had made his home, will he nill he, for so long, and he slew the other Bull, and he broke the arrow in twain; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 164
…swer. And I lay— A storm of weeping swept across frame— Till the polite, the hateful manager Led me to face a nation’s lunatic Roar of delight. I soon got over that, my And over--yes, the other thing. Three months— They used to quote me on the Stock Ex- change! I will say this to me, I will not shrink: Look up, you coward, Cora Vavaseur ! Which fathered me the bastard? Every rag,! Prurient licksores of society, Gave it a different father. Am I sure Myself? The shameful Mammon was his name, Glittering gold! I loved my opulence, Cursed my ‘‘misfo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
…God’s breath, her sharp tainted breath ; For marriage bed, the bed of death. The hounds that scavenge, fierce and lean, Snarl in the moonlight ; in the sky The vulture hangs, a ghost unclean ; The lewd hyzena’s sleepless eye Darts through the distance ; these admit My lordship over her—and it. The host is lifted up. Behold The vintage spilt, the broken bread ! I feast upon the cruel cold Pale body that was ripe and red. Only, her head, her palms, her feet, I kissed all night, and did not eat. So, and not otherwise, the word Of God was utterly f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
…hining amethyst Melts to the sapphire’s sombre indigo, And lifts, still sapphire, to the ocean glow ; Thence into emerald and the golden light, Till ruby crowns the river’s living flow And glory of colour in the sun’s own flame— Beyond, to colours without sense or name, Impossible to man, whose vivid sight Would blast him with their splendour as they came Flashing through spiritual space, withdrawn Now, and now flung triumphant in the dawn Not of mere sun’s. rise, but before the birth Of a new system on the unfolded lawn Of space beyond the sce…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…nze ! The shuddering of a sudden storm To mix me with thy minions The lost, who wait through endless night, And wait in vain, to see the light. For I am utterly consumed In thee, in thee am broken up. The life upon my lips that bloomed Is crushed into a deadly cup, Whose devilish spirit squats and gloats Upon the thirst that rots our throats. Gape wide, O hideous mouth, and suck This heart’s blood, drain it down, expunge This sweltering life of mire and muck ! Squeeze out my passions as a sponge, Till nought is left of terrene wine But somewhat…
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
…And they wist that he but mocked them ; for he did bend the sword fivefold and fashioned therefrom a Star, and they all vanished in that light ; yet the lotus abode nine-petalled and he cried, “Before the wheel, the axle.” So he chained the Sun, 2 and slew the Bull, and exhausted the Air, breathing it deep into his lungs : then he broke down the ancient tower, that which he had m ade his hom e, w ill he nill he, for so long, and he slew the other Bull, and he broke the arrow in twain ; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold or…
1905 · PDF PAGE 44
… draws a man, to his fair seem- ing, Yetall the while he whirlsa stealthy sweep Narrower, nearer, where the wave is steam- ing With the slight spray tossed from that funnel deep Which dips, one wide black shaft, most horrible, Down to the nether ITell. Yet there seems time. God’s grief has not forgotten Ilis mighty arm, and with [lis pitying breath A strong wind woke me ere my boat grew rotten With venom of the stream, that quivereth Now as He blew upon it—fish and bird Live at that silent word! And I arose to seek the oars of Lying Wherewith I…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
… Unsealing," the same translatorpublished the " Magical Message of IGannes,” a translation of great value which receives much additional light from the later work, and the more so as it supplies, in a know- ledge of HermeticGreek, muchmeaningwhich escapes us in the authorised version. In the “ Unsealing,” Mr Pryse goes solid for the book, the whole book, and nothing but the book, as the veritable work of the Apostle John, hence the clergy may extend a welcome hand to it. He quite believes it is a work of the Apostle John, and defends the style;…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
… Unsealing," the same translatorpublished the " Magical Message of IGannes,” a translation of great value which receives much additional light from the later work, and the more so as it supplies, in a know- ledge of HermeticGreek, muchmeaningwhich escapes us in the authorised version. In the “ Unsealing,” Mr Pryse goes solid for the book, the whole book, and nothing but the book, as the veritable work of the Apostle John, hence the clergy may extend a welcome hand to it. He quite believes it is a work of the Apostle John, and defends the style;…
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
… who are human dance to evermore. Before this ecstasy all ages yield: Eternity breaks foamless on time’s shore, And I, because of this delight in me, Am one in substance with eternity. ACROBATES My little lady light o’ limb Twirls on her lover’s twisting toes- Lithe as a lynx, red as a rose, She spins aloft and laughs at him. So gay the pose, so quaint the whim, One stares and stares: it grows and grows,