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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING My soul with this arcane delight, Voluptuous Daughter of the Night| Eat me up wholly with the glance Of thy luxurious brilliance ! oLympas. The desert calls. MARSYAS. Then let us go! Or seek the sacramental snow, Where like an high-priest I may stand With acolytes on every hand, The lesser peaks—my will withdrawn To invoke the dayspring from the dawn, Changing that rosy smoke of light To a pure crystalline white ; Though the mist of mind, as draws A dancer round her limbs the gauze, Clothe Light, and show the virg…
1913 · PDF PAGE 151
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING My soul with this arcane delight, Voluptuous Daughter of the Night| Eat me up wholly with the glance Of thy luxurious brilliance ! oLympas. The desert calls. MARSYAS. Then let us go! Or seek the sacramental snow, Where like an high-priest I may stand With acolytes on every hand, The lesser peaks—my will withdrawn To invoke the dayspring from the dawn, Changing that rosy smoke of light To a pure crystalline white ; Though the mist of mind, as draws A dancer round her limbs the gauze, Clothe Light, and show the virg…
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
WHITE POPPY Amid the drowsy dream, Lit by some fitful beam Of other light Than the mere sun, supreme On all the glint and gleam Shooting through night, Above the water-way Where my poor corpse must stay, I bend and float away From human sight. 3
1910 · PDF PAGE 132
122 THE LADDER As Horus sped the flame, Harpocrates Receive the flame, and set the soul at ease. I who was One am One, all light Balanced within me, ordered right, As it was ever to the initiates ken Is now, and shall be evermore. Amen.
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…The Word. THE ABYSS The Word is broken up. There is Knowledge. Knowledge is Relation. These fragments are Creation. The broken manifests Light.? 7
1905 · PDF PAGE 70
… odo kikale qaa ! Zodacare od zodameranu ! Zodorje, lape zodiredo Ol Noco Mada, das Iadapiel ! Ilas ! hoatahe Iaida ! O crowned with starlight ! Winged with emerald Wider than Heaven ! O profounder blue Of the abyss of water ! O thou flame Flashing through all the caverns of the night, Tongues leaping from the immeasurable Up through the glittering Steeps unmanifest To the ineffable ! O Golden Sun ! Vibrating glory of my higher self ! I heard thy voice resounding in the Abyss : “ I am the only being in the deep Of Darkness : let me rise and gir…
1910 · PDF PAGE 44
AMBERGRIS 35 FROM THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST The May Queen (old style) It is summer and sun on the sea, The twilight is drawn to the world : We linger and laugh on the lea, The light of my spirit with me, Sharp limbs in close agony curled. The noise of the music of sleep, The breath of the wings of the night, The song of the magical deep, The sighs of the spirits that weep, Make murmur to tune our delight. Slow feet are our measures that move ; Swift songs are more soft than the breeze ; Our mouths are made mute for our love ; Our eyes are ma…
1905 · PDF PAGE 96
…k back to themselves again ? Be thou my one desire, my soul in day as in night ! My mind the Home of the Higher ! My heart the centre of Light !
1899 · PDF PAGE 60
…laming in the void, Jewelled with satellite and asteroid, Where our desire is welcome. Yea, the night Holds in her bosom such a world of light As in this sick sad Earth would consume man With its quick blaze of truth. Thy bitter ban, Zeus, shall most utterly be made to cease. We must fight Fate and conquer it. Our peace, Our passion, is the silent answer given To the importunate questioning of heaven. Thou art supreme, my king, and I in thee ; We have life hard by its chill throat, to choke Its petty gasping pleasures, and to see The ancient al…
1911 · PDF PAGE 65
… of a man that hung upon a gibbet by one heel. This, said the fair man, is a most notable sign that we travel the right road. Now by the light 01 the triangle I perceived another wonder; {or my friend was not swimming as I was in the stream, but was borne by a boat, frail indeed, yet sufficient. Within this shallop or cockleshell he pulled me, and set me at the bench. Then (still by the light of the triangle) I saw a dark man at the thwart, rowing a strong stroke. We pulled on almost in silence; for when I asked of the fair man his name he answe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 65
… of a man that hung upon a gibbet by one heel. This, said the fair man, is a most notable sign that we travel the right road. Now by the light 01 the triangle I perceived another wonder; {or my friend was not swimming as I was in the stream, but was borne by a boat, frail indeed, yet sufficient. Within this shallop or cockleshell he pulled me, and set me at the bench. Then (still by the light of the triangle) I saw a dark man at the thwart, rowing a strong stroke. We pulled on almost in silence; for when I asked of the fair man his name he answe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…dful horns of the Goat. And so shalt thou break down the fortress that guardeth the Palace of the King my son. And thou must work by the light of the Star and of the Moon and of the Sun, and by the dreadful light of judgment that is the birth of the Holy Spirit within thee. When these shall have destroyed the universe, then mayest thou enter the palace of the Queen my daughter. Blessed, blessed blessed; yea, blessed; thrice and four times blessed is he that hath attained to look upon thy face. For I will hurl thee forth from my presence as a wh…
1902 · PDF PAGE 31
Hide thee, sweet river ; welcome to the sea, Ocean of love that shall encompass thee ! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me ! \Tannh'duser perceives that he is in the palace of a Great Qtieen. Rise, rise, my knight ! My king ! My love, arise ! See the grave avenues of Paradise, The dewy larches bending at my breath, Portentous cedars prophesying death ! See the long vistas and the dancing sea, The measured motion of fecundity ! Bright winds set swaying the soft-sounding flowers (Here flowers have music) in my woven bo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 211
…AND FERTILE LAND; THE KING OF THE SPIRITS OF EARTH Knight of Pan/ades A DARK Winged Warrior with winged and crowned helmet: mounted on a light brown horse. Equipment as the Knight of Wands. The winged head of a stag or antelope as a crest, Beneath the horse‘s feet is fertile land with ripened corn. In one hand he bears a sceptre surmounted by a hexagram: in the other a Pentacle like that of the Zelator Adeptus Minor. Unless very well dignified he is heavy, dull, and material Laborious, clever, and patient in material matters If illdignified, he i…
1912 · PDF PAGE 211
…AND FERTILE LAND; THE KING OF THE SPIRITS OF EARTH Knight of Pan/ades A DARK Winged Warrior with winged and crowned helmet: mounted on a light brown horse. Equipment as the Knight of Wands. The winged head of a stag or antelope as a crest, Beneath the horse‘s feet is fertile land with ripened corn. In one hand he bears a sceptre surmounted by a hexagram: in the other a Pentacle like that of the Zelator Adeptus Minor. Unless very well dignified he is heavy, dull, and material Laborious, clever, and patient in material matters If illdignified, he i…
1899 · PDF PAGE 165
…iates my eyes, _ Tints my skin gold, and melodies Of music run over my face; Smiles envy kisses in the race To bathe beneath my eyelids. Light Clothes me and circles with the might Of warmer rosier suns. Thy kiss Dwells on my bosom, and it is A glittering mount of fire, that burns Incense unnamed to heaven, and yearns In smoke toward thy home. Desire Bellies the sails of molten fire Upon the ship of Youth with wind Urgently panting out behind, Impatient till the strand appear And the blue sea have ceased to rear Fountains of foam against the pr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 154
…fe’s law; all nature’s tune Tells that the hour is come when May musf grow to June. Then in the broad glare of the careless sun Apollo’s light is on her and within ; His shafts of glory pierce her one by one; His kisses darken, shivering and keen, Swift glories cold and clean Of that chaste bridal, and the earth gets gladness, Till the last winter’s traces Fall from the spring’s last cold wind—shining sadness !— And from the frail new faces Blushing through moss; and all the world is light With the unsufferably bright Full joy and guerdon of th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 129
…Universe is therein, what then is possible but that it return to its own First Intention, dissolv- ing itself little by little into that Light which is its most se- cret and most subtle Nature? For this Universe is in Truth Zero, being an equation whereof Zero is the sum. Whereof this is the proof, that if not, it would be unbalanced, and something would have come from Nothing, which is absurd. This Light or Noth- ing is then the Resultant or Totality thereof in pure Perfec- tion; and all other states, positive or negative, are imperfect, since…
1922 · PDF PAGE 375
…re again, Basil’s ideas are fantastically different to other people’s. He says ; what about the forms and ceremonies used in an electric light plant ? I gave a little jump when he made the remark. It was so. destructive of all my ideas. “‘ Most ritual,” he agreed, “ is vain observance, but if there is such a thing as the so-called spiritual force in man, it requires to be generated, collected, controlled, and applied, by using the appropriate measures, and these form true ritual.” And, in fact, the weird ceremony in progress in his Titan tower …
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…st : the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [ Raises giass.| the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of cares how heavy ! Drink ! The peace of the Priest ! [He drinks up the liquor.| Be thou my light ! Uncloud the misty channels of the mind! Off, horror ! Off, compassion ! Be the brain The almighty engine of the Will—and those Subtler and deeper forces grimly guessed, Terribly proven—be they strong thereby ! Awake, O sleeping serpent of the soul, Unhinted skills, and unimagined powers, And…