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… Freedom and Revolt—his gauntlet of youth had been cast down, henceforth he would battle for his manhood, ay! and for the manhood of the World! Then the trumpet-blast resounded; the battle had indeed begun! Struggling to his feet, he tore from him the shroud of a corrupted faith as if it had been the rotten cerement of a mummy. With quivering lip, and voice choked with indig- nation at the injustice of the world, he cursed the name of Christ and strode on to seek the gate of Hell and let loose the fiends of the pit, so that mankind might yet le…
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
…nce’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sailin the Company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” — The New Age. **The light wherein he writes is the L.U.X. of that, which first mastering and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. Itis one of the most suggestive definitions of KONX—the L.U.X. of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross—that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites. Nor does t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
FRONTISPIECE RODIN ERE is a man! For all the world to see His work stands, shaming Nature. Clutched, combined In the sole still centre of a master-mind, The Egyptian force, the Greek simplicity, The Celtic subtlety. Through suffering free, The calm great courage of new art, refined In nervous majesty, indwells behind The beauty of each radiant harmony. Titan! the little centuries drop back, Back from the contemplation. Stand and span With one great grip his cup, the Zodiac! Distil from all time’s art his wine, the truth! Drink, drink the mighty…
1910 · PDF PAGE 91
38 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. Within thy secret grove Naked and armless, save For this seraphic glaive. How then ? What other price May serve thy sacrifice ? Ah ! by the evil glint Of sun, portends an hint. Shall I the childless king, Chaste in thy praise, resign That which was never mine, The power of — spring ? Ay ! by the fierce glad gleam On thy dark lips, I see Thy sober ecstasy To watch the soft bright stream Bubble and curl, like passion-flowers alight On the seductive malachite, To take with greedy joy This — toy. The jewels all-precious of a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
96 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. THE BABE Nay ! I am come to the hour appointed. Anoint me, sirs, and call me ’ Anointed ’ ! GOVINDA Rather be Baa-Baa called, for thy jerkin Is a fleece like his friends wrap an holy Turk in, When he twirls on his toes Regarding his nose Or his paunch that would hold a firkin ! THE HAG The little beast is double-jointed. Dance a spring, thou springal strutting Like a stag in the glades at the season of rutting ! ALEXANDER Dance, o thou imp Of the bottle of brass With the hag and the pimp And the ox and the ass !
1913 · PDF PAGE 61
…, so you , whose shining force Had galloped with me to eternity , Stand now , appealing like a tired horse : Unharness me . O passionate world ; O faces of my friends ! O half - grasped meanings , intricate and deep ! Sudden , as with a child , the tumult ends , Silenced by sleep . PRE - EXISTENCE . I LAID me down upon the shore And dreamed a little space ; I heard the great waves break and roar , The sun was on my face .
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
…century’s life of pain— He lives, he dies, he lives again, And rises to eternal rest Of bliss with Saints—an endless reign ! Leaving the world to centuries torn By every agony and scorn, And every wickedness and shame Taking their refuge in his Name. No Yogi shot his Chandra56 so. Will Christ return ? What ho ? What ho ! What ? What ? “He meditates above Still with his Sire for mercy, love,—” And other trifles ! Far enough That Father’s purpose from such stuff ! You see, when I was young, they said : “Whate’er you ponder in your head, Or make t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 6
Rose of the World ! Red glory of the secret heart of Love ! Red flame, rose-red, most subtly curled Into its own infinite flower, all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion, Its faint sweet passion, folded and furled In flower fashion ; And my deep spirit taking its pure part Of that voluptuous heart Of hidden happiness ! Arise, strong bow of the young child Eros ! (While the maddening moonlight, the memoried caress Stolen of the scented rose Stirs me and bids each racing pulse ache, ache !) Bend into an agony of art Whose cry i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 109
…nding beyond sunset, beyond dawn ! O Rose, inviolate, utterly withdrawn In the truth :for this is truth ; Love knows ! Ah ! Rose of the World ! Rose ! Rose !
1910 · PDF PAGE 122
… sported Some sprite of light and might That pushed our fingers flight To the same goal, delight, On pinions unsupported. One touchthe world went right, Its destiny distorted ! III Still no word of this Though now we surely knew How miss the abyss of bliss, When all the ambergris
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
8 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. SILENUS Ha, you rogue, if Rhodon rage, Poets earn a cynic page ; And our lips with laughter curl If she treat you as a girl. CHIRON Brute, get back to wine, and leave us In our flower-love to inweave us. All we know the shameless chorus : “ Fie ! Silenus — Heliorus ! ” HELIORUS I had better right to mock you, Graceless Chiron, with the quip (Girls, come close — the jest will shock you) “ Pine-tree with the drooping tip ! ” CHIRON Oh, you little toad of spite ! Come, and I will set you right. All your years of wantoness Sh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 159
340 345 350 360 370 375 * ** For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” ASCENSION DAY 153 Samadhi-Dak,®! convenient To travel to Maha Meru,*” Or Gaurisankar’s * keen white wedge Spearing the splendid dome of blue, Or Chogo’s *4 mighty flying edge Shearing across the firmament,— But, first, to that exact event You Christians celebrate to-day. We stand where the disciples stood And see the Master float away Into that cloudlet heavenly-hued Receivin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 563
…ther thus will die, every day he who frees himself from every law and every duty in order to make himself the slave of his passions. The world, and eternity itself, become useless to him who makes himself useless to the world and to eternity. Our will, by acting directly upon our plastic medium, that is to say, upon the portion of astral life which is specialized in us, and which serves us for the assimilation and configuration of the elements necessary to our existence; our will, just or unjust, harmonious or perverse, shapes the medium in its…
1913 · PDF PAGE 563
…ther thus will die, every day he who frees himself from every law and every duty in order to make himself the slave of his passions. The world, and eternity itself, become useless to him who makes himself useless to the world and to eternity. Our will, by acting directly upon our plastic medium, that is to say, upon the portion of astral life which is specialized in us, and which serves us for the assimilation and configuration of the elements necessary to our existence; our will, just or unjust, harmonious or perverse, shapes the medium in its…
1899 · PDF PAGE 7
… ascend The gates of Heaven, and bud and blade Laugh at the dawn, while breezes lend Their music, till you comprehend The meaning of the world, and sigh— Yet love makes happy in the end This pleasant tale of Thessaly.
1908 · PDF PAGE 36
…blessed blood that poured Out of Thine heart at sorrow’s sword Is borne in GOD’s cherubic cars About the sky to make us stars. We in the world of woe who stray Lift up our hearts to Thee and pray : Turn all our pain to virgin might, And all our sorrow into light ! Amen. T 29
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
I26 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. Churches — towers and spires and domes, Houses — nay ! But the white tribe’s homes Whose chalky skins shall match their shores, While their itching prudes and satiate whores Bear — strange fate ! — in that puritan den The goodliest graft of the race of men ’Mid the ruck of hypocrite and slave That grovel and groan from the womb to the grave. Sadly keeping watch and ward Are the century and his guard. AGRIPPA These portents much oppress me. PUBLIUS Bodes Also my soul. AGRIPPA Such anger goads My spirit at this strange bl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 37
…rs . ARCHES all green and chestnuts hardly white , Rough grass , and clumpy marigolds I see Within the water : but how changed quite ! A world begins , where tree doth grow from tree . What dusky Earths , what Fires at all compare With thee , what Air , what Shadows lightly wrought , Thou living Water ! Settled softly there , Proud with the proud reality of Thought . 18
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…side. One hint of Amrita55 to taste And all earth’s wine may run to waste ! For by this very means Christ gained56 His glimpse into that world above Which he denominated “Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—I have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x;57 I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (’tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perhance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…rches and breeding sects , till unfortunate man found himself so hedged in by the spiritual , that in order to maintain his life in this world he had to acknowledge the Church's supreme authority , and grovel before her in the dust of degradation . Crowley gives a curious example of this growth , and the ulti mate sameness of all religions in that gruesome and weird drama , “ The God - Eater ." Maurya the sister of Criosda says : Criosda , ever the same ! The old world runs On wheels of laughter for us little ones ; To you , whose shoulders str…