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Page 26 of 1541961 · PDF PAGE 163
… Mysteries of Antiquity was never at any Period the Tool of the Slave-Gods, but a Witness of Horus through the dark Æon of Osiris to His Light and Truth, His Force and Fire. Thou canst by no means interpret the Sphinx in Terms of the Formula of the Slain God. This did I comprehend even when as Eliphas Levi Zahed I walked up and down the Earth, seeking a Reconciliation of these Antagonisms, which was a Task impossible, for in that Plane they have Antipathy. (Even so may no Man form a Square Magical of Four Units.) But the Light of the New Æon re…
1905 · PDF PAGE 100
ASSUMPTA CANIDIA 95 The legend, “ Here is beauty, here delight, Here the embraces of the Sons of Night ! Here love made more desirable than thine, Fiercer than light, more dolorous than wine. Come, sister, come ; come, lonely queen of breath ! Here are the lustres and the flames of death.” Hence I was whirled, as in a wind of light, Out to the fragrance of a loftier air, A keener scent, and rising unaware Out of the Palace of Luxurious Night, I came to where the Gate of Heaven shone, Battled with comet and with meteor. Behold within that creste…
1911 · PDF PAGE 200
…nt throughout the Universe Ofgood or ill, of blessing or of curse; l find alone Necessity Supreme; With infinite Mystery, abysmal, dark, Unlighted ever by the faintest spark For us the flitting shadows ofa dreamt Ο Brothers of sad lives! they are so brief; A few short years must bring us all relief: Can we not bear these years of labouring breath ? But if you would not this poor life fulfil, Lo, you are free to end it when you will, Without the fear of waking after death. [Blow out red lights. [BRO. CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS runs out with tom-tom and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 200
…nt throughout the Universe Ofgood or ill, of blessing or of curse; l find alone Necessity Supreme; With infinite Mystery, abysmal, dark, Unlighted ever by the faintest spark For us the flitting shadows ofa dreamt Ο Brothers of sad lives! they are so brief; A few short years must bring us all relief: Can we not bear these years of labouring breath ? But if you would not this poor life fulfil, Lo, you are free to end it when you will, Without the fear of waking after death. [Blow out red lights. [BRO. CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS runs out with tom-tom and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…of the Universe ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, the Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light !
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
109 feminine), and the Universal light "Khabs". The Cross is the Extension or Pekht principle. Now I should have learned more; but my attention wandered. This closes the four elemental visions: prosecuted, alas! with what weakness, fatuity and folly! I ... in the afternoon shut myself up and went on a journey ... I went with a very personal guide2: and beheld (after some lesser things) our Master as he sat by the Well with the Woman of Samaria. Now the five husbands were five great religions which had defiled the purity of the Virgin of the Wor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
…sweet to think or tell. “ Kiss me again before I die l ” And, as I kissed her, tenderly Shone like pale flames the sudden spheres Of dewy light, of eager tears. She touched my soul’s divinest chord: “I am so happy, dear my Lord.” And, breaking to the spirit bliss, “I go, dear. 0 so keen to kiss Our baby when I get to God ! ” Charrningl Why, damn it now! that’s odd. I’m surely in my dotage, Dick! A sniveller makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns to ill: Art '5 but a crust o’er Nature’s chasms. Death …
1913 · PDF PAGE 145
…borne on those blue wings Into the Essence of the All. Now, now I stand on earth again, Though, blazing through each nerve and vein, The light yet holds its choral course, Filling my frame with fiery force Like God’s. Now hear the Apocalypse New-fledged on these reluctant lips ! I tremble like an aspen, quiver Like light upon a rainy river ! Do what thou wilt! is the sole word Of law that my attainment heard. Arise, and lay thine hand on God! Arise, and set a period Unto Restriction! That is sin: To hold thine holy spirit in! O thou that chafes…
1913 · PDF PAGE 145
…borne on those blue wings Into the Essence of the All. Now, now I stand on earth again, Though, blazing through each nerve and vein, The light yet holds its choral course, Filling my frame with fiery force Like God’s. Now hear the Apocalypse New-fledged on these reluctant lips ! I tremble like an aspen, quiver Like light upon a rainy river ! Do what thou wilt! is the sole word Of law that my attainment heard. Arise, and lay thine hand on God! Arise, and set a period Unto Restriction! That is sin: To hold thine holy spirit in! O thou that chafes…
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
…nt’s order, says: « By command of the Very Honoured Hierophant, I invest you with the distinguish- ing badge of the grade. It symbolises Light dawning in Darkness.” The four pillars being thus established, now only is the Candidate invested with the badge of the White Triangle of the Three Supernals formulating in Darkness ; and now only is the Higher Soul able to formulate a link with him if the human will of the natural man be in reality consenting thereto, For the free will of the Candidate as a natural man is never obsessed, either by the H…
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
…nt’s order, says: « By command of the Very Honoured Hierophant, I invest you with the distinguish- ing badge of the grade. It symbolises Light dawning in Darkness.” The four pillars being thus established, now only is the Candidate invested with the badge of the White Triangle of the Three Supernals formulating in Darkness ; and now only is the Higher Soul able to formulate a link with him if the human will of the natural man be in reality consenting thereto, For the free will of the Candidate as a natural man is never obsessed, either by the H…
1913 · PDF PAGE 146
… and may be changed. When the eyes of the Magus are fixed upon this Lamp naught else exists. The Instruments lie idle on the Altar; that Light alone burns eternally. The Divine Will that was the Wand is no more; for the path has become one with the Goal. The Divine Understanding that was the Cup is no more; for the subject and Object of intelligence are one. The Divine Reason that was the Sword is no more : for the complex has been resolved into the Simple. And the Divine Substance that was the Pantacle is no more; for the many has become the O…
1905 · PDF PAGE 69
64 INVOCATION And make me one with thine abundant ray Of the vast ocean of the unmanifest Limitless Negativity of Light Flowing, in Jesus manifest, through space, In equilibrium, upon the world Illumined by the White Supernal Gleam Through the red Cross of Calvary : Come forth, My actual Self ! Come forth, O dazzling one, Wrapped in the glory of the Holy Place Whence I have called thee : Come thou forth to me, And permeate my being, till my face Shine with thy light reflected, till my brows Gleam with thy starry symbol, till my voice Reach the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 343
THE FELON FLOWER As the sighing of souls that are waiting the close of the light, As the passionate kissings of Love in the Forest of Night, As the swish of the wavelets that beat on a cavernless shore, Or the cry of the sea-mew that echoes a moment or more, So the voice of thy spirit soft-calling my soul in its flight. As the breath of the wind that is borne from the island of Love, As the swift-moving cloudlets that sail in the heaven above, As the warmth of the sunlight that breaks on the shimmer- ing sea, And the sweetness that lurks in the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 343
THE FELON FLOWER As the sighing of souls that are waiting the close of the light, As the passionate kissings of Love in the Forest of Night, As the swish of the wavelets that beat on a cavernless shore, Or the cry of the sea-mew that echoes a moment or more, So the voice of thy spirit soft-calling my soul in its flight. As the breath of the wind that is borne from the island of Love, As the swift-moving cloudlets that sail in the heaven above, As the warmth of the sunlight that breaks on the shimmer- ing sea, And the sweetness that lurks in the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 113
…he fork of the boughs. [Juxta plays a music still slow and sad, but with a central core of faith, hope and love. Joanna. Eternal home of light and love, Of life and liberty, Thou shrine of seraph, dome of dove, Soul of the sacred Tree, Ark of the sanctuary, Cup Wherein God's blood is treasured up! From the abyss thou reappearest, Thou The divinest and the dearest! Moon of our love, most wondrous womb, Mount of the Cave, red rose— Mighty as light, transcend the tomb, Thou tomb of all our woes! White moon, pale moon, chaste moon, arise Upon our s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 113
…he fork of the boughs. [Juxta plays a music still slow and sad, but with a central core of faith, hope and love. Joanna. Eternal home of light and love, Of life and liberty, Thou shrine of seraph, dome of dove, Soul of the sacred Tree, Ark of the sanctuary, Cup Wherein God's blood is treasured up! From the abyss thou reappearest, Thou The divinest and the dearest! Moon of our love, most wondrous womb, Mount of the Cave, red rose— Mighty as light, transcend the tomb, Thou tomb of all our woes! White moon, pale moon, chaste moon, arise Upon our s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 141
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 135 Black heavens that hover, Light gathered in sheaves Blind air that obeys, Of tenderest fears I come to thee over ' As dayspring enweaves The mountainous ways My soul into spheres— As a bride to the bridegroom: I blush, but] I hear, and I nestle upon thee, O lyrist I come supreme, And bow to thee dumb. Light loves in a dream. ORPHEUS. ORPHEUS. O blacker than hell, Child of sweet rain, © bluer than heaven, O fathered of frost ! O green as the dell Bitterest pain Lit of sunlight at even ! The birth of thee cost. © str…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
…d sing. But not the glades by song of thee unstricken ? Not they? Shall they refuse the pulse to quicken, Soft smiting the low melody of light? Tuned without fingers, the wild woods lift high The wordless chant, the murmurous melody, The song that dwells like moon-enkindled night. We draw from low palm groves and cedar hills, From stern grey slumbers, for thy music fills All earth with unimaginable delight. Have we not brought the leaves dew- diamonded, The buds fresh-gleaming, star-blossoms, and shed Our scent and colour and song around thy sa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
27. Then the priest answered and said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely. brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: Ο Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! 28. None, breathedthe light, faint and faery, of the stars, and two. 29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. 30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as not…