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Page 28 of 811909 · PDF PAGE 212
… Faintly and feebly murmuring I uttered the mysterious runes, And bade my body’s sleekness sing Silky, satanic, subtle tunes. Was he not holy? Milk of moons Were not so pallid as his cheek, And roses of a million Junes His mouth left livid. So I seek In all God’s seas a tiny creek Wherein to moor my shallop. Nay! He is a mountain, chill with bleak Stark winds of innocence astray! The fearful passion sweeps me away. So with a passionate thrill of fear I creep—like shadows across Day! Like Winter on the expended year !— From those cold feet, a fr…
1898 · PDF PAGE 15
…h concealéd thought, And the worshipper’s eye, wrought To the stars in subtle fashion, By no magic is distraught. For our hope is in His holy Places, and our prayers ascend Fervent, and may sunder slowly The blue darkness at the end. For we know not where to send For a sword to cleanse the land, For a sharp two-edgéd brand, All our homesteads to defend. For amid the desert sand Lives an outcast of our race, Strong, immutable, and grand,
1898 · PDF PAGE 54
…er birth. I left thy shores, blue stream, at His command Who reared the mountains from the shaken earth ; Who holds the lightning in His holy hand, And binds the stars in adamantine band, And yearns towards the children of His mind. I left their summer and their dewy strand To pass a life of work, alone, unkind, To fight a way toward heaven, mute, desolate and blind. The dusty desert glimmers in the night, A solitary palm-tree shades the well ; I am alone, a weary eremite Striving the secrets of the stars to tell, And every blade of grass that …
1909 · PDF PAGE 213
… each ledge an infinite stress, Lustful as light, as lechery loth, From the brutality of Besz To the plumed perjury of Thoth! I held him holy. Holier both Than aught the bearers of the bier, Thoum-aesh-neith and Auramoth, Saw in the hiding-house of fear. The sorceries that span the sphere, The spells that harness star and sun, I whispered in his siren ear— Once, twice, and thrice for every one! Once, twice, and thrice—the boon’s begun ! With four and five and six it stirs : With seven the druid dance is done, And Death drives home his silver sp…
1909 · PDF PAGE 213
… each ledge an infinite stress, Lustful as light, as lechery loth, From the brutality of Besz To the plumed perjury of Thoth! I held him holy. Holier both Than aught the bearers of the bier, Thoum-aesh-neith and Auramoth, Saw in the hiding-house of fear. The sorceries that span the sphere, The spells that harness star and sun, I whispered in his siren ear— Once, twice, and thrice for every one! Once, twice, and thrice—the boon’s begun ! With four and five and six it stirs : With seven the druid dance is done, And Death drives home his silver sp…
1899 · PDF PAGE 34
…hours Under God’s avenging breath, Better brave the horrid powers, Nor avoid the foreign death, Humbling all our pride before God’s most holy throne, abasing Every man’s strong soul, and facing All the heathen Ammon bore On the angry shore, Trusting to the mercy rare Of Jehovah, than to bare Hearts and bosoms to a friend
1902 · PDF PAGE 25
…ea that is as molten glass. I mind me of that old Egyptian, Met where Aurora streamed her rainbow hair, Who called me from the quest. An holy man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him : he bade me not despair. " The Blood of the Osiris " was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) "The life, the tears, the tomb ! " The Love of I sis is its name ! " (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses bloom. For the Three Maries (so he said) were One : Three aspects of the mystic spouse of God, Isis ! This…
1910 · PDF PAGE 399
…Sits in the company of the stars!” Then Lancelot bade this deed be done, The achievement of the Questing Beast. Which when he spoke that holy one Rose up, and gat him to the east With Lancelot; when as they drew Unto the palace and the feast He put his littlest finger to The dwarf, who rose to upper air, Piercing the far eternal blue Beyond the reach of song or prayer. Then did Sir Palamede amend His nakedness, his horrent hair, 23
1910 · PDF PAGE 399
…Sits in the company of the stars!” Then Lancelot bade this deed be done, The achievement of the Questing Beast. Which when he spoke that holy one Rose up, and gat him to the east With Lancelot; when as they drew Unto the palace and the feast He put his littlest finger to The dwarf, who rose to upper air, Piercing the far eternal blue Beyond the reach of song or prayer. Then did Sir Palamede amend His nakedness, his horrent hair, 23
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…ned an absurdity. He therefore said: “Let me déclaré this Work under this title: 'The obtaining of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian AngeP ”, because the theory implied in these words is so patently absurd that only simpletons would waste much time in analysing it. It would be accepted as a convention, and no one would incur the grave danger of building a philosophical system upon it. With this understanding, we may rehabilitate the Hebrew System of invocations. The mind is the great enemy; so, by invoking enthusiastically a p…
1898 · PDF PAGE 79
…e Life in its citadel, They open Hell To let the Furies and the Fates spring forth On their wild chargers of the icy North To quench the holy lamp. His spirit and his life within him quail, And all the armaments of sin assail With deadly tramp, And swordless fury that devours and bites And tears and clutches him, whom heavenly lights Shield and lead on afar, Where beyond storm and passion is the sky, And where the sacred hand of the Most High 69
1913 · PDF PAGE 129
…d ; the Cup was his understanding, the vehicle of grace; the Sword was his reason; and the Pantacle shall be his body, the temple of the Holy Ghost. What is the length of this Temple? 117
1913 · PDF PAGE 125
…first place among the latter-day poets.” — Cambridge Magazine. Songs of the Spirit. 35. 6d. Delicate lyrics, illustrating the vague, yet holy aspirations of adolescence. s¢. . . We have read with admiration for its in- tense spirituality, as well as for its technical super- iorities, . .. this volume,in which we are sure of having heard an impressive and an original voice. The verse of ‘Songs of the Spirit’—essentiallyin- tricate, introspective if you like—is also free from obvious artifice and eccentricity, it is fiery and clear measured and e…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
is impossible to lay down précisé rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel ; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; a secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother’s God, or the Rite that invokes Him. The Masters of the A A .*. hâve therefore made no attempt to institute any regular ritual for this central Work of their Order, save the generalised …
1899 · PDF PAGE 33
…h concealéd thought, And the worshipper’s eye, wrought To the stars in subtle fashion, By no magic is distraught. For our hope is in His holy Places, and our prayers ascend Fervent, and may sunder slowly The blue darkness at the end. For we know not where to send For a sword to cleanse the land, For a sharp two-edgéd brand, All our homesteads to defend. For amid the desert sand Lives an outcast of our race, Strong, immutable, and grand,
1910 · PDF PAGE 171
…each ledge an infinite stress, Lustful as light, as lechery loth, From the brutality of Besz To the plumed perjury of Thoth ! I held him holy. Holier both Than aught the bearers of the bier, Thoum-aesh-neith and Auramoth, Saw in the hiding-house of fear. The sorceries that span the sphere, The spells that harness star and sun, I whispered in his siren ear Once, twice, and thrice for every one ! Once, twice, and thricethe boons begun ! With four and five and six it stirs : With seven the druid dance is done, And Death drives home his silver s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…on Semelé of Zeus, the adulterous Lord of 1 hunder ravishing, brutally, his virginal victim ! Bacchus, babe hidden from hâte in the most holy of holies, the secret of thy sire, in the Channel of the Star-Spate, Whereof one Serpent is thy Soûl! Bacchus, twy-formed, man-woman, Bacchus, whose inno¬ cence tames the Figer, while yet thy horns drip blood upon thy mouth, and sharpen the merriment of wine to the madness of murder! Bacchus, Thy thyrsus oozes sap; thine ivy clings to it; thY Lion-skin slips from thy sleek shoulders, slips from thy lissom…
1912 · PDF PAGE 47
…he Beast Are woven in a web of gold Until the gilding of the East Burns on the wanton-smiling wold : And still Sir Palamede believed His holy quest to be achieved ! But now the dawn from glowing gates Floods all the land: with snarling lip The Beast stands off and cachinnates. That stings the good knight like a whip, 41
1930 · PDF PAGE 22
numerical value. This is an Encyclopædia of the Holy Qabalah, which is a Map of the Universe, and enables man to attain Perfect Understanding. Equinox VIII, Spécial Supplément. Liber DXXXVI. A complété Treatise on Astrology. This is the only text book on astrology composed on scientific lines by classifying observed facts instead of deducting from a priori théories. Unpublished. Liber DXXXVI. B ATP AXOfcPENOBOOKOEMOM AXIA. An instruction in expansion of the field of the mind. Equinox X, p. 35. Liber DLV. Liber HAD. An instruction for attaining …
1944 · PDF PAGE 13
…e Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; 4. The Nature of the Evidence; Summary of the Questions Hitherto Discussed. II. The Tarot and the Holy Qabalah; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Tarot and the Elements; The Twentytwo Keys, Atu, or Trumps of the Tarot. III. The Tarot and the Universe; Theories of the Ancients; The Tree of Life; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Tree of Life; The Atu of Tahuti; The Roman Numbers of the Trumps; The Tarot and Magick; The Shemhamphorasch and the Tarot; The Tarot …