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Page 29 of 831906 · PDF PAGE 148
‘THE SWORD OF SONG If the student has advanced spiritually so that he can internally, infallibly perceive what is Truth, he will find it equally well symbolised in most external faiths. . It is curious that Browning never turns his wonderful faculty of analysis upon the funda- mental problems of religion, as it were an axe laid to the root of the Tree of Life. It seems quite clear that he knew what would result if he did so. We cannot help fancying that he was unwilling to do this. of his knowledge I find in the following lines :— ‘‘T have read…
1901 · PDF PAGE 22
THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY The trifles that shall make it master yet Of the strong soul that bade itself forget. CORA. Let me not shrink! Truth always purifies. I will go through those twe impossible Actual years. The city was itself; Hard thinking if hard drinking—sober-sides! One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something, found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer. And J lay— A storm of weeping swept across my frame— Till the polite, the hateful manager…
1910 · PDF PAGE 7
… a lie flung with a curse ; and I must hear, And must not stamp on the snake, because, forsooth This was my love, my peace, my faith, my truth, The rosebud of my youth ! It was—it is not—it can never be. This would corrupt God’s body with a breath. I see Him sicken and swoon ; I see Him rot Through, though His tabernacle be Eternity. This makes a man catch hold of death Greedily like a harlot in the street That plucks by the arm some sot. Death shakes me off with a hoarse curse. Tied to this woman, his beneficence
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
…nd dies with air ; light is co- excellent with God9 ; As Hate’s a poison for delight, so love’s a physic for the spleen. And El Qahar is Truth, and nought but Allah stuffs his gaberdine,10 And Allah windeth he about with tarband gemmed11 of gold and green.12
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
…to shape, from goal to goal, On time, the envious tide? All tire, all break, all pass. Beware False thirst, false trust, false doubts of truth Whilst thou art young, whilst thou art fair, Awake and see the sepulchre For beauty yawn and youth. Strive to cessation. Only this Is the true refuge: this alone Be implicit in our subtle kiss, Be master of the imperfect bliss We call perfection’s throne. Then, if we strive, not all in vain This vision of the barréd bones ; This knowledge in a poet’s brain, Daring to sing its own deep pain In shapeless s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…ll the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow The bitter draught of Truth; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine; the whole sea’s glades And hills and springs are void of my Apollo— The Sea herself my tune and my desire! The Sun himself my lover and my lyre! CHORUS. This song is sweeter than the honeycomb. MEDEA. Nearly as sweet as good friends quarrelling. JASON. Look, friends, methinks I see a silvern shape Like faint mist floating on the farthest sea.
1910 · PDF PAGE 144
… a lie flung with a curse ; and I must hear, And must not stamp on the snake, because, forsooth This was my love, my peace, my faith, my truth, The rosebud of my youth ! It wasit is notit can never be. This would corrupt Gods body with a breath. I see Him sicken and swoon ; I see Him rot Through, though His tabernacle be Eternity. This makes a man catch hold of death Greedily like a harlot in the street That plucks by the arm some sot. Death shakes me off with a hoarse curse. Tied to this woman, his beneficence
1912 · PDF PAGE 52
…ructive principles. There are many more points about this, enough to fill a volume. 2. 0 that Existent! 0 !——An aspiration after reality, truth. 3. 0 the Jewel in the Lotus! Amen !——Refers to Buddha and Harpocrates; but also to the symbolism of the Rosy Cross. 4. Gives the cycle of creation. Peace manifesting as Power, Power dissolving in Peace. 5. God. It adds to 66, the sum of the first II numbers. 6. He is God, and there is no other God than He. 7. 0! let us strictly meditate on the adorable light of that divine Savitri (the interior Sun, etc.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 114
…b. [The warders now approach and lay the body of the priest, still in its shroud, at the foot of the Tree. Juita. Now be ye witnesses of Truth! Here let love’s lust yield youth! [She raises her hands to heaven. Joanna [Comes forward and invokes at the shrine). Now let my lord declare His power This equinoctial hour! If there be virtue in the dance, And life abide within the lance, And if the wine within the cup Be the right draught for gods to sup— Then be my sister's music dowered With answering song, and roses showered! [JuLia dances and play…
1913 · PDF PAGE 114
…b. [The warders now approach and lay the body of the priest, still in its shroud, at the foot of the Tree. Juita. Now be ye witnesses of Truth! Here let love’s lust yield youth! [She raises her hands to heaven. Joanna [Comes forward and invokes at the shrine). Now let my lord declare His power This equinoctial hour! If there be virtue in the dance, And life abide within the lance, And if the wine within the cup Be the right draught for gods to sup— Then be my sister's music dowered With answering song, and roses showered! [JuLia dances and play…
1961 · PDF PAGE 80
…Flesh) OW, o my Son, the Incarnation of a Poet is parti- cular and not Universal; he sayeth indeed true Things but not the Things of All-Truth. And that these may be said it is necessary that One take human Flesh, and become a Magus in our Holy Order. He then is called the Logos, or Logos Aionos, that is to say, the Word of the Æon or Age, because he is verily that Word. And thus may be be known, because He hath it given unto Him to prepare the Quintessence of the Will of God, that is, of Man, in its Fullness and Wholeness, comprehending all Pl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 366
… stronger and more solid the less palpable they are to the lower modes of apprehension. It is hard to explain, and harder to learn, that truth abides in the inmost sanctuary of the soul and may not be told, either by speech or by silence; yet all attempts to interpret it distort it progressively as they adapt themselves to the perceptions of the mind, and become sheer caricatures by the time they are translated into terms of bodily sensation. Now the reality of things depends on their truth, and thus it is that it is not a philosophical paradox…
1905 · PDF PAGE 77
… conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, The Souls of Fury, and the Lords of Ruth. In His great Name, your God’s, I say, arise ! Behold ! His mercies murmur in the skies. His Name is mighty in us to the end. In Him we cry : Move, answer, and descend ! Apply yourselves to us ; arise ! For why ? We are the Wisdom of Your God most High ! This Fragment is a paraphrase of one of the elemental invocations given in Dr Dee’s famous record of magical w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
III. II. Il. THE EQUINOX Rational ideas being thus expelled from the mind, there is room for the apprehension of spiritual truth. It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane. Ill. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM Man being a finite being, he is incapable of appre- hending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
III. II. Il. THE EQUINOX Rational ideas being thus expelled from the mind, there is room for the apprehension of spiritual truth. It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane. Ill. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM Man being a finite being, he is incapable of appre- hending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contr…
1961 · PDF PAGE 130
…ivision of Soul, that begetteth Neurosis and Insanity, cometh from wrong Adjustment to Reality, and to Fear thereof. Wilt thou then hide Truth from thy Brother, lest he suffer? Thou dost not well, but confirmest him in Iniquity, and in Illusion, and in Infirmity of Spirit. h
1905 · PDF PAGE 201
…f ruth To save some dozens—-Us : and by the skin Of teeth to save us from the devil’s gin— Repentance! Blood! Prayer! Sackcloth! This is truth.” Our parents answer jesting Pilate so.! I am the meanest servant of the Christ : But, were I heathen, cannibal, profane, My cruel spirit had not sacrificed My children to this Moloch. Iam plain? ‘‘Blasphemer ! Damned!”? Undoubtedly —I know! THE LAW OF CHANGE. SOME lives complain of their own happiness. In perfect love no sure abiding stands ; In perfect faith are no immortal bands Of God and man. This p…
1905 · PDF PAGE 269
…f sparrows as the crash of stars. The tears of lonely forests, and the pain Of the least atom—all were in his heart. Was that indeed the truth? that he should come At last a Christ upon the waiting world, Redeem it to more purpose than the last ! So fills his sorrow, and Her sympathy, My common soul, that I am fain to fall Upon my face, and cry aloud to God: ‘©OQ Thou, Sole Wise, Sole Pure, Sole Merciful, Who hast thus shown Thy mystery to nan : Grant that his coming may be very soon See, the sobs shake me like a little child. 9? e The moon is …
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
…eary days. Supreme, abominable, rides our lust Armed in the panoply of brazen youth And strength, since, if we are Hell’s, Hell’s wormis Truth. IX Weare still young enough to take delight In wickedness for wickedness’ sole sake. Eve did not fall because she knew aright The fruit an apple, but the snake a snake. Nor shall we sink among the foolish throng That seek an end, but rise among the few Who do the strong thing because they are strong And care not why they do, so that they do. Therefore we wear our dread iniquity Even as an aureole, there…
1911 · PDF PAGE 277
…he Stars, moist, hot, cold Spirit, hail to Thee, ever laughing Child-God, all-knowing. Through Thee alone can we hope to reach Light and Truth. [Returns to his seal. [SOR. GEMINI þlays una;/dingk? [A Mea/[fame. MERCURY. At the Ending of the Light, At the Limits of the Night, Stood Mercury before the Unborn ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe; Then came forth the Gods thereof, The aeons of the Bornless Beyond. Then was the Voice vibrated ; Then was the Name declared. At the Threshold of Entrance, Between the Universe and the Infinite, …