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THE HOLY PLACE. 95 THE EVOCATION. ROM the abyss, the horrible lone world Of agony, more sharp than moonbeams strike The shaken glacier, my bitter cry is hurled, As the avenger lightning. Swiftly whirled, It flings in circles closing serpent-like On the abominable devil-horde I summon to the mastery of the sword. In my white palace, where the flashing dawn Leaps from the girdling bastions, where the light Flames from the talisman as if a fawn Glode through the thickets, where the soul, withdrawn From every element, gleams through the night Into …
1910 · PDF PAGE 119
66 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. — Ho ! What a whistle of wind Whirling the spumy scud Of the lake into a column of ecstasy ! Like a sharp spear it rushes up to me, And in my face it flutters like a dove Whispering strange words of love. It sunders me ! it cuts me — now, ah ! touch ! These empty arms that grope, that strain, that clutch Mere air, grow limp..... The wind is like a scythe That cuts its swathe through my green field, Even as I groan and writhe In the agony that pierces to the marrow. The wind ! the wind ! an arrow That hath smitten me thro…
1913 · PDF PAGE 23
…ant from the centre. 3. He affirms the limitation implied by his devotion to the Great Work. He no longer wanders about aimlessly in the world.
1913 · PDF PAGE 185
… again In the earth Whence he had birth. Gladly he lies at rest, asleep, unknown, His ashes scattered to the four winds, blown About the world: his songs K2 147
1913 · PDF PAGE 185
… again In the earth Whence he had birth. Gladly he lies at rest, asleep, unknown, His ashes scattered to the four winds, blown About the world: his songs K2 147
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…their labours in other fields? —A, C. More, though the establishment of this new estate of consciousness seems to open the door to a new world, a world where the axioms of Euclid may be absurd, and the propositions of Keynes* untenable, let us not fall into the error of the mystics, by supposing that in this world is necessarily a final truth, or even a certain and definite gain of knowledge. But that a field for research is opened up no sane man may doubt. Nor may one question that the very first fact is of a nature disruptive of difficulty ph…
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
…ke a white pyramid with a huge red cross on the top of it, which made me ever so glad, because now I knew I should be the Saviour of the World, which is what one wants to be, isn’t it? Only sometimes the world means all the other children in the dream, and sometimes the dream itself, and sometimes the wake-things one sees before one is quite, quite awake. The prince tells me that really and truly only the First House where his Father lived was really a wake-House, all the others had a little sleep-House about them, and the further you got the m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 296
…th ; a descent of Seven steps; and therein is established the throne of an Evil and Fatal force. Stoop not down unto that dark and lurid world, defile not thy brilliant flame with the earthly dross of Matter. Stoop not down, for its splendour is but seeming, it is but the habitation of the sons of the unhappy.” The lamp and cup are then replaced, after which the following symbols are explained to the Philosophus: The Image of Nebuchadnezzar's Vision; The Symbol of the Great Hermetic Arcanum; The Tablet of Union between the four Elements; The ta…
1909 · PDF PAGE 296
…th ; a descent of Seven steps; and therein is established the throne of an Evil and Fatal force. Stoop not down unto that dark and lurid world, defile not thy brilliant flame with the earthly dross of Matter. Stoop not down, for its splendour is but seeming, it is but the habitation of the sons of the unhappy.” The lamp and cup are then replaced, after which the following symbols are explained to the Philosophus: The Image of Nebuchadnezzar's Vision; The Symbol of the Great Hermetic Arcanum; The Tablet of Union between the four Elements; The ta…
1898 · PDF PAGE 65
…ove of thee, Filled with thy lust and abundant might, Filled with the phantom desire to free Body and soul from the sound and sight Of a world and a God that doth not right.
1901 · PDF PAGE 60
… edge— I can but die ! The moon hath seen ! An arrow cold and keen Brings some cold being from the water chill, Rises between me and the world—unseen, Most terrible. Dawns that unheard-of terror ! Never a word of The spells that chain ill spirits I remember. And oh ! my soul ! What hands of ice unheard-of Disturb, dismember !
1910 · PDF PAGE 122
…rayed ? Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky ? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled ! Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness ! Base and blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insuf- ferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour : imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void. Ah ! men my friends, What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your …
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS world, by your new allegiance, you are deserving our favours, and never forget the ties which bind you to honour and to justice. “View not with indifference the extensive connections you have formed, but let universal benevolence regulate your conduct. Exert your abilities in the service of your king and your country, and deem the knowledge you have this day attained the happiest acquisition of your life. “Recall to memory the ceremony of your initiation; learn to bridle your tongue and to govern your passions: and er…
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS world, by your new allegiance, you are deserving our favours, and never forget the ties which bind you to honour and to justice. “View not with indifference the extensive connections you have formed, but let universal benevolence regulate your conduct. Exert your abilities in the service of your king and your country, and deem the knowledge you have this day attained the happiest acquisition of your life. “Recall to memory the ceremony of your initiation; learn to bridle your tongue and to govern your passions: and er…
1905 · PDF PAGE 180
THE COURT OF THE PROFANE 173 O mother, mother, mother, bend And shroud the world in mystery That secrets of our bed forbidden Cover their faces, and be hidden ! O steadfast, O mysterious bride ! O woman, O divine and dead ! O wings immeasurably wide! O star, O sister of my bed! O living lover, at my side Clinging, the spring, the fountain-head Of musical slow waters, white With thousand-folded rays of light ! Come! Once again I call, I call, I call, O perfect soul, to thee, With chants, and murmurs mystical, And whispers wiser than the sea : O …
1901 · PDF PAGE 12
…it and within, A changing, dreadful Shape: Nowa distorted ape; Now an impending vampire, vast and lean ; Last, a dark woman pressed, The world unto her breast, Soothed and caressed With evil words and kisses of the mouth of Sin. The Breath of men adoring. ‘ Worship we! ‘The mighty Wisdom, the astounding power, ‘‘ The Horror, the immense profundity, ‘The stealthy, secret passes of thy Bower! ‘Thee we adore and praise “Whose breast is broad as day’s; ‘‘ Thee, thee, the mistress of the barren sea, “‘ Deep, deadly, poisonous; “‘ Accept the life of …
1901 · PDF PAGE 138
…tarlight in my skies ! In darkness, in the void abyss, I grope with vain despairing arms. The silence as a serpent is, The rustle of the world alarms. O Horus, Light in Darkness, bless My failure with thine own success ! My suffering is keen as theirs That in Amenti taste of death ; Not mine own pains create these prayers : For them I claim the living Breath. O Lord Osiris, bend and bring All winters to thy sign of Spring ! Poor folly mine : I cannot see Save from one corner of one star ! So many millions over me ; So many, and the next, how fa…
1902 · PDF PAGE 8
…ovided ! Twin souls are we, to one Star bound in Heaven ! Not to thy presence in the veil and vision Of solemn lies that men miscall the world ; Not to thy mind the lightnings truthward hurled I turn. I laugh dead distance to derision !— Spirit to spirit : there our loves are curled, Not to thy presence in the veil and vision ! 6
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
THE GOD AND THE GIRL 77 World without end, Amen, I see no germ Of life to make such dung evolve a worm. Use her, a poisonous purge that irritates The clogged-up bowel till it evacuates ; For so it may be thou shalt ease thy brain. But dung she is, and dung she must remain. Thus then with proud humility the younger Answered that holy ancient Wisdom-monger : The Way grows clear as crystal to my ken. Let me to teach this alchemy to men. Do ! answered He, and learn. The race shall rage Through to the blackness of the Dragon-stage : …
1898 · PDF PAGE 63
…in one soul in one delicious bed More hot than hell, more wicked than all things, Vast in our sin, whose unredeeming wings Rise o’er the world, and flap for lust of death, Eager as anyone that travaileth ; So in our lusts, the monstrous burden borne Heavy within the womb, we wait the morn Of its fulfilment. Thus eternity Wheels vain wings round us, who may never die, But cling as hard as serpent’s wedlock is, One writhing glory, an immortal kiss.