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Page 42 of 1541905 · PDF PAGE 214
…well of Life, Love, from celestial water-springs ! From the shrill fountain-head of God I draw out water with the rod Made luminous with light of power. I seal each zeon’s period, And wait the moment and the hour. Aloof, alone, unloved, I stand With love and worship in my hand. I commune with the Gods: I wait Their summons, and I fire the brand. I speak their Word: and there is Fate. I know no happiness, no pain, No swift emotion, no disdain, No pity: but the boundless light Of the Eternal Love, unslain, Flows through me to redeem the night. Mi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
…Are vain to take the spirit from one stone. I would have called to ye in wild strong joy; ** Arise, O Lords of Justice, and be girt With lightnings, and be ardent to destroy This Fool’s creation and to heal its hurt !’? Ye are vain, But yet the damned With swift annihilation Alas! poor powers ! rejoice Hearing the splendour, prophet in my strain, And certain comfort in my mighty voice. For this shall be, that in the utter end Shall be an end, that in the vast of time Shall come a ceasing, and the steel bar bend Of the God’s will, himself from h…
1919 · PDF PAGE 188
…thee, the in- struction in the 38th and 39th verses of the Third Chapter of the Book of the Law. It must be quoted in full. “So that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order.” That is, the God himself is aflame with the Light of The Beast, and will himself push the order, through the fire (per- haps meaning the genius) of The Beast. 176
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…on the lifeless, deathless plane, The desert desolate, the air inane; Fallen, O fallen to eternity ! I, who have looked upon the Lord of Light ; I, Iam Nothing, and dissolved in Night ! (THE SPIRIT OF GOD, DESCENDING, ASSUMETH HER INTO THE GLORY OF Gon.) VENUS. Written in the temple of the L.I.L.,1 No. 9, Central America. MISTRESS and maiden and mother, im- mutable mutable soul! Love, shalt thou turn to another? I give thee the whole ! Light, shalt thou flicker or darken? Thou and thy lover are met. Bend from thy heaven and hearken! Life, Surel…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
…se through the stages of embalming, wrapping and burial. 3. Now imagine a divine breath entering thy nostrils. 4. Next, imagine a divine light eniightening the eyes. 5. Next, imagine the divine voice awakening the ears. 6. Next, imagine a divine kiss imprinted on the lips. 7. Next, imagine the divine energy informing the nerves and muscles of the body, and concentrate on the phenomenon which will already hâve been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. Last, imagine the return of the reproductive power, and employ this to the impré…
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
…ee A faint enshadowing of Thee. Our minds are dull, our lives are base ; We cannot see the maiden face. Imagination may not run From moonlight to the self-lit sun. Darkly as in a glass we gaze And lose ourselves in pious praise. How then when risen and pure of heart In heaven we see Thee as Thou art ? O let the film of earth and sin Each day by love grow clear and thin ! O let Thy worship done aright Prepare us for the eternal Light ! Amen. A 39
1905 · PDF PAGE 206
THE HOLY PLACE i99 The scarlet vesture and the crimson skin ! As Aphrodite clove The foam, incarnate Love, Maiden; as light leaps the dawn-gardens in, So in the Love and Light, Life slain, yet infinite, The God-Man’s night, Leaps pure the Soul re-arisen from the embrace of Sin. Yet, in the terror of that Breast, abides So sweet and deadly a device, a lure Deep in the blood and poison of her sides, Swart, lean, and leprous, that her stings endure. Even the soul of grace Abideth not her face Without vague longing, infinite desire, Stronger becaus…
1905 · PDF PAGE 208
…n the aching sight ! Behold! the phantom! Icy as the tomb, His head of writhing scorpions in the womb Of deadlier terrors: how a charnel-light Gleams on his beet!~ frame! What poison drips Of slime and blood from his disastrous lips ! What oceans of decaying water steam For his vast essence! And a voice rolls forth With miserable fury from that stream Of horror: ‘‘Thou hast called me by the beam Of glory, by the devastating wrath Of thine accurséd godhead:: tell me then My Name! Thou hardiest of the Sons of Men !” ‘‘Thy name is—stay! thou liest…
1909 · PDF PAGE 322
…t my sword behind me. Thinking I had forgotten it, in vain I tried to return, and in my strivings was of a sudden armed with many potent lightnings; then at my feet there fell away a great hollow column of rolling smoke. Seeing it, I approached it and gazing down it, beheld at its furthermost extremity the earth, dark and strong. As I watched it rolling below me, a great desire possessed me to expand my consciousness and include All. This took me a vast time to accomplish, and even then my success was but moderate. “From the column of smoke I r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 322
…t my sword behind me. Thinking I had forgotten it, in vain I tried to return, and in my strivings was of a sudden armed with many potent lightnings; then at my feet there fell away a great hollow column of rolling smoke. Seeing it, I approached it and gazing down it, beheld at its furthermost extremity the earth, dark and strong. As I watched it rolling below me, a great desire possessed me to expand my consciousness and include All. This took me a vast time to accomplish, and even then my success was but moderate. “From the column of smoke I r…
1898 · PDF PAGE 119
… Á¼±ÆÁ¿´¯Ä¿Å O½±Á 113 Ah ! Love ! how fierce that night ! With what unsung desire Thy lips and mouth were bright, In mine eye to give light, And fire to kindle fire. Ah Love ! nor king nor queen Of mine exhaustless flame, But comrade of my teen, Spouse of that epicene Incontinence of shame. Twin Love ! Soul’s dual spouse, Dream-serpent of my life, Rose-garland of my brows Within that ivory house, Sex with itself at strife. Were I a wanton stream, Thou mightest bathe in me, Yet in that happy dream Methought my heart did deem We mingled utterl…
1899 · PDF PAGE 233
…py nightingale, sing ; Past is the season of weeping; Birds in the wood are on wing, Lambs in the meadow are leaping, Can there be any delight still in the buttercups sleeping ? Dawn, paler daffodil, dawn ; Smile, for the winter is over; Sunlight makes golden the lawn, Spring comes and kisses the clover ; All the wild woodlands await poet and songster and lover. Linger, dew, linger and gem All the fresh flowers in the garland ; Blossom, leaf, bud and green stem Flash with your light to some far land, Where men shall wonder if you be not a newly…
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
… surf on coral towers, The changeless change of the unchanging ocean, Laps the bright night, with unsubstantial motion Winnowing the starlight, plumed with feathery flowers Of foam and phosphor glory, the strange glow Of the days amber fallen to indigo, Lit of its own depth in some subtle wise, A pavement for the footsteps from the skies Of angels walking thus Not all unseen of us, Nor all unknown, nor unintelligible, When with souls lifted up In the Cadmean cup, As incense lifted in the thurible, We know that God is even as we, Light from the…
1912 · PDF PAGE 42
THE EQUINOX That float on the summer air; the hot delight, Awaken no response; only the might Of the shy poesie that enchants the night He cares to love ; the eerie palaces Where the soul finds forbidden harmonies. Oh I Now his eyes dance up to meet the sun ; Curious, he peers into the hurtling air: Oh! all his spirit follows, slim and fair; The spears of light attract him : it is done; The flaw is found ; he bends again, to shun The summer—heat: see! the swift fingers run Like spiders o'er the strings : Look! it is bare, The flaw: and he has found …
1912 · PDF PAGE 42
THE EQUINOX That float on the summer air; the hot delight, Awaken no response; only the might Of the shy poesie that enchants the night He cares to love ; the eerie palaces Where the soul finds forbidden harmonies. Oh I Now his eyes dance up to meet the sun ; Curious, he peers into the hurtling air: Oh! all his spirit follows, slim and fair; The spears of light attract him : it is done; The flaw is found ; he bends again, to shun The summer—heat: see! the swift fingers run Like spiders o'er the strings : Look! it is bare, The flaw: and he has found …
1911 · PDF PAGE 54
THE EQUINOX there are three; the desire of light, the desire of life, the desire of love. (And the thorns are thoughts, and the whips are regrets, and the wine is ease, or perhaps unsteadiness, especially in ecstasy, and the spear is attachment.) And now there dawns the scene of the Crucifixion; but the Crucified One is an enormous bat, and for the two thieves are two little children. It is night, and the night is full of hideous things and howlings. And an angel cometh forth, and saith: Be wary, for if thou change so much as the style of a let…
1912 · PDF PAGE 16
…the Brothers says—« “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be lightl’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children 01 Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace everything that can possibly be known in reg…
1912 · PDF PAGE 16
…the Brothers says—« “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be lightl’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children 01 Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace everything that can possibly be known in reg…
1919 · PDF PAGE 423
THE SEVEN PORTALS heart-light. When out it goes, a dark and threatening shade will fall from thine own heart upon the Path, and root thy feet in terror to the spot. It is true that the further one advances the more subtle and deadly are the enemies, up to the crossing of the Abyss; and, as far as one can judge, the present discourse does not rise above Tiphareth. I am very sorry to have to remark at this point that Madame Blavatsky is now wholly obsessed by her own style. She indulges, much more than in the earlier part of this treatise, in poe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…t time the Hell-Wind whistles shrill. The King-Ghost hath no music but their rattling; No scent but death’s grown faint and fugitive; No light but this their leprous pallor battling Weakly with night. Jord, shall these dry bones live? O keep us in the hour Wherein the King-Ghost hath his power ! The King-Ghost girds me with his gibbering creatures, My dreams of old that never saw the sun. He shows me, in a mocking glass, their features, The twin fiends “ Might-have-been” and ‘¢ Should-have-done.” Keep us, by Jesu’s ruth, What time the King-Ghos…