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Page 5 of 1281919 · PDF PAGE 435
…er than he who shuts himself in his black tower of illusion, the Brother of the Left Hand, the Klingsor of “Parsifal.” 58. Make hard thy Soul against the snares of Self; de- serve for it the name of “Diamond-Soul.” Here is another muddle, for the words “Soul” and “Self” have previously been used in exactly the opposite meaning. If any meaning at all is to be attached to this verse and to verse 59, it is that the progress downwards, the progress of the Redeemer of the Sun as he descends from the Zenith, or passes from the Summer Solstice to his …
1911 · PDF PAGE 54
AMPHORA III E still, my soul, and let the sense Of Her intuitive influence Steal like the whisper of young rains Upon thy bleak and barren plains. By many a mental martyrdom Our sterile souls to Mary come. Who passeth through the surge and fire At last shall win to his desire. Thy grace for us sufficient still To smite the arbiters of ill Shall grant the exceeding great reward To look by Thee upon the LORD. Be still, my soul, whate’er assail ! Through Mary they shall not prevail ; And thou resigned in peace await Her peace at Her appointed date…
1901 · PDF PAGE 134
122 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. When, like a bad dream changing, swiftly grows A new soul’s joy, a fuller-pettalled rose. Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the more ; many the weary and wan Old Gods that die to constitute a Fate : How many Fates then, think you, must control The stainless aspiration of the soul ? Not one. I tell you, destiny is sure, Yet moves no finger : though it tune my tongue, My tongue shall tune it too : my words endure As destiny decays : my hands are flung In prayer to Heaven ; nay…
1901 · PDF PAGE 128
116 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. Where icy fingers grip the overbold Son of their secrets, and like springes close On his choked throat and frozen body—Nay ! That death were twilight, and the gate of Day ! No death ye bring as his, that grips the flag In desperate fingers, and with bloody sword Flames up the thundering breach, while bastioned crag, Glacis, and pent-house belch their monstrous horde Of hideous engines shattering—this strife Clears the straight road of Glory and of Life ! Nay : but the hateful death that stings the soul Into rebellion ; t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 427
… to make out what the Authoress really wants you to do. 44. Thou hast to saturate thyself with pure Alaya, be- come as one with Nature’s Soul-Thought. At one with it thou art invincible; in separation, thou becomest the play- ground of Samvritti, origin of all the world’s delusions. This means, acquire sympathy with the universal Soul of Nature. This Soul of Nature here spoken of is of course imagined as something entirely contrary to anything we really know of Nature. In fact, it would be difficult to dis- tinguish it from a pious fiction. The…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…, The song of me springs. My favour is dread. Be your portals rended! Your bolts be as nought ! The ethereal kings Encompass my head. My soul hath transcended The limits of thought ! Unbar me the gates! Revolve me the hinges! Mine be the Fate! Mine be the springes Wherein ye have taken The spirits forsaken ! But I, shall I quail at a nod? Shall I fail for a God? [s the soul of me shaken? Darklier winding And steeper the way, Baffling and blinding Eyes used to the day. Rocks cloven by thunder And shattered by storm Awry or asunder Rise and refor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 421
…E MYSTERIES death always begins. The state of profound peace which succeeds the agitations of life carries away the relaxed and sleeping soul; one cannot make it return, and force it to plunge anew into life, except by exciting violently all its affections and all its desires. When Jesus, the Saviour of the world, was upon the earth, the earth was more beautiful and more desirable than Heaven; and yet it was necessary for Jesus to cry aloud and apply a shock in order to awaken Jairus’s daughter. It was by dint of shudderings and tears that he c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 421
…E MYSTERIES death always begins. The state of profound peace which succeeds the agitations of life carries away the relaxed and sleeping soul; one cannot make it return, and force it to plunge anew into life, except by exciting violently all its affections and all its desires. When Jesus, the Saviour of the world, was upon the earth, the earth was more beautiful and more desirable than Heaven; and yet it was necessary for Jesus to cry aloud and apply a shock in order to awaken Jairus’s daughter. It was by dint of shudderings and tears that he c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
…or me ? Passion is gonethe wine is spilt And the sword broken at the hilt. I have invoked the demon of debauch. All blinding wines, all soul-devouring crimes I have called to me, drilled the scarlet mimes Of murder to my own fantastic nautch. And now-these demons mock me ; for their pay They sucked my inmost soul away ; Andnaught may move meI am lost, Exenterate, exhaust ! So therefore, Pan ! a corpse I come before thee To call down Life from thine abode beyond Death. Three times I circle thee : three times my breath Breathes on thy mouth ; …
1898 · PDF PAGE 89
…, divine, Of a god of light and laughter, of a god of wheat and wine. Work on, strong mind, devise The outer life aright ; Dream, subtle soul, and arise To noblest litanies That pierce the mask of night— In a man work lifts his eyelids, but his dreams lend eyes their light. So dreams and days are wed, And soul and body lie Ambrosial in Love’s bed. See, heaven with stars is spread— So glad of life am I If an angel came to call me I am sure I would not die. 79
1928 · PDF PAGE 63
…re yourself, to speak as the mystics do, in your own correspondence? Dreams, always dreams! and the more am- bitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility. Each man carries in himself his dose of natural opium, incessantly secreted and renewed. From birth to death, how many hours can we count that are filled by positive enjoyment, by successful and decisive action? Shall we ever live, shall we ever pass into this picture which my soul has painted, this picture which resem- bles you? These treasures, this fu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 336
…- man, is therefore the best translation. The word has degen- erated under Puritan foulness. 15. When to the World’s turmoil thy budding Soul lends ear; when to the roaring voice of the Great Illusion thy Soul responds; when frightened at the sight of the hot tears of pain; when deafened by the cries of distress, thy Soul with- draws like the shy turtle within the carapace of SELF- HOOD, learn, O Disciple, of her Silent “God” thy Soul is an unworthy shrine. This verse deals with an obstacle at a more advanced stage. It is again a warning not to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 5
ROSA DECIDUA 3 My soul to say it—all a man’s Delight. Come, look at it ! This leaden skin With ochre staining its amorphous grey ; All that elastic brilliance passed away ; Minute invading wrinkles where the flesh Is soaked away by the foul thing within Her soul ; the bloom so faint and fresh Smudged to a smoky glow as one may see At sunset in the Factory lands ; the lips Thinned and their colour sickened into slate ; The eyes like common glass ; the hair’s gloss dull ; The muscles gone, all pendulous with fat ; The breath that was more sweet t…
1899 · PDF PAGE 8
…their chained dominions: The splendid forehead, crowned with Love and Light, Flames in the starry air: the fallen minions Drop like lost souls through horrid emptinesses To their own black unfathomable abysses! Now Freedom, flower and star and wind and wave And spirit of the unimagined fire, Begotten on the dishonourable grave Of fallen tyranny, may seek her sire In the pure soul of Man, her lips may lave In the pure waters of her soul’s desire, Truth: and deep eyes behold thine eyes as deep, Fresh lips kiss thine that kissed her soul from slee…
1910 · PDF PAGE 142
132 ROSA DECIDUA My soul to say itall a mans Delight. Come, look at it ! This leaden skin With ochre staining its amorphous grey ; All that elastic brilliance passed away ; Minute invading wrinkles where the flesh Is soaked away by the foul thing within Her soul ; the bloom so faint and fresh Smudged to a smoky glow as one may see At sunset in the Factory lands ; the lips Thinned and their colour sickened into slate ; The eyes like common glass ; the hairs gloss dull ; The muscles gone, all pendulous with fat ; The breath that was more sweet…
1898 · PDF PAGE 21
… Watched by the distant eagles drowsy wing, Stars and grey summits, and the winds that sing Slow dirges in eternal monotone. Such is my souls desire, being weary of This vain eternity of sleepless dreams That is my life ; withal there still may be In other worlds, the hope of other love Than this that floods my veins with poisonous streams, And wastes with wan desire the soul of me.
1961 · PDF PAGE 127
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 115 Dk De Cantu (Of Song) O then, o my Son, there is my Wisdom, that the Voice of he Soul in its true Nature Eternal and Unchangeable, comprehending all Change, is Silence; and the Voice of the Soul, dynamic, in the Way of its Will, is song. Nor is there any Form of utterance that is not, as song is, the Music proper to that Motion, according to the Law. Thus, as thy Cousin Arthur Machen hath rejoiced to make plain unto Men in his Book called Hieroglyphics, the first Quality of Art is its Ekstacy. So, night to all …
1902 · PDF PAGE 65
…atred, what infernal pains, Mixed with thy being in the womb of Death ? Blistering fire runs, Scorching, terrific suns. Through body and soul in this abominable Marriage of demon power Subtle and strong and sour, A draught of ichor of the veins of Hell ! Curses leap leprous, epicene, unclean. The soul of the Obscene Incarnate in the spirit : and above Hangs Sin, vast vampire, the corrupt, that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world, and flaps for lust of Death —and Love! Venus. This man was drained of music ! Five new songs Chase the three…
1906 · PDF PAGE 15
…ion leagues Of flaming gas absorb the roll Of many a system ruinous hurled With infinite pains and dire fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime? Where then thy victory over Time? Vi. Wilt thou seek deeper than the fact? Take refuge in a city of mind? Build thee an house, and call it heaven? Rush on! there foams the cataract, Blind steersman leader of the blind, Sole devil herald of the seven Thy garnished halls should house, O Christ, Thou being dead, thou sacrificed 7
1902 · PDF PAGE 134
… Tannhauser rises, and silently departs. Oh God ! Oh God ! That I have loved him so ! Be merciful ! Be merciful ! to him, The great high soul, bound in the lofty sin ; To me, the little soul, the little sin ! 132