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… better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou pre- sently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but Whoso gives one particle of II
8 THE STAR AND THE GARTER I spend a fraction of the day Plying the art of manicure. But always beats the heart: the more I polish, tint, or carve, I ask Strength from the heart’s too generous store To bend my fingers to the task. Cease: Iam broken: nought remains. The brain’s electric waves are still ; No blood beats eager in the veins ; The mind sinks deathward, and the will. It is no figure of boy’s speech, Lover’s enthusiasm, rhyme Magniloquent of bard, to reach Truth through the husk of space and time: No truth is more devout than this: ‘€I…
THE FAREWELL OF PARACELSUS TO APRILE 39 ‘©Within my heart one slow sweet whisper stole Consuming and destroying all my soul Lest, if the pure cold mind should conquer it, TI might not know, although it still were sweet. ‘‘My pure desires arose and cast out love That flew away, most like a wounded dove, Only the drops were mine its bosom bled. Now the last time it hovers by my head: ‘* Now the last time I turn and go to her.”’ The violet smiled at him; his fingers fair Plucked the sweet blossom to his breast; his eyes. Mused like delight, and li…
…Selfhood made One with the Everlasting Lords of Life. The Glorified through Trial is My Name. The Rescuer of Matter is My Name. I am the Heart of Jesus girt about With the Swift Serpent ! I, Osirified, Stand in this Hall of Twofold Truth and say : Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, O Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light ! Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods ! O Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy King Ineffable, O Consciousness Divine I whose white Presence, even I, a g…
…in their course! [He rises. O thou self-formulated sire! Self~master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light; Thine heart a secret sun of flame! I adore the insuperable might: I bow before the unspoken Name. [He !?₪/:, the” lum: toward altar, For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and Ι to—morrow, born Now and again, on high, on high Travelling on Dian’s naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath. I come from the sequestered state; My birth is from the House of Death [He uah/ames fo altar. Hai…
…in their course! [He rises. O thou self-formulated sire! Self~master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light; Thine heart a secret sun of flame! I adore the insuperable might: I bow before the unspoken Name. [He !?₪/:, the” lum: toward altar, For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and Ι to—morrow, born Now and again, on high, on high Travelling on Dian’s naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath. I come from the sequestered state; My birth is from the House of Death [He uah/ames fo altar. Hai…
…wley is played by any number of players, one acting as banker. An ordinary pack of cards is used, their value being as in Bridge. Ace of hearts highest, deuce of spades lowest (thus deuce of clubs beats ace of spades, deuce of diamonds ace of clubs, and so on). The cards are shuffled by any player who claims the right to do so, and cut to the banker by the player on his right. Every player except the banker stakesa sovereign (or other unit agreed upon). The banker deals a card? in rotation to each player, face upwards. The pool goes to the play…
…wley is played by any number of players, one acting as banker. An ordinary pack of cards is used, their value being as in Bridge. Ace of hearts highest, deuce of spades lowest (thus deuce of clubs beats ace of spades, deuce of diamonds ace of clubs, and so on). The cards are shuffled by any player who claims the right to do so, and cut to the banker by the player on his right. Every player except the banker stakesa sovereign (or other unit agreed upon). The banker deals a card? in rotation to each player, face upwards. The pool goes to the play…
… better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou pre- sently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but Whoso gives one particle of II
… staggers to altar; and, with his hand on it, turns towards door.| Mouths of God’s mercy ! I would her eyes were bleed- ing wounds in my heart! Ahthough! If she were a dog I could not do it. She is my sister [Turns with a cry to throne and flings up his hands.| and I will ! Death ! Death ! It is a year to-night. I arrayed her first In yon gold ornaments—My brain 1s sick ! I want coffee—or hashish—No ! That is for her ! I must be very clear and calm, very clear, very calm, How I must be ill— [Correcting himself with effort.| Ill I must be. Ha! {…
…them peace Hath marked and sealed her own. their lips Is one imagined silence like a sigh. Unanimous the hushéd harmony Flows forth from heart to mouth; and mouths bloom red With ripe and royal repetition ; kisses Flow like thick honey-drops in honeysuckle. That is their worship. RupHa. Whom then worship they? But on CRIOSDA. Maurya ! [Recalled to himself, he percetves the meaning of this; with a great cry breaks forward and stands before the throne, ratses himself up and says tn triumph and knowledge of peace. Then—I have lived ! [Reaches out …
II Like to a country in the interdict Whose folk lack all the grace of eucharist, My heart is; all the pangs its foes inflict Are naught to this unutterable mist Of absence. Where's the daily sacrament, The glad devouring of your body and blood, Sweet soul of Christ, my Lola? I am rent Even as the demons from the face of God When they would peer into beatitude. I am barred from the incalculable bliss, The unutterable chrism, the soul’s food, Of you, your gaze, your word, your touch, your kiss O Gods, Fates, Fiends — whoever plays the Pope ! Lif…
…TRIC SILENCE [This parable is a synopsis of The Temple of Solomon the King, with which it may be collated—Eu]. I WAITED for news that my heart beat. The severing night was between me and my love. There was no god of sleep; sleep were traitor. I sought to praise my love, and to lament the hours that divided us; and I could not. Therefore I wrote down the story of my life. And it is this: * * * 3 * Gilded and painted to hide its worm—eaten planks, my pleasure—boat was foundering. I cursed the treachery of the workmen, and resolved to trust myself…
…TRIC SILENCE [This parable is a synopsis of The Temple of Solomon the King, with which it may be collated—Eu]. I WAITED for news that my heart beat. The severing night was between me and my love. There was no god of sleep; sleep were traitor. I sought to praise my love, and to lament the hours that divided us; and I could not. Therefore I wrote down the story of my life. And it is this: * * * 3 * Gilded and painted to hide its worm—eaten planks, my pleasure—boat was foundering. I cursed the treachery of the workmen, and resolved to trust myself…
…t. Ill find a finer fantasy ! LUCREZIA. [Rising and unveiling.] No, you shall not ! Here, for the dagger-stroke you struckthis to your heart ! And this across your face for luckand this for art ! [She stabs her thrice. ZELINA. O devil ! We have slept and waked and played together. LUCREZIA. And now my lust of you is slaked ! Now snaps the tether. Curst whore ! [ZELINA dies. Fair ladies, drink ! move hence at your own peril ! This night is trembling on the brink of stark and sterile Dooms that roar loud ! O laugh ! O sing ! O dance ! Ill pla…
…t and his life within him quail, And all the armaments of sin assail With deadly tramp - And swordless fury. Ilell devours and tears The heart of any a man, whom heavenly airs Shield and lead on afar, Where beyond storm and passion is the sky, And where the sacred hand of the Most High Holds out a star. Ife stands amid the storm, a mighty rock ; His long hair blows about, the demons mock I]Jis entry to their kingdom, and despair. Groans in the blackness, infamous and bare, ~ And hateful shapes and eyes surround his head— O for the magic of thos…
…dem Upon your dazzling brows; my blood I see Sucked deep into your body, curling round Like fire in every artery and vein Massed in your heart, colossal and profound. Iam mad for you to brand me with the stain Of your own vice. Our souls, a murdering crew Of itching Mullahs, wallow, dervish-drunk. Love surges at the pang! Our poisonous dew Of sweat and kisses blinds us. A mad monk Kissing fanatically the cross that had Devecured his vitals is not half as mad! ~ ‘ys
…radicts the curse ’ Let Being be!” Beneath the earthquake pangs of your caress, . . Since all things, even one thing, are absurd ; Whose heart burns out in one volcanic throb, — And no thing is the utmost ecstasy. Whose life is eaten up of nothingness. This is his truth, and yours, that seem to be Mere beauteous bodies gripped in epicene And sterile passion, all unchastity Kisses induct the soft and solemn tune That Israfel shail blow on Doomisday— Your silky eyes are blue as that pale moon (For ere it dies it sickens into grey) In being chaste…
…he bears the ill quiver no more. He has aged as we all, and despairs; but the lady who bore Him, Eros, to ruin the ages, has softened at heart; He is tamed by the art of the sages, the magical art. No longer he burns and blisters, consumes and corrodes; He hath Muses nine for sisters; the holy abodes Of the maiden are open to him, for his wrath is grown still ; His eyes with weeping are dim; he hath changed his will. 75
… to declare what is demon— strably untrue. For example, we find in the Shiva Sanhita that “he who daily contemplates on this lotus of the heart is eagerly desired by the daughters of Gods, has clairaudience, clairvoyance, and can walk in the air.” Another person “can make gold, discover medicine for dis- ease, and see hidden treasures.” All this is filth. What is the curse upon religion that its tenets must always be associated with every kind of extravaganceand falsehood? There is one exception; it is the A:. Ax., whose members are ex- tremely c…