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…k it up Grew wise and warrior : But whoso stayed to smile and sup Returned—ah, never more! And yet again—a river steep, A maiden combing light, Her hair’s enchantment—she would weep And sing for love’s delight, Until the listener dropped to sleep In magic of her night. 135
…nt there, Too weary for despair— Yea, I have found thee too, thee too, And round thee all the blue Of the skies is blackened ; waned The light of thine eyes to the dusk. The husk, the husk Of all dead dreams, dead dreams Is come upon thee; Dust and ash and musk, and musk, and musk— All these are on thee. . . . I bear a chalice of red-tipped lilies under the moon. Bestrewn The dim pathway of delight With night, And her dim, pale stars that swoon In the circle of the skies. Thine eyes, O radiant god, are waning, and there dies 154
…nt there, Too weary for despair— Yea, I have found thee too, thee too, And round thee all the blue Of the skies is blackened ; waned The light of thine eyes to the dusk. The husk, the husk Of all dead dreams, dead dreams Is come upon thee; Dust and ash and musk, and musk, and musk— All these are on thee. . . . I bear a chalice of red-tipped lilies under the moon. Bestrewn The dim pathway of delight With night, And her dim, pale stars that swoon In the circle of the skies. Thine eyes, O radiant god, are waning, and there dies 154
…and penetrant as fire, The awful grasping at the Infinite, Even as I grapple at the breasts of thee, The seeking and the striving to the light Deep in thine eyes, where Hell tlames steadily? I am not clinging thus Despairing to the body of thy sin For mere delight —Ah, deadly is to us The pleasure wrapping us, and holding in All love, all hate —the miserable way ! Dawns no devouring day Still on the infinite slow tune of limbs Moving in rapture ; sleepy echo swims In the dissolving brain. Love conquering lassitude at last to win Pain out of pea…
…ace, were it not that I have bad dreams.” Hamlet. The mere result of all this was a dream. The day passed damned, void of my love’s dear light, And stole acursed to the endless night, Forgotten (as I trust) by God : no beam Of memory lighting it down Time’s dark stream. I dreamt : my shrine was broken and my might Defiled, and all my Gods abased, in sight Of all blind Heaven exenterate and extreme. The foulest traitor of all womankind I ever knew, became my friend* : unclean Sexual abominations floated through, More foul because a golden cord d…
12 ARGONAUTAE All storm and sunlight, star and season, cease Here is thy peace. O mortal, sad is love! But my dominion Extends beyond love’s ultimate abode. Eternity itself is but a minion, Lighting my way on the untravelled road. Gods shelter ’neath one shadow of my pinion. Thou only tread the path none else hath trode! Come, lover, in my breast all blooms above, Here is thy love! MEDEA. My poet, now! The one song in the world! ORPHEUS. Above us on the mast is spread The splendour of the fleece! Before us, Argive maidens tread The glowing isle…
ACTUS QUINTUS The voices fall and fail; The light is lowered. O dim sleep, Over her eyelids creep! The world of dreams is shapen fair Beyond a mortal’s nod: A fragrant and a sunny air Smiles: a man’s kisses vanish there, Grow kisses of a god ; And in dreams’ darkness subtly grows No Earth-flowered bloom of rose. O dreams of love and peace, draw nigh ! Hover with shadowy wings! Let shining shapes of ecstasy Cover the frail blue veil of sky, And speak immortal things ! Dream, lady, dream through summer noon, Lulled by the sleepy tune! The sense i…
…so did I glorify His wisdom, whereby He made the worlds. 3. Yea, I praised Him for His intelligible essence, whereby the universe became light. 4. I did thank Him for His manifold mercy; I did worship His magnificence and majesty. 5. I trembled before His might. 6. I delighted in the Harmonyand Beauty of His Essence. 7. In His Victory I pursued His enemies; yea I drave them down the steep; I thundered after them into the utmost abyss; yea, therein I partook of the glory of my Lord. 55
…ut him is the core of his being: the letter Yod. (One does not count the termination A H: being a divine suffix it represents the inmost light and the outermost light.) This Yod, this spark of intense brilliance, is of that pale greenish gold which one sees (in this world) in the fine gold leaf of Tibet . It glows with ever greater intensity as you concentrate upon observing him, which you could not do while you were preoccupied with investigating his credentials . Confidence being thus established, you inquire why he has appeared to you at thi…
204 The Law is for All 14. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men and eat them up with blindness! 15. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret. 16. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. 17. Hear me, ye people of sighing! The sorrows of pain and regret Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that no…
…ns This being’s high perception, owed Only to Truth ; nor beams nor stones Support the Arahat’s abode. Who grasps one truth, beholds one light, Becomes that truth, that light ; discedes From dark and deliquescent night, From futile thoughts and fatuous deeds. Your girl, your gems, your mournful tones Irk not perfection with their goad. One thing I know—a set of bones Is travelling on upon this road !” 1 Arahat. 2 Stanza.
…gn is the Cup. “The Goddess at the Scale of the Balance at the Black Pillar ” is the name of the Stolistes; and she is Auramooth, or the Light shining through the waters upon the Earth. The Dadouchos,—The station of the Dadouchos is towards the midst of the Southern part of the Hall, and to the South-West of the Diacram 10, White Pillar. He has the charge of the lights, the fire, and the incense ‘The Cup of the of the Temple. His ensign is the Svastika.§ Stolistes, “ Goddess of the Scale of the Balance at the White Pillar” is the name of the Da…
…gn is the Cup. “The Goddess at the Scale of the Balance at the Black Pillar ” is the name of the Stolistes; and she is Auramooth, or the Light shining through the waters upon the Earth. The Dadouchos,—The station of the Dadouchos is towards the midst of the Southern part of the Hall, and to the South-West of the Diacram 10, White Pillar. He has the charge of the lights, the fire, and the incense ‘The Cup of the of the Temple. His ensign is the Svastika.§ Stolistes, “ Goddess of the Scale of the Balance at the White Pillar” is the name of the Da…
… sunbeam slants Upon my crown ; I do aspire to thee As no man yet—I am in ecstasy ! Hear me, Apollo ! My chant wakes elemental flakes of light Flashing along the sandal-footed floor. All listening spirits answer and adore Thee, the amazing ! I follow to the eagle-baffling sight, Limitless oceans of abounding space ; Purposed to bind myself, but know thy face, Phœbus, in gazing.
…moving come over the starry spheres. Wrapped in rose, green and gold, Blues many and manifold, A cloud of incense hides thy splendour of light; Hides from the prayer’s distress Thy loftier loveliness Till thy veil’s glory shrouds the earth from night ; And silence speaks indeed, Seeing the subtler speed Of its own thought than speech of the Pandean reed! There no voice may be heard ! No place for any word ! 140
… . * SONG . M Y heart is like a meadow ! Where clouds go over , Dappling the mingled grass and clover With mingled sun and shadow , With light that will not stay And shade that sails away .
…ind them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.” “There is a light befo…
ORPHEUS Hyperion his treasure Of light that is rolled In music and pleasure Unheard and untold. We are kisses of light and of tears, love’s triumph on fear. We obey: I am here! ORPHEUS. Dim lights shed around me In many a form Like lovers surround me :— O tender and warm ! They hunt me, they hound me; They struggle and swarm— Come forth! I invoke ye united, the mani- fold shape of the storm ! THE TEMPEST. Wide-winged, many-throated, Colossal, sublime, I come and am coated With feathers of Time. I hear the deep note, head My pinions to climb, Th…
…walled, Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine, and the disc of flaming light Is on thee, seated in the prow Of the Sun’s bark, enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round With leopard’s pell, and golden sound Of planets choral in their course! 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 bo…
…no sleep Could be so deep. The last pale lotus opens to the skies. Open your eyes ! Lift the blue eyelids under the deep lashes Till one light flashes! Wake with one supreme sigh like the old sighs! Open your eyes! I cannot leave you so, Eurydice. Come back to me! Just in the triumph, in love’s utmost hour, Life’s queenliest flower— All shattered, overblown. Eurydice, Come back to me! 112