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40 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. Oh, fragrant the breeze is that stirs The grasses around us that lean ! Oh, sweet is the whisper that purrs From those wonderful lips that are hers, From the passionate lips of a queen. A queen is my lover, I say, With a crown of the lilies of light— For a maiden they crowned her in May, For the Queen of the Daughters of Day That are flowers of the forest of Night. They crowned her with lilies and blue, They crowned her with yellow and roses, They gave her a sceptre of rue, And a girdle of laurel and yew, And a basket of …
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…f the Will—and those Subtler and deeper forces grimly guessed, Terribly proven—be they strong thereby ! Awake, O sleeping serpent of the soul, Unhinted skills, and unimagined powers, And purposes undreamed of ! [He goes now calmly atout the temple, arranging all the ornaments. He empties the censer.| Shadowy influence Of smoke ! Where lies its physiologic act? What drug conceals the portent? Mystery ! Mystery ninefold closed upon itself That matter should move mind—Ay ! darker yet That mind should work on matter? And the proof Extant, implicit …
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
ROSA DECIDUA 11 Now call me callous ! Pass me, prigs, and sneer At the base soul that could not bear its cross ! I say that infinite loss is infinite loss, That tears are trivial, tears are happiness, That this blind ache is God’s last punishment For love ; that all things in that one thing shent Are damned, that had I loved her less I could have prated in some honeyed strain. Taking a subtle pleasure in my pain. It is my bulk, the mass of my intent, That makes the ruin abject. I had sung Some partial earthquake ; here the universe Crashes with…
1913 · PDF PAGE 109
…es the zvLv.) [To shrine] Saith Our God the manner of his death? Jovian. Black to green grows horror’s blank Sickening from the stinking soul ! The voice from the shrine. Cut his navel, flank to flank! Tear the bowels out; be the whole Burnt to ashes on the centre! Black oblivion blot him! Ban Every trace that might re-enter Any memory of man! [The sentence ts executed. The voice from the west. The mountains are all covered; the rain roars Now on a sea that hath no shores! The voice from below. Haste! the ship slips into the foam. Haste! leave …
1913 · PDF PAGE 144
… ardour. All the domes Of all the heavens close above thee As thou art known of me who love thee. Excellent kiss, thou fastenest on This soul of mine, that it is gone, Gone from all life, and rapt away Into the infinite starry spray Of thine own AZon. . . . Alas for me! I faint. Thy mystic majesty Absorbs this spark. OLYMPAS. All hail! all hail! White splendour through the viewless veil ! I am drawn with thee to rapture. . . . Yet no sooner is this attained than he utters the new doctrine declared in Lider Legis. marsyaS. I bear a message. Heav…
1913 · PDF PAGE 109
…es the zvLv.) [To shrine] Saith Our God the manner of his death? Jovian. Black to green grows horror’s blank Sickening from the stinking soul ! The voice from the shrine. Cut his navel, flank to flank! Tear the bowels out; be the whole Burnt to ashes on the centre! Black oblivion blot him! Ban Every trace that might re-enter Any memory of man! [The sentence ts executed. The voice from the west. The mountains are all covered; the rain roars Now on a sea that hath no shores! The voice from below. Haste! the ship slips into the foam. Haste! leave …
1913 · PDF PAGE 144
… ardour. All the domes Of all the heavens close above thee As thou art known of me who love thee. Excellent kiss, thou fastenest on This soul of mine, that it is gone, Gone from all life, and rapt away Into the infinite starry spray Of thine own AZon. . . . Alas for me! I faint. Thy mystic majesty Absorbs this spark. OLYMPAS. All hail! all hail! White splendour through the viewless veil ! I am drawn with thee to rapture. . . . Yet no sooner is this attained than he utters the new doctrine declared in Lider Legis. marsyaS. I bear a message. Heav…
1914 · PDF PAGE 27
…ight vale and hill In holy light and holy shade Are blest, so he that hath his will In the male mastery of his maid. Translucent, all my soul is bathed In that clear potency and calm ‘Swayed without wind, divinely swathed In silken silence breathing balm. The past is past! the future hangs A haze of grey to eastward woven, ‘A haze that only by the pangs Of the dawn’s birth may yet be cloven1 Ah, love! and may the night discede? ‘The dawn that wakes us warn us? Nay! The lyre is lively as the reed, ‘The night less loyal than the day. ‘These dunes…
1961 · PDF PAGE 129
…o for every New Word. How much more, then, if the Word be of Universal Import, a Word of Revolution and of Revelation in the Deep of the Soul? A new Star; that is for the Astronomers, and maybe setteth them by he Ears. But a new Sun! That were for all Men; and a Seed of Tumult and Upheavel in every Land. consider in thyself, herefore, what is the Might of the Adepts, the Energy of the Sancturary, that can endow one Man with the Word of an Æon, and bring him to the End in Victory, with his Chariot wreathed in Flowers, and his Head bound round wi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…l and cleanly religion, with but few stains of savagery upon it, faltered and nigh fainted; only his desire for Lisa, which had become a soul-tempest, held him to the circle. And indeed the brains of them all were awhirl. As Eliphaz Levi says, evil ceremonies are a true intellectual poison; they do invoke the powers of hallucination and madness as surely as does hashish. And who dare call the phantoms of delirium "unreal?" They are real enough to kill a man, to ruin a life, to push a soul to every kind of crime; and there are not many "real" "m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 175
…" "And what happens when you go on the other tack?" "When you trade your gold for pewter you impoverish yourself. The sorcerer sells his soul for money; spends the money, and finds he has nothing else to sell. Have you noticed that Christian Scientists [247] are hardly ever in robust health? They have given up their spiritual forces for a quite imaginary standard of well-being; and those forces, which were supporting the body quite well enough without their stupid interference, are debilitated and frittered away. I pray daily for a great war, t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 210
…s of Paradise. Again the Voice rolled in the deep, mingled with murmuring sighs : ‘¢T mind me of the day One? came from Death to me; His soul was weary of the day, His look was melancholy ; He bade me open in the Name that binds Eternity. ‘‘ Yet though He passed within And plunged within the deep, 1 The assumption of the form ofthe God of the Force whom one addresses is the Egyptian magical spell to subdue it. 2 Jeheshua, or ‘' Jesus.” The seven palaces of sin, And slept the lonely sleep, Yet came He out alone: but then I thought I heard Them w…
1901 · PDF PAGE 132
120 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. The oil that flows from that supernal star, And holy fountains of the Influence. Bring peace, and strength, and quicken in my heart Mastery of night-fear and the day-flung dart. Yea ! from the limit of the fallen day, And barren ocean of ungathered Time, Bring Night, and bring Eternity, and stay With white wings pointing where tired feet may climb : Even the pathway where shed blood ran deep To build red roses in the land of Sleep. O guardian of the pallid hours of night ! O tireless watcher of the smitten noon ! O sword…
1902 · PDF PAGE 41
…e these country-folk's : No fertile glory (as the Love of God) : But vast and barren as the winter sea, Holding I know not what enormous soul In its salt bitter bosom, underneath The iron waters and the serpent foam ; Below, where sight and sound are set no more, But only the intolerable weight Of its own gloomy selfhood. This am I : This passion, lion-mouthed and adder-eyed. A mass compressed, a glowing central core. Like molten metal in the crucible ! Death's secret is some sweetness ultimate, Sweeter than poison. Ah ! My very words, Chance p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 337
THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY . Boards , medium 8vo , pp . xii + 111 , 55 . THE SOUL OF OSIRIS . Boards , medium 8vo , pp . ix + 129 , 55. [ These two vols . together make “ The Temple of the Holy Ghost , ” by omitting the two plays in “ The Mother's Tragedy ."] CARMEN SAECULARE . Green wrapper , Demy 4to , pp . 30 , 25. 6d . TANNHÄUSER . Cloth , Demy 4to , 155. [ A few copies of the first edition , boards , 215 . NEW YEAR'S CARD , 1903. [ Out of print .] BERASHITH . 4to , pp . 24. China paper , 55 . SUMMA SPES . ( Out of print .] BALZAC . ( Out of prin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
…ble curve. Thy foursquare wedge that rages in my circle shall match it at the infinite period. Polluted body, violated spirit, corrupted soul, stunned brain and tortured nerve : These merge into thy bloody maw, Echidna, that shall emerge the lone white flame of God.
1910 · PDF PAGE 150
140 ROSA DECIDUA Now call me callous ! Pass me, prigs, and sneer At the base soul that could not bear its cross ! I say that infinite loss is infinite loss, That tears are trivial, tears are happiness, That this blind ache is Gods last punishment For love ; that all things in that one thing shent Are damned, that had I loved her less I could have prated in some honeyed strain. Taking a subtle pleasure in my pain. It is my bulk, the mass of my intent, That makes the ruin abject. I had sung Some partial earthquake ; here the universe Crashes wit…
1919 · PDF PAGE 9
…e horizontale et sa mort verticale.’ The satyr, a portrait of Frater D. D. S., one of the Teachers of The Master Therion, represents the Soul of the New Aon, whose Word is Do what thou wilt; for the satyr is the True Nature of every man and every woman; and every man and every woman is a star. ‘The Shepherd and the Nymph in the background represent the spon- taneous outburst of the music of sound and motion caused by the release of the Children of the New Zon from the curse of the dogma of Original Sin, and other priestly bogies. Love is the la…
1901 · PDF PAGE 16
…ed, (Intolerable as its purpose seemed,) Redeemed by love: I see the jealous days Pass into sunshine, and youth-beaming rays Quicken the soul’s elixir. Let me show How these air-castles tumble into woe. CORA. Why did your eyelids quiver as I spoke ? A smile, a tear? that trembling, in their deep Violet passion, of the beautiful Eyes that they half discover? Speak to me. I have long thought a secret was your spouse, Shared your deep fancies and your lightest word, Partook your maiden bed, and gave you dreams Somewhat too troublous to be virginal…
1901 · PDF PAGE 29
…or there I know Tame harpies that had ceased to torture me; And this more ghastly brood renews their sting, Adding a triple poison! O my soul Is torn with pangs more horrible than hell, Scorching the very marrow of my bones, Corrupting me—corrupting me, I say—