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Page 76 of 871909 · PDF PAGE 254
…ented in counterchanged colours any appropriate Egyptian design emblematic of the soul. The scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of Test and Trial, and between the Balance is the porch way of the Immeasurable Region. The twin lights which flare on the summits are the “ Declarers of Eternal Truth.” The pillars are really obelisks with tetrahedronal capitals slightly flattened at the apices so as to bear each a lamp. At the Eastern part of Malkuth, at its junction-point with the path of n, is placed the altar in the form of a double …
1909 · PDF PAGE 254
…ented in counterchanged colours any appropriate Egyptian design emblematic of the soul. The scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of Test and Trial, and between the Balance is the porch way of the Immeasurable Region. The twin lights which flare on the summits are the “ Declarers of Eternal Truth.” The pillars are really obelisks with tetrahedronal capitals slightly flattened at the apices so as to bear each a lamp. At the Eastern part of Malkuth, at its junction-point with the path of n, is placed the altar in the form of a double …
1905 · PDF PAGE 159
…hat the wailing vultures make, Circling in the blackening sky Over the abysmal lake. Spirit, for our spirit’s sake Give the token of thy fire Trident in the lambent air, Till our spirits unaware Worship and aspire ! Hear, beyond all periods, Timeless, formless, multiform, Thou, supreme above the storm, Spirit of the Holy Ones, Spirit of the Gods ! Enter MESSENGER. MESSENGER. The battle rages: even now the shock Of hostile spears makes the loud earth re- sound, The wide sky tremble. AMENHATEP. Here lies Ilorus dead, There Isis slain. We have no …
1929 · PDF PAGE 326
… the Invocation of the Ring; that is, of the symbolical episcopal ring of amethyst, which I wore as an Exempt Adept. ADONAI! Thou inmost Fire, ....Self-glittering image of my soul, Strong lover to thy Bride's desire, ....Call me and claim me and control! I pray thee keep the holy tryst. Within this ring of Amethyst. For on mine eyes the golden Sun ....Hath dawned; my vigil slew the Night. I saw the image of the One: ....I came from darkness into Light. I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. I.N.R.I. --- me crucified, ....…
1906 · PDF PAGE 88
…SS sorrow of long years, depart ! O joy of minutes that be ages long, Come! Let the choral pulse and strength of song , Quicken, and the fire of lute and lyre dart, An arrow red with blood and bright with art, And cover all the fiery bloom of wrong With blossoms blacker where the blood runs strong As our lips pale, their life fled to the heart. Surely we are as dead, we loving so, So bitterly, so keenly: let no breath Persuade us we are living and must die! Better believe eternal kisses flow Under the strong rude current miscalled death, The lo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 120
…ng the agony of weeks, And all my soul and body understands. The music changes, and I know that here, In these new melodies, a tongue of fire Leaps at each waving of the silver spear ; And all my sorrow dons delight’s attire Because the gate of Heaven is so near, And I have comprehended my desire. A VALENTINE. (FEB. 14, 1897.) Wuy did you smile when the summer was dying If it were not that the hours Might bring in winter, while sad winds are sighing, Some of Love’s flowers? Now is beginning of spring, and IT ask not Roses to flame o’er the lawn…
1906 · PDF PAGE 70
64 ALICE; AN ADULTERY She laughs in wordless swift desire A soft Thalassian tune ; Her eyelids glimmer with the fire That animates the moon ; Her chaste lips flame, as flames aspire Of poppies in mid-June. She lifts the eyelids amethyst, And looks from half-shut eyes, Gleaming with miracles of mist, Gray shadows on blue skies ; And on her whole face sunrise-kissed, Child-wonderment most wise. The whitest arms in all the earth Blush from the lilac bed. Like a young star even at its birth Shines out the golden head. Sad violets are the maiden gir…
1917 · PDF PAGE 4
… and the children of the Prophet—secret, O prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! Rejoice! There is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.” It all depends on your own acceptance of this New Law, and you are not asked to believe anyt…
1907 · PDF PAGE 153
…n strange exulting bliss The maiden stands, full-grown, with bound- ing breasts Bared to the noon, and narrow Keen eyes that glance, dim fires that veil their crests To flame along the arrow Aimed at some gallant of ten tines perched high Branching against the sky His cedar-spreading horns: stands, Holding in glimmering hands A silver bow across the shining weather, While, bound in pearl-wrought bands, Her bright hair streams ; she draws the quivering feather Back to the small ear curved: with golden zone Gathering her limbs she stands alone Li…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…tion had vindicated itself supremely. His four questions had indeed a single answer. W. S. Gilbert informs us that "a deed of blood, and fire, and flames, was meat and drink to Simple James"; and to find himself approached upon the plane of Mars was like mother's milk to Brother Onofrio. For he was himself of the strongest Martial type, having been born with Scorpio, the night house of Mars, rising, and the planet himself conjoined with Herschel in the mid-heaven in the sign of the Lion, with the Sun rising in trine and Jupiter conjoined with S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
…seemed to Iliel as if all heaven were torn asunder by those pangs. Wave strove with wave, and the battle was eaten up by fresh swords of fire that burst from him as he waved onward those battalions to fresh wrath. These waves moreover were peopled with immense and tragic figures; Iliel thought that she could recognize Electra, and Salome, daughter of Herodias. Next, amid a cloud of angels bearing silver trumpets, came one[12] with great height of brow, and eyes of golden flashes. In him the whole heaven [228] rocked with harmonious music, and f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 167
…ept the secret long. Your breath, that burns upon me, wraps me round With whirling passion, pierces through my veins With its unhallowed fire, constrains, com- pels, Drags out the corpse of twenty years ago From the untrusty coffin of my mind, To poison, to corrupt, to strike you there Blind with its horror. ULRICc. Leave these bitter words ! They torture me with terrible suspense, And you with fear. I see by these dread looks, Tedious prologues, that there is a truth You are afraid to speak.
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…anied him, going in dumb show through all the gamut of infernal discord, the music of the pit. He showed how children were cast into the fire, or thrown to bears, or offered up in sacrifice on bloody altars; how peaceful nations were uprooted by savage tribes in the name of their demon, their men slain or mutilated and enslaved, their women butchered, their virgins ravished; how miracle testified to the power of the evil ones, the earth opening to swallow heretic priests, the sun stopped in the sky that the hours of massacre might be prolonged.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 327
327 ....Anointed, fill with frenzied Fire! I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. {531} I eat my flesh: I drink my blood: ....I gird my loins: I journey far: For Thou hast shown the Rose, the Rood, ....The Eye, the Sword, the Silver Star. I pray thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. Prostrate I wait upon thy will, ....Mine Angel, for this grace of union. O let this Sacrament distil ....Thy conversation and communion. I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. I intended to use this Invo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 185
…rth grins open, as it were a tomb, _ And struggling earthquakes gnash their teeth beneath her. The night is monstrous: in the flickering fire Strange faces gibber as the brands burn low ; Old shapes of hate, young phantoms of desire More hateful yet, shatter and change and grow. There is a sense of terror in the air, And dreadful stories catch my breath and bind me, Soft noises as of breathing: unaware What devils or what ghosts may lurk behind me! Even my horse is troubled : vain it is Invoking memory for sweet sound of youth ; The song, the d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…w it must ultimately do. Eros finds Anteros always on his heels; soon or late, he will be supplanted, unless he have the wit to feed his fire with the fuel of Friendship. In the meanwhile, it was the best chance to work upon the mind through the body. Had they been able to procure a drop of Iliel's blood, she might have been as easy a prey as that unlucky engine-driver of the Paris-Rome rapide. But Sister Clara saw to it that not so much as a nail-paring of Iliel escaped careful magical destruction; and Brother Onofrio organized a nightly patro…
1939 · PDF PAGE 6
…the stars, and serene my soul, ablaze in the Night. Then how shall I worship Astarte sea-born, how invoke her aright? I am free from the fire and the foam, I have conquered the dragons and doves; I have gotten me Love as the gold from the furnace that melted my loves. Love is not bound to the body, not sparse and adrift with the mind Not secret with soul, though the soul seem one and alone of its kind. The body is naught but a corpse, its growth but a name of decay, A delirious dream of sick godswhere the Shadow hath sway. Concocted of offal a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 36
…planation of this ! entire philosophy. | 2 Commonty known as the Matterhorn. * In this volume and throughout Crowlcy’s Mine was the holy fire that drew Its perfect passion from the dew, And all the flowers that blushed and blew On sunny slopes by little brooks. Mine the desire that brushed aside The thorns, and would not be denied, And sought, more eager than a bride, The cold grey secrets wan and wide of sacred books. Thine was the hand that guided me By moor and mountain, vale and lea, And led me to the sudden sea That lies superb, remote, an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 144
… they are meditating over, I am mother of earth and her daughter; ORPHEUS. I am father of heaven and his son ; O curves unbeholden, I am fire in the palace of water; Bright glory of bays ! : I am God, and my glory is one! Deep gulfs grown golden I am bride of the sun and the starlight ; With dawn and its ways ! The moonlight is bride unto me; With sunset enfolden I am lit of my deeps with a far light, In silvery praise ! | My heart and its flame flung free. Come forth! I invoke ye, O gulfs, where 2 I am She, the beginning and end ; I am all, th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
…language is full of these booby-traps. He went to his laboratory, took out the Tarot card XVI and set it up on the altar. He lighted the fire upon the tripod, and he kindled the incense of dragon's blood that stood ready in the iron censer. He then put upon his head the steel crown of Mars, thorny with its four flashing pentagrams, and he took in his hands the heavy sword, as long as himself, with a two-edged blade tapering from a width, at the junction of the hilt, of no less than five inches. Chanting the terrible conjurations of Mars, fierce…