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Page 81 of 1541910 · PDF PAGE 95
…mind and matter, in the glowing bud dissever : Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessd, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One last stroke, O heart-free master, one last cer- tain calm of will, And the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirits ut- most flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name ! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre ; …
1913 · PDF PAGE 115
… the force of the flood Of the sap thereof lap every anther unseen! Let the shower of our power bring rebirth to the flower, And the one light of sunlight break scarlet and green! Alas, he does not stir! Sorrowful, sinister Is this day’s name, The hour of shame! Behold! Behold! Rose breaks, and gold! [Dawn breaks in the wood. And see the cold white pall Funereal fall ! [The wrappings fall from the corpse, and the youth John is seen beardless and smiling. He is dressed in the crown and robes of his father. 75
1913 · PDF PAGE 115
… the force of the flood Of the sap thereof lap every anther unseen! Let the shower of our power bring rebirth to the flower, And the one light of sunlight break scarlet and green! Alas, he does not stir! Sorrowful, sinister Is this day’s name, The hour of shame! Behold! Behold! Rose breaks, and gold! [Dawn breaks in the wood. And see the cold white pall Funereal fall ! [The wrappings fall from the corpse, and the youth John is seen beardless and smiling. He is dressed in the crown and robes of his father. 75
1919 · PDF PAGE 71
… the Lord Adonai! 2. Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V., saying: There must ever be division in the word. 3. For the colours are many, but the light is one. 65
1944 · PDF PAGE 254
…n madness, dreaminess, falsehood, er‐ ror, crisis, “the darkest hour before the dawn”, the brink of important change. XIX Give forth thy light to all without doubt; the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play. Glory, gain, riches, triumph, pleasure, frankness, truth, shamelessness, arrogance, van‐ ity, manifestation, recovery from sickness, but sometimes sudden death. XX Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship. Be every Act the Fiat of a God. Be every Act a Source of radia…
1905 · PDF PAGE 272
…if such an Idea can be said to mean anything), as S. Liddell Macgregor Mathers, who misread the Text and stultified the Commentary by he Light of his own Ignorance of Hebrew and Philosophy, pretends in his Transla- tion of v. Rosenroth. Second is Without Limit 5) ]&, z.2., Infinite Space. This is the primal Dualism of Infinity; the infinitely small and the infinitely great. The Clash of these produces a finite positive Idea which happens (see MUNI, 22/ra, vol. ii., for a more careful study, though I must not be understood to indorse every Word …
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
… Each nymph and undine issues from the foam Armed with a pearly mirror and with a coral comb To tire her beauty, lure me to the lakes Of light where strikes the day to hyaline floors Whereon blithe fish and emerald water snakes Play all the day, and all their innocence adores Is some old anchor with its rusty flakes Fallen from God knows what forgotten ship. No ! not in Fancys palace will I play, Nor in imaginations deep will dip The timid foot ; but rather will I strip Each rag of thought, and leap Into the sunset deep Still glowing with the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 125
…le to shake The dews of the night from our slumbers? Yvonne ! So, breeze, too reluctant to take The dews of the night from our slumbers? Light breaks, and the breezes caress Cool limbs and soft eyes and fair faces ; The nightingales carol to bless The dawn of our maiden embraces, Yvonne! The woods wear a lovelier dress In the dawn of our maiden embraces ! PERDURABO.! EXILE from humankind! The snow’s fresh flakes Are warmer than men’s hearts. My mind is wrought Into dark shapes of solitary thought That loves and sympathises, but awakes No answer…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…des me and informs the task Of the steep ways: I gladden and go on Ready to sing, to answer, or to ask As all may happen : now the stern light shone Vivid across the blackness, and the rock Recedes: the narrow stair is changed and gone And the wide air invades: a mighty shock To my numbed senses void of vital air And to my lyre reverberate to mock With clanging echoes and discordant, where The dome reached up, almost to earth, so high Rolled back the pillars and the walls, aglare With iron justice’ frightful symmetry Blazoned in blood-like flam…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…time the Hell-Wind whistles shrill. The King-Ghost hath no music but their rattling ; No scent but deaths grown faint and fugitive ; No light but this their leprous pallor battling Weakly with night. Lord, shall these dry bones live ?
1911 · PDF PAGE 250
…hee? For I lay with thee nine moons in the womb of our mother; for we have loved as none have loved; for 1 am closer knit with thee than light and darkness, or than life and death! SOL, 22-1-1-22. [LEO gives way and returns to his throne, very sad. [SATAN—TYPHON advances to SOL and ARIES closes the vei! on them.] [BEszjumþs up and runs ofleronehz'ngly. [The h'ghts go ant. [SCORPIO-APOPHIS play: her serpent me!ody.* [LEO recites. Mortals never learn from stories How catastrophe becomes; How above the Victor’s glories In the trumpets and the drums…
1911 · PDF PAGE 250
…hee? For I lay with thee nine moons in the womb of our mother; for we have loved as none have loved; for 1 am closer knit with thee than light and darkness, or than life and death! SOL, 22-1-1-22. [LEO gives way and returns to his throne, very sad. [SATAN—TYPHON advances to SOL and ARIES closes the vei! on them.] [BEszjumþs up and runs ofleronehz'ngly. [The h'ghts go ant. [SCORPIO-APOPHIS play: her serpent me!ody.* [LEO recites. Mortals never learn from stories How catastrophe becomes; How above the Victor’s glories In the trumpets and the drums…
1913 · PDF PAGE 205
…pon the mystic earth, my Rose, my Rose, XIV THE BEGINNING Rose of the gardens of old Babylon, Red, scarlet Rose of fire in the breast of light :— I had a dream of thee, my Babylon ; Yea; all thy petals were crimson with delight: And under the soft stars, the silent night Grew deeper, deeper, till the heart o the world Lay bare before me, with no robe to don Save the lucent veil of spirit, argent-white ; And then there came a voice: Arise! Smite! Smite! Ere the portal of the temple may be won! Crash down the walls! Lend all thy hidden might! I, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 205
…pon the mystic earth, my Rose, my Rose, XIV THE BEGINNING Rose of the gardens of old Babylon, Red, scarlet Rose of fire in the breast of light :— I had a dream of thee, my Babylon ; Yea; all thy petals were crimson with delight: And under the soft stars, the silent night Grew deeper, deeper, till the heart o the world Lay bare before me, with no robe to don Save the lucent veil of spirit, argent-white ; And then there came a voice: Arise! Smite! Smite! Ere the portal of the temple may be won! Crash down the walls! Lend all thy hidden might! I, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 36
…I am one with all mankind: and the earth is made as we. The stars are spangles bright on the canopy of our bed, And the sun is a veil of light for my lover’s golden head. © Goddess, maiden, and wife! Is the marriage bed in vain? Shall my heart and soul and life shrink back to themselves again? Be thou my one desire, my soul in day as in night ! My mind the home of the Higher! heart the centre of Light! My A LITANY.! 1. BLACK thine abyss of noon Flings forth the thunder-swoon. Smite us, and slay, Amoun, Amoun, Achiha ! 1 The Table of Corresponde…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
70 A DRAMATIC VERSION OF maiden love may work on maiden modesty? Ah, fall deeper, ye blessed shadows! Ye are light enough for Florimond de Champ- divers to move toward his bliss ! [Motse of clashing armour, ribald laughter, &°-c. Enter the Watch, R., avrunk. A WATCHMAN. Ho, boys! a gay night for thieves. FLORIMOND. Curse the sots ! [ Crouches back in the shadow. SECOND WATCHMAN. ( Szzes) The soldier’s life is short and merry, His mistress’ lips are ripe as a cherry, Then drink, drink ! The guns roar out and the swords flash clean, And the soldi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 147
…mber fire, And blown aloft by winds even to heaven’s desire. Deep starry gems set in a silver sea, Sullen low voices of dark minstrelsy, Light whispers of strange loves, of silver woven, Dumb kisses and wild laughter following: All these as lives of autumn and of spring We are: we follow across the rainbow cloven, A never-fading path of golden glory, Whereof the lone Leucadian promontory Holds one divinest gate: the other troven Far, far beyond in interlunar skies, Where the Himalayas stir them, and arise To listen to the song that swells our a…
1901 · PDF PAGE 109
…hy Master, and thy God ! Behold The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold ! “ I am thy Saviour ! ” At the kindling word Up springs the dawn-light in the broken bowls ; Up leaps the glittering circle. Then I heard A hoarse shrill voice, as if some carrion bird Shrieked, mightier than the storm that rocks and rolls Through desolation : “ Thou hast known my Name. What is thy purpose, Master of the Flame ? ” I made demand : through long appalling hours Stayed he to tempt and try my adamant Purpose : at last the legionary powers Behind him sank affraye…
1905 · PDF PAGE 130
…ent atmosphere. Some sorrow drawing near That slow, dark river would for sympathy Have found its home and never wandered out Into the sunlight any more. A sigh Stirred the pale waters where the moonlight stood Upon the sleepy flood In certain bough-wrought shapes of mystic meaning, As if the moon were weaning The king her babe from milk of life and love To milk new-dropped above From her sweet breast in vaporous light Into the willowy night That lay upon the river. So the king Heard a strange chant—the woods began to sing ; The river took the t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 143
First light of moonrise! Then, as June Leaps out of May, her lips took tune To song most soft, a spiral spell, A siren breathing in a shell. The notes were clustered round the well Like angels clustering round a god. Let memory wake from its abode Of dim precision lost for long The grace and grandeur of the song! Who art thou, love, by what sweet name I quicken ? By whom, O love, my soul is subtly stricken? O Love, O Love, I linger On the dear word and know not any meaning, Nor why I chant; there is a whisper weaning My soul from depths I knew …