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…e brightest molten seas of glory, All the isles and continents of starland. Shall I never, like the sun, be gladdened, Filled with their life, fructified, and answer Rays of gold to bid the gray horizon Melt, recede, and brighten into azure, Sing as Horace sang, and flood the ocean
…t, ” “ Tannhäuser , “ Rosa Mundi,” and “ Alice .” Ec stasy is the keynote here , as it is of all poetry , all literature , -aye ! of all Life . Without it we cease to be even animals — a dog will bay the moon - mere lumps of sodden clay ; with it a flaming crown of glory , angel - voiced , singing amidst the stars the anthem of Eternity , · Orpheus , vol . iii , pp . 209 , 210 .
POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS III. So will the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king. The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained. YOGA AND MAGIC I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea. It has four methods. Gnana-Yoga. Union by Knowledge. Raja-Yoga. Union by Will. Bhakta-Yoga. Union by Love. Hatha-Yoga. Union by Courage. add Mantra-Yoga. Union through Speech. Karma-Yoga. Union through …
POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS III. So will the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king. The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained. YOGA AND MAGIC I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea. It has four methods. Gnana-Yoga. Union by Knowledge. Raja-Yoga. Union by Will. Bhakta-Yoga. Union by Love. Hatha-Yoga. Union by Courage. add Mantra-Yoga. Union through Speech. Karma-Yoga. Union through …
…esh, and as a stallion that rears Sprang, hero-thewed and satyr-lipped ; Crushed, as a grape between his teeth, my fears ; Sucked out my life And stamped me with the shame, the monstrous word of wife. VI I will not weep ; nay, I will follow him. Perchance he is not far, Bathing his limbs in some delicious dim Depth, where the evening star May kiss his mouth, or by the black skys rim He makes his prayer To the great serpent that is coiled in rapture there.
…tle! Clotho's task is fairly ended. Atropos, thy power is ended ! Ho, Lachesis! ply thy shuttle! Weave the human dance together With the life of rocks and trees ! Let the blue delirious weather Bind all spirits in one tether, Overwhelming ecstasies! Io! Evoe! 1 faint’ I fall, Swoon in purple light; the grape Drowns my spirit in its thrall. Love me, love me over all, Spirit in the spirit shape! All is one ! Ι murmur, Distant Sounds the shout, Evoe, Evoe ! Evoe, Iacche! Soft, insistent Like to echo’s voice persistent :— Hail! Agave! Autonoe! [TYP…
…tle! Clotho's task is fairly ended. Atropos, thy power is ended ! Ho, Lachesis! ply thy shuttle! Weave the human dance together With the life of rocks and trees ! Let the blue delirious weather Bind all spirits in one tether, Overwhelming ecstasies! Io! Evoe! 1 faint’ I fall, Swoon in purple light; the grape Drowns my spirit in its thrall. Love me, love me over all, Spirit in the spirit shape! All is one ! Ι murmur, Distant Sounds the shout, Evoe, Evoe ! Evoe, Iacche! Soft, insistent Like to echo’s voice persistent :— Hail! Agave! Autonoe! [TYP…
… of true virginity ! Ha Ha ! How God must laugh ! Do you think we must die ? ORLANDO. They darent kill you. And as for me, Ill sell my life. So dear I doubt they have the fee.
…fter and through it. Peace from and after war. Relaxation of anxiety. Quietness, rest, ease and plenty, yet after struggle Goods of this life; abundance; modified by dignity as is usual. Chesed of?ו (Convalescence, recovery from sickness ; change for the better). Herein do?היראלand?לא”לבbear rule.
…fter and through it. Peace from and after war. Relaxation of anxiety. Quietness, rest, ease and plenty, yet after struggle Goods of this life; abundance; modified by dignity as is usual. Chesed of?ו (Convalescence, recovery from sickness ; change for the better). Herein do?היראלand?לא”לבbear rule.
…Invaluable to all students. Tue AcE oF Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. Rivers oF LiFe, by General Forlong. An invaluable text- book of old systems of initiation. THREE D1aLocueEs, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of subjective idealism. Essays or Davin Hume. The Classic of Academic Scep- ticism. First Principies, by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism. PROLEGOMENA, by Emanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics. Tue Canon. The best text-book of Applied Qabalah. Tue Fourtu Dim…
… of Gemini for in‐ spiration. So let us picture him, “integer vitæ scelerisque purus”, a light‐shaft of the Ideal ab‐ sorbing the entire life in concentrated aspiration, passing from earthy Taurus to exalted Gem‐ ini. Here, too, is shewn (as in the Yi) the danger to the subject of this symbol; for the first de‐ can is the card called “Interference”; or, in the old pack, “Shortened Force”.
…th the Universe whose Consummation shall destroy thee utterly, leaving only that Nothingness which was before the Beginning. So then the Life of Non-Action is not for thee; the Withdrawal from Activity is not the Way of the Tao; but rather the Intensification and making universal every Unit of thine Energy on every Plane. o
…arly childhood was shocked by Shaw's outrageously arbitrary selection of the texts that sustained his argument. His ignorance of Asiatic life and thought had led him into the most grotesque misapprehensions. I set out to criticize his essay, section by section; but the work grew under my hand, and in three {808} weeks or so, I had produced a formidable treatise of some forty-five thousand words. I had intended to confine myself to destructive criticism of my author; but as I went on, my analysis of the text of the gospels revealed the mystery o…
… Subtle star-sparks of spirit chastity’s? These deep-set shiverings saint nor sage discerns ? Laughter and love are over him, entice His life to sweeter scent of sacrifice. She knows God’s will, not he! Her ardour licks Flowers from the dust. of breath, Dost rot in worship at the shrine of death! O mystic rapture of the crucifix | O fool! that, heavy EVE. THE serpent glimmered through the primal tree, Full in the gladness of the afterglow ; Its royal head warred ever to and fro, Seeking the knowledge of the doom to be. Eve, in the naked love an…
26 JEPHTHAH. Thee and thy host from off the earth. Say thus; Ride for thy life, and bring me speedy word. [Exit Herald. CHORUS. Not wingéd forms, nor powers of air, Nor sundered spirits pale and fair, Nor glittering sides and scales, did bring The knowledge of this happy thing That is befallen us unaware. In likeness to the lips that sing Ring out your frosty peal, and smite Loud fingers on the harp, and touch Lutes, and clear psalteries musical, And all stringed instruments, to indite A noble song of triumph, such As men may go to fight withal…
…nching temple and an altar earthen, A fire of herbs, a clayen water-jar; An olive grove to bind the sacred girth in Lone woods afar. Let life burn gently thence, as when the ember In one faint incense-puff to shrineward dies. No care, no pain, no craving to remember, One leap toward the knees and destinies, Where shine Her lips like flames, Her breasts like amber, Like moons Her eyes. For my heart turns—ah still!—in Sorrow’s traces, Where sad chill footprints pash the sodden leaves ; Where ranged around me are the cold, grey faces; Fallen on th…
… Hike, in that peace, these ecstasies ; In that fair fountain, this ! She fades as starlight on the stream, As dewfall in the dell ; All life and love, one ravishing gleam Stolen from sleeps crucible ; That kiss, that vision is a dream : And Imost miserable ! Still Echo wails upon the steep, To loveand to forget ! Still sombre whispers from the deep Sob through nights golden net, And waft upon the wings of sleep The name of Margaret.
38 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Caught in that fiery wave, Her love and life she gave With one last kissing cry the unborn child to save. And thou, Ο Zeus, the sire Of Bromius—hunter dire !4- Didst snatch the unborn babe from that Olympian fire: In thine own thigh most holy That offspring melancholy Didst hide, didst feed, on light, ambrosia, and moly. Ay ! and with serpent hair And limbs divinely {air Didst thou, Dionysus, leap forth to the nectar air ! Ay! thus the dreams of fate We dare commemorate, Twining in lovesome curls the spoil of mate and mate…
38 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Caught in that fiery wave, Her love and life she gave With one last kissing cry the unborn child to save. And thou, Ο Zeus, the sire Of Bromius—hunter dire !4- Didst snatch the unborn babe from that Olympian fire: In thine own thigh most holy That offspring melancholy Didst hide, didst feed, on light, ambrosia, and moly. Ay ! and with serpent hair And limbs divinely {air Didst thou, Dionysus, leap forth to the nectar air ! Ay! thus the dreams of fate We dare commemorate, Twining in lovesome curls the spoil of mate and mate…