{"id":268,"date":"2024-10-25T21:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T03:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:09:58","slug":"hymn-to-pan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/liber-0004\/magick-in-theory-and-practice\/hymn-to-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn to Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">HYMN TO PAN<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\u1f14\u03c6\u03b9\u03be\u1fbf\u1f14\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u1f74\u03c2 \u03b4\u1fbf \u1f00\u03bd\u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u1f79\u00b5\u03b1\u03bd<br \/>\n\u1f30\u1f7c \u1f30\u1f7c \u03c0\u1f70\u03bd \u03c0\u1f70\u03bd<br \/>\n\u1f62 \u03c0\u1f70\u03bd \u03c0\u1f70\u03bd \u1f01 \u03bb\u03b9\u03c0\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5, \u03ba\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u1f77\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c7\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03ba\u03c4\u1f7b\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9<br \/>\n\u03c0\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u1f77\u03c2 \u1f00\u03c0\u1f78 \u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u1f71\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c6\u1f71\u03bd\u03b7\u03b8\u1fbf, \u1f66<br \/>\n\u03b8\u03b5\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c7\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03c0\u1f79\u03b9 \u1f04\u03bd\u03b1\u03be<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">-Soph.\u00a0<em>Aj.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; padding-left: 80px;\"><span>Thrill with lissome lust of the light,<br \/>\nO man! My man!<br \/>\nCome careering out of the night<br \/>\nOf Pan! Io Pan!<br \/>\nIo Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea<br \/>\nFrom Sicily and from Arcady!<br \/>\nRoaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards<br \/>\nAnd nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,<br \/>\nOn a milk-white ass, come over the sea<br \/>\nTo me, to me,<br \/>\nCome with Apollo in bridal dress<br \/>\n(Shepherdess and pythoness)<br \/>\nCome with Artemis, silken shod,<br \/>\nAnd wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,<br \/>\nIn the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,<br \/>\nThe dimpled dawn of the amber fount!<br \/>\nDip the purple of passionate prayer<br \/>\nIn the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,<br \/>\nThe soul that startles in eyes of blue<br \/>\nTo watch thy wantonness weeping through<br \/>\nThe tangled grove, the gnarled bole<br \/>\nOf the living tree that is spirit and soul<br \/>\nAnd body and brain \u2014 come over the sea,<br \/>\n(Io Pan! Io Pan!)<br \/>\nDevil or god, to me, to me,<br \/>\nMy man! my man!<br \/>\nCome with trumpets sounding shrill<br \/>\nOver the hill!<br \/>\nCome with drums low muttering<br \/>\nFrom the spring!<br \/>\nCome with flute and come with pipe!<br \/>\nAm I not ripe?<br \/>\nI, who wait and writhe and wrestle<br \/>\nWith air that hath no boughs to nestle<br \/>\nMy body, weary of empty clasp,<br \/>\nStrong as a lion and sharp as an asp \u2014<br \/>\nCome, O come!<br \/>\nI am numb<br \/>\nWith the lonely lust of devildom.<br \/>\nThrust the sword through the galling fetter,<br \/>\nAll-devourer, all-begetter;<br \/>\nGive me the sign of the Open Eye,<br \/>\nAnd the token erect of thorny thigh,<br \/>\nAnd the word of madness and mystery,<br \/>\nO Pan! Io Pan!<br \/>\nIo Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan,<br \/>\nI am a man:<br \/>\nDo as thou wilt, as a great god can,<br \/>\nO Pan! Io Pan!<br \/>\nIo Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake<br \/>\nIn the grip of the snake.<br \/>\nThe eagle slashes with beak and claw;<br \/>\nThe gods withdraw:<br \/>\nThe great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne<br \/>\nTo death on the horn<br \/>\nOf the Unicorn.<br \/>\nI am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!<br \/>\nI am thy mate, I am thy man,<br \/>\nGoat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,<br \/>\nFlesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.<br \/>\nWith hoofs of steel I race on the rocks<br \/>\nThrough solstice stubborn to equinox.<br \/>\nAnd I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend<br \/>\nEverlasting, world without end,<br \/>\nMannikin, maiden, Maenad, man,<br \/>\nIn the might of Pan.<br \/>\nIo Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYMN TO PAN \u1f14\u03c6\u03b9\u03be\u1fbf\u1f14\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u1f74\u03c2 \u03b4\u1fbf \u1f00\u03bd\u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u1f79\u00b5\u03b1\u03bd \u1f30\u1f7c \u1f30\u1f7c \u03c0\u1f70\u03bd \u03c0\u1f70\u03bd \u1f62 \u03c0\u1f70\u03bd \u03c0\u1f70\u03bd \u1f01 \u03bb\u03b9\u03c0\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5, \u03ba\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u1f77\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c7\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03ba\u03c4\u1f7b\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u1f77\u03c2 \u1f00\u03c0\u1f78 \u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u1f71\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c6\u1f71\u03bd\u03b7\u03b8\u1fbf, \u1f66 \u03b8\u03b5\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c7\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03c0\u1f79\u03b9 \u1f04\u03bd\u03b1\u03be -Soph.\u00a0Aj. Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man! My man! Come careering out of the night Of Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! 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