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| MARSYAS \n(As for the Beast, 666)<\/td>\n | I bear a message. Heaven hath sent \nThe knowledge of a new sweet way \nInto the Secret Element.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS \n(Any aspirant)<\/td>\n | Master, while yet the glory clings \nDeclare this mystery magical!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | I am yet borne on these blue wings \nInto the Essence of the All. \nNow, now I stand on earth again, \nThough, blazing through each nerve and vein, \nThe light yet holds its choral course, \nFilling my frame with fiery force \nLike God\u2019s. Now hear the Apocalypse! \nNew-fledged on these reluctant lips!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | I tremble like an aspen, quiver \nLike light upon a rainy river!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Do what thou wilt! is the sole word \nOf law that my attainment heard. \nArise, and lay thine hand on God! \nArise, and set a period \nUnto Restriction! That is sin: \nTo hold thine holy spirit in! \nO thou that chafest at thy bars, \nInvoke Nuit beneath her stars \nWith a pure heart (Her incense burned \nOf gums and woods, in gold inurned) \nAnd let the serpent flame therein \nA little, and thy soul shall win \nTo lie within her bosom. Lo! \nThou wouldst give all\u2014\u2014and she cries: No! \nTake all, and take me! Gather spice \nAnd virgins and great pearls of price! \nWorship me in a single robe, \nCrowned Richly! Girdle of the globe, \nI love thee. I am drunkenness \nOf the inmost sense, my soul\u2019s caress \nIs toward thee! Let my priestess stand \nBare and rejoicing, softly fanned \nBy smooth-lipped acolytes, upon \nMine iridescent altar-stone, \nAnd in her love-chaunt swooningly \nSay evermore: To me! To me! \nI am the azure-lidded daughter \nOf sunset; the all-girdling water; \nThe naked brilliance of the sky \nIn the voluptuous night am I! \nWith song, with jewel, with perfume, \nWake all my rose\u2019s blush and bloom! \nDrink to me! Love me! I love thee, \nMy love, my lord\u2013to me! to me!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | There is no harshness in the breath \nOf this\u2013is life surpassed, and death?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | There is the Snake that gives delight \nAnd Knowledge, stirs the heart aright \nWith drunkenness. Strange drugs are thine, \nHadit, and draughts of wizard wine! \nThese do no hurt. Thine hermits dwell \nNot in the cold secretive cell, \nBut under purple canopies \nWith mighty-breasted mistresses \nMagnificent as lionesses\u2013 \nTender and terrible caresses! \nFire lives, and light, in eager eyes; \nAnd massed huge hair about them lies. \nThey lead their hosts to victory: \nIn every joy they are kings; then see \nThat secret serpent coiled to spring \nAnd win the world! O priest and king, \nLet there be feasting, foining, fighting, \nA revel of lusting, singing, smiting! \nWork; be the bed of work! Hold! Hold! \nThe stars\u2019 kiss is as molten gold. \nHarden! Hold thyself up! now die\u2013 \nAh! Ah! Exceed! Exceed!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | And I?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | My stature shall surpass the stars: \nHe hath said it! Men shall worship me \nIn hidden woods, on barren scaurs, \nHenceforth to all eternity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | Hail! I adore thee! Let us feast.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | I am the consecrated Beast. \nI build the Abominable House. \nThe Scarlet Woman is my Spouse\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | What is this word?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Thou canst not know \nTill thou hast passed the Fourth Ordeal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | I worship thee. The moon-rays flow \nMasterfully rich and real \nFrom thy red mouth, and burst, young suns \nChanting before the Holy Ones \nThine Eight Mysterious Orisons!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | The last spell! The availing word! \nThe two completed by the third! \nThe Lord of War, of Vengeance \nThat slayeth with a single glance! \nThis light is in me of my Lord. \nHis Name is this far-whirling sword. \nI push His order. Keen and swift \nMy Hawk\u2019s eye flames; these arms uplift \nThe Banner of Silence and of Strength\u2014 \nHail! Hail! thou are here, my Lord, at length! \nLo, the Hawk-Headed Lord am I: \nMy nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. \nHail! ye twin warriors that guard \nThe pillars of the world! Your time \nIs nigh at hand. The snake that marred \nHeaven with his inexhaustible slime \nIs slain; I bear the Wand of power, \nThe Wand that waxes and that wanes; \nI crush the Universe this hour \nIn my left hand; and naught remains! \nHo! for the splendour in my name \nHidden and glorious, a flame \nSecretly shooting from the sun. \nAum! Ha!\u2013my destiny is done. \nThe Word is spoken and concealed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | I am stunned. What wonder was revealed?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | The rite is secret.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | Profits it?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Only to wisdom and to wit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | The other did no less.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Then prove \nBoth by the master-key of Love. \nThe lock turns stiffly? Shalt thou shirk \nTo use the sacred oil of work? \nNot from the valley shalt thou wrest \nThe eggs that line the eagle\u2019s nest! \nClimb, with thy life at stake, the ice, \nThe sheer wall of the precipice! \nMaster the cornice, gain the breach, \nAnd learn what next the ridge can teach! \nYet\u2013not the ridge itself may speak \nThe secret of the final peak.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | All ridges join at last.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Admitted, \nO thou astute and subtle-witted! \nYet one\u2013loose, jagged, clad in mist! \nAnother\u2013firm, smooth, loved and kissed \nBy the soft sun! Our order hath \nThis secret of the solar path, \nEven as our Lord the Beast hath won \nThe mystic Number of the Sun.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | These secrets are too high for me.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Nay, little brother! Come and see! \nNeither by faith nor fear not awe \nApproach the doctrine of the Law! \nTruth, Courage, Love, shall win the bout, \nAnd those three others be cast out.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | Lead me, Master, by the hand \nGently to this gracious land! \nLet me drink the doctrine in, \nAn all-healing medicine! \nLet me rise, correct and firm, \nSteady striding to the term, \nMaster of my fate, to rise \nTo imperial destinies; \nWith the sun\u2019s ensanguine dart \nSpear-bright in my blazing heart, \nAnd my being\u2019s basil-plant \nBright and hard as adamant!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Yonder, faintly luminous, \nThe yellow desert waits for us. \nLithe and eager, hand in hand, \nWe travel to the lonely land. \nThere, beneath the stars, the smoke \nOf our incense shall invoke \nThe Queen of Space; and subtly She \nShall bend from Her Infinity \nLike a lambent flame of blue, \nTouching us, and piercing through \nAll the sense-webs that we are \nAs the aethyr penetrates a star! \nHer hands caressing the black earth, \nHer sweet lithe body arched for love, \nHer feet a Zephyr to the flowers, \nShe calls my name\u2013she gives the sign \nThat she is mine, supremely mine, \nAnd clinging to the infinite girth \nMy soul gets perfect joy thereof \nBeyond the abysses and the hours; \nSo that\u2013I kiss her lovely brows; \nShe bathes my body in perfume \nOf sweat\u2026.O thou my secret spouse, \nContinuous One of Heaven! illume \nMy soul with this arcane delight, \nVoluptuous Daughter of the Night! \nEat me up wholly with the glance \nOf thy luxurious brilliance!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | The desert calls.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Then let us go! \nOr seek the sacramental snow, \nWhere like an high-priest I may stand \nWith acolytes on every hand, \nThe lesser peaks\u2013my will withdrawn \nTo invoke the dayspring from the dawn, \nChanging that rosy smoke of light \nTo a pure crystalline white; \nThough the mist of mind, as draws \nA dancer round her limbs the gauze, \nClothe Light, and show the virgin Sun \nA lemon-pale medallion! \nThence leap we leashless to the goal, \nStainless star-rapture of the soul. \nSo the altar-fires fade \nAs the Godhead is displayed. \nNay, we stir not. Everywhere \nIs our temple right appointed. \nAll the earth is faery fair \nFor us. Am I not anointed? \nThe Sigil burns upon the brow \nAt the adjuration\u2013here and now.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | The air is laden with perfumes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Behold! it beams\u2013it burns\u2013it blooms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| OLYMPAS<\/td>\n | Master, how subtly hast thou drawn \nThe daylight from the Golden Dawn, \nBidden the Cavernous Mount unfold \nIts Ruby Rose, its Cross of Gold; \nUntil I saw, flashed from afar, \nThe Hawk\u2019s Eye in the Silver Star!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| MARSYAS<\/td>\n | Peace to all beings. Peace to thee, \nCo-heir of mine eternity! \nPeace to the greatest and the least, \nTo nebula and nenuphar! \nLight in abundance be increased \nOn them that dream that shadows are!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
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