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A New Light of Mysticism. Azoth; Or, the Star in the East ...
A New Light of Mysticism Azoth Or the Star in the East Author:Arthur Edward Waite Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GATE OF THE SANCTUARY. WE have heard of the charity of the new life, we have heard of the Crown of Life, and in the first breath of inspiration, and in th... more »e first influx of mystic love, we came among you, O illuminated congregation, and laid upon the altar of your sanctuary, and upon the white cloth of the altar, the chaplet or rosary of Israfel, and the wreath of the litanies of LuCASTA. Among the leaves and the flowers thereof we would believe that there is still lingering a gentle fragrance which is sweet in the nostrils of some of you who do worship and minister in that most interior sanctuary. Perchance in the scrolls of those litanies, and among the song- tablets there are hidden chords of melody, such as linger in deep sea shells and in withdrawn recesses of cliff-honeycombing caverns, whereof the gates open on the windy and solitary ocean. But the stars in the eyes of Israfel, and the jewelled glittering of Lucasta, which are the Lights of the New Age, are the transfiguring glory of the perfect man and of the perfect woman; Israfel and Lucasta are types of the joy to come, of that joy whereupon our hearts are set, and in such direction are unified with all law and all providence, with the desire of the day and the night, and of the stars in their gyration—the delight of the "day of compensation," attained by the writer of Diana Unveiled, in the "Manifestation of the Hermetic Swan." Oh, not more faithfully does the dread, grand sea follow upon the splendid pageant of the moon in her beauty, than do our hearts, our thoughts, our dreams, for ever follow upon that vision of all high thinking which is the end of universal development, till that which once ranked as a mere law, discovered and expounded by science and expressed in the imperfect language of the physical gnos...« less