The Ladder

 [Dedicated to K.
M.
Ward]


"I will arise and go unto my father"

MALKUTH

Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe.

Only ablove me is a citron tinge
As if some echo of red, gold and lue
Chimed on the night and let its shadow through.

Yet I who am thus prisoned and exiled
Am the right heir of glory, the crowned child.


I match my might against my Fate's
I gird myself to reach the ultimate shores,
I arm myself the war to win:-
Lift up your heads, O mighty gates!
Be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors!
The King of Glory shall come in.


TAU

I pass from the citrine:deep indigo
Is this tall column.
 Snakes and vultures bend
Their hooted hate on him that would ascend.

O may the Four avail me ! Ageless woe,
Fear, torture, throng the treshold.
 LO1 The end
Of Matter ! The immensity of things

Let loose -new laws, new beings, new conditions;-
Dire chaos; see ! these new-fledged wings
Fail in its vagueness and initiations.

Only my circle saves me from the hate
Of all these monsters dead yet animate.


I match, &c.


YESOD

Hail, thou full moon, O flame of Amethyst !
Stupendous mountain on whose shoulders rest
The Eight Above.
 More stable is my crest
Than thine -and now I pierce thee, veil of mist!
Even as an arrow from the war-bow springs
I leap -my life is set with loftier things.


I match, & c.


SAMECH ( and the crossing of the Path of Pe)

Now swift, thou azure shaft of fading fire,
Pierce through the rainbow! Swift, O swift! how streams
The world by! Let Sandalphon and his quire
Of Angels ward me!
Ho! what

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