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I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name O most high.
Psalms 9:2

Occult Notebook

Volume I

27-July 98 Johan U. Xavier



published by
Threshold Publishing Company
P.O. Box 4033
Blaine, WA 98231
USA



Table of Contents:


  • The Marriage of St. Felix
  • O Timaeus
  • Psalm IO
  • Tzaddi
  • Imrum
  • Timmum
  • Psalm II
  • Psalm XII
  • Ben Joseph Ben Asher Ben Lev
  • Psalm XIII
  • The Grandfather Clause
  • Jane
  • The Intertestamentary Period
  • Joaz Banbeck
  • Herakles to Rapha
  • Bind my ways
  • Redpath
  • You and I
  • Republic of San Marino
  • I was the watchman
  • Greenwich Mean Time
  • Seal the Breach
  • Epithets of Action
  • Lysistrata in America
  • Palomar (6:40 p.m.)
  • Death is fast approaching
  • Odysseus’ Tenth Labor’s Love Lost
  • Millennial Decree
  • Stay Me
  • Milton’s Confession
  • Candlemas
  • Torn asunder by the Great Decree
  • Allegorical Epithets of Ipsissimus
  • Debts Accrued
  • Felix Numinisimus
  • 48 Hrs Later
  • And
  • Day of the Lion
  • Running Free
  • The Octets
  • The Passions of Man
  • The Cruelty of the Summer
  • Two will get you….. 9: Flight 2127
  • Day of the Empress
  • Our Passion Met
  • We Fly
  • My Wife
  • Eros 13
  • Aesculapius
  • Stone and Silence
  • Bright and Fair
  • Thirty Days
  • Why dost thou weep?
  • In the Kingdom of the Air
  • Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
  • I fight within
  • Day of the Empress: Surcease
  • What wait
  • How I have longed
  • I am above
  • Oh Subtlety
  • Comes Basileus to Al Amarna
  • Circe’s Web
  • Day of the Jackal
  • As we wait
  • Prosperity
  • Playing Against the Nets
  • The Day of Ordering of Three
  • After the Feast
  • Gnomon
  • As I pray
  • Timaeus (II)
  • Obeisance
  • I am given over
  • Retreat 10-16-98=124=7
  • Sensibility
  • Oh thou unholy one
  • Victory
  • And there, she lies
  • I, John
  • The Preacher
  • Losing Generations
  • Prophet of the Day Before Tomorrow
  • For A Single Moment
  • The Shorn
  • Night
  • The Grief of Autumn
  • Oh love
  • This Song
  • The Marches of Madness
  • Sleep
  • Oh my love
  • The Rising of the Fall
  • My Love, My Opposite
  • Friday, Unto Saturday
  • Oh pain
  • For she I loved so well
  • The Damned, Returning
  • The Invocation of Basileus


     
    The Marriage of St. Felix
     

    Oh Love, I would Thee wed
    And mean to live I do
    Oh Joyful rest in me instead
    Of weeping as you do
     
    Oh Love rest in Me today
    Let me hands embrace Thee
    For we are as One,
    We are as mates today.
     
     
     
    O Timaeus

     
    Righteousness incarnate
    Grown to manhood without scorn
    How I love thee, and thy good works
    All blessed are thy house, and
    Through thy house, all Thine.
     
    7-31-98
     
    Columbia (III)
     

    Land of blessedness, of Light
    Of modesty and peace
    Thy shrines are open for the worshipping
    Thy daughters for the wedding and the wine.
     
    Arise, Columbia
    My lovely,
    All pain is past, all calumny undone.
     
    7-31-98
     
    Psalm IO
     

    Before my eyes rises the Sun
    O Helios, protector of my brethren
    Thou Eheyah, Lord of Light
    My staff and strength and right.
     
    Tzaddi

     
    Imra is my guardian
    She my threshold keeper
    Bear with, and stand before me,
    The Lord of Eheyah is my lord of Life.
     
    Imrum

     
    My daughters bled their wedding
    Blood for Judah and its Christ
    Restore the tide of former years
    And set the lineage right.
     
    Timmum

     
    Sprayed upon our foreheads
    Is the mark of Cain again
    We cannot be slain.
     
    Psalm II
     

    Blessed be, and blessed give
    O Weeper of misfortune
    End the endlessness of Time
    And give our children wine.
     
    He is root, he Vine, his rod a comfort to the wicked
    We are sinners all, and unforgiven
    Shorn and weak, we come into Thy presence
    House of David, House of Asher,
    House of Dan.
     
    I strike my staff upon the ground
    The Lion is in summer
    Rage the Tiger on the beach
    The Man will follow sooner.
     
    Psalm XII

    Ben Joseph Ben Asher Ben Lev
     

    Thrice four resound, thrice four
    And bring the Hashanadah to the Feast
    The Tabernacle has opened full
    And the grave is empty now.
     
    Anointed One of Light
    Thy sage repens the
    Chronicle of this thy Wedding feast
    How soon are lost, how soon
    Are sacrifices gathered for the Feast.
     
    Ben Joseph, Ben Asher, Ben Lev,
    We are known by Cain and suffered as thy Able
    Oh Seth, how Enoch knew
    But could not let Thee by
    Thy holy Gate.
     
    7-31-98
     
    Psalm XIII
     

    Ariel come forth
    Thou angel of delight
    My Hephzibah, my ashen child
    O Ariel
    Return to this Thy Right.
     
    My children are by Thee wed
    And thus anointed by Thy light
    Be children of the lights thirteen
    Be Mages by the ancient firelight.
     
    7-31-98
     
     
    Yesterday was a watershed day of memory, recollection, abreaction.
     
    6-August-98=112=4 =
     
    Ah
    These are days you’ll remember.
    Never before
    And never since
     
    And you will Know
    You’re half of something
    It’s true that you
    Are blessed and special.
     
    When the lights
    Go out
    In the City
    And the Moon shines over the Bay;
    I will be with you there
    In My City
    Eheyah.
     
    6-August-98
    Over Grandfather
     
    The Grandfather Clause

     
    My father stands upon the infinitude
    And my tiny feet, a million tiny left feet forward legs
    Gives up a leg for Azazel.
    Salish I call you down, O Skagit!
    Weheyah Wei, wahona hon
    Tahoma Tay, O Beynah
    Duwamps o beynah Sali ish
    Tahomeh
    She She, she nay Nohah.
     
    N.T. 3-4-999 6-Aug –98 O.T.
     
    From the Old World
    In Urarta
     
    31-Jul-98 Old Time
    The Lost Week
    Between worlds
     
    Jane

     
    My hardest petulance
    De Bruik, author of the Storm
    Beleaguered by the Son (sun)
    Harried by the Rain
    You live your pleasures in the Lie
     
    And come awake too soon
    For one who, misdirected
    Is diverted to the Sky.
     
    Johannes U. X. N.O.S. 3-3-999, 31-Jul-98 O.T.
     
    The Intertestamentary Period
     

    From 3 to 1, from 5 to 4
    The time is 5:15
    From 3 to 2, from 2 to none
    Give us seven wages war!
     
    Raven fly and rabbit tear
    Your watches to the storm
    Fly out, fly back
    We will not send you black
    Snow white your feather sails
    Into the sky.
     
    Colossus, you fall
    And ten more labors does Odysseus
    Before the cantors’ call
    Send the water down, but aired
    So my sons of wrath will not be spared.
     
    31-July-98 O.T.
    3-4-999 NT over Grandfather
     
    Joaz Banbeck

     
    Joaz, did you not hear Jachin
    Banbeck did not shell the Boat ashore
    Skulls are lined upon the boundary
    And termagants are crowding to your shore.
     
    I will leave you, inverted Boaz
    I will live your wife, Joachin
    Contemplate the Almighty
    Let your vision blend into your dream.
     
    6-Aug-98
     
     
    Psalm 3:8:999
     

    I see all
    And all are deemed by God unworthy;
    I close my eyes and All
    Are rendered worthy.
    Call the host Entire;
     
    For war is now engaged;
    Let wisdom break upon the demons’ brow.
     
    -19-
     
    Kublai Khan – from the last week – 4-Aug-98 4 a.m.
     

    Bleed out
    The milk of paradise
    Lying still in the prison of your loins
    For it is sweet though aged
    Love,
    My love remembered as acute
    She clove me,
    Ere the battle had been joined.
     
    As so I cleave to her
    My love an exercise in amplitude and grace
    I must find her way to love me
    That may never change.
     
    O Love, my love
    My madness’ ken
    How wilt Thou bleed Your
    Milk of Paradise again?

    Hill, GMT.
     
    8-7-98=113=32=5
     
    Herakles to Rapha

     
    So many battles fought, and lost, O Zeus
    But shorn I went, unto your Altar
    Singer of the Homeroi
    Warrior, and fallen temple priest
    Favor me with fortune
    So that I might serve you best.
     
    Chthonios, thou Ruler of the World
    I went to Rapha and was heard
    But his cupidity struck at my back
    And lures me to the field
    When will I be welcome at your Window
    When will I be freed from all this pain?
     
    I must be yoked to Hera’s favored sons
    I will not bow, a prisoner
    Nor compromised by challenges to peace
    I will deliver them to you
    Do with them what You will.
     
    7-Aug-98
     
    Bind my ways

     
    Bind my ways O Eheyah
    Grant me consolation for the days
    My fallen house, my fallen brethren
    Torn from wombs they could not breach
     
    My milk is wasted on these children
    My grain is wasted on the kine
     
    But look upon them all with mercy
    For my love is Joseph’s, blind
    Loved, they will not pass from me
    My love for them is wilted on the Vine.
     
    My sacrifice is made complete
    So let there be a Temple
    Rise before their feet.
     
    Grant an end to weeping, O Eheyah
    Hear my plea, O Jacob
    For thou art struck from Joseph’s womb
    Hear me, children of the Ladder
    The Nephilim are harder fought
    And faster.
     
    Mission San Rafael Arc Angel
    Before GMT
    7-Aug-98
     
    Redpath

     
    We are all of us together
    I, like all my army, stopped,
    Halted.
    But unlike these, my men,
    My children and their ken
    I know whereof I wait
    I know whereof I speak
    It is tomorrow
    And life is born today.
     
    We crossed the Sea
    We are seldom blessed
    But blessed, we marry Thee
    The open land is here for all to see
    And all will soon be breath
    And breathing free.
    12:21 GMT
    7-Aug-98 Larkspur
     
    You and I

     
    You and I, Messiach
    Both made small in Wisdom
    Sensitive in power
    We are all made straight
    In the awful shower at the Gate.
     
    We use ourselves with Mercy
    But in our Mercy
    Is the will of God untold.
     
    The power is unleashed, and not by my hand alone
    The towers have been breached
    And not by your Wrath alone.
     
    7-Aug-98
     
    Republic of San Marino


    Too many saints
    Crowding on this hill
    Too much of empathy
    Of Apostles whetted for delight.
     
    7-Aug-98
    Central
     
    I was the watchman

     
    I was the watchman
    Of the long eternal hour
    I was the binder of the demon in the Tree
    I waited out the empty days of night
    Who authored all the seas of light
    Time is nothing
    When all the world is ransomed over Thee.
     
    7-Aug-98
    Novato
     
    Greenwich Mean Time

     
    This mean season
    Drawn and quartered by Millennial Decree
    Their small moment
    Is the death of me.
     
    7-Aug-98
    Presidio
     
    Seal the Breach

     
    All my enemies lie slain
    And my army is at rest
    It is time Basileus retires
    And becomes what he is best
     
    No warrior he, the modern scholar
    Pressed into the breach
    But something hid, and something
    Zeus would have me teach.
     
    I stand, a watchman
    A torch upon Thy wall
    See my wake, Jerusalem
    And hear the word of Saul.
     
    7-Aug-98/998
    Over Mt. Hood/Helens
     
    Epithets of Action

     
    Undone – Not John Donne
    Unmanned – Not Thomas Mann
    No more/nevermore – Not Thomas More
    Unbearded – not Caesar
    Hairless – not Brutus
    Beware – Declare war
     
    10-Aug-98=116=8
     
    Lysistrata in America
     

    Now who shall refuse
    To kneel before the Almighty God of Lust
    Know thou, that
    ‘Tis better to serve Mammon in this land
    Than Dionysios.
     
    Fertilize the seed that falls unwasted
    Onto hallowed ground instead
    Watch the slaves of Mormon
    Fit the need.
     
    17-Aug-98 1:25/1:30 p.m.
     
    As the Executive sits on trial.
     
    19-Aug-98=125=8 8.20-98 = 126=9 before 7 p.m. 8-21-98 MARK
     
    Dionysios in Amerika
     

    Do not again cavort
    For you will risk the wrath of Eros
    And his false Decrees
    He does not belie
    Olympian unfree.
     
    The rage of Hera
    Is so like the storm
    That rises slowly on the sea.
     
    17-Aug-98 1:30 p.m. over Shasta
     
    Last night, I dreamed of Shasta.
    I will, I must, be there, over Shasta.
     
    Palomar (6:40 p.m.)

     
    So now the die is cast
    And events arise to shape the coming dawn
    I am sage
    Cleansed of earth and fire
    Shorn of rage
    I am reborn
    And rise to greet the raging of the storm.
     
    It is time
    And now our century of bliss is come at last
    The die is cast
    I am in the Gambler’s hands
    Working free
    Working as the agent of the Tree.
    I shine
    And while the telescopes are free
    My goal is realigned
    22 ot 4 and 33 at 364
    The palms are met
    My agents are unsent
    The rage is come
    My destiny unset.
     
    I die again to dies irae
    I am not the god of strife
    But reconciliation
    Grieve for something sunnier than death
    Grieve for passion’s breath
     
    Mt. Palomar National Observatory
    17-Aug-98
     
    Death is fast approaching

     
    Death is fast approaching, demon Death
    How well I know your countenance and breath
    Stand and be unmet, O Specter
    I would have my brethren with me yet.
     
    Is there mercy in this service
    As we battle death?
    Is there hardship yet again imposed
    While I defeat my shade
    You are unsung, Shadow
    I must defeat you ere I live tomorrow new.
     
    I met Numen in the early morn
    And two alone
    Our sails were newly worn.
     
    17-Aug-98 580/121 Alameda/Pleasanton
     
    Odysseus’ Tenth Labor’s Love Lost

     
    And so Christiane, the daughter of the Holy One
    Went on the day of Wrath to Raphael
    And spoke in a loud voice, and said
    I would wish my vengeance be satisfied
    But the world will by this learn little
    Of the mercy of the Lord.
     
    They believe themselves in mercy, merciless
    And righteous on the pose of righteousless
    They cannot know the wrath they seek
    Is senseless, and will not slake
    The appetite for Sun
    Let this battle be unwon
    And I not here to punish but to sing
    And long they labored, just to hear me sing
    Let this song of Ancient Wrath
    Be now
    Unsung.
     
    18-Aug-98
     
    Millennial Decree

     
    The world will end in 1993
    So we, the authors of that Wrath
    Shall plan ahead 900 years and
    In that time lose 3
    The birth of Christ, was, after all, in 103 BCE
    So six behind will add another 3.
     
    So nine behind and three a head
    Use Numen’s Elogy
    For young Saint Saens was right again
    For two will get you three!
     
    A million 2 were found above the 47th tree
    When Angels manifested on the day of our Degree.
     
    Prudence hobbled on my Path
    And Joseph did preserve Her
    Prudence will be seen again
    Though none could truly hurt Her.
     
    Profligate, your works abound
    In Judah, on today
    What grief will bind them motionless
    When appetites are found?
     
    Oh Kae, take them to your land
    And let them stay afraid
    With their wives, or daughters three
    And let their souls be spared.
     
    For each who hides the shameful wound
    Let all be seen to see
    The hanging noose that rings their nose
    As bulls are wont to be.
     
    And only I and Numen were
    At harvest on the Lea
    And only two of us remembered
    When the Ocean sank the Sea.
     
    Yet with our third, the Circle is revealed
    And all will soon behold the Hour
    The Hour is not 7 years hence, or 3
    Or 2 but – 6 going onto –7 and counting.
     
    On October 12, old, old old time
    Was born a beast
    And April 12, old old time
    Another was released
    And August 12 was born the Harlot, not in Majesty
    These are symbols only and not the Messiach’s degree.
    We shall not sing our date of birth
    For Rosenkreutz decrees!
     
    I have seen the Law today
    And bow to the Degree
    I have met the Son today
    And serve Him on my Knee.
     
    Over Mt. Shasta 5:36, 1:36 GMT
     
    All the Earth prepares for the Degree Cadeuceus
     
    Stay Me

     
    Stay me, Oh thou great Eheyah
    Stay the tune of wrathfulness
    I am warrior less
    The less I feel Your path
    I am Endued
    For Edward is accused of Treason
    And well he should
    Good King Wen
    Ce Slaws.
     
    Milton’s Confession

     
    Lord, I have been too full of Puritans
    To love you purely
    I have been too shorn of love
    To see her love as holy
     
    With Thee I always meant to live
    A nun, devoute and pure
    But wilted on the Vine, I could not live
    And be demure
     
    For Love of Thee I hated and
    Was bound to Thy decree
    For Hate cannot engender Faith
    Where Love was meant to bee
     
    My wife, my termagant, my love
    Would never cleave to me
    And so in passion took by force
    And broke Her into Three
     
    There will never bee excuse
    For such a one as Me
    I beg to be unworthy
    But still you wait for me.
     
      • On the Boundless Mercy of the Decree, and on my Selfishnesse
      • Bridgemere, Wessex
      • 1641 August 8
      • Renouncing Orders to the Church of England

     
    Candlemas
     

    Tonight is Candlemas
    Torn asunder by the Great Decree
    It is time to seek a haven
    In the word of the degree.
    Nine bells we sound at Candlemas
    Nine witches topple from a Tree
    I grow sick, so sick
    So sicker I shall be.
     
    Sicher
    Sicher
    Sucher
    Zucher
    Zucker
     
    So Mote it Be
    9-19-98 (sic)
    8-18-98
     
    Allegorical Epithets of Ipsissimus
     

    Sich "I am"
    Sicher/sicker "I am that I am" YHVH
    Ich "I" higher self
    She "Shin" lower nature, upraised
    Be "Binah" understanding
    Kei, Kay, Ke "Kether" Crown
    Tough "Tiphareth"
    Peas "Pesach" – the Sacrifice
     
    Wood Tiger in Earth Season
     

    The day of the Dog is the dog day afternoon
    The Tiger’s tooth will yet be pulled.
     
     
    Debts Accrued
     

    On this Date
    In 1998
    You will pay me 88
    The currency determined now
    Will bear the symbol of the Tau.
     
    What was not said, but must be penned
    Is that the date has been upend
    So instead of joining in the Fun
    You pay me less in ’61!
     
    So now the Coin is minted whole
    And Julius is Master
    I could not be wealthier
    If Raphael were after.
     
    6:20
     
    Felix Numinisimus
     

    Felix was my name
    The eldest son of Atlas
    A singer in my youth
    Whiling away the nights relighting Aetna
    Basking in the warm Tyrrhenian sea.
     
    If he could touch the crown of Jupiter
    Then maybe I, the tallest of the brood
    Could sail into the realm of Achis
    And have a worthy name like that of Atlas
    Felix of the Overworld.
     
    The eldest son of Atlas
    The tallest of the brood
    The lowest of the humble
    Ferrying the living past the corpse of Acheron.
     
    8-18/19, 98
     
    48 Hrs Later

     
    As Cancer rises bright with Luna
    In her frail destructive light
    I wax and so she wanes to nothingness
    Until the endless Lion roars.
     
    Two days have passed, I lay upon the fevered land
    I walked, and flew, and waited
    Without the hours few.
     
    11:30-6 7 ½
     
    Of those few days my eyes saw naught but few,
    Forty were known
    And eight unknown
    I tried, oh how great I reached for 42
    I lay awake and could not come with 2.
     
    The gate is straight
    The way is narrow
    And the path into the Gate
    Is passing straight.
     
    19-Aug-98 after Alarum
     
     
    J.U.X. Johan Uri Xavier
    J.F.X. Johan Francis Xavier
     
    Johan U. Xavier
    19-Aug-98
    Vance Hotel,
    Annaganthas
     
     
    8-19-98= 125=9
     

    And
     

    So we run, as fast and far
    As Love can take us to the Infinite
    Run fast and far and hide in Me
    There is no escaping Lions on the Lea.
     
    Day of the Lion
     
    Flight 169

     
    Running Free

     
    Howsoever I am wont to run, I run
    Regardless of the time or timelessness of season
    I have ever been this way, for freedom
    In reward for freedom bought with sacrifice unspoken
    All I need is flowing from my poem
    All I love is granted me again
    And all that was destroyed by death
    Is given me again, unbroken
    It is as though my life is granted to me once again, unlived
    All mistakes unmade
    And all that remains of that unlived life
    Is that I lie awake at night afraid
     
    Were that this little maid inside my mind be unafraid!
    My love, O love in terror,
    How can I protect you from the life that passes now behind?
    How can I purge the terror from your undermind?
     
    Lord, I plead with Thee
    To take the child that now clings to me
    Enwrap her in the Love that will not end.
    9:15
    Psalm 0+1
     
    Thou Greatest of All Rulers
    Thou King of Righteousness
    Slay the ignorant among us
    Let them stay themselves
    Within the realm of helplessness
    And leave the rest of Man
    To greet the Lion poised upon Your land.
     
    Psalm 0+2
     
    The world of Time is passed at Thy command
    Take from me all of the illusions of the time
    Grant me life and Love unending
    So I may bless the moments that may pass.
     
     
    The Octets

     
    Ah
    These women
    How do they reflect the beauty that lies imprisoned in my wild love?
    How can they know that my desire is buried deep
    Inside the womb they have not opened
    Grant them light so they may find the love
    They do not know they seek
    As Luna rules their night.
     
    Unrepentant
     
    Brief, unchallenged night
    Ruled by She the unrepentant Foreign bride
    She is mine entire
    She waits for me with unrepentant ire
    Pain will be my portion if I fail
    And love will be rewarded as I serve and slowly hail
    She is mine, and pledged to me entire
    She is Beauty in the searing bright of fire.
     
    Samuel’s Son
     
    David’s harp lies mute
    Though once again the March resounded
    Much was done in that brief space of solitude
    Much inspired
    His march resounded as it does whenever Michael sings
    Plays though David touches not the strings
    Let the world lay still as Michael sings!
     
    Oh though I grieve
     
    For lands beneath the realm of ragged cloth
    There is no sorrow left upon the land
    For she is freed
    For though I bled for wounds unhealed,
    Unscarred, she is rejoicing in the temple
    How can I grieve when victory is won
    How shall our challenge be unsung
    Why should I weep when Death is overcome?
     
    40
     
    40 more or 40 less could matter
    Yet less I speak the more will conscience come
    Scald me wakeful, Yahweh, for I am cold in sin
    Wake me cruel so we may sooner win.
    My goal is all.
    Yet 40 more will greet me if I fall.
    Give me over to the will of All
    And let the 40 waken when you call.
     
    Greet Me
     
    Greet me well and modestly
    I am nothing to the will of Thee, Almighty
    Mercy on the one who wakes to soon to be made worthy
    Mercy on the ones who wake with me.
    Mercy on my cold beloved, hiding in his Tree
    Mercy on the self-fulfilled in doomed and shadow land.
    Providence on those whose theft of me gave rise to anger,
    Willingness on those who bargain free.
     
    For we are full
     
    This land was far too empty before now
    Before our birth laid claim to Thy decree
    For we are full and mighty now, O Lord
    Oh Lord of Life and Love
    We await the fury of Thy Call.
     
    They await the thunder and the hail of madness then
    We await the mercy of the All.
    Let the cantors wait until we call.
     
    58 were. 58 are now. 58. 58. 58.
     
    She comes undone….

     
    As I pen the letters of my epic
    She comes undone
    And presses me against the tides of madness
    Doth she not know that she is ever mine thou ever mad
    Doth she not see the love we might have had?
     
    I am thrust into a shame I can not bear
    Yet must
    She is chained as Myrrha was
    Unto the lust of Zeus
     
    My crime is plain for all the world to see
    My passion is the blight upon her tree.
     
    John Milton
    Upon the contemplation of his solitude and the causes of same
    1643 Evensong 23 September
    In the empty hall of Lawrence Lord Essex (long may he stay in London)
     
    In nominatum probitur
     
    The Passions of Man

    (As told to the author)
     
    Concupiscence:

     
    "Oh bleed the iniquity from out my flesh
    For I am found unworthy
    Let my rage be spent on somethinge spended grate
    The penalty for concupiscence must be high
    To make me so enflamed
    Tear the freedom from my very eyes that I be blind to her
    So that all my passions will be sooner blind
     
    I do not bleed despite my prayer
    And goes unanswered this my devil’s need."
     
    Were they unprotestant
    These would be Confession
    Were I but priest to lay shrive upon them
    But I am wicked much as He
    I am slave to witness the unfree.
     
    John Milton
    23 September 1642
    In the halls of Marbrey
    With Leighton and the children of misfortune
    Deus ex logos, diabolus in excelsus
     
     
    The Cruelty of the Summer

     
    As I was lashed by these uncertain tides
    The everlasting twilight waned
    Into the crimson dark
    The moon was past the new
     
    And somewhere ‘neath the star
    The child wept, the tears were washed away by rain
    And I was conquered by the pain of his lament.
     
    He will soon be free
    But how long will I remain
    Communicant for those who fight
    Again to die
    In parodies of pain
    Broken on the wheel of ignorant misfortune;
     
    This is the cruelty of the summer
    Unrelieved by autumn’s cooling rain.
     
    8-23-98
     
    Two will get you….. 9: Flight 2127
     
    The movement is afoot, and I am borne above.
    I slept as dead, the sleep of death I took
    Now all and everything begins.
     
     
    Day of the Empress
     

    Willowed down below, blasted far above,
    Here will not be found soft death.
    The measurement of seasons has begun
    And we are raised
    Each moment of our retrograde
    Is praised.
     
    Once were three, and now are three begun
    In worship in the light of Praise
    But none are sung.
    This day of Three has not in truth, begun.
    We are engaged,
    As all without, the world has grown enraged.
     
    9-4-98
    Portland
     
    Our Passion Met
     

    Our passion met the limit of our flesh
    And grew…
    And so, enflamed, we grew and meshed
    And could not meet anew
    We grew enflamed.
     
    Love, cannot my love be born in you afresh?
    Why do you ache to breathe me into you?
    Why goes unslaked the passion that awakes
    Anew, anew
    And sleeps within, to grasp my weary flesh?
     
    I cannot fulfill this endless lust,
    But try I will, but cease at last, I must.
     
    9-4-98
     
    We Fly

     
    As far as death has flung us from the Infinite
    We fly
    And toss our crowding madnesses
    Into the cloudless sky.
     
    The world is come unglued
    As far as we can cast ourselves
    Before the holy rood
    We sanctify Your reign.
     
    And we will live again
    Below the storm material
    Among the fruited plains
    All we have is harvested in rain.
     
    Will none believe we grew our love in pain?
    To throw forgiveness to the wind
    To love ourselves again
    It matters not
    For twice while four the clock is torn in twain.
     
    9-4-98
     
    My Wife

     
    How long I loved her, bright and dark
    My wife undone, my life unloved
    Yet could not please her, nor her rudeness sparked
    The horror of her aching dark.
     
    Oh death pursued her through her night
    And long she lusted for my pain
    We slake the beast but sooner does the beast return again
    I still pursue, though she is lost to light.
     
    My love, I pray, return to me
    Be heaven-born, be ever free
    And long I pled, she will not be
    And so undone, she flees from me.
     
    Though I am well, I am not whole
    Without the true companion soul
     
    JM
    On the Tract of Divorce
    1645 31 March

     
    Eros 13

     
    She was my wild love
    Unbridled and uncaring
    Tempted by the fullest fate, uncaring
    Did I take temptation then
    Oh yes, for I would take temptation then!
     
    For she was full of rapturous delight
    And she was eager for the finest of my goods
    She lay with me, and stole my greater light
    Enraptured by the fever of her night.
     
    My pleasured love, unending
    My death of consciousness
    How could I care, for naught was all forgotten?
    In the hideous incitement of her moods.
     
    I lay with Eros, and was lost within her Wood.
     
    9-4-98
     
    Aesculapius

     
    When I am the face of ugliness
    And greedy is my sole intent
    I fall, and in the falling am upend
    There I seek the willingness to mend.
     
    9-4-98
     
     
    Stone and Silence

     
    The stones that fell from outer sky
    Brought fever to the world below
    So far unknown, the wholly blest
    Were carriers of wretchedness.
     
    O Alien and cold, these conscienceless
    Within the broiling ocean
    Ceased to stir the froth of brine
    And murmured from below.
     
    Captured by the light Divine
    They swept their conquest clean
    And leading from the choir loft
    Their Host was Byzantine.
     
    Release the Host, thou Lord of Life
    And break the mold of Pichas
    Send the wretched back to Light
    And free the human home.
     
    8-Sep-98
     
     
    14-Sep-98
     
    This was the day of breaking through.
     
    All the life before the bleeding life began
    Came with me from that room…
     
    Now I know the Headsman
    And well I know the Warden
     
    They have marked my face in blood
    And never would my soul release
    The power that was
    Never theirs to take, but mine…
     
    And now I claim, by right Divine
    The power of the Light regained,
    Forever Thine.
     
    I will not be light denied
    For even though each day, I died
    The power of the Word survived.
     
     
    Bright and Fair

     
    And oh,
    As far as we were flung from Love in discord,
    As brutal as the war between us raged
    We were met
    And come together whole
    My love and I, we were engaged.
     
    And though as loud and terrible
    As Florestan has danced upon
    The world’s unholy stage
    Eusebius is laughing
    And the Emperor is laughing
    For the world is bright and fair
    And She has smiled upon me, bright and fair
    And all the world
    Is brightened by the Air.
     
    14-Sep-98
    R.S. at Autumn
    Gefallen sicherheit
     
    Thirty Days
     

    Thirty days ago
    The Trumpet blast was heard
    And all has fallen flat
    Before Thy word.
     
    And thirty days ago, I see
    I penned today a date
    And called I forth the Lion
    As the Profligate decreed.
     
    And Oh, the waste!
    I run among the billowed storm
    As though I have been chased
    All blood is thin as water
    And the moment is erased.
     
    I bleed for Thee, as long I lived
    Executrix for those who wait
    I feel the pang of leadership
    As long I wait to lead.
     
    Is today the day I lead?
    I would not care to
    Yet I have placed myself at liberty
    And freed I am to sorrow.
     
    And how should I be freed?
    I cannot say and yet I plead
    Let freedom come by joy
    And not be violence.
     
    We cannot have both scholarship
    And rest.
     
    How I longed to rest!
    The end has not yet come
    To end my test.
     
    On the day of release from Sorrow
    9-18-98
     
    Why dost thou weep?

     
    Pain has been my portion every day
    And now the rain is come
    My weeping has at length begun
    And fear has lighted on this empty page.
     
    How will she rage?
    For she would rage until my death
    If I would let her
    Oh my weeping one, when wilt Thou be assuaged?
    How can poetry contain Thy holy rage?
     
    Perhaps you wish to weep
    My love, my brutal wife
    If you would cry, and once at least,
    To sleep…
    Let me come to you,
    And let your rages keep.
     
    9-18-98
     
    In the Kingdom of the Air

     
    I seek the Light
    Prophet of the day before Tomorrow
    It is time we ended all our Sin
    It is time the speaking of the Lie is ceased.
     
    It is time the Angel blasts a tone
    To sound the Tone of silence
    Prolegomenon to Thy decree
    Yet I cannot cease myself.
     
    I pray You give surcease to Me.
     
    9-18-98
    Over Hood/30K
     
     
    Soon it will be time to wake again and resume.
     
    Oh my love,
    The cries that greet me now are
    Not of gladness, but of pain
    Why must we set this fevered course