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03:34 Feb 24 2007
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IF YOU LIKED THESE PICTURES ABOUT JESUS THEN SEE THIS ONE TOO.........



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a little humor....

04:53 Feb 08 2007
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ok after orpheus let us laught a little.i know it is not the suitable entry after the last one but it does not fit anywhere else!

just dont misunderstand the main subject,all of you who have actually read my profile and this journal up to now you may have understood my attitude and some of my values.so...........here it goes----just pictures ha?for those who are lazy lol



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The Initiations of Orpheus

23:52 Feb 06 2007
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ok i will put these here..... some of my favourite Orphic hymns.. i dont know if i write something about Orpheus.there are so many interesting things to say and i dont think i can write all about him! we'll see. but for now i let you feel the magick, and travel to an ancient world...all you have to do is to relax and let your imagination free....





II.

TO NIGHT.

The FUMIGATION with TORCHES.

NIGHT, parent goddess, source of sweet repose,

From whom at first both Gods and men arose,

Hear, blessed Venus, deck'd with starry light, 3

In sleep's deep silence dwelling Ebon night!

Dreams and soft case attend thy dusky train, 5

Pleas'd with the length'ned gloom and feaftful strain.

Dissolving anxious care, the friend of Mirth,

With darkling coursers riding round the earth.

Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play,

Whose drowsy pow'r divides the nat'ral day: 10

By Fate's decree you constant send the light

To deepest hell, remote from mortal sight

For dire Necessity which nought withstands,

Invests the world with adamantine bands.

Be present, Goddess, to thy suppliant's pray'r, 15

Desir'd by all, whom all alike revere,

Blessed, benevolent, with friendly aid

Dispell the fears of Twilight's dreadful shade.





IV.

TO FIRE.

The FUMIGATION from SAFFRON.

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O Ever untam'd Fire, who reign'st on high

In Jove's dominions ruler of the sky;

The glorious sun with dazzling lustre bright,

And moon and stars from thee derive their light;

All taming pow'r, ætherial shining fire, 5

Whose vivid blasts the heat of life inspire:

The world's best element, light-bearing pow'r,

With starry radiance shining, splendid flow'r,

O hear my suppliant pray'r, and may thy frame

Be ever innocent, serene, and tame. 10





V.

TO PROTOGONUS,

Or the FIRST-BORN.

The FUMIGATION from MYRRH.

O Mighty first-begotten, hear my pray'r, 1

Two-fold, egg-born, and wand'ring thro' the air,

Bull-roarer, glorying in thy golden wings, 3

From whom the race of Gods and mortals springs.

Ericapæus, celebrated pow'r, 5

Ineffable, occult, all shining flow'r.

From eyes obscure thou wip'st the gloom of night,

All-spreading splendour, pure and holy light

Hence Phanes call'd, the glory of the sky,

On waving pinions thro' the world you fly. 10

Priapus, dark-ey'd splendour, thee I sing,

Genial, all-prudent, ever-blessed king,

With joyful aspect on our rights divine

And holy sacrifice propitious shine.





VI.

TO THE STARS.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

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WITH holy voice I call the stars on high,

Pure sacred lights and genii of the sky.

Celestial stars, the progeny of Night,

In whirling circles beaming far your light,

Refulgent rays around the heav'ns ye throw, 5

Eternal fires, the source of all below.

With flames significant of Fate ye shine,

And aptly rule for men a path divine.

In seven bright zones ye run with wand'ring flames,

And heaven and earth compose your lucid frames: 10 10

With course unwearied, pure and fiery bright

Forever shining thro' the veil of Night.

Hail twinkling, joyful, ever wakeful fires!

Propitious shine on all my just desires;

These sacred rites regard with conscious rays, 15

And end our works devoted to your praise.





VII.

TO THE SUN.

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE and MANNA.

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HEAR golden Titan, whose eternal eye

With broad survey, illumines all the sky.

Self-born, unwearied in diffusing light,

And to all eyes the mirrour of delight:

Lord of the seasons, with thy fiery car 5

And leaping coursers, beaming light from far:

With thy right hand the source of morning light, 7

And with thy left the father of the night.

Agile and vig'rous, venerable Sun,

Fiery and bright around the heav'ns you run. 10

Foe to the wicked, but the good man's guide,

O'er all his steps propitious you preside:

With various founding, golden lyre, 'tis mine

To fill the world with harmony divine.

Father of ages, guide of prosp'rous deeds, 15

The world's commander, borne by lucid steeds,

Immortal Jove, all-searching, bearing light, 17

Source of existence, pure and fiery bright

Bearer of fruit, almighty lord of years,

Agil and warm, whom ev'ry pow'r reveres. 20

Great eye of Nature and the starry skies,

Doom'd with immortal flames to set and rise

Dispensing justice, lover of the stream,

The world's great despot, and o'er all supreme.

Faithful defender, and the eye of right, 25 25

Of steeds the ruler, and of life the light:

With founding whip four fiery steeds you guide,

When in the car of day you glorious ride.

Propitious on these mystic labours shine,

And bless thy suppliants with a life divine. 30





VIII.

TO THE MOON.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

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HEAR, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light,

Bull-horn'd and wand'ring thro' the gloom of Night. 2

With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide

Night's torch extending, thro' the heav'ns you ride:

Female and Male with borrow'd rays you shine, 5 5

And now full-orb'd, now tending to decline.

Mother of ages, fruit-producing Moon,

Whose amber orb makes Night's reflected noon:

Lover of horses, splendid, queen of Night,

All-seeing pow'r bedeck'd with starry light. 10

Lover of vigilance, the foe of strife,

In peace rejoicing, and a prudent life:

Fair lamp of Night, its ornament and friend,

Who giv'st to Nature's works their destin'd end. 14

Queen of the stars, all-wife Diana hail! 15

Deck'd with a graceful robe and shining veil;

Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright,

Come moony-lamp with chaste and splendid light,

Shine on these sacred rites with prosp'rous rays,

And pleas'd accept thy suppliant's mystic praise.





IX.

TO NATURE.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

NATURE, all parent, ancient, and divine,

O Much-mechanic mother, art is thine;

Heav'nly, abundant, venerable queen,

In ev'ry part of thy dominions seen.

Untam'd, all-taming, ever splendid light, 5

All ruling, honor'd, and supremly bright.

Immortal, first-born, ever still the same,

Nocturnal, starry, shining, glorious dame.

Thy feet's still traces in a circling course,

By thee are turn'd, with unremitting force. 10

Pure ornament of all the pow'rs divine,

Finite and infinite alike you shine; 12

To all things common and in all things known,

Yet incommunicable and alone.

Without a father of thy wond'rous frame, 15

Thyself the father whence thy essence came.

All-flourishing, connecting, mingling soul,

Leader and ruler of this mighty whole.

Life-bearer, all-sustaining, various nam'd,

And for commanding grace and beauty fam'd. 20

Justice, supreme in might, whose general sway

The waters of the restless deep obey.

Ætherial, earthly, for the pious glad,

Sweet to the good, but bitter to the bad.

All-wife, all bounteous, provident, divine, 25

A rich increase of nutriment is thine;

Father of all, great nurse, and mother kind,

Abundant, blessed, all-spermatic mind:

Mature, impetuous, from whose fertile seeds

And plastic hand, this changing scene proceeds. 30

All-parent pow'r, to mortal eyes unseen,

Eternal, moving, all-sagacious queen.

By thee the world, whose parts in rapid flow, 33

Like swift descending streams, no respite know,

On an eternal hinge, with steady course 35

Is whirl'd, with matchless, unremitting force.

Thron'd on a circling car, thy mighty hand

Holds and directs, the reins of wide command.

Various thy essence, honor'd, and the best,

Of judgement too, the general end and test. 40

Intrepid, fatal, all-subduing dame,

Life-everlasting, Parca, breathing flame.

Immortal, Providence, the world is thine,

And thou art all things, architect divine.

O blessed Goddess, hear thy suppliant's pray'r, 45

And make my future life, thy constant care;

Give plenteous seasons, and sufficient wealth,

And crown my days with lasting, peace and health.





X.

TO PAN

The FUMIGATION from VARIOUS ODORS

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I Call strong Pan, the substance of the whole,

Etherial, marine, earthly, general soul,

Immortal fire; for all the world is thine,

And all are parts of thee, O pow'r divine.

Come, blessed Pan, whom rural haunts delight, 5

Come, leaping, agile, wand'ring, starry light;

The Hours and Seasons, wait thy high command,

And round thy throne in graceful order stand.

Goat-footed, horned, Bacchanalian Pan,

Fanatic pow'r, from whom the world began, 10

Whose various parts by thee inspir'd, combine

In endless dance and melody divine.

In thee a refuge from our fears we find,

Those fears peculiar to the human kind.

Thee shepherds, streams of water, goats rejoice, 15

Thou. lov'st the chace, and Echo's secret voice: 16

The sportive nymphs, thy ev'ry step attend, 17

And all thy works fulfill their destin'd end.

O all-producing pow'r, much-fam'd, divine,

The world's great ruler, rich increase is thine. 20

All-fertile Pæan, heav'nly splendor pure,

In fruits rejoicing, and in caves obscure. 22

True serpent-horned Jove, whose dreadful rage 23

When rous'd, 'tis hard for mortals to asswage.

By thee the earth wide-bosom'd deep and long, 25

Stands on a basis permanent and strong.

Th' unwearied waters of the rolling sea,

Profoundly spreading, yield to thy decree.

Old Ocean too reveres thy high command,

Whose liquid arms begirt the solid land. 30

The spacious air, whose nutrimental fire,

And vivid blasts, the heat of life inspire

The lighter frame of fire, whose sparkling eye

Shines on the summit of the azure sky,

Submit alike to thee, whole general sway 35

All parts of matter, various form'd obey.

All nature's change thro' thy protecting care,

And all mankind thy lib'ral bounties share:

For these where'er dispers'd thro' boundless space,

Still find thy providence support their race. 40

Come, Bacchanalian, blessed power draw near,

Fanatic Pan, thy humble suppliant hear,

Propitious to these holy rites attend,

And grant my life may meet a prosp'rous end;

Drive panic Fury too, wherever found, 55

From human kind, to earth's remotest bound.





XII.

TO SATURN.

The FUMIGATION from STORAX.

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ETHERIAL father, mighty Titan, hear, 1

Great fire of Gods and men, whom all revere:

Endu'd with various council, pure and strong,

To whom perfection and decrease belong.

Consum'd by thee all forms that hourly die, 5

By thee restor'd, their former place supply;

The world immense in everlasting chains,

Strong and ineffable thy pow'r contains

Father of vast eternity, divine,

O mighty Saturn, various speech is thine: 10

Blossom of earth and of the starry skies,

Husband of Rhea, and Prometheus wife.

Obstetric Nature, venerable root,

From which the various forms of being shoot;

No parts peculiar can thy pow'r enclose, 15

Diffus'd thro' all, from which the world arose,

O, best of beings, of a subtle mind,

Propitious hear to holy pray'rs inclin'd;

The sacred rites benevolent attend,

And grant a blameless life, a blessed end.





XIV.

TO JUPITER.

The FUMIGATION from STORAX.

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O Jove much-honor'd, Jove supremely great,

To thee our holy rites we consecrate,

Our pray'rs and expiations, king divine,

For all things round thy head exalted shine.

The earth is thine, and mountains swelling high, 5

The sea profound, and all within the sky.

Saturnian king, descending from above,

Magnanimous, commanding, sceptred Jove;

All-parent, principle and end of all,

Whose pow'r almighty, shakes this earthly ball; 10

Ev'n Nature trembles at thy mighty nod,

Loud-sounding, arm'd with light'ning, thund'ring God.

Source of abundance, purifying king,

O various-form'd from whom all natures spring;

Propitious hear my pray'r, give blameless health, 15

With peace divine, and necessary wealth.





XVI.

TO NEPTUNE.

The FUMIGATION from MYRRH

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HEAR, Neptune, ruler of the sea profound,

Whose liquid grasp begirts the solid ground;

Who, at the bottom of the stormy main,

Dark and deep-bosom'd, hold'st thy wat'ry reign;

Thy awful hand the brazen trident bears,

And ocean's utmost bound, thy will reveres:

Thee I invoke, whose steeds the foam divide,

From whose dark locks the briny waters glide;

Whose voice loud founding thro' the roaring deep,

Drives all its billows, in a raging heap; 10

When fiercely riding thro' the boiling sea,

Thy hoarse command the trembling waves obey.

Earth shaking, dark-hair'd God, the liquid plains

(The third division) Fate to thee ordains,

'Tis thine, cærulian dæmon, to survey

Well pleas'd the monsters of the ocean play, 15

Confirm earth's basis, and with prosp'rous gales

Waft ships along, and swell the spacious sails;

Add gentle Peace, and fair-hair'd Health beside,

And pour abundance in a blameless tide. 20





XVII.

TO PLUTO.

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PLUTO, magnanimous, whose realms profound

Are fix'd beneath the firm and solid ground,

In the Tartarian plains remote from fight,

And wrapt forever in the depths of night;

Terrestrial Jove, thy sacred ear incline, 5 5

And, pleas'd, accept thy mystic's hymn divine.

Earth's keys to thee, illustrious king belong, 7

Its secret gates unlocking, deep and strong.

'Tis thine, abundant annual fruits to bear,

For needy mortals are thy constant care. 10

To thee, great king, Avernus is assign'd,

The seat of Gods, and basis of mankind.

Thy throne is fix'd in Hade's dismal plains,

Distant, unknown to rest, where darkness reigns;

Where, destitute of breath, pale spectres dwell, 15

In endless, dire, inexorable hell;

And in dread Acheron, whose depths obscure,

Earth's stable roots eternally secure.

O mighty dæmon, whose decision dread,

The future fate determines of the dead, 20

With captive Proserpine, thro' grassy plains,

Drawn in a four-yok'd car with loosen'd reins,

Rapt o'er the deep, impell'd by love, you flew

'Till Eleusina's city rose to view;

There, in a wond'rous cave obscure and deep, 25

The sacred maid secure from search you keep,

The cave of Atthis, whose wide gates display

An entrance to the kingdoms void of day.

Of unapparent works, thou art alone

The dispensator, visible and known. 30

O pow'r all-ruling, holy, honor'd light,

Thee sacred poets and their hymns delight:

Propitious to thy mystic's works incline,

Rejoicing come, for holy rites are thine.





XXIII.

TO THE NEREIDS.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

DAUGHTERS of Nereus, resident in caves

Merg'd deep in Ocean, sporting thro' the waves;

Fanatic fifty nymphs, who thro' the main

Delight to follow in the Triton's train,

Rejoicing close behind their cars to keep; 5

Whose forms half wild, are nourish'd by the deep,

With other nymphs of different degree

Leaping and wand'ring thro' the liquid sea:

Bright, wat'ry dolphins, sonorous and gay,

Well pleas'd to sport with bachanalian play; 10

Nymphs beauteous-ey'd, whom sacrifice delights,

Send rich abundance on our mystic rites;

For you at first disclos'd the rites divine,

Of holy Bacchus and of Proserpine,

Of fair Calliope from whom I spring, 15

And of Apollo bright, the Muse's king.





XXV.

TO THE EARTH

The FUMIGATION from every kind of SEED, except BEANS and AROMATICS.

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O Goddess, Earth, of Gods and men the source,

Endu'd with fertile, all destroying force;

All-parent, bounding, whose prolific pow'rs,

Produce a store of beauteous fruits and flow'rs,

All-various maid, th' eternal world's strong base 5

Immortal, blessed, crown'd with ev'ry grace;

From whose wide womb, as from an endless root,

Fruits, many-form'd, mature and grateful shoot.

Deep bosom'd, blessed, pleas'd with grassy plains,

Sweet to the smell, and with prolific rains. 10

All flow'ry dæmon, centre of the world,

Around thy orb, the beauteous stars are hurl'd

With rapid whirl, eternal and divine,

Whose frames with matchless skill and wisdom shine.

Come, blessed Goddess, listen to my pray'r, 15

And make increase of fruits thy constant care;

With fertile Seasons in thy train, draw near,

And with propitious mind thy suppliant hear.





XXVII.

TO MERCURY.

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.

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HERMES, draw near, and to my pray'r incline,

Angel of Jove, and Maia's son divine;

Studious of contests, ruler of mankind,

With heart almighty, and a prudent mind.

Celestial messenger, of various skill, 5

Whose pow'rful arts could watchful Argus kill:

With winged feet, 'tis thine thro' air to course,

O friend of man, and prophet of discourse:

Great life-supporter, to rejoice is thine,

In arts gymnastic, and in fraud divine: 10

With pow'r endu'd all language to explain,

Of care the loos'ner, and the source of gain.

Whose hand contains of blameless peace the rod,

Corucian, blessed, profitable God;

Of various speech, whose aid in works we find, 15

And in necessities to mortals kind:

Dire weapon of the tongue, which men revere,

Be present, Hermes, and thy suppliant hear;

Assist my works, conclude my life with peace,

Give graceful speech, and me memory's increase. 20





XXXI.

TO PALLAS.

A HYMN.

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ONLY-Begotten, noble race of Jove,

Blessed and fierce, who joy'st in caves to rove: 2

O, warlike Pallas, whose illustrious kind,

Ineffable and effable we find:

Magnanimous and fam'd, the rocky height, 5

And groves, and shady mountains thee delight:

In arms rejoicing, who with Furies dire

And wild, the souls of mortals dost inspire.

Gymnastic virgin of terrific mind,

Dire Gorgons bane, unmarried, blessed, kind: 10

Mother of arts, imperious; understood,

Rage to the wicked., wisdom to the good:

Female and male, the arts of war are thine,

Fanatic, much-form'd dragoness, divine: 14

O'er the Phlegrean giants rous'd to ire, 15 15

Thy coursers driving, with destruction dire.

Sprung from the head of Jove, of splendid mien,

Purger of evils, all-victorious queen.

Hear me, O Goddess, when to thee I pray,

With supplicating voice both night and day, 20

And in my latest hour, peace and health,

Propitious times, and necessary wealth,

And, ever present, be thy vot'ries aid,

O, much implor'd, art's parent, blue eyed maid.





XXXIII.

TO APOLLO.

The FUMIGATION from MANNA.

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BLEST Pæan, come, propitious to my pray'r,

Illustrious pow'r, whom Memphian tribes revere,

Slayer of Tityus, and the God of health,

Lycorian Phœbus, fruitful source of wealth .

Spermatic, golden-lyr'd, the field from thee 5

Receives it's constant, rich fertility.

Titanic, Grunian, Smynthian, thee I sing, 7

Python-destroying, hallow'd, Delphian king:

Rural, light-bearer, and the Muse's head,

Noble and lovely, arm'd with arrows dread: 10

Far-darting, Bacchian, two-fold, and divine, 11

Pow'r far diffused, and course oblique is thine.

O, Delian king, whose light-producing eye

Views all within, and all beneath the sky:

Whose locks are gold, whose oracles are sure, 15

Who, omens good reveal'st, and precepts pure:

Hear me entreating for the human kind,

Hear, and be present with benignant mind;

For thou survey'st this boundless æther all,

And ev'ry part of this terrestrial ball 20

Abundant, blessed; and thy piercing sight,

Extends beneath the gloomy, silent night;

Beyond the darkness, starry-ey'd, profound,

The stable roots, deep fix'd by thee are found.

The world's wide bounds, all-flourishing are thine, 25

Thyself all the source and end divine:

'Tis thine all Nature's music to inspire,

With various-sounding, harmonising lyre;

Now the last string thou tun'ft to sweet accord, 29

Divinely warbling now the highest chord; 30

Th' immortal golden lyre, now touch'd by thee,

Responsive yields a Dorian melody.

All Nature's tribes to thee their diff'rence owe,

And changing seasons from thy music flow

Hence, mix'd by thee in equal parts, advance 35

Summer and Winter in alternate dance;

This claims the highest, that the lowest string,

The Dorian measure tunes the lovely spring .

Hence by mankind, Pan-royal, two-horn'd nam'd, 39

Emitting whistling winds thro' Syrinx fam'd; 40 40

Since to thy care, the figur'd seal's consign'd, 41

Which stamps the world with forms of ev'ry kind.

Hear me, blest pow'r, and in these rites rejoice,

And save thy mystics with a suppliant voice.





XXXV.

TO DIANA.

The FUMIGATION from MANNA.

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Hear me, Jove's daughter, celebrated queen,

Bacchian and Titan, of a noble mien:

In darts rejoicing and on all to shine,

Torch-bearing Goddess, Dictynna divine;

O'er births presiding, and thyself a maid, 5 5

To labour-pangs imparting ready aid:

Dissolver of the zone and wrinkl'd care,

Fierce huntress, glorying in the Sylvan war:

Swift in the course, in dreadful arrows skill'd,

Wandering by night, rejoicing in the field: 10

Of manly form, erect, of bounteous mind,

Illustrious dæmon, nurse of human kind:

Immortal, earthly, bane of monsters fell,

'Tis thine; blest maid, on woody hills to dwell:

Foe of the stag, whom woods and dogs delight, 15

In endless youth who flourish fair and bright.

O, universal queen, august, divine,

A various form, Cydonian pow'r, is thine:

Dread guardian Goddess, with benignant mind

Auspicious, come to mystic rites inclin'd 20

Give earth a store of beauteous fruits to bear,

Send gentle Peace, and Health with lovely hair,

And to the mountains drive Disease and Care.





XLII

TO THE SEASONS.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

DAUGHTERS of Jove and Themis, seasons bright,

Justice, and blessed peace, and lawful right,

Vernal and grassy, vivid, holy pow'rs,

Whose balmy breath exhales in lovely flow'rs

All-colour'd seasons, rich increase your care, 5

Circling, for ever flourishing and fair:

Invested with a veil of shining dew,

A flow'ry veil delightful to the view:

Attending Proserpine, when back from night,

The Fates and Graces lead her up to light; 10

When in a band-harmonious they advance,

And joyful round her, form the solemn dance:

With Ceres triumphing, and Jove divine;

Propitious come, and on our incense shine;

Give earth a blameless store of fruits to bear, 15

And make a novel mystic's life your care.





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TO THE NYMPHS.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

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NYMPHS, who from Ocean's stream derive your birth,

Who dwell in liquid caverns of the earth

Nurses of Bacchus secret-coursing pow'r,

Who fruits sustain, and nourish ev'ry flow'r:

Earthly, rejoicing, who in meadows dwell, 5

And caves and dens, whose depths extend to hell:

Holy, oblique, who swiftly soar thro' air,

Fountains and dews, and mazy streams your care:

Seen and unseen, who joy with wand'rings wide

And gentle course, thro' flow'ry vales to glide; 10

With Pan exulting on the mountains height,

Loud-founding, mad, whom rocks and woods delight:

Nymphs od'rous, rob'd in white, whose streams exhale

The breeze refreshing, and the balmy gale;

With goats and pastures pleas'd, and beasts of prey, 15

Nurses of fruits, unconscious of decay:

In cold rejoicing, and to cattle kind,

Sportive thro' ocean wand'ring unconfin'd:

Nysian, fanatic Nymphs, whom oaks delight,

Lovers of Spring, Pæonian virgins bright. 20

With Bacchus, and with Ceres, hear my pray'r.

And to mankind abundant favour bear;

Propitious listen to your suppliants voice,

Come, and benignant in these rites rejoice;

Give plenteous Seasons, and sufficient wealth, 25

And pour; in lasting streams, continued Health.





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TO VENUS.

A HYMN.

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HEAV'NLY, illustrious, laughter-loving queen,

Sea-born, night-loving, of an awful mien;

Crafty, from whom necessity first came,

Producing, nightly, all-connecting dame:

'Tis thine the world with harmony to join, 5 5

For all things spring from thee, O pow'r divine.

The triple Fates are rul'd by thy decree,

And all productions yield alike to thee:

Whate'er the heav'ns, encircling all contain,

Earth fruit-producing, and the stormy main, 10

Thy sway confesses, and obeys thy nod,

Awful attendant of the brumal God:

Goddess of marriage, charming to the sight,

Mother of Loves, whom banquetings delight;

Source of persuasion, secret, fav'ring queen, 15

Illustrious born, apparent and unseen:

Spousal, lupercal, and to men inclin'd,

Prolific, most-desir'd, life-giving., kind:

Great sceptre-bearer of the Gods, 'tis thine,

Mortals in necessary bands to join; 20

And ev'ry tribe of savage monsters dire

In magic chains to bind, thro' mad desire.

Come, Cyprus-born, and to my pray'r incline,

Whether exalted in the heav'ns you shine,

Or pleas'd in Syria's temple to preside, 25

Or o'er th' Egyptian plains thy car to guide,

Fashion'd of gold; and near its sacred flood,

Fertile and fam'd to fix thy blest abode;

Or if rejoicing in the azure shores,

Near where the sea with foaming billows roars, 30

The circling choirs of mortals, thy delight,

Or beauteous nymphs, with eyes cerulean bright,

Pleas'd by the dusty banks renown'd of old,

To drive thy rapid, two-yok'd car of gold;

Or if in Cyprus with thy mother fair, 35

Where married females praise thee ev'ry year,

And beauteous virgins in the chorus join,

Adonis pure to sing and thee divine;

Come, all-attractive to my pray'r inclin'd,

For thee, I call, with holy, reverent mind. 40





LV.

TO ADONIS.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

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MUCH-nam'd, and best of dæmons, hear my pray'r,

The desart-loving, deck'd with tender hair;

Joy to diffuse, by all desir'd is thine,

Much form'd, Eubulus; aliment divine

Female and Male, all charming to the sight, 5

Adonis ever flourishing and bright;

At stated periods doom'd to set and rise,

With splendid lamp, the glory of the skies. 8

Two-horn'd and lovely, reverenc'd with tears,

Of beauteous form, adorn'd with copious hairs. 10

Rejoicing in the chace, all-graceful pow'r,

Sweet plant of Venus, Love's delightful flow'r:

Descended from the secret bed divine,

Of lovely-hair'd, infernal Proserpine.

'Tis thine to fink in Tartarus profound, 15

And shine again thro' heav'ns illustrious round,

With beauteous temp'ral orb restor'd to sight;

Come, with earth's fruits, and in these flames delight.





LVII.

TO CUPID, OR LOVE.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

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I Call great Cupid, source of sweet delight,

Holy and pure, and lovely to the sight;

Darting, and wing'd, impetuous fierce desire,

With Gods and mortals playing, wand'ring fire:

Cautious, and two-fold, keeper of the keys 5

Of heav'n and earth, the air, and spreading seas;

Of all that Ceres' fertile realms contains,

By which th' all-parent Goddess life sustains,

Or dismal Tartarus is doom'd to keep,

Widely extended, or the sounding, deep; 10

For thee, all Nature's various realms obey,

Who rul'st alone, with universal sway.

Come, blessed pow'r, regard these mystic fires,

And far avert, unlawful mad desires.





LVIII.

TO THE FATES.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

DAUGHTERS of darkling night, much-nam'd, draw near

Infinite Fates, and listen to my pray'r;

Who in the heav'nly lake (where waters white 3

Burst from a fountain hid in depths of night,

And thro' a dark and stony cavern glide, 5

A cave profound, invisible) abide;

From whence, wide coursing round the boundless earth,

Your pow'r extends to those of mortal birth

To men with hope elated, trifling, gay,

A race presumptuous, born but to decay; 10

Whose life 'tis your's in darkness to conceal

To sense impervious, in a purple veil,

When thro' the fatal plain they joyful ride

In one great car, Opinion for their guide;

'Till each completes his heav'n-appointed round 15

At Justice, Hope, and Care's concluding bound,

The terms absolv'd, prescrib'd by ancient law

Of pow'r immense, and just without a flaw;

For Fate alone with vision unconfin'd,

Surveys the conduct of the mortal kind. 20

Fate is Jove's perfect and eternal eye,

For Jove and Fate our ev'ry deed descry.

Come, gentle pow'rs, well born, benignant, fam'd,

Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho nam'd:

Unchang'd, aerial, wand'ring in the night, 25

Restless, invisible to mortal fight;

Fates all-producing all-destroying hear,

Regard the incense and the holy pray'r;

Propitious listen to these rites inclin'd,

And far avert distress with placid mind. 30





LX.

TO NEMESIS.

A HYMN.

THEE, Nemesis I call, almighty queen,

By whom the deeds of mortal life are seen:

Eternal, much rever'd, of boundless sight,

Alone rejoicing in the just and right:

Changing the counsels of the human breast 5

For ever various, rolling without rest.

To every mortal is thy influence known,

And men beneath thy righteous bondage groan;

For ev'ry thought within the mind conceal'd

Is to thy fight perspicuously reveal'd. 10

The soul unwilling reason to obey

By lawless passion rul'd, thy eyes survey.

All to see, hear, and rule, O pow'r divine

Whose nature Equity contains, is thine.

Come, blessed, holy Goddess, hear my pray'r, 15

And make thy mystic's life, thy constant care:

Give aid benignant in the needful hour,

And strength abundant to the reas'ning pow'r;

And far avert the dire, unfriendly race

Of counsels impious, arrogant, and base. 20





LXI.

TO JUSTICE.

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.

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THE piercing eye of Justice bright, I sing, 1

Plac'd by the throne of heav'n's almighty king,

Perceiving thence, with vision unconfin'd,

The life and conduct of the human kind

To thee, revenge and punishment belong, 5

Chastising ev'ry deed, unjust and wrong;

Whose pow'r alone, dissimilars can join,

And from th' equality of truth combine:

For all the ill, persuasion can inspire,

When urging bad designs, with counsel dire, 10

'Tis thine alone to punish; with the race

Of lawless passions, and incentives base;

For thou art ever to the good inclin'd,

And hostile to the men of evil mind.

Come, all-propitious, and thy suppliant hear, 15

When Fate's predestin'd, final hour draws near.





LXIII.

TO LAW

A HYMN.

THE holy king of Gods and men I call,

Celestial Law, the righteous seal of all;

The seal which stamps whate'er the earth contains,

Nature's firm basis, and the liquid plains:

Stable, and starry, of harmonious frame, 5

Preserving laws eternally the same:

Thy all-composing pow'r in heaven appears,

Connects its frame, and props the starry spheres;

And shakes weak Envy with tremendous sound,

Toss'd by thy arm in giddy whirls around. 10

'Tis thine, the life of mortals to defend,

And crown existence with a blessed end;

For thy command and alone, of all that lives

Order and rule to ev'ry dwelling gives:

Ever observant of the upright mind, 15

And of just actions the companion kind;

Foe to the lawless, with avenging ire,

Their steps involving in destruction dire.

Come, bless, abundant pow'r, whom all revere,

By all desir'd, with favr'ing mind draw near; 20

Give me thro' life, on thee to fix my fight,

And ne'er forsake the equal paths of right.





LXIV.

TO MARS .

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.

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Magnanimous, unconquer'd, boistrous Mars,

In darts rejoicing, and in bloody wars

Fierce and untam'd, whose mighty pow'r can make

The strongest walls from their foundations shake:

Mortal destroying king, defil'd with gore, 5

Pleas'd with war's dreadful and tumultuous roar:

Thee, human blood, and swords, and spears delight,

And the dire ruin of mad savage fight.

Stay, furious contests, and avenging strife,

Whose works with woe, embitter human life; 10

To lovely Venus, and to Bacchus yield,

To Ceres give the weapons of the field;

Encourage peace, to gentle works inclin'd,

And give abundance, with benignant mind.





LXVIII.

TO THE FURIES

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

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VOCIFEROUS Bacchanalian Furies, hear!

Ye, I invoke, dread pow'rs, whom all revere;

Nightly, profound, in secret who retire,

Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megara dire:

Deep in a cavern merg'd, involv'd in night, 5

Near where Styx flows impervious to the sight;

Ever attendant on mysterious rites,

Furious and fierce, whom Fate's dread law delights;

Revenge and sorrows dire to you belong,

Hid in a savage veil, severe and strong, 10

Terrific virgins, who forever dwell

Endu'd with various forms, in deepest hell;

Aerial, and unseen by human kind,

And swiftly coursing, rapid as the mind.

In vain the Sun with wing'd refulgence bright, 15

In vain the Moon, far darting milder light,

Wisdom and Virtue may attempt in vain;

And pleasing, Art, our transport to obtain

Unless with these you readily conspire,

And far avert your all-destructive ire. 20

The boundless tribes of mortals you descry,

And justly rule with Right's impartial eye.

Come, snaky-hair'd, Fates many-form'd, divine,

Suppress your rage, and to our rites incline.





LXIX.

TO THE FURIES.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

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HEAR me, illustrious Furies, mighty nam'd,

Terrific pow'rs, for prudent counsel fam'd;

Holy and pure, from Jove terrestrial born

And Proserpine, whom lovely locks adorn:

Whose piercing sight, with vision unconfin'd, 5

Surveys the deeds of all the impious kind:

On Fate attendant, punishing the race

(With wrath severe) of deeds unjust and base.

Dark-colour'd queens, whose glittering eyes, are bright

With dreadful, radiant, life-destroying, light: 10

Eternal rulers, terrible and strong,

To whom revenge, and tortures dire belong;

Fatal and horrid to the human sight,

With snaky tresses wand'ring in the night;

Either approach, and in these rites rejoice, 15

For ye, I call, with holy, suppliant voice.





LXXI.

TO FORTUNE.

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.

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Approach strong Fortune, with propitious mind

And rich abundance, to my pray'r inclin'd

Placid, and gentle Trivia, mighty nam'd, 3

Imperial Dian, born of Pluto fam'd;

Mankind's unconquer'd, endless praise is thine, 5

Sepulch'ral, widely-wand'ring pow'r divine!

In thee, our various mortal life is found,

And some from thee hi copious wealth abound;

While others mourn thy hand averse to bless,

In all the bitterness of deep distress. 10

Bc present, Goddess, to thy vot'ry kind,

And give abundance with benignant mind.





LXXV.

TO THE MUSES.

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.

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Daughters of Jove, dire-sounding and divine, 1

Renown'd Pierian, sweetly speaking Nine;

To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire

Much-form'd, the objects of supreme desire:

Sources of blameless virtue to mankind, 5

Who form to excellence the youthful mind;

Who nurse the soul, and give her to descry

The paths of right with Reason's steady eye.

Commanding queens who lead to sacred light

The intellect refin'd from Error's night; 10

And to mankind each holy rite disclose,

For mystic knowledge from your nature flows.

Clio, and Erato, who charms the sight,

With thee Euterpe minist'ring delight:

Thalia flourishing, Polymina fam'd, 15

Melpomene from skill in music nam'd:

Terpischore, Urania heav'nly bright,

With thee * who gav'st me to behold the light.

Come, venerable, various, pow'rs divine,

With fav'ring aspect on your mystics shine; 20

Bring glorious, ardent, lovely, fam'd desire,

And warm my bosom with your sacred fire.





LXXXII.

TO OCEAN.

The Fumigation from AROMATICS

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OCEAN I call, whose nature ever flows,

From whom at first both Gods and men arose;

Sire incorruptible, whose waves surround, 3

And earth's concluding mighty circle bound:

Hence every river, hence the spreading sea, 5

And earth's pure bubbling fountains spring from thee:

Hear, mighty fire, for boundless bliss is thine,

Whose waters purify the pow'rs divine:

Earth's friendly limit, fountain of the pole,

Whose waves wide spreading and circumfluent roll.

Approach benevolent, with placid mind,

And be for ever to thy mystics kind.





LXXXIV.

TO SLEEP.

The FUMIGATION from a Poppy.

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SLEEP, king of Gods, and men of mortal birth,

Sov'reign of all sustain'd by mother Earth;

For thy dominion is supreme alone,

O'er all extended, and by all things known.

'Tis thine all bodies with benignant mind 5

In other bands than those of brass to bind:

Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose,

From whom sweet solace in affliction flows.

Thy pleasing, gentle chains preserve the soul,

And e'en the dreadful cares of death controul; 10

For death and Lethe with oblivious stream,

Mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem.

With fav'ring aspect to my pray'r incline,

And save thy mystics in their works divine.





LXXXV.

TO THE DIVINITY OF DREAMS.

The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS.

THEE I invoke, blest pow'r of dreams divine,

Angel of future fates, swift wings are thine:

Great source of oracles to human kind,

When stealing soft, and whisp'ring to the mind,

Thro' sleep's sweet silence and the gloom of night, 5

Thy pow'r awakes th' intellectual fight;

To silent souls the will of heav'n relates,

And silently reveals their future fates.

For ever friendly to the upright mind

Sacred and pure, to holy rites inclin'd; 10

For these with pleasing hope thy dreams inspire,

Bliss to anticipate, which all desire.

Thy visions manifest of fate disclose,

What methods best may mitigate our woes;

Reveal what rites the Gods immortal please, 15

And what the means their anger to appease:

For ever tranquil is the good man's end,

Whose life, thy dreams admonish and defend.

But from the wicked turn'd averse to bless,

Thy form unseen, the angel of distress; 20

No means to cheek approaching ill they find,

Pensive with fears, and to the future blind.

Come, blessed pow'r, the signatures reveal

Which heav'n's decrees mysteriously conceal,

Signs only present to the worthy mind, 25

Nor omens ill disclose of monst'rous kind.





LXXXVI.

TO DEATH.

The FUMIGATION from MANNA.

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HEAR me, O Death, whose empire unconfin'd,

Extends to mortal tribes of ev'ry kind.

On thee, the portion of our time depends,

Whose absence lengthens life, whose presence ends.

Thy sleep perpetual bursts the vivid folds, 5

By which the soul, attracting body holds: 6

Common to all of ev'ry sex and age,

For nought escapes thy all-destructive rage;

Not youth itself thy clemency can gain,

Vig'rous and strong, by thee untimely slain. 10

In thee, the end of nature's works is known,

In thee, all judgment is absolv'd alone:

No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage controul,

No vows revoke the purpose of thy soul;

O blessed pow'r regard my ardent pray'r, 15

And human life to age abundant spare.



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this is what i want.......

04:35 Feb 02 2007
Times Read: 572


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as an image,as a meaning-the rose on the cross, i lloved it and i want it.i dont know if i can acomplish that,it's too difficult for anybody, but i can keep viewing it, every time i like it more... i will add an entry about rosae crusis (in the "spells" column) when i can, so come back if you are interested, i think you'll like it....as i do.

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Chris De Burgh---Spanish Train

03:45 Feb 01 2007
Times Read: 499


i did not know where to put this so i put it here. well then i'll be puting here things that dont match in the other themes.

its a song with wonderful lyrics that an ex of mine (i hate this word but.....well there is no other to use) gave me.......

enjoy it.





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There's a Spanish train that runs between

Quadalquivir and old Seville,

And at dead of night the whistle blows,

and people hear she's running still...



And then they hush their children back to sleep,

Lock the doors, upstairs they creep,

For it is said that the souls of the dead

Fill that train ten thousand deep!!



Well a railwayman lay dying with his people by his side,

His family were crying, knelt in prayer before he died,

But above his bed just a-waiting for the dead,

Was the Devil with a twinkle in his eye,

"Well God's not around and look what I've found,

this one's mine!!"



Just then the Lord himself appeared in a blinding flash of light,

And shouted at the devil, "Get thee hence to endless night!!"

But the Devil just grinned and said "I may have sinned,

But there's no need to push me around,

I got him first so you can do your worst,

He's going underground!!"



"But I think I'll give you one more chance"

said the Devil with a smile,

"So throw away that stupid lance,

It's really not your style",

Joker is the name, Poker is the game,

we'll play right here on this bed,

And then we'll bet for the biggest stakes yet,

the souls of the dead!!"



And I said "Look out, Lord, he's going to win,

The sun is down and the night is riding in,

That train is dead on time, many souls are on the line,

Oh Lord, he's going to win!.."



Well the railwayman he cut the cards

and he dealt them each a hand of five

And for the Lord he was praying hard

or that train he'd have to drive...

Well the Devil he had three aces and a king,

and the Lord, he was running for a straight,

he had the queen and the knave and the nine and ten of spades,

All he needed was the eight...



And then the Lord he called for one more card,

but he drew the diamond eight,

And the Devil said to the son of God,

"I believe you've got it straight,

So deal me one for the time has come

to see who'll be the king of this place,

But as he spoke, from beneath his cloak,

he slipped another ace...



Ten thousand souls was the opening bid,

and it soon went up to fifty-nine,

but the Lord didn't see what the Devil did,

and he said "that suits me fine",

"I'll raise you high to hundred and five,

and forever put an end to your sins",

But the Devil let out a mighty shout, "My hand wins!!"



And I said "Lord, oh Lord, you let him win,

The sun is down and the night is riding in,

That train is dead on time, many souls are on the line,

Oh Lord, don't let him win..."



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Well that Spanish train still runs between,

Quadalquivir and old Seville,

And at dead of night the whistle blows,

And people fear she's running still...

And far away in some recess

The Lord and the Devil are now playing chess,

The Devil still cheats and wins more souls,

And as for the Lord, well, he's just doing his best...



And I said "Lord, oh Lord, you've got to win,

The Sun is down and the night is riding in,

That train is still on time, Oh my soul is on the line,

Oh Lord, you've got to win..."


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