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Proofread Lucifer volume I against original scans; correct text, footnotes, quotations, verse, contents and authorship
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| original language = English | | original language = English | ||
| original author name = | | original author name = Gerald Massey | ||
| original title = The Lady of Light | | original title = The Lady of Light | ||
| publication date = October 1887 | | publication date = October 1887 | ||
| publications = [[Lucifer/Vol1/Text | | publications = [[Lucifer/Vol1/Text|''Lucifer'', vol. 1, no. 2]], October 1887, pp. 81-82 | ||
| read links = [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60852/60852-h/60852-h.htm#Page_81 | | read links = [[Lucifer/Vol1/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]]; [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60852/60852-h/60852-h.htm#Page_81 Project Gutenberg library] | ||
| download links = [https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/lucifer/lucifer_v1_n2_oct_1887.pdf Original issue (PDF)] | | download links = [https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/lucifer/lucifer_v1_n2_oct_1887.pdf Original issue (PDF)] | ||
| origin = English: ''The Lady of Light'' | | origin = English: Gerald Massey, ''The Lady of Light'' | ||
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= | {{Style P-Poem|title=The Lady of Light.<br>(''Written for'' <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Lucifer.</span>)|poem=<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Star</span> of the Day and the Night! | ||
Star of the Dark that is dying; | |||
(''Written for'' Lucifer.) | Star of the Dawn that is nighing, | ||
Lucifer, Lady of Light!<ref name="nf19">The reader well versed in symbology and theogony is, of course, aware that every god and goddess of the ancient pantheons is androgynous in his or her genealogy. Thus our Lucifer, the “Morning Star,” being identical with Venus, is, therefore, the same as the Chaldean Istar, or the Jewish Astoreth, to whom the Hebrews offered cakes and buns, addressing her as the Lady of Light and the Queen of Heaven. She is the “great star,” ''Wormwood'', whom the misanthropical St. John sees falling down to the earth in ''Revelation'' (Chapter viii.), as her great rival is ''Aima'', the fruitful mother, or the third Sephiroth Binah (IHVH ALHIM, or the female Jah-hovah), the “woman with child,” in Chapter xii. of the same.</ref> | |||
Star of the Day and the Night! | * * | ||
Still with the purest in white, | |||
Star of the Dark that is dying; | Still art thou Queen of the Seven; | ||
Thou hast not fallen from Heaven | |||
Star of the Dawn that is nighing, | Lucifer, Lady of Light! | ||
* * | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light!<ref name="nf19">The reader well versed in symbology and theogony is, of course, aware that every god and goddess of the ancient pantheons is androgynous in his or her genealogy. Thus our Lucifer, the “Morning Star,” being identical with Venus, is, therefore, the same as the Chaldean Istar, or the Jewish Astoreth, to whom the Hebrews offered cakes and buns, addressing her as the Lady of Light and the Queen of Heaven. She is the “great star,” ''Wormwood'', whom the misanthropical St. John sees falling down to the earth in Revelation (Chapter viii.), as her great rival is ''Aima'', the fruitful mother, or the third Sephiroth Binah (IHVH ALHIM, or the female Jah-hovah), the “woman with child,” in Chapter xii. of the same.</ref | How large in thy lustre, how bright | ||
The beauty of promise thou wearest! | |||
* | The message of Morning thou bearest, | ||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | |||
Still with the purest in white, | * * | ||
Aid us in putting to flight | |||
Still art thou Queen of the Seven; | The Shadows that darken about us, | ||
Illumine within, as without, us, | |||
Thou hast not fallen from Heaven | Lucifer, Lady of Light! | ||
* * | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | }} | ||
* | |||
How large in thy lustre, how bright | |||
The beauty of promise thou wearest! | |||
The message of Morning thou bearest, | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | |||
* | |||
Aid us in putting to flight | |||
The Shadows that darken about us, | |||
Illumine within, as without, us, | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | |||
{{Page aside|82}} | |||
Gerald Massey. | {{Style P-Poem|poem=Shine through the thick of our fight; | ||
Open the eyes of the sleeping; | |||
Dry up the tears of the weeping, | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | |||
* * | |||
Purge with thy pureness our sight, | |||
Thou light of the lost ones who love us, | |||
Thou lamp of the Leader above us, | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | |||
* * | |||
Shine with transfiguring might, | |||
Till earth shall reflect back as human | |||
Thy Likeness, Celestial Woman, | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | |||
* * | |||
With the flame of thy radiance smite | |||
The clouds that are veiling the vision | |||
Of Woman’s millennial mission, | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | |||
* * | |||
Shine in the Depth and the Height, | |||
And show us the treasuries olden | |||
Of wisdom, the hidden, the golden, | |||
Lucifer, Lady of Light! | |||
|signature=<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Gerald Massey.</span>}} | |||
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