<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340998" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Quest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A part, immutable, unseen,<br>Being, before itself had been,<br>Became. Like dew a triple queen<br>Shone as the void uncovered:<br>The silence of deep height was drawn<br>A veil across the silver dawn<br>On holy wings that hovered. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The music of three thoughts became <br>The beauty, that is one white flame,<br>The justice that surpasses shame,<br>The victory, the splendour,<br>The sacred fountain that is whirled<br>From depths beyond that older world<br>A new world to engender. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The kingdom is extended. Night<br>Dwells, and I contemplate the sight<br>That is not seeing, but the light<br>That secretly is kindled,<br>Though oft-time its most holy fire<br>Lacks oil, whene'er my own Desire<br>Before desire has dwindled. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see the thin web binding me<br>With thirteen cords of unity<br>Toward the calm centre of the sea.<br>(O thou supernal mother!)<br>The triple light my path divides<br>To twain and fifty sudden sides<br>Each perfect as each other. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now backwards, inwards still my mind<br>Must track the intangible and blind,<br>And seeking, shall securely find<br>Hidden in secret places<br>Fresh feasts for every soul that strives,<br>New life for many mystic lives,<br>And strange new forms and faces. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mind still searches, and attains<br>By many days and many pains<br>To That which Is and Was and reigns<br>Shadowed in four and ten;<br>And loses self in sacred lands,<br>And cries and quickens, and understands<br>Beyond the first Amen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aleister+Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340998" data-title="The Quest de Aleister Crowley" data-description="A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: The silence of deep height was drawn A veil across the silver dawn On holy wings that hovered. The music of three thoughts bec..."></div> </div> </div>

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