INVOCATION OF THE DIVINE MOTHER

FOR HER EMERALD OF LIFE

Shakti of God that moves upon the waters,

Greatness and wideness of Spirit everlasting,

From senses, mind and heart, from a myriad moods and quarters

Enter with Thy puissances, transmuting and recasting.

FOR HER TOPAZ OF TRUTH-EXISTENCE

Wisdom of God, silent above Time-sources,

Transcendent peak all creature-ken outvasting,

Bring to heaven's roadsteads earth by devious courses,

Calm, ordinant as lodestone though all ways are over casting.

FOR HER AMETHYST OF THE POWER OF BEAUTY

Beauty, star-enrobing, a strangling here

From eldest aeons fraught with overthrow

Of shadow hood, because Thy worshippers draw near,

Once gaze-and then forswear all ease until they know.

FOR HER RUBY OF REALISATION

Joyhood, earth-englobing, God-victory,

In the east Thy dawn-rose banners faintly show;

Aidant to Love, the spear-hosts sweep from Eternity,

Till Time is heaven-conquered and the dateless bugles blow.