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THE SWORD OF SONG
all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind
of fiends ever brought up from the pit. But
always to the very end his power is un-
exhausted, immense, terrible. His delirium
does not amuse; it appals! A man whocould
conceive as he did must himself have had some
glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the
eternal principle of Boundless Love, That
this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort
a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow.
He might have been so great! He missed
Heaven! ‘Think kindly of him!
169. Correctly rhymes.41—Such lines, how-
ever noble in sentiment, as: ‘‘A bas les
Anglais! The Irish up!” will not be admitted
to the competition, Irish is accented on the
penultimate—bad cess to the bloody Saxons
that made it so!
The same with Tarshish (see Browning,
Pippa Passes, I1., in the long:speech of Blu-
phocks) and many others.
173. The liar Copleston.42 *—Bishop of Cal-
_ * Copies were sent to any living persons mentioned
in the ‘ Sword of Song,” accompanied by the follow-
ing letter :
Letters and Telegrams: BOLESKINE FOYERS
is sufficient address.
Bills, Writs, Summonses, etc. : CAMP XI., THE
BALTORO GLACIER, BALTISTAN.
O Millionaire !
Mr. Editor!
Dear Mrs. Eddy,
Your Holiness the Pope !
Your-Imperial Majesty !
Your Majesty!
My lord Marquis,
My lord Viscount,
My lord Earl,
My lord,
My lord Bishop,
Reverend sir,
Your Royal Highness! Sir,
Dear Miss Corelli, Fellow,
Your Serene Highness! Dog!
My lord Cardinal,
My lord Archbishop, Mr. Senator,
My lord Duke, Mr. President,
(or the feminine of any of these), as shown
by underlining it,
Courtesy demands, in view of the
(a) tribute to your genius
(6) attack on your (1) political
(2) moral
(3) social
(4) mental
(5) physical character
(c) homage to your grandeur
(d@) reference to your conduct
(e) appeal to your better feelings
on page of my masterpiece, ‘‘The Sword of
Song,” that I should send you a copy, as I do here-
with, to give you an opportunity of defending your-
self against my monstrous assertions, thanking me
for the advertisement, or——in short, replying as
may best seem to you to suit the case.
Your humble, obedient servant,
ALEISTER CROWLEY.
Mr. Congressman,
cutta. While holding the see of Ceylon he
wrote a book in which ‘‘ Buddhism ”’ is de-
scribed as consisting of ‘‘ devil-dances.” Now,
when a man, in a position to know the facts,
writes a book of the subscription-cadging type,
whose value for this purpose depends on the
suppression of these facts, I think Iam to be
commended for my moderation in using the
term ‘‘ liar.”
212.—/bsen.43—Norwegian dramatist. This
and the next sentence have nineteen distinct
meanings. As, however, all (with one doubt-
ful exception) are true, and taken together
synthetically connote my concept,I have let
the passage stand,
219. / was Lord Roberts, he De Wet.44— Vide
Sir A. Conan Doyle’s masterly fiction, ‘‘ The
Great Boer War.”’
222. Hill.4°—An archaic phrase signifying
kopje.
223. Ditch.46—Probably an obsolete slang
tern for spruit.
273. Some.4’—The reader may search modern
periodicals for this theory.
282. The Tmolian.8—Tmolus, who decided
the musical contest between Pan and Apollo
in favour of the latter.
321. As masters teach.48—Consult Viveka-
nanda, of. cit., or the Hathayoga Pradi-
pika. Unfortunately, I am unable to say
where (or even whether) a copy of this latter
work exists.
331, 332. Stand.—(Stephen) or stt (Paul).5°
Acts vil. 36; Heb. xii. 2,
. 337. Samadhi-Dak.*\— ‘' Ecstasy-of-medita-
tion mail.”
338. Maha-Meru.2—The ‘‘mystic moun-
tain” of the Hindus. See Southey’s Curse of
Kehama.
339. Gaurtsankar.538— Called also Chomo-
kankar, Devadhunga, and Everest.
341. Chogo.*4—The Giant. This is the native
name of ‘‘ K2”; or Mount Godwin-Austen,
as Col. Godwin-Austen would call.it. It is
the second highest known mountain in the
world, as Devadhunga is the first.
356. The history of the West,5—
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tory of the Indies.
Alison, Sir A. History of Scotland.
Benzoni History of the New World.
Buckle. . History of Civilisation.
Burton, J. H. History of Scotland.
Carlyle History of Frederick the
Great.
Carlyle Oliver Cromwell.
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Cheruel, A. . Dictionnaire historique dela
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