Collected Works (Vol. II)

198 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— De Acosta (José) Natural and Moral His- 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. Carlyle . . Past and Present. Cheruel, A. . Dictionnaire historique dela France. Christian, P . Histoire de la Magie