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98 KONX OM PAX I eat her flesh: I drink her blood. God! could I love a woman more By Arno’s flower-enamelled shore, or Father Tiber‘s tawny flood? And reeking with her lusty life I back the gilded mask and burn With joy and hate. Aha! to turn to my own guts the glutted knife! 0 Satan! stand morose and cold above our bodies swimming thus And plunge thy glory into us, and fan our death with plumes of gold! Write with our blood before thee spilt on catafalque and catacomb The dire monition of our doom, the story of the Mask of Gilt! The paradox is ri…
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78 KONX OM PAX Old spider waiting with thy web aspin Till all Granada thou hast gathered inl The blood of bulls and goats would satisfy Of old the hellish thirst of the Most High. Well—at the worst Jehovah’s altars smoke And hiss with flesh of his own favoured folk. But Thou, O Christ, dost glut thy lust refined Upon the ravaged souls of all mankind. An excellent photograph, said the big man. My own words just now were as strong, I think. Yet the one answer answers all. Arthur Gray broke in. You should hear the whole story, he said. Look at the i…
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… WAKE WORLD 17 and the din was simply fearful. So to get the noise out of my head, I took the little whip and whipped myself till all my blood poured down over everything, and I saw the whole house like a cataract of foaming blood rushing headlong from the flaming and scintillating Star of Fire that blazed and blazed in the candescent dome, and everything went red before my eyes, and a great flame like a strong wind blew through the House with a noise louder than any thunder could possibly be, so that I couldn’t hold myself hardly, and I took up …
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…ry fond of. But I couldn’t go away without gfdulfl et something of his, so I took a shepherd’s staff, and a little whip with os'ii'iedism blood on it, and jewels oozing from the blood, if you know what I mean, that they had put in his hands when they buried him. Then I went away, and cried, and cried, and cried. But before I had got very far they called me back; and the people who had been so stern were smiling, and I saw they had taken the coflin out of the little C_urinter mortuos room with seven sides. And the coffin was quite, quite empty. The…
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THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 83 THE WIFE-BEATER I BRUISED your body with the whip: Its wheals stand out in ridgéd azure. The savage blood upon your lip Images hurt, and hurt’s erasure. The pain transmuted into passion; And passion’s min was not pain; But my pain wears another fashion; My dead men do not rise again. You hurt me, and the silent skin Whispers no word of bleeding bruises; Your subtle hate, your cunning sin Brands and corrodes me where it chooses. I fear not them that kill the body, But rather them that hurt the soul: My soul with …
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…, The woe begins; the vial brims, And all the anguish of your lover And you is hidden in wrestling limbs. Drain the black cup of bruiséd bloodl Its bitter shall beget devotion, And Bacchus sweep its frenzied flood Into the Eleusinian oceanl Certainly, the plane is very low indeed. We hardly came here to learn thatl said Basil indignantly. We all know that cold-blooded murder (even) may become a duty—witness Hodson and the pistolling of the Delhi Princesl His brother laughed: I don’t know about duty, but to murder you in cold blood would be a ple…
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…R.O.—me glorified, Anointed, fill with frenzied A! I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. I eat my flesh: I drink my blood I gird my loins: l journey far: For thou hast shown 0, +, j], 777, mpfihov, I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. Prostrate I wait upon Thy will, Mine Angel, for this grace of union. 0 let this Sacrament distil Thy conversation and communion. I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. l have not told you anything about myself, because it doesn’t really matter; th…
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…ust trust somebody.) You do well to treat it lightly, said Basil. It’s the most terrible story I ever heard. A fico for your tragedies of blood and bones! Indeed, ’tis the one hopeless hell, added the Scholar. It is true? You knew the man? I did, returned the big man. As nice a fellow as you could find in three continents. And lost! lost! lost! Oh! when will men be free of all this superstition? groaned Denzil. Never, said the Scholar. Now, said the big man. I can’t see it, cried Denzil, but it shall be! it shall be! And he rolled off this great …
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…s numbers of the illustrated papers of his childhood! Strange how things stick! THE SYMBOLISTS TITAN EVE was thewed and sinewed: all the blood of Mother Earth Sang within her veins and gave her all the might of all her girth. Vladimir was small and dainty like a fairy knight to brand Greener circles with his dancing on the green enamoured land.
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…e horror of the dust into the horror of the mask. The mewing lecherous devils crept out of the strongholds of the hills, And filled their blood with noisome thrills before the work of the adept. The ghuls that gloat on corpses cold would gather, glutted with their meat, And give it dead man’s chops to eat, and dead man’s bones to rub the gold; While stinking goats and cats would come to link in infamies unheard; While beat the witches oiled and furred their buttocks on the devil’s drum.
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…, Her hair bedecked, her jewels on—to please her neighing, champing spouse. “ It shall smile loose on Katherine wallowing in the mire of blood, Her lovePs’cold congealing flood paying their silly hour of sin. “ Salammbo mated with an asp shall shudder at its leering face, And kiss the gilded lips, and lace her serpent in a closer clasp. “ It shall inspire the dews of death that stand on Brinvilliers the smooth And strangle all her woman’s ruth, envenoming the baby breath. “ It shall revolve to hellish bliss the water-torture and the wheel; In al…
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…he jinn (a god among the damned Ghebersl) He offered up a final sin to play a last joke on the neighbours. The deed was signed in fire and blood; and ere the mom was dewy wet An hog for the Muezzin upstood, and chanted from the Minaret. “ There is no God! no God! (he sware) Mohammed was a charlatan! Sleep is more excellent than prayer! and pork is pleasant in the pan !” The elders knew that only one could crack such execrable quips. They hurried off to have the fun of slicing him in little strips. But Iblis met him with a grin worth ninety-nine p…
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… brave with wealth of boot and spur, He should hunt the fox Jehovah through the world astride of her. But his whip! the flame that lashes blood from out her flanks afoam, Strips the flesh and leaves the spirit bridle-free to gallop home! But the screams of pain that stab him, drunk with lust of spur and rod, As the rowels and the whalebone send his spirit back to God! So in madness is attainment that inspirits and endures. —Who are you to blame their folly, ask them to assent to yours? Be ye sure, the Eye Unlidded measures by another rod! Be ye su…
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… irradiate tunes of life and ecstasy and light As though some misty maid of night were girded with a million moons. They make my pulsing blood to pour in rhythmic throbs of music rare; My songs shall course the choral air from Mazaghan to Mogador. And leaping all the lesser bars I shall become the One and All, And cry the cross-dissolving call, and lose myself among the stars. This is indeed paradox, cried the scholar. You embolden me to read my “Mask of Gilt." I defy the subtlest of you to find a moral or a hieroglyph in it; so according to you…
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…hey any understanding. Therefore, have the chance words of Adepts been ill-heard through the ages; therefore, has the world run red with blood because the Adepts have spoken Truth,
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… to balance yourself so carefully, or you fall and hurt yourself. Via n v. Aqua To go through the first you must be painted all over with blood up to your waist, and you cross your legs, and then they put a rope round one ankle and swing you off. I had such a pretty white petticoat on, and my Prince said I looked just like a white pyramid with a huge red cross on the top of it, which made me ever so glad, because now I knew I should be the Saviour of the World, which is what one wants to be, isn’t it? Only sometimes the world means all the other…
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…w, only a quarter full. The shadows fell so strangely, one could see the most mysterious shapes, like great bats with women’s faces, and blood dripping from their mouths, and creatures partly wolves and partly men, everything changing one into the other. And we saw shadows like old, old, ugly women, creeping about on sticks, and all of a sudden they would fly up into the air, shrieking the funniest kind of songs, and then suddenly one would come down flop, and you saw she was really quite young and ever so lovely, and she would have nothing on, a…
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…pillar, from the top of which sprang a fountain of pearls; and as they fell upon the floor, they changed the dark marble to the colour of blood, Domus X v. Regnum v. Port: Loci secludum lementa Qliphoth Via n v. Crux Cherubim Dornus IX v. Fundamentum Yod v. Membrnm sancti focdcris
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…e verses, because my lover’s name has five V’s in it), he galloped across the beautiful green sunset, spurring the winged horse, till the blood made all the sky turn rosy red. 50 he caught me up and set me on his horse, and l clung to his neck as we galloped into the night. Then he told me he would take me to his Palace and show me everything, and one day when we were married I should be mistress of it all. Then I wanted to be married to him at once, and then I saw it couldn’t be, because I was so sleepy and had bad dreams, and one can’t be a go…
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…tter; 10 nthe heartofman; For am of force to shatter The wt that hideth—Pan ! Your loves shall lag up slaughter, And dabbled wit roses 0 blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid flood. I brin ye lau hter and tears, The uses t t foam and bleed, The joys ofa million years, The flowers that bear no seed. M life is bitter and sterile, ts flame is a wandering star. Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril Across the mystical bar That is set for wrath and wee ing Against the children ofeart ; But ye in singing and sleeping Shall pass in…