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…lieve it. THE GILT MASK IN Florence in the days of old there dwelt a craftsman pale and grim. The Devil entered into him, and fanned his soul with plumes of gold. He offered all he chose to ask. “ O snatch this itching soul away, So that thou animate my clay and finish me this magic mask l ” The Devil brought him graving tools; the first a ravening disease, The cold corrupting masterpiece of Christ the god of weeping fools! The second, bright as burning coal, a white and wanton wolf of sin Who had an icy flame within the ulcer that she called her …
1907 · PDF PAGE 103
…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 your disdain is bloody; Your stripes are none to make me whole. Could you but see my vitals torn, My nerves on rack, my tortured spirit— Of all the ills to mortals born This is the sorest to inherit. If you could see the branded token Of your invisible whip, the scars Of your intangible knife, the unspoken Agonies, silent as the stars! Then you should count the agéd lines That wrinkle up my …
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
… rose their steely flight behind, and set him lion-like to roar. And as the Dervish bowls and whirls its savour catches him and lifts His soul (beyond the mind that drifts) into the Treasure House of Pearls. Even to the icy solitude of death a gust of scent is borne An herald of the awaking morn to that unhappy brotherhood; An herald of the healing kiss of maids with eyes of white and black Whose heavenly lips shall woo them back into a bright eternal bliss. O laughter of delicious boys that bring the cup and pour the wine And with their rosy li…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
… have conquered both the mortals and the Gods. In the garden of Priapus, in the land of lost desire, I have made myself a monster and my soul a snake of fire. Ho! it stings me! Ho! it poisons! all the flesh is branded through, Branded with the steel of Vulcan, with the lava’s deadly dew. All the kisses of the satyr, all the punishments of Pan, All Eros hath given of arrows to the eyes of maid and man, At their lips and lives I sufl'ered—I have home me as a queen: Hear the roar of after aeons that acclaim me Messalinel Woe is me! the waves of ages—…
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…!) _Yea, but equally it is true. So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery; right, too, they who “interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with the soul.” Yet the latter is the higher formula; the narrowing of the Magical Circle to a point is an easier task than the destruction of that circle (and all both within and without) by the inrush of a higher dimension.
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…ether in their opinion its fruition will tend to the good or evil of their country or of the world; for who are they to interfere with a soul whose balance has been crowned by the most holy Tao? “ The masters shall be great men among men; but among great men they shall be friends. “ Since equilibrium will have become perfect, a greater than Napoleon shall arise, and the peaceful shall rejoice thereat; a greater than Darwin, and the minister in his pulpit give open thanks to God. “ The instructed infidel shall no longer sneer at the church-goer, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
8o KONX OM PAX 0 fool! not thus the Intimate Gives up its secret to the soul. Truth flies beyond, inviolate, And slips beside the glancing goal. Who probes the body gains a fact, Yet leaves an equal fact behind; So gathering for the cataract Roll up the rapid waves of mind. Swift as the light at last they leap Into the chasm of despair; Of all their freshet force they keep But froth and smoke and empty air. 0 fool! to deem dissection truth And paint and patches but a blind! The enthusiasm of a youth Is worth the sage and cynic mind. 0 Buddha! co…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
… God than He.” He conjures up the greasy glare Of Rupert Street by Leicester Square, Whose sodden slaves with sweat and paint Sicken the soul and make it faint. Build of the slimy scales of vice One concentrated cockatrice! “Think!” laughs the devil, “everywhere Is Rupert Street by Leicester Square.” “ True l ” I replied, “it spells to me: There is none other God than He.” He conjures up the loathly rout Of Christians crawling in and out,
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
…n before I die l ” And, as I kissed her, tenderly Shone like pale flames the sudden spheres Of dewy light, of eager tears. She touched my soul’s divinest chord: “I am so happy, dear my Lord.” And, breaking to the spirit bliss, “I go, dear. 0 so keen to kiss Our baby when I get to God ! ” Charrningl Why, damn it now! that’s odd. I’m surely in my dotage, Dick! A sniveller makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns to ill: Art '5 but a crust o’er Nature’s chasms. Death caught her with his comic spasms. They…
1907 · PDF PAGE 129
…, Demy 4to, pp. 12. 6d. JEPHTHAH. Paper, Demy 8vo, pp. 7!. [01d ofpn'nlj THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY. Boards, medium 8vo, pp. xii+ Ill, 5:. THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. Boards, medium 8vo, pp. ix+ 129, 5:. [These two vols. together make “ The Temple of the Holy Ghost,” by omitting the two plays in " The Mother's Tragedy.”] CARMEN SAECULARE. Green wrapper, Demy 4to, pp. 30, 2:. 6d. TANNHAUSER. Cloth, Demy 4to, 15:. [A few copies of the first edition, boards, aux] NEW YEAR’S CARD, 1903. [Out ofprinLJ BERASHITH. 4to, pp. 24. China paper, 51'. SUMMA SPES. [Oul ofpn…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…To know you love me; that your bod lea 5 With the quick passion of your sou : to Know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps: Ah ! in the very triumph-hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell! These lines are not flawless; yet it needs no adjectives as drums to sound their praises. The palate that cannot appreciate such a vintage to the full knows not the taste of good wine. T11: Imperialism of Lam—In many lyrics and sonnets Mr. Crowley’s dominant note is the very Imperialism, the Romanis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…nostic principles of “ Crowley anrty " may be summed up as follows: Believe nothing till you find it out for yourself. Say not “ I have a soul " before you feel that you have a soul. Say not “ There is a God" before you experience that there is a God. You can never understand till you have experienced. You can never experience till you get beyond reason. In a word, his command to his followers is, Know or Doubt; do not believe. We are, he says, “surrounded with an appearance of Truth,” and Reason is our guide. To become part of Wisdom we must le…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
… he did. THE MOSQUE BEWITCHED AN aged sorcerer there dwelt within the town of Marrakesh The fangs of Hell in life who felt twitching his soul out through the flesh. Though not originally had his moral ruin was complete: His pious parents said he had the devil’s claw-marks on his feet.
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…the baby breath. “ It shall revolve to hellish bliss the water-torture and the wheel; In all their pangs she shall not feel aught but my soul-devouring kiss. “ Its satyr lips shall writhe in prayer to nameless Nubian whores that mate With swinish kisses to abate the black desire of Baudelaire. “ So after many a house of sin it finds at last a pungent home Sweet as a poisoned honeycomb—a fairer fouler Katherine!
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
… press the monster to her golden teats, Feed its desire on all her sweets with many a masterful caress. “Its wisdom shall invigorate her soul to heights of hideous joy To match her with the equal boy that shall be master of her fate. “ She shall attain a man to excel her strong satanic womanhood: Their love shall break the mask of wood, reveal the authentic face of Hell." All this the craftsman heard with pride: he called: his sickness and his whore Together at his vitals tore, and rent him that he laughed and died. 50, with the last convulsive…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…an expert liar I have always been. You know my capacity for making a full and true confession of countless crimes without enlightening a soul. You know my shameless maxim, “ Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.” To try your formula I must control not only my words, but my tones, the shape of my mouth, the mirth of my eyes, the ready ambiguity of my shoulders! Bones. A good exercise, Frater. Bowley. Another point. I am, after all, a Poet. That ’5 right about the lake-reflected sun illuminating the b…
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… out what the pictures mean, and then it all makes poetry. THE INVOCATION OF THE RING ADONAIl Thou inmost A, Self-glittering image of my soul, Strong lover to thy Bride’s desire, Call me and claim me and control! I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. For on mine eyes the golden Q Hath dawned ; my vigil slew the Night.
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…re. So answering one by one, and one and all, reason breaks down, and either deep sleep loosens all my limbs, and darkness falls upon my soul, or else—— But you know well what else, dear children of the Light.
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…ion, and Mrs. J. has no right to trick or force one from her. This is called Keeping the Vow of Secrecy which one has sworn to one’s own Soul. [BONES protests violently, and is reminded that dis cussion follows, net/er interrupts, the Paper.] But why insist? The so-called casuists of the Christian Church have exhaustively investi gated this subject; and all they say is none the less true because it is subtle or immoral, as the stupid and the puritan pretend. Cardinal Newman may have had his faults, but he is at least a pleasant con trast to Gla…
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…Surely who is anointed shall be crowned. Verily ; but when? When not only Saul the usurper, but Jonathan whom he loved more than his own soul, are Dead. We do not hear of the resurrection of Jonathan; we do not read of a Jonathan Memorial Ward in the Jerusalem Lock Hospital; no word has come down to us through the ages of a Honeycomb Day, in view of the fact that the primrose is not indigenous to Palestine. [Laughter and altars. Jonathan was dead, and David probably let the dead bury him. Come Thou, and follow Mel adds Christ to a similar exhor…