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1910 · PDF PAGE 10

The Rites of Eleusis

… the hounds of spring.” Again a Libation, again an invocation to Artemis. After further ceremonies, Frater Omnia Vincam was commanded to dance “ the dance of Syrinx and Pan in honour of our lady Artemis.” A young poet, whose verse is often read, astonished me by a graceful and beautiful dance, which he continued until he fell exhausted in the middle of the room, where, by the way, he lay until the end. Crowley then made supplication to the goddess in a beautiful and unpublished poem. A dead silence ensued. After a long pause the figure enthrone…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 14

The Rites of Eleusis

…the Gardens of the World, enjoying the breeze and the sunlight, plucking the roses and filling their mouths with ripe grapes. They shall dance in the moonlight before Dionysus, and delight under the stars with Aphrodite ; yet they shall also dwell beyond all these things in the unchanged Heaven—Here and Now.

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