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KE@AAH MIT MULBERRY TOPS Death is the veil of Life, and Life of Death; for both are Gods. This is that which is written: ‘‘A feast for Life, and a greater feast for Death!” in THE BOOK OF THE LAW. The blood is the life of the individual: offer then blood!
KE@AAH IH DEWDROPS Verily, love is death, and death is life to come. Man returneth not again; the stream floweth not uphill; the old life is no more; there is a new life that is not his. Yet that life is of his very essence; it is more He than all that he calls He, In the silence of a dewdrop is every tendency of his soul, and of his mind, and of his body; it is the Quintessence and the Elixir of his being. Therein are the forces that made him and his father and his father’s father before him. This is the Dew of Immortality. Let this go free, e…
…ht; a Knife for Touch; two cakes, one for taste, the other for smell. He standeth before the Altar of the Universe at Sunset, when Earth-life fades. He summons the Universe, and crowns it with MAGICK Light to replace the sun of natural light. He prays unto, and gives homage to, Ra-Hoor- Khuit; to Him be then sacrifices. The first cake, burnt, illustrates the profit drawn from the scheme of incarnation. The second, mixt with his life’s blood and eaten, illustrates the use of the lower life to feed the higher life. He then takes the Oath and beco…
KE®AAH AE VENUS OF MILO Life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. Death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body. The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond Life and Death. Even as the Lingam and the Yoni are but diverse developments of One Organ, so also
KE@AAH AH LAMBSKIN Cowan, skidoo! Tyle! Swear to hele all. This is the mystery. Life! Mind is the traitor.
…ty: Energy: Death. Death: Begetting: the supporters of O! To beget is to die; to die is to beget. Cast the Seed into the Field of Night. Life and Death are two names of A. Kill thyself.
… consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so is consciousness a disorder of life. sense, without truth; so also is conscious- ness. Awake from dream, the truth is known:?!® awake from waking, the Truth is—The Unknown.
…e’ is also a dramatic poem of singular power. Mr. Crowley has a claim to recognition as a true poet. Most men who have thought deeply on life’s problems recognize that the current religion of nearly all their fellow men is an idle mockery.. We cannot shrink from looking behind the veil, and asking ourselves— What is life at best?. Mr. Crowley seems to hold that the worldis reek- ing with rottenness—and he is, to a great extent, right... . These daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we liveina hypocritical 118
KE®AAH MB DUST-DEVILS In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence?! called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked. This desert is the Abyss wherein is the Uni- verse. The Stars are but thistles in that waste. Yet this desert is but one spot accurséd ina world of bliss. Now and again Travellers cross the desert; they come from the Great Sea, and to the Great Sea they go. As they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower. See! five footprints of a Camel! V.V.V. V. V.
… volume containing notable poetry.”—Wation. “The most interesting volume of new English verse seen this year.” —Evening Post. “, Thereis life and vigour and realityin it, and a personality sincerely expressed in spite of what appears to be wilful eccentricities.” —Book- man. The Winged Beetle. ros. A collection of lyrical poems. ‘In the face of the whole horde of reviewers, critics, and in the face of the British public,I declare that Aleister Crowleyis among the first of living poets. It will not be many years before this factis generally reco…
…in thy woods that range, And all the vampires in their boughs that glow, Brooding on blood-thirst—these are not so strange And fierce as life’s unfailing shower. These die, Yet time rebears them through eternity. 99
KE®AAH TIT THE BLIND PIG‘! Many becomes two: two one: one Naught. What comes to Naught? What! shall the Adept give up his hermit life, and go eating and drinking and making merry? Ay! shall he not do so? he knows that the Many is Naught; and having Naught, en- joys that Naught even in the enjoyment of the Many. For when Naught becomes Absolute Naught, it becomes again the Many. And this Many and this Naught are identical ; they are not correlatives or phases of some one deeper Absence-of-Idea; they are not aspects of some further Light: they ar…
…ave no interest. Therefore the best king would be Pure Chance. It is Pure Chance that rules the Universe; therefore, and only therefore, life is good.
…y: a worse bargain. The Hermit asked for love; worst bargain of all. And now he has let his girl go to America, to have ‘“‘success” in “‘life’’: blank loss. Is there no end to this immortal ache That haunts me, haunts me sleeping or awake? If I had Laylah, how could I forget Time, Age, and Death? Insufferable fret! Were I an hermit, how could I support The pain of consciousness, the curse of thought? Even were I THAT, there still were one sore spot— The Abyss that stretches between THAT and NOT. Still, the first step is not so far away:—
…alteth love. Love moveth ever from height to height of ecstasy and faileth never. The wings of love droop not with time, nor slacken for life or for death. Love destroyeth self, uniting self with that which is not-self, so that Love breedeth All and None in One. Is it not sop... No?... Then thou art not lost in love; speak not of love. Love Alway Yieldeth: Love Alway Hardeneth. May be: I write it but to write Her name.
… WHEEL AND—WOA! The Great Wheel of Samsara. The Wheel of the Law [Dhamma]. The Wheel of the Taro. The Wheel of the Heavens. The Wheel of Life. All these Wheels be one; yet of all these the Wheel of the TARO alone avails thee con- sciously. Meditate long and broad and deep, O man, upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, mayst thou perceive THAT Will which…
…finest lyrics. Konx om Pax. Ios. The most remarkable treatise on the mystic path ever written. ** Yours alsois the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion thatis to be.” “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret 124
…a just appreciation or poetic values. Mr. Crowley has not shirked the ugliness of his theme. He had no temptation to do so. For he holds life cheap as against ideals, even the basest of whichis sacredin his eyes. Let Monica be a raving wanton, so she love Venice and subserve her wantonness to that first object. The use of the Alexandrineis a pleasant innovation, and one fully justified by re- sults.” —Literary World. ***Mortadello’ is a much more ambitious experi- ment. Dubbed a comedy, it certainly contains dramatic stuff underlying the not ve…