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THE MOTHER 127 normal , love of man and woman for God is abnormal , and the abnormal in its turn breeds the lustful , whether the abnormality lies in the twists of the mind or the aberrations of the soul . Amnon lusted after Tamar , he was a mental monster ; Ezekiel devoured dung , he was a spiritual abortion . That a passionate nature is necessarily a lustful one , is often no more the case than that a lustful one need necessarily be passionate ; that lust as well as passion often inhabit the same mind is true enough , and that its forms are m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
94 THE STAR IN THE WEST with Lust . As every one of us has been bred on dead flesh , so every one of us passes along our way spiritu ally encumbered with the dead bones of our ancestors ' opinions ; and living with them we die , only to add more mental tibias and spiritual metatarsals to the groaning back of the future . In the Kingdom of Love these extremes gave birth to two forces , “ Neronic Lust ” and “ Platonic Affec tion .” From a heterogeneous mass of ics , ists , and ians , sprang the idea that there was an inherent evil in the culminat…
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
… hardly so ! the pure desire of man and woman in whatever state of life , the weaving of the golden web of twain into one entity, is not lust , never was lust , never will be lust . According to the conventional meaning of that word , lust expresses something unhealthy , unclean ; and the love Charicles bore Archais was certainly not that . This love , to use a good old English word , was a “ lusty ” love , that is a healthy love , and not a lustful or perverted desire . The beauty of nature , the beauty of living , and above all the bright bea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…gy of sense that this hysterical clinging to the Chaste often reacts , hurling its unfortunate aspirant into the arms of Lubentina . The lust after God and the lust after man are near akin . A woman crossed in love and debarred from enjoying the sweet em braces of her lover , will embrace in his stead the sour feet of her God . Similarly , Magdalene , having passionately sought love , and having lost the skein of her desires in the labyrinthine byways of lust , threw her weeping form at the feet of Him in whom she found the ideal of her affecti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…through the passion of maturity , concrete and abstract , earthly and spiritual ; now let us turn about and descend the slippery road of lust , so essential to the basic knowledge of the good . Among the extraordinary antipathies and sym pathies of the human mind , few are so startling as the frequent attraction of contraries . Good attracts bad , and bad good , in the love - history of life over and over again shall we find this : Have they divined This simplest spirit - bond , The joy of some bad woman's deadly kiss ;? In the “ Lesbian Hell ”…
1907 · PDF PAGE 141
… supposed to contain the child of her incest , but which holds in reality her leprous and long -forgotten husband . She is maddened with lust and religious frenzy , and stands entranced till the leper rises as from the dead , and S’afi, the child of her whoredom , tears off his mask and shrieks : I am the hideous poison of thy veins And foulest fruit of thy incestuous womb .? 2 “ I am thy mother,” is her answer ; so , even in her frenzied madness , the greatest force in nature asserts itself. He stabs her , and stabs himself ! such also is fili…
1907 · PDF PAGE 143
…cass of myself That is abased , defiled , abominable .' Then Ulric enters , evidently now totally mad ; the fearful power of his Neronic lust has reft asunder the last thread of his sanity ; in his hand he carries a razor , first he slays Madeline , and then , at his mother's bidding , himself : A blood-gr vapour and a scorpion steam To poison the unrighteous life of God ! 2 Thus does this fearful tragedy end . Gruesome with lust and cruelty , Ulric , a horrible perversion , overcome by the violence of his desires , a second Amnon , a second de…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…ses and mad movements of quick love Burnt up his being , and his life was lost In woman's love at last ! 1 This was the love , or rather lust , of “ that filthy sorceress . We are now rapidly approaching the realms of the abnormal ; for good and evil are the toys of love as well as those of fate . The nymph and the satyr , the fair and the faulty alike are the guests of these amorous shades.2 The virility of lust is vividly illustrated in “ The Blood -Lotus " : Foam whips their reeking lips , and still the flower -witch nestles to my lips , Twi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…te in the spirit : and above Hangs Sin , vast vampire , the corrupt , that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world , and flaps , for lust of Death - and Love ! 1 " Kill me,” cries Tannhäuser . “ In the kiss , ” answers Venus : thus ends Act II . Act III opens a different scene . The outer materi ality of body is all but sated , the starved soul within cries for sustenance ; he murmurs “ Elizabeth ,” and then wakes strong through her perfection . Venus still entices , but her power has vanished , and at the name of “ Ave Maria !” the exorcis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
…, mighty England falls !” because she no longer knows how to bear Englishmen . Wealth cries for luxury , and luxury sniffs at the hem of lust , and lust rises o’er us a vampire kite to drink dry the blood of our veins . The two great ideals of our country , as Geoffrey Mortimer rightly says , are the commercial , and the voluptuous .? Every man striving against his brother , struggling and elbowing his way through the seething crowds of human life to satisfy his own personal lusts . Gentility has become the lowest plane of mental degradation , …
1907 · PDF PAGE 90
…nto live flame her passion , and deters Her fear from spurning all the day's due joys ." The pudibonderie of the English would call this lust . Indeed , drunken on their own crapulous imagination , choked by their venomous vomit , they cannot see the divine form of Love through the mist of their steam ing sensuality . For what reason did man tie woman to him ? For what reason did he devise the horrors of indissoluble marriage ? And the answer is : that he might ever have at least one poor victim to sate his vile carnalities on . Lust and Indole…
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… Alice , Alice ! He feels she is beyond him ; yet in his ear whispers the Master ; whose power is rapture . I drew a hideous talisman of lust In many colours where strong sigils shone ; Crook'd mystic language of oblivion , Fitted to crack and scorch the terrene crust And bring the sulphur steaming from the thrust Of Satan's winepress , was ill written on The accurséd margin , and the orison Scrawled backwards , as a bad magician must . By these vile tricks , abominable spells , I drew foul horrors from a many hells --- Though I had fathomed Fa…
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…n the form of Aphrodite listens to her prayer , but is helpless to help her till she has sought aid from the lewd city of Aphaca , where Lust in the grim shape of Priapus dwelt . The large - lipped drawn -out grinning of that court That mouthed and gibbered in their swinish sport.? This curious duality of Love and Lust, or better , of Virtue and Vice , we shall attempt to explain more fully when we deal with the philosophy of Aleister Crowley . From Priapus , Phallommeda gains her necessary in formation , and then seeking Charicles , appears fi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…h he alone seeks , find ing new pleasures in the pain he himself endures , and fresh pleasures in the pain he himself inflicts . This is Lust . Peopled with all the horrors of inversion , we pass from the simple realms of prostitution , to the dismal Kingdoms of Sodom and Lesbos . Paederasts and Tribades flock round us , yet we break away from them only to enter the foul jaws of the sexual hell of shrieking flagellants , who rush upon us , as obscene Masochists grovel at our feet ; far into its depths we sink , and there at the altar of Phallom…
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… South , East or West , it knows no locality , no time , no space ; for it is love sublime , eternal , inscrutable ; its greatest foe is Lust , and the most fearful form of lust is Marriage : Whom God hath joined let no man put asunder . We have already seen marriage described in “ The Honourable Adulterers ” and in “ The Star and the Garter ”; we get a pregnant glimpse of it again in the one speech , “ A bargain's a bargain , a thousand a year and a flat in Mayfair are better than Farmer Tyson's butter and eggs . » 2 In these few words are pra…
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… himself ; soft as a summer breeze , fresh as the dawn in May, sunny as a June day , and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic lust . So closely interwoven in spirit are the true lyrics with the remainder of his amatory poetry , that it would be dangerous to attempt to separate them , and such an attempt would almost certainly lead to repetition or a breaking of the chain of psychosexual sensations , dimming that lustre which thrills through these mag nificent verses , from the chaste kiss of a mother to the Phaedrian embrace of a Sad…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
138 THE STAR IN THE WEST psychopathic mist dims his mind , and all the love he lavished on the body of the living woman turns to a lust for her cadaver : 1 The spirit filled me . And behold ! I saw her dead stare to the skies . I came to her , she was not cold , But burning with old infamies . On her incestuous mouth I fell , And lost my soul for Jezebel . They cast her forth on Naboth's field Still living , in her harlot's dress ; Her belly stript , her thighs concealed , For shame's sake and for love's no less . Night falls ; the gaping crowd…
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…through man's struggle with the elemental powers ." 2 Only by energy and strife May man attain the eternal rest , Dissolve the desperate lust of life By infinite agony and zest . Thus , O my Kali ,I divine The golden secret of thy shrine ! The strife to attain to this golden secret we have already seen depicted in so many of Aleister Crowley's Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 84 . 2 Ibid . 3 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 98 .
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… hideous kiss. Her hate , her scorn , her cruel blows , Fill my whole life , consume my breath ; Her red - fanged hatred in me glows , I lust for her , and hell , and death . I see that ghastly look , and yearn Toward the brands of her that burn .? Sleep shuns him , and his parched throat thirsts for the blood of her veins , “ Aching with all the pangs of night ”; his vision grows more monstrous , a horrible 1 Jezebel : and other Tragic Poems , vol . i, p . 133 . 2 lbid . vol . I, pp . 130-131 .
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…Mad maidens , tender as blue seas .' For this is passion , if not quite so pure as some we have already seen , yet still passion of an unlustful nature . In “ The Flight ” we find in the following lines a still deeper glow : The snow -bright weather Calls us beyond the grassy downs , to be Beside the sea , The slowly breathing Ocean of the south . Oh , make thy mouth A rosy flame like the most perfect star Whose kisses are So red and ripe ! Oh , let thy limbs entwine Like love with mine !? In the third act of “ The Argonauts ,” we find the love…