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70 THE STAR IN THE WEST woman towards woman and man . The first is gener ally considered to be purer and more ideal , but this idea has only grown out of man's entire ignorance regarding the physical relationships . The mother is in no way purer than the wife , neither is the virgin purer than the mother . The truest definition of chas tity is that as given by Benjamin Franklin , which de fines chastity as “ the regulated and strictly temperate satisfaction without injury to others , of those desires which are natural to all healthy adult being…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…ured out before us the glittering metal. Yet what a differ ence he makes between the two great world forces : the love of man for a good woman , and the love of man for a bad woman ; the first is supreme , yet the other is far from being infernal . Listen : Yes . A good woman's love will forge a chain To break the spirit of the bravest Greek ; While with an harlot one may leap again Free as the waters of the western main , And turn with no heart -pang the vessel's beak Out to the oceans that all seamen seek. Another , this time a weird , charmi…
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…orm . Nina is our guide , pointing us out the hill - top road which will lead us above the social plain , and awed by the mystic love of woman , Racing and maddening from the crown of flame , The monolithic core of mystical Red fury that is called a woman's heart .' Enter the sphere of Free Love , and sit by the side of Alice , look into the depth of her eyes , the depths of her heart . As a seeker sees the gold In the shadow of the stream ; see there her love , As a diver sees the pearl In the shadow of the sea ; and murmur not above our breat…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…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 affection , washing those dusty feet with her tears , and dryin…
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… form of marriage , and the only form that can exalt it over the prostitution of the monde and demi - monde ; for it matters little if a woman sell her body for a five pound note , or for a five million pound dot . The man who in his turn marries a woman for her wealth is as foul a male prostitute as ever shrieked his lewd obscenities in the street of Sodom , and down the by ways of Gibeah . Tannhäuser expresses the whole celebration of this union in two pregnant lines : That is true marriage , in my estimate . Aspire together to one Deity ? Ye…
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…, we find a touching case in the picture of Cora in “ The Mother's Tragedy." Cora Vavasour , late of the halls , yet as true and noble a woman as ever lived , a type of woman that , thank Heaven , is not so uncommon among those whom the prudes call fallen classes . Cora was scarcely , however , one of these ; living in luxury she tried to bury the recurring past , “ Old hours of horror ,” and she trusted that “ God hath made smooth the road beneath the hearse ” of her “ forgetful age.” Let me not shrink ! Truth always purifies. One night I step…
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… 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 ” we see those white unsated women , and in “ The Fatal Force ” one so flushed with lust , that she has become blind to reality : Then said the goddess : “ I indeed am pure In my impurity ; immaculate In misconception ; maiden in my whoredom ; Chaste in my incest , being made a god Through my own strength .? Thus she spoke to the assembled princes and peoples of Egy…
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…; " they wan dered in the scented garden of man's heart , and all their restraint was as ephemeral as the fleeting hour . “ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was pleasant to the eyes , and a tree to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat , and gave also unto her husband with her ; and he did eat .” ( N.B. — Husband : neither church nor registry office is mentioned !) Linked in the tiny shelf upon the ship , My blind eyes burned into her mild ones : limbs Twined to each other …
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80 THE STAR IN THE WEST blending of Messaline and Margaret in the form of one sweet woman . In none of the sonnets can it be said that there is a single scene of lechery . True we shall have our Buchanans and their ilk , and we still have Rossetti's poems with one of his finest sonnets excised to please Mrs. Grundy ; but matters it what the sewer-rat thinks of the linnet's songs ? leave him in his dank drain , for we need him not , neither his opinions . There is a great lesson embodied in this poem . The lesson that Love is only worthy its hal…
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… eclipses the girl of sixteen ; she backs her knowledge against the latter's innocence , and wins in a canter . So much for morality . A woman is only as old as she feels ; and grey hairs do not count so long as they can be counted ; such was the innocence of our early Victorian grandmothers . Nowadays a woman is as young in manner as she is old in years ; and as for hair ask the coiffeurs . As cats grow cantankerous in old age , so do women , and Angela is a good example of one of the many vicious , crafty, and crabbed old vixens who monopoliz…
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…use . Such is the duality of love-the mundane and the celestial . Which nations now are the most passionate , the man-worshippers or the woman -worshippers ? the latter , and it is for this reason that I included Tann häuser in the first part of this essay , rather than in the second , dealing with the philosophy of Aleister Crowley . It is this spiritual exaltation , curious as it may seem , which so often links the pure true love to the foul false love . Love of man and woman is
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…GIN 69 “ Can that have been human ? ” I see you point through the drizzling night to a cramped and shivering form . Can that have been a woman ? That living death , de graded by crime , brutalized by vice , vitiated , unsouled ; lower than a slave , worse than a dog ; spurned by man , shunned by woman , a human wreck , a growing horror ? Even so , once a smiling girl , sweet as a rose , pure as a lily ; now the bedraggled gin -sodden har ridan . O ! marriage , thy name is Failure : 0 ! priest , what hast thou done ? Cramped the human mind , be …
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THE VIRGIN 57 as in “ Alice,” “ The dove gave place a moment to the swine ; ”—and yet 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 perverte…
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…mere prostitution of the body need not necessarily mean a similar prostitution of the mind , as we saw in the “ Tale of Archais .' Every woman's body is as free a possession of her own as that of every man is of his own , and what is disgraceful to woman is equally disgraceful to man , and vice versa . Law to be true must be just , and as " 2 1 The Poem , vol . i, p . 57 . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 58 .
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…al is low , the capital is also wanting , and moral bankruptcy is at hand . It has been said , Donna ociosa non può esser virtuossa . (A woman of leisure cannot be virtuous . ) Which is very true , and neither can a nation . The present ages are peopled with fiends and fools , living outwardly in precadian innocence , but inwardly in all the knowledge of the cities of the plains . The fiend crawls in the slimy dark , and the fool pulls the white sheets of credulity over his head , and like the gaby ostrich chuckles : “ I can't see them , they c…
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THE MOTHER 129 And kisses 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 ne…
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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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… no words , no songs—your breast my bower ! In “ Jezebel ” we find the same desire , but unfanned by restraint , in whose place stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, Laughed with strong scorn , whose music knelled The empire of God's universe. And on my haggard face upturned She spat ! Ah God ! how my cheek burned ! Then as a man betrayed , and doomed Already , I arose and went , And wrestled with myself, consumed With pass…
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…he well shows in “ The Honourable Adulterers ” where women , the frailer sex , are the unfortunate victims . Man made God , and God made woman out of one of man's wretched little ribs . Regardless of manners , man sucks the wretched little bone as he would the leg of a chicken , tears off the flesh and casts it into the bin . The masses are but sheep , following the bell - wether convention ; deprive them of their initial , and they become neither lambs nor tigers but merely asses . Ahinoam in “ Jephthah " well described them when he addressed …
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…love of the spirit and mind . The infinite powers Of rapture are ours ; We are one , and our kisses are kind . ? A true wife , that is a woman whose very soul palpitates in harmony with that of her husband or lover , is the greatest joy of life. Burns sang : To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life . And from the other side of the sphere the melodious lines of Kalidasa reverberate with the same perfection of pure wifehood . In the Raghuvancha the step mothers of Rama greet Sita thus , when …