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…desire. My member is the guide of thy podex, never leav- ing it for a moment ; patient is he, eternally toiling therein15 ; for Hua16 is God, and His Name is Un- known, like all things save Himself only, assuaging thy desire.
…ia trees ? CHIRON Yes, if Rhodon there will lend us Her red fleece — like sunset glowing, With the doubtful venture showing Where — what God shall there befriend us ? RHODON Mocker ! I shall come. Beware Lest my manhood match you there !
XXXII PREFACE. I should look ! ; (f) God said I musn’t. And so on through the alphabet of cowardice. Look at your Christian as he sits down to dinner. He won’t eat melon because the weather is hot, and he might get cholera ; mutton ? think of the poor sheep ! pota- toes ? bad for his fat ; artichoke ? bad for his gout. Tomatoes ? cause of cancer. Wine ? the great curse of our day, my dear sir. Milk ? a mere mass of tubercle bacilli. Water ? Typhoid ! do you want to poison me, my dear friend ? Beer ? Well, perhaps a little beer — for he has sha-…
…or the sound of them : The mountains are disturbed and roar : the azure hem That laps all lands is broken, lashed in fiery foam, And all God’s thunderbolts are crashed—against my home. Written in heaven, written on earth, written in the deep, Written by God’s own finger-birth ; the stars may weep, The sun rejoice, that see at last His vengeance strike ; The fury of destruction’s blast ; the fiery spike As of an arrow of adamant, comet or meteor : “ The dog returneth to his vomit : the ancient whore That sitteth upon many waters, even she That c…
THE NEW WINE 2II been fulfilled : Aleister Crowley is the artist Elias , the marvellous being whom God has permitted to make a discovery of the highest importance in his illuminative philosophy of Crowleyanity , in the dazzling and flash ing light of which there is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered . It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley . The world has indeed laboured , and has at last brought forth a man . Bacon blames the ancient and scholastic philosophers for spinning webs , like spiders out of their own …
…ws His man, though, if He thinks He can insult me with impunity. Andre, un sandwich l [Beyt Allah, the Mosque at Mecca, means " House of God ”—ED.] I shall stop mantra while I eat, so as to concentrate (a) on the chewing, (b) on defiling the House of God. Not so easy! the damned thing runs on like a prairie fire. Important then to stop it absolutely at will : even the Work itself may become an obsession. I 1 hours with no real break—not bad. The bad part of to-day seems the Asana, and the deadness. Or, perhaps worse, I fail to apprehend the true …
…ng that his sanctity forbade his “ going on the bust.” What a farce is such sanctity! How much wiser for the man to behave as a man, the God as a God ! This is my real bed-rock objection to the Eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous , and wicked; and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai ; for all stain is impurity. A bee’s swarm is evil—inside one’s clothes. “Dirt is matter in the wrong place." It is dirt to connect sex with statuary, morals with art. Only Adonai, who is in a sen…
…A horrible Man and a beautiful maid. Where are you going, so meek and holy ? Im going to temple to worship Crowley. Crowley is God, then ? How did you know ? Why, its Captain Fuller that told us so. And how do you know that Fuller was right ? Im afraid youre a wicked man ; Good-night. While this sort of thing is styled success I shall not count failure bitterness.
… seven lamps of mystic fire Shine, and the spirits seven ! In this religious gloom Invoke the light divine As, Mary, in Thy blessed womb GOD made the Daystar shine. This common fruit of earth Be made the Body of grace Even as the flesh by Jesu’s birth Was holy for a space. All things by heavenly power To that redemption come Equal before Thee in the hour Of joy or martyrdom. Amen. A 58
…ed himself 50 that he is not discovered. MAGISTER ?ןיט/}ץמdraws wil again. CAPRICORNUS puls out light] MAGISTER TEMPLL Alas! there is no God! [Returns to hi: ihrone. All move confusedlyabout wailing aloud] MAGISTER TEMPLI, I. Silence. [All resume παῖς. Behold, I declared it unto you and ye believed me not! [A pause. 14
…ed himself 50 that he is not discovered. MAGISTER ?ןיט/}ץמdraws wil again. CAPRICORNUS puls out light] MAGISTER TEMPLL Alas! there is no God! [Returns to hi: ihrone. All move confusedlyabout wailing aloud] MAGISTER TEMPLI, I. Silence. [All resume παῖς. Behold, I declared it unto you and ye believed me not! [A pause. 14
… bid me purify the same, To such a process I discern no end . . . First cut the liquefaction, what comes last But Fichte’s clever cut at God himself ? . . . I trust nor hand, nor eye, nor heart, nor brain To stop betimes: they all get drunk alike. The first step, I am master not to take.” This is surely the apotheosis of wilful ignorance! We may think, perhaps, that Browning is “hedging” when, in the last paragraph, he say s : “For Blougram, he believed, say, half he spoke,”* and hints at some deeper ground. It is useless to say, “This is Bloug…
…light, and ugliness Vested in beauty! Therefore is my love No petty passion like these country-folk’s : No fertile glory (as the Love of God) : But vast and barren as the winter sea, Holding I know not what enormous soul In its salt bitter bosom, underneath The iron waters and the serpent foam ; Below, where sight and sound are set no more, But only the intolerable weight Of its own gloomy selfhood. This am TI: This passion, lion-mouthed and adder-eyed. cA mass compressed, a glowing central core, Like molten metal in the crucible ! Death’s secr…
…e! (Zo the verderer.) Your horse-—that favour I shall not forget, Nor linger to repay. Good morrow then! Good sport all day ! LANDGRAVE. God speed thee, Tannhauser ! [#xit TANNHAUSER. Am I still dreaming? It was surely he. But such an one, compact of suffering, Ofjoy, of love, of pity, of despair; Half senseless, half too subtle for my sense. WOLFRAM. He has passed through some unimagined test, Or undergone some sorrow. Leave it so! I saw high grief upon him, and new love ! ~“ TLEINRICH. You are the poet! To your instinct then ! Here's to the i…
AMPHORA O plumed and puissant couriers ! O Angels clothed and crowned with light ! O mild and matchless ministers Of GOD, how deep the silence stirs At this our choral might ! Hail to the Virgin ! Hail ! the streams Are gathered in the starry river ; The incense column subtly steams Up past the palaces of dreams :— To Mary, Hail for ever ! Hail to the Virgin, Hail ! the sea Is one ; the stars divide and pale Before Thy single ecstasy Of light, O moon of majesty ! Hail to Thee ! Hail ! All hail ! Amen. 44
THE GOD-EATER* A TRAGEDY OF SATIRE 1903 [The idea of this obscure and fantastic play is as follows :— By a glorious act human misery is secured (History of Christianity). Hence, appreciation of the personality of Jesus is no excuse for being a Christian. Inversely, by a vile and irrational series of acts human happiness is secured (Story of the play) Hence, attacks on the Mystics of History need not cause us to condemn Mysticism. Also, the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a Tree whose fruit Man has not yet tasted: so that the Devil cheated Eve ind…
…es into the randiest positions you know ; you may cuddle my crimson chitterling till it chirps, soars and spurts into the blue Heaven of God : but I will N O T corrupt your morals with those degrading and sin- ful songs. I will never transcribe a word or a sylla- ble that the most modest woman need blush to hear : I will never be a party to the ruin of one in- nocent child-soul. Cunts ! I protect you ! Nugs ! avaunt ! Come not near the pure girls and women for whom I write this book, the decent sayings of a godly light of the Church. So let us …
…ain brings our knight before the gaze of the world . He has eaten of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , and has become as a god . He wends his way to the Court of the Landgrave and there meets Elizabeth , “ His far - off baby - love ,” as Venus called her , and whispers to himself , “ Cannot purity be brought to know aught but itself ? ” Herein lies the note of his misfortunes . Purity was but ignorance , and Tannhäuser was now a god , knowing both good and evil : 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 239 .
… frail little volume . Our bodies are not burst asunder as was that of Judas , but our souls are reft and rent , and in the end know not God from Satan , or which of these twain have won . “ All the dream is wrought a spider tapestry ” yet the soul stands on the blood - red field of Aceldama : II. whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head , to wither Love's desire ?? The picture becomes grander still , the child of life becomes old in thought : III . I was a child long years ago , it seems , Or months it may be - I am st…
84 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS In the arms of love we lie ; Music from the sky Tunes the hymeneal lyre that will echo till we die. God we feel is very nigh ; Soft, breeze, sigh While we kiss at last to slumber, And the varied number Of the forest songsters cry : This is immortality ; this is happiness for aye. Hush ! the music swells apace, Rolls its silver billows up Through the void demesne of space To the heavens azure cup ! Hush, my love, and sleep shall sigh This is immortality !