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16 THE STAR AND THE GARTER Gone down in the glare of the sun ; and the twilight perfumes Steal soft in the wake of the One that abides in the glooms. Walking he is, and slowly; thoughtful he seems, Pure and happy and holy; as one would who dreams In the day-time of deep delights no kin to the day, But a flower new-born of the night’s in Hecate’s way. Love is his name, and he bears the ill quiver no more. He has aged as we all, and despairs; but the lady who bore Him, Eros, to ruin the ages, has softened at heart ; He is tamed by the art of the …
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III THE STAR AND THE GARTER— THE STAR AND THE GARTER— PAGE © Continued > PAGE ARGUMENT . ae XXXII. 0. wT THE STAR AND THE GARTER . 2 | APPENDIX ; ; . . oo. I. 2 | I. 2° WHY JESUS WEPT-- Ill. 2 | PERSONS STUDIED . . «~~ 20 IV. 2 DEDICATIO MINIMA. . «20 V. 3) DEDICATIO MINOR . «~~ 20 VI. 3 | DEDICATIO Major. , . 20 Vil. 3 i DEDICATIO MAXIMA. «so VIL. 4 DevICATIO EXTRAORDINARIA . 21 IX. 4 Wuy Jesus Werr . . so X. 5 SCENE Loo... 2 XI. 6 , I... 8G XII. 6 3 Wl... 88 XIII. 6 - IV. 2. ow 26 NIV. 7 ” V. , , oo. 27 XV. 7 7 VI. to, . 28…
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THE STAR AND THE GARTER Little or great, determinate In law from Fate, the Ultimate. If this be meaningless, much more Vacant your speech and sophic skill (My feminine and fair Escobar ! 1) To prove mere circumstance is no bar Against the freedom of the will. However this may be, we are Here and not otherwhere, star to star ! Hence then act thou! Restrain the ‘‘ Damn!” Evoked by ‘‘ I am that I am.” Perpend! (Hark back to Hamlet !) You stand thus poised upon the cliff Freewill—I await that will; (One) laughter ; (Two) the old kiss; (Three) silen…
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THE. STAR AND THE GARTER 15 Are you not ready? Let us leave This little Paris to its fate ! Our friends a little while may grieve, And then forget: but we, elate, Live in a larger air: awake, Compassion in the Halls of Truth ! Disdain love for love’s very sake ! Take all our beauty, strength, and youth, And melt them in the crucible To that quintessence at whose gleam Gold shudders and grows dull; expel The final dross by intimate stream Of glowing truth, our lunar light ! Are you not ready? Who would stay? Arise, O Queen, O Queen of Night ! Ar…
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14 THE STAR AND THE GARTER My gaze be steadfast on the star And never to the garter glide, And I on rapture’s nenuphar’ Sit Buddha-like above the tide. XXX. O BLUEBELL of the inmost wood, Before whose beauty I abase My head, and bind my burning blood, And hide within the moss my face, I would not so—or not for that Would so: the gods knew well to save The mountain summit from the flat, Youth’s laughter from its earlier grave. It is a better love, exists Only because of these below it: Mountains loom grander in the mists: The lover’s foolish to …
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…e bliss ! Rapture on rapture! Our hymns recapture The Bromian kiss. Blesséd our souls ! Blesséd this even | We reach to the goals Of the starriest heaven. Daphnis, and Atthis, and Chrysis, and Chloe, Mingle, O maidens! Evoe! Evoe! DIONYSUS. I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of ye love, And life for every one. Ye shall dance on hill and level ; Ye shall sing in hollow and height In the festal mystical revel, The rapturous Bacchanal rite! O sweet soul of the waters! What would’st thou? The rocks and trees…
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218 ORPHEUS I forbid thee to weep or to worship ; I forbid thee to sing or to write! The Star-Goddess guideth us her ship ; The sails belly out with the light. Beautiful head ! We will sing on our bed Of the beautiful law of the Night ! We are lulled by the whirr of the stars ; We are fanned by the whisper, the wind ; We are locked in unbreakable bars, The love of the spirit and mind. The infinite powers Of rapture are ours; We are one, and our kisses are kind. EXPLICIT LIBER QUARTUS
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…moons of blood! claws, Like a white swan raping a jet-black girl, Whose catlike body Mine, with hysteric laughter! O white cat! QO windy star blown sideways up the sky ! Twin cat, twin star, ’lis night; the owl and bat Ifoot, scream; ‘tis us they call--to love or (ie. Twin cat, our broomsticks wait: we’ll fly afar ! We'll blaze about the unlighted sky, twin star ! ALI AND HASSAN, FROM TIT ALF LAYLAIL WA LAYLALL, Att bade Hassan to his house to sup. They ate, passed round the full forbidden cup, Till, in an interval of dance and song, Hassan for…
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…g the palms, An honest love, a loyal kiss, Can show him better worlds than this ; Nor will he come again to yours While he knows champak-stars! from sewers. 1 The champak, one of the most beautiful of tropical flowers, has a star-shaped blossom.
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IMAGES IV. Laugh, thou immortal Lesbian ! Thy verse runs down the runic ages. Where shalt thou be when sun and star, My sun, my star, the vault that span, Rush in their rude, impassive rages Down to some centre guessed afar By mindless Law? Their death-embrace A simple accident of space? Vv. Where is thy fame, when million leagues OF flaming gas absorb the roll Of many a system ruinous hurled With infinite pains and dire fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime? Where then thy v…
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18 THE STAR AND THE GARTER Ay ! God of scissors ! barber God ! My earlier mystery did you learn? Unshoe the aching pseudopod ! Mysterious donkey, chew or churn Your human-kindness-milk to butter ! I gave you gratis God's advice (Since God's responsible) to—mutter In gutter, pav your tithe to vice Since virtue kicks you down its stairs. So thus I clothed it in strange word To catch you thinking unawares. Think ? do you think ? Then, thinks a bird. Read your Descartes ! Nietzsche demurred? To you, who give yourself such airs, This riddle cannot o…
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…death. So, blind and strangled, I survive. So, with my skin a single scar, I hail the night, the night alive With Hathor for the evening star. O beauty! See me broken, burned Lone on the languorous Lybian plain! Is there one lesson to be learned From this my voluntary pain, My dread initiation, long Desired and long deferred? Is he the secret of the song, Portent of triumph or disaster The Master— - 1 Intended as the prologue to a history of an initiate in Semiedramatic form, The night wind breathes upon the air Still shimmering from the fearfu…
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… Introduction and Criti- ca) Essay are the resu)t of the collaboration of four men—A. C., G. K., D, J.-F., and I. B. No. headlines. LLHE STAR AND THE GARTER: 1903] The Star & | The Garter | By Aleister | Crowley| Watts & Co. |17 Johnson's Court | London | 1903. Collation:—Demy 4to, pp. 89, consisting of Half-title; Title-page as above; Invo- cation in Greek ; Text, pp. 7-77; Appendix, prose and verse, pp. 79-86; Press Notices, pp. 87-89; reply to Invocation in Greek, p. 78; advertisement one page. Im- print in centre of last page, ‘‘ printed. b…
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…ntutored thought to love, and sees Himself exalted at the amber knees Of God the Father : his bowed forehead burns With chastity’s white star: no spirit yearns More keenly from the abyss; yet, God! are these Subtle star-sparks of spirit chastity’s? These deep-set shiverings saint nor sage discerns ? Laughter and love are over him, entice His life to sweeter scent of sacrifice. She knows God’s will, not he! Her ardour licks Flowers from the dust. of breath, Dost rot in worship at the shrine of death! O mystic rapture of the crucifix | O fool! th…
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THE STAR AND THE GARTER That is a hound’s life too. For me, The suicide stands grand and free Beside these others. Was it fear Drove him to stand upon the bank? The Paris lights shone far and drear ; The mist was down ; the night was dank ; The Seine ran easily underneath ; The air was chill: he knew the Seine By pain would put an end to pain, And jumped,—and struggled against death, I doubt not. Ye courageous men That scorn to flee the world, ye slaves Of commerce, ye that ply the pen, That dig, and fill, and loathe your graves ! Ye counter-ju…
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2 THE STAR AND THE GARTER THE STAR AND THE GARTER. I, WHAT sadness closes in between Your eyes and mine to-day, my Queen? In dewfall of our glance hath come A chill like sunset’s in hot lands Mid iris and chrysanthemum. Well do I know the shaken sands Within the surf, the beaten bar Of coral, the white nenuphar Of moonrise stealing o’er the bay. So here’s the darkness, and the day Sinks, and a chill clusters, and I Wrap close the cloak : then is it so To-day, you rose-gleam on the snow, My own true lover? Ardently I dare not look: I never looke…
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LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 13! EPODE CALLIOPE As the tides invisible of ocean, Sweeping under the dark star-gemmed sea ; As the frail Caduceus’ serpent-motion Moves the deep waves of eternity ; As the star-space lingers and moves on ; As the comet flashes and is gone; As the light, the music, and the thunder Of moving worlds retire ; As the hoarse sounds of the heaven wonder When Zeus flings forth his fire ; As the clang of swords in battle ; As the low of home-driven cattle ; As the wail of mothers children-losing ; As the clamorous cries of da…
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… over-man! - To thee, To thee I owe transfiguration, peace, The wide dominion of the wan Abyss of air. I can look out and see Beyond the stars, black seas Wherein no star may swim, Thence, far beyond the vast revolving spheres Dark, idle, grim, . Full of black joys and shadowy unspoken fears, Whercin I am master. There is no place for tears. Cold adamant disaster Is lord there, and I overlord. So flits out, like a sword Flashed through a duellist’s live heart, My thought ; in all the abodes of sense, The shrines of love and art, The adytum of o…
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…sbian shore? Lycidas. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star. Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. Another Orpheus sings again And loves, and weeps, and dies, MOUNT IDA. THE COMPANY OF THE M<AENADS. M-ENADS. Evoe! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Iacche! Hail, O Dionysus ! Hail ! Wingéd Son of Semelé ! Hail, O Hail! The:stars are pale. Hidden the moonlight in the vale ; Hidden the sunlight in the sea. Fellas. Blessed is her happy lot Who beholdet…
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…Sun Worship is torn afar : While unto Thee, O Hades, turn we now, Awful of breast and brow, And hear thee in the sea, behold thee in the Star. Ant. 1 [Echo of the Damned). Ay! is the earth and upper ether gone, And all the joy of earth, and gathered close The darkness and the death-wind and the snows On us on whom the sun of air once shone. What souls are left alive Vainly lament and strive, For they. shall join the dead of utmost eld; The concourse mystical Who see the seasons fall Shall soon behold what all we have beheld :— The accursed stre…