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82 THE STAR IN THE WEST Her brows divine ; One kiss , a starbeam faint With love of a sweet saint, Stolen like a sacrament In the night's shrine ! One kiss , like moonlight cold Lighting with floral gold The lake's low tune ; One kiss , one flower to fold , On its own calyx rolled At night , in June ! One kiss , like dewfall , drawn A veil o'er leaf and lawn Mix night , and noon , and dawn , Dew , flower , and moon !? That Alice was charmed , that the above was a love philtre , the thirteenth day discloses — the birthday of their first kiss : B…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…nutterable void of Orcus , where kisses are flung in vain , and where around us pale women fleet : Whose empty fruitlessness assails the night With hollow repercussion , like dim tombs Wherein some vampire glooms .3 This last line is one of the most expressive ever written by Crowley , and in the last word " glooms " is concentrated more than terror or fear , a brooding unnameable horror , comparable to the word " crowd " that Blake makes use of in his “ Mad Song ”: Like a fiend in a cloud With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night …
1907 · PDF PAGE 329
…ianity was born ; and like all the other great truths , it contained a great lie : Pan was not dead , but he was snoring in that drunken night which cloaked the debaucheries of the classic day , and as the night grew darker , and the dismal vapours of the middle ages rolled on , blotting out one by one the remaining stars of that past wonder which was Rome , great Pan stirred himself , and awoke . But the crystal wine of lacchus had long since soured in the thunders of those dark days , yet , with death - pale lips , he drank the blood - red wi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
…aboth'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 crowds abide No longer by her stiffening side . “ Ah ! prophet , come to mock at me And gloat on mine exceeding pain ?" Nay but to give my soul to thee , And have thee spit at me again !” She smiled - I know she smiled - she sighed , Bit my lips through , and drank , and died ! My veins poured out her marriage cup , For holy water her cruel tongue ; For blessing of white hands raised u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 289
…nd reason . Those five paths lead us to one road , the road of “ Knowledge and Doubt " ; beyond which to the inept there is impenetrable night , and to the adept undying brilliancy . “ Know or Doubt ! is the alternative of highwayman Huxley ; ' Believe'is not to be admitted ; this is a fundamental ; in this agnosticism can never change ; this must ever command our moral , as our intellectual assent. Thus Reason ends by whispering : “ I am agnostic ; I cannot answer ea or nay .” This is the crowning triumph of the nineteenth century ! Kant has p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…ea gemmed with all the colours of the opal , deepening into a limitless amethyst , darkens , and the sun goes out . The spangled pall of Night is drawn , and the lull of death is o'er us ; but no , hark ! the distant boom of a beetle is carried across the still glowing welkin , it is the signal drum announcing the marriage of Night and Day . The crescent moon rises , diaphanous and fair , and the world wakes to a chant : 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 . …
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…y blade to Ferrara ? Sadness stares around us with hollow tear -drowned eyes , and the days of our joys are wet with the weep ing of the night of sorrow . On , on we plod , through life's by -ways and alleys , through mud and slime , onward we must go if we are ever to win the gates of Wisdom and Understanding and attain the Kingdom of the Holy Crown . “ Self ” we must slay , it is the great sin of life : “ The scorpion kisses , and the stings of sin , cling hard within . " 2 The small still voice calls to us , yet we must overcome it , in its …
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…HE WEST As also does the song of Orpheus : O Hawk of gold with power enwalled , Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine , and the disc of flaming light Is on thee , seated in the prow Of the Sun's bark , enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee , thee girt round With leopard's pell , and golden sound Of planets choral in their course ! O thou self-formulated sire ! Self -master of thy dam's desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery…
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…find the mystic Trinity midst the hellebore and thistles of existence , en throned , eternal . The sun sinks , and the last notes of the nightingale die into the stillness of falling night . The emerald sky like the robe of some car - borne Astarté , slashed with an infinite orange and red , fades into the sombre garment of night ; and above silently
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
…ese monthly would spill her crim son libation to the moon . “ Yea ! truly , away, away , out of my sight , O shadow of a king ; but last night wert thou not fingering the delicate chalice of Cam paspe , and a few hours hence will not thy drowsy hand crimson the white womb of thy Mother Earth with the red lees of the grape of Bacchus , so full of the poppies of sleep , and the wormwood of sorrow . " From the silver goblet of laughter , that leaden cup of weeping , have the nations drunk the dregs of many lives : for the woman arrayed in purple a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
…yrrhonism , which he outwardly symbolized under the form of a Bishop of the Church of England . Hume following , clutched vaguely in the night of doubt at a “ some thing ” he could not grasp , and whose watery sub stance trickled through his clenched and searching fingers . Kant similarly losing his way in the night of Hume's ignorance , struck a spark on the tail of his shirt , proclaiming the day ; but as the flames rose and scorched his fundamental basis , he , also , leapt from his empiric hose into the cool comfort of that watery ocean Hum…
1907 · PDF PAGE 154
…of charmed knuckle - bones slung round their throats ; whilst we in our turn walk through the drizzle and fog of the present decivilized night , with a rosary of ideals twined round our minds : one worshipped a bogey , the other a bogus . O! sancta simplicitas : homo indeed is sapiens ! Have we progressed ? Not one whit . Worship is at all times and everywhere one and the same , an insult to the offerer and the receiver alike ; sacrifice , the egotism of usurers ; prayer , the misdirected energy of idiots ; ceremony but an excuse for vice ; and…
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…she is The rosy incarnation of a kiss , The royal rapture of a young delight , The mazy music of virginity, Sun of the day , moon of the night , All , all to me ! 1 And again : Love , love , these raptures are like springtide rain Nestling among green leaves .2 One more example of the diversity of Crowley's pen , before we deal with his place in the history of poetry . In the " God -Eater we come across a most weird form of poetic imagination in the chants of Rupha the hag of Eternity : Crafty ! Crafty ! That is the omen . Fear not the foemen !…
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…hing from her clasp , Fled hissing outward , a more hateful asp Than India breeds to - day . till day Dropped her blue pinions , and the night drew on , And sable clouds banked out the weary sun . The whole course of events is now reversed , Char icles a venomous adder , Archais once again her own divine and glorious self . And this is how we find her the second time : The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 14 . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 16 .
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…the dark waters close over us as we are borne down their unfathomable depths . Similarly in the following : Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons ; my eyes Absorb her eyelids ' lazy light , And read her bosom 2 The extra half - step in “ shuddering ” in place of dis cordantly jarring on the metre produces a keener sense of agony in the reader's mind than a word which scanned correctly would do . In the next passage , taken from “ Tannhäuser , ” we find the introduction of a spondee carrying with it a curious sensation of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 288
…dawn . When vital force at lowest ebbs Anæmic nerves weave frailest webs.3 And the five senses stand naked and shivering in the freezing night of doubt , the fire is dead , and on the hearth crouch the spectral ashes no longer to flame in the starlight . Foolish prostitute ! You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence , decay Of care to hold him - can I tell you which ? Down goes the moon - one sees the howling bitch !" 4 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 170 . Huxley's Hume , p . 157 . Gargoyles , vol…
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… 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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…ite swan raping a jet - black girl , Mine , with hysteric laughter And the following four verses in " Saida ” superb : The spears of the night at her onset Are lords of the day for a while , The magical green of the sunset , The magical blue of the Nile . Afloat are the gales In our slumberous sails On the beautiful breast of the Nile . are We have swooned through the midday exhausted By the lips -- they are whips - of the sun , The horizon befogged and befrosted By the haze and the grays and the dun Of the whirlings of sand Let loose on the la…
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
…owing : Yet ants may move the mountain ; none is small But he who stretches out no arm at all ; Toadstools have wrecked fair cities in a night , One poet's song may bid a kingdom fall .? And that which is below is as that which is above ; for : Time is to us the Now , and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates , is a part Of our own thoughts and souls . So we see : For Gods , and devils too , I find Are merely modes of my own mind !4 2 1 Aceldama , vol . i, p . 4. Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 110 . 3 Ibid . vol . i, p. …
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74 THE STAR IN THE WEST With love more perfect, for its purple root Might blossom outward to the snowy fruit Whose bloom to - night lay sleeping on her breast .' True love , the love of self in the soul of another , the poet paints very beautifully in the following charming lines : Do you recall ? Could I forget ? How once the full moon shone above , Over the houses , and we let Loose rein upon the steeds of love ? How kisses fled to kisses , rain Of fiery dew upon the soul Kindled , till ecstasy was pain ; Desire , delight : and swift control …