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…met -tailed track Blinds all black earth with tears. Silence awakes and hears The music of thy moving come over the starry spheres.' The song of “ The Hours,» 2 and “ Spring , also magnificent , as are the Invocation of Hecate ;' the three Judges ,' and the Furies ; the latter of which is one of the most musical lyrics Crowley has as yet written . The Song of Orpheus flashes and flames as we read it : " 3 are The magical task and the labour is ended ; The toils are unwoven , the battle is done ; My lover comes back to my arms , to the splendid …
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…super - consciousness . Miracles follow as a dower ; But ah ! They used the fatal power And lost the Spirit in the act .? 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, pp . 178 , 179 . I am ; and by my fancy : if my reason Will thereto be obedient , I have reason ; If not , my senses better pleased with madness Do bid it welcome .- Winter's Tale . 2 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 182 .
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…y 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. 119 . + Sword of So…
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…hich she answers : Thine old desire Was just to touch the mere impalpable , To formulate the formless ... 3 Again Tannhäuser bursts into song , one of those magnificent lyrics , flashing like a ruby , warm and flaming in the glowing gold of this drama . And thus does his song end : Whose long - drawn curse runs venom in my veins ? What dragon spouse consumes me with her breath ? What passionate hatred , what infernal pains , Mixed with thy being in the womb of Death ? Blistering fire runs , Scorching , terrific suns , Through body and soul in t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…s little to tell us , and the Blessed Virgin's affaire du cœur with the amiable Gabriel is but touched on for a moment : 21 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 181 . Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 40 . 3 The Sword of Song , Ascension Day , vol . ii, p . 163 . * Ibid . vol . ii, p . 158 .
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… all my soul must overthrow .” Crowley further writes : Nor can I see what sort of gain God finds in this creating pain.3 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , p . 60 ; vol . ii, p . 182 . According to Al Beidâwi , Gabriel blew into the bosom of Mary's shift , which he opened with his fingers , and his breath reaching her womb , caused the conception . It may also be remembered that the Spanish mare of Silius Italicus was similarly impregnated by a certain gas or spirit in the atmosphere . 2 Ahab , vol . ii, p . 123 . 3 The Sword of Song , Pentecos…
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…HE STAR AND THE GARTER . Demy 4to , pp . 89 , green camel's hair wrapper , is . THE ARGONAUTS . Crown 8vo , pp . 102 , 55 . THE SWORD OF SONG . Post 4to , pp . ix + 194 , printed in red and black , decorative wrapper , 205 . [A few of the first edition , 425. ] GOETIA . Demy 4to , pp . ix + 65 , with illustrations , decorative wrapper , 21S .
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… in the Sibyl line verses of those books from which this one has drawn its life -blood . And they are : Aceldama . The Tale of Archais . Songs of the Spirit . Jezebel . An Appeal to the American People . Jephthah . The Mother's Tragedy . The Soul of Osiris . Carmen Saeculare . Tannhäuser . Berashith . Ahab . The God -Eater Alice . The Sword of Song . The Star and the Garter . The Argonauts . Goetia .
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The Ibarlot IN N that masterpiece “ Tannhäuser , " without any re quest whatsoever , and without any idiotic introduc tion , the song ofan unknown minstrel breaks unheralded on the astonished ears of the Landgrave's Court : Tender the phrase, and faint the melody , When poets praise a maiden's purity ; Platitude linked to imbecility .1 Murmurs of surprise arise , but it is not till he sings , As 'mongst spring's sprigs sprouts sunshine's constant face ; Or as a mill grinds on , with steady pace ; So sprouts, so grinds , the unblushing commonpla…
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…ar !) And thus our formidable Pigeon Lamb -and -old -Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke , and I am found Attacking nothing 2 1 Sword of Song, Ascension Day, vol . ii , pp . 160, 161. ? Ibid . vol . ii, p. 162.
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…ind Drove his young limbs , the wolf that hunts the hind , Far through the forest . 1 And then again bursts from his lips the enraptured song : Ere the grape of joy is golden With the summer and the sun , Ere the maidens unbeholden Gather one by one , To the vineyard comes the shower , No sweet rain to fresh the flower , But the thunder rain that cleaves , Rends and ruins tender leaves . Ere the crimson lips have planted Paler roses , warmer grapes , Ere the maiden breasts have panted , And the sunny shapes Flit around to bless the hour , Comes…
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…d not till now do they discover that man - made honour is but as winter snow . All is hence Alice , as is shown in that sweet and simple song which bears her name : The stars are hidden in dark and mist , The moon and sun are dead , Because my love has caught and kissed My body in her bed . No light may shine this happy night , Unless my Alice be the light . This night shall never be withdrawn Unless my Alice be the dawn.3 1 Alice , an Adultery , vol . ii, p . 69 . 2 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 70 . 3 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 71 .
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…, That all division's hosts confess A master , for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision .' 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . I, pp . 175-176 .
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…gh . Closed is the sphere . There is no more to hear . They perish not ; they do not thrive . They are at rest , alive .2 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 183 . 2 Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 104 . “ Ecstacy or vision begins when thought ceases , to our con sciousness , to proceed from ourselves . It differs from dreaming , because the subject is awake . It differs from hallucination , be cause there is no organic disturbance : it is, or claims to be , a temporary enhancement , not a partial disintegration , of the mental faculties…
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…s 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 . iii, p . 85 . 4 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 91 . 3
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… have seen , is vividly described by Crowley in many of his poems . In “ The Nameless Quest ” we find the yearn ing “ For One beyond all song .” 1 In “ The Triumph of Man ” we again find the same idea crystallized , but in “ The Ultimate Voyage ,” the aspirant , on his spiritual journey towards the Supreme Knowledge , at one point on his journey all but attains Nirvana . In many other poems do we find this idea of Nir vana . In “ Why Jesus Wept ” we have : Thy flower - life is shed Into eternity , A waveless lake .2 Which reminds us of Sir Edwi…
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…look back on as its founder . Berkeley , as we have seen , carried the Cartesian principle to its logical result ; Hume , 1 The Sword of Song , vol . ii, p . 163 , ? Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 95 . 3 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 145 . Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol .i, p . 107 .
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…good diffus'd And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world . In the song of Orpheus we listen to the glittering and mystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . Beyond the splendour of the world , False glittering of the gold , A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom's sacred cold . Life is th…
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…ts irregu larities are regularly irregular throughout , bearing a similar relationship to a true poem like “ Rosa Mundi ” | The Sword of Song , vol . ii, p . 145 . * Ibid . vol . ii, p . 148. Browning's cacophony in “ The Flight of the Duchess " is truly extraordinary : “ Soul a stir up ” with " streaky syrup ” “ Went trickle ' ventricle Sperm oil “ turmoil “ Wreathy hop " “ Æthiop ” “ Matters equine " “ French weak wine ." 1) 12
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…entrated 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 will go . 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, pp . 106 , 107 . 2 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 27 . 3 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 185 .