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…ampire , the corrupt , that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world , and flaps , for lust of Death - and Love ! 1 " Kill me,” cries Tannhäuser . “ In the kiss , ” answers Venus : thus ends Act II . Act III opens a different scene . The outer materi ality of body is all but sated , the starved soul within cries for sustenance ; he murmurs “ Elizabeth ,” and then wakes strong through her perfection . Venus still entices , but her power has vanished , and at the name of “ Ave Maria !” the exorcism entangled round the souls of the victims of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…blood - coloured death , unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled , Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus , the false Isis , Life ! Life ! This Kiss ! Draw in thy breath ! To me ! To me ! He is lost ! Act II opens with two beautiful songs . Venus sings the praise of spring and summer , and Tannhäuser that of autumn and winter . He finds the latter chill season the best : But best is grim December , The Goatish God his power ; The Satyr blows the ember , And…
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…stic idea , which is so near akin to the agnostic , we find set in the fine prayer of Jephthah , and still more so in the final words of Tannhäuser : I say , then “ I ”; and yet it is not “ I ” Distinct , but “ I " incorporate in All.3 It further finds development in the last four lines of “ Ode to Poesy ”: No man, No petty god , but One who governs all , Slips the sun's leash , perceives the sparrow's fall , Too high for me to fear , too near for man to call .* And arrives at full manhood in such fine lines as the following : God is the Comple…
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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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…d Chasms of matter-so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space , Limitless fields of Time .. Such is the ecstatic rapture of Tannhäuser , in which he loses all perception of earthly love in the intoxication of the divine : Were it not only that the selflessness That fills me now , forbids the personal , Casts out the individual , and weeps on For the united sorrow of all things .? And such is the divine love to which we all must attain , “ For the united sorrow of all things ." 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 261 . 2 Ibid .
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… 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 slowness : Chaos , a speck ; and space , a span ; Ruinous cycles fallen in, And Darkness on the Deep of Time . Murmurous voices call and climb ; Faces , half - formed , arise ; and He Looked from the shadow of His throne , The curtain of Eternity ;: whilst in the last verse of “ The Palace of the World " the sudden dro…
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…lls Venus of her . To which 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 , Thr…
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…e The clouds that mimic whales. Man's darkness is a leathern sheath , Myself the sun -bright sword !' Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser the following as answer to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain Soph is one and the same . In the Qabalistic Dogmas of Pistorius we read even as regards Kether , the Crow…
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…, kindle , grow , Till from one virgin bosom flows a river Of white devotion adamant for ever . ' We might expect to find this idea in “ Tannhäuser,” and do in the following verse : This were my guerdon : to fade utterly Into the rose heart of that sanguine vase , And lose my purpose in its silent sea , And lose my life , and find my life , and pass Up to the sea that is as molten glass .” One more quotation we will give from the song of Parthenope in “ The Argonauts ." O mortal , sad is love ! But my dominion Extends beyond love's ultimate abo…
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… 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 ? Yes !3 Or again in the song of Nuith : 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 94 . 2 Star and Garter , vol . iii, p . 13 . 3 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 259 . -
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…, let loose their hell - hound voices : —fiend ! atheist ! devil ! are hurled at his head ; kill him ! Crucify him ! death ! death ! But Tannhäuser stands a colossus amid the bursting bubbles of this Stygian mire of corruption , and turn ing to the Landgrave he says : Will they answer you ? My arm is weary as your souls are not Of beastliness : I have drawn my father's sword , Hard as your virtue is the easy sort , Heavy to handle as your loves are light , Smooth as your lies , and sharper than your hates ! I know you ! Cowards to the very bone…
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THE LOOKING -GLASS 31 Little , if any , poetry of a truly epic nature can we find ; the nearest is the song of Tannhäuser , somewhat of a prophecy , somewhat of an anthem : I rose within the elemental ball, And lo ! the Ancient One of Days did sit ! His head and hair were white as wool . His eyes A flaming fire : and from the splendid mouth Flashed the Eternal Sword ! Lo ! Lying at his feet as dead , I saw The leaping - forth of Law : Division of the North wind and the South , The lightning of the armies of the Lord ; East rolled asunder from t…
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…ds the starry runes , And swoons ! None but the dead can tune the lyre of love ! 1 Such are two out of these six superb lyrical verses . Tannhäuser sleeps . “ None but the dead can know the worth of love ! ” None but the dead , dead to all else . To love is to die and be born again in another world , to slough the skin of the terrene and be robed in all the supernal glory of the celestial . Love changes as Death , it effaces the past , it brightens the future , beautifies as the hand of some mystic artist , all misery , all sorrow , all woe , o…
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…our head is thrust for a second and third time beneath the waters of affliction by the hands of lechers and louts . The drama entitled “ Tannhäuser " is (as the author states in his preface ) almost identical with “ The Pilgrim's Progress .” It is an intricate mass of psycho logy and philosophy closely interwoven with a moral —which we shall see more fully developed when touching upon the philosophy of Aleister Crowley and it is this : that Happiness , Wisdom , Knowledge , and at length Perfection , can no more be gained by solely travelling al…
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…atic of surrender , without beginning or end , was em blematic also of the eternality of love , that circling girdle of the world . In “ Tannhäuser " we have a similar idea , though reversed ; for Tannhäuser enmeshed in the web of the Venusberg , strives against the sensual to gain a spiritual victory ; whilst in “ The Nameless Quest " the knight , fearful of falling in the sensual slough , seeks , and loses his straight way in the spiritual desert . Thus , as in the latter case , the striving against the desire of a pure love leads to an almos…
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… , To poison , to corrupt , to strike you there Blind with its horror ." Many other pieces are almost equally grand , the last speech of Tannhäuser to Heinrich is truly magnificent : » 2 | Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 261 . 2 The Mother's Tragedy , vol . i, p . 160 .
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…ay Is happy also — ' tis an easy way !? But this cannot be . The dice are in God's lap , and in him alone rests the Ultimate goal . In “ Tannhäuser ' we find the great dual power of redemption , the inter minglings of the powers of Virtue and Vice . In him , as in the hero of “ The Nameless Quest , " they wage an eternal contest , it not being till he has passed through the Venusberg of mental and physical lust , that he attains the graal of his hopes and aspirations : O God , Thy blinding beauty , and the light Shed from Thy shoulders , and th…
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… worn -out old body as that of untasted virginity . The Catholic Church , the harlot of the seven hills , comes in for sparse mercy . In Tannhäuser we find the head of this infallible and august body of swindlers mocked as a mountebank , and his power as a “ barren staff .' In “ Ascension Day ” the whole Christian Church as a lie , “ abortion and iniquity ,” ? whose soldiers are no ardent warriors in triple steel , but loathly and disgusting worms , who only show fight when cornered and not always then- “ speared wild cats bravely spit .". Neit…
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…, we find it throughout the works before us ; in “ Aceldama ,” “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic ,” “ The Temple of the Holy Ghost, ” “ Tannhäuser , “ Rosa Mundi,” and “ Alice .” Ec stasy is the keynote here , as it is of all poetry , all literature , -aye ! of all Life . Without it we cease to be even animals — a dog will bay the moon - mere lumps of sodden clay ; with it a flaming crown of glory , angel - voiced , singing amidst the stars the anthem of Eternity , · Orpheus , vol . iii , pp . 209 , 210 .
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… Holy Ghost , ” by omitting the two plays in “ The Mother's Tragedy ."] CARMEN SAECULARE . Green wrapper , Demy 4to , pp . 30 , 25. 6d . TANNHÄUSER . Cloth , Demy 4to , 155. [ A few copies of the first edition , boards , 215 . NEW YEAR'S CARD , 1903. [ Out of print .] BERASHITH . 4to , pp . 24. China paper , 55 . SUMMA SPES . ( Out of print .] BALZAC . ( Out of print .] AHAB . Demy 4to , pp . 35 , Japanese vellum wrapper , 55 . ALICE . Pott 8vo , Japanese vellum wrapper , pp . xii + 85 , 5s . [A few copies of the first edition , China paper , 2…