The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
THE TELL-TALE HEART ADAPTED FROM THE STORY OF E. Α. POE BY ALEISTER CROWLEY 12 131
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THE TELL-TALE HEART ADAPTED FROM THE STORY OF E. Α. POE BY ALEISTER CROWLEY 12 131
THE TELL-TALE HEART ADAPTED FROM THE STORY OF E. Α. POE BY ALEISTER CROWLEY 12 131
…hold me here; You grip my flesh till bleeding bruises start; You threaten me with — can I name the fear ? IT always knew you never had a heart. God! whoamI1? My Lola, speak tome! Tell me you love me; tell me — Lam dazed With something terrible and strange I see Even in the mouth that kissed, the lips that praised. You leer above me like a brooding fiend Waiting to leap upon a babe unweaned. — 102 — {Il Kiss me at least! We always were good friends — Kiss me for old times’ sake — Kiss me just once! I know this ends — as every sweet thing ends! B…
…Honorius: “Choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke. “ Kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and reduce them to powder. “Eat no meat and drink no wine, that day. “On Tuesday, at dawn, say a mass of the angels. “Trace upon the altar itself, with the feather of the cock dipped in the consecrated wine, certain diabolical signatures (those of Mr. Home’s pencil, and the bloody hosts of Vintras). “On Wednesday, prepare…
…Honorius: “Choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke. “ Kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and reduce them to powder. “Eat no meat and drink no wine, that day. “On Tuesday, at dawn, say a mass of the angels. “Trace upon the altar itself, with the feather of the cock dipped in the consecrated wine, certain diabolical signatures (those of Mr. Home’s pencil, and the bloody hosts of Vintras). “On Wednesday, prepare…
180 THE EQUINOX In the mist, and in the sunshine, and the day! Thou art married to Love, maybe, for Love sits weeping In my desolate heart, nor know I what can ail him, Save it be that thou art fled; immortal Love And mortal Death, and are ye separate still, Even as I and as the unknown Rose? Maybe the Rose is Death, and I am Love, Wed to young Life, and jealous of desire Of Death! Oh, in the cool green colonnades I have lingered late, even till the night’s slow fall, And I have heard the dying voices of day, The market-women’s chatter growing …
180 THE EQUINOX In the mist, and in the sunshine, and the day! Thou art married to Love, maybe, for Love sits weeping In my desolate heart, nor know I what can ail him, Save it be that thou art fled; immortal Love And mortal Death, and are ye separate still, Even as I and as the unknown Rose? Maybe the Rose is Death, and I am Love, Wed to young Life, and jealous of desire Of Death! Oh, in the cool green colonnades I have lingered late, even till the night’s slow fall, And I have heard the dying voices of day, The market-women’s chatter growing …
Elizabeth. The proof! The proof ! Dear God, how true it is That such high worthiness sees nothing there In his own heart (save what is very Christ) But wickedness ! TannhAuser {aside). This is my punishment ! This faith, this hope, this love—to me —to me ! Elizabeth. Yet, once my word went forth into the world. Suddenly came the fear that you were still Accessible to men —mig^ht hear, misfht come ! The kind, grave face of you— that light outshone The mystical ideal. Therefore too I minded me of our old baby-love, And —marriages are made in heav…
The heart’s whole fervour silently speeds to thee, Immaculate! and craves Thy kisses or the grave’s, Till, knowing its unworthiness to woo thee, Remembers, grows content With the old element, And asks the lowlier grace its earlier music meant. So, Lady of all power! Kindle this firstling flower The rainbow nymph above the waterfall Into a mortal shade Of thee, immortal maid, That in her love I gather and recall Some memory mighty and mute In love’s poor substitute Of thee, thy Love too high, the impossible pursuit! Then from the cloud a golden …
…ng his hospitality. An alternative meaning is “in their honour.” 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee,…
…last, and be The eternal conqueror of Thee. And I, shall my support be sure In that great day of righteous war ? Is my soul free ? Is my heart pure ? Shall life diseased in death find cure ? Or shall the shameless barren whore That rules my ways be found my guide, Wed in bad bands so foul and sore That Liberty shall be not more Within my heart or at my side ? O Pleasure, whom I made my god, And based my forehead for thy pride And took thy bastard for my bride, Subdued my shoulders to thy rod, Casting before thy feet the things, The virtues that…
…IGNOTA Vv OF THE ROSE “Tuat love and the lover Are mingled in me Night shall discover: Dreams shall not be The veil of the world that my heart doth disclose : The long night is over, And I am the Rose. “Night, like a cancer, Spread over my breast; There was no answer, No truce to this rest, That, holding the world in a shower of white snows, Chilled the mad dancer Who bore me, the Rose. “ Day, like a vision, Before me is fled; Hate and derision Have fouled my soft bed. In the heart of the water the quenched vision glows ; Unborne, in division, …
…IGNOTA Vv OF THE ROSE “Tuat love and the lover Are mingled in me Night shall discover: Dreams shall not be The veil of the world that my heart doth disclose : The long night is over, And I am the Rose. “Night, like a cancer, Spread over my breast; There was no answer, No truce to this rest, That, holding the world in a shower of white snows, Chilled the mad dancer Who bore me, the Rose. “ Day, like a vision, Before me is fled; Hate and derision Have fouled my soft bed. In the heart of the water the quenched vision glows ; Unborne, in division, …
Now all is as it were a Passion of great Peace; and in the Stillness I lift up my Soul like an offering and cry in mine Heart: Let me dwell at the feet of the Master! But the Silence swallows up those vain words; and they are smitten through with the fire of His blood, that transforms them to these: At His feet is only the Earth, and that He breaks up into flowers; but all things that live are assumed to the Heart of the Master. With that I cease to be myself at all: I am absorbed into His adorable essence, and my life is equally shed through…
…r. And birds of a feather will learn to flock together. However, the well-being of the Order and the study of its mysteries being at the heart of every member of the Order, there is inevitably one common ground on which all may meet. I fear that I have exhausted your patience with this letter, and I beg you to excuse me. But as you know, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh . . . you are perfectly right to retort that it need not speak so much! I add no more, but our glad greeting to all men: Love is the law, love under will. Ia…
52 MORTADELLO Let asps lurk in the orange blossoms of my hair, Great gasps of death strangle my Judas-love, despair Bite deep into his heart before I draw the veil And steep in murder, harpys tooth and claw, my pale Pure face, my bloodless virgins face, to dip and bury Its grace in his black blood, my long thin lip made merry With mouthing at his heart-strings, and my white throat working, Its drouth dissolved as the blood sucks, sucksnightshade lurking In dells of witchcraft where black Hecate shoots out In hells lust, her tongue, a frenzy…
…and the oak-leaf, more lovely than before. And upon us watcheth ever he that is appointed to watch. And the wild swan sings ever; and my heart sings ever. Now then I had laid aside the pen, and a voice cried : Write! Fear not I Turn not asidel Is it not written that Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning? Sleep therefore in peace and in faith : shall he not watch whose eye hath no eyelid, who to this end is appointed? And my heart answered : Amenl VI Ε 65
…and the oak-leaf, more lovely than before. And upon us watcheth ever he that is appointed to watch. And the wild swan sings ever; and my heart sings ever. Now then I had laid aside the pen, and a voice cried : Write! Fear not I Turn not asidel Is it not written that Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning? Sleep therefore in peace and in faith : shall he not watch whose eye hath no eyelid, who to this end is appointed? And my heart answered : Amenl VI Ε 65
…IRD DAY “ O theft most base That we have stolen what we do fear to keep.” Troilus and Cressida. Impossible that we shall ever part ! The heart shrinks back from thinking it, the mind Hates it, and prays as love is to be blind. Yet we know well that no magician’s art Can keep our two selves near their single heart. Self-mocked I urger her “ Come and leave behind All fear and friends and children : we shall find Love risen sole without a counterpart.” Even while I begged her, I well knew she must. We could not, loving to see her children laugh, L…
70 AMBERGRIS FROM ALICE : AN ADULTERY Red Poppy I have no heart to sing. What offering I may bring, Alice, to thee ? My great loves lifted wing Weakens, unwearying, And droops with me, Singing the sun-kindled hair Close in the face more fair, The sweet soul shining there For God to see. Surely some angel shed Flowers for the maiden head, Ephemeral flowers ! I yearn, not comforted. My heart is vainly bled Through age-long hours. To thee my spirit turns ; My bright soul aches and burns, As a dry valley yearns For spring and showers. Splendid, re…