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CHICAGO MAY A LOVE POEM w ALEISTER CROWLEY The poscestor of this copy le carncaty requested to retin the same under lek and bey, aad a aowise to pact with it vail the year 1964 1914 PRIVATELY PRINTED Prke FIVE GUINEAS
… the King Exists, no more; is it a little thing? King Demos, hear my parable! We pass, We poets, see you grovel at our feet, Despise our love, and tender flesh, and wheat, Clamour for lust, and carrion, and grass. MORT D’ADONIS. ADONIS dies. (Imagination hears The hoarse harsh breathing of the ill-nurtured boar) Venus bends low, half mother and half whore, Whole murderess of boy’s budhood. Fall, black fears ! Ay! through her widowed, her unwedded tears, The foolish filial appeal, ‘‘ Restore, | O Father Zeus, this tender life once more !”’ Falls…
…he animal will be seen no more as an animal, but as God; even the tiger will no more be seen a tiger, but as a manifestation of God”... “love knows no bargaining ... love knows no reward . .. love knows no fear . . . love knows no rival ...” for “there are no men in this world but that One Man, and that is He, the Beloved.” In this excellent series can also be obtained Raja Yoga, one rupee; Karma Yoga, twelve annas; and Jnana Yoga, one rupee, which is worth knowing con- sidering that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at …
…he animal will be seen no more as an animal, but as God; even the tiger will no more be seen a tiger, but as a manifestation of God”... “love knows no bargaining ... love knows no reward . .. love knows no fear . . . love knows no rival ...” for “there are no men in this world but that One Man, and that is He, the Beloved.” In this excellent series can also be obtained Raja Yoga, one rupee; Karma Yoga, twelve annas; and Jnana Yoga, one rupee, which is worth knowing con- sidering that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at …
…amp must be wasted, And the delicate hurt must ache, And the sweet lips moan untasted, My lady lie lonely awake. The night is taken from love, and love’s guerdon Is life and its burden. To-night if I turn to my lover I must ask : If she be ? who am I ? To-night if her heart I uncover No heart in the night I espy. I am grips with the question of eld, and the sphinx holds fast My eyes to the past. Who am I, when I say I languish ? Who is she, if I call her mine ? And the fool’s and the wise man’s anguish Are burnt in the bitter shrine. The god is…
…Eros ! Eros ! Be silent ! It is sin Thus to invoke the oracles of order Their iron gates to unclose. The gross, inhospitable warder Of Loves green garden of spice is well awake. Hell hath enough of Her three-headed hound ; But Loves severer bound Knows for His watcher a more fearful shape, A formidable ape Skilled by black art to mock the Gods profound In their abyss of under ground. Beware ! Who hath entered hath no boast to make, And conscious Eden surelier breeds the snake. Be silent ! O ! for silence sake ! That asks the impossible. Sm…
164 THE OPIUM-SMOKER Boy, as you love me, I charge you to fold Pipe over pipe into gardens of gold Such as a god may be glad to behold. Seated on high in the æons of doom, Sucked as a seed to the infinite womb, Sealed is my soul in the sheath of its tomb. Boy, as you love me, I charge you to mould Pipe after pipe, till the heavens are rolled Back and are lost as a tale that is told ! III Silence and darkness are weaving a web Broidered with Nothing at uttermost ebb : Cover, oh cover the shaming of Seb ! Fling the wide veil, O Nuit, on the sham…
…and Annihilation. This brass con- tains the metals of Jupiter and ^'cnus fused in a homogeneous alloy. This is then symbolical of divine love, and it is " open brass work ' because this love is not limited in direction or extent; it is not par- ticularized, it is universal. Upon this altar stands the Censer proper; it has three legs sym- bolical of fire." Its cup is a hemisphere, and supported from its edge ' Because .Shin, the Hebrew letter of Fire, has three tongues of flame, and its value is 300. 165
…of shadowy traces . You touch with wonder our desire and mirth , All aims and pleasures of imperfect birth , The very pang of lust ; And love, that comes before all power and worth , Might scarcely shape such beauty out of dust Did you forsake the earth . And yours the wonder of all times and lands , Of tongues , and work of human hearts and hands , Of thought , and deeds , and art . Only to you the unbroken temple stands That human love has wrought in every part To endure among the sands . For you beyond all earthly good we crave , Loveliest o…
…hing. I slid back To common sense, as reason bids, And “hence,” my friend, “the Pyramids.” At last I met a maniac With mild eyes full of love, and tresses Blanched in those lonely wildernesses Where he found wisdom, and long hands Gentle, pale olive ’gainst the sand’s Amber and gold. At sight, I knew him ; Swifter than light I flashed, ran to him, And at his holy feet prostrated My head ; then, all my being sated With love, cried “Master ! I must know. Already I can love.” E’en so. The sage saluted me ram, ram,9 lmba p'av kI b'I dam , janI yh s…
LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 205 AUTONOE. Fall soft and sweet ! AGAVE, Moaning for love the woods lie. AUTONOE. Sad the land Lies thirsty for our kisses. MANADS, All wild things Yearn towards the kiss that ends in blood. AGAVE. Blood! Blood! Bromius, Bromius! Ha! Bring wine ! MAENADS. Come, sweet God, Come forth and lie with us ! AUTONOE. Us, maidens now And then and ever afterwards ! AGAVE, Chaste, chaste ! Our madness hath no touch of bitterness, No taste of foulness in the morning mouth. AUTONOE, O mouth of ripe red sunny grapes! God! God ! Evoe…
…n Eternity? For if she will not, there is neither force nor cunning, nor any wit, that may prevail upon her. Thou canst not woo her with love, for she zs love. And she hath all, and hath no need of thee. And thou canst not woo her with gold, for all the kings and captains of the earth, and all the gods of heaven, have showered their gold upon her. Thus hath she all, and hath no need of thee. And thou canst not woo her with knowledge, for knowledge is the thing that she hath spurned. She hath it all, and hath no need of thee. And thou canst not …
THE LOOKING - GLASS 45 Down to the loveless sea Where lay Persephone Violate , where the shade of earth is black , Crystalline out of space Flames the immortal face ! The glory of the comet -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 Or…
… his own or others ' sins , and he wins his freedom at the price of Charicles ' liberty. Nature breaks into a welcome chant of joy , the lovers are reunited , the men's praise is for Archais , and the eyes of the maidens are fixed on Charicles . The tale is nearly ended , the lovers wend their way through the joyous throng midst song and chorus , then from the lips of Archais rises : Light and dark are wed together Into golden weather : Sun and moon have kissed , and built Palaces star -gilt Whence a crystal stream of joy, love's eternal wine ,…
…ray beards, and goatish manners? Hearken them! CHORUS. In the brave old days ere men began To bind young hearts with an iron tether, Ere love was brief as life, a span, Ere love was light as life, a feather, Earth was free as the glad wild weather, God was father and friend to man. AHINOAM. Then when with mildness and much joy our judge Draw hither, let us send to meet his steps
…choose The fact, and leave the dream, and so disdain These far-off splendours, catch the nearer joy. Take squalid kisses, banish crested love Intangible. Delights it thee, my friend. To reach the summits unattained before. And stumble on their snows ? Thine old desire Was just to touch the mere impalpable. To formulate the formless. Otherwise Christ did as well— thine own words turn again ! TannhAuser. Ah, if pure love could grow material ! There are pure women ! 56
…— “ To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love, and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent : This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful, and free : This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.” The last phrase pealed trumpet-wise : he sank back into thought. “ Yes,” he said slowly, “ neither to change, nor falter, nor repent.” I moved forw…
… Or change the winter’s gramarye to spring’s ? Rather beguile the tedious mourning hours With memory of the long-forgotten bowers, Where loves resurged from cave and grove to throne, From nuptial banquet to the bed of flowers! Rather forget the near catastrophe, And turn my music toward Eurydice, Awake in day-dream all the ancient days, When love first blossomed on the springing tree ! Let me recall the days beyond regret, And tune my lyre to love, sharpen and set The strings again to the forgotten ways, That I may tread them over, and forget|!…
… light was thinking and saying: Thou shalt know eternally the influence of my kiss; thou shalt be beautifully in my fashion. Thou shalt love that which I love and which loves
…s build a ring, i. 180 I scorn the thousand subtle points, ii. 151 I see the centuries wax and wane, i. 207 I shall not tell thee that I love thee, i. 222 Isis am I, and from my life are fed, i. 228 Isis am I, and from my life are fed, i. 262 Is it your glance that told me? Nay, iii. 2 Is love indeed eternal? ii. 85 Is there a soul behind the mask ? iii. 6 I stole her money, even then to prove, ii. 84 I stood within Death’s gate, i. 202 It has often been pointed out, ii. 58 I think, Sir, that I have you still, ii. 157 I think the souls of many …