Where was light when thy body came
Out of the womb of a perished prayer?
Where was life when the sultry air,
Hot with the lust of night and shame,
Brooded on dust, when thy shoulders bare
Shone on the sea with a sudden flame
Into all Time to abundant fame?
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— Aleister Crowley, Ode to Venus Callipyge from White Stains
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2 Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication.
3 Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep not back one drop.
4 Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun.
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— Verses 2-4 from Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni sub figurâ CLVI by Aleister Crowley in the Holy Books of Thelema
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