{"collection":"Ordo Templi Orientis","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/oto/lib67.htm","path":"oto/lib67.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/oto/lib67.htm","text":"I flung out of chapel and church\n Temple and hall an meeting-room \n Venus' Bower and Osiris' Tomb, \n and left the devil in the lurch, \n While God got lost in the crowd of gods, \n And soul went down in the turbid tide \n Of the metaphysical Lotus-eyed, \n And I was -- anyhow, what's the odds? \n [...] \n Yet by-and-by I hope to weave \n A song of Anti-Christmas Eve \n And First- and Second-Beast-er Day. \n There's one who loves me dearly (vrai!) \n Who yet believes me sprung from Tophet, \n Either the Beast or the False Prophet; \n And by all sorts of monkey tricks \n Adds up my name to Six Six Six. \n Retire, good Gallup! In such strife her \n Superior skill makes you a cipher! \n Ho! I adopt the number. Look \n At the quaint wrapper of this book! \n I will deserve it if I can: It is the number of a Man. \nAleister Crowley, from \"Ascension Day\" in The Sword of Song\n \n I find some folks think me (for one) \n So great a fool that I disclaim \n Indeed Jehovah's hate for shame \n That man to-day should not be weaned \n Of worshipping so foul a fiend \n In presence of the living Sun, \n And yet replace him oiled and clean \n By the Egyptian Pantheon, \n The same thing by another name. \n Thus when of late Egyptian Gods \n Evoked ecstatic periods \n In verse of mine, you thought I praised \n Or worshipped them -- I stand amazed. \n I merely wished to chant in verse \n Some aspects of the Universe, \n Summed up these subtle forces finely, \n And sang of them (I think divinely) \n In name and form; a fault perhaps -- \n Reviewers are such funny chaps! \n I think that ordinary folk, \n Though, understood the things I spoke. \n For Gods, and devils too, I find \n Are merely modes of my own mind! \nAleister Crowley, from \"Pentecost\" in The Sword of Song","title":"Liber 67","type":"page"}