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White Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil QUOTES

White Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil QUOTES

1 " Love in a night shall live and die,
Love in a day shall wing and fly;
Love in the Spring shall last an hour,
Easily fade a spring-tide flower. "

― Aleister Crowley , White Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil

2 " O Godhead of glory and anguish!
O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears!
Thy sons on the universe languish
In iron bands strong as the spheres;
With virtue Thy likeness we cover,
With priestcraft we mock at Thy power,
And the meanest on earth is a lover,
As vile as a flower. "

― Aleister Crowley , White Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil

3 " This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk
The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work
The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song
Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong. "

― Aleister Crowley , White Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil

4 " Like clouds in rain, like seas
Exultant as they roll,
We mix in ecstasies,
And, as breeze melts in breeze,
Thy soul becomes my soul. "

― Aleister Crowley , White Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil