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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 1 May 1924
Jupiter. May Morn.
Hail unto Keph Ra!
A long and exciting night at the Witches Sabbath. Wrote Oath: "The Blackguard and the Sage".*
Invented the Great Design: found the Rich Man from the West and that in the very spot indicated by my Magical Calculations of many years since. These two facts square also with many passages of AL III in the most striking way: notable 7, 32-3, 46, 51, and 71
* die Jupiter 5 A.M. Oath The Black Guard and the Sage (an Incident of the Sabbath)
The Blackguard's fist shook his blue steel and struck Stark through the golden belly of the Sage. The scarlet blood spouted in joyous rage And the cascade of glutinous grey muck Slow tumbled to the callous malachite Its russet-brown abominations oozed —and all the sorrow of the Sage was loosed As eyes and lips aped beards lack-luster white. Now God stepped forth, a purple-crested hawk With plumes of jade and lapis-lazuli Borne on that boisterous breath, so glad to espy The glories of this sunset, and to stalk Free through the rainbow realms where dwells the soul When from its ageless limbs the fetters fall And in the ambience of the Essential All It reads the gilt imperishable scroll Of its right Record—Therefore the dull gleam In the fell Blackguard's eyes became a glow, Twin suns eclipsed forth flaming over snow. His bloat lips part—their violet smile Showing their sanctuary of teeth, supreme ferocious Chryselephantine wardens of his tongue That lied and lusted with his whole soul's young Violence—his soul insatiate and atrocious That seized and tore the issuing God—I saw [illegible] to full supremacy of stature In this Her climax to Her own wise Law!
Aleister Crowley
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