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LIBER
CCCXXXV
ADONIS
AN ALLEGORY
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Publication in Class C.
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ADONIS
AN ALLEGORY
BY
ALESITER CROWLEY
Inscribed to Adonis .
Argument
Esarhaddon is man ignorant of his high destiny, lost in love of
the body (Astarte) whose 5 handmaidens are the 5 senses. The
soul (Psyche) appeals to him in vain, but awakes his dread of
the King of Babylon (the material plane) who is DeathÏbut
also subject to the King of Greece, who is the One Lord.
Hermes, the wisdom of God, leads the man to recollection of
his true nature by putting him into Samadhi, the Ðsudden deathÑ
of the Qabalah. He leaps up freed. The body now feels
worthless and the man despises it; but the soul says No: all 3 of
us must enjoy together. 1
1 [This ÐArgumentÑ not in the Equinox printing, but handwritten by AC into a copy of
Equinox I (7) and subsequently transcribed by Yorke. Ï T.S.]
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PERSONS OF THE ALLEGORY
THE KING OF BABYLON , tributary to the King of Greece
HERMES , a Greek Physician
THE LADY PSYCHE
THE COUNT ADONIS , at first known as the Lord Esarhaddon
THE LADY ASTARTE
The Warriors of the King of Babylon
HANUMAN , Servant to Hermes
CHARIS .
ELPIS .
PISTIS . } Attendants on Psyche.
Three Aged Women
Handmaidens and Slaves of Astarte
SCENE I : The hanging gardens of Babylon. R., the House
of the Lady Astarte; L., a gateway; C., a broad lawn enriched
with clustered flowers and sculptures. The sun is nigh his
setting. On a couch under the wall of the city reposes the Lord
Esarhaddon, fanned by two slaves, a negro boy and a fair
Kabyle girl, clad in yellow and blue, the boy’s robes being
covered with a veil of silver, the girl’s with a veil of gold.
They are singing to him softly:
THE BOY . All crimson-veined is TigrisÓ flood;
The sun has stained his mouth with blood.
THE GIRL . Orange and green his standards sweep.
THE BOY . His minions keen.
THE GIRL . His mis w.
THE BOY . But thou, Lord, thou! The hour is nigh
When from the prow of luxury
Shall step the death of all menÓs hearts,
She whose live breath, a daggerÓs darts,
A viperÓs vice, an adderÓs grip,
A cockatrice Ótwixt lip and lip,
She whose black eyes are suns to shower
Love's litanies from hour to hour,
Whose limbs are scythes like Death's of whom
The body writhes, a lotus-bloom
Swayed by the wind of love, a crime
Too sweetly sinned, the queen of time,
The lady of heaven, to whom the stars,
Seven by seven, from their bars
Lean and do worshipÏeven she
Who hath given all her sweet self to thee,
The Lady Astarte!
THE GIRL . Peace, O peace!
A swan, she sails through ecstasies
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