[PDF] The Song Of The Scarlet Host eBook

Author : Joseph Bernard Rethy
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781331188803

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Excerpt from The Song of the Scarlet Host, and Other Poems The song of the Scarlet Host We do not kill, we do not harm; We make of life a living thing, Our breasts for every man are warm - We care not be he slave or king. Our lips are his if he but ask; We do not wisely choose and plan, Our bodies are for every task; We are the mates of stricken man. Our skirts they make a bright array - They are like banners in the sky, And man who loves and is of clay Smiles when our silks go flashing by. Like palm trees in a desert land Our plumes wave proudly in the crowd. We walk so all may understand - With painted cheek and head unbowed. We march in armies like a host That succors all the weak and frail. No man to us is ever lost Or dwells beyond that mystic pale. We dare not judge our brothers wrong, Nor deem his proffered love too base, Or tell him where he must belong And find for him a loathsome place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Stanley Braithwaite
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 1915
Category : American poetry
ISBN :

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Vol. for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."

Author : Tobias Churton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1620556316

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An exploration of Crowley’s relationship with the United States • Details Crowley’s travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation • Investigates Crowley’s undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.S. involvement in WWI • Includes an abundance of previously unpublished letters and diaries Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley’s three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley’s extensive travels through America and his quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States, while working to undermine Germany’s propaganda campaign to keep the United States out of World War I. Masterfully recreating turn-of-the-century America in all its startling strangeness, Churton explains how Crowley arrived in New York amid dramatic circumstances in 1900. After other travels, in 1914 Crowley returned to the U.S. and stayed for five years: turbulent years that changed him, the world, and the face of occultism forever. Diving deeply into Crowley’s 5-year stay, we meet artists, writers, spies, and government agents as we uncover Crowley’s complex work for British and U.S. intelligence agencies. Exploring Crowley’s involvement with the birth of the Greenwich Village radical art scene, we discover his relations with writers Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser and artists John Butler Yeats, Leon Engers Kennedy, and Robert Winthrop Chanler while living and lecturing on now-vanished “Genius Row.” We experience his love affairs and share Crowley’s hard times in New Orleans and his return to health, magical dynamism, and the most colorful sex life in America. We examine his controversial political stunts, his role in the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, his making of the “Elixir of Life” in 1915, his psychedelic experimentation, his prolific literary achievements, and his run-in with Detroit Freemasonry. We also witness Crowley’s influence on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and rocket fuel genius Jack Parsons. We learn why J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t let Crowley back in the country and why the FBI raided Crowley’s organization in LA. Offering a 20th-century history of the occult movement in the United States, Churton shows how Crowley’s U.S. visits laid the groundwork for the establishment of his syncretic “religion” of Thelema and the now flourishing OTO, as well as how Crowley’s final wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Hamptons.