TAKE YOUR FILL OF LOVE

Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!
—Liber Al vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX as Delivered By XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI

Let us renew the vows of love! appease
These amorous longings with grave ecstasies,
The holy act of uttermost communion,
The sacrament of life! Awake, awake!
There is a secret in our subtle union
That masters the grey snake.
Ay! let him lurk! The Tree of Knowledge we
Have fed our fill of; this is Eden still.
Awake, O Love! and let me drink my fill
Of thee – and thou of me!
—Why Jesus Wept

Who comes towards us? Why, our God, the Grand!
Our Baphomet! Come, baby, to the band:
Our God may kiss you — yes, he will not spare you!
Fall down, my baby; worship him with me.
There, go; I give you to his monster kisses!
Take her, my God, my God, my infamy,
My love, my master! take the fruit of me!
— Shrieks every soul and every demon hisses!
Out! out! the ghastly torches of the feast!
Let darkness hide us and the night discover
The shameless mysteries of God grown beast,
The nameless blasphemy, the slimed East —
Sin incarnated with a leprous lover!
—The Court of the Profane

O virgins, demons, monsters, O martyrs!
Great souls contemptuous of reality!
Seekers for the Infinite, satyrs, worshippers,
Now mad with cries, now torn with agony!

You whom my soul has followed to your hell,
Poor sisters, more beloved than wept by me,
For your fierce woes, your lusts insatiable,
And the urns of love that fill the hearts of ye!
—ORACLES

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