WINE WOMAN SONG

“The Greeks say that there are three methods of discharging the Lyden Jar of Genius. These three methods they assign to three Gods.

These three Gods are Dionysus, Apollo, Aphrodite. In English: wine, woman and song.”
— Liber DCCXI - Energized Enthusiasm, A Note on Theurgy

“Still, woman, with some aid from wine and song,

Makes long a little, and a little long.

Who knows the ins-and-outs of travelling,

In spite of ups-and-downs, may feel a king.

— Fun of the Fair

“Girls! with more than dream’s address,

Wake him with perfume till he smile, with strokes

Softer than moonbeams till he turn, and sigh,

With five slow drops of wine between his lips

Until his heart heave, with young thrills of song

Until his eyelids open, and the first

And fairest of ye greet him like a flower,

So that awakened he may break from you and turn to me who am all these in one.

— Astarte in Adonis, an Allegory

“Come, O my dear one, my darling, let us pass from the land of the plough to the glades and the groves of delight! There let us pluck down the clustered vine of our trembling, and scatter the rose-leaves of our desire, and trample the purple grapes of our passion, and mingle the foaming cups of our joy in the glittering chalice of our love. O! love, what fountains of rapture, what springs of intoxicating bliss well up from the depths of our being, till the foaming wine jets forth hissing through the flames of our passion — and splashes into immensity, begetting a million suns.”
— The White Watch-Tower from The Temple of Solomon the King

“But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me.”
— Ch I 51 in Liber AL vel Legis, Book of the Law