Chemical Wedding
rip by warlock
Not enslaved by dull control
Left to dream and roam and play
Walking on the foggy shore
Watch the waves come rolling home
Through the veil of pale moonlight
My shadow stretches out its hand
And so we lay
We lay in the same grave
And so we lay
We lay in the same grave
Children have you ever met
The bogie man before?
No, of course you haven't
For you're much too good I'm sure
Don't you be afraid of him
He's a great big coward
so I'll tell you what to do
Hush hush hush
Don't let him come
too close to you
He'll catch you if he can
When the shadows of the evening
Creep across the sky
To sing a lullaby
Tell her that the bogie man
Uncle Henry's very kindly
Told you what to do
Hush hush hush
Don't let him come too close to you
He'll catch you if he can
Just pretend
your teddy bear's a dog
Then shout out,
"Fetch him, Teddy!"
And he'll hop off like a frog
say "Meow"
Pretend that you're a cat
He'll think you may scratch him...
I can't wait to meet
the wickedest man in the world.
Alex, you promised
to behave yourself.
But does that mean
I have to be good or bad?
Don't play games, Alex.
He's powerful
and dangerous if you cross him.
Here's one way
- Keep a little salt with you...
Oh, symonds.
And put it on his tail.
You know your way up.
Oh, take the post up, will you?
Come on, symonds,
look at this dump.
He's the forgotten man of magic.
Not so forgotten.
He still gets post
from followers in America.
One born every minute.
( knocks )
Mr. Crowley?
"Do what thou wilt
shall be the whole of the Law."
"Love is the law,
Iove under will."
( ticking )
Midday.
I did have to speed
a bit to be on time.
Well done.
Time is important.
How go the studies?
I'm rereading the Bible
in light of what you said.
It's most interesting.
Unfortunately
the last remaining source
of primeval magic.
Who is this?
Alex Lepard, sir.
I'm at Trinity too.
Reading theology
like symonds here?
No, sir-- science.
science?
Ah. The new magic.
( laughs )
Excuse me?
You're no scientist.
You ooze disbelief.
A good ritualized f***
will expand your consciousness,
not to mention
your constricted orifices.
so, symonds,
what have you got for me?
Nothing special--
your newspaper, the post.
Ah. Thank you.
stupid woman.
Ah. Now, symonds...
( coughs )
time is of the essence.
I do want to learn.
No no no, symonds,
that won't do at all.
It won't work
unless you believe in me
right down to your very soul.
I do, sir. It's just there's only three
weeks and I still don't understand.
Ah, yes.
Let's begin at the beginning.
Put that down!
My magical diaries
are not for blind eyes.
every sacrament
of sexual magic.
Thank you.
Now...
the oldest and most powerful ritual
comes to us
from Egyptian hieroglyphics.
It's tells of the murder
and betrayal
of Osiris by seth.
seth cut the dead body
into 15 parts
and scattered them
over the land of Egypt.
Isis found most of the pieces,
and using her magic
she fused them together
in resurrection.
But...
she was missing
the phallus.
so...
using a reed
as a substitute phallus
she performed
the wedding rite with Osiris...
and brought forth
a powerful son--
Horus.
It's a non-carnal union.
A virgin birth.
Exactly.
Only four magnificent times
has this rite been performed--
Joshua with the Magdalene,
Abelard with Heloise--
these are the two you know already.
Who were the others?
On Friday, when you return...
alone,
we shall begin your initiation.
I'm not sure I can afford
to come back.
Don't worry, symonds.
This will...
where's the money?
Where's the money?
What?
No.
The head
of our Californian brethren
seems to have fallen
under the spell
of a writer of science fiction.
to produce
a moonchild.
Moonchild?
What are you going to do?
I shall invoke
such a miraculous illumination...
that Jack Parsons will--
( coughing )
Can I get you anything, sir?
No. No.
Leave me.
I need medication.
What the hell is a moonchild?
A moonchild is an elemental,
a reincarnated soul
in a body created by ritual.
By sexual magic?
It's elemental,
my dear symonds.
The fellow is a perverted nut.
Alex, you're mad.
He's traced back
nine previous lives.
Previous lives?
Ko Hsuan, Count Cagliostro,
Eliphas Levi--
each one fixed by the wedding rite,
what he calls the chemical wedding.
Chemical wedding?
- ( clattering )
( knocks )
Mr. Crowley.
Mr. Crowley?
Oh my God.
Alex, stay with him.
( ticking )
Mr. Crowley.
I curse the hand
that steals my time.
( groaning )
( ticking )
- He's dead.
ticking away
the seconds of my life...
marking triumphs and failures,
Iove and loss
and the long painful path
to self-knowledge.
Then four days ago
he came from Cal Tech.
Four days that would change
the course of our planet.
( bell tolling )
Professor Mathers?
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