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The work retells the legend of a medieval seeker who oscillates between sensual indulgence and the aspiration for transcendent knowledge, portraying his inner battle through verse and dramatised episodes. It blends Christian, pagan, and occult symbols, including Grail imagery and Rosicrucian motifs, to probe the nature and origins of religion, the limits of doctrine, and the paradoxes of spiritual longing. Lyrical monologues, ritualistic scenes, and ironic commentary present doubt, temptation, and the possibility of redemption, while the author interposes philosophical digressions on mysticism, symbolism, and methods of spiritual inquiry.

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Title: Tannhäuser

A story of all time

Author: Aleister Crowley

Release date: March 10, 2023 [eBook #70261]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1907

Credits: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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TANNHÄUSER

XVI
One is incisive, corrosive;
Two retorts, nettled, curt, crepitant;
Three makes rejoinder, expansive, explosive;
Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant:
Five ... O Danaides, O Sieve!
XVII
Now, they ply axes and crowbars;
Now, they prick pins at a tissue
Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar’s
Worked on the bone of a lie. To what issue?
Where is our gain at the Two-bars?
XVIII
Est fuga, volvitur rota.
On we drift: where looms the dim port?
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, contribute their quota;
Something is gained, if one caught but the import—
Show it us, Hughes of Saxe-Gotha!
R. Browning, Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha

TANNHÄUSER

A STORY OF ALL TIME

BY

ALEISTER CROWLEY

A New Edition
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net to the trade

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF
RELIGIOUS TRUTH

Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness
1907

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