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Aleister
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A NEW PARSIFAL, WILHELM II: THE VISION OF AN ENGLISH POET |
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A New Parsifal, Wilhelm II: The Vision of an English Poet |
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The Continental Times. |
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Volume 22, Number 22. |
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20 August 1915. |
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Berlin, Germany. |
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5 cents. |
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A version of this text was originally published in the August 1915 issue of The Open Court. |
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Comments by Aleister Crowley: |
But the German propaganda was being done as well as the British propaganda ill. With a little moral ascendancy over Viereck, I could spoil his game completely by doing as much mischief to Germany as the Patriot Bottomley and the other hoarse-throated fishwives of Fleet Street were doing to England. I met with more success than I had hoped. Münsterberg was not Argus. I think moreover that folly is contagious. He could hardly keep his young men in hand, especially when apparent victory turned their heads. I found some of them incredibly silly. I had always know Paul Carus for an ass since he published The Gospel of Buddah, but I had no idea that he was such an ass! In The Open Court he published a fancy portrait from my pen of Bloody Bill as Parsifal! Poor old earnest Christian Endeavour Wilhelm, with his megalomania and his theatricalism and his fat-witted Lutheran Gott and his withered hand and his moving-picture-star galaxy of uniforms as the up-to-date Messiah! What a model for "King Arthur come again", to give the heathen Schrecklichkeit! I must have been beautifully drunk to write that. I don't remember anything about it—but I must have been much more than drunk when I sent it to Paul Carus. I suppose I had become acclimatized to the idea that all serious and eminent people are perfectly brainless. He swallowed it, hook, line and sinker; and a poor little bookseller in London who had been agent for the paper for years, and had never read a line of it, got three months in prison! The truth is that the British lost all sense of humour when the war broke out. I wonder how many millions in blood and treasure it cost us to "jowk" with such "deeficulty"! —The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Pages 751-752. |
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