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Household Gods
A short occultist symbol-laden play set in verse. Somewhat clumsy verse and my guess it served either to mock Yeats, or to emulate him. Both he and Crowley were members of the Hemetic Order of the Golden Dawn, so - who knows.Essentially a sex story; a flute is played, several things are made wet, a little death occurs, a bird is roused from the bush, etc. - puns and double entendres, all kinda Beavis and Butthead.Still, the symbolism is interesting. You may recognize the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan. Leda, in this version is less than cryptically named Adela. And, spoiler alert, Zeus is killed,Crowley was quite likely very high when he penned this, so it is probably only appealing to the Alistair Crowley completist - if that isn't the case, then grab it from inside a collection (Vol. 5 has it).