Questions about the samples on 'The Nephilim' album

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Post by Mark Anthony Quested » Wed May 06, 2009 8:03 am

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Maisey wrote:
wild bill buttock wrote:Yep, it's Aleister Crowley reading his poem "at sea" from an album called "The great beast speaks".
Is there anywhere I can listen to this redition of the poem via the interweb, or do I have to track down the album?
It used to be on sale at www.amazon.co.uk That's where I bought my copy of The Great Beast Speaks. Carl has also used The Poet during live performances of Psychonaut, especially during the 2000 gigs.

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"The Great Beast Speaks" by Aleister Crowley used to be available from www.amazon.co.uk

At the gates of silent memory - features sound clips from AT SEA
Submission remixes (as found on the For Her Light CD) - features sound clips from AT SEA and LA GITANA.
Psychonaut LIVE - when performed live, Carl has used clips from THE POET and AT SEA.

Personally speaking, La Gitana is one of my favourite ever poems! Very romantic; about a sexual liaison that Crowley had with a Spanish gypsy.

Here are some Aleister Crowley poems from the CD...

(C) Copyright, Edward Alexander Crowley, the estate of, and/or the OTO.


At Sea

As night hath stars, more rare than ships
In ocean, faint from pole to pole,
So all the wonder of her lips
Hints her innavigable soul.

Such lights she gives as guide my bark;
But I am swallowed in the swell
Of her heart's ocean, sagely dark,
That holds my heaven and holds my hell.

In her I live, a mote minute
Dancing a moment in the sun:
In her I die, a sterile shoot
Of nightshade in oblivion.

In her my elf dissolves, a grain
Of salt cast careless in the sea;
My passion purifies my pain
To peace past personality.

Love of my life, God grant the years
Confirm the chrism - rose to rood!
Anointing loves, asperging tears
In sanctifying solitude!

Man is so infinitely small
In all these stars, determinate.
Maker and moulder of them all,
Man is so infinitely great!


The Poet

Bury me in an nameless grave!
I came from god the world to save.
I brought them wisdom from above:
Worship, and Liberty, and Love.
They slew me for I did disparage
Therefore Religion, Law, and Marriage.
So be my grave without a name
That earth may swallow up my shame!


La Gitana

Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced,
The sorceress enchanting and the Paladin entranced,
In the starlight as we wove us in a web of silk and steel
Immemorial as the marble in the halls of Boabdil,
In the pleasaunce of the roses with the fountains and the yews
Where the snowy sierra soothed us with the breezes and the dews!
In the starlight as we trembled from a laught to a caress
And the god came warm upon us in our pagan allegresse.
Was the Baille de la Bona too seductive? Did you feel
Through the silence and the softness all the tension of the steel?
For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns,
And the midnight came upon us worth a million crazy morns.
Ah! my gipsy, my Gitana, my Saliya! were you fain
For the dance to turn to earnest? – O the sunny land of Spain!
My Gitana, my Saliya! more delicious than a dove!
With your hair aflame with roses and your lips alight with love!
Shall I see you, shall I kiss you once again? I wander far
From the sunny land of summer to the icy polar star
I shall find you, I shall have you! I am coming back again
From the filth and fog to seek you in sunny land of Spain.
I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old
With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold.
I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south
With our passion in your body and our love upon your mouth –
With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew!
My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you!


The Titanic

Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel,
Consummate crown of man's device;
Down crashed upon an immobile
And brainless barrier of ice.
Courage!
The grey gods shoot a laughing lip: -
Let not faith founder with the ship!

We reel before the blows of fate;
Our stout souls stagger at the shock.
Oh! there is Something ultimate
Fixed faster than the living rock.
Courage!
Catastrophe beyond belief
Harden our hearts to fear and grief!

The gods upon the Titans shower
Their high intolerable scorn;
But no god knoweth in what hour
A new Prometheus may be born.
Courage!
Man to his doom goes driving down;
A crown of thorns is still a crown!

No power of nature shall withstand
At last the spirit of mankind:
It is not built upon the sand;
It is not wastrel to the wind.
Courage!
Disaster and destruction tend
To taller triumph in the end.

Aleister Crowley
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Post by Mark Anthony Quested » Wed May 06, 2009 8:10 am

Mark Anthony Quested wrote:
Mark Anthony Quested wrote:
Maisey wrote: Is there anywhere I can listen to this redition of the poem via the interweb, or do I have to track down the album?
It used to be on sale at www.amazon.co.uk That's where I bought my copy of The Great Beast Speaks. Carl has also used The Poet during live performances of Psychonaut, especially during the 2000 gigs.

MQ
"The Great Beast Speaks" by Aleister Crowley used to be available from www.amazon.co.uk

At the gates of silent memory - features sound clips from AT SEA
Submission remixes (as found on the For Her Light CD) - features sound clips from AT SEA, THE POET, and LA GITANA.
Psychonaut LIVE - when performed live, Carl has used clips from THE POET and AT SEA.

Personally speaking, La Gitana is one of my favourite ever poems! Very romantic; about a sexual liaison that Crowley had with a Spanish gypsy.




Aleister Crowley
I almost forgot to mention that I think there is a very brief clip from THE POET in From The Fire. Namely, "Worship and liberty and love".

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Post by Bau » Wed May 06, 2009 2:41 pm

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Post by Mark Anthony Quested » Thu May 07, 2009 7:16 am

Mark Anthony Quested wrote:
Mark Anthony Quested wrote:
Mark Anthony Quested wrote: It used to be on sale at www.amazon.co.uk That's where I bought my copy of The Great Beast Speaks. Carl has also used The Poet during live performances of Psychonaut, especially during the 2000 gigs.

MQ
"The Great Beast Speaks" by Aleister Crowley used to be available from www.amazon.co.uk

At the gates of silent memory - features sound clips from AT SEA
Submission remixes (as found on the For Her Light CD) - features sound clips from AT SEA, THE POET, and LA GITANA.
Psychonaut LIVE - when performed live, Carl has used clips from THE POET and AT SEA.

Personally speaking, La Gitana is one of my favourite ever poems! Very romantic; about a sexual liaison that Crowley had with a Spanish gypsy.




Aleister Crowley
I almost forgot to mention that I think there is a very brief clip from THE POET in From The Fire. Namely, "Worship and liberty and love".

MQ
And the beginning of "Viva La France", as sung by Crowley, is at the beginning of one of the versions of Chaocracy.

MQ
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Post by Mark Boyle » Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:05 pm

WolfLover wrote:The Watchman - At the very end when you hear a priest saying we commit...
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weebleswobble wrote:The Name Of The Rose
But what is the bit before Phobia? ".....do we committ?"
This is taken from the start of the graveyard scene at the conclusion of The Omen when young Damien Thorn is watching his dad being buried with full military honours.

The brat himself is heard in the middle of "Last Exit For The Lost" going "p-yang, p-yang, p-yang!" taken from the earlier part in the movie when he's bowling the snooker balls across the snooker table, much to his step-mother's annoyance...
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Post by WolfLover » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:08 pm

Mark Boyle wrote:
This is taken from the start of the graveyard scene at the conclusion of The Omen when young Damien Thorn is watching his dad being buried with full military honours.

The brat himself is heard in the middle of "Last Exit For The Lost" going "p-yang, p-yang, p-yang!" taken from the earlier part in the movie when he's bowling the snooker balls across the snooker table, much to his step-mother's annoyance...
Thanks a lot for this bit information. :D I'd still love to know where that sample is from, when you hear a young women crying\sobbing at the start of 'Love Under Will'. Does anybody know where this sample is from :?:
If you pass through my soul tonight
Gather all his troubles
Tomorrow's long with eternal night
Gather for tomorrow
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Post by ojopaj » Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:14 pm

I believe the crying/sobbing is also from the movie "Name of the Rose", I think it's one of the monks crying.
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Post by WolfLover » Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:58 am

ojopaj wrote:I believe the crying/sobbing is also from the movie "Name of the Rose", I think it's one of the monks crying.
Thanks ojopaj. :D
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Tomorrow's long with eternal night
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Post by Moonchild » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:23 am

This is taken from the start of the graveyard scene at the conclusion of The Omen when young Damien Thorn is watching his dad being buried with full military honours.
There is another sample from The Omen after "Love Under Will", where you can hear someone say "..there we´ll share out our centuries." This is spoken by the priest (Patrick Troughton) to Mr Thorn shortly before he gets killed.
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Post by WolfLover » Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:54 pm

Moonchild wrote:
There is another sample from The Omen after "Love Under Will", where you can hear someone say "..there we´ll share out our centuries." This is spoken by the priest (Patrick Troughton) to Mr Thorn shortly before he gets killed.
Thanks moonchild, I was always wondering what was said just before "Last Exit For The Lost". To me it always sounded like a priest speaking, but I could never make out what he said. :)
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Gather all his troubles
Tomorrow's long with eternal night
Gather for tomorrow
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Post by ThomasB » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:53 am

Thanks Mark ! It goes to show that Crowley went much beyond the satanist ringamarole, or his excesses. I'm not a fan of the guy, but his true artistic endeavours stands the test of time. I've just leafed through "Moonchild" — no, not THIS one :wink: — which is still in my shelf, and hopes to find the time to read it with as much attention as I can muster.
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Post by Morphic » Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:48 am

Great Info, Thanks y'all.
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Post by WolfLover » Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:36 pm

I found out more or less where the specif samples are from, and what part of the movie they are from:

Endemoniada - When Adso is in part of a chrurch looking at some gargoyles, and then Salvatore, the hunchback monk comes from out of the shadows and says 'Penitenziagite' a few times.

The Watchman - After Robert Thorn's character gets shot by a cop, you hear a priest at the end of 'The Omen' who says "So for their final rest do we commit these two and thrust them unto our Lord."

Love Under Will - At the start of this song someone seems to be sobbing, and I believe this may be the chubby monk who is whipping himself and sobbing in either his room or a chapel. At the end there is churchbells, then all of the monks including Sean Connery's and Christian Slater's characters, plus all the other monks are heard singing an evocative hymn in the small church.

Last Exit For The Lost - A priest is heard talking at the start. This part is when the priest is sitting on the park bench, and after the conversation is finished and Robert Thorn walks away he says "You'll see me in hell Mr. Thorn". Afterwards when Robert Thorn is in the distance he says "There we will share out our centuries". Damian is also heard in the early part of this song, and you can hear him going ""p-yang, p-yang, p-yang!"
If you pass through my soul tonight
Gather all his troubles
Tomorrow's long with eternal night
Gather for tomorrow
When I'm gone wait here
Discover all of earth's surprises
When I'm gone wait here
I'll send my child my last good smile
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Post by machinebrain69 » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:05 pm

Mark Anthony Quested wrote:
weebleswobble wrote:The Name Of The Rose
The bits before Endemoniada and Last Exit for the Lost are from The Name of the Rose. But what is the bit before Phobia? ".....do we committ?"

In addition to the film, I would recommend the book The Name of the Rose; a great read in my opinion. Better than Dan "Shite" Brown.

MQ
Its from The Omen during Robert Thorn's funeral scene. A sample of Damien from The Omen is also used in Last Exit for the Lost. Its taken from the scene where he is irritating his mother playing at being a cowboy. 'Pee-ow, pee-ow, pee-ow, pee-ow!'
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Re: Questions about the samples on 'The Nephilim' album

Post by Ngie » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:28 pm

WolfLover wrote:
Moonchild wrote:
There is another sample from The Omen after "Love Under Will", where you can hear someone say "..there we´ll share out our centuries." This is spoken by the priest (Patrick Troughton) to Mr Thorn shortly before he gets killed.
Thanks moonchild, I was always wondering what was said just before "Last Exit For The Lost". To me it always sounded like a priest speaking, but I could never make out what he said. :)
Having not read The Name Of the Rose I couldn't either make it out and used to hear "sentence" instead of "centuries". Thanks all for this topic full of info.
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Re: Questions about the samples on 'The Nephilim' album

Post by WolfLover » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:43 pm

I watched 'In The Name of The Rose' not so long ago, and I don't think its that monk who is sobbing while whipping himself , that you hear at he very start of 'Love Under Will'. Does anybody know exactly where this sample is from. :?
If you pass through my soul tonight
Gather all his troubles
Tomorrow's long with eternal night
Gather for tomorrow
When I'm gone wait here
Discover all of earth's surprises
When I'm gone wait here
I'll send my child my last good smile
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