I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 54 (1929; rev. 1970).
-- Aleister Crowley, (Oct 12 1875-1947), English occult writer; The Great Beast was a writer of occult lure and Black Magic rites.