Cremers told Aleister Crowley that Stephenson was a doctor and had committed the Whitechapel murders as part of a magic ritual and that the sites of the murders, when joined together on a map, formed a calvary cross ( which is untrue ).
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Three songs recorded on November 27 at Oxford Polytechnic had been released on the 1976 Thompson compilation ( guitar, vocal ); two of those, " Calvary Cross " and " It'll Be Me " are included here in different mixes.
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Concert performances featured extended guitar solos on " The Calvary Cross " ( from " I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight " ) and on " Night Comes In " and " For Shame of Doing Wrong " from the newly released " Pour Down Like Silver ".
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It depicts eight figures standing on the snow-covered ground amid the detritus of war, beside a whitewashed wall, seven in a loose group to the left and one alone on the right overlooked by a calvary cross in the top right corner, while a ninth lies on the ground, exhausted.
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The tracks are drawn mostly from the duo's three albums for Island : " I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight ", " Richard Thompson's first solo album " Henry The Human Fly "; there is also an alternate recording of " A Heart Needs A Home " and a live version of " The Calvary Cross " with an extended guitar solo, both of which originally appeared on the mid-seventies compilation album " ( guitar, vocal ) ".
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Each of the four Watchtowers ( representing the Elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water ), is collectively " governed " by a hierarchy of spiritual entities which runs ( as explained in Crowley's " Liber Chanokh " ) as the Three Holy Names, the Great Elemental King, the Six Seniors ( aka Elders ) ( these make a total of 24 Elders as seen in the Revelation of St . John ), the Two Divine Names of the Calvary Cross, the Kerubim, and the Sixteen Lesser Angels.
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The release was notable for two live cuts from the 1975 Richard and Linda Thompson tour & mdash; " Night Comes In " and " Calvary Cross " & mdash; which featured lengthy guitar solos by Thompson, and for the Fairport Convention tracks " The Ballad of Easy Rider " featuring an excellent vocal from Sandy Denny which was an unreleased track from the " Liege & Lief " sessions and " Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman " which had been recorded for and then omitted from that group's " Full House " album.
