The Star in the West

174 THE STAR IN THE WEST darkness into light . “ The stone becomes a plant, the plant an animal , the animal a man , and man greatens into Deity ." I Nothing is absolutely evil , nothing is accursed for ever , not even the archangel of evil , for a time will come when his name and angelic nature will be restored to him .2 Thus we rise through the microprosopus of good and evil , to the great ethical macroprosopus which is equilibrated . Many are the tracks and by -paths of life which lead over the mountains , the swamps , the forests of existence to that great road , the road of the Soul . From the supernal flights of Idealism , we now find Crowley in the most infernal depths of realism striving through a sea of blood towards that flaming pentacle which flares on the dim horizon of Hope . All is night , yet all is expectation ; herculean is the task , yet the heart is that of a Titan . Blake saw that “ Prisons are built with stones of Law ; brothels with bricks of Religion ,” and so does Crowley . Both in their sagacity perceive that the one great crime is that of exclusive ness . The Christian failing to see this , worshipped the masculine power of wisdom and neglected the feminine power of Intelligence , his God was as the God of most religions a veritable He - God , therein lay his fault ; the only philosophy perhaps that grasped the truth was that of the Qabala . The microprosopus was neither masculine nor feminine , but androgynous ; and it was left for William Postel to utter one of the greatest world truths when he said , “ The Word has 1 The Mysteries of Magic , p . 30 . 2 La Kabbale , Frank , p . 217 .