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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
.