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THE STAR IN THE WEST
From
these ruins of experience Crowley
now rises
up
a fiery phoenix , directing
us to the only possible way
which will lead
us to our much -desired haven
of rest .
Motion
must
cease , irritation
must be
prevented
,
Time
and Space annihilated ,
and
the divine
“ I ” set
free from
the sordid rags of the world , to be clothed
in
the
brilliancy
of
God .'
This
added
“ impulse
" ,
which in the homogeneous protoplasm causes fission , is
as mystical
to - day as that added
" something " which
will cause
the mind of one man to admire a Wagnerian
opera , and another a drawing by Beardsley .
No sound
is in the air , vibrations
only pass .
No sound is in the
brain , molecular changes only result .
Where
then is
sound ? It is a creation
in the mind by the divine
“ I ” ;
that unextended absolute Passivity , whose dwelling
is
in that equilibrating
activity which balances
action and
reaction .
Hegel (outside the realms of the divine philosophers )
was
one of the
very few who partially
grasped
the
supreme truth of Crowleyanity
, when he postulated :
“ Being and Non -Being are
the
same.”
He saw that
pure being is , in
its
last analysis
,
beyond fertilization
,
development
,
or
motion
,
and
is
practical nothingness
.
“
The fertilization
of
Being
,
according
to
Hegel
,
arose
by
the
passing
over
,
as
it
were
,
of
Being
into
its
antitheses
,
otherness
,
or
complement
—
that
is,
into
Non
-
Being
.
But
this antithesis
,
otherness
,
comple
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It
should
never for
a
moment
be forgotten that any attempt
to
construct
a
positive philosophic system
from these data would
be
strenuously repudiated
by
Crowley
.
The danger constantly
recurs
,
because
in
the
normal
(
educated
)
man
the reason
is
master
.
Like
the
hydra
of
Hercules
,
its
heads
grow again
;
they
must
be
branded
by
the
torch
of
illuminism
,
as
well
as
smitten
off
by
the sword
of
scepticism
.