The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 287 release the imprisoned “ I. ” When once these powers are released from the earthy grasp of the understand ing , and the Ego sloughs its outward empirical skin , we then become mystics ; nevertheless , “ If any man say , I love God , and hateth his brother , he is a liar . For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth , how can he love God whom he seeth not .” So the mystic's work lies here in life , and the greatest and most divine mystics have probably been those whose naïveté of soul was such , that they knew not that they were mystics , and whose illumination has become so brilliant , that they cannot even find expression in the most divine of symbols . Such adepts who arrive at so exalted a plane , keep silence , as Crowley says : “ the first and last ordeals and rewards of the Adept are comprised in the maxim ' Keep Silence '!” 1 Call “ homo sapiens ” him who thinks ; Talkers and doers - missing links !? In his essay “ Eleusis ," Crowley suggests that the world's history may roughly be divided into a con tinuous succession of periods , each embracing three distinct cycles — of Renaissance , Decadence , and Slime . In the first the Adepts rise as artists , philo 1 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 221 . “ TO KNOW , TO DARE , TO WILL , TO KEEP SILENT , are the four words of the magus , inscribed upon the four symbolic forms of the Sphinx . “ To command the elements , we must have overcome their hurricanes , their lightnings , their abysses , their tempests . “ In order to DARE we must KNOW ; in order to WILL we must DARE ; we must WILL to possess empire , and to reign we must BE SILENT .” — E. LÉVI , The Ritual of Transcendent Magic , pp . 30 , 190 . Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 94 . 2