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…es : “ All analytic judge ments are based entirely on the principles of contra diction ... and are ... à priori ” (p. 13 ), e.g. “ Every body is extended ," ... " No body is unextended ," e.g. , “ Gold is a yellow metal .” “ Now , to know this , I require no further experience beyond my conception of gold , which contains the proposition that this body is yellow and a metal " ( p . 13 ). ( But , answers Crowley , what of the proposi tion “ Gold is a trivalent base ? None of these things are analytic . Thus gold must be reducible to the noumenon…
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…it is produced, is entirely beyond our comprehension ... The command of the mind over itself is limited, as well as its command over the body ;) and these limits are not known by reason , or any acquaintance with the nature of cause and effect , but only by experience and observation , as in all other natural events and in the operation of external objects . Our authority over our sentiments is much weaker than over our ideas ; and even the latter authority is cir cumscribed within very narrow boundaries . Will any one pretend to assign the ult…
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138 THE STAR IN THE WEST psychopathic mist dims his mind , and all the love he lavished on the body of the living woman turns to a lust for her cadaver : 1 The spirit filled me . And behold ! I saw her dead stare to the skies . I came to her , she was not cold , But burning with old infamies . On her incestuous mouth I fell , And lost my soul for Jezebel . They cast her forth on Naboth's field Still living , in her harlot's dress ; Her belly stript , her thighs concealed , For shame's sake and for love's no less . Night falls ; the gaping crowd…
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128 THE STAR IN THE WEST Sob , and the languid body slips Down to enamelled wildernesses . Fallen and loose the shaken tresses ; Fallen the sandal and girdling gold , Fallen the music manifold Of moving limbs and strange caresses , And deadly passion that possesses The magic ecstasy of these Mad maidens , tender as blue seas .' For this is passion , if not quite so pure as some we have already seen , yet still passion of an unlustful nature . In “ The Flight ” we find in the following lines a still deeper glow : The snow -bright weather Calls u…
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…when we lose the cherished present , that it looms up through the mist of time as a glorious past ; and it is only when we have lost the body of corruption , that its soul rises sublime purifying all ; our personality purified by death the great Time Soul lies cradled in our own as the four lips of two lovers are in their bridal kiss . Alone by trampling life's grapes do we gain the vintage of the Soul , the Medean draught of rejuvenescence . The whole of this wonderful philosophy the poet sums up in the following two verses of extraordinary an…
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… the parents of Marriage and Law , but not even the menials of Freedom and Free Love . We clung still closer , till the soul ran through Body to body , twined like sunny snakes , Sinlessly knowing we were man and wife.2 Alice , still fearful , foresees the end ; such love as theirs is too supernal to be platonic ; she flies in vain ; for she has to console her sad lover with the truth . The storm - clouds gather on the twenty - fifth day : Mouth unto mouth ! O fairest ! mutely lying , Fire lambent laid on water , -0 ! the pain ! Kiss me , O hea…
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… fair , her image in the brook might make A passionless old god his hunger slake By plunging in the waters , though he knew His drowning body drowned her image too. " There he , or now she , meets the great god wander ing through the green trees and the cool groves , as Jahveh was wont once to do . Amidst those shades of Ida , where Paris adjudged the prize of beauty , over looking the blue Hellespont , the greatest sacrifice , and thereby the purest that love can make , was to be demanded , and freely given -- the sacrifice of a woman's honour…
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…ng , illimitable . Now we see the horrid form of his lower self , which he once strove to cast off , bending over him ; the Venus of his body rises lecherous over the pure Isis of his soul , the carnal lusting over the Spiritual , as Iago slavered over Desdemona . Come ! ye my serpents , warp his body round With your entangling leprosy ! And me , Let me assume the belovéd limber shape , The crested head , the jewelled eyes of death , i Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 234 .
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88 THE STAR IN THE WEST Trampled around her by the souls that knelt , Worshipping where her false lewd body dwelt , Was dark and hateful ; and a sleepy flood Trickled therefrom as magic gums that melt . ' I am a man , nor fear to drain the bowl.2 Now some old devil, dead no doubt and damned , But living in her life , had wisely crammed Her fierce bronze throat with such a foul device As made her belly yearn for sacrifice . She leered like love on me , and smiled , and shammed , And did not pity for all her breast of spice.3 Man though he was , …
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…t , and still fewer are aware of ; for it has ever been the craft of the Christian Church to pass off on her paramours her worn -out old body as that of untasted virginity . The Catholic Church , the harlot of the seven hills , comes in for sparse mercy . In Tannhäuser we find the head of this infallible and august body of swindlers mocked as a mountebank , and his power as a “ barren staff .' In “ Ascension Day ” the whole Christian Church as a lie , “ abortion and iniquity ,” ? whose soldiers are no ardent warriors in triple steel , but loath…
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… centre of immortality lying in the whole , and not in the part . The Qabalist compared the wicked with the excrement of the great human body , a necessary vivific secretion , and not a poison to the living organism . Waite tells us : “ These excretions also serve as a manure to the earth , which brings forth fruits to nourish the body ; thus death reverts always to life , and evil itself serves for the renewal and nourishment of good .” ? The most important of all the arcana of the Magnum opus was the transformation of darkness into light . Ag…
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…rather that both shall agree . If the carnal act is foul , it is then as foul in the palace as in the brothel : mere prostitution of the body need not necessarily mean a similar prostitution of the mind , as we saw in the “ Tale of Archais .' Every woman's body is as free a possession of her own as that of every man is of his own , and what is disgraceful to woman is equally disgraceful to man , and vice versa . Law to be true must be just , and as " 2 1 The Poem , vol . i, p . 57 . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 58 .
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…" ( For in extension Space is the single immovable consciousness ; Time the extension in number , the motion of the immobiles . A moving body must move in Time ; for it is the succession of consciousnesses . “ It is here " _ " it is there , " that makes us say , it moves . It is a succession of con Gargoyles , vol . iii, p. 85 .
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…song which bears her name : The stars are hidden in dark and mist , The moon and sun are dead , Because my love has caught and kissed My body in her bed . No light may shine this happy night , Unless my Alice be the light . This night shall never be withdrawn Unless my Alice be the dawn.3 1 Alice , an Adultery , vol . ii, p . 69 . 2 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 70 . 3 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 71 .
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…e over us as we are borne down their unfathomable depths . Similarly in the following : Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons ; my eyes Absorb her eyelids ' lazy light , And read her bosom 2 The extra half - step in “ shuddering ” in place of dis cordantly jarring on the metre produces a keener sense of agony in the reader's mind than a word which scanned correctly would do . In the next passage , taken from “ Tannhäuser , ” we find the introduction of a spondee carrying with it a curious sensation of slowness : Chaos , a…
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… is silent : it is a blissful extravagance . . I have often been carried away by it . . . there is such per fection of joy that soul and body cannot express it ... if they could the perfect union of all the powers would be at an end ." So Crowley finely describes : . Death from the universal force Means to the forceless universe Birth . I accept the furious course , Invoke the all - embracing curse . Blessing and peace beyond may lie When I annihilate the “ 1. " Therefore , O holy mother , gnash Thy teeth upon my willing flesh ! Thy chain of sk…
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THE NEW WINE 265 { think of sciousness in a single consciousness , that makes us say , it is of an extended body or idea . This taken together reduces the universe to a lot of minima cogitabilia , linked only by Time ; Anima explained by Ratio . ? Space is Geometry : Time is Arithmetic , i.e. , the geometrical conception , the mathematical conception . Thus , if I a blue pig ten times , that think of is ten blue pigs ; yet in Space there is but one blue pig . Can we reduce Space --which I spiritually com prehend so well , intellectually so badl…
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…sire : Passion to feed upon your shoulders bare , And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair . Give thee my body as a fire to hold O love, no words , no songs—your breast my bower ! In “ Jezebel ” we find the same desire , but unfanned by restraint , in whose place stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, Laughed with strong scorn , whose music knelled The empire of God's universe. And on my haggar…
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… About thy dabbling feet , and aching jaws Whose tongue licks mine , twin asps like moons that curl , Red moons of blood ! Whose catlike body claws , Like a white swan raping a jet - black girl , Mine , with hysteric laughter And the following four verses in " Saida ” superb : The spears of the night at her onset Are lords of the day for a while , The magical green of the sunset , The magical blue of the Nile . Afloat are the gales In our slumberous sails On the beautiful breast of the Nile . are We have swooned through the midday exhausted By …
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… plus ultra of Crowleyanity , it will be necessary to arrive at a state of desperate de spair , a state in which the equilibrium of both body and mind are balancing between conscious alienation and unconscious insanity ; and this state is the Cer berus we all have to pass before we can regain the blissful arms of our long - lost Eurydice . To clearly illuminate the Orphic progress through the Plutonic regions of Philosophy , it will be necessary , first of all to satisfy the three heads of the terrible offspring of Echidna's womb , whose names …