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THE LOOKING-GLASS 35 Euripides . Crowley does the same, as we see in “ The Tale of Archais , ” also in “ The Mother's Trag edy ” and “ The Fatal Force ” ; but in these two latter dramas with this important difference , that instead of applying Greek style to Greek scenery , he applies it to a totally different end , namely to the expres sion of modern surroundings , or to his own in trinsic ideas , as in the last -named play , which , even more so than in “ The Mother's Tragedy " is , as we shall see later on , a subtle discount on present -day…
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THE NEW WINE 2II been fulfilled : Aleister Crowley is the artist Elias , the marvellous being whom God has permitted to make a discovery of the highest importance in his illuminative philosophy of Crowleyanity , in the dazzling and flash ing light of which there is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered . It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley . The world has indeed laboured , and has at last brought forth a man . Bacon blames the ancient and scholastic philosophers for spinning webs , like spiders out of their own …
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…ulated metaphysical knowledge , Kant then proceeds to subdivide it into two headings : 1, Analytic ; 2, Synthetic judgements ; the first Crowley would identify with ( verbal propositions ), the second with ( real ]. First Kant states : “ 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 cont…
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…hyâs will put intelligence (B ) first , and the series will run B ,A , B ,A ,B ,A . Both , however , are indicating the same chain ; but Crowley, like the philosophers of the Vedanta , strides beyond both intellect and matter to find an “ I ” (purusha) or self, which is beyond all intellect , and of which in tellect is but the borrowed light , as Patanjali says in one of his yoga aphorisms : “ The seer is intelligence only , and though pure , sees through the colouring of the intellect .” In “ Pentecost ," Crowley writes : You know for me the s…
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266 THE STAR IN THE WEST BUDDHISM As regards the beginning of all things the Buddh ist is discreetly silent , he ( as Crowley says ) neither prevaricates like the Hindu , nor openly lies like the Christian . In the Is'a Upanishad we read : Into dense darkness he enters Who has conceived becoming to be naught , Into yet denser he Who has conceived becoming to be aught . In the second discourse of the Bhagavad - Gītā we also read : Uncleavable He , incombustible He , and indeed neither to be wetted nor dried away ; perpetual , all - pervasive , s…
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…im ! cut him ! The Landgrave's society was shocked by that rude minstrel , and our society is no doubt shocked by the satire of Aleister Crowley . On our book -shelves his works stand literary pickled birches , to administer to our mental ultimatums a corrective dose . A good purgative is an excellent thing taken now and again , it keeps both the bowels free and the mind clear , and Mrs. Grundy is nothing if she be not constipated . “ Thou poisonous bitch , ” says Crowley , when he addresses a Spenserian verse to Mrs. Sally G--d , 1 Tannhäuser …
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…its Size , and Time , Number , i.e., in Consciousness . This is the meaning of “ Time is the fourth Dimension .” So the hard thinking of Crowley arrives eventually at the trans cendental idea of considering Space as a plane , and nearness as Time . “ Can Space be identified with Matter (Akasa , means both ) , and Time with Motion ? ” Crowley an swers , “ Yes." ( 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…
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THE STAR IN THE WEST A CRITICAL ESSAY UPON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY BY CAPT . J F. C. FULLER Hail , O Dionysus ! Hail ! Winged Son of emelé ! Hail , O Hail ! The stars are pale . Hidden the moonlight in the vale ; Hidden the sunlight in the sea . -Orpheus. London and felling - on - Tyne THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. , LTD . NEW YORK : 3 EAST 14TH STREET 1907
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The Virgin “ T O be a singer of sweet songs , " is the great ideal Crowley has enshrined before him ; for varied as his powers are , entwined with satire , philosophy and mysticism , as a singer of lyrics and love -songs Aleister Crowley remains unsurpassed , unrivalled , among the host of present-day poets . His thoughts are as subtle , his imagination as gorgeous , his melodies as charming as those of Shelley himself ; soft as a summer breeze , fresh as the dawn in May, sunny as a June day , and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic…
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… cosmos happened so : Innocent all of guide or goal . Else , what were man's appointed term ? To feed God's friend , the coffin - worm ! Crowley further states in a short foreword to these Images of Life and Death ” : “ To me life and death have most often appeared in majesty and beauty , in solemnity and horror ; in emotions , to be brief , so great that man had no place therein . But there are moods , in which the heights are attained indirectly , and through man's struggle with the elemental powers ." 2 Only by energy and strife May man atta…
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294 THE STAR IN THE WEST poems . But what is it ? And Crowley at once , with East and West , answers , “ a higher state of con sciousness .” That a higher consciousness exists is certain ; that it is unknowable is certain , . .. unless indeed , we can truly unite it with itself .? And that this supreme union is possible he ex plains : Prevent sense -impressions from reaching the sensorium and there will at least be a better chance of examining the interior . You cannot easily investigate a watch while it is going : nor does the reflection of th…
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262 THE STAR IN THE WEST Another triumph for Crowleyanity : Things as they are —of these take hold , Their heart of wonder throb to thine ! All things are matter and force and sense , No two alone . All's one : the gold Of truth is no reward divine Of faith , but wage of evidence. The clod , the God , the spar, the star , Mete in thy measure , as they are !! The sum total of the Vedantist Crowley sums up as follows : " I'am an illusion , externally . In reality , the true ' I'am the Infinite , and if the illusionary ‘ I ' could only realize Who…
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… individuals to peacefully ascend to heaven from two places simultaneously he unfeel ingly dismisses him , the Omnipotent , in a jest .' Crowley further shows , by quoting the parable of the sheep and the goats , that the historical (?) Christ was to a great extent devoid of pity , and a little further on in the same poem , “ Ascension Day ,” that he was but a cantankerous divider and obstreperous upstart : Give me omnipotence ? To call me God I would exert That power to heal creation's hurt ; Not to divide my devotees From those who scorned me…
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…an , J. H. V. H. , he has a considerable amount to relate . How “ All Power can be All Wickedness ," is a question that not only strikes Crowley's brain as ex ceptionally incongruous , but must so strike all who ever think at all . How God being Almighty as well as Beneficent can tolerate such a world of suffering as ours for one minute passes all understanding . The God idea in its infancy , as we have already seen , was the child of ignorance and revenge , and Jahveh , in his turn , is but an emanation of this world idea , no better than the …
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…ilar to Berkeley's “ God -idea , " and defines “ Idealism " to “ consist in the assertion that there exist none but thinking entities.” [Crowley at once denies the “ cer tainty ," and demands an explanation of “ thinking . ” ] Then working through the Berkeleyan arguments backwards , he arrives at defining . [Thing as a (unknowable ) power to produce sense impressions , which is purely Berkeley or his antithesis according as the power is conceived as God or Matter . ] Here we have struck again the fundamental chain A , B , A , B , A , B. Having…
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…crushes out the holy day , Where whore and jobber sit and gloom , grown grey For hating of each other ; the hours hang .' And the pen of Crowley like that of Saladin , Swin burne , and Shelley , is but another douche of cold water to wake the frowsy sleepers of the night , and wash from their gluey eyes the nightmare of Christian Supremacy . In the earlier poems of Crowley , we find not only a reverential handling of the Christ idea , but an almost orthodox adoration for the Christ Himself . In the last two verses of “ Aceldama " this is strong…
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… , 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 grea…
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…Life Triumphant over death O Sorrow , Sorrow , Sorrow of the World ! 1 That such similarities as we have pointed out above show Aleister Crowley to be a copyist , must be far from the minds of all his readers . Youth most certainly tends towards certain ideals , and frequently results in a definite hero - worship ; but genius cannot be bound for long ; it will eventually find its own level . The mere fact that certain forms of thought and modes of ex pression occur here as they have occurred elsewhere , should be as a literary barometer , enabl…
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… simple fission Has reproduced a different bliss , At last a heterogenesis !? Many roads lead to Philosophy and branch forth from it, as Crowley above shows , and in a short essay like this we intend but to travel through the labyrinthine mysteries of all by the silken clue of one , handed us by Aleister Crowley . And as there are many by - ways , corridors , and blind alleys in this great labyrinth of Parnassus , so in this clue , which has been given us , we shall find many twisted threads , yet all of one fibre , which will lead us , the wea…
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…, 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…