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…26 THE STAR IN THE WEST formerly murmured to her lover in the effusions of adultery . So it often happens that the most spiritual are at heart the most passionate . Passion and Re ligion are the divine Dioscuri , children of Nemesis . Man , when God became too intangible , too mag nificent to approach , conceived a mediator . Jahveh , surrounded by howling beasts and moulting angels , fenced in by thunder and lightning , was quite cut off from the simple minds of the Suburra , so Christ in those purlieus was manufactured ; but He in His turn gr…
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…own as The botber In which chapter it is related how Our Lady was brought to bed of a rose ; and how she planted it in the garden of her heart , and how it grew and flourished in divers fashions . And how some times it appears as white , and at others as red , and yet still at others both red and white together , so that the most wise were sore perplexed to tell which was the colour proper to it.
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…We might expect to find this idea in “ Tannhäuser,” and do in the following verse : This were my guerdon : to fade utterly Into the rose heart of that sanguine vase , And lose my purpose in its silent sea , And lose my life , and find my life , and pass Up to the sea that is as molten glass .” One more quotation we will give from the song of Parthenope in “ The Argonauts ." O mortal , sad is love ! But my dominion Extends beyond love's ultimate abode . Eternity itself is but a minion , Lighting my way on the untravelled road . Gods shelter ' ne…
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… mystic love of woman , Racing and maddening from the crown of flame , The monolithic core of mystical Red fury that is called a woman's heart .' Enter the sphere of Free Love , and sit by the side of Alice , look into the depth of her eyes , the depths of her heart . As a seeker sees the gold In the shadow of the stream ; see there her love , As a diver sees the pearl In the shadow of the sea ; and murmur not above our breath Ah ! you can love , true girl , And is your love for me ?? “ Alice , an Adultery .” As golden a book of poetry as Madem…
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… Cora , neither Venus nor Isis , yet the woven filament of all these glowing petals into one flaming Rose of glory ; in whose sceptred - heart burns the white phallus of God , and whose jewelled crown is crimson with the lips of the passionate daughters of Men . Rose of the World ! Red glory of the secret heart of Love ! Red flame , rose - red , most subtly curled Into its own infinite flower , all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion , Its faint sweet passion , folded and furled In flower fashion ; The Rose of Dew , the Rose …
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220 THE STAR IN THE WEST HUME Hume , at heart a thoroughgoing agnostic and man of the world , saw the practical falsity of abstruse philosophy , the conclusions of which were at once dissipated by the “ feelings of our heart,” which re duced “ the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian .' He forcibly asserts , that ideas of primary qualities are attained by abstraction— " an opinion which if we examine it accurately , we shall find to be unintelligible , and even absurd .” He further agrees with Berkeley in stating that : “ An extension that i…
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… Dora , have as simple a poem as could be written , and in one of the verses of a chorus in “ Jephthah , " beginning “ There flashes the heart of a rose , one of the most mystical . Here is a furious inspiration in blank verse (the prophet in “ Jephthah " speaks ) : Ha ! The rose has washed its petals , and the blood Pours through its burning centre from my heart . The fire consumes the light ; the rosy flame Leaps through the veins of blue , and tinges them With such a purple as incarnadines The western sky when storms are amorous And lie upon…
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PREFACE 55 in one harmonious light ; thence shall we travel to the holy and humble house of the heart , wherein our God is born , whose name is ineffable, a Crown of Glory , exalted forever above the Balance of Righteousness and Truth . T.A.R.O. As author of the following essay to you my readers , I can but say with the four beasts of the Apocalypse : " Come and See . ” “ Behold the Lion ... hath prevailed to open the Book and to loose the seven seals thereof. " For until now “ No man in heaven , nor in earth , neither under the earth , was abl…
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114 THE STAR IN THE WEST Percy, the now distraught lover of Angela , turns to his first moony love , and withdrawing his heart proffers her his purse : Buy yourself a pretty hat ! Forget my pretty speeches !' The above needs no comment . Most men will under stand it well enough ; for there are a hundred thousand women in London who need no editor's appendix or translator's footnote . Enter GLENSTRAE . (To conceive him asketh not Imagination's waistcoat buttons undone ! Any old gentleman in any club in London . ) ? Meeting Molly he asks her for …
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…e magnificent sonnets ; let us now see how the ideas in his own poems correspond . In the case of Nina, we have already seen that a good heart can throb in a lewd little breast , and can overcome all except a false society ; which overwhelms it not by bravery , or craft , or even by cunning , but by the dull and stunning power of a leaden club . In the “ Honourable Adulterers " we find a poem strik ingly reminiscent of “ Alice ," a boundless , and what Ydgrunites would call “ an illicit love ,” but more , a well - aimed shaft against the horror…
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…g as a little child it must be re membered that it is as child - like to grasp at that which alone can be solved “ in the alembic of the heart , and through the athanor of affliction ,” as it is for a child to grasp a loaded gun , wotting not of its subtle machinery . For a man becoming as a child , may , like that child which he has become , play with that loaded weapon , nurse that loaded weapon , go to bed with that loaded weapon , expecting nothing of so in nocent a toy ; and then one day as he presses his fetish fondly to his heart , there…
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…alted in one single mono-ideism and the result is a very high state of contentment . * And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and with all thy soul , and with all thy mind , and with all thy strength : this is the first com mandment , ” to all who would arrive at their true state of “ Self - hood .” God here represents any one object , for in the end all objects are the same . I look at a bug and my five senses tell me it is flat , of a certain odour , brown , etc. , etc .; only phenomena which I cannot get behind ; the mirro…
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…of wealth and majesty are done : Men trample her for mire !! and for her eldest daughter , America , he also has but scant praise , Thou heart of coin beneath a brazen breast ! Rotten republic , prostitute of gain !? Wealth and luxury are her curse , as they are every where else : The politician and the millionaire Regain maternal dung.3 Nevertheless in a patriotic poem entitled “ An Appeal to the American Republic ,” he strongly urges union between Great Britain and the United States . That friendship and dominion shall be wrought Out of the w…
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… breath Into the hollow lungs of death ! There is no light , nor any motion . There is no mass , nor any sound . Still , in the lampless heart of ocean , Fasten me down and hold me drowned Within thy womb , within thy thought , Where there is nought - where there is nought !? “ Is there a faculty of perception ? ” asks St. Au 1 Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 99 . And yet what bliss , When , dying in the darkness of God's light , The soul can pierce these blinding webs of nature
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…hameful lips of mine, These harlot lips , and kiss you unashamed ? ? Outraged , ravished by the offspring of her vice , yet child of her heart , she still can say as she sees him stand before her , a fiendish monster , with the bloody razor with which he has just slain Madeline , a pure and innocent girl : Kill yourself. Such was her love , her duty to her motherhood ; very different indeed was the love of Ratoum . But anon . Another picture of maternal affection , this time more musical , we find in “ The Spring after, ” of “ Mysteries : Lyric…
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…izabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain Soph is one and the same . In the Qabalistic Dogmas of Pistorius we read even as regards Kether , the Crown , “ There is no name among Qabalists by which the supreme King is designated ; they speak of the crown only , which proves the existence of the King , and they say that this crown is Hea…
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…r the fuller vision ? " Then on my withered gaze that Beauty grew Rosy quintessence of alchemic dew ! The Self -informing Beauty ! In my heart The many were united : and I knew.1 And yet : I was wed Unto the part and could not grasp the whole . Thus , I was broken on the wheel of Truth . Fled all the hope and purpose of my youth , The high desire , the secret joy , the sin That coiled its rainbow dragon scales within . Hope's being , life's delight , time's eager tooth ; All , all are gone ; the serpent sloughs his skin ! The quest is mine ! He…
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…s own curses dog me into hell , And mine own life perpetuate itself Through all the ages of eternity . Amen ! Amen ! Come , Cora , to my heart !? Madeline , whom Cora had hoped to have made Ulric's bride , appears , and for a moment his mad fury slackens only to burst out again , as he drags Cora from the room . When she re - enters her voice is hoarse and horrible : O Phædra ! lend me of thy wickedness , Lest I go mad to contemplate myself !3 Then turning to Madeline - young , pretty , and foolish -who bids her seek help from the Mother of God…
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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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…e thee at the end When other gods are fallen and put to scorn . Thy foot is to my lips ; my sighs unborn Rise , touch and curl about thy heart ; they spend 1 W. E. Henley , Rodin in Rime , vol . iii, p . 119 .