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310 THE STAR IN THE WEST (a) Yoga teaches that by concentrating the whole mind upon “ horse " these ideas will be withheld , and the ultimate state arrived at will be “ horse " pure and simple (ec stasy). (But this theory involves Scholastic -Realism ; like all others , it is a false reflection of the L.V.X. ) mind , and was followed in quick succession by the idea of four legs, hoofs, teeth , rider , saddle, racing , cheating ; all of which ideas are connected in my experience with the im . pression , or the idea , of a horse and with one anot…
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…e and effect , and the relation between them . But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea , or the aptitude of one to produce the other ? This is a real creation , a pro duction of something out of nothing ... such a power is not felt, nor known , nor even conceivable by the mind We are now fairly on our road to Crowleyanity . Having left Berkeley in the dark , feeling on the dusty shelves of his reason for a flint and steel in the spirituality of God , whereby he may burn in twain the gordian…
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…at H. G. Wells has put his finger on the very spot whence all research must begin : and that is , “ the illusionary nature of the time - idea ." 2 “ You would say that of two men born on a day , dying on a day , one may be young , the other old . . . he lives the longest who remembers most ." Mysticus considers the de finition insufficient unless the “ vividness of each impression " is added to the " number of impressions . Scepticus then shows that it would be possible in thought to construct a scale of vividness from a to n, by which we could…
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308 THE STAR IN THE WEST We only feel the event , namely , the existence of an idea , consequent to the command of the will : But the manner, in which this operation is performed , the power by which 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…
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… poems . In “ The Nameless Quest ” we find the yearn ing “ For One beyond all song .” 1 In “ The Triumph of Man ” we again find the same idea crystallized , but in “ The Ultimate Voyage ,” the aspirant , on his spiritual journey towards the Supreme Knowledge , at one point on his journey all but attains Nirvana . In many other poems do we find this idea of Nir vana . In “ Why Jesus Wept ” we have : Thy flower - life is shed Into eternity , A waveless lake .2 Which reminds us of Sir Edwin Arnold's : OM , MANI PADME , OM ! The Dewdrop slips Into …
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…e -gather , kindle , grow , Till from one virgin bosom flows a river Of white devotion adamant for ever . ' 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 ul…
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…hism ; itself to blind in turn , and to scorch the chill hands of the night which were being extended round its welcome fire . The God - idea cling ing to Philosophy , similarly as the phlogiston - idea clung so long to the principles of chemistry . Now follows the philosophic fall . Seeking the Absolute in sense - perceptions , and listening to the chatter of the carnal snake , these wise men , these latter - day philo sophers , not finding eternal knowledge in the deific apple , ceased munching so wry a pippin , declaring the God of Religion …
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…od 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 rest : Baal and Jehovah , Ashtoreth And Chemosh and these Elohim , Life's panders in the brothel , Death ! Cloudy imaginings , a dream Built up of fear and words and woe . All , all my soul must overthrow .” Crowley further writes : Nor …
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…Angels who are all religious , and conversed not with the Devils who all hate religion Goethe , in Faust , also depicted this same moral idea , and most religions have experienced this unity of Virtue and Vice ; the early Christians applauded it, and even now in Christian Churches is still sung the beautiful hymn : Nearer , my God , to thee , Nearer to thee , E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ! Still all my song shall be Nearer , my God , to thee , Nearer to thee . To raise oneself through the vicious and the virtuous , to reside , as A…
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…lchemy was the transmutation of darkness into light . “ Quand l'homme grandit Dieu s'éleve " ; - it was but a reconstruction of the same idea as held in Exodus , xxxiii , Moses was unable to look at God face to face ; it was also the same idea as held by Charles Darwin -- the theory of Evolution . The growth of the protoplast into man , of evil into good . Khephra , god of the morning emerging from the black thunders of night . Above us flames the Zodiac , the sign of the Balance lies between Virgo and Scorpio , the eagle is the emblem of good …
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…gave birth to two forces , “ Neronic Lust ” and “ Platonic Affec tion .” From a heterogeneous mass of ics , ists , and ians , sprang the idea that there was an inherent evil in the culmination of the nuptial state ; and out of it grew the preying vampirism of Paul . This inherent evil supposed to lie latent in matter , as opposed to the bliss of spirit , Crowley sets forth very forcibly in several of his poems . In “ The Growth of God ” we have most of the argument in the following lines : The Shapeless , racked with agony , that grew Into thes…
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…so in “ Jezebel ” ; not so in “ Tannhäuser ” and “ The Nameless Quest," where love is not restrained , but rather cramped by the gnostic idea of evil in the objective. This curious idea we will go into more fully later on , at present we shall content ourselves in deal ing with the first phase of Love-love in youth . In “ Why Jesus Wept,” which is a satirical serio comedy , mingled with heterodox ribaldry , and a shrewd and sweeping cynicism on the utter rottenness of social life, we find love in youth depicted in the person of Sir Percy Perciv…
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…ST The Qabalah , if it may be called a philosophy ; for it was never synthetical , or concrete , being a con glomerated mass of ecstatic ideals and exalted desires , evolved in the mind of man as an attempt to grasp all possible quantities emanating from the Ain Soph , which in itself remained Zero . Turning now for a short time from the Mystic to the Idealistic philosophy , we find that though both are closely united , the former founds its system on man's wondering ignorance in trying to link subject and object esoterically , whilst the latte…
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70 THE STAR IN THE WEST woman towards woman and man . The first is gener ally considered to be purer and more ideal , but this idea has only grown out of man's entire ignorance regarding the physical relationships . The mother is in no way purer than the wife , neither is the virgin purer than the mother . The truest definition of chas tity is that as given by Benjamin Franklin , which de fines chastity as “ the regulated and strictly temperate satisfaction without injury to others , of those desires which are natural to all healthy adult being…
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…e adepts of the West in gaining this end . Though , as it would be only natural to expect , the Christian Church strongly repudiated the idea of con nection between her Ceremonial practices and those And float up to the nothing , which is all things The ground of being , where self - forgetful silence , To emptiness , -emptiness fulness , -fulness God , Till we touch Him , and , like a snow - flake , melt Upon his light - sphere's keen circumference ! The Saint's Tragedy . i Rosa Mundi , vol . iii, p . 52 .
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…ess . 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 consciousnesses . “ It is here " _ " it is there …
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…es absolutely incomprehensible , and be yond our judgement . Hegel held : “ that a thing can only arise through its opposite ," and this idea was also held by the Qabalists . Deity created good and evil ; and both are absolutely necessary to the ex istence of each other . Further , the Qabalist does not even recognize their independence as two opposing powers , but as one under the one Supreme Deity ; the external visible matter world of evil and darkness , and the internal spiritual higher world of Goodness
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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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…ther than Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Huxley , who was as astute a thinker as Hume : The succession of mental states in ideation is not for tuitous . Thus the idea of the word horse presented itself to my 3 ور was 1 Critique of Pure Reason , i, p . 304 . 2 The Bases of Morals , p . 87 . 3 Critique of Pure Reason , p . 140 .
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…203 Mysticus , we , if we enter the vortex of subjectivity and objectivity , " shall be tossed about as the world this 2,500 years . "11 IDEALISM In the philosophy of Plato idealism took the shape of a strictly formal characteristic , there was nothing in itself, as Kant might have explained it , an idea however dating back long before either Plato or Kant , and to be first found in any degree of maturity in the Upanishads of post-vedic India . Form was reality, and nothing else , it was the sole and only essence . From such metaphysics rose nu…