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1907 · PDF PAGE 52

The Star in the West

…have me to keep. The sleep -god laments, and the love -goddess pardons , When love at the last sinks unweary to sleep .? 1 Orpheus, vol. iii, p . 168 . 3 Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 146 , 147 . s Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 182-187 . Ibid . vol . iii, p . 200 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 145 . 4 Ibid . vol . iii , p . 177 . 6 Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 194-199 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 121

The Star in the West

…s . “ Must I , must I ? Oh , sir , have pity !” sobs the poor disillusionized Molly , as the male element who 1 ? Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 38 .— “ My mind lay there as exhausted as my body ! He covered my blushes by the offer of a tiny remuneration ." — Beverland , p . 405 . “ If your heart were as big as your feet , you would have given me five francs instead of five sous .” - Frou - Frou . 2 Ibid . vol . iii , p . 38 . * Ibid . vol . iii, p . 39. Vide , The Martyrs of Hell's Highway .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 7

The Star in the West

CONTENTS PAGE 3 PREFACE FOREWORD CHAP . I. THE LOOKING -GLASS II . THE VIRGIN . III . THE HARLOT IV . THE MOTHER V. THE OLD BOTTLE VI . THE CUP . VII . THE NEW WINE 9 15 49 109 123 145 167 . . . . 191

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1907 · PDF PAGE 116

The Star in the West

III The Chapter known as The barlot In which chapter it is related how she decked and be tired her worn carrion , and how she standeth at the corners by the parting of the ways , beguiling those who are simple in mind and virtuous , and how she feasteth on their innocence and con verteth all she eateth into dung ,

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1907 · PDF PAGE 39

The Star in the West

…, some of the chief influences which have exerted their sway over our poet's mind ; and I think we have shown him to be a 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 40 . | Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 39 . 3 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 135 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 50

The Star in the West

…. Yet one attribute alone remains ever youthful as the ages roll by into the aeons , and that is-Ecstasy ; whether we | Gargoyles , vol. iii, p . 94 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 100 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 288

The Star in the West

…moon - one sees the howling bitch !" 4 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 170 . Huxley's Hume , p . 157 . Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 85 . 4 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 91 . 3

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1907 · PDF PAGE 300

The Star in the West

…thy shrine ! The strife to attain to this golden secret we have already seen depicted in so many of Aleister Crowley's Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 84 . 2 Ibid . 3 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 98 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 44

The Star in the West

…oclastic of any . In “ Orpheus , " Books I and II , we find a poetic regularity almost strictly adhered to , not so , how ever , in Book III , and in “ The Argonauts .” But it is not till we get to “ Rodin in Rime ” that we find practically every sonnet and quatorzain possessing some infringement of the orthodox rules of poetry ; yet it cannot be said that these poems , chiefly in iambic verse broken by the occasional introduction of another foot , usually an anapaest , read unmusic ally on account of its presence . Take for instance : Cloistra…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 45

The Star in the West

…f we may so call it , which renders so many of these poems unique . Such as in “ Styx ” we find : 1 W. E. Henley , Rodin in Rime , vol . iii, p . 120. Compare the following verse in Swinburne's poem , The Centenary of the Battle of the Nile : The strong and sunbright lie whose name was France Arose against the sun of truth , whose glance Laughed large from the eyes of England fierce as fire Whence eyes wax blind that gaze in truth askance . 2 Rodin in Rime , vol . iii, p . 119 . 3 Ibid .

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The Star in the West

…unity of things Beheld in the mirror of truth , The Rose indifferent to God's gesture , The Rose on moonlight wings 1 Rosa Mundi , vol . iii , p . 52 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii , p . 54 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 122

The Star in the West

…ow him better worlds than this ; Nor will he come again to yours While he knows champak - stars from sewers . 3 1 Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 48 . 2 Twenty - three Sanhedrin judges . 3 The satire is against the belief that conversion can put the clock back , + Ibid . vol . iii , p . 50 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 38

The Star in the West

… snake Hissing some Babylonian hymn Tangled in the Assyrian brake .3 1 Tannhäuser , vol . I, p . 252 . 2 The Star and the Garter , vol . iii, p . II . 3 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 10 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 148

The Star in the West

… !) your lips , A scarlet splash of murder . From them drips This heart's blood ; you have fed your fill on me .? 1 Rosa Inferni , vol . iii, p . 91. , 2 Ibid . vol . iii , p. 92 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 119

The Star in the West

…gela , the female quantity ; Glenstrae the male : both are outwardly highly moral ; both are ready to lay their 1 Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 24 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 22. Cf. Martial , Epigrams , XI . 16 : Erubuit , posuitque meum Lucretia librum , Sed coram Bruto ; Brute , recede , leget .

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The Star in the West

… , In the darkness free of the sun ; In spite of the spite that is day's , We are wed , we are wild , we are one !! I “ Orpheus ,” vol . iii , p . 207 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 61

The Star in the West

… the spell falls hissing as a snake . The picture of their meeting is beautiful indeed . Thus we find Archais : 1 Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 41 . Ibid . vol . iii, p. 41 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 324

The Star in the West

…; Constrained in sober destinies Thought's river shall its ripples run Into the one , the one , the one , the one .? 2 2 Orpheus , vol . iii, p . 213 . Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 97. I may here point out that not only in their Sapphic brilliance , but also in their mirrored mysticism , so many of Crowley's poems are akin to the esoteric teaching of the Sufi poets of Persia , such as Jelaladdin and Jami . A very beautiful parable of Jelaladdin runs as follows : One knocked at the Beloved's Door ; and a Voice asked from within , “ Who is there ? …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 294

The Star in the West

…acing 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. L…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 120

The Star in the West

…s : Ay , love, it is to feel your strength support me ! ( Aside . Will the doctors never catch up with the coiffeurs ? 2 1 3 Ibid . vol. iii , p . 35 . Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 30 . 1

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