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92 THE STAR IN THE WEST long as man wages war against woman for sins that he condones in himself , so long will vice reign supreme , so long will women prove themselves deceivers , harpyiæ and sirenes, let alone Eumenides . Most will recognize the following as the opening scene in Terence's “ The Mother- in -Law ,” which play sums up the matter tersely enough : Philotis . l ' faith , Syra, you can find but very few lovers who prove constant to their mistresses . For instance , how often did this Pamphilus swear to Bacchis-how solemnly , so that…
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…ctations . Heaven and then Hell . The former first , for man is essentially selfish ; having found a fat billet for himself , it was not long before he found a lean one for his neighbour : To divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm , a fire, a thirst for these ; A harp - resounding heaven for those !? The primary object of existence is to keep alive , and all heavens , hells , paradises , gehennas , valhallas , nirvanas , and other abodes of the dead , have never for long exercised such a superabundance of power as to…
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THE VIRGIN 87 How long , O Lord , how long ? Too long by half Till men read , wondering , wedlock's epitaph.' Aleister Crowley is but editor of these 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 …
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…e Chapter known as The Old Bottle In which chapter it is related : how it once contained the dregs of many casks , and how they have all long since gone dry ; and its uselessness , and how it stinketh when it be uncorked , and its unprofitableness , also the unfit ness thereof to hold the New Wine ,” of which hereafter . L
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…. The whole metre breaks up , as if the singer's heart burst in despair . Whilst in “ Bouches d'Enfer ” we find such lines as : From the long -held leash ! The headlong , hot -mouthed girl, in which , as we read , we feel a veritable stretching of the mental leather , as it were ; our minds being held back a space by the introduction of the word “ long .' This quatorzain ends : Of smouldering infamy. Bow down in awe ! It is enough . The Gods are at feast . Withdraw ! 22 Again the same mental stress . All the above are contrary to the rules of s…
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…gdom of God , but the great human masses will let the Kingdom of God go to the Devil , if a pretty pair of lips is in question . Not for long in any case can we change our natures , as the anchorites of the Libyan deserts only too fearfully proved ; boiling with carnalities they feared to see their own mothers , and were even forbidden to keep in their possession animals of the female sex - 0 Sty lites ! they are now in heaven ! How we clave together ! How we strained caresses ! How the swooning limbs sank fainting on the sward ! For the fiery …
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…e Pope : So he Cried out upon me , “ Till this barren staff Take life , and bud , and blossom , and bear fruit , And shed sweet scent-so long God casteth thee Out from His Glory !”! When lo !-in the very moment of his supreme despair , his Genius mysteriously manifests , and “ darting long rugged fingers and deep eyes ” reaches to the sceptre with his word and will : Buds , roses , blossoms ! Lilies of the Light ! Bloom , bloom , the fragrance shed upon the air ! Out flames the miracle of life and love ! Out, out the lights ! Flame , flame , th…
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…th to die still -voiced as the daughter of Dis, whose ghostly fingers sinking clutch the frozen reeds of that slough in which she had so long wallowed . Long have we peered , crouching on the watch-tower of our minds , through the darkness of ignorance lit alone by the northern lights of folly , till our scorched eyes falling as slags upon our hearts , a light celestial hath arisen from out the eyeless sockets of Eternity . A day - star , to flash forth into the west , winged and wonderful . A Pharos of gleaming hope lighting our way across the…
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… do exist , and it behoves any true searcher after Truth to discover for himself the straightest road towards his ultimate home which he long ago first left ; to ask help of none , to live alone , as he will have to die alone , to heed no man , to work out his own salvation , to see that his staff is stout , and that his lamp burns brightly , lest he fall into that great slough of rational dung -wallowing which besets his path . To voyage like our father Ambrose through thunder and lightning , past the sun , and the moon , and the stars , as Cr…
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THE OLD BOTTLE 149 heavenly Father bids well to rival our earthly Parr ; but as long as we sprawl , what matters it what we sprawl before, if it be the shin -bone of an ass , or the pineal gland of our wretched imagination ? Whatever man has touched he has spoilt : one day he was struck with the mystic poetry of the waves , and he promptly hocussed slimy monsters from out the deep ; gazing on his lithe'and winsome daughter , he held her head under the green flood to satiate the rapacity of the offspring of his deluded imagination , who (he judg…
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… , and not a little regarding that cap ricious star which gleamed over the humble manger bed of the Son of Man . Dark seas of blood have long since lapped that star of the morning into the crimson oblivion of day , whose empurpled strife has also rumbled into the distance as the droning of some drowsy fire - finger on the sleeping parchment of life , murmuring and moaning as the wind - kissed mouth of a dreamy drum . Yet why should we still listen for those subtle sounds which have wearily danced out their slow saraband of sorrow . Once Orphic …
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…th day discloses — the birthday of their first kiss : Breasts met and arms enclosed , and all the spring Grew into summer with the first long kiss .? They are henceforth lovers , passionate and ardent ; and not till now do they discover that man - made honour is but as winter snow . All is hence Alice , as is shown in that sweet and simple 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…
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…ell , The first of which is concentration ! Bloom , Concentration's midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long -sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not , my friend !), Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time - suppose , the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh '!) And at that instant comprehend (That past and future tenses vanish ) What Fichte comprehends. Division , Thought , wisdom , drop away . I see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision.? Then we come…
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… 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 are Berkeley , Hume , and Kant . BERKELEY . Berkeley , that “ God - illumined Adept ,” ) almost at the commencement of his introduction to “ The Prin ciples of Human Knowledge ,” sta…
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102 THE STAR IN THE WEST Of mingling fire , and stars and roses swart In the long flame of hair that leaps athwart , Live in each tingling gossamer ! Dread eyes ! Each flings its arrow of sharp sacrifice , Eating me up with poison ! I am hurled Far through the vaporous confines of the world With agony of sundering sense , beholding Thy mighty flower , blood - coloured death , unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled , Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus ,…
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…hose magnificent lyrics , flashing like a ruby , warm and flaming in the glowing gold of this drama . And thus does his song end : Whose long - drawn curse runs venom in my veins ? What dragon spouse consumes me with her breath ? What passionate hatred , what infernal pains , Mixed with thy being in the womb of Death ? Blistering fire runs , Scorching , terrific suns , Through body and soul in this abominable Marriage of demon power Subtle and strong and sour , 2 Ibid . vol .I, p . 236 . 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 234 . 3 Ibid . vol . I, p . 2…
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…orm at the feet of Him in whom she found the ideal of her affection , washing those dusty feet with her tears , and drying them with the long tresses of her hair , still perfumed with the kisses of a thousand lovers . Jesus Christ and John Smith are very nearly related , and a woman who is capable of loving one is also capable of loving the other . Flaubert finely pictures this when he represents Madame Bovary , kneeling at her prie - dieu and ad dressing to her Lord the same sweet words she had
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…e 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 numerous modified forms which may be roughly classed under the name of Spiritualism (Malebranche). They asserted that matter objectively was illusion or maya , and that the world problem coul…
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…with his un knowable appulse as the only potency of the not -self, which assuaged the raging thirst of inquiry as would a bottle of wine long since dry. Behind him Schelling , who leaping into the clouds , grasped at object and subject as existing actualities , calling the bastard child ren of his brain manifestations of the Absolute . Then Hegel who , instead of sitting out on the universal stairs with Berkeley's “ Bishop ," waltzed wildly with some ethereal Absolute , which , whether object or sub ject , was in no case existence , merely the …
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… 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 , the Matter of Science , Unknowable , a thing in itself , like the jinnee …