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86 THE STAR IN THE WEST And lie like love ; and she at eventide Swore to seek me and gather one by one The threads of labyrinthine love new spun , Cretan for monstrous shadows serpent - eyed . So the last kiss passed like a poison - pain , Knowing we might not ever kiss again . Mad tears fell fast : “ Next year !" in cruel distress We sobbed and stretched our arms out , and despaired , And - parted . Out the brute - side of truth flared ; “ Thank God I've finished with that foolishness !"1 all my This last line is almost staggering , but such a…
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78 THE STAR IN THE WEST True Love , let us now enter those enchanting realms of Free Love , which is True Love in its truest form . Nina is our guide , pointing us out the hill - top road which will lead us above the social plain , and awed by the 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 s…
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52 THE STAR IN THE WEST greater than wisdom , greater than the power of the Gods themselves ; for they too must worship at the shrine of Love , the shrine of the great World Mother , the mystic Isis , goddess of beauty , mother of love , queen of laughter , mistress of pleasure . “ I am all that has been , that shall be, and none among mortals has hitherto taken off my veil.” Innocent friendship or platonic love can never be a success where the rapture of a kiss is burning on the lips of two lovers ; the first spells ignorance and the second fa…
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…urning path , and in this case the fair damozel is Molly Tyson , and the first scene of their meeting is most typical : Sir Percy . Ah , love , love , how I love you. This is the world ! Love ! Love ! I love you so , my darling . Oh my white golden heart of glory !' Eternity is moulded in form of her kiss , and even if “ Hell belch its monsters one by one to stop the way ! I would be there ” cries Sir Percy as he and Molly rush backwards and forwards kissing and kissing before they can finally part . And no sooner has he parted with her , havin…
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THE VIRGIN 83 Yet Alice is full of fear ; they question their love , and Love conquers . The still horror creeps silently on , enveloping them in the shroud that man has woven as the garment of love : Since our pure shame unworthily destroys The love of all she had , her girls and boys , Her home , their lives : and yet my whisper stirs Into live flame her passion , and deters Her fear from spurning all the day's due joys ." The pudibonderie of the English would call this lust . Indeed , drunken on their own crapulous imagination , choked by th…
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…s soon dispelled : “ Come, in this sweet abandonment of self " -whispers the singing voice of Venus , and so following he sings : Come , love, and kiss my shoulders ! Sleepy lies The tinted bosom whence its fire flies , The breathing life of thee , and swoons , and sighs , And dies ! None but the dead can know the worth of love ! . Come , love , thy lips , curved hollow as the moon's ! Bring me thy kisses , for the seawind tunes , The song that soars , and reads the starry runes , And swoons ! None but the dead can tune the lyre of love ! 1 Suc…
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…s simplicity and sweetness : Sing , little bird , it is dawn ; Cry ! with the day the woods ring ; Now in the blush of the morn , Sing ! Love doth enchain me and cling , Love , of the breeze that is born , Love , with the breeze that takes wing . Love that is lighter than scorn , Love that is strong as a king , Love , through the gate that is horn , Sing ! The anger of Zeus is aroused . Aphrodite bids Charicles flee , but his passion is too great , he defies the powers . ( They are only gods ; would he have succeeded had they been Grundy ?) The…
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314 THE STAR IN THE WEST beauty of bodies, nor the glory which passes , nor the light which our eyes love ; it is not the varied harmony of sweet songs , nor the aroma of perfumes and sweet flowers , nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No , it is none of these that I love when I love my God ; and yet in this love I find a light , an inner voice , a perfume, a savour , an em brace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself . There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space, there a word is heard which has no…
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126 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 g…
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…ience, of industry , of war , and of peace ; the sweat , the laughter , the tears of existence , to weave them into the great garment of Love . This again is the true , the Higher Love : A thousand years have passed , And yet a thousand thousand ; years they are As men count years , and yet we stand and gaze With touching hands and lips immutable As mortals stand a moment ; . . The universe is One ; One Soul , One Spirit , One Flame , One infinite God , One infinite Love . ' Truly the poet has here refined the dross and poured out before us the…
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…m with a manlier breast That .. She submits , not to the god , but to the man . Within the god , the godhood vanishes ; for the power of love rules all , and the god once again becomes in carnated in the form of a divine man .” So the morning past And found them linked inexorably fast Each in the other's arms . Their lips are wed To drink the breezes from the fountain - head Of vers ' breath .3 Then all her senses leap to the melodious song of Zeus , a divine lyric ; the following are two of its seven beautiful verses : O lamp of love ! The his…
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… My fury .... Thus in the intoxication of his desire he raves , in her silence he sees her affection , and in the terror of her eyes her love . Cora is horror -stricken : “ you beast !” “ you fool !” “ I am defiled .” He stands dazed and wondering . Then in the following pages she tells him : “ I am the mother of thy bastard birth ” ; he prays , he threatens , and shrieking hurls insult on insult at her : Me , the sole pledge of your debaucheries , You keep - your love, the mere maternity You share with swine and cattle !... I love you still Wi…
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THE VIRGIN 95 Ah , if pure love could grow material ! There are pure women ! and this is her answer : There you make me laugh ! Remember-I have known such . But besides You ask hot snow and leaden feather - flights ! 1 Which contains a great truth , namely , that platonic love is no love at all . An affection it may be , but love it cannot be if it dare not see its form mirrored in the eyes of a loving woman . Its failure in the end is a certainty ; certain ascetics may compel their wills to conquer their natures , but men as a whole cannot . C…
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THE VIRGIN 89 is similar to that of “ Alice ,” if not sublimer : “ I was so glad he loved enough to go -“ my arms could never have released his neck .” The King dies and soon the Queen also . Love is symbolized in this poem in its higher form as above death . She seeks and finds " There is no sin .” And I? I knew not anything , but know We are still silent , and united so , And all our being spells one vast To Be , A passion like the passion of the sea .? Besides the freedom of lovers , Aleister Crowley advocates the freedom of the children of …
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…sickness ." 2 Soon he is kicked flying out of her ladyship's bed , and here we must leave him for a time to meet him again and his first love Molly further on , though not under the sun shine of youthful amorosis . A different phase and a much more pleasing one of the impulsiveness of youthful love is given us in that glowing story “ The Tale ofArchais .” There are many mysteries in this poem . Charicles the desire striving after Archais the ideal , failing , and the ideal seeking the lost desire ; but outwardly we have , and visible to all , a…
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…ounded himself, he is nursed back to life by the wife of his adversary . Ah God ! she won that most reluctant breath Out of corruption : love ! ah ! love is strong ! What waters quench it ? King Shalomeh saith .? Thus failed the Quest , as all quest against love must inevitably fail . A man who truly loves a woman loves her so intensely that all else is as naught ; she grows before him gigantic through the mist of his desire , swallowing him up in the affinity of her being . The King's sword was of little use ; the pillar of the Higher Self lay…
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…field of combat is an Aceldama , all this is true enough : whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head , to wither Love's desire ?! but that it must die on the field of its choice is also most certain . In “ The Nameless Quest ” and “ Tannhäuser ," we find represented this striving after a more spiritual and platonic ideal of love . In the former , questing for the ideal of his hopes , man falls tangled into the arms of the real ; in the latter , entangled , he strives to tear away the meshes of his passion , and at length…
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…y of her hair And light shed over from the crown thereof, Wonderful eyes less passionate than Peace That wept ! That wept ! O mystery of Love ! Clasping my hands upon the scarlet rose That flamed upon my bosom , the keen thorns Pierced me and slew ! My spirit was withdrawn Into Her godhead , and my soul made One With the Great Sorrow of the Universe, The Love of Isis ! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above , beyond the Tomb of Time , Blending the darkness into the profound Ch…
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…, before she fell into the boiling sulphuric acid , which was being prepared to remove her enamel , was presi dent of a Zenana Mission . Love is , as must now be apparent , an all engross ing theme in the poetry of Aleister Crowley , every phase almost meeting with an illustration . We have seen the flatulent love of youth , and its counterpart in the divine poetic sincerity of Charicles and Archais ; we will now view it in its maturer form , and firstly , in the form of true and sincere love , unconventional and pure , whether under the bond o…
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…idan . O ! marriage , thy name is Failure : 0 ! priest , what hast thou done ? Cramped the human mind , be trayed thy trust , sacrificed love on the altar of Mam mon , leaving the heart as a blighted flower , the soul as a hollow shell , void , execrable . Even love is sold , the solace of all woe Is turned to deadliest agony , old age Shivers in selfish beauty's loathing arms And youth's corrupted impulses prepare A life of horror from the blighting bane Of commerce ; whilst the pestilence that springs From unenjoying sensualism, has filled Al…