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…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 grew exaltedly dim , magnified as the mist of ages crept around Him , and when romantic love was bor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…hosen wood , Where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise Of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys.? Feeding perhaps first on man's body , the priest soon found , after investing his victim with an immortal soul , that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail , enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven : still death reigns , and God and priests are fed , Man's blood for wine , man's flesh for meat and bread .? And these priests are not dead yet . As the human …
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
THE VIRGIN 65 the many a heinous offence , reflecting a light that they cannot find in their gloomy atmosphere . Laws are the concrete opinions of the many , morals the abstract sensations of the few . Outside ourselves ethics do not exist, for they are the great faculty of sentient existence . The law of the survival of the fittest is not moral , it is essential ; but , manifested through reason it becomes ethical . As regards the aspirations of the sexes , nature cares little whether John loves Ann or Mary . Man , however , cares much . John …
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 300
…soul . Works , hopes , prayers , sacrifices , sins Are jokes . The cosmos happened so : Innocent all of guide or goal . Else , what were man's appointed term ? To feed God's friend , the coffin - worm ! Crowley further states in a short foreword to these Images of Life and Death ” : “ To me life and death have most often appeared in majesty and beauty , in solemnity and horror ; in emotions , to be brief , so great that man had no place therein . But there are moods , in which the heights are attained indirectly , and through man's struggle wit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
THE OLD BOTTLE 161 But man the father of God did , for he was naturally bloodthirsty , avaricious , and cruel , and man to -day is but a veneered representative of his forefathers , still suppliant at the feet of the phallic Jahveh : That man to -day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun.2 66a But so it is , and so it will be for many a generation yet to come ; cause and effect are but replicas of each other , and if the cause be ignorance , it is useless to look for the wisdom of Solomon in the effec…
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150 THE STAR IN THE WEST fear of primitive man to the veneration of his present day offspring . Fear , the basal foundation of all gods , found a subtle soil in Ignorance ; Ignorance reacted on God , producing Superstition ; Superstition , Cruelty ; Cruelty , all the tigerish longings of the day and the hoggish gratifications of the night . Pessimism is necessarily the foundation of all re ligion ; for if man were normally optimistic he would not have conceived such a hierarchy of tyrants as that of his gods . The man who formerly cut himself w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
…IN THE WEST 1 as in the latter . In fact, all were as the ground from which they had sprung and on which they grew . In “ The Triumph of Man , ” a magnificent poem in heroic verse , Crowley unfurls the oriflamme of Reason against the bunting of God , leading us on from the realms of gloating anthropophagi to the " magical brotherhood of kings ." The absolute crown and king dom of desire , the one God sealed in the seas and be tokened in the winds . “ The Spirit of Mankind !” Before the darkness , earlier than being , When yet thought was not , …
1907 · PDF PAGE 292
…s not possess its true essence , but only the appearance of truth and light ; and the more the essence of light inwardly fades , and the man confuses him self with this appearance , and gropes vainly after the dazzling phantasmal images he conjures . This appearance of Truth is practically what the Hindu would call “. maya ,” in which all created beings live . There is a way which leads beyond it, and any man can discover it, if he be fit and willing , and this way leads to God . The Absolute Truth lying in the centre of mystery is like the sun…
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THE NEW WINE 275 What God is in Himself the Agnostic declares is not given man to understand , much less to discuss , and this maxim finds full affirmation in “ Ascension Day, " when Crowley writes : I deny nothing —at the term It is just Nothing I affirm . Man is but an ephemeron : We float upon the blue Like sunlight specks in dew , And like the moonlight on the lake we lie .? Yet he rises : Golden , the electric spark of man is drawn Deep in the bosom of the world , to soar New - fledged , an eagle to the dazzling dawn With lidless eyes unda…
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…gaping and toothed gin , as he well shows in “ The Honourable Adulterers ” where women , the frailer sex , are the unfortunate victims . Man made God , and God made woman out of one of man's wretched little ribs . Regardless of manners , man sucks the wretched little bone as he would the leg of a chicken , tears off the flesh and casts it into the bin . The masses are but sheep , following the bell - wether convention ; deprive them of their initial , and they become neither lambs nor tigers but merely asses . Ahinoam in “ Jephthah " well descr…
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…s 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 their venomous vomit , they…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
THE OLD BOTTLE 153 soon eclipsed man's reason , monopolizing worship and exacting prayer : What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer ? 1 Crowley very truly remarks in that battering-ram of religious destruction , “ Pentecost ”-a witty note is appended , quoted from the “ Sydney Bulletin , ” which suggested , that instead of perpetually worrying the Almighty for rain , the people should pray once and for all for a big range of mountains in Central Australia , which would of course supply rain auto matically --that man cannot elude fat…
1907 · PDF PAGE 73
66 THE STAR IN THE WEST and nymphs . Thus Nature is scouted and thumped on the nose because she is essential , and man is en throned in her stead and smacked on the back be cause he happens to be moral-hence Universities and Lunatic asylums . In Love , mankind eternally verges between folly and knavery , because man is a non -essential being , and Nature an un -moral power . But before we enter on the above idea as demon strated in the poems of Aleister Crowley , it will be necessary to elucidate matters , and first to enter on a brief descript…
1907 · PDF PAGE 178
…published letters wrote , “ The riddle of the sphinx has two answers which are true only in a third . “ The first is God , the second is man , and the third Man - God .' ” This is but the overman of the Egoistical philosophy of Nietzsche . Hermes struck a higher chord when he said : “ To create God , is to accomplish our own creation , to make ourselves inde pendent , impassible , and immortal .” Blake demon strated the at - oneness of Good and Evil very clearly in " The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ." " I tell you no virtue can exist without br…
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THE OLD BOTTLE 163 A treacherous bully , feeble as malign , Intolerable, inhuman , undivine , With spite close girded and with hatred shod , A snarling cur, the Christian's Christless God . Out ! misbegotten monster ! with thy brood , The obscene offspring of thy pigritude , Incestuous wedlock with the Pharisees That hail the Christ a son of thee ! Our knees Bend not before thee , and our earth -bowed brows Shake off their worship , and reject thy spouse , The harlot of the world ! For , proud and free , We stand beyond thy hatred , even we : W…
1907 · PDF PAGE 203
…nterfused , Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns , And the round ocean and the living air , And the blue sky , and in the mind of man ; A motion and a spirit , that impels All thinking things , all objects of all thoughts , And rolls through all things .? To the uninitiated this matter must for the present remain dark , and though at first the neophyte may think that the following solution , which I trust I shall be able in some little way to explain , is but one on a similar footing to that as set forward by those super naturalists who …
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
…t it would be possible in thought to construct a scale of vividness from a to n, by which we could erect a formula to express all that a man is . “ For example , he might be : 10 a +33125 b + 890 c + 800112 658 e +992 f + .. + + .n , and , if we can find the ratio of a : b : c : d : e:f : n, we can resolve the equation into a single term , and compare man and man .' It therefore follows that “ all states of conscious ness are single units , or time marks , by which we measure intervals .” So that Time is wholly and solely founded on experience …
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…c enough to believe in a (semi-)omnipotent power (pure omnipotency is ana chronistic ), we should believe this malady were in flicted on man as are the measles , the croup , and the chicken -pox , so as to stimulate romance , and retard that ultimate uninteresting state perfection. This not being so , we can only suggest that being descended from the flat - nosed simiae , besides being generally flat all round , man must have lost his wits with his tail , both being now exceedingly rudimentary . Having lost his tail , he could no longer swing i…
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…steroid , is the aspirant , " O Hope ! O Hope ! Where hast thou led me , ever near me , never with me ? ” “ On , on , O weary one , past man , past gods , on , on to the rim of Time ” : then from the parched lips bursts the echoing cry , “ Ag nosco , Agnosco ." The hyperbola of Time , the parabola of Infinity , lie far to the north in the hyperborean regions of the Unknowable . Knowledge is but a ring smitten into the face of the waters , around it grows another ring , the ring of a greater knowledge , around that yet another , it is the ring o…