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288 THE STAR IN THE WEST sophers , and men of science , who are sooner or later recognized as great men ; in the second the adepts as adepts appear , but seem as fools and knaves ; and in the third , that of Slime , vanish altogether , and are invisible . ' Then the chain starts again . Thus Crowley writes : Decadence marks the period when the adepts , nearing their earthly perfection, become true adepts , not mere men of genius. They disappear , harvested by heaven : and per fect darkness ( apparent death ) ensues until the youthful forerunner…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…human race throve so did their gods , the old savage of man's early thoughts grew , and growing became more evil , as their gods so were men , and as men so were their gods , the one continually acting and reacting on the other : Of obscene deities and apish men , Rivalling their gods in petty filthiness.3 Gods sprang from gods : For the old gods indeed go down to death , But the new gods arise from rottenness .4 The first cause , a pervading terror , was grand in its wilfulness compared with the degraded images which 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and …
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…dness , grown in hell .! Others again do not possess the stability of mind , the natural health and strength so necessary in this severe mental struggle , and as Ribot says : “ It is all confined to an alienation , in the etymological sense , of certain states of consciousness which the ego does not consider as its own , but which it objectivates , and finally , by placing it outside itself , ends by attri buting an actual existence independent of its own ." 2 Others attain but a glimpse . Maimonides long ago noticed : Learn that Prophecy is an…
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…wley's estimate of the greatest nation on earth : O England ! England , mighty England falls ! Her days of wealth and majesty are done : Men trample her for mire !! and for her eldest daughter , America , he also has but scant praise , Thou heart of coin beneath a brazen breast ! Rotten republic , prostitute of gain !? Wealth and luxury are her curse , as they are every where else : The politician and the millionaire Regain maternal dung.3 Nevertheless in a patriotic poem entitled “ An Appeal to the American Republic ,” he strongly urges union …
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…ted to supernatural powers came under the authority of religion , and fell into the hands of an interested priesthood , giving them an immense power over women , and through women over men ; an influence that has been exercised in every land , and every age , by these spiritual leaders : an influence by which they have in so many cases ruled the minds of men , and by which for so many centuries they have blighted the happiest prospects of many a human heart . But surely now that we have reached the twentieth century , thousands and thousands of…
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… dirge -like Niobe death chaunt ,bewailing the thirteen children of their beget ting , rising once more in the song of Ligeia , enticing men to her mire , and at length 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…
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…han you have ever obtained by a course of church going , The Irishman whose first question on landing at New York was “ Is there a Government in this country ? ” and on being told “ Yes,” instantly re plied : “ Then I'm agin it , ' must have travelled many a league along the road to adeptship , and if ten such men be found in any State at the same time , then a period of decadence may be said to have begun ; but it is not every day that ten righteous men can be found in Sodom ; for the inhabitants of that city of 1 Eleusis , vol. iii, p . 225 .…
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…As the earth's before the sunset , and the God and I are One. I who entered in a Fool , gain the God by clean endeavour ; I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever. Such is the living poetry that abides and ever lives on , knowing no youth or age, alone an eternal man hood . Lavishly scattered , we find it throughout the works before us ; in “ Aceldama ,” “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic ,” “ The Temple of the Holy Ghost, ” “ Tannhäuser , “ Rosa Mundi,” and “ Alice .” Ec stasy is the keynote here , as it is of all poetry , all …
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…'er it his own blood , and drench ing it with that of others , if it prove but an incubus of sorrow and despair ? Firstly , because most men are fools ; secondly , because those who are not are knaves . I take no heed of trickery played By cunning mad Elijah's skill , When the great test of strength was made On Carmel's melancholy hill , And on the altar stone the liar Cried “ Water ," and poured forth Greek fire !' 1 Ahab , vol . ii, p . 123 .
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…ve planted Paler roses , warmer grapes , Ere the maiden breasts have panted , And the sunny shapes Flit around to bless the hour , Comes men know not what false flower : Ere the cup is drained , the wine Grows unsweet , that was divine . These last two lines contain the whole secret of this story . The beauty of the clinging love of childhood is tinged with a glowing desire , the pink desire of the bud bursts into the passionate crimson of the rose , and 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 9. 2 Ibid . vol .i, pp . 9, 10 .
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…s , that an incalculably vast system was produced . Merely by chance , chance in the truest sense of the term , we are found with gods , men , stars , plants , devils , colours , forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos : and with them , space and causality , the conditions limiting and involving them all .” Thus from the Hegelian abstraction of the non ens we have at last touched bottom , and have come down to the facts of real life . Empty space is the postulate of all metaphysics , but all absolute quantities finally must be beyond the fi…
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…on with the " and . ” But I myself should not pass it, though in the following I should : Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the more ; many the weary and wan5 In the last line of the succeeding verse the metre ( I should say) is not unimpeachable : 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 205. Ibid . vol . i, p. 209. : Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p. 107. 4 Ibid . vol . i, p. 98. 5 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 210.
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… they face the awful unity of their existence . ... their logic fails , Their jarring jargon jingles —even such An empty brazen pot-wise men deride The clouds that mimic whales. Man's darkness is a leathern sheath , Myself the sun -bright sword !' Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser the following as answer to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a defin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…ning the royal palace of Persepolis , and after his death married Ptolemy , King of Egypt ; and was it not at the feet of Lais that such men as Demosthenes and Diogenes were to be found ? Was it not also Catullus who sang to the fickle Lesbia : Give me kisses thousand fold , Add to them a hundred more ; Other thousands still be told , Other hundreds o'er and o'er . And Propertius to the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadf…
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THE NEW WINE 213 fundamentally they at heart are one . The former hav ing postulated an eternal “ creator , ” a something out of something - God ; the latter postulated an eternal creation ,” a something for ever something — Matter . “ The mere terrestrial -minded man Knows not the things of God , nor can Their subtle meaning understand ? ” say , although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions , God .? A sage ,I Then under the daedal wand of Newton and Berke ley , Science disclosed the fact that Matter is Hylo Zoic-a fact already suppos…
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…on the pudibonderie of the English . Society is but a 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…
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…re us crowned , naked , and wonderful . Neither Alice nor Archais , neither Ratoum nor Cora , neither Venus nor Isis , yet the woven filament of all these glowing petals into one flaming Rose of glory ; in whose sceptred - heart burns the white phallus of God , and whose jewelled crown is crimson with the lips of the passionate daughters of Men . Rose of the World ! Red glory of the secret heart of Love ! Red flame , rose - red , most subtly curled Into its own infinite flower , all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion , Its f…
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…d cannot possibly reach any experience of their connexion with objects ."' And again that the " ... universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy , which teaches us , that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception , and that the senses are only the inlets through which these images are conveyed , without being able to produce any immediate inter course between the mind and the object .”. However , the great unknown waste of this “ immediate inter course ” Hume bravely sets out to…
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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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…ised has at length been revealed ; she who will crush the head of that old serpent , who has so long bruised the heel of the children of men who were born in the knowledge of good and of evil . I Rosa Mundi , vol. iii, pp . 51-55 .