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…tion vile, Fades as the royal truth is known : Though change and sorrow range and roll , There is no self - there is no soul !? TIME AND SPACE One question still remains before we dismiss the question of Time and Space , and that is their homo geneity and accidental reality in the Ego . Being forms of extension , Space permits Size , and Time , Number , i.e., in Consciousness . This is the meaning of “ Time is the fourth Dimension .” So the hard thinking of Crowley arrives eventually at the trans cendental idea of considering Space as a plane ,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 247
240 THE STAR IN THE WEST account of the doubtful connotation of the word abs tract , but with M °Taggart's emendation read : Space is the synthesis of all experiences of co - existence . Time is the synthesis of all experiences of sequence .' So we find that taking the above as general de finitions , they may with equal accuracy be applied to either the Ego or the race ; in the former case , Space and Time vanishing with the extinction of the indi vidual ; in the latter with that of the race . So also if space be defined as “ the potentiality o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 272
…y or idea . This taken together reduces the universe to a lot of minima cogitabilia , linked only by Time ; Anima explained by Ratio . ? Space is Geometry : Time is Arithmetic , i.e. , the geometrical conception , the mathematical conception . Thus , if I a blue pig ten times , that think of is ten blue pigs ; yet in Space there is but one blue pig . Can we reduce Space --which I spiritually com prehend so well , intellectually so badly - to a form of Time (which , vice versa ?) Yes , if we suppose that a definition really accurate of conscious…
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254 THE STAR IN THE WEST Earth , and from which Heaven and Earth sprung ? Nay , what is there superior to Space and which moves in Space ? The great Tao is the parent of Space , and Space is the parent of Heaven and Earth , and Heaven and Earth produced men and things ...” A similar conception of the Wisdom is held in the Chaldaic , Memrah ; in the Vach , or word , of the Rig Veda ; in the Honover or word , of the Zend Avesta ; in the Avalôkitêsvara , or Kwan - Yin , the Sakti of Amitâbha , the boundless light of the later Mahayana Buddhists . …
1907 · PDF PAGE 266
… 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 finitely reasoning mind . 1 SPACE This assertion of the Absolute Zero may truly at first sight appear to b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…ill guide him to that great and glorious transfiguration he so ardently desires . روا TIME Kant , as we have seen , places both Time and Space in the realm of the à priori ; a realm utterly devastated by Crowley's scepticism . Spencer in answering the questions , What is Space ? What is Time ? replied , “ Space is the abstract of all relations of co - existence . Time is the abstract of all relations of sequence .” These definitions have been found wanting , chiefly on 1 Absolute Relativism , p . 114 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…e 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 Chasms of matter-so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space , Limitless fields of Time .. Such is the ecstatic rapture of Tannhäuser , in which he loses all perception of earthly love in the intoxication of the divine : Were it not only that the selflessness That fills me now , forbids the personal , Casts ou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…us , as it did between the two disputants Philonous and Hylas . THE QABALAH Before entering upon Aleister Crowley's ontological essay on Space , it will be as well first to run through , briefly though it may be , some of the more important eclaircissements of the Qabalah , and the influence this divine theurgy has alike borne on his poetry and philosophy ; for his analysis of space is based on the ontological assertion of the absoluteness of the Qabalistic Zero . Worshippers of a personal God are by nature ultra materialistic . Their God is bu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 235
…riable , the passive functions of the mind remain invariable , the multiple he calls the material , the invariable he christens form --- Space and Time . Space and Time are therefore the indispensable conditions of all sensation , and according to Kant are not deducible from experience , consequently they are à priori . The understanding , similarly as the sensi bility , possesses certain forms called judgements , of which there are four classes : “ quantity , quality , rela tion , and modality ." These are the à priori categories of the unders…
1907 · PDF PAGE 268
…t span , Rush in their rude, impassive rages Down to some centre guessed afar By mindless Law ? Their death embrace A simple accident of space ? ? “ In the category of existing things , space being infinite , for on that hypothesis we are still working , either matter fills or does not fill it . In the former , matter is infinitely great ; if the latter , infinitely small . Whether the matter -universe be 1010000light -years in diameter , or half a mile , it makes no difference ; it is infinitely small-in effect , Nothing. " : In the first case…
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
…contradictory assumption (p . 87 ). Thesis Antithesis I The world is infinite in time The world has a beginning ( boundary ) in time and space . and space .
1907 · PDF PAGE 264
…which no positive pro position is valid . We cannot truly affirm : ‘ Nothing ness is green , or heavy , or sweet .' “ Let us call time , space , being , heaviness , hunger , the categories . If a man be heavy and hungry , he is extended in all these , besides , of course , many more . But let us suppose , that these five are all . Call the man X ; his formula is then Xt + s + b + h + h. If he now eat , he will cease to be extended in hunger ; if he be cut off from time and gravitation as well , he will now be represented by the formula Xs +b. S…
1907 · PDF PAGE 310
THE NEW WINE 303 against the Word ; for Samadhi surpasses all rational quantities including Egotism and Altruism , Time and Space . Passing to that state beyond progress , which is pure freedom and divine Will , man reaches the stage when he ceases to think empirically under the schemata of Time and Space . The mind at such moments reaches heights wherein another light suc ceeds to the light of experience ; there is a mental “ whirl " which , though irrational to pure reason , has an incalculable value , probably depending on certain higher law…
1907 · PDF PAGE 330
…will answer “ That cause lies in your brain .” English children are taught ( pace the Education Act ) that the Universe lies in infinite Space ; Hindu children , in the Akása , which is the same thing . Those Europeans who go a little deeper learn from Fichte , that the phenomenal Universe is the creation of the Ego ; Hindus , or Europeans studying under Hindu Gurus , are told , that by Akása is meant the Chitakása . The Chitakása is situated in the “ Third Eye ,” i.e. , in the brain . By assuming higher dimensions of space , we can assimilate …
1907 · PDF PAGE 46
…ken from “ Tannhäuser , ” we find the introduction of a spondee carrying with it a curious sensation of slowness : Chaos , a speck ; and space , a span ; Ruinous cycles fallen in, And Darkness on the Deep of Time . Murmurous voices call and climb ; Faces , half - formed , arise ; and He Looked from the shadow of His throne , The curtain of Eternity ;: whilst in the last verse of “ The Palace of the World " the sudden dropping of a whole foot produces with it a sudden sense of finality : | The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 183 . 2 Jeze…
1907 · PDF PAGE 308
…ss transcending thought , Rise where division dies ! Absorb In glory of the glowing orb Self and its shadow ! 1 And , Within the charméd space is nought Possible unto thought . There in their equilibrium They float —how still , how numb ! There must they rest , there will they stay Innocent of the judgement day . Remote from cause , effect retires . Act slays its dams and sires . There is no hill , there is no pit . They have no mark to hit . It is enough . Closed is the sphere . There is no more to hear . They perish not ; they do not thrive .…
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…t I will say that there are very few others . And con sidering that Aleister Crowley has written about one hundred thousand lines in the space of ten years , or half the quantity produced by Robert Browning in fifty - six , the fewness of imperfections in his work is truly remarkable . Let us now pass from what I may call the Poetic Iconomachy to the Poetic Iconolatry of these poems ; 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 125 . 2 Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 31 . Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 103 . 4 Jephthah…
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…ucing the word “ lunatic ” into an otherwise regular line : Silence , deep silence . Not a shudder stirs The vast demesne of unforgetful space , No comet's lunatic rush : no meteor whirs , No star dares breathe . Again , in such lines as : Secure the sacred fastness of the soul , Uniting self to the absolute , the whole ,3 our ears tell us at once that the extra half- step is in tentionally introduced . Whilst in such a line as : And loving servant of my lady and lord , they do not . The “ y " in lady might by some be con sidered an admissible …
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…ke , such as the duet of Charicles and Archais : Hush ! the music swells apace , Rolls its silver billows up Through the void demesne of space To the heavens ' azure cup ! Hush , my love , and sleep shall sigh This is immortality !? Other lines again hold us enthralled with the extra ordinary power they contain , expressed in a single word . Thus in the poem " The Lesbian Hell ,” we find ourselves in the unutterable void of Orcus , where kisses are flung in vain , and where around us pale women fleet : Whose empty fruitlessness assails the nigh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
… night , One poet's song may bid a kingdom fall .? And that which is below is as that which is above ; for : Time is to us the Now , and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates , is a part Of our own thoughts and souls . So we see : For Gods , and devils too , I find Are merely modes of my own mind !4 2 1 Aceldama , vol . i, p . 4. Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 110 . 3 Ibid . vol . i, p. 119 . + Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 177 .