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4 THE STAR IN THE WEST depths of Hell , to sink into a 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…
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I 2 THE STAR IN THE WEST breaks a primal sea gemmed with all the colours of the opal , deepening into a limitless amethyst , darkens , and the sun goes out . The spangled pall of Night is drawn , and the lull of death is o'er us ; but no , hark ! the distant boom of a beetle is carried across the still glowing welkin , it is the signal drum announcing the marriage of Night and Day . The crescent moon rises , diaphanous and fair , and the world wakes to a chant : DIONYSUS I bring ye wine from above , From the vats of the storied sun ; For every …
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6 THE STAR IN THE WEST As another Ariadne I here offer this work to my readers as a twisted clue of silk and hemp to guide them safely through the labyrinthine mysteries of poetry and magic , whose taurine crags hug the blue sky , amorous as the kisses of Pasiphae ; across the Elysian fields of myrtle and asphodel , up the eagle -crested slopes of Olympus , and over the shining sun -scorched sands of Ammon , tawny and silken as the crouching form of some colossal lion , to the cool groves of Eleusis child -like dreaming in the bosom of silvery …
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…igdus and Telethusa was as acceptable a young husband as ever wooed nymph on the shaded slopes of Ida . Much has been written concerning stars , both terres trial and celestial , 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…
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166 THE STAR IN THE WEST Here's why Creation jumps at prayer . You Christians quote me in a breath This , that , the other atheist's death ; How they sought God ! Of course ! Impair By just a touch of fever , chill, My health - where flies my vivid will ? My carcass with quinine is crammed ; I wish South India were damned ; I wish I had my mother's nursing , Find precious little use in cursing , And slide to leaning on another , God , or the doctor , or my mother . But , dare you quote my fevered word For better than my health averred ? The bra…
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THE STAR IN THE WEST A CRITICAL ESSAY UPON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY BY CAPT . J F. C. FULLER Hail , O Dionysus ! Hail ! Winged Son of emelé ! Hail , O Hail ! The stars are pale . Hidden the moonlight in the vale ; Hidden the sunlight in the sea . -Orpheus. London and felling - on - Tyne THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. , LTD . NEW YORK : 3 EAST 14TH STREET 1907
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The Cup N the last line of “ The Star and Garter " is con centrated the whole of the ethical philosophy of Aleister Crowley . It reads as follows : But—had it not been for the Garter , I might never have seen the Star . In it we find the sublime maxim , almost universal , which has been postulated by all the greatest ethical codes of the world . It is the moral prototype , the Favashi of the Zoroastrian , the Tree of Knowledge of Babylonia and Genesis , the Light and Darkness of Isaiah , the Yakheen and Boaz of Solomon , the Unique Athanor of t…
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40 THE STAR IN THE WEST Thine be the kingdom ! Thine the power ! The glory triply thine ! Thine, through Eternity's swift hour , Eternity , thy shrine Yea , by the holy lotus -flower , Even mine ! Further on in the same series of poems a sudden whirring sense of madness is produced by introducing 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 …
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128 THE STAR IN THE WEST Sob , and the languid body slips Down to enamelled wildernesses . Fallen and loose the shaken tresses ; Fallen the sandal and girdling gold , Fallen the music manifold Of moving limbs and strange caresses , And deadly passion that possesses The magic ecstasy of these Mad maidens , tender as blue seas .' For this is passion , if not quite so pure as some we have already seen , yet still passion of an unlustful nature . In “ The Flight ” we find in the following lines a still deeper glow : The snow -bright weather Calls u…
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104 THE STAR IN THE WEST And sinuous sinewy glitter of serpenthood , That I may look once more into his face , And , kissing , kill him ! Thus to hold him fast , Drawing his human spirit into mine For strength , for life , for poison ! Ah , my God ! These pangs , these torments ! See ! the sleeper wakes ! I am triumphant ! For he reaches out The sleepy arms , and turns the drowsy head To catch the dew dissolving of my lip . Wake , lover , wake ! Thy Venus waits for thee ! Draw back , look , hunger ! —and thy mouth is mine !" The vision of Eliza…
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74 THE STAR IN THE WEST With love more perfect, for its purple root Might blossom outward to the snowy fruit Whose bloom to - night lay sleeping on her breast .' True love , the love of self in the soul of another , the poet paints very beautifully in the following charming lines : Do you recall ? Could I forget ? How once the full moon shone above , Over the houses , and we let Loose rein upon the steeds of love ? How kisses fled to kisses , rain Of fiery dew upon the soul Kindled , till ecstasy was pain ; Desire , delight : and swift control …
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262 THE STAR IN THE WEST Another triumph for Crowleyanity : Things as they are —of these take hold , Their heart of wonder throb to thine ! All things are matter and force and sense , No two alone . All's one : the gold Of truth is no reward divine Of faith , but wage of evidence. The clod , the God , the spar, the star , Mete in thy measure , as they are !! The sum total of the Vedantist Crowley sums up as follows : " I'am an illusion , externally . In reality , the true ' I'am the Infinite , and if the illusionary ‘ I ' could only realize Who…
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208 THE STAR IN THE WEST Why do our thoughts so idly clatter ? I do not care one jot for matter , One jot for spirit , while you say One is pure ether , one pure clay .' In pure Idealism , objects have no independent exist ence ; but in the above , which is no less than pure Hylo -Idealism , they have . Yet none to the individual brain , until they have been brought into reciprocal relationship to it. If the outer world is an illusion , then the inner world of self is but a delusion , a mere mirrored reflection of shadows cast by some blinding …
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…ing with the great songs of love in the next chapter . As a singer of love - songs Aleister Crowley excels . The following is from “ The Star and the Garter " : Your lips are gathered up to mine ; Your bosom heaves with fearful breath ; Your scent is keen as floral wine , Inviting me , and love , to death.2 Also the following is charming in its simplicity : She has a lithe white body , slim And limber , fairy - like , a snake Hissing some Babylonian hymn Tangled in the Assyrian brake .3 1 Tannhäuser , vol . I, p . 252 . 2 The Star and the Garte…
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144 THE STAR IN THE WEST That flies to the House of Fire , The Rose of Honey -in - Youth ! Ah ! No dim mystery of desire Fathoms this gulf ! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future , a dream of the day , When athwart the dim glades Of the forest a ray Ofsunlight shall flash and the dew die away! Rose of the World , Rose of the Uttermost Abode of Glory , Rose of the High Host Of Heaven , mystic , rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows ). ? Thus we end our chapte…
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46 THE STAR IN THE WEST As also does the song of Orpheus : O Hawk of gold with power enwalled , Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine , and the disc of flaming light Is on thee , seated in the prow Of the Sun's bark , enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee , thee girt round With leopard's pell , and golden sound Of planets choral in their course ! O thou self-formulated sire ! Self -master of thy dam's desire ! Thine eyes blaze …
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… identical part of that infinity .' Laugh , thou immortal Lesbian ! Thy verse runs down the runic ages. Where shalt thou be when sun and star, My sun , my star, the vault that 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 .…
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270 THE STAR IN THE WEST Until the lotus and the sea And snake no longer are , And single through eternity Exists alone the star , And utter Knowledge rise and cease In that which is beyond the Peace !! Buddhism may be called the religion of Science , notwithstanding the fact that it arose in the East hundreds of years before what we call modern science was born . The youth of systems , as of individuals , is lost in the mist of the past , unknown to themselves , dimly apparent to others , they proceed through won dering childhood , ambitious y…
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90 THE STAR IN THE WEST Turn not thy face from us in wrath , for we Are thine own father's children , and his loins With double fervour gat a double flower ; And we indeed were born of drudging wives, Pale spouses whom his heart despised , but thou Wast of a fairer face and brighter eyes , And limbs more amorous assuaged thy sire ; And fuller blood of his is tingling thus Now in thy veins indignant at our sin . ' Thus we find free love is the great , pure , and only true love . Its name has been soiled and fouled by the feculencies of Holywell …