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…ith 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 Leapt from the lightning …
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
…unbreakable bars, The love of the spirit and mind . The infinite powers Of rapture are ours ; We are one , and our kisses are kind . ? A true wife , that is a woman whose very soul palpitates in harmony with that of her husband or lover , is the greatest joy of life. Burns sang : To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life . And from the other side of the sphere the melodious lines of Kalidasa reverberate with the same perfection of pure wifehood . In the Raghuvancha the step mothers of Rama g…
1907 · PDF PAGE 304
…ssign any meaning to it is frankly beyond me ; but I am as certain that such a state once existed , as I am of anything .' This is quite true , for on attaining to such an ad vanced stage of illumination , language rapidly fails us , and we break through the dialectic veil and enter that life which lies “ behind , ” solely expressed by means of symbols . “ What can I know ? " asked Kant , as we have already seen . “ What is Knowledge ? ” asks the Yogi or mystic , and his question is the right one of the two . I see a cat. Dr. Johnson says it is…
1907 · PDF PAGE 316
…so naïve, that he all but lifted the veil of Isis . His “ Ignorance " is in every way equivalent to Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Kant , who set himself the question , “ Must we believe that Mysticism is like some vast ocean , the empire of illusion ? " And then again and again answered in the negative . He proposed time after time that Reason be its own end , founded upon Right and Duty , and in the Freedom of the “ Person ," the moral sublimity of “ Duty ”: It is not so much because it is subject to the moral law that the perso…
1907 · PDF PAGE 217
…tubborn ecstasy for God ! To thus clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell — in the profoundest sky ! This knowledge , the true immortality , I came unto through pain and tears , Tigerish hopes , and serpent loves , and dragon fears , Most bitter kisses , salted springs and dry ; In those deep caverns and slow -moving years , When dwelt I , in the Mount of Venus , even I !? CROWLEYANITY Quod utilius Deus patefieri sinet , quod autem majoris momenti est, vulgo adhuc latet usque ad Eliae Artistae adventum quando is venerit . God wil…
1907 · PDF PAGE 314
…: and its essence is that existence is one . But to my experience it is certain that in Dhyana the Ego is rejected .” This is absolutely true of Berkeley when in the Dia logues he writes : To know every thing knowable is certainly a perfection ; but to endure , or suffer , or feel anything by sense , is an imperfection . The former , I say , agrees to God , but not the latter . God knows or hath ideas ; but the ideas are not conveyed to Him by sense as ours are . . 2 God to him is a mahayogi . It is absolutely true of Hume , but Hume , studious…
1907 · PDF PAGE 283
…this , and says : “ Evolution is no better than creation to explain things , as Spencer showed .” 2 Huxley the sublime philosopher , the true agnostic , the periphery of whose knowledge extended far into those mirrored realms wherein Spencer only saw his own distorted countenance , seeing well that Hylo Idealistic - Solipsism led the whole sentient creation from sub - rational matter to rational man , was suffi ciently a true agnostic not to deny the possibility of a divine Solipsism , leading rational man to a super rational God , but yet not …
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THE MOTHER 141 Force , ” we find that of Motherhood . The true wife must sacrifice her children before the shrine of her lover , and the true mother must sacrifice her lover on the altar of her children . This is no paradox , no riddle , no twisting of words ; for Crowley offers us in the glittering chalice of Eternity the sacred blood of the Bull , the Second Christ ; and as the first, the Lamb of God, sprang from the immaculate womb of the Virgin -Mother , so shall this second incarnation spring blood -red from the snowy lips of the great Sup…
1907 · PDF PAGE 238
…as no reference to size , but only to quality , by defining “ a straight line is the shortest between two points ” (which is certainly untrue :? “ Two straight lines cannot enclose a space ,' is better ; for in the definition which he gives , Kant does not seem to have grasped the true conception of “ straight." ] Hume , Kant states , severed pure mathe matics from synthetic judgements à priori , and herein made a great mistake , as all mathematical judgements he asserts are synthetic . [ But is his dogmatism cor rect ? Crowley would disagree .…
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96 THE STAR IN THE WEST its 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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…terpart 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 of marriage , or under the boundless bond of free love , between two souls of similar affinity . True love is a pure , unal loyed attraction , urging two souls from their inherited duality into their inherent oneness , that all are cap able of attaining , and yet so few attain ; and it is on account of the fewness of its adepts , that the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 292
…285 This may be further amplified by the following quotation from Eckartshausen : In time and space knowledge is but relative. Is it not true that all which we call reality is but relative , for abso lute truth is not to be found in the phenomenal world . Thus your natural reason does 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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
…nkruptcy is at hand . It has been said , Donna ociosa non può esser virtuossa . (A woman of leisure cannot be virtuous . ) Which is very true , and neither can a nation . The present ages are peopled with fiends and fools , living outwardly in precadian innocence , but inwardly in all the knowledge of the cities of the plains . The fiend crawls in the slimy dark , and the fool pulls the white sheets of credulity over his head , and like the gaby ostrich chuckles : “ I can't see them , they can't see me ” -he forgets his odour . Crowley has torn…
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FOREWORD IN N “ Frazer's Magazine ” of November, 1866 , may be found the following : “ Wherever there is any kind of true genius , we have no right to drive it mad by ridicule or invective ; we must deal with it wisely, justly , fairly . Some of these passages which have been selected as evidence of (the poet's ) plain speaking, have been wantonly misunderstood . The volume , as a whole , is neither profane nor indecent . A little more clothing in our uncertain climate might perhaps have been attended with advantage . To us this volume , for th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
…rium's brink : Shall these be classed his utmost span ? All that he can or ought to think ? No ! the strong man and self -reliant Is the true spiritual giant . I blame no weaklings , but decline To take their maunderings for mine .? We will now end the poet's utter contempt for this worn-out old creed with the following : Vex My soul no more with mistranslations From Genesis to Revelations , But leave me with the Flaming Star Jeheshua (see thou Zohar !) And thus our formidable Pigeon Lamb -and -old -Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke , and I a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 303
…s in a nutshell ! I Have a superior faculty To reasoning , which makes absurd , Unthinkable and wicked too , A great deal that I know is true ! In short , the mind is capable , Besides mere ratiocination , Of twenty other things as well , The first of which is concentration ! Bloom , Concentration's midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long -sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not , my friend !), Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time - suppose , the Sun. I gain this (…
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…he dawn in May, sunny as a June day , and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic lust . So closely interwoven in spirit are the true lyrics with the remainder of his amatory poetry , that it would be dangerous to attempt to separate them , and such an attempt would almost certainly lead to repetition or a breaking of the chain of psychosexual sensations , dimming that lustre which thrills through these mag nificent verses , from the chaste kiss of a mother to the Phaedrian embrace of a Sadistic sow . In “ Why Jesus Wept," we have the e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
… vices of the next , so do the noble renderings of one age of literature become the hack neyed phraseology of the following , this being true whether we are speaking of poetry or prose . Yet one attribute alone remains ever youthful as the ages roll by into the aeons , and that is-Ecstasy ; whether we | Gargoyles , vol. iii, p . 94 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 100 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
… of salvation , than attain to the uttermost bliss , whilst others are being damned . George Eliot , know ingly or unknowingly , set the true lyre of Buddhism reverberating in her grand and noble prayer , “ The Choir Invisible .” May I reach That purest heaven , be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony , Enkindle generous ardour , feed pure love , Beget the smiles that have no cruelty , Be the sweet presence of a good diffus'd And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness o…