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… in the clay of its surroundings , for as Lamartine said : “ Humanity is as a weaver working on the reverse of the web of Time . One day will come when passing to the other side , she will behold the wonder and beauty she has woven , in the place of the loose threads and knots of the reverse .” That day God will be manifested . The secret theurgy of the ages is neither science , nor ethics , philosophy , nor religion ; for it is the science , the ethics , the philosophy , the religion of all times , and when manifest in the heart of the adept ,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
92 THE STAR IN THE WEST long as man wages war against woman for sins that he condones in himself , so long will vice reign supreme , so long will women prove themselves deceivers , harpyiæ and sirenes, let alone Eumenides . Most will recognize the following as the opening scene in Terence's “ The Mother- in -Law ,” which play sums up the matter tersely enough : Philotis . l ' faith , Syra, you can find but very few lovers who prove constant to their mistresses . For instance , how often did this Pamphilus swear to Bacchis-how solemnly , so that…
1907 · PDF PAGE 334
…, dispute the mere beating of the winds with a tattered fan . Religion is bankrupt , philosophy is bankrupt , science is bankrupt , none will be discharged , we must fend for ourselves . .. Hark ! . We are the poets ! We are the children of wood and stream , of mist and mountain , of sun and wind ! We adore the moon and the stars , and go into the London streets at midnight seeking Their kisses as our birthright . We are the Greeks - and God grant ye all , my brothers , to be as happy in your loves ! and to us the rites of Eleusis should open t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 277
… Drury Lane to the amazement of little children . The human first adores images , then imaginations ; the little girl who loves her doll will neglect it to tend her youngest little brother or sister , whom she will kiss and pinch in the true fashion of the human ; and when scarcely in her teens will commence those necessary and attractive adornments to enable her shortly to have a real little doll of her own . The little boy will forsake his brave little man in tin , in order to watch the soldiers in the park , or turn the coal cellar into a ro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 333
… spirit being a temporary part of the “ brain ,” as all other “ ideas ” must be from the idea of “ constipation ” which Seidlitz powders will also remove -- to that of Heaven and Hell ,' which Swedenborg also dislodges . At last we have arrived at the close of a difficult yet intensely interesting journey . Crowleyanity has led us through more marvels than Dante ever bore witness to in the “ Paradiso " and the “ Inferno ." His may have been a Divine Comedy , but here before us has been unrolled the vast drama of a Sublime Tragedy : “ All argume…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…Oracles . Orpheus . Rosa Mundi . Gargoyles . Collected Works , vols . i , ii , and iii . By which , if they have eyes to perceive , they will become sacramental and holy , through the fire - bap tism of a new birth , and will hold the key of all mysteries locked in the esoteric sign of the Sabbatic Goat , the Baphomet of Mendes , the signatures of Solve and Coagula , -“ The Everlasting Yea and Nay ." A.M.E.N. My faults are more numerous than I care to think of ; yet it is without fear or trepidation that I offer this essay to the public . It ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 315
308 THE STAR IN THE WEST We only feel the event , namely , the existence of an idea , consequent to the command of the will : But the manner, in which this operation is performed , the power by which it is produced, is entirely beyond our comprehension ... The command of the mind over itself is limited, as well as its command over the body ;) and these limits are not known by reason , or any acquaintance with the nature of cause and effect , but only by experience and observation , as in all other natural events and in the operation of external…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
…off ; but now They howl and clamour at our very gates . Which in other words simply means , as long as man does not see or understand he will pray ; when he does , he won't . Another juggle to elude fate is sacrifice . Sacrifice and prayer have ever run in harness together under the whistling of the priestly lash . “ I will brain you if you refuse to render tribute to me , " said the primi tive chief to his primitive neighbour ; “ I will put you in jail if you won't pay me your taxes , ” says the modern government to the modern citizen . And as…
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
…narchism of the Scientific cults . Philosophy and Science have up to the present apprehended things per nos , from this day forward they will , under the atheistic theurgy of Crowleyanity , know things per se . The Ultima Thule of our rigorous journey will at last be discernible on the horizon of our minds , and the mixed drinks of the stumbling Scoto -German Bacchantes will give way to the pure amrita of Iacchus . The above may be symbolized as follows : | The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii , p. 176 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 290
…e about us , and the wild comets speed by , and suns embrace suns , and the moons melt shrieking through the firmament . Then all powers will dissolve , and the great golden dawn effulgent will flash through the portals of night , standing before us bride of our desire , robed in a million suns , the stars flaming in her hair , incarnate symbol of perpetual youth . So we feel with Crowley that : Time and again , in the History of Science , a period has arrived when , gorged with facts , she has sunk into a lethargy of reflection accompanied by …
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…rawing his heart proffers her his purse : Buy yourself a pretty hat ! Forget my pretty speeches !' The above needs no comment . Most men will under stand it well enough ; for there are a hundred thousand women in London who need no editor's appendix or translator's footnote . Enter GLENSTRAE . (To conceive him asketh not Imagination's waistcoat buttons undone ! Any old gentleman in any club in London . ) ? Meeting Molly he asks her for a glass of milk , and comforts her on hearing that she intends going into service , saying : “ And so you shal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 294
…ance , Decadence , and Slime . In the first the Adepts rise as artists , philo 1 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 221 . “ TO KNOW , TO DARE , TO WILL , TO KEEP SILENT , are the four words of the magus , inscribed upon the four symbolic forms of the Sphinx . “ To command the elements , we must have overcome their hurricanes , their lightnings , their abysses , their tempests . “ In order to DARE we must KNOW ; in order to WILL we must DARE ; we must WILL to possess empire , and to reign we must BE SILENT .” — E. LÉVI , The Ritual of Transcendent Magic ,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
202 THE STAR IN THE WEST 1 thought . Science will say that intelligence is last , and that matter slowly evolves into animal life ; in fact, that matter (A ) is first, and intelligence (B ) is second . The idealists and sankhyâs will put intelligence (B ) first , and the series will run B ,A , B ,A ,B ,A . Both , however , are indicating the same chain ; but Crowley, like the philosophers of the Vedanta , strides beyond both intellect and matter to find an “ I ” (purusha) or self, which is beyond all intellect , and of which in tellect is but t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 147
… driven snow , pure as a mountain rill . One with the pale Mother of Bethlehem and the scarlet harlot of the City of Abominations . Then will the storm -clouds part , and the smoke and steam of the earth vanish , and the social harlot , whose painted buttocks have heaved and hog -wallowed through the centuries , shall be seized and hurled from the rock of Tarpeia , and smothered with the goatish kisses of her lechery midst the charnel glitter of her gold . And the Vestal courtezan will rise before us , purple and white , clothed in the sun , an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
… being no definite line of division . So in Love , if one system of Ethics tends towards abuse , then we may be certain that the reverse will be uselessly sterile , and that the only possible system to follow will as usual lie directly between these extremes , and in this case , in the region of Use . If now , supposing at one end of our pole we find Lust seated crimson as a rose , then at the other we shall find Chastity white as a lily . This system of extremes has during the world's history exerted an overwhelming force on the will of man . …
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…ce of events led to an open feeling of disgust , for Nature never permits man to borrow without paying back , the general settlement day will always sooner or later arrive , and then a new epoch of time will be heralded in . Secret vice is the very worst form of vice ; like a hidden gin we fall betwixt its jaws unawares . The crass and studied silence that mothers and fathers maintain over their children as regards all subjects of sex is probably responsible for fifty per cent : and more of all the sexual crimes and sexual ills of the present d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…echanically ; the former pro pels the latter , whilst the latter reacts as a drag on the former . If the former is in a healthy state so will the latter be ; if the latter becomes corrupt it will then react and contaminate the former . This is the law of all Form - i.e ., Government - and Reform . The outlaw of to - day was the citizen of yesterday , so the law of to - day will become the crime of to morrow . Man being inherently lazy , and hence conservative , this power is forever reacting on him , and binding him down to a government unsuite…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…attained , and so did Shelley and Browning . Read the last verses of the “ Prometheus Unbound ” and “ A Grammarian's Funeral , ” and all will be plain ;' and it is this same ecstasy that burns white in these two superb poems , which flames a bright star of beauty guiding us on our long journey across the hundred thousand leagues of the empire of Crowley's pen . We find it shining brightly over almost every page , a fact which renders the task of quoting nigh endless . Already we have cited a dozen or more examples . Volume I flames like a subtl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
…on bid well to exter minate his whole wretched race ; thereupon he dis closed science , which , when it has destroyed his former hobby , will in its turn run riot over all , till it also becomes such a pest , that it too , will have to give way to something better . Never contented , man ultimately finds that his double collection of manna rots . What the end will be no one knows , and few care ; that we shall ever reach a state verging on perfection is most improbable ; man could not stand it for long unless his worldly span were one of unam b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…hat the superscription on its cover is both froward and perverse , and contrary to the sum of human experience . This however I trust he will find is not the case , and , as Ianthe , will discover that after the mystic union has been consummated , the beautiful daughter of Ligdus 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…