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…issolve around thee , and thou around all , till unity itself become but nothingness in the unutterable bliss of a boundless rapture . O wine of lacchus , O wine , wine , wine .
VI The Chapter known as The Cup In which chapter it is related how the Cup held the “ New Wine ,” and how that wine is quaffed greedily by all ; and how to some it tasteth as bitter as gall , and yet to others is as Falernian a hundred and twenty years old ; for that is the age of the cellar from out of which it was ta'en .
VII The Chapter known as Tbe Aew wine In which chapter it is related : how the “ New Wine ” which was drawn from the Tavern known as the “ Well of Life ” burst the “ Old Bottle ” ; and yet was not spilt . And wherein it is shown how it intoxicated the multitudes to dreams in the which they perceive many things that are not ; and how it openeth the eye of the wise to the vision of the One Won der which alone is .
… FOREWORD CHAP . I. THE LOOKING -GLASS II . THE VIRGIN . III . THE HARLOT IV . THE MOTHER V. THE OLD BOTTLE VI . THE CUP . VII . THE NEW WINE 9 15 49 109 123 145 167 . . . . 191
…in purple and scarlet , and decked with pearls and precious stones , hath made them drunk on the golden cup of her abominations , on the wine of her fornications , on the filthy philtres of her whoredoms ; and they have become truculent , and boisterous , and mad ; cloaking the silken naked ness of the day with their woollen shroud of darkness , and seeking in the depths of night the mysteries of everlasting light . O Dweller in the Land of Uz , thou also shalt be made drunken , but thy cup shall be hewn from the sapphire of the heavens , and t…
…; and its uselessness , and how it stinketh when it be uncorked , and its unprofitableness , also the unfit ness thereof to hold the New Wine ,” of which hereafter . L
THE NEW WINE 225 nature .” On this despairing position of Hume , Kant bases his à priori. BERKELEY AND HUME Thus Hume arrives at the conclusion that all rela tionships between cause and effect are based on ex perience , and behind experience there is , “ a certain unknown and inexplicable something ." ? So also does Berkeley in the “ Three Dialogues " end in a similar quandary which he calls “ God." Starting out on his quest by stating : “ Can any doctrine be true that necessarily leads a man into an absurdity ? " ; he promptly proceeds to trav…
…d ant ego into the harmonious Whole. If we set our selves aside on a pillar of purity , we are but dualizing existence , the lees of the wine must be quaffed in the same cup as the wine itself , there is no other choice : XIV . Thou must breathe in all poisons ; for thy meat , Poison ; for drink , still poison ; for thy kiss , serpent's lips ! ... Then the verse continues , and we see if we may so ex press it, the great nuptials with the Lords of Lust : An agony is this That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands , thy feet Ooze blood , thine ey…
THE NEW WINE 237 thought , thinking at appointed hours according to appointed books . FICHTE , SCHELLING , AND HEGEL Close on the heels of Kant came Fichte with his un knowable appulse as the only potency of the not -self, which assuaged the raging thirst of inquiry as would a bottle of wine long since dry. Behind him Schelling , who leaping into the clouds , grasped at object and subject as existing actualities , calling the bastard child ren of his brain manifestations of the Absolute . Then Hegel who , instead of sitting out on the universal…
THE NEW WINE 249 say “ Hoc Est Corpus over some bread and wine , and the devout suppliant becomes filled with religious fervour . As in physics there is a kinetic force, so in metaphysics there is a kinetic ideation . To the Qabal ist , the Qabalah unlocks as a key the corridor of the soul , and the pent - up sense rushes forth as some prisoner released from his dungeon , a mingled mass of emotion and reality . To the sceptic no change takes place , for his mind is sterile and unable to conceive , but his ignorance in no way proves that the Qab…
…blotting out one by one the remaining stars of that past wonder which was Rome , great Pan stirred himself , and awoke . But the crystal wine of lacchus had long since soured in the thunders of those dark days , yet , with death - pale lips , he drank the blood - red wine of witchcraft . “ Hark ! the cock crows ! Farewell till to - morrow , to - morrow night ! A 1 Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum , vol . ii, p . 212. I do not hesitate to add here that had this extraordinary Essay been written in the days of Albertus Magnus , it would now be con sid…
…eeker after Wisdom , and Virtue , and multiscient Truth , thou O wanderer in the groves of Eleusis , thou , even thou shalt drink of the wine of Iacchus , and thy cup shall be as a triple flame set with sapphire , and beryl, and amethyst ; for it is the cup of Adepts , and of Heroes , and of Gods . Then all the absinthial bitterness of thine heart shall vanish midst the chaunting of souls lost in the ocean of understanding for ever and everlasting . From the filthy distillations of thy life , and the golden traffic of its quintessential lusts ;…
THE NEW WINE 215 TAGNOSmiths CROWLEYA ! ISTICLINE. PYRRHON THE PY IDEALISM . MYSTICISM , REALISM .) WMO-IDEALISTA AGNOSTICISM . CROWLEYANITY In the centre is MYSTICISM which links together IDEALISM and REALISM , or the Ego to the Non-Ego , and at the same time holds them apart . Without it Idealism becomes Absolute Subjectivity , and Realism Absolute Objectivity. (N.B. The circle of Idealism is the only entirely white circle in the sym bol , and that of Realism the only entirely black one . The ' Jakin ” and “ Bohaz ” of King Solomon's Temple )…
…ol groves of Eleusis child -like dreaming in the bosom of silvery Attica by the blue Ægean sea . Yet those who would drink deeper of the wine of this magical Eucharist , spilt with due reverence on the pages of this volume , they must seek it in the Sibyl line verses of those books from which this one has drawn its life -blood . And they are : Aceldama . The Tale of Archais . Songs of the Spirit . Jezebel . An Appeal to the American People . Jephthah . The Mother's Tragedy . The Soul of Osiris . Carmen Saeculare . Tannhäuser . Berashith . Ahab …
…s 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 .
THE NEW WINE 243 follows that if it be not perceived it exists not ;” and in the “ Three Dialogues ” he again maintains this indisputable fact : Phil . And is not time measured by the succession of ideas in our mind ? Hyl. It is. Phil . And is it not possible ideas should succeed one another twice as fast in your mind as they do in mine , or in that of some spirit of another kind ? Hyl . I own it.2 This clinches the whole argument between Mysticus and Scepticus , as it did between the two disputants Philonous and Hylas . THE QABALAH Before e…
THE NEW WINE 299 Ah ! O in the silence, in the dark , In the intangible , unperfumed , Ingust abyss, abide and mark The mind's magnificence assumed In the soul's splendour ! Here is peace ; Here earneșt of assured release . Here is the formless all pervading Spirit of the World , rising , fading Into a glory subtler still . Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates , and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival . Peace ! Peace ! Silence of peace ! O visionless abode ! Cease ! Cease ! Through the dark veil pass on ! The veil Is rent asunder…
THE NEW WINE 301 Let human thought itself expand Bright Sun of Knowledge , in me rise ! Lead me to those exalted skies To live and love and understand ! Paying no price , accepting nought The Giver and the Gift are one With the Receiver -O thou Sun Of thought , of bliss 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…
THE NEW WINE 259 infinitely small results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE NUM BER EXTENDED IN AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CATEGORIES . It happened when this our Great Inversion took place , from the essence of the nothingness to finity extended in innumerable categories , 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 involv…
THE NEW WINE 319 of the senses . St. Bonaventura calls this mystic identification synderesis , and describes it as " the joy of being uplifted to a super -intellectual love." St. Theresa , that in the ecstatic state : “ the soul no longer knows what it is doing . . . whether it speaks or is silent : it is a blissful extravagance . . I have often been carried away by it . . . there is such per fection of joy that soul and body cannot express it ... if they could the perfect union of all the powers would be at an end ." So Crowley finely describe…