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THE STAR IN THE WEST
1
Aleister
Crowley's
estimate of society
is certainly
not a very high
one , and more especially so when he
takes
into
consideration
the
pudibonderie
of
the
English .
Society is but a gaping and toothed gin , as
he well shows in “
The Honourable
Adulterers
” where
women , the frailer
sex , are
the
unfortunate
victims .
Man made God , and God
made woman out of one of
man's wretched little
ribs .
Regardless
of manners ,
man
sucks
the wretched little
bone
as
he would
the
leg of a chicken , tears
off
the
flesh
and casts
it
into
the
bin
.
The
masses
are
but
sheep
,
following
the
bell
-
wether convention
;
deprive them
of
their initial
,
and they
become
neither lambs nor tigers but merely
asses
.
Ahinoam
in
“
Jephthah
"
well
described them
when
he
addressed the assembled multitude
as
:
1
Ye are
as
children ...
I
never
hear your voice
but know
Some
geese are gabbling
.'
Or again
,
in
“
The Nameless
Quest
,"
God's heart
!
the antics
,
as
they toil and
shove
!
One grabs
a
coin
,
one life
,
another love
.
All shriek
.2
Cora
Vavasour
made
a
pretty
just
estimate
of
society when she called
its
stulti
“
prurient
licksores
of
society
,”
for that
is
exactly what
they
are
;
when
poor
,
squalid
;
when rich
,
vulgar
;
the
men
fond
of
kitchen
-
maids
,
and the women painted and cosmetic
ized
,
not only
to
hide the ravages
of
debauchery
,
but
to
catch new lovers
;
the
boys
a
breed
of
cads
,
and
the girls
a
breed
of
prudes
.
1
Jephthah
,
vol
.
i,
p
.
81
.
2
The Temple
of
the Holy Ghost
,
vol
.
i,
p
.
189
.