The Star in the West

THE OLD BOTTLE 159 Discarded all proportion just , And thundered in our ears “ I know ,” And bellowed in our brains “ ye must . " 1 In “ Why Jesus Wept ” our eyes are startled with the following horrid blasphemy , “ The badger Jesus skulketh in his holt ," ? which , after all , is not a quarter so blasphemous as to suppose that Jesus , the Son of God , the Very God , resides in a loaf and a bottle , as the Plymouth brethren did in the same satire - vide scene xiii . Finally , instead of allowing this most un fortunate of unfortunate individuals to peacefully ascend to heaven from two places simultaneously he unfeel ingly dismisses him , the Omnipotent , in a jest .' Crowley further shows , by quoting the parable of the sheep and the goats , that the historical (?) Christ was to a great extent devoid of pity , and a little further on in the same poem , “ Ascension Day ,” that he was but a cantankerous divider and obstreperous upstart : Give me omnipotence ? To call me God I would exert That power to heal creation's hurt ; Not to divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm , a fire , a thirst for these ; A harp - resounding heaven for those !4 Concerning the mother of the eternal God , Crowley has little to tell us , and the Blessed Virgin's affaire du cœur with the amiable Gabriel is but touched on for a moment : 21 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 181 . Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 40 . 3 The Sword of Song , Ascension Day , vol . ii, p . 163 . * Ibid . vol . ii, p . 158 .