The Star in the West

THE OLD BOTTLE 163 A treacherous bully , feeble as malign , Intolerable, inhuman , undivine , With spite close girded and with hatred shod , A snarling cur, the Christian's Christless God . Out ! misbegotten monster ! with thy brood , The obscene offspring of thy pigritude , Incestuous wedlock with the Pharisees That hail the Christ a son of thee ! Our knees Bend not before thee , and our earth -bowed brows Shake off their worship , and reject thy spouse , The harlot of the world ! For , proud and free , We stand beyond thy hatred , even we : We broken in spirit beneath bitter years , Branded with the burnt-offering of tears , Spit out upon the lie , and in thy face Cast back the slimy falsehood ; to your place , Ye Gadarean swine , too foul to fling Into the waters that abound and spring ! Back , to your mother filth ! With hope , and youth , Love , light , and power , and mastery of truth Armed , we reject you ; the bright scourge we ply , Your howling spirits stumble to your sty : The worm that was your lie- our heel its head Bruises , that bruised us once ; the snake is dead . So , passionate and pure , the strong chant rolls , Queen of the mystic unity of souls ; So from eternity its glory springs King of the magical brotherhood of kings ; The absolute crown and kingdom of desire , Earth's virgin chaplet , molten in the fire , Sealed in the Sea , betokened by the wind : “ There is one God , the Spirit of Mankind !” Such is Aleister Crowley's magnificent contempt for the God ideals of man , and the Christ ideals of a demented mob . That Christianity has been for the 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, pp . 105 , 107. The sacred pledge of the Rosicrucians was : “ Man is God and Son of God , and there is no other God but Man .”