The Star in the West

210 THE STAR IN THE WEST carouse of the night , and ourselves become as Gods , shall we conceive God . Hic labor , hoc opus est : This is my secret —in a man's delight To lose the stubborn ecstasy for God ! To thus clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell — in the profoundest sky ! This knowledge , the true immortality , I came unto through pain and tears , Tigerish hopes , and serpent loves , and dragon fears , Most bitter kisses , salted springs and dry ; In those deep caverns and slow -moving years , When dwelt I , in the Mount of Venus , even I !? CROWLEYANITY Quod utilius Deus patefieri sinet , quod autem majoris momenti est, vulgo adhuc latet usque ad Eliae Artistae adventum quando is venerit . God will permit a discovery of the highest import ance to be made , it must be hidden till the advent of the artist Elias . Thus prognosticated Paracelsus ,' and further that divine philosopher predicted : Hoc item verum est nihil est absconditum quod non sit retegendum ; ideo, post me veniet cujus magnale nundum vivit qui multa revelabit . And it is true there is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered ; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me , who as yet lives not , and who shall reveal many things. And I for one take it that the prophecy has now 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p. 256. 2 Paracelsus once assured the students of Avicenna and Galen that his shoe -ties knew more than these two physicians ; and that all the universities , and all the writers united were less instructed than the hairs of his beard . How much more now so Crowley ,