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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
,