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THE STAR IN THE WEST
perhaps
seem
safer to forego such an attempt alto
gether , but so alloyed have these
mystical ideas be
come with the general structure of his philosophy , that
such a course is rendered
impossible , so that the failure
of safety would
be only
more
ignominious
than
the
failure of attempt .
Aleister
Crowley
as we have
seen
is no Christian ,
neither is he a gullible spiritualist , nor a gross material
ist
.
Seeking
an
answer
to
the mystery
,
he
first finds
it
in
the ontology
of
the
Qabalah
,
and then finally
through
Mysticism
and
Agnosticism
,
to
their recon
ciliation
in
a
neo
-
Hermeticism
,
a
neo
-
Rosicrucianism
-which
we have already called Crowleyanity
.'
Yet though
he
does not end
at
that barrier beyond
which the Rationalist
cannot proceed
,
he
by
no
means
rejects
common sense and understanding
as
his Epode
on
Nature clearly shows
.
Nature my name
is
called
.
O
fruitless veil
Of the strange self
of
its
own self begotten
!
O
vision laughterless
!
O
shadowy tale
!
I
am Nature and God
:
I
reign
,I
am
,
alone
.
None other may abide apart
:
they
perish
,
Drawn into me
,
into my being grown
.
None other bosom
is,
to
bear
,
to
nourish
,
To
be
:
the heart
of
all
beneath
my zone
Of blue and gold
is
scarlet
-
bright
to
cherish
My own's life being
,
that
is,
and
is
not other
;
For
I
am God and Nature and thy Mother
.
I
am
:
the greatest and the least
:
the sole
And separate life
of
things
.
The mighty stresses
Of worlds are my nerves
twitching
.
Branch and
bole
Of
forests waving
in
deep wildernesses
1
Not only has Crowley succeeded
in
finding
all
the scattered
pieces
of
Osiris which Isis discovered
,
but also his phallus which
she could not find
.