The Star in the West

246 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 .