The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 283 midst new -born spheres and hoary -headed worlds , “ I would that I were the sky that I might be all eyes to behold thee ,” till the stars circle about us , and the wild comets speed by , and suns embrace suns , and the moons melt shrieking through the firmament . Then all powers will dissolve , and the great golden dawn effulgent will flash through the portals of night , standing before us bride of our desire , robed in a million suns , the stars flaming in her hair , incarnate symbol of perpetual youth . So we feel with Crowley that : Time and again , in the History of Science , a period has arrived when , gorged with facts , she has sunk into a lethargy of reflection accompanied by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories .' And that : History affirms that such a deadlock is invariably the prelude to a new enlightenment ; by such steps we have advanced , by such we shall advance . The “ horror of great darkness which is scepticism must ever be broken by some heroic master soul , intolerant of the Cosmic agony . The sun of true Agnosticism breaks through Buddh ism ( vol . ii, p . 247 ), and now the Vega of illuminism , the flashing star of Crowleyanity drowns the sun of Agnosticism , and reduces the whole infinite ether to a flaming Crown of glory . This , all yearning hearts must hope , will be the great golden coronation of the centuries hereafter . Surrounded by fools on every side , we are apt as Agnostics to consider ourselves the only torch - bearers of truth ; and through ignorance , joining ourselves to a particular body , hoist on high our spluttering brand 2 | The Sword of Song , p . 207 . 2 Ibid .