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THE STAR IN THE WEST
gustine, “ independent
of the
senses , which , acting
by means
of an internal
organ , is enabled
to give a
completer
knowledge
than
ordinary
experience ? ”
Crowleyanity , once
and
for
all
,
answers
:
Yes
!
and
this faculty becomes
active
during the ecstatic
state
,
under
the illumination
of
which
mental
representa
tions
become
more
stripped
of
empirical
conditions
,
and
in
an
inverse
proportion
to
which
,
as
the mind
withdraws into itself the consciousness
is
wiped
out
.
its unextended
source
,
Became
the magic
utterance
that makes Me
,
Dissolving self into the starless
sea
.?
CEREMONIAL MAGIC
We have
already
pointed
out
some
of
the reasons
which rendered
the illumination
of
the West
so
much
more poetic
in
nature
than that
attained
by
the East
.
We will now show
the
chief
means
which were
em
ployed
by
the
adepts
of
the West
in
gaining this
end
.
Though
,
as
it
would
be
only natural
to
expect
,
the
Christian Church strongly repudiated
the idea
of
con
nection
between
her Ceremonial
practices
and
those
And float
up
to
the nothing
,
which
is
all
things
The ground
of
being
,
where
self
-
forgetful
silence
,
To emptiness
,
-emptiness fulness
,
-fulness God
,
Till we touch Him
,
and
,
like
a
snow
-
flake
,
melt
Upon his light
-
sphere's
keen circumference
!
The Saint's Tragedy
.
i
Rosa Mundi
,
vol
.
iii,
p
.
52
.