The Star in the West

320 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 .