The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 325 I trust that the explanation will enable many students who have hitherto , by a puerile objectivity in their view of the question, obtained no results, to succeed ; that the apology may impress upon our scornful men of science that the study of the bacillus , should give place to that of the baculum , the little to the great-how great , one only realises when one identifies the wand with the Mahalingam , up which Brahma flew at the rate of 84,000 yojanas a second for 84,000 mahakalpas , down which Vishnu flew at the rate of 84,000 crores of yojanas a second for 84,000 crores of mahakalpas - yet neither reached an end . This not only carries out the philosophy of Fichte , but also that of Paracelsus when he said , there is “ nothing in heaven or earth which does not exist in man.” In fact this “ one pointedness " is the crown ing glory of Crowleyanity . In the East it is arrived at by meditation , “ the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross , fine, or altogether spiritual ” ” in the West by cere monial magic . Now true magical ceremonial is entirely directed to attain this end , and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes . By act, word , and thought , both in quantity and quality , the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated . Every fumigation , purification , banishing , invocation , evocation , is chiefly a reminder of a single purpose , until the supreme moment arrives , and every fibre of the body , every force -channel of the mind , is strained , and in one overwhelming rush of the Will in the direction desired . Such is the real purport of all the apparently fantastic directions of Solomon , Abramelin , and other sages of repute . When a man has evoked and mastered such forces as Taphtatharath , Belial , Amaimon , and the great powers of the elements , then he may safely 1 The Sword of Song , vol . ii, pp . 203-205 . 2 Berashith , vol . ii, p . 242 .