The Star in the West

28 THE STAR IN THE WEST And gaze on chaos , and a week bring back Adam and Eve beneath the apple tree . Join’st thou thy feeble hands in foolish prayer To him thy brain hath moulded and set there In thy brain's heaven ? Such a god replies As thy fears move . So men pray everywhere . God did first work in earth when womankind He chipped from Adam's rib-a thankless task I wot His wisdom has long since repined . When I am dead remember me for this That I bade workers work , and lovers kiss ; Laughed with the Stoic at the dream of pain , And preached with Jesus the evangel - bliss .' Whilst such lines as the following in the second poem also remind us of the astronomer poet : O thou , zelator of this Paradise , Tell thou the secret of the pillar ! None Can hear thee , of the souls beneath the sun. Speak ! or the very Godhead in thee dies . For we are many , and thy name is One .? Before we leave the glowing east , one more curious similarity still strikes us , it is that though in so many ways the ideas of Aleister Crowley are akin to those of Omar Khayyam , yet his fertile imagination also engenders flights as spiritual as those contained in the melodious ghazals of Jeláladdin . In more than one place we come across lines similar to these in Tannhäuser : I say , then , “ I; " and yet it is not “ I ” Distinct , but “ I ” incorporate in All . I am the Resurrection and the Life ! 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . I, pp. 109-112. (The metre though not the cadence is that of “ Laus Veneris .") 2 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 191.