The Star in the West

THE VIRGIN 89 is similar to that of “ Alice ,” if not sublimer : “ I was so glad he loved enough to go -“ my arms could never have released his neck .” The King dies and soon the Queen also . Love is symbolized in this poem in its higher form as above death . She seeks and finds " There is no sin .” And I? I knew not anything , but know We are still silent , and united so , And all our being spells one vast To Be , A passion like the passion of the sea .? Besides the freedom of lovers , Aleister Crowley advocates the freedom of the children of love ; he does not visit the sins of the fathers on the children , as conventionality cruelly does . Though he is a firm believer in the chain of cause and effect as is strongly shown in “ The Mother's Tragedy , ” he does not carry it further into the realms of Biblical vice . The children of what is known as an illicit love-which in most cases is true free love - have time after time proved themselves better and greater than those engendered in the unimpassioned embrace of the marriage - bed . Shakespeare brings this point out forcibly in King Lear , when Edmund speaks as follows : . why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base , base ? Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth , within a dull , stale , tired bed , Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops , Got ' tween asleep and wake ? In “ Jephthah ” we find an almost identical rendering of the above , concerning the children of free love : 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 101 .