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In spite of Mr. Crowley’s disdain of correct metre and his occasional lapses in grammar, pages of praise could be written on his work, backed by quotations from it. J. E. PATTERSON. THE NEW AGE says: What is this wonderful abstraction we call the British public? Before Mafeking night we knew quite well what it was. The female part of it was Mrs. Grundy, the well-known old lady in white cotton stockin , elastic-side boots, stuffy petticoats, and a grim determination to give everyone a bit of her mind. The male gart of it was an idealistic old ge…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…NS OF THE PRESS. THE NORTHERN WHIG says: “The Star in the West,” by Captain Fuller, is a critiml essay on the poetical works of Aleister Crowley, and the name will sound familiar in the ears of any who pride themselves on having more than a bowing acquaintance with modern letters. Mr. Crowley has over thirty volumes to his credit, and the sheer art of his verse should rank him high amongst modern singers. He has, however, deliberately preferred to write for the few, and the course he has mapped out for himself includes the consideration of ques…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
“The New Wine," and in which the philosophy of “ Crowleyanity ” is expounded at dire length, our admiration for Ca tain Fuller’s judgment is somewhat abated. “ Aleister Crowley," we are told, “ ist e artist Elias ” of whom Paracelsus prophesied: the marvellous being whom God has permitted to make a discovery of the hi hest im rtnnce in his illuminative philosophy of Crowleyanit , in the dazzling and flashing light 0 which t ere is nothing concealed which shall not be discovereJ It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley. The worl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
KONX OM PAX ESSAYS IN LIGHT BY ALEISTER CROWLEY LONDON AND FELLING-ON-TYNE Y WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK: 3, EAST 14TH STREET SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGA _ r TION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH O BOLESKINE, FOYERS, INVERNESS I907
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…us in French. This is a very exceptional accomplishment, as anyone may realize who has read French novels in English. Here is one of Mr. Crowley’s typical climaxes: The host is lifted up. Behold The vintage spilt, the broken hreadl l feast upon the cruel cold Pale body that was ripe and red. Only her held, her palms, her feet, I kissed all night, and did not eat. "But had it not been for the garter, I might never have seen the star,” Mr. Crowley says. Hence we look from the garter to the more starry part of Mr. Crow ley’s work, for he has learn…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
… to make a Scotchman laugh! Not onl is it a violation of the English language, but it belongs to that class of pure literary lism, which Crowley has arisen to overthrow. A second Prometheus, he has snatched the fire from the secret place of God's glory, and bro ht it down in the hollow tube of his ecstasy-waking flute, and in the white chalice o God’s awful Dawn, he now offers them the wine of the Via Lactea caught from the rosy nipples of the Virgin of the World, of which he hath drunk, whereby the heart of man is glad. The ATHEIST says: A capit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
… called Baruch de Spinoza “ that God-intoxicated Man.” What would he have said had he lived to-day, and looked upon the face of Aleister Crowley, that glory revealed to us by the genius of Captain 1. F. C. Fuller? Crowley has been reproached in some thoughtless or malicious quarters for his ignorance or tolerance of evil. But is this not because the holiness of his life and thought keeps him so close to his divine Master that he can only see good in all he gazes on? It is the eagle, ever steadfastly beholding the sun, that swoops down upon carr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…at cannot appreciate such a vintage to the full knows not the taste of good wine. T11: Imperialism of Lam—In many lyrics and sonnets Mr. Crowley’s dominant note is the very Imperialism, the Romanism of love; just as throughout the whole of his work there is the ringing note of mastery. But when he has seen the wisdom of not flinging splendid lines away on those subjects which wiser men remember only to themselves, when he has ceased to prefer the lurid and quickly evanescent gems of the rubbish-heap of sensations for the enduring and unsurpassab…
1907 · PDF PAGE 133
…le here to pick from this bewildering casket of precious gems the best from the perfect. But though we cannot find 5 ace here to touch on Crowley's try, which offers us the concen trated essence 0 all that is divine from the days 0 Sappho to Lord Alfred Dou has, neither on his philosophy which sums in a few chapters our total knowledge 0 the universe, robing all opposites in a. dazzling garment of understanding, and crowning all with the flashing diadem of the Highest; we would, however, like to enter upon here, if not an apology—Crowley needs no…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…their masters, talk vile scandal about them in the servants' Hall. For in this NEW AGE what is wanted is M UCK, and we think that should Crowley wish to stamp a hell-hoof into the ungroomed buttocks of the social mule, he should adopt as his motto the hitherto unpublished couplet of Lord Byron, which Oscar Wilde in his youth is supposed to have filched from Thomas Moore’s grandson: Take care, my friend, do not display thy wit! For what the people want to-day is But alasl the last word ofthe line is lost, and who shall find it? How much more so to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…faculty of seeing clearly through the magical appearances surrounding us and perceiving the cause beyond the falsity of its effects. Mr. Crowley says, apropo: of this, “ It is no doubt more difficult to learn ‘ Paradise Lost’ by heart than ‘ We are Seven ’; but when you have done it you are no better at figure skating.” He quotes as the great guiding scripture of his life a Buddhist Sutta (ii, 33): “Therefore, 0 Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourself to no external refuge." How is this inward m stery r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
… to be graven with a needle upon the eye-comers so that whoso would be warned should be warned! “What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; but Crowley waits for an answer.” He did more than wait: he took active measures to discover; and though an answer in the Key of Affirmation would, in its very exordium, beggar human language, yet we may do a certain amount to destroy some of the minor fallacies that obscure the vision of our weaker brethren, not, alas! veiling their eyes from Truth, but from the 1 The views in this essay have been deliberately lef…
1907 · PDF PAGE 129
MR. CROWLEY'S BOOKS ARE SOLD BY THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING COMPANY AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES. ACELDAMA. Japanese vellum wrapper, Crown 8vo, pp. 29, £2 2:. [Less than 10 rapier nmain.] THE TALE 0F ARCHAIS. Boards, Pott 4t0, pp. viii+89, 5:. THE HONOURABLE ADULTERERS. Paper, Demy 8vo. [Ouloan'nL] JEPHTHAH AND OTHER MYSTERIES, lyrical and dramatic. Boards, pp. xxii+223, 7:. 6d. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT. Boards, Pott 8vo, pp. x+109, 3:. 6d. [A few of the first edition, cloth, 7:. 6d.] THE POEM. Japanese vellum wrapper, Demy 8vo, pp. 20. [Out prrinh] JEZEB…