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THE STAR IN THE WEST. By CAPTAIN J. F. C. FULLER. 6:. net. OPINIONS 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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…by the heart of man is glad. The ATHEIST says: A capital exposition. . . . Far as we are from admiring the dreamy romanticism of Captain Fuller’s hero, his staunch denial of the supernatural, the divine, the mystical, must command our respect and sympathy. . . . A great future lies before Captain Fuller. , The PROPHETIC MERCURY says: A wonderful mystin book . . . [Follows a long excursus on Daniel X.] . . . The ever-present sense of God in the mind of the ct leads us to the prayerful hope that one day he may be enlightened . . . [More a ut Dani…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist, and we have no hesitation in predicting that modern readers, weary of the sordid and tawdry tediousness of gutter realism and Utopia idealism, will find in this book a satisfaction of many a heartache. The SEEKBR says: Years ago, the saintly Novalis 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 thoughtl…
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 139
…of Mr. Crow ley’s work, for he has learned a good deal about Eastern philoso hy at first hand, which is well worth consideration. Captain Fuller describes “ rowleyanity” as being “ the conscious communion with God on the part of an Atheist, a transcending of reason by sce ticism of the instrument, and the limitation of scepticism by direct consciousness o the Absolute.” He defines God later on as the Relation between man and the Absolute, and he says “it is the search after this relationship—God— that Crowley so frequently and ardently depicts. "…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…alphabet; but that to replace Adrian’s barge by the LC.C. privy is a crime that should carry with it instantaneous decapitation. Captain Fuller will have none of this; with a. ripple of virgin laughter he at once rips the rational bloomers from the unwashed Bacon of the Rev. Secularius Shake speare, and strips every button from the unsexed knickerbockers of Mrs. Lysistrata Ghoul. In a voice of thunder he proclaims a general strike among seamstresses and needle-women, button-makers and cotton- rowers, and condemns all such pus-brained pithecanth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…re that the old allacy that sex is the source of all the passion of the human race supports Mr. Crowley and his laudatory critic Captain Fuller in their tendency to use sexual imagery in excess; but surely the fallacy has been exploded. We have all read Weininger, who demonstrates that alarge proportion of the human race have no special sex characteristics; that the absolutely female woman or virile man can hardly be said to exist at all; but that the border line between the physiological symptoms of sex is becoming less marked in each generati…
1907 · PDF PAGE 133
…rtheless an explanation to the would-be reader who may have been told by the professional liars of the Pulpit and the Press that Captain Fuller and his Aleister Crowley are dangerous degenerates, in fact, gilded Onanists, overthrowers of love, gnncotton-fed anarchists, annihilators of the law, and decadent philosophers who wish to replace Aristotle and Copernicus by Paul Cams and Emil Reich; Diabolists who toss the world as on astring; proclaim the Synagogue of Satan and unfurl the oriflamme of the Prinpic pig. It is indeed a curious fact, but s…