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…Jupiter the solemn and portentous justice, the serious and serene man who has arrived and controls. Mars the soldier, full of energy and life, vigorous and formidable. Sol the man who has still something of his youth left, and is gay betimes and serious betimes, the man who loves and the man who works. Venus explains itself in Shakespeare’s words, “ the lover with a woeful ballad.” Mercury the schoolboy, happy, careless and gay, mischievous and full of animal life. Luna the age of childhood and innocence, unsmirched and white as the planet hers…
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7 They cannot enjoy life, and so make believe to have something better. But I dine at the Café Royal, instead of munching nuts and “ sirloin of carrots.” I make expeditions to the great mountains of the Himalayas, and hunt buffalo and tiger in the jungles of the Terai ; I love beauty in painting and sculpture ; I love poetry and music ; and I love flesh and blood. There is nothing that you enjoy that I do not enjoy as much as you do ; and I bear witness that nothing is worthy to be com- pared with ecstasy. What is the path to this immortal land…
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…he poems of the writer, but he devotes some hundred odd pages to the new philosophy which is to lead man- kind to happiness and a nobler life. What is this philosophy ? It is devoted to a search after Ecstasy, and is called Scientific Illumin- ism. “ Religion and Science for many years seemingly ran antagon- istic to each other ; but in reality their antagonism has been of a superficial nature, and fundamentally they at heart are one,” thus writes Captain Fuller, whom we may accept as an authority. Crowley is the mouthpiece of a society the obj…