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…autiful and piteous , she waited , longing for that strong desire of love that had been so rudely snatched from her. Again , Love in the form of Aphrodite listens to her prayer , but is helpless to help her till she has sought aid from the lewd city of Aphaca , where Lust in the grim shape of Priapus dwelt . The large - lipped drawn -out grinning of that court That mouthed and gibbered in their swinish sport.? This curious duality of Love and Lust, or better , of Virtue and Vice , we shall attempt to explain more fully when we deal with the phi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
…ightning , as the cloud Disparted , rended , from us twain , And we were one :2 This melting of the I in you , is the only true possible form of marriage , and the only form that can exalt it over the prostitution of the monde and demi - monde ; for it matters little if a woman sell her body for a five pound note , or for a five million pound dot . The man who in his turn marries a woman for her wealth is as foul a male prostitute as ever shrieked his lewd obscenities in the street of Sodom , and down the by ways of Gibeah . Tannhäuser expresse…
1907 · PDF PAGE 235
…owable per se , the subject is also unknowable per se , because they both vary , conse quently ontology is impossible . But the laws and forms of thoughts are universal and irrefragable , and form an unalterable standard of certainty whereby knowledge may be increased . A priori laws are not derived from experience , but belong to the inherent structure of the mind . Kant then sets himself to answer the question : How are synthetic judge ments à priori possible ? And his answer is :-Unless cognitions are synthetical they can add nothing to our …
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…atulent love of youth , and its counterpart in the divine poetic sincerity of Charicles and Archais ; we will now view it in its maturer form , and firstly , in the form of true and sincere love , unconventional and pure , whether under the bond of marriage , or under the boundless bond of free love , between two souls of similar affinity . True love is a pure , unal loyed attraction , urging two souls from their inherited duality into their inherent oneness , that all are cap able of attaining , and yet so few attain ; and it is on account of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 133
126 THE STAR IN THE WEST formerly murmured to her lover in the effusions of adultery . So it often happens that the most spiritual are at heart the most passionate . Passion and Re ligion are the divine Dioscuri , children of Nemesis . Man , when God became too intangible , too mag nificent to approach , conceived a mediator . Jahveh , surrounded by howling beasts and moulting angels , fenced in by thunder and lightning , was quite cut off from the simple minds of the Suburra , so Christ in those purlieus was manufactured ; but He in His turn g…
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
…n ; but , thirdly , as the offspring of the carnalities of a Byzan tine mob , which is the true Christ of history , he assumes a vampire form , a horror fed on the blood of children , the virility of youths , the chastity of maidens . Hardly a single evil of the present day , if traced back a few hundred years , and frequently not half so long as that , but finds its birth in some cor ruption practised by the Harlot of the seven hills , or the Monster of the six wives . It is only necessary to study such works as those of Buckle or Draper , of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…phodel , up the eagle -crested slopes of Olympus , and over the shining sun -scorched sands of Ammon , tawny and silken as the crouching form of some colossal lion , to the cool groves of Eleusis child -like dreaming in the bosom of silvery Attica by the blue Ægean sea . Yet those who would drink deeper of the wine of this magical Eucharist , spilt with due reverence on the pages of this volume , they must seek it in the Sibyl line verses of those books from which this one has drawn its life -blood . And they are : Aceldama . The Tale of Archai…
1907 · PDF PAGE 154
The Old Bottle W . CHAT is religion ? In its primitive form , meta tarsals ; in its ultimate , . ancestors would walk through the lightning and thunder of the uncivilized day , with a string of charmed knuckle - bones slung round their throats ; whilst we in our turn walk through the drizzle and fog of the present decivilized night , with a rosary of ideals twined round our minds : one worshipped a bogey , the other a bogus . O! sancta simplicitas : homo indeed is sapiens ! Have we progressed ? Not one whit . Worship is at all times and everywh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
…he diversity of Crowley's pen , before we deal with his place in the history of poetry . In the " God -Eater we come across a most weird form of poetic imagination in the chants of Rupha the hag of Eternity : Crafty ! Crafty ! That is the omen . Fear not the foemen ! [ She rises up. Mine is the spoil Of the grimly toil . Gloomy , gloomy ! Ah ! but I laugh . He is but a fool . He has lost ! He is lost ! Take the staff ! Trace the rule Of the circle crossed ! 3 We have now seen , more or less , some of the chief influences which have exerted thei…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…reat , he defies the powers . ( They are only gods ; would he have succeeded had they been Grundy ?) The curse of Zeus is reversed : His form did change , and , writhing from her clasp , Fled hissing outward , a more hateful asp Than India breeds to - day . till day Dropped her blue pinions , and the night drew on , And sable clouds banked out the weary sun . The whole course of events is now reversed , Char icles a venomous adder , Archais once again her own divine and glorious self . And this is how we find her the second time : The Tale of A…
1907 · PDF PAGE 300
…hâra, Dharanâ, Dhyâna , and Samâdhi, the last being that state of super -knowledge in which Self and its shadow become one , an extended form of Kant's à priori . Existence is change , and change is sorrow , there fore we must overcome existence . Existence , as we know it, spins A fatal warp , a woof of woe . There is no place for God or soul . Works , hopes , prayers , sacrifices , sins Are jokes . The cosmos happened so : Innocent all of guide or goal . Else , what were man's appointed term ? To feed God's friend , the coffin - worm ! Crowle…
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…e two essential facts that grip our understanding are : firstly , the superabundance of his genius ; and secondly , the diversity of his form . “ My womb is pregnant with mad moons and suns,” he writes , and though we could hardly agree to endow so virile a master with so feminine an organ , yet we can attribute something very like it to his brain . Pregnant it certainly is , and more , being already the mother of a large family , a family as diverse as the offspring of Uranus , father of the Gods , born to him by Earth , earthy and celestial .…
1907 · PDF PAGE 272
… yet in Space there is but one blue pig . Can we reduce Space --which I spiritually com prehend so well , intellectually so badly - to a form of Time (which , vice versa ?) Yes , if we suppose that a definition really accurate of consciousness would division show that only the “ minimum cogitabile ” was truly apprehended at once . ] Thus in the comprehension of Crowleyanity Space seems “ Anima,” Time “ Ratio .” } { } 1 Angelus Silesius also beautifully shows how Time and Space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul , in the Cherubic …
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42 THE STAR IN THE WEST from Aleister Crowley's war against poetic form , to his adoration of poetic imagery ; and then to the keynote of the whole of his poetry, and , as we shall presently see , his philosophy as well , namely --- Ecstasy . In “ Gargoyles ” we find several truly wonderful picture poems . Thus in “ The White Cat ”: Hail , sweet my sister ! hail , adulterous spouse , Gilded with passionate pomp , and gay with guilt : Rioting , rioting in the dreary house With blood and wine and roses splashed and spilt About thy dabbling feet ,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
…to the man . Within the god , the godhood vanishes ; for the power of love rules all , and the god once again becomes in carnated in the form of a divine man .” So the morning past And found them linked inexorably fast Each in the other's arms . Their lips are wed To drink the breezes from the fountain - head Of vers ' breath .3 Then all her senses leap to the melodious song of Zeus , a divine lyric ; the following are two of its seven beautiful verses : O lamp of love ! The hissing spray shall jet thee with desire And foaming fire , And fire f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…lene , having passionately sought love , and having lost the skein of her desires in the labyrinthine byways of lust , threw her weeping form at the feet of Him in whom she found the ideal of her affection , washing those dusty feet with her tears , and drying them with the long tresses of her hair , still perfumed with the kisses of a thousand lovers . Jesus Christ and John Smith are very nearly related , and a woman who is capable of loving one is also capable of loving the other . Flaubert finely pictures this when he represents Madame Bovar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 318
…f psychical possibilities , or inverse ghosts the bodily presentments of spiritual phenomena to be , in the limbo of the brain . To that form of desire which is called “ attention , ” the train of thought , held fast, for a time , in the desired direction , seems ever striving to get on to another line (e), and the junctions and sidings are so multitudinous . 1 (e) This is overcome by Yoga . Huxley , like Hume , diagnosed with an almost in credible minuteness all the symptoms of this mental unstability , but could not in all the wonders of thei…
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… , " shall be tossed about as the world this 2,500 years . "11 IDEALISM In the philosophy of Plato idealism took the shape of a strictly formal characteristic , there was nothing in itself, as Kant might have explained it , an idea however dating back long before either Plato or Kant , and to be first found in any degree of maturity in the Upanishads of post-vedic India . Form was reality, and nothing else , it was the sole and only essence . From such metaphysics rose numerous modified forms which may be roughly classed under the name of Spiri…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…s.? Feeding perhaps first on man's body , the priest soon found , after investing his victim with an immortal soul , that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail , enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven : still death reigns , and God and priests are fed , Man's blood for wine , man's flesh for meat and bread .? And these priests are not dead yet . As the human race throve so did their gods , the old savage of man's early thoughts grew , and growing became more evil ,…
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78 THE STAR IN THE WEST True Love , let us now enter those enchanting realms of Free Love , which is True Love in its truest form . Nina is our guide , pointing us out the hill - top road which will lead us above the social plain , and awed by the mystic love of woman , Racing and maddening from the crown of flame , The monolithic core of mystical Red fury that is called a woman's heart .' Enter the sphere of Free Love , and sit by the side of Alice , look into the depth of her eyes , the depths of her heart . As a seeker sees the gold In the s…