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THE NEW WINE 209 “ The Ultimate Voyage ,” when the Voice of God the voice of the Soul that is—says : “ The last and greatest is within you now . " Then fire too subtle and omniscient Devoured our substance, and we moved again Not down , nor up , but inwards mystically Involving self in self, and light in light . And this was not a pain , but peaceable Like young -eyed love , reviving ; it consumed And consecrated and made savour sweet To our changed senses . And the dual self Of love grew less distinct and I began To feel her heart in mine , he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 178
…171 in one of his unpublished letters wrote , “ The riddle of the sphinx has two answers which are true only in a third . “ The first is God , the second is man , and the third Man - God .' ” This is but the overman of the Egoistical philosophy of Nietzsche . Hermes struck a higher chord when he said : “ To create God , is to accomplish our own creation , to make ourselves inde pendent , impassible , and immortal .” Blake demon strated the at - oneness of Good and Evil very clearly in " The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ." " I tell you no virtue …
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
…s voluptuous Closed her sweet mouth with kisses, and so pressed Her sobbing bosom with a manlier breast That .. She submits , not to the god , but 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 …
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
… as malign , Intolerable, inhuman , undivine , With spite close girded and with hatred shod , A snarling cur, the Christian's Christless God . Out ! misbegotten monster ! with thy brood , The obscene offspring of thy pigritude , Incestuous wedlock with the Pharisees That hail the Christ a son of thee ! Our knees Bend not before thee , and our earth -bowed brows Shake off their worship , and reject thy spouse , The harlot of the world ! For , proud and free , We stand beyond thy hatred , even we : We broken in spirit beneath bitter years , Brand…
1907 · PDF PAGE 278
…s the aspirant , " O Hope ! O Hope ! Where hast thou led me , ever near me , never with me ? ” “ On , on , O weary one , past man , past gods , on , on to the rim of Time ” : then from the parched lips bursts the echoing cry , “ Ag nosco , Agnosco ." The hyperbola of Time , the parabola of Infinity , lie far to the north in the hyperborean regions of the Unknowable . Knowledge is but a ring smitten into the face of the waters , around it grows another ring , the ring of a greater knowledge , around that yet another , it is the ring of a higher …
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
…NEW WINE 213 fundamentally they at heart are one . The former hav ing postulated an eternal “ creator , ” a something out of something - God ; the latter postulated an eternal creation ,” a something for ever something — Matter . “ The mere terrestrial -minded man Knows not the things of God , nor can Their subtle meaning understand ? ” say , although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions , God .? A sage ,I Then under the daedal wand of Newton and Berke ley , Science disclosed the fact that Matter is Hylo Zoic-a fact already supposed b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
150 THE STAR IN THE WEST fear of primitive man to the veneration of his present day offspring . Fear , the basal foundation of all gods , found a subtle soil in Ignorance ; Ignorance reacted on God , producing Superstition ; Superstition , Cruelty ; Cruelty , all the tigerish longings of the day and the hoggish gratifications of the night . Pessimism is necessarily the foundation of all re ligion ; for if man were normally optimistic he would not have conceived such a hierarchy of tyrants as that of his gods . The man who formerly cut himself w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…AR IN THE WEST religion could not possibly restrain her octopus tenta cles of cupidity from the game of grab , she also hisses , Pray to God and he will tie a knot in his bandana and perhaps remember it some day ; but above all , sacrifice to me , or by Jove ! I will sacrifice you : and the fool , even in his folly , thought it were better to lose his wits than his brains , and his turnips than his turnip ; so he dug and he dug , and he slew and he slew , religion growing fatter and fatter , spawning churches and breeding sects , till unfortuna…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…, “ The badger Jesus skulketh in his holt ," ? which , after all , is not a quarter so blasphemous as to suppose that Jesus , the Son of God , the Very God , resides in a loaf and a bottle , as the Plymouth brethren did in the same satire - vide scene xiii . Finally , instead of allowing this most un fortunate of unfortunate individuals to peacefully ascend to heaven from two places simultaneously he unfeel ingly dismisses him , the Omnipotent , in a jest .' Crowley further shows , by quoting the parable of the sheep and the goats , that the hi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
170 THE STAR IN THE WEST and Light , beneficent and malevolent as the ancient gods of Babylonia . The unique Athanor of philosophic and moral alchemy was the transmutation of darkness into light . “ Quand l'homme grandit Dieu s'éleve " ; - it was but a reconstruction of the same idea as held in Exodus , xxxiii , Moses was unable to look at God face to face ; it was also the same idea as held by Charles Darwin -- the theory of Evolution . The growth of the protoplast into man , of evil into good . Khephra , god of the morning emerging from the b…
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THE OLD BOTTLE 161 But man the father of God did , for he was naturally bloodthirsty , avaricious , and cruel , and man to -day is but a veneered representative of his forefathers , still suppliant at the feet of the phallic Jahveh : That man to -day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun.2 66a But so it is , and so it will be for many a generation yet to come ; cause and effect are but replicas of each other , and if the cause be ignorance , it is useless to look for the wisdom of Solomon in the effec…
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… is certainly a perfection ; but to endure , or suffer , or feel anything by sense , is an imperfection . The former , I say , agrees to God , but not the latter . God knows or hath ideas ; but the ideas are not conveyed to Him by sense as ours are . . 2 God to him is a mahayogi . It is absolutely true of Hume , but Hume , studiously avoiding the word God , could find no helpmeet to fill his place : For my part , when I enter most intimately into what I call myself , I always stumble on some particular percep tion or other , of heat or cold , l…
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…ore the moon and the stars , and go into the London streets at midnight seeking Their kisses as our birthright . We are the Greeks - and God grant ye all , my brothers , to be as happy in your loves ! and to us the rites of Eleusis should open the door of Heaven , and we shall enter and see God face to face . Under the stars I go forth , my brothers , and drink of that lustral dew : I will return , my brothers , when I have seen God face to face , and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free . Then will I choose you an…
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…octrines of the older and simpler Qabalah . The Qabalah guides us to a divine theurgy . Ac cording to the Zohar it is impossible to know God , herein the Qabalah is Agnostic , it forbids the repre sentation of God , herein it is Rational . The Ain Soph is the “ All-pervading ,” the “ Non Ens ” dwelling in the “ Non Est , " it is inscrutable to man's mind ; this vast Pleroma , Corona Summa , The All , is formless , and is symbolized by a circle , it is Nothing. As the Ain Soph is the closed eye of the Unknown Darkness , so is Macroprosopus , who…
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THE VIRGIN 63 The god has fallen , the god is caught , caught and bound in the lusts of the manhood he assumed . No Galilean is he to be crucified for his own or others ' sins , and he wins his freedom at the price of Charicles ' liberty. Nature breaks into a welcome chant of joy , the lovers are reunited , the men's praise is for Archais , and the eyes of the maidens are fixed on Charicles . The tale is nearly ended , the lovers wend their way through the joyous throng midst song and chorus , then from the lips of Archais rises : Light and dar…
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THE NEW WINE 275 What God is in Himself the Agnostic declares is not given man to understand , much less to discuss , and this maxim finds full affirmation in “ Ascension Day, " when Crowley writes : I deny nothing —at the term It is just Nothing I affirm . Man is but an ephemeron : We float upon the blue Like sunlight specks in dew , And like the moonlight on the lake we lie .? Yet he rises : Golden , the electric spark of man is drawn Deep in the bosom of the world , to soar New - fledged , an eagle to the dazzling dawn With lidless eyes unda…
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… sun -bright sword !' Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser the following as answer to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain Soph is one and the same . In the Qabalistic Dogmas of Pistorius we read even as regards Kether , the Crown , “ There is no name among Qabalists by which the supreme King is designated ;…
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…maternity You share with swine and cattle !... I love you still With carnal love and spiritual love ! And I will have you, by the living God , To be my mistress . If I fail in this , Or falter in this counsel of despair , May God's own curses dog me into hell , And mine own life perpetuate itself Through all the ages of eternity . Amen ! Amen ! Come , Cora , to my heart !? Madeline , whom Cora had hoped to have made Ulric's bride , appears , and for a moment his mad fury slackens only to burst out again , as he drags Cora from the room . When s…
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274 THE STAR IN THE WEST For the old gods indeed go down to death , But the new gods arise from rottenness . 1 2 The pantheistic idea , which is so near akin to the agnostic , we find set in the fine prayer of Jephthah , and still more so in the final words of Tannhäuser : I say , then “ I ”; and yet it is not “ I ” Distinct , but “ I " incorporate in All.3 It further finds development in the last four lines of “ Ode to Poesy ”: No man, No petty god , but One who governs all , Slips the sun's leash , perceives the sparrow's fall , Too high for …
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106 THE STAR IN THE WEST Lo ! Man is made one with God , an equal soul . For he shall know The harmony , the oneness of the Whole. This was my purpose . Remains the life of earth , which is but hell , Destiny's web , and my immense despair . And this despair -as sorrow so frequently does creates in him a deep cynical disgust for the world : Man , a bad joke ; and God , mere epigram ! If we must come to that . And likewise love .? Only a donkey fastened to a post Moves in a circle.3 He taunts them , insults God ; and tells all , shouting it far …