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…pt sea confront me . Nay ! Looms yet the glory through the grey , And in the darkest hours of youth I yet perceive the essential truth , Know as I know my consciousness , That all division's hosts confess A master , for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision .' 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . I, pp . 175-176 .
…pieces whilst playing with little children , by stumbling against a circular saw . · His Lordship was very fond of children , as you may know . It seems he was pursuing —it is , I am told , an innocent child's game !—one of the factory hands ; and- he stumbled .” Molly is pronounced virgo intacta by twenty -three eminent physicians , and marries Percy who is of course quite reforme Farewell , you filthy -minded people ! I know a stable from a steeple . Farewell , my decent -minded friends ! I know arc lights from candle ends . Farewell ! a poet…
…nd blissful kingdom which shall be our beginning . Kant has said , the business of all philosophy is to answer the question “ What can I know ? ” Huxley , perhaps the astutest philosopher since the days of the magus of Königsberg , observes that it is impos sible to answer the question “ What can I know ? " unless in the first place there is a clear understanding of what is meant by knowledge , and in order to an swer this question , “ we must have recourse to that investigation of mental phenomena , the results of which are embodied in the sci…
THE NEW WINE 223 » 1 0 “ We must , therefore , know both the cause and effect , and the relation between them . But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea , or the aptitude of one to produce the other ? This is a real creation , a pro duction of something out of nothing ... such a power is not felt, nor known , nor even conceivable by the mind We are now fairly on our road to Crowleyanity . Having left Berkeley in the dark , feeling on the dusty shelves of his reason for a flint and steel in t…
…igured , movable substances may exist without the mind , corresponding to the ideas we have of bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by sense or by reason . He never denied the material existence of things , and was as much a phenomenalist as an idealist . Crowley , similarly accepting Egoity , does not however reject Non egoity , but envelops both . In such a conflict I stand neuter . But oh ! Mistake not gold for pewter ! The plain fact is: materialise What spiritual fact you choose , And all such turn t…
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 …
…epy lies The tinted bosom whence its fire flies , The breathing life of thee , and swoons , and sighs , And dies ! None but the dead can know the worth of love ! . Come , love , thy lips , curved hollow as the moon's ! Bring me thy kisses , for the seawind tunes , The song that soars , and reads the starry runes , And swoons ! None but the dead can tune the lyre of love ! 1 Such are two out of these six superb lyrical verses . Tannhäuser sleeps . “ None but the dead can know the worth of love ! ” None but the dead , dead to all else . To love i…
…lls Cora that “ Excess is danger , equally in prayer as in debauchery .” 2 And this the howling mob of religionists can never grasp . We know of the spots in the Agapae , and we know to what they referred : Out ! out ! the ghastly torches of the feast ! Let darkness hide us and the night discover The shameless mysteries of God grown beast , The nameless blasphemy , the slimèd East Sin incarnated with a leprous lover !3 Whilst these are seeking the “ Monstrous desires of secret things ,”4 others are ranting about atheist death bed scenes . For t…
… invitation is also made , and the following should even entice her prudish cerebellum : But stow your prudery , wives and mothers , You know as much muck as — those others ! Your modest homes are dull ; you need me ! Don't let your husbands know ; but -- read me !2 In this extraordinary volume , which seems to be the child of a promise made to Mr. Chesterton in the “ Sword of Song ,” we find a deeply cynical satire castigating with no little severity the menial servility of modern society , as scathing as a Beverland , as cynical as a Carlyle …
…ess Your beating bosom like a living flower ; To die in your embraces , in the shower That dews like death your swooning loveliness . To know you love me ; that your body leaps With the quick passion of your soul ; to know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so ; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps ; Ah ! in the very triumph - hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell ! ? Again , such lines as these from the “ Triumph of Man " : And all the earth is blasted ; the green sward Burns where it touches , and the barren sod 1 The …
…into bliss, Its holier joy is in the deadlier thirst That drank his life out into the abyss Of torture endless , endless and accurst . I know him little ; liking what I know . But you —you offer me his flesh and blood . I taste it - never another vintage owe , Nor bid me sup upon another food ! This is our marriage ; firmer than the root Of love or lust could plant our joy , my wife, We stand in this , the purple - seeded fruit Of yon youth's fair and pitiable life .' So we see before us a curious form , at times cold as the marble statue of Py…
…ce dare open our eyes for fear of being blinded . A mystic by nature and a priest by profession , we must , in reviewing his bequests to knowledge , always remember how much of the one side to deduct from the other , should we wish to prove him either an Adept or a Bishop . But with such inborn predilection , and such outward assumption , it is easy to understand why it was that he threw the whole energy of his life into an attempt to refute the advancing scepticism latent in the works of Hobbes and Locke . He saw , and seeing fought the many c…
… cycles — of Renaissance , Decadence , and Slime . In the first the Adepts rise as artists , philo 1 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 221 . “ TO KNOW , TO DARE , TO WILL , TO KEEP SILENT , are the four words of the magus , inscribed upon the four symbolic forms of the Sphinx . “ To command the elements , we must have overcome their hurricanes , their lightnings , their abysses , their tempests . “ In order to DARE we must KNOW ; in order to WILL we must DARE ; we must WILL to possess empire , and to reign we must BE SILENT .” — E. LÉVI , The Ritual of …
…aking these ten com mandments , ” he says , referring to the Decalogue . Further back in his “ Proverbs of Hell ,” he writes : You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough . The pride of the peacock is the glory of God . The lust of the goat is the bounty of God . The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God . The nakedness of woman is the work of God . For everything that lives is Holy . 9 In Samuel Butler's “ Erewhon we find much the same idea in the following couplet . He who sins aught sins more than he ought , But h…
…ds composed of dung and cantharides , disappointed sterile old maids , or sated old matrons , pornophobics of the worst description . We know well the class , half Exeter Hall , half Empire Music -hall ; “ douée " (as a charming little French brochure describes one of this type ), “ du plus voluptueux tempérament courut longtemps les aventures . mais ses ans et le grand usage altérèrent ses charmes , et elle prit le parti ordinaire, de donner à Dieu ce qu'elle ne pouvait plus offrir aux hommes , et pleura dans l'hypocrisie trente ans d'amour et…
…ents -- have become dull and tedious ; a few cranks praise Tourgenief , Tolstoi and Gorky , whilst one out of every hundred thousand may know that there was such a man as Dostoieffsky . And poetry , O greatest of the Muses , thy fate is truly a sad one ! Much verse is produced which might be placed with last year's store lists — you know where ; some is distinctly good , but it is soon lost in the raging sea of poetic dialect , and hackneyed naïveté . Here and there we come across a charming lyric , which the carping whisky - and - water critic…
… and we break through the dialectic veil and enter that life which lies “ behind , ” solely expressed by means of symbols . “ What can I know ? " asked Kant , as we have already seen . “ What is Knowledge ? ” asks the Yogi or mystic , and his question is the right one of the two . I see a cat. Dr. Johnson says it is a cat. Berkeley says it is a group of sensations. Çankaracharya says it is an illusion , an incarnation , or God , according to the hat he has got on , and is talking through . Spencer says it is a mode of the Unknowable . But none …
…ffer this essay to the public . It has been a difficult task . In simple words and complex symbols Crowley has written with St. Leo :— “ Know , O man , thy dignity ; ” and this I have in this essay attempted to explain , though many I am afraid will misunderstand me , and more still misinterpret my modest efforts . For these latter ones I can but exclaim : “ Caeterum scis quid ego cogitem , scortum scorteum ; Di tibi dent , nudosque lares inopemque senectam et longas hyemes perpetuamque sitim ." And for those former , bid them contemplate well …
…lanted Paler roses , warmer grapes , Ere the maiden breasts have panted , And the sunny shapes Flit around to bless the hour , Comes men know not what false flower : Ere the cup is drained , the wine Grows unsweet , that was divine . These last two lines contain the whole secret of this story . The beauty of the clinging love of childhood is tinged with a glowing desire , the pink desire of the bud bursts into the passionate crimson of the rose , and 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 9. 2 Ibid . vol .i, pp . 9, 10 .
…: Olympus in a nutshell ! I Have a superior faculty To reasoning , which makes absurd , Unthinkable and wicked too , A great deal that I know is true ! In short , the mind is capable , Besides mere ratiocination , Of twenty other things as well , The first of which is concentration ! Bloom , Concentration's midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long -sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not , my friend !), Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time - suppose , the Sun. I gai…