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… to be found in the phenomenal world . Thus your natural reason does not possess its true essence , but only the appearance of truth and light ; and the more the essence of light inwardly fades , and the man confuses him self with this appearance , and gropes vainly after the dazzling phantasmal images he conjures . This appearance of Truth is practically what the Hindu would call “. maya ,” in which all created beings live . There is a way which leads beyond it, and any man can discover it, if he be fit and willing , and this way leads to God …
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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…lled , Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine , and the disc of flaming light Is on thee , seated in the prow Of the Sun's bark , enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee , thee girt round With leopard's pell , and golden sound Of planets choral in their course ! O thou self-formulated sire ! Self -master of thy dam's desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light ; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable migh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…ows divine ; One kiss , a starbeam faint With love of a sweet saint, Stolen like a sacrament In the night's shrine ! One kiss , like moonlight cold Lighting with floral gold The lake's low tune ; One kiss , one flower to fold , On its own calyx rolled At night , in June ! One kiss , like dewfall , drawn A veil o'er leaf and lawn Mix night , and noon , and dawn , Dew , flower , and moon !? That Alice was charmed , that the above was a love philtre , the thirteenth day discloses — the birthday of their first kiss : Breasts met and arms enclosed ,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 326
…of skulls wild music clash ! Thy bosom bruise my own afresh , Sri Maharani ! draw my breath Into the hollow lungs of death ! There is no light , nor any motion . There is no mass , nor any sound . Still , in the lampless heart of ocean , Fasten me down and hold me drowned Within thy womb , within thy thought , Where there is nought - where there is nought !? “ Is there a faculty of perception ? ” asks St. Au 1 Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 99 . And yet what bliss , When , dying in the darkness of God's light , The soul can pierce these blinding we…
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
…ing and mystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . Beyond the splendour of the world , False glittering of the gold , A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom's sacred cold . Life is the flaming of that flame . Death is the naming of that name . That star upon the serpent's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life'…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…nd “ darting long rugged fingers and deep eyes ” reaches to the sceptre with his word and will : Buds , roses , blossoms ! Lilies of the Light ! Bloom , bloom , the fragrance shed upon the air ! Out flames the miracle of life and love ! Out, out the lights ! Flame , flame , the rushing storm ! Darkness and death , and glory in my soul ! Swept , swept away are pope and cardinal, Palace and city ! There I lay beneath The golden roof of the eternal stars , Borne upon some irremeable sea That glowed with most internal brilliance ; 2 And verily My l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 314
…dowy idealism of Berkeley , or the self -refuted Monism of Haeckel . All these men got our results , and interpreted them in the partial light of their varied intellect , their diverse surroundings and education . But the result is the same physiological phenomenon , from Plato and Christ to Spinoza and Çankaracharya , from Augustine and Abelard , Boehme and Weigel in their Christian communities to Trismegistus and Porphyry , Mohammed and Paracelsus in their mystic palaces of Wisdom , the doctrine is essentially one : and its essence is that ex…
1907 · PDF PAGE 305
…thin the water ! Glows The pale pure water , shakes and slides The glittering sun through emerald tides , So that faint ripples of young light Laugh on the green . Is there a night So still and cold , a frost so chill , That all the glaciers be still ? Yet in its peace no frost . Arise ! Over the mountains steady stand , O sun of glory in the skies Alone , above , unmoving ! Brand Thy sigil , thy restless might , The abundant imminence of light ! 1 Science and Buddhism , vol . ii, pp . 207-208 .
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…ildren of earth ; But ye in singing and sleeping Shall pass in measure and mirth ! I lift my wand and wave you Through hill to hill of delight : My rosy rivers lave you In innermost lustral light. I lead you , lord of the maze , In the darkness free of the sun ; In spite of the spite that is day's , We are wed , we are wild , we are one !! I “ Orpheus ,” vol . iii , p . 207 .
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…tage when he ceases to think empirically under the schemata of Time and Space . The mind at such moments reaches heights wherein another light suc ceeds to the light of experience ; there is a mental “ whirl " which , though irrational to pure reason , has an incalculable value , probably depending on certain higher laws unknown to the rational world . When the soul has reached this point , law , in the rational sense of the term , has ceased to have any existence , and it henceforth enters into direct communion with the Good ; which is its own…
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… 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 , her lips mine . Then mistier grew the sense of God without , And God was I , and nothing might exist , Subsist , or be at all , outside of Me , Myself Existence o…
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284 THE STAR IN THE WEST of mundane tar , declaring we have discovered that light which moved on the face of the waters , before sun or moon or stars were created . We rank the great adepts with the madmen of God , whose miracles are mere imitations , whose powers are mere preten sions , and whose illumination is mere reflection ; but what is it then these great beings imitate , pretend to , or reflect ? Here lies the dark question which no denial can disprove , no assertion comprehend , and which work alone through the alembic of our hearts ca…
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
…ord of flaming fire , thy crown the Zodiac set with the flashing Stone of the Wise . Robed in glory , and wisdom , and understanding , a light of loveliness , thou , God - voiced with thunder and light ning , shalt breathe forth words of fire to flame for ever through the empyrean of heaven and to resound without ceasing beyond the nadir of hell . Thou sha't plunge into the mystery of all things and become as a
1907 · PDF PAGE 302
…o that of an electrician who should sit for hours with his finger on a delicately adjusted resistance - box , and his eye on the spot of light of a galvano meter , charged with the duty of keeping the spot still , at least , that it should never move beyond a certain number of degrees , and of recording the more important details of his experiment . Our work is identical in design , though worked with subtler_if less complex - means . For the finger on the resistance - box we substitute the Will ; and its control extends but to the Mind ; for t…
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… is only the searcher who is rewarded , we find a little jewel , then another , and still another , till , as we grasp them , their very light is caught by their unfound fellows , and our path is lit as a fairy dell by a thousand wonders of light and of beauty . “ A little more clothing ,” the critic writes , as he perused the “ Poems and Ballads , ” perhaps , yet we do not feel its need in the glowing works before us . Forty long years have passed , and the world moves . Crowley fairly puts his characters to bed , tucks them up , and does not …
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314 THE STAR IN THE WEST beauty of bodies, nor the glory which passes , nor the light which our eyes love ; it is not the varied harmony of sweet songs , nor the aroma of perfumes and sweet flowers , nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No , it is none of these that I love when I love my God ; and yet in this love I find a light , an inner voice , a perfume, a savour , an em brace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself . There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space, there a word is heard which has no…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…e of God , The Glory of thy Countenance unveiled ! Thy face , O mother ! Splendour of the Gods ! Behold ! amid the glory of her hair And light shed over from the crown thereof, Wonderful eyes less passionate than Peace That wept ! That wept ! O mystery of Love ! Clasping my hands upon the scarlet rose That flamed upon my bosom , the keen thorns Pierced me and slew ! My spirit was withdrawn Into Her godhead , and my soul made One With the Great Sorrow of the Universe, The Love of Isis ! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling bet…
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…f - forgetful silence , To emptiness , -emptiness fulness , -fulness God , Till we touch Him , and , like a snow - flake , melt Upon his light - sphere's keen circumference ! The Saint's Tragedy . i Rosa Mundi , vol . iii, p . 52 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
…l codes of the world . It is the moral prototype , the Favashi of the Zoroastrian , the Tree of Knowledge of Babylonia and Genesis , the Light and Darkness of Isaiah , the Yakheen and Boaz of Solomon , the Unique Athanor of the Qabalist , the Balance of Hegel ; the polarity of the worlds , the great centripetal and centrifugal forces , the harmony of the spheres , the path of the stars , the life of the universe . Without Vice there can be no Virtue , without Virtue there can be no Vice . Without the one , the other becomes absolutely incompreh…