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THE NEW WINE 267 the cessation of desire , which can only be realized by following the Noble Eightfold path . This intimate connection between sorrow and desire , as we have seen , is vividly described by Crowley in many of his poems . In “ The Nameless Quest ” we find the yearn ing “ For One beyond all song .” 1 In “ The Triumph of Man ” we again find the same idea crystallized , but in “ The Ultimate Voyage ,” the aspirant , on his spiritual journey towards the Supreme Knowledge , at one point on his journey all but attains Nirvana . In many …
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THE NEW WINE 283 midst new -born spheres and hoary -headed worlds , “ I would that I were the sky that I might be all eyes to behold thee ,” till the stars circle about us , and the wild comets speed by , and suns embrace suns , and the moons melt shrieking through the firmament . Then all powers will dissolve , and the great golden dawn effulgent will flash through the portals of night , standing before us bride of our desire , robed in a million suns , the stars flaming in her hair , incarnate symbol of perpetual youth . So we feel with Crowl…
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THE NEW WINE 315 These two men had glimpses into total conscious ness , of which clear consciousness , as Ribot says, is but a small portion , just as distinct vision is but a small portion of total vision . ' The mystic , as the yogi , sets out to know the un knowable , and as “ it is just as grave an illusion to attribute morality to a stone as it is to think to find the supernatural in the world of phenomena ," ? so in the inmost depths of the ego alone , itself unthinkable , lies the source of all mystic experience . “ I live , yet not I, b…
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…FACE FOREWORD CHAP . I. THE LOOKING -GLASS II . THE VIRGIN . III . THE HARLOT IV . THE MOTHER V. THE OLD BOTTLE VI . THE CUP . VII . THE NEW WINE 9 15 49 109 123 145 167 . . . . 191
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…dry ; and its uselessness , and how it stinketh when it be uncorked , and its unprofitableness , also the unfit ness thereof to hold the New Wine ,” of which hereafter . L
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…oonlight in the vale ; Hidden the sunlight in the sea . -Orpheus. London and felling - on - Tyne THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. , LTD . NEW YORK : 3 EAST 14TH STREET 1907
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VI The Chapter known as The Cup In which chapter it is related how the Cup held the “ New Wine ,” and how that wine is quaffed greedily by all ; and how to some it tasteth as bitter as gall , and yet to others is as Falernian a hundred and twenty years old ; for that is the age of the cellar from out of which it was ta'en .
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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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VII The Chapter known as Tbe Aew wine In which chapter it is related : how the “ New Wine ” which was drawn from the Tavern known as the “ Well of Life ” burst the “ Old Bottle ” ; and yet was not spilt . And wherein it is shown how it intoxicated the multitudes to dreams in the which they perceive many things that are not ; and how it openeth the eye of the wise to the vision of the One Won der which alone is .
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THE NEW WINE 235 2 Everything in the world con There is nothing simple , but sists of simple (parts ). everything is composite . 3 There are in the world causes There is no freedom , but all through freedom . is Nature . 4 In the series of the world There is nothing necessary causes there exists a necessary but in this series all is con being tingent . “ The above is the most remarkable phenomenon of the human Reason , of which no instance can be shown in any other sphere . If, as generally happens , we regard the phenomena of the world of sens…
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…lory set ; The sun is blotted , and the skies are riven A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my body and His love are met A new desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether , Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather ." In many other of these poems do we find depicted other phases of the philosophy of the Qabalah ; one , Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 42 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 190 . • Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 42 . 4 Ibid . vol . i…
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THE NEW WINE 221 wilderness of doubt , he also left the great riddle un answered , to leap voiceless midst the desert wind , and to dance songless 'mongst his bleached and rattling bones . Further on we shall see how Crowley , setting out with both chart and compass , like a second Edipus wrested the secret from the age -worn lips of the Sphinx ; for as he himself says : Eternal mockery is the real ; Eternal falsehood , the ideal .' However , Hume arrives at a negative result of ex traordinary worth . He took Newton's second law of motion ,' i.…
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…an come from nothing , but it does not believe in the absolute annihilation of anything which has ever existed . “ There is not anything new under the sun ." Not any Thing ,' says the Zohar , is lost in the universe , not even the vapour which goes out of our mouths , as all things , it has its place and destination , and the Holy One , blessed be It ! makes it concur to Its works ; not anything falls into the void , not even the words and the voice of man , but all has its place and its destination ." “ All things of which this world is compos…
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THE NEW WINE 245 existence , neither can it quench the thirst of man. Since Christianity has suffered from senile decay , what have we found ? A new religion ? No. An old religion ? Yes . Rejuvenated ? Yes. Man is too lazy to build if he can reconstruct . The great mass of the people yearn for something better than the existing concep tions of Faith ; leaderless , disunited , they fall an easy prey to the charlatans who ever keep their finger on the social pulse , and are ever as willing to pose , when opportunity is offered , as seer, clairvoy…
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THE NEW WINE 289 of invoking the Visible Image of the Invisible . Thus by a living chain religion lived-in the Mysteries of Eleusis .I Thus true religion consists in a spontaneous out burst of passionless illuminism , and not in the regular ranting of the boundless buncombe of a bawdy book . Better be a Shaker , or a camp -meeting homunculus , or a Chatauqua gurl, or a Keswick week lunatic , or an Evan Roberts revivalist , or even a common maniac , than a smug Evangelical banker's clerk , with a greasy wife , and three gifted children to be ban…
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THE NEW WINE 215 TAGNOSmiths CROWLEYA ! ISTICLINE. PYRRHON THE PY IDEALISM . MYSTICISM , REALISM .) WMO-IDEALISTA AGNOSTICISM . CROWLEYANITY In the centre is MYSTICISM which links together IDEALISM and REALISM , or the Ego to the Non-Ego , and at the same time holds them apart . Without it Idealism becomes Absolute Subjectivity , and Realism Absolute Objectivity. (N.B. The circle of Idealism is the only entirely white circle in the sym bol , and that of Realism the only entirely black one . The ' Jakin ” and “ Bohaz ” of King Solomon's Temple )…
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… Green wrapper , Demy 4to , pp . 30 , 25. 6d . TANNHÄUSER . Cloth , Demy 4to , 155. [ A few copies of the first edition , boards , 215 . NEW YEAR'S CARD , 1903. [ Out of print .] BERASHITH . 4to , pp . 24. China paper , 55 . SUMMA SPES . ( Out of print .] BALZAC . ( Out of print .] AHAB . Demy 4to , pp . 35 , Japanese vellum wrapper , 55 . ALICE . Pott 8vo , Japanese vellum wrapper , pp . xii + 85 , 5s . [A few copies of the first edition , China paper , 21s .] THE GOD - EATER . Crown 4to , pp.32 , green camel's hair wrapper , 2s . 6d . THE STA…
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…. i , ii , and iii . By which , if they have eyes to perceive , they will become sacramental and holy , through the fire - bap tism of a new birth , and will hold the key of all mysteries locked in the esoteric sign of the Sabbatic Goat , the Baphomet of Mendes , the signatures of Solve and Coagula , -“ The Everlasting Yea and Nay ." A.M.E.N. My faults are more numerous than I care to think of ; yet it is without fear or trepidation that I offer this essay to the public . It has been a difficult task . In simple words and complex symbols Crowle…
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THE NEW WINE 243 follows that if it be not perceived it exists not ;” and in the “ Three Dialogues ” he again maintains this indisputable fact : Phil . And is not time measured by the succession of ideas in our mind ? Hyl. It is. Phil . And is it not possible ideas should succeed one another twice as fast in your mind as they do in mine , or in that of some spirit of another kind ? Hyl . I own it.2 This clinches the whole argument between Mysticus and Scepticus , as it did between the two disputants Philonous and Hylas . THE QABALAH Before e…
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THE NEW WINE 299 Ah ! O in the silence, in the dark , In the intangible , unperfumed , Ingust abyss, abide and mark The mind's magnificence assumed In the soul's splendour ! Here is peace ; Here earneșt of assured release . Here is the formless all pervading Spirit of the World , rising , fading Into a glory subtler still . Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates , and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival . Peace ! Peace ! Silence of peace ! O visionless abode ! Cease ! Cease ! Through the dark veil pass on ! The veil Is rent asunder…