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…l of sixteen ; she backs her knowledge against the latter's innocence , and wins in a canter . So much for morality . A woman is only as old as she feels ; and grey hairs do not count so long as they can be counted ; such was the innocence of our early Victorian grandmothers . Nowadays a woman is as young in manner as she is old in years ; and as for hair ask the coiffeurs . As cats grow cantankerous in old age , so do women , and Angela is a good example of one of the many vicious , crafty, and crabbed old vixens who monopolize society . When …
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CONTENTS PAGE 3 PREFACE 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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64 THE STAR IN THE WEST from a virgin ; falling at once a prey to a bedizened old prostitute of sixty-three . Those who should think the passion displayed in this tale as unbecoming and lustful, must indeed have minds 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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 152
V The Chapter known as The Old Bottle In which chapter it is related : how it once contained the dregs of many casks , and how they have all long since gone 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
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
…t . I blame no weaklings , but decline To take their maunderings for mine .? We will now end the poet's utter contempt for this worn-out old creed with the following : Vex My soul no more with mistranslations From Genesis to Revelations , But leave me with the Flaming Star Jeheshua (see thou Zohar !) And thus our formidable Pigeon Lamb -and -old -Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke , and I am found Attacking nothing 2 1 Sword of Song, Ascension Day, vol . ii , pp . 160, 161. ? Ibid . vol . ii, p. 162.
1907 · PDF PAGE 174
…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 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 198
…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 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
152 THE STAR IN THE WEST The vale is black with priests . They fight , Wild beasts , for food , The orphan's gold , the widow's right , The virgin's snood . All in their maws are crammed within the night That hides their chosen wood , Where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise Of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys.? 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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…to him . " To the lascivious shade of Ida's deep recesses ” he wends his way : So fair , her image in the brook might make A passionless old god his hunger slake By plunging in the waters , though he knew His drowning body drowned her image too. " There he , or now she , meets the great god wander ing through the green trees and the cool groves , as Jahveh was wont once to do . Amidst those shades of Ida , where Paris adjudged the prize of beauty , over looking the blue Hellespont , the greatest sacrifice , and thereby the purest that love can …
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…NEW WINE 323 " 1 lingering farewell , and kisses upon kisses ! ” “ Let the sparks fly upward , and the embers glow ! We will back to our old Gods again .” There is an idol in my house By whom the sandal always steams . Alone , I make a black carouse With her to dominate my dreams . With skulls and knives she keeps control ( O Mother Kali !) of my soul .” Crowley's interpretation of Ceremonial Magic , the getting back to the old gods , so to say , is lucidly described , under the terms of a rational system , in his introduction to the “ Goetia ”…
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…either 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, clairvoyant , or palmist , as they are…
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THE VIRGIN 93 the other extremity we shall inevitably discover dis use ; polarity is universal ; hot , cold ; good , bad , etc. This duality is in reality only apparent , there being no definite line of division . So in Love , if one system of Ethics tends towards abuse , then we may be certain that the reverse will be uselessly sterile , and that the only possible system to follow will as usual lie directly between these extremes , and in this case , in the region of Use . If now , supposing at one end of our pole we find Lust seated crimson a…
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…EST O Nature ! Self -begotten ! Spouse 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 …
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 145
…is mind , and all the love he lavished on the body of the living woman turns to a lust for her cadaver : 1 The spirit filled me . And behold ! I saw her dead stare to the skies . I came to her , she was not cold , But burning with old infamies . On her incestuous mouth I fell , And lost my soul for Jezebel . They cast her forth on Naboth's field Still living , in her harlot's dress ; Her belly stript , her thighs concealed , For shame's sake and for love's no less . Night falls ; the gaping crowds abide No longer by her stiffening side . “ Ah !…
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…N 73 Childbirth sobered me . I loved the child , the only human love I ever tasted , and I sacrificed The popularity , the infamy, Of my old life ; I sought another world . I “ got religion " -how I hate the phrase ! So jest the matron newspapers . ... For I will do without a mother's name If only I may keep a son's love still ! ' It is not here that we can enter on the fearful tragedy of these short dozen pages , suffice it to say , that it was that of Phædra and Hippolytus , the sexes however being reversed . Shamed , insulted by her son , sh…
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…AR IN THE WEST And sinuous sinewy glitter of serpenthood , That I may look once more into his face , And , kissing , kill him ! Thus to hold him fast , Drawing his human spirit into mine For strength , for life , for poison ! Ah , my God ! These pangs , these torments ! See ! the sleeper wakes ! I am triumphant ! For he reaches out The sleepy arms , and turns the drowsy head To catch the dew dissolving of my lip . Wake , lover , wake ! Thy Venus waits for thee ! Draw back , look , hunger ! —and thy mouth is mine !" The vision of Elizabeth , the…
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… own sake : and here , as we shall see in the end , sacri fices itself , so as not to tarnish the names of innocent children , which the old harridan Society would other wise have besmirched with her foul saliva . In “ Mes saline we however have , as the poet says “ leprous entanglements of sense " ; here is a magnificent pas sage heated with passion and not a little lust : Breast to great breast and thigh to thigh , We look , and strain , and laugh , and die . I see the head hovering above To swoop for cruelty or love ; I feel the swollen vein…
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THE NEW WINE 273 AGNOSTICISM Ex Oriente Lux . As old as the Vedas is the idea of Agnosticism , though in name it is not yet forty years of age . Everywhere we look we find the 'Ayvborq Oeq of Paul , midst the Greeks , the Egyptians , the Hebrews , the Chaldeans , the Aryans , and the Chinese , and its light is focussed in the greatest of the great : Socrates and Plato , Malebranche and Descartes , Locke and Spinoza , Hume and Berkeley , Swedenborg and Kant , Hegel and Comte , Tyndall , Spencer , and Huxley . Declining the mimetic , seeking the …
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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 …