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164 THE STAR IN THE WEST "91 greater part of fifteen hundred years an immense power , few can deny ; that it has been a power of good , few will deny , though not a few would like to ; that it has been a dragonading power of harm few will assert , and still fewer are aware of ; for it has ever been the craft of the Christian Church to pass off on her paramours her worn -out old body as that of untasted virginity . The Catholic Church , the harlot of the seven hills , comes in for sparse mercy . In Tannhäuser we find the head of this infallible …
1907 · PDF PAGE 315
…, namely , the existence of an idea , consequent to the command of the will : But the manner, in which this operation is performed , the power by which it is produced, is entirely beyond our comprehension ... The command of the mind over itself is limited, as well as its command over the body ;) and these limits are not known by reason , or any acquaintance with the nature of cause and effect , but only by experience and observation , as in all other natural events and in the operation of external objects . Our authority over our sentiments is …
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…anation of “ thinking . ” ] Then working through the Berkeleyan arguments backwards , he arrives at defining . [Thing as a (unknowable ) power to produce sense impressions , which is purely Berkeley or his antithesis according as the power is conceived as God or Matter . ] Here we have struck again the fundamental chain A , B , A , B , A , B. Having now settled with “ Pure Mathematics ,” he turns to “ Pure Natural Science ," again assuming at the outset apodictic laws of nature , which Berkeley also assumed , and which Hume proved to be sceptic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…heir sagacity perceive that the one great crime is that of exclusive ness . The Christian failing to see this , worshipped the masculine power of wisdom and neglected the feminine power of Intelligence , his God was as the God of most religions a veritable He - God , therein lay his fault ; the only philosophy perhaps that grasped the truth was that of the Qabala . The microprosopus was neither masculine nor feminine , but androgynous ; and it was left for William Postel to utter one of the greatest world truths when he said , “ The Word has 1 …
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…e , and it henceforth enters into direct communion with the Good ; which is its own law . Thus when we have raised our hearts to the nth power , we become as Gods knowing good and evil ; and if this raising of the heart , which Crowley so brilliantly sets forth throughout his works , can in any way lead a man into a nobler and higher insight of himself , no one can ever doubt then that it is right for him to so raise it . We have already seen from Dr. Maudsley what dangers have to be expected by those who chose this hill - top track to follow .…
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…ferior things . Thou wilt possess by this means the glory of the whole world , and all darkness will depart from thee . It is the strong power of every power , for it will over come all things subtle and penetrate all things solid . It is thus that the world was created .1 Tannhäuser also separated the higher from the lower self , the good from the evil . Christ also at tempted the same course , not living alone for either good or bad , but for the whole , as Jeláládeen sang , “ I am the song and singer ,” etc. , the surest centre of immortalit…
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…elessness . The yogi proposes to himself no less a task than to master the entire universe , and finding that the mind has the reflexive power of looking back into its own depths , does his utmost to develop this power by turning the mind , as it were , by artificial means , inside on itself , concentrating all its powers on itself , and stopping it at every turn from wandering outside of itself . Then the mind , slowly learning its own nature , analyzes itself and discovers the Divinity which is itself . And I have ceased to think ! That is, h…
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…, “ The Poetic Principle , ” lays down that the value of a poem lies in the ratio of its elevating excitement , the excitement being the power it has in elevating the soul . And here we think , were Poe still living , he would have found no small part of his ideal realized . By soul we naturally do not mean a haloed fowl strumming dithy rambs on a harp , or the mere döppelganger of the living ; but that inner power of good and evil which lies latent in self , controlled by that intuitive con sciousness within us , and manifested in our appetite…
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…zen of yesterday , so the law of to - day will become the crime of to morrow . Man being inherently lazy , and hence conservative , this power is forever reacting on him , and binding him down to a government unsuited to his times , and it is this power that he has chosen to call — the Moral code ; notwithstanding the fact that it is not based in any way on the perceptions he has obtained from Nature's code as it now is reflected , but on that re flection which was obtained by his ancestors , a far less worthy appreciation . And in this inheren…
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…at Heaven's Lord Curbed their black wrath , the stars of Heaven's vault Had rushed to whelm the sun with vehement assault ." Such is the power of Love , undaunted , infuriated in the cause of Freedom , Justice , and Truth . Charicles plunges into the waves of destiny , “ And with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped . ” Onward he swims striving against Poseidon , god of the ocean , who heaps the sea foam against him , as he makes for the Paphian isle to seek aid from the goddess of Love ; and in his blinding anger he sees her not , tho…
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…st 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 gain this (Reverence to Ganesh '!) And at that instant comprehend (That past and future tenses vanish ) What Fichte comprehends. Division , Thought , wisdom , drop away . I see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision.? Then we come to the advan…
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The Virgin “ T O be a singer of sweet songs , " is the great ideal Crowley has enshrined before him ; for varied as his powers are , entwined with satire , philosophy and mysticism , as a singer of lyrics and love -songs Aleister Crowley remains unsurpassed , unrivalled , among the host of present-day poets . His thoughts are as subtle , his imagination as gorgeous , his melodies as charming as those of Shelley himself ; soft as a summer breeze , fresh as the dawn in May, sunny as a June day , and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic…
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40 THE STAR IN THE WEST Thine be the kingdom ! Thine the power ! The glory triply thine ! Thine, through Eternity's swift hour , Eternity , thy shrine Yea , by the holy lotus -flower , Even mine ! Further on in the same series of poems a sudden whirring sense of madness is produced by introducing the word “ lunatic ” into an otherwise regular line : Silence , deep silence . Not a shudder stirs The vast demesne of unforgetful space , No comet's lunatic rush : no meteor whirs , No star dares breathe . Again , in such lines as : Secure the sacred …
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… ' azure cup ! Hush , my love , and sleep shall sigh This is immortality !? Other lines again hold us enthralled with the extra ordinary power they contain , expressed in a single word . Thus in the poem " The Lesbian Hell ,” we find ourselves in the unutterable void of Orcus , where kisses are flung in vain , and where around us pale women fleet : Whose empty fruitlessness assails the night With hollow repercussion , like dim tombs Wherein some vampire glooms .3 This last line is one of the most expressive ever written by Crowley , and in the …
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…e -mentioned poems , and the first is of similar metre , its quatrains containing , as those of the poet of Khorassán , flights of great power of thought ; the following five quatrains are well worth quoting : We weep them as they slip away ; we gaze Back on the likeness of the former days , The hair we fondle and the lips we kiss Roses grow yellow and no purple stays . . Why not with time ? To - morrow we may see The circle ended - if to - morrow be 1 Oracles , vol . ii, p . 13 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 191 .
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THE MOTHER 137 power of love caught in the arms of restraint slowly smoulder into a burning desire : Passion to feed upon your shoulders bare , And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair . Give thee my body as a fire to hold O love, no words , no songs—your breast my bower ! In “ Jezebel ” we find the same desire , but unfanned by restraint , in whose place stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, …
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…ush away . I think I hear the Word you say !! Others attain to a certain degree of illumination , and then stumble , seeking such occult powers as clairvoyance and clairaudience : Received the gift -- the Holy Ghost ; Such gift implying , as I guess , This very super - consciousness . Miracles follow as a dower ; But ah ! They used the fatal power And lost the Spirit in the act .? 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, pp . 178 , 179 . I am ; and by my fancy : if my reason Will thereto be obedient , I have reason ; If not , my senses bette…
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…bing 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 ; the following are two of its seven beautiful verses : O lamp of love …
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…rowley states in Aceldama : The inmost is the home of God . He moulds Infinity , The great within the small , one stainless unity !! The power of the small is grandly described in the following : Yet ants may move the mountain ; none is small But he who stretches out no arm at all ; Toadstools have wrecked fair cities in a night , One poet's song may bid a kingdom fall .? And that which is below is as that which is above ; for : Time is to us the Now , and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates , is a part Of our own thoughts and souls . …
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…, and Tannhäuser that of autumn and winter . He finds the latter chill season the best : But best is grim December , The Goatish God his power ; The Satyr blows the ember , And pain is passion's flower ; When blood drips over kisses , And madness sobs through wine : Ah mine ! The snake starts up and hisses And strikes and I am thine !3 In the above we still find the now almost dead echo of his higher self , yet Venus entices him on , compar ing their fierce lust to the lukewarm affection of those little lovers who strip their maidens bare , “ A…