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… . " Then fire too 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 , …
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304 THE STAR IN THE WEST self -hypnosis, then indeed self -hypnosis is the key which in this world will unlock the fast closed corridor of its mysteries . Crowley strongly attacks this kitchen - knavery : You weary me with proof enough That all this meditation stuff Is self - hypnosis . Be it so ! Do you suppose I did not know ? Still , to be accurate ,I fear The symptoms are entirely strange . If I were hard , I'd make it clear That criticism must arrange An explanation different For this particular event . Surely , your best work always finds…
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The other OT UT of the countless thousands who tread the slippery and perilous paths of the lower self Tannhäuser was one of the very few who emerged from its clammy darkness purified , and sanctified , to soar resplendent into the sunny realms of the higher self ; nor did he rest , but entranced in the immensity of hope , rushing on , whirling through the abyss of time and space , he ultimately lost self in the rapture of Nirvana . Again , in others so subtle is the psycho logy of sense that this hysterical clinging to the Chaste often reacts …
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
… me for Beauty ! Canst thou bear the fuller vision ? " Then on my withered gaze that Beauty grew Rosy quintessence of alchemic dew ! The Self -informing Beauty ! In my heart The many were united : and I knew.1 And yet : I was wed Unto the part and could not grasp the whole . Thus , I was broken on the wheel of Truth . Fled all the hope and purpose of my youth , The high desire , the secret joy , the sin That coiled its rainbow dragon scales within . Hope's being , life's delight , time's eager tooth ; All , all are gone ; the serpent sloughs hi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 327
…tal representa tions become more stripped of empirical conditions , and in an inverse proportion to which , as the mind withdraws into itself the consciousness is wiped out . its unextended source , Became the magic utterance that makes Me , Dissolving self into the starless sea .? CEREMONIAL MAGIC We have already pointed out some of the reasons which rendered the illumination of the West so much more poetic in nature than that attained by the East . We will now show the chief means which were em ployed by the adepts of the West in gaining this…
1907 · PDF PAGE 271
… doubt : So lifts the agony of the world From this mine head , that bowed awhile Before the terror suddenly shown. The nameless fear for self , far hurled By death to dissolution vile, Fades as the royal truth is known : Though change and sorrow range and roll , There is no self - there is no soul !? TIME AND SPACE One question still remains before we dismiss the question of Time and Space , and that is their homo geneity and accidental reality in the Ego . Being forms of extension , Space permits Size , and Time , Number , i.e., in Consciousne…
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…e 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 lust . So closely interwoven in spirit are the true lyrics with the remainder of his amatory poetry , that it would be dangerous to attempt to separate them , and such an attempt would almost certainly lead to repetition or a breaking of the chain of psychosexual sensations , dim…
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…is , what was ; all here and all in heaven . I am as great as God , and he as small as I ; He cannot me surpass , or I beneath him lie . Self is surpassed by self - annihilation ; The nearer nothing , so much more divine . Who is as though he were not - ne'er had been That man , oh joy ! is made God absolute .
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…oks . FICHTE , SCHELLING , AND HEGEL Close on the heels of Kant came Fichte with his un knowable appulse as the only potency of the not -self, which assuaged the raging thirst of inquiry as would a bottle of wine long since dry. Behind him Schelling , who leaping into the clouds , grasped at object and subject as existing actualities , calling the bastard child ren of his brain manifestations of the Absolute . Then Hegel who , instead of sitting out on the universal stairs with Berkeley's “ Bishop ," waltzed wildly with some ethereal Absolute ,…
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THE VIRGIN 103 of their foolish honeymoon has tarnished . His un easiness is soon dispelled : “ Come, in this sweet abandonment of self " -whispers the singing voice of Venus , and so following he sings : Come , love, and kiss my shoulders ! Sleepy 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 star…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…d and slime , onward we must go if we are ever to win the gates of Wisdom and Understanding and attain the Kingdom of the Holy Crown . “ Self ” we must slay , it is the great sin of life : “ The scorpion kisses , and the stings of sin , cling hard within . " 2 The small still voice calls to us , yet we must overcome it , in its conquest alone lies our salvation . “ Truth ” is our St. George , whose sword is as keen as his of “ The Nameless Quest ," and “ Self ” the dragon which we must slay : Central , supreme , most formidable , Night Gathered…
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THE VIRGIN 97 On the Quest he goes , ever tormented by the cry of the inner self, ever striving to overcome it . Again the cursed cry : “ What quest is this ? Is it worth heaven in thy lover's kiss ? A queen , a queen , to kiss and never tire ! Thy queen , quick - breathing for your twin desire !" I shudder , for the mystery of bliss ; I go , heart crying and a soul on fire !? . . Still , I stepped onward . Credit me so far ! The harlot had my soul : my will , the star ! Thus I went onward , as a man goes blind , Into a torrent crowd of mine ow…
1907 · PDF PAGE 259
…n never dry , And of Life's guerdon gather in the whole , And on celestial manna satisfy my soul.3 All the “ Unholy phantom faces ” . of self, and of sin , will be lost , and all the misty distortions that crowd the brain will fade and wither : So shalt thou conquer Space , and lastly climb The walls of Time , And by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God !6 And then : ... there gleams from Heaven The likeness of a Man in glory set ; The sun is blotted , and the skies are riven A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my b…
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…r 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 might : I bow before the unspoken Name . For I am Yesterday , and I To-day, and I to -morrow , born Now and again , on high , on high Travelling on Dian's naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods , and all the kin of Breath . I come from the…
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…rejects common sense and understanding as his Epode on Nature clearly shows . Nature my name is called . O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotten ! O vision laughterless ! O shadowy tale ! I am Nature and God : I reign ,I am , alone . None other may abide apart : they perish , Drawn into me , into my being grown . None other bosom is, to bear , to nourish , To be : the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet - bright to cherish My own's life being , that is, and is not other ; For I am God and Nature and th…
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…the realms of a spiritual or material monism , but in those of a Hylo -Idealistic philosophy , which is Agnostic, and from thence into a Self- Illum inism which baffles definition . For many centuries now , European thought has been labouring under the damnosa hereditas of fore gone conclusions . And as religion in the attempt to anthropomorphise power , through the medium of dialectic symbols , lost all footing and plunged head long into the pandemoniac majesty of Deity , so philo sophy , losing all grip of reality by clutching the illusive re…
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…t per ceives a greater number of parts in the object , that is , the object appears greater , and its figure varies . In other words the Self of the Idealist as the Not - self of the Materialist , is purely maya , i.e. , motion . But a still more important contradiction creeps in here , and curious to say , the very monster Berkeley set out with lance in rest to overthrow , proves but a Quixotic windmill which sends our gallant knight rolling in the very dust in which he had hoped to lay low the sceptical and monstrous giant . Thus in the place…
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108 THE STAR IN THE WEST 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 ! T…
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… man Hovering on delirium's brink : Shall these be classed his utmost span ? All that he can or ought to think ? No ! the strong man and self -reliant Is the true spiritual giant . 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 Fizzl…
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…he weary sun . The whole course of events is now reversed , Char icles a venomous adder , Archais once again her own divine and glorious self . And this is how we find her the second time : The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 14 . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 16 .