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THE NEW WINE 301 Let human thought itself expand Bright Sun of Knowledge , in me rise ! Lead me to those exalted skies To live and love and understand ! Paying no price , accepting nought The Giver and the Gift are one With the Receiver -O thou Sun Of thought , of bliss transcending thought , Rise where division dies ! Absorb In glory of the glowing orb Self and its shadow ! 1 And , Within the charméd space is nought Possible unto thought . There in their equilibrium They float —how still , how numb ! There must they rest , there will they stay…
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… by the relations of contiguity and succession (a). No great attention to what passes in the mind is needful to prove that our trains of thought are neither to be arrested , nor even permanently controlled , by our desires or emotions . Never theless , they are largely influ enced by them . In the pres ence of a strong desire , or emotion , the stream of thought no longer flows on in a straight course , but seems , as it were , to eddy round the idea of that which is the object of the emo tion . Every one who has “ eaten his bread in sorrow ," …
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202 THE STAR IN THE WEST 1 thought . Science will say that intelligence is last , and that matter slowly evolves into animal life ; in fact, that matter (A ) is first, and intelligence (B ) is second . The idealists and sankhyâs will put intelligence (B ) first , and the series will run B ,A , B ,A ,B ,A . Both , however , are indicating the same chain ; but Crowley, like the philosophers of the Vedanta , strides beyond both intellect and matter to find an “ I ” (purusha) or self, which is beyond all intellect , and of which in tellect is but t…
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…e .? breathe a great and similar doubt . As in many respects the agnosticism of Tennyson's “ In Memoriam " re sembles the atheistic free thought of FitzGerald's “ Omar Khayyam ,” so do both the above -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 a…
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THE NEW WINE 311 (d ) This birth is prevented by Yoga . And as , on the one hand , it is so hard to drive away the thought we would fain be rid of ; so , upon the other , the pleasant imaginations which we would so gladly retain are , sooner or later , jostled away by the crowd of claimants for birth (d ) into the world of consciousness ; which hover as a sort of psychical possibilities , or inverse ghosts the bodily presentments of spiritual phenomena to be , in the limbo of the brain . To that form of desire which is called “ attention , ” th…
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THE NEW WINE 237 thought , thinking at appointed hours according to appointed books . 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…
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…t this ultimate genesis . The ancient Hebrew Qabalah was as closely con nected with Assyriology , as it was with Babylonian and Egyptian thought , Hindu mythology , and the philosophy of the Vedas and Upanishads ; its concep tion of the supreme God was ineffable , for He bore neither name nor attribute , being beyond the power of human conception . Over the face of the whole world we find earnest thought arriving at or towards such a conclusion . In ancient China we hear Lao - Tze declaring : “ What is there superior in Heaven and 1 Songs of th…
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…iquity to the ideas contained in their books . In one degree at least they are right, for the mysticism as contained in these systems of thought is as old as thought itself . The great system of the Qabalah is one of emana tion -- a type of spiritual monism , an attempted ex planation of the nature of the Deity , within the limitations of mind . Its correspondence with the Talmud is more of method than material . That it was of slow growth is very certain , that it is a conglomer ated mass of a multitude of efforts is also most sure . The Zohar…
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… one God sealed in the seas and be tokened in the winds . “ The Spirit of Mankind !” Before the darkness , earlier than being , When yet thought was not , shapeless and unseeing , Made misbegotten of deity on death , There brooded on the waters the strange breath Of an incarnate hatred . Darkness fell And chaos , from prodigious gulphs of hell . Life , that rejoiced to travail with a man , Looked where the cohorts of destruction ran , Saw darkness visible , and was afraid , Seeing . There grew like Death a monster shade , Blind as the coffin , …
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…” he strongly urges union between Great Britain and the United States . That friendship and dominion shall be wrought Out of the womb of thought , And all the bygone days be held as things of nought . Are we not weary of the fangéd pen ? Are we not friends , and men ? Let us look frankly face to face — and quarrel then !" Strongly advocating fraternity between the two great nations , he vehemently deprecates “ The hireling quillmen and the jingo crowd .” In a poem called “ A Valentine " in " Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic " —though a footnote…
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…n 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 advanced stage known as Dhyana . In “ Science and Buddhism ” Crowley states : In a certain meditation one day I recorded : I was (a) conscious of external things seen behind after my nose had vanished . (6) Conscious that I was not con scious of these things . These (a) and (6) were simultaneous . 1 …
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…re 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 webs of nature
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THE NEW WINE 281 The metaphysics of these verses Is perfectly absurd. My curse No sooner in an iron word I formulate my thought than I Perceive the same to be absurd . ' ... " And this fleeting changeful “ experience,” Huxley says , is necessarily “ based on incomplete know ledge," and is “ to be held only as grounds of more or less justified expectation " ... “ On the other hand , no conceivable event however extraordinary is impossible ." 2 Thus all changeability is uncertainty , from the Gods and the Suns which we worship , to the kisses we …
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…nt's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life's plan . The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought's abyss of tears and woes .
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…proceeds to travel along that road which he has warned others not to follow , and , having com pletely lost his way , and overloaded his thoughts with the darkness of night , finding it impossible to continue his journey , knocks at the creaky door of a miserable tavern , and regaling himself on the common wine of that strange country in which he has wandered , pro claims the hour of noon as the clock strikes midnight . “ I conclude,” states Philonous , “ not that they sensible things have no real existence , but that , see ing they depend not …
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…r , and Huxley . Declining the mimetic , seeking the idiosyncratic , and standing by the eclectic , it has stood and grown a Colossus of Thought , ever young , ever virile , as age after age has gathered round it, and as the years have swept by it on their path to oblivion . Between the theist and the atheist stands the agnos tic , and as the most vital point of attack is that which lies nearest to the object to be attacked , the great danger to theistic churches was threatened not from the atheistical extremity , but from the Agnostic frontier…
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…osed upon itself That matter should move mind - Ay ! darker yet That mind should work on matter ? And the proof Extant , implicit in the thought thereof ! Else all our work were vain . These twain be one .? 3 In these five lines we find a clinching of the whole argument . " These twain be one .” No more than this did Berkeley ever arrive at : " But , though it were possible that solid , figured , movable substances may exist without the mind , corresponding to the ideas we have of bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we …
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…trinity : Nay ! virtue is the devil's name for vice , And all your righteousness is filthy rags Wherein ye strut , and hide the one base thought . To mask the truth , to worship , to forget ; These three are one .“ The moral character of a nation is its true capital , and the two great laws of existence are The 2 Ibid . 414 . 1 Beverland , 238 . 3 Oracles , vol . ii, p . 5. 4 Orpheus , vol . iii, p . 208 .
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…r radiant fire Into my shrivelled head , to wither Love's desire ?? The picture becomes grander still , the child of life becomes old in thought : III . I was a child long years ago , it seems , Or months it may be - I am still a child ! They pictured me the stars as wheeling wild In a huge bowl of water ; but my dreams Built it of Titan oak , its sides were piled Of fearful wood Hewn from God's forests , paid with sweat and tears and blood . Yet to what does this infinite yearning lead ? The soul looks “ out to the beyond ,” and from the shape…
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…'er we do is best for me and best for you ” ;4 then as stoical as Marcus , “ I conquer , and most silently await the end . All phases of thought are crowded on our minds as we read through these slight volumes . And what is the goal of this “ Ultimate Voyage ? ” A deep and tearless sadness , a growing wonder of how such luxury , such wealth , such satiety can exist cheek by 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p 198 . ? Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 97 . 3 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 178 . 4 The Sword of S…