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…kisses thousand fold , Add to them a hundred more ; Other thousands still be told , Other hundreds o'er and o'er . And Propertius to the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadfast pride , And on my neck his foot triumphant press'd . So it is to - day . Conventionalism is passing along its way chaotic and disordered . Mutinus is worshipped at every street corner , and the goat of Mendes slavers over the revellers as they wend …
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…y .” As golden a book of poetry as Mademoiselle de Maupin is of prose . The first poem in the book is called “ Messaline ." 3 It is in a way a foreword to the ensuing sonnet - se quence , and yet in a way it is not , its spirit being more essentially of Lust ; for whatever the “ unco gude ” may say , that of Alice and her lover is not . To adulterate is to debase ; but there is no debase ment here . Love burns pure as a flame , and if it is , as it is here , between a married woman and a lover | Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 232 . 2 The Three Shado…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
…As Berkeley had previously got hopelessly bogged in the swamps of God , so Hume , avoiding the shore line , set out on the same quest by way of the desert of Scepticism , without the chart of so divine a know ledge , but with the compass of a more certain direc tion ; nevertheless , soon losing his way in the arid 1 An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , p . 163 . 2 Ibid . p . 161 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
… ” of past feasting . Man loves the mysterious , and his god is but a poor conjuring trick , as is shown in “ Pentecost ” _ " mysterious way God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks.” 2 Leaving now these satirical poems for other works of Crowley's , we shall find a deep , yet in no way less , intense hatred for the sham ideal of all religions . In “ Jephthah ” we listen to Jephthah praying to Jehovah , god of hosts , for victory over the Ammonites , not withstanding the fact that should victory be his lot a general violation of all the virg…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
THE VIRGIN IOI shall be pestered on our way by swarms of human blow - flies, that we shall tread on the scorpions of re ligion , the toads of society , and the blind -worms of the law ; that around us will whirl the vampires of the past , the kites of the present , the succubi of the future , is certain enough ; as a shrieking mass of hideous animosity they will conglobe around us, deafening us with the expletives of earth , blinding us with the fumes of hell , and rendering us insane with the inanities of heaven : This were my guerdon : to fad…
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…yeless sockets of Eternity . A day - star , to flash forth into the west , winged and wonderful . A Pharos of gleaming hope lighting our way across the boisterous ocean of life to our haven of eternal rest . The fools and the faulty , the wise and the wizened read and tremble before the might of its majesty , for into its flaming horrent hath it woven and braided the ashen locks of wisdom , the dyed curls of folly , and all the glittering circlets of golden youth . All is transcended , all is unified and transcendental ; neither is there joy no…
1907 · PDF PAGE 203
…sent remain dark , and though at first the neophyte may think that the following solution , which I trust I shall be able in some little way to explain , is but one on a similar footing to that as set forward by those super naturalists who dogmatize concerning credo quia ab surdum , I must bid him now at the very outset re member , that “ except he become as a little child , he can in no way enter into the kingdom of heaven "; and further , becoming as a little child it must be re membered that it is as child - like to grasp at that which alone…
1907 · PDF PAGE 239
…elf falls , by asserting that : “ it is only by means of the form of sensuous intuition that we can intuite things à priori, but in this way we intuite the objects only as they appear to our senses , not as they may be in themselves (p . 29 ). [ Thus Kant himself proves the noumenon , the sole refuge from scepticism , itself to be sceptical .] Kant must have in some way felt the weakness of his argument , since in the following page, he , in true Berkeleyan fashion , in order to upset the sceptic , argues in a circle ; and to prove the possibil…
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…he conjures . This appearance of Truth is practically what the Hindu would call “. maya ,” in which all created beings live . There is a way which leads beyond it, and any man can discover it, if he be fit and willing , and this way leads to God . The Absolute Truth lying in the centre of mystery is like the sun , it blinds ordinary sight , and man sees only the shadow . The eagle alone can gaze at the dazzling light , likewise only the prepared soul can bear its lustre . Never theless the great Something which is the inmost of the Holy mysteri…
1907 · PDF PAGE 273
…he second discourse of the Bhagavad - Gītā we also read : Uncleavable He , incombustible He , and indeed neither to be wetted nor dried away ; perpetual , all - pervasive , stable , immovable , ancient , unmanifest , unthinkable , im mutable He is called . This is very much like the Athanasian Creed , after having defined God in every possible way , to end up by describing him as “ incomprehensible .” Not so the Buddhist who went back to the older vedic con ception : In the beginning there is existence blind and without knowledge ; and in this …
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…sics and metaphysics rest on this bed - rock of nothingness ; but , that also both abstract philosopher and scientist alike , have in no way leapt its fiery circumference . When the scientist eternalizes matter and motion by asserting their absolute indestructibility , he is merely asserting an absolute unity , which in reality is a synonym of absolute nullity - 0 = 1, but he at once , to propitiate i Berashith , vol . ii, pp . 236 , 237 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 316
…s ignorant of the Supreme Being , yet his ignorance is so naïve, that he all but lifted the veil of Isis . His “ Ignorance " is in every way equivalent to Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Kant , who set himself the question , “ Must we believe that Mysticism is like some vast ocean , the empire of illusion ? " And then again and again answered in the negative . He proposed time after time that Reason be its own end , founded upon Right and Duty , and in the Freedom of the “ Person ," the moral sublimity of “ Duty ”: It is not so muc…
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…ned to think that the far greater part , if not all , of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers , and blocked up the way to know ledge , are entirely owing to ourselves that we have first raised a dust , and then complained we cannot see ." 2 And naturally to expect , Berkeley himself , though an Adept of a very high order , starting up wards through the clear atmosphere of the sky , clutched the very fire from the altar of God , and then in his descent to the dusty plains of Earth , caused such a whirlwind to arise , that h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 236
…It may be a postulation of our egoity , but it therefore need not necessarily be so for all other personalities , as it cannot be in any way demonstrated as final . Kant did not have the necessary knowledge of taking into consideration the fact of inherited experiences , as Herbert Spencer was able to do , so worked at a dis advantage , postulating an à priori in place of organ iged intuitions . CROWLEYANITY AND THE PROLEGOMENA To illustrate the infolding of Crowleyanity , it will be necessary here to run through Kant's Prolegomena , reducing h…
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…gonauts ." O mortal , sad is love ! But my dominion Extends beyond love's ultimate abode . Eternity itself is but a minion , Lighting my way on the untravelled road . Gods shelter ' neath one shadow of my pinion . Thou only tread the path none else hath trode ! Come , lover , in my breast all blooms above , Here is thy love !3 The true Buddhist scorns the selfishness of heaven , the idea of hell is utterly repugnant to him , to feel that he is gaining eternal bliss whilst others are sink ing into everlasting torment , burns into his heart and 1…
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…urdity ? " ; he promptly 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 ,…
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…e , the illusions of spirit and mind dissolve to the desolate cry of “ Unready . Haggard and worn , back to the court he wends his weary way , back to the King , back to his self's de sire ; and there , taunted by the husband of the mis 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 191 . 2 lbid .
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290 THE STAR IN THE WEST the plains , like those of Ephesus , traduce in every way those who threaten their occupation . “ There fore , O Ananda , be ye lamps unto yourselves . Be ye a refuge to yourselves . Betake yourselves to no ex ternal refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp . Hold fast as a refuge to the truth . Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves .” (Mahaparanibbana Sutta , ii , 33. ) ' YOGA » 2 Now comes the supreme question : How is this in ward mystery revealed ? And the answer is : In the East by Yoga , and in the Wes…
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…the horizon for me, And He requickens the forgotten skies ; His golden locks are burning on my eyes , And he with rosy finger points the way , The blood -wrought mystic path of Paradise , That leads at last through yonder icy spray Of Death to the blue vault of the undying day . In the last verse of “ A Spring Snow Storm in Wastdale ," there grows a wavering doubt , which leaps out furiously in the “Preliminary Invocation " in “ Jephthah ,” addressed to A. C. S. , breaking the shackles of the “ improving idea " of Christ : Let there be light !-…
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…lute , of whom we can conceive no proportion whatsoever , but whose relationship to us becomes closer and closer as we proceed along the way of the knowable — and perhaps actually becomes known when we ourselves become unknowable , i.e. , pure adepts . The second great principle is the Conservation of Matter and Energy , or in other words the law of Cause and Effect . A law we have gone to some length in demonstrating to be apodictically untenable , though highly probably à posteriori . Crowley , like Hume and Huxley , solely identifies it as a…