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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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312 THE STAR IN THE WEST duced in a halfpenny test tube ; so in the West , though the state arrived at was one similar to that worked out on Eastern principles , it was intensely more regal and majestic ; for whilst the rishi sat in a howling jungle , contemplating the tip of his nose , the mystic philosopher was groping in the charnel - house of death , midst drear effigies of the living , and dread symbols of the dead , and lit the same triple flame of glory , losing himself in that poetic vision of rapture , so entirely unknown in the prosai…
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320 THE STAR IN THE WEST gustine, “ independent of the senses , which , acting by means of an internal organ , is enabled to give a completer knowledge than ordinary experience ? ” Crowleyanity , once and for all , answers : Yes ! and this faculty becomes active during the ecstatic state , under the illumination of which mental 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 utteranc…
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THE STAR IN THE WEST A CRITICAL ESSAY UPON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY BY CAPT . J F. C. FULLER Hail , O Dionysus ! Hail ! Winged Son of emelé ! Hail , O Hail ! The stars are pale . Hidden the moonlight in the vale ; Hidden the sunlight in the sea . -Orpheus. London and felling - on - Tyne THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. , LTD . NEW YORK : 3 EAST 14TH STREET 1907
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294 THE STAR IN THE WEST poems . But what is it ? And Crowley at once , with East and West , answers , “ a higher state of con sciousness .” That a higher consciousness exists is certain ; that it is unknowable is certain , . .. unless indeed , we can truly unite it with itself .? And that this supreme union is possible he ex plains : Prevent sense -impressions from reaching the sensorium and there will at least be a better chance of examining the interior . You cannot easily investigate a watch while it is going : nor does the reflection of th…
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200 THE STAR IN THE WEST Utilitarianism , offspring of a distorted and epileptic steam -mania , has bemerded us with its panting slime , and wound us tight in the arachnoid meshes of its kakodemoniacal web , until we stand before ourselves , no longer homo sapiens , but alone , naked and un adorned , a cinder - sprinkled , soot - besmeared , spider legged , homo ridiculissimus ! Periodically as the adepts soar above vulgar ap preciation , and when vulgar understanding has , swine like , trodden their pearls of wisdom back into the mud of its ow…
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90 THE STAR IN THE WEST Turn not thy face from us in wrath , for we Are thine own father's children , and his loins With double fervour gat a double flower ; And we indeed were born of drudging wives, Pale spouses whom his heart despised , but thou Wast of a fairer face and brighter eyes , And limbs more amorous assuaged thy sire ; And fuller blood of his is tingling thus Now in thy veins indignant at our sin . ' Thus we find free love is the great , pure , and only true love . Its name has been soiled and fouled by the feculencies of Holywell …
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4 THE STAR IN THE WEST depths of Hell , to sink into a dirge -like Niobe death chaunt ,bewailing the thirteen children of their beget ting , rising once more in the song of Ligeia , enticing men to her mire , and at length to die still -voiced as the daughter of Dis, whose ghostly fingers sinking clutch the frozen reeds of that slough in which she had so long wallowed . Long have we peered , crouching on the watch-tower of our minds , through the darkness of ignorance lit alone by the northern lights of folly , till our scorched eyes falling as…
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6 THE STAR IN THE WEST As another Ariadne I here offer this work to my readers as a twisted clue of silk and hemp to guide them safely through the labyrinthine mysteries of poetry and magic , whose taurine crags hug the blue sky , amorous as the kisses of Pasiphae ; across the Elysian fields of myrtle and asphodel , up the eagle -crested slopes of Olympus , and over the shining sun -scorched sands of Ammon , tawny and silken as the crouching form of some colossal lion , to the cool groves of Eleusis child -like dreaming in the bosom of silvery …
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266 THE STAR IN THE WEST BUDDHISM As regards the beginning of all things the Buddh ist is discreetly silent , he ( as Crowley says ) neither prevaricates like the Hindu , nor openly lies like the Christian . In the Is'a Upanishad we read : Into dense darkness he enters Who has conceived becoming to be naught , Into yet denser he Who has conceived becoming to be aught . In the 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 , s…
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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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264 THE STAR IN THE WEST Spencerian Agnosticism was bound to lead , he broke away from Buddha and the Buddhistic doctrines of scientific 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 h…
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166 THE STAR IN THE WEST Here's why Creation jumps at prayer . You Christians quote me in a breath This , that , the other atheist's death ; How they sought God ! Of course ! Impair By just a touch of fever , chill, My health - where flies my vivid will ? My carcass with quinine is crammed ; I wish South India were damned ; I wish I had my mother's nursing , Find precious little use in cursing , And slide to leaning on another , God , or the doctor , or my mother . But , dare you quote my fevered word For better than my health averred ? The bra…
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56 THE STAR IN THE WEST Who could withstand the sweet witchery of such a lover's wooing ? least of all Archais ; her breast , re luctant yet helpless , heaves with a soft passion , no wise understood , her pulse quickens , she speaks , he is en thralled : the piercing flame Of love struck through him , till his tortured mind Drove his young limbs , the wolf that hunts the hind , Far through the forest . 1 And then again bursts from his lips the enraptured song : Ere the grape of joy is golden With the summer and the sun , Ere the maidens unbeho…
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82 THE STAR IN THE WEST Her brows divine ; One kiss , a starbeam faint With love of a sweet saint, Stolen like a sacrament In the night's shrine ! One kiss , like moonlight cold Lighting with floral gold The lake's low tune ; One kiss , one flower to fold , On its own calyx rolled At night , in June ! One kiss , like dewfall , drawn A veil o'er leaf and lawn Mix night , and noon , and dawn , Dew , flower , and moon !? That Alice was charmed , that the above was a love philtre , the thirteenth day discloses — the birthday of their first kiss : B…
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32 THE STAR IN THE WEST A curious Swinburnian strain of passion is found wedged in the satiric lines of “ Why Jesus Wept .” Percy , the youth flatulent with love , chants to his Angela - society --thus : To me she is The rosy incarnation of a kiss , The royal rapture of a young delight , The mazy music of virginity, Sun of the day , moon of the night , All , all to me ! 1 And again : Love , love , these raptures are like springtide rain Nestling among green leaves .2 One more example of the diversity of Crowley's pen , before we deal with his p…
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296 THE STAR IN THE WEST primary by order and degree , sometimes obviously , some times obscurely , perhaps even untraceably , so that we have no real right to predicate their connection . ' Dhâranâ is mentioned at some length in “ Pente cost " : Olympus in a nutshell ! I Have a superior faculty To reasoning , which makes absurd , Unthinkable and wicked too , A great deal that I know is true ! In short , the mind is capable , Besides mere ratiocination , Of twenty other things as well , The first of which is concentration ! Bloom , Concentratio…
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138 THE STAR IN THE WEST psychopathic mist dims his 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 crowd…
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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 …