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…heaven to earth , and it is invested with the potency of superior and inferior 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 san…
1907 · PDF PAGE 283
… of mankind are very loath to do , for instead of honestly expressing nine - tenths of their knowledge in terms of doubt , they cast the whole onus of Absolute or Noumenal knowledge on to the back of some aching and asinine deity . By postulating Unknowability , which if treated as an absolute term is also a positive one ( God ), Spencer the Transfigured Realist was hoisted by that very same petard he had himself intended to tie to the wagging tail of the Christian Deity . Thus by render ing all knowledge automorphological , in order to an nihi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 259
…and blind in either eye . I move for ever to my mystic goal Where I may drain a fountain 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 b…
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…are to be found here as in every other work , great or small , false rime and metre , half a step left out here and there , some times a whole one : but taking these poems as a whole , these lapses are remarkably few , and it must also be borne in mind that in nearly every case they are inten tional lapses from the orthodox rules of poetic cadence and metre . One command Crowley alone obeys , and that is : that all verse - rime , rhythm , and metre — to be considered as poetry , must be musical .' Without As a good example I will quote the foll…
1907 · PDF PAGE 222
… Temple ). Idealism and Realism are further connected by the HYLO-IDEALISTIC circle , which expresses them in terms of science ; and the whole is encircled by the ring of AGNOSTICISM , beyond which philo sophy as philosophy cannot penetrate . The three circles of Mysticism , Hylo - Idealism (Idealism and Realism ), and Agnos ticism ; or Magic , Science , and Philosophy, are all bisected by the PYRRHONISTIC Line of doubt which alone vanishes in the circumference of CROWLEYANITY . This is the outer circle of all , forming , with the Pyrrhonistic …
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…hese passages which have been selected as evidence of (the poet's ) plain speaking, have been wantonly misunderstood . The volume , as a whole , is neither profane nor indecent . A little more clothing in our uncertain climate might perhaps have been attended with advantage . To us this volume , for the first time , conclusively settles that Mr. is not a mere brilliant rhetorician or melodious twanger of another man's lyre , but authentically a poet ." So writes the critic . The name I have omitted is that of the last of the great Victorian poe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…es men know not what false flower : Ere the cup is drained , the wine Grows unsweet , that was divine . These last two lines contain the whole secret of this story . The beauty of the clinging love of childhood is tinged with a glowing desire , the pink desire of the bud bursts into the passionate crimson of the rose , and 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 9. 2 Ibid . vol .i, pp . 9, 10 .
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The Cup N the last line of “ The Star and Garter " is con centrated the whole of the ethical philosophy of Aleister Crowley . It reads as follows : But—had it not been for the Garter , I might never have seen the Star . In it we find the sublime maxim , almost universal , which has been postulated by all the greatest ethical codes of the world . It is the moral prototype , the Favashi of the Zoroastrian , the Tree of Knowledge of Babylonia and Genesis , the Light and Darkness of Isaiah , the Yakheen and Boaz of Solomon , the Unique Athanor of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…e another twice as fast in your mind as they do in mine , or in that of some spirit of another kind ? Hyl . I own it.2 This clinches the whole argument between Mysticus and Scepticus , as it did between the two disputants Philonous and Hylas . THE QABALAH Before entering upon Aleister Crowley's ontological essay on Space , it will be as well first to run through , briefly though it may be , some of the more important eclaircissements of the Qabalah , and the influence this divine theurgy has alike borne on his poetry and philosophy ; for his an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…Than India breeds to - day . till day Dropped her blue pinions , and the night drew on , And sable clouds banked out the 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 .
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…m the shadow of His throne , The curtain of Eternity ;: whilst in the last verse of “ The Palace of the World " the sudden dropping of a whole foot produces with it a sudden sense of finality : | The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 183 . 2 Jezebel , vol . i, p . 131 . 3 Tannhäuser , vol . I, p . 251. ( The italics are mine .)
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…g lips , and still the flower -witch nestles to my lips , Twines her swart lissome legs and hips , half serpent and half devil , till My whole self seems to lie in her ; her kisses draw my breath ; my face Loses its lustre in the grace of her quick bosom ; sinister The raving spectres reel ; I see beyond my Circe's eyes no shape Save vague cloud - measures that escape the dance's whirling witchery . Clothed with my flower - bride I sit , a harlot in a harlot's dress , And laugh with careless wickedness . And with our laughter's nails refix his …
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…ir with golden fans As Turkis rip a Nubian's womb With damascenéd yataghans . ? This one astonishing verse upsets the equilibrium of the whole poem , as it would of any poem ; for if the remaining thirteen had been penned in an equivalent vividness of colouring , the effect would have been one of complete overpowerment rather than of a sudden and dizzy joy . As the aristocratic virtues of one century become the democratic vices of the next , so do the noble renderings of one age of literature become the hack neyed phraseology of the following ,…
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…r whirs , No star dares breathe . Again , in such lines as : Secure the sacred fastness of the soul , Uniting self to the absolute , the whole ,3 our ears tell us at once that the extra half- step is in tentionally introduced . Whilst in such a line as : And loving servant of my lady and lord , they do not . The “ y " in lady might by some be con sidered an admissible elision with the " and . ” But I myself should not pass it, though in the following I should : Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the…
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…dwin Arnold's : OM , MANI PADME , OM ! The Dewdrop slips Into the shining Sea ! Again , in “ The Farewell of Paracelsus to Aprile " : My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether , Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather.3 Or , Those souls that cast their trammels off , and spring On eager wing , Immaculate , new born , toward the sky , And shall not die Until they cleave at last the lampless dome , And lose their tent because they find their home .“ 21 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 189 . Why …
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… in parts reminds us of the “ In Memoriam ” is “ The Nameless Quest, ” such lines as : I was wed Unto the part , and could not grasp the whole .? 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 : W…
1907 · PDF PAGE 144
…r that sacrament Of shame . From that day unto this My cheek desires that hideous kiss. Her hate , her scorn , her cruel blows , Fill my whole life , consume my breath ; Her red - fanged hatred in me glows , I lust for her , and hell , and death . I see that ghastly look , and yearn Toward the brands of her that burn .? Sleep shuns him , and his parched throat thirsts for the blood of her veins , “ Aching with all the pangs of night ”; his vision grows more monstrous , a horrible 1 Jezebel : and other Tragic Poems , vol . i, p . 133 . 2 lbid . …
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…E STAR IN THE WEST from Aleister Crowley's war against poetic form , to his adoration of poetic imagery ; and then to the keynote of the whole of his poetry, and , as we shall presently see , his philosophy as well , namely --- Ecstasy . In “ Gargoyles ” we find several truly wonderful picture poems . Thus in “ The White Cat ”: Hail , sweet my sister ! hail , adulterous spouse , Gilded with passionate pomp , and gay with guilt : Rioting , rioting in the dreary house With blood and wine and roses splashed and spilt About thy dabbling feet , and …
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…onstantly ruffled by wind and rain , by hail and thunderbolt , by the diving of birds and the fall ing of rocks. In fact, throughout the whole of volume ii of the collected works runs a great river of esoteric mystic ism , which in the earlier works was a glittering net work of sparkling streams . In “ Time ” we find the commandments of Yama and Niyama mentioned , though we must never forget that the conditions of success vary for every indi vidual , and that Crowley might advise one pupil to drink more , and another to abstain . He doubts That…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…ace him , and a cataract Of amber - scented hair hissing about His head , and in the darkness two great eyes Flaming above him , and the whole face filled With fire and shapen as kisses . And those arms | The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 170 . 2 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 91 . ---