The Eye in the Triangle: An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley by Israel Regardie

The Eye in the Triangle: An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley by Israel Regardie

Author:Israel Regardie [Regardie, Israel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: The Original Falcon Press
Published: 2014-01-12T00:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER TEN:

China

The biographers have recorded a large cluster of events occurring within a matter of four or five years. Of themselves, they are not particularly pertinent to my narrative. Both Cammell and Symonds in their accounts, as well as Crowley in his own autobiography, have dealt with these well enough. They warrant only slight mention here to keep the narrative straight, as well as to provide some kind of psychological or spiritual referent to what was happening.

For example, there is the Gerald Kelly matter mentioned towards the close of the last chapter. Kelly and Crowley had met during the latter’s last term at Cambridge, as a result of Crowley’s publication of Aceldama, his first book of verse. Apparently what intrigued Kelly was Crowley’s quotation from Swinburne!

I contemplate myself in that dim sphere

Whose hollow center I am standing at

With burning eyes intent to penetrate

The black circumference, and find out God.

The publisher brought these two young men together, a warm friendship soon developed, to last over many long and happy years. At that time Kelly was an aspiring young painter, who had not yet been knighted, nor elected President of the Royal Academy. While Crowley had been climbing in the Himalayas, Kelly had been serving his artist’s apprenticeship in the city of artists, Paris. It was there that Crowley met him again, and because of a clairvoyant contact of his, severed his connections with Mathers forever.

It was in the year 1903, perhaps in July, that Kelly introduced his sister Rose to Crowley. No great infatuation occurred right away, but through a series of fortuitous events coupled with Crowley’s unequivocal romanticism, he and Rose got married. There was no courting, no engagement, no waiting. Impulsively they just decided to get married. The original intent of the marriage was solely to assist Rose to evade some other marriage repugnant to her. Crowley merely offered, in effect, to let her use his name—and call it quits. Once, however, she was married to Crowley, she made up her mind it was to be a marriage in fact, not merely in name.

With the occurrence of this marriage, for a second time the proposed Abramelin operation never had a chance to get more than started. The first time was towards the close of the century, just before he had taken his Adeptus Minor degree in Paris. He had offered his fortune and services to Mathers at the time of the Revolt. At that time, too, the operation was premature.

His account of the marriage indicated that it was an unblemished and prolonged sexual debauch. It afforded him almost complete happiness. His poetry reached some of its greatest and most sustained lyrical heights at that time. There are several lengthy poems dedicated and devoted to Rose. Rosa Mundi, Rosa Coeli, and Rosa Inferni—all being paeans of joy and ecstasy married to her.

O Rose all roses far above

In the garden of God’s roses,

Sorrowless, thornless, passionate Rose, that lies

Full in the flood of its own sympathies

And makes my life one tune that



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