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THE STAR IN THE WEST
plane , sensation can be other than subjective , i.e. , in
the subject, in other words , that subjective creation can
outstep
its
own creator and
vice versa
.
For there
is
a
sense sublime
Of
something
far
more deeply interfused
,
Whose dwelling
is
the light
of
setting suns
,
And the round
ocean
and
the living air
,
And the blue sky
,
and
in
the mind
of
man
;
A
motion
and
a
spirit
,
that impels
All thinking things
,
all
objects
of
all
thoughts
,
And rolls through
all
things
.?
To the uninitiated this matter must for the
present
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
can
be
solved
“
in
the
alembic
of
the
heart
,
and through
the
athanor
of
affliction
,”
as
it
is
for
a
child
to
grasp
a
loaded gun
,
wotting
not
of
its
subtle
machinery
.
For
a
man
becoming
as
a
child
,
may
,
like that child which
he
has
become
,
play with
that
loaded weapon
,
nurse that loaded weapon
,
go
to
bed
with that loaded weapon
,
expecting nothing
of
so
in
nocent
a
toy
;
and
then
one
day
as
he
presses
his
fetish
fondly
to
his heart
,
there
is
a
deafening crash
;
and that child who was once
a
man
,
flashes
up
through
the
golden
gates
of
Paradise
,
or
is
hurled
headlong
|
Wordsworth
.