198
THE STAR IN THE WEST
T
All differences as these
indeed
Are chess play , conjuring .
“
Proceed
! "
Nay !
I'll
go
back
.
The exposition
Above
,
has points
.
But
simple
fission
Has reproduced
a
different
bliss
,
At
last
a
heterogenesis
!?
Many roads lead
to
Philosophy and branch forth from
it,
as
Crowley
above
shows
,
and
in
a
short
essay like
this we intend
but
to
travel through
the labyrinthine
mysteries
of
all
by
the silken clue
of
one
,
handed
us
by
Aleister Crowley
.
And
as
there
are many
by
-
ways
,
corridors
,
and
blind alleys
in
this great
labyrinth
of
Parnassus
,
so
in
this clue
,
which
has
been given
us
,
we shall find many twisted threads
,
yet
all
of
one fibre
,
which will
lead
us
,
the weary wanderers
in
the mys
teries
,
to
that certain and blissful kingdom which shall
be
our beginning
.
Kant has
said
,
the business
of
all
philosophy
is
to
answer the question
“
What
can
I
know
?
”
Huxley
,
perhaps
the
astutest
philosopher
since
the
days
of
the magus
of
Königsberg
,
observes that
it
is
impos
sible
to
answer
the
question
“
What
can
I
know
?
"
unless
in
the first place
there
is
a
clear understanding
of
what
is
meant
by
knowledge
,
and
in
order
to
an
swer this question
,
“
we
must
have
recourse
to
that
investigation
of
mental
phenomena
,
the
results
of
which
are
embodied
in
the
science
of
psychology
."
But the true crux
of
all
philosophic
arguments lies
,
as
we hope shortly
to
show
,
in
a
still
deeper
problem
than this
,
namely
:
“
What
is
the
'I'
which
causes
us
to
know
?
”
For surely
it
is
but
common
-
sense
to
first inquire
of
the engineer how the engine
is
worked
,
"
2
|
Pentecost
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
170
.
2
Huxley's
Essay
on
Hume
,
p
.
59
.