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“
All
is
illusion
,”
says Criosda
,'
and further back
in
that
weird play—
“
The
God
-
Eater
”
—
we have
already
heard him solemnly
utter
:
Mystery ninefold
closed
upon itself
That matter
should
move mind
-
Ay
!
darker yet
That mind should work
on
matter
?
And the proof
Extant
,
implicit
in
the thought
thereof
!
Else all our work were vain
.
These
twain
be one
.?
3
In
these five lines we find
a
clinching
of
the whole
argument
.
"
These
twain
be
one
.”
No
more
than
this did Berkeley
ever arrive
at
:
"
But
,
though
it
were
possible
that solid
,
figured
,
movable
substances
may
exist
without
the
mind
,
corresponding
to
the
ideas
we
have
of
bodies
,
yet
how
is
it
possible
for
us
to
know
this
?
Either
we
must
know
it
by
sense
or
by
reason
.
He
never
denied
the material
existence
of
things
,
and
was
as
much
a
phenomenalist
as
an
idealist
.
Crowley
,
similarly
accepting
Egoity
,
does
not
however
reject
Non
egoity
,
but envelops
both
.
In such
a
conflict
I
stand neuter
.
But
oh
!
Mistake not gold for pewter
!
The plain fact
is:
materialise
What spiritual
fact you choose
,
And
all
such turn
to
folly
-
lose
The subtle splendour
,
and the wise
Love and dear bliss
of
truth
.
Beware
Lest your lewd
laughter
set
a
snare
For any
!
Thus and only thus
Will
I
admit
a
difference
'
Twixt spirit and the things
of
sense
.
What
is
the quarrel
between
us
?
1
The God
-
Eater
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
138
.
2
Ibid
.
vol
.
ii,
p
.
134
.
3
The Principles
of
Human
Knowledge
,
p
.
39.
(
Religion
of
Science
Library
.)