The Star in the West

212 THE STAR IN THE WEST with us, " or being interpreted Aleister Crowley, the spiritual son of Immanuel whose surnamewas Cant !? And as the doctrine taught by Jesus Christ became known as Christianity , so let this theurgy , as ex pounded by this marvellous being , be known as Crowleyanity : or in other words , according to the mind of the reader ; --- Pyrrhonic - Zoroastrianism , Pyrrhonic - Mysticism , Sceptical - Transcendentalism , Sceptical - Theurgy , Sceptical - Energy , Scientific Illuminism , or what you will ; for in short it is the conscious communion with God on the part of an Atheist , a transcending of reason by scepticism of the instrument , and the limitation of scepticism by direct consciousness of the Absolute . To attain to such an illumination the mind of a Huxley and the soul of a Loyola must be united in one person . And this illu mination must be as definite a phenomenon as orgasm , following which we find the material world , and its foundation the world of thought , as honestly set down to hallucination as a ghost would be . Construct the Temple in the place of the Manger , on the site of the ruins of religion and philosophy , but with the stones of the unfinished and abandoned Hall of Science . And in it let Semiramis , heavy with child by the Holy Ghost , possess the couch of labour , once crushed by the agon ized form of Mary ; and bring to light that unmistak able phenomenon , by which no woman could doubt whether or no she has ever been a mother , and in which no adept can doubt that he is one . Religion and Science have for many years seemingly run antagonistic to each other , but in reality their antagonism has been of a superficial nature , and | Vide Prolegomena . Bohn's ed ., p . xxi .