The Star in the West

214 THE STAR IN THE WEST was opened . Or else again , like the present -day Rationalists , they have once more coaxed the Almighty back into his leaden casket , and heaved him out again into the black depths of that ocean of ignorance from which he had been drawn , a bottled “ succedaneum ." Thus Berkeley, by postulating a God , himself showed that reason was wanting ; so the scepticism of Pyrrho was once again applied to the defective mental ma chinery , which burst like a faulty boiler on due pres sure being brought to bear upon it by David Hume . The final judgement of the senses was doubted , but only partially , men sought the link which connected cause and effect --the excluded middle - consciousness , and what may be called super -consciousness ; and to attain this end Crowley has applied the whole of his Pyrrhonic - Iconoclasm to break down the vulgar Ideal ism of Theology , as well as the vulgar Realism of the empirical Sciences . There's the true refuge of the wise ; To overthrow the Temple guards, Deny reality . In fact to crush and annihilate by means of a sceptical theurgy the rational fifth -Monarchism of the Scientific cults . Philosophy and Science have up to the present apprehended things per nos , from this day forward they will , under the atheistic theurgy of Crowleyanity , know things per se . The Ultima Thule of our rigorous journey will at last be discernible on the horizon of our minds , and the mixed drinks of the stumbling Scoto -German Bacchantes will give way to the pure amrita of Iacchus . The above may be symbolized as follows : | The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii , p. 176 .