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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
.