216
THE STAR
IN THE WEST
To
attain
to the
ne plus ultra of Crowleyanity , it
will be necessary
to arrive at a state of desperate de
spair , a state
in which the equilibrium of both
body
and
mind are balancing between
conscious
alienation
and unconscious
insanity ;
and
this
state is the Cer
berus we
all
have
to
pass
before we
can
regain
the
blissful arms
of
our long
-
lost
Eurydice
.
To clearly
illuminate
the Orphic
progress
through
the Plutonic
regions
of
Philosophy
,
it
will
be
necessary
,
first
of
all
to
satisfy
the three
heads
of
the terrible
offspring
of
Echidna's womb
,
whose
names
are Berkeley
,
Hume
,
and Kant
.
BERKELEY
.
Berkeley
,
that
“
God
-
illumined
Adept
,”
)
almost
at
the commencement
of
his introduction
to
“
The Prin
ciples
of
Human
Knowledge
,”
states
:
“
Upon
the
whole
,I
am inclined
to
think that the far greater
part
,
if
not
all
,
of
those
difficulties
which
have
hitherto
amused philosophers
,
and blocked
up
the way
to
know
ledge
,
are
entirely
owing
to
ourselves
that we have
first
raised
a
dust
,
and
then
complained
we
cannot
see
."
2
And
naturally
to
expect
,
Berkeley
himself
,
though
an
Adept
of
a
very high order
,
starting up
wards
through
the
clear
atmosphere
of
the
sky
,
clutched
the very fire from
the altar
of
God
,
and then
in
his descent
to
the dusty plains
of
Earth
,
caused such
a
whirlwind
to
arise
,
that
his
immediate
successors
,
and
even we who live two hundred
years
after
that
1
Eleusis
,
vol
.
iii,
p
.
225
.
2
P.
6.