218
THE STAR
IN THE WEST
or by reason . ...
But what
reason
can induce
us to
believe the existence of bodies without the mind , from
what
we
perceive ." 1
This
point
Crowley fully
em
phasizes
in “ Time ” when he writes :
“
a thing
is only
real
to us so far
as it is known by us ; even
its
Un
knowability
is
a
species
of
knowledge
of
it
:
and
,
by
Savitri
!
when
I
say real
to
us
,
I
say
real absolutely
,
since
all
things
lie
to
me
in
the radius
of
my
,
sensorium
.
*
To
others
'
is
a
vain phrase
.".
And
as
it
has already
been shown
in
the chain
A,
B,
A,
B,
A,
B,
it
matters
not
if
the Materialist
chooses
to
place his finger
on
A
,
or
the Idealist
on
B;
so
in
the
above
,
Berkeley
annihil
ating the idea
of
a
material
substratum
,
at
one and
the
same
moment
,
unwittingly
immolates
his
own
cherished
child
on that same blade with which
he has
just sacrificed
his foe
.
And
,
seeking
to
supplant
the
miserable
huts
of
the materialist
,
Berkeley
similarly
builds
his gorgeous palaces
on
reason
,
perceiving
not
that
the foundations
of
both
are the
same
,
and that
one like the other will
crumble
into
dust
before
the
blinding storm
of
dialectic
dispute
.
Berkeley
,
in
positing Esse
=
percipi
,
considered
that
he
once and for
all
had overthrown scepticism
,
which
he
defined
as
—
the disbelief
of
the senses
.
In
“
The
Principles
of
Human Knowledge
,”
he
states
:
“
Our
knowledge
of
these
(
ideas
)
hath
been very
much ob
scured
and
confounded
,
and
we
have
been
led into
very dangerous
errors
,
by
supposing
a
twofold
exist
ence
of
the objects
of
sense
—
the one intelligible
or
in
the mind
,
the other real and without the mind
;
where
1
The Principles
of
Human
Knowledge
,
p
.
39
.
2
Time
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
269
Ibid
.
p
.
51
.