The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 239 ment , was in a real sense Being itself, for being and Non -Being , being equally nothingness , are in the same category . Herein , however , were motion , interaction , stimulus , and no response to stimulus rendered , not only a possibility , but a reality ; and Pure Being , thus enriched or fertilized by the double interaction , be came manifested as existence—that is , conditioned Being . Pure Being , the Unconditioned , the Absolute of Potentiality rolled round into pure Non -Being , the Unconditioned ; the Absolute of Impotentiality , emerged , energized , and conditioned , and became the Limited , the Relative . This is the groundwork of the Hegelian philosophy . ” Yet once again that added impulse arises in the passing over . What is it ? Crowleyanity does not , in words , explain ; for being beyond reason , it is both inexplicable and undefinable in rational terms ; yet it directs , and the weary traveller , searching for the stone of the wise , has but to follow , guided by the sure and certain hope that if he so will , it will guide him to that great and glorious transfiguration he so ardently desires . روا TIME Kant , as we have seen , places both Time and Space in the realm of the à priori ; a realm utterly devastated by Crowley's scepticism . Spencer in answering the questions , What is Space ? What is Time ? replied , “ Space is the abstract of all relations of co - existence . Time is the abstract of all relations of sequence .” These definitions have been found wanting , chiefly on 1 Absolute Relativism , p . 114 .