The Star in the West

240 THE STAR IN THE WEST account of the doubtful connotation of the word abs tract , but with M °Taggart's emendation read : Space is the synthesis of all experiences of co - existence . Time is the synthesis of all experiences of sequence .' So we find that taking the above as general de finitions , they may with equal accuracy be applied to either the Ego or the race ; in the former case , Space and Time vanishing with the extinction of the indi vidual ; in the latter with that of the race . So also if space be defined as “ the potentiality of all co existences ,” then in the destruction of all existences Space will also cease to be . But if Space be defined “ as that eternal actuality wherein all other things or no things may co - exist , then , even on the de struction of all things , Space would still remain ." 2 Yet this definition is extremely faulty , as Time re mains to be considered ; which we shall now deal with . In Crowley's essay bearing the name of “ Time ” the matter is set forth in a dialogue between a British sceptic and an Indian mystic . In it, by a rather dif ferent route , he comes to a somewhat similar con clusion to that taught by Eckhart in Germany at the beginning of the fourteenth century . " That the creature apart from the Absolute , that is, God , was nothing , that “ Time , Space , and the plurality which depends on them ,' are also nothing in them selves , and that the duty of man as a moral being is to rise beyond this nothingness of the creature , and by direct intuition to place himself in immediate union 1 Absolute Relativism , p . 14 . 2 lbid . p . 15 .