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   follows that if it be not perceived it exists not ;”
and
in the
“
Three
Dialogues
”
he again
maintains
this
indisputable
fact :
Phil . And is not time measured
by the succession of ideas
in our mind ?
Hyl. It is.
Phil . And is it not possible ideas should succeed
one
another twice as fast in your
mind
as they do in mine , or
in that of some spirit of another kind ?
Hyl . I own it.2
This clinches the whole argument between Mysticus
and Scepticus , as it did between the two disputants
Philonous
and Hylas .
THE QABALAH
Before entering upon Aleister Crowley's ontological
essay on Space , it will be as well first to run through ,
briefly though it may be , some of the more important
eclaircissements
of
the
Qabalah ,
and
the
influence
this divine theurgy has alike borne on his poetry and
philosophy
; for his analysis of space
is based on the
ontological
assertion
of
the
absoluteness
of
the
Qabalistic
Zero .
Worshippers
of a personal God are by nature ultra
materialistic .
Their God
is
but
a friend ,
a mighty
man who will eventually pull them out of the present
bog of existence ; being too lazy to do so themselves ,
they invest him with special powers ; once fashioned ,
the next step was to endow him with an immortalizing
1 Principles of Human Knowledge , p. 62.
2 The Dialogues , p. 35.