The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 243 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.