The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 255 Such is the step of their duality , when they face the awful unity of their existence . ... their logic fails , Their jarring jargon jingles —even such An empty brazen pot-wise men deride The clouds that mimic whales. Man's darkness is a leathern sheath , Myself the sun -bright sword !' Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser the following as answer to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain Soph is one and the same . In the Qabalistic Dogmas of Pistorius we read even as regards Kether , the Crown , “ There is no name among Qabalists by which the supreme King is designated ; they speak of the crown only , which proves the existence of the King , and they say that this crown is Heaven .” If so of Kether , how much more so of the Ain Soph ! Above the Crown Kether , the first Sephirah , is the (7*X), i.e. , Ain , the No - Thing . “ It is so named be cause we do not know , that which there is in this Principle , because it never descends as far as our ignorance , and because it is above Wisdom itself ." 3 “ Not only does the Qabbalah repudiate the adage · Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol , i, pp . 104 , 105 . 2 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 258 . s Zohar , iii, fol . 2886 ( Meyer ).