The Star in the West

256 THE STAR IN THE WEST " 2 . ex nihilo nihil fit, i.e. ,‘ From nothing , nothing is made ,' that is , nothing can come from nothing , but it does not believe in the absolute annihilation of anything which has ever existed . “ There is not anything new under the sun ." Not any Thing ,' says the Zohar , is lost in the universe , not even the vapour which goes out of our mouths , as all things , it has its place and destination , and the Holy One , blessed be It ! makes it concur to Its works ; not anything falls into the void , not even the words and the voice of man , but all has its place and its destination ." “ All things of which this world is composed , spirit as well as body , will again enter into the Principle , and into the root from which they went out .” Zohar , Part ii, fol . 218b . The Qabalist Abram ben Dior , says : “ When they ( the Qabalists ) affirm , that All Things have been drawn from No - Thing , they do not wish to speak of nothing properly to say , for never can being come from Non - being , but they understand by Non - being , that , which one can conceive of , neither by its cause nor by its essence ; it ( the No Thing ) is in a word , the Cause of Causes ; it is It whom we all call the Primor dial Non - being , because It is anterior to the entire universe ... ' No clear formulated reply can naturally be given to the Formless , all we can know concerning it is : that Something emanates from No - thing ; that out of the Formless emerges the Formed , how and why remains unanswered : this alone is the only meaning we can give to creation ex nihilo . 1 But Crowleyanity may be new , for it is not under the sun . Qabbalah . Isaac Meyer , p . 124 .