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THE STAR IN THE WEST
his Reason , forsakes his God- (Ain Soph )-- and sacri
fices
his
only
begotten
son
(Unity ) on
the
blood
stained altar of Evolution , by ascribing
to it
a ten
dency
to dividuality , thus barbarously
immolating
his
sacred
child by rendering him one with
the divine fiat
of Genesis
.'
Berkeley ,
nearly
two
hundred
years
ago
now ,
answered
the
scientists
apparently
for
all
time
,
by
stating
:
“
...
it
seems
no
less absurd
to
suppose
a
substance
without
accidents
,
than
it
is
to
suppose
accidents without
a
substance
.”
And that
,
“
though
we should grant the unknown substance may possibly
exist
,
yet where
can
it
be
supposed
to
be
?
That
it
exists not
in
the
mind
is
agreed
;
and that
it
exists
not
in
place
is
no
less
certain
-
since
all
place
or
ex
tension exists only
in
the
mind
,
as
hath been already
proved
.
It
remains
,
therefore
,
that
it
exists
nowhere
at
all
”
-i.e
.,
in
the
Absolute
Zero
.
And
again
he
asserts
,
this time
by
the
word
of
Philonous
:
Con
sequently every corporal
substance being the
substra
tum
of
extension must have
in
itself another extension
,
by
which
it
is
qualified
to
be
a
substratum
:
and
so
on
to
infinity
?
And
I
ask whether
this
be
not absurd
in
itself
,
and repugnant
to
what you granted just
now
,
to
wit
,
that
the
substratum was something
distinct
from and exclusive
of
extension
?
"
3
And what
is
pure
extension
?
-Absolute
Zero
.
Thus
the whole cosmic process resolves itself under
1
“
Heaven and earth and the ten thousand
things come
from
existence
,
but
existence
comes
from
non
-
existence
.”
“
The
TA
O
begets
unity
,
unity begets duality
;
duality begets
trinity
;
and trinity begets
the ten thousand
things
.”
—
Lao
-
Tze
.
2
The Principles
of
Human Knowledge
,
p
.
69
.
3
The Three Dialogues
,
p
.
45
.