The Star in the West

260 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 .