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the one great law of Inertia ; so that
the
entire Uni
verse
lies before
us , as Luther said of God ,
“
A blank
sheet
on
which
nothing
is found , but what we our
selves
have written . ” Or again , in the words of the
divine
Spinoza :
“final
or first
causes
are
only fig
ments of the human mind , ” bubbles which must burst
before the finite can
once
again
dissolve into the in
finite
atmosphere
of eternity.
This seeming duality
is
that which
Crowley
infers
when
he
states :
“
In
any category , infinity excludes finity , unless that finity
be an identical part of that infinity .'
Laugh , thou immortal Lesbian !
Thy verse
runs down the runic ages.
Where shalt thou
be when sun and star,
My sun , my star, the vault that span ,
Rush
in their rude, impassive rages
Down to some centre guessed afar
By mindless Law ?
Their
death
embrace
A simple
accident of space ? ?
“ In the
category
of existing
things , space
being
infinite , for
on that hypothesis
we are still working
,
either matter fills or
does
not fill it .
In
the former ,
matter is infinitely great ; if the latter , infinitely small .
Whether
the
matter -universe be
1010000light -years
in
diameter , or half a mile , it makes no difference
; it is
infinitely
small-in
effect ,
Nothing. " :
In
the
first
case being infinitely great
all
else
is
crowded out
,
and
it
=
0
;
in
the
second being
infinitely
small
,
the un
mathematical
illusion
of
the
Hindus
called
“
maya
vanishes likewise
in
O.
So likewise
does
Theism re
solve
into
Pantheism
,
which
itself
dissolves
into
Atheism
;
the
I
=
0
=
0
.
|
Berashith
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
234
.
2
Gargoyles
,
vol
.
iii,
p
.
85
.
3
Berashith
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
234
.