THE NEW WINE
263
With infinite pains and dire fatigues
To build another stupid soul
For fools to call another world ?
Where then thy fame, O soul
sublime
?
Where then thy victory over Time ??
Some few work out
its
gigantic columns
of
intricate
fractional figures
,
and close for ever
the huge volume
before them
;
yet the multitude works
on
,
and though
individually
they may falsify
and erase
,
scribble over
,
or
blot out
;
yet never
at
any moment
is
the inaccu
racy
of
one
single
mite
discounted
in
the
general
balance
;
so
the
bitter
tears
of
one
man go
to
blot
out the sweet laughter
of
another
,
and
as
the spark
ling stream and the muddy river both pour back their
boiling
waters
into
that
great
ocean
,
from
out
of
which
they sun
-
kissed
arose
,
so
do
action
and re
action once again unite
to
build
up
that great unity
which
is
Nothing
.
Not one farthing
is
ever
lost
,
ab
solute
co
-
operation exists
,
and the dividend Mysticus
offered
Scepticus
is
paid out without
fault
or
fail
,
to
all those
most
assiduous
workers
whose skill
and
craft never tarries
or
tires
:
“
In
the first year Dhyana
;
in
the second
,
Samadhi
;
and
in
the third
,
Nirvana
."
2
In
the beginning
(
sic
)
there
is
the ledger
(
Inertia
)
=
0
;
in
the
middle
there
is
the
ledger
open
,
action
balanced
by
re
-
action
(
Inertia
)
=
0
;
and
in
the
end
there
is
again
(
Inertia
)
the
ledger closed
=
0
.
This
Idealism
,
if
I
may
so
call
it,
is
very similar
to
the
conditioned and unconditioned
of
Hegel
,
to
the meta
physical unity underlying
the
Athanasian
Creed
,
and
also
to
the Hindu Philosophy
which Crowley
so
tho
roughly grasped
,
when seeing the slough into which
i
Gargoyles
,
vol
.
iii,
p
.
85
.
2
Time
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
280
.