264
THE STAR IN THE WEST
Spencerian Agnosticism
was bound to lead , he broke
away from
Buddha
and
the
Buddhistic
doctrines of
scientific doubt :
So lifts the agony of the world
From this mine
head , that bowed awhile
Before the terror suddenly shown.
The nameless
fear for self , far hurled
By death
to dissolution vile,
Fades as the royal truth is known :
Though change and sorrow range and roll ,
There is no self - there
is no soul !?
TIME AND SPACE
One question
still
remains
before
we
dismiss
the
question of Time and Space , and that is their homo
geneity
and
accidental
reality
in
the
Ego .
Being
forms of extension , Space permits
Size ,
and
Time ,
Number , i.e., in Consciousness .
This is the meaning
of
“ Time
is
the
fourth
Dimension .”
So
the
hard
thinking
of Crowley arrives
eventually at the
trans
cendental idea of considering
Space as a plane , and
nearness as Time .
“
Can
Space
be
identified
with
Matter
(Akasa ,
means
both ) , and Time
with Motion
? ”
Crowley an
swers , “
Yes."
( For in extension Space
is the single
immovable
consciousness ;
Time
the
extension
in
number ,
the
motion
of
the
immobiles .
A
moving
body must move in Time ; for it
is
the
succession of
consciousnesses .
“ It is
here " _
" it is
there , " that
makes
us
say , it
moves . It is a succession of con
Gargoyles , vol .
iii,
p.
85
.