The Star in the West

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 .