The Star in the West

276 THE STAR IN THE WEST on the other hand , “ proved that , in a multitude of important instances , so far from possessing ' clear knowledge ,' that they may be so taken , we have none at all ; and that our duty therefore is to remain silent , or to express at most , suspended judgment ." 1 This , the mob of mankind are very loath to do , for instead of honestly expressing nine - tenths of their knowledge in terms of doubt , they cast the whole onus of Absolute or Noumenal knowledge on to the back of some aching and asinine deity . By postulating Unknowability , which if treated as an absolute term is also a positive one ( God ), Spencer the Transfigured Realist was hoisted by that very same petard he had himself intended to tie to the wagging tail of the Christian Deity . Thus by render ing all knowledge automorphological , in order to an nihilate the unity of thirty - nine articles without parts or passions , rearing himself up , he plunged down , creating in his fall , “ a footless stocking without a leg ” -Unknowability . In “ Eleusis ” Crowley illustrates this , and says : “ Evolution is no better than creation to explain things , as Spencer showed .” 2 Huxley the sublime philosopher , the true agnostic , the periphery of whose knowledge extended far into those mirrored realms wherein Spencer only saw his own distorted countenance , seeing well that Hylo Idealistic - Solipsism led the whole sentient creation from sub - rational matter to rational man , was suffi ciently a true agnostic not to deny the possibility of a divine Solipsism , leading rational man to a super rational God , but yet not sufficiently illuminated to · Huxley's Hume , p . X. 2 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 228 .