The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 303 against the Word ; for Samadhi surpasses all rational quantities including Egotism and Altruism , Time and Space . Passing to that state beyond progress , which is pure freedom and divine Will , man reaches the stage when he ceases to think empirically under the schemata of Time and Space . The mind at such moments reaches heights wherein another light suc ceeds to the light of experience ; there is a mental “ whirl " which , though irrational to pure reason , has an incalculable value , probably depending on certain higher laws unknown to the rational world . When the soul has reached this point , law , in the rational sense of the term , has ceased to have any existence , and it henceforth enters into direct communion with the Good ; which is its own law . Thus when we have raised our hearts to the nth power , we become as Gods knowing good and evil ; and if this raising of the heart , which Crowley so brilliantly sets forth throughout his works , can in any way lead a man into a nobler and higher insight of himself , no one can ever doubt then that it is right for him to so raise it . We have already seen from Dr. Maudsley what dangers have to be expected by those who chose this hill - top track to follow . Others from a similar point of vantage attack it as being pure autohypnosis and nothing else . But curious to say , if such be the case why is it that the greatest sages of all times have been able to attract within their focus so many hundreds of millions of rational beings ? they themselves being only irrational and pathological mystagogues . If such men as Krishna , Mahomet , St. Augustine , Moses , Orpheus , Pythagoras , Buddha , Plato , Jesus , and a host of equal and lesser names , owed their power to