The Star in the West

206 THE STAR IN THE WEST the spume of the oceanic knowledge of the deep , that it sees no further than the tip of its own glowing nose , upon which roseate point it hypnotises itself into a hypermnemonic state of “ Knowallableness " ; this , if not more so , is certainly quite as fatuous a standpoint to hold as that of Spencer , in his philosophy of the “ Unknowable ." Both are dogmatisms , and as such condemn the very object of their existence . It is seldom remembered that the Infinite need not necessarily mean the boundless ; for there is the infinitely small , just as there is the infinitely great , as Crowley states in Aceldama : The inmost is the home of God . He moulds Infinity , The great within the small , one stainless unity !! The power of the small is grandly described in the following : Yet ants may move the mountain ; none is small But he who stretches out no arm at all ; Toadstools have wrecked fair cities in a night , One poet's song may bid a kingdom fall .? And that which is below is as that which is above ; for : Time is to us the Now , and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates , is a part Of our own thoughts and souls . So we see : For Gods , and devils too , I find Are merely modes of my own mind !4 2 1 Aceldama , vol . i, p . 4. Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 110 . 3 Ibid . vol . i, p. 119 . + Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 177 .