The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 207 “ All is illusion ,” says Criosda ,' and further back in that weird play— “ The God - Eater ” — we have already heard him solemnly utter : Mystery ninefold closed upon itself That matter should move mind - Ay ! darker yet That mind should work on matter ? And the proof Extant , implicit in the thought thereof ! Else all our work were vain . These twain be one .? 3 In these five lines we find a clinching of the whole argument . " These twain be one .” No more than this did Berkeley ever arrive at : " But , though it were possible that solid , figured , movable substances may exist without the mind , corresponding to the ideas we have of bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by sense or by reason . He never denied the material existence of things , and was as much a phenomenalist as an idealist . Crowley , similarly accepting Egoity , does not however reject Non egoity , but envelops both . In such a conflict I stand neuter . But oh ! Mistake not gold for pewter ! The plain fact is: materialise What spiritual fact you choose , And all such turn to folly - lose The subtle splendour , and the wise Love and dear bliss of truth . Beware Lest your lewd laughter set a snare For any ! Thus and only thus Will I admit a difference ' Twixt spirit and the things of sense . What is the quarrel between us ? 1 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 138 . 2 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 134 . 3 The Principles of Human Knowledge , p . 39. ( Religion of Science Library .)