262
THE STAR IN THE WEST
Another
triumph for Crowleyanity :
Things as they are —of these take hold ,
Their heart of wonder throb to thine !
All things are matter and force and sense ,
No two alone .
All's one : the gold
Of truth is no reward divine
Of faith , but wage of evidence.
The clod , the God , the spar, the star ,
Mete in thy measure , as they are !!
The
sum total of the Vedantist
Crowley
sums
up
as follows :
"
I'am an illusion , externally .
In reality ,
the true
' I'am
the Infinite , and if the illusionary
‘ I '
could only realize Who
I'really am , how very happy
we should
all
be
!”
Here we have
the
great
law
of
re
-
birth operating nowhere
in
nothing
.
Thus the universe
is
laid
open
before
us
as
some
huge ledger
,
upon which
each being
is
working
as
a
clerk
;
some
are
called directors
,
some
accountants
,
some cashiers
,
yet great
or
small
,
high
or
low
,
from
the amoeba
to
man
,
they
are
all
scribbling
,
scribble
,
scribble
,
and counting
,
counting
,
counting
,
again and
again
,
“
all
the choir
of
heaven
and furniture
of
earth
,”
as
Huxley
says
,
“
transitory forms
of
parcels
of
cos
mic substance wending
along
the
road
of
evolution
,
from nebulous
potentiality
,
through
endless
growths
of
sun
and
planet and satellite ...
back
to
that
indefinable latency from which they arose
.
As Crowley
writes
:
"
3
Where
is
thy fame
,
when
million leagues
Of flaming gas absorb the roll
Of many
a
system
ruinous hurled
Gargoyles
,
vol
.
iii,
p
.
85
.
2
Berashith
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
235
.
3
Cited
in
vol
.
ii,
p
.
246
.