The Star in the West

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 .