The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 263 With infinite pains and dire fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime ? Where then thy victory over Time ?? Some few work out its gigantic columns of intricate fractional figures , and close for ever the huge volume before them ; yet the multitude works on , and though individually they may falsify and erase , scribble over , or blot out ; yet never at any moment is the inaccu racy of one single mite discounted in the general balance ; so the bitter tears of one man go to blot out the sweet laughter of another , and as the spark ling stream and the muddy river both pour back their boiling waters into that great ocean , from out of which they sun - kissed arose , so do action and re action once again unite to build up that great unity which is Nothing . Not one farthing is ever lost , ab solute co - operation exists , and the dividend Mysticus offered Scepticus is paid out without fault or fail , to all those most assiduous workers whose skill and craft never tarries or tires : “ In the first year Dhyana ; in the second , Samadhi ; and in the third , Nirvana ." 2 In the beginning ( sic ) there is the ledger ( Inertia ) = 0 ; in the middle there is the ledger open , action balanced by re - action ( Inertia ) = 0 ; and in the end there is again ( Inertia ) the ledger closed = 0 . This Idealism , if I may so call it, is very similar to the conditioned and unconditioned of Hegel , to the meta physical unity underlying the Athanasian Creed , and also to the Hindu Philosophy which Crowley so tho roughly grasped , when seeing the slough into which i Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 85 . 2 Time , vol . ii, p . 280 .