The Star in the West

326 THE STAR IN THE WEST be permitted to begin to try to stop thinking . For needless to say , the universe, including the thinker , exists only by virtue of the thinker's thought ' (Berkeley , Hume , etc. ). “ These are real , these illusions : I am of them , false or frail .”? And they cannot be overthrown even by travellers in Morocco who administer to possessed Moors Seidlitz powders , first giving the alkali , and then the acid , the patients firmly believing that in the effervescence consequent to the evolution of gas , the evil spirit has been dislodged from their interior . For if they firmly believe the spirit was dislodged , there can not be the slightest doubt on this point , the spirit being a temporary part of the “ brain ,” as all other “ ideas ” must be from the idea of “ constipation ” which Seidlitz powders will also remove -- to that of Heaven and Hell ,' which Swedenborg also dislodges . At last we have arrived at the close of a difficult yet intensely interesting journey . Crowleyanity has led us through more marvels than Dante ever bore witness to in the “ Paradiso " and the “ Inferno ." His may have been a Divine Comedy , but here before us has been unrolled the vast drama of a Sublime Tragedy : “ All arguments are arguments in a circle ," and there is a home to which we all one day shall have to return , to the celestial home of crowning glory . Some spur and spare not , others linger , and others dawdle in the by - ways and lanes of existence , yet the most tardy will one day catch up with the fastest and a time will come when the tortoise will be one with the hare . All is one , either a mass of impressions i Berashith , vol . ii, p . 242 . Epilogue , vol . ii, p . 283 . 3 We are ourselves both Heaven and Hel ( Omar Khayyám ). 2