"We exist, as the stars exist, in the void of infinitely unsullied consciousness. Between each brilliant point lies space, sleep or death. Physical space is symbolic of the void in which our potential is concealed. This ‘inbetweenness’ state is the ‘pathway between ecstasies’. The stars shine by virtue of the dark void between manifestation; by virtue of sleep which separates waking from dreaming, and death which separates being from non-being. But between these shining points we exist as pure consciousness (Truth), even as we exist continuously, unfragmentedly, through sleep, death and absentmindedness. Were we always manifest, were day perpetual, we should know, be and feel nothing. By virtue of the Body alone is the Spirit realized. Similarly, it is by virtue of the Moment that Eternity is realized, and by Falsehood, Truth."
Kenneth Grant/Aleister Crowley & the Hidden God
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