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by Aleister Crowley  Sir Humphrey Davy, after his first
experiment with the inhalation of ether, exclaimed, "The
Universe is composed solely of ideas."  Simon Iff had obtained
that, and many another, experience, without the aid of drugs. 
But although he was perfectly convinced that 'everything is
illusion', like the most advanced transcendental philosophers,
he was equally sure that all illusion was interwoven in a causal
nexus.  There was no place in his universe for accident; there
was no force so small that the cosmos failed to vibrate in due
degree with it; and there was (further) no means of erasure
applicable to any action.  Nothing could be destroyed; so it was
there if you could only find it; and the task of finding it was
nothing but the removal of the masks and veils.  He was only
interested in crime because its detection sharpened the wits
which he needed in the solution of philosophical problems.  He
used to say that the fundamenta