Collected Works (Vol. III)

WHY JESUS WEPT A STUDY OF SOCIETY AND OF THE GRACE OF GOD 1905 PERSONS STUDIED. THE MARQUIS OF GLENSTRAE, K.G, TYSON, @ farmer. SIR PERCIVAL DE PERCIVALE, Bart., K,C,B. SIR PERCY DE PERCIVALE, Azs son, JOHN CARRUTHERS, his friend and steward of his house, GREUMOCH, a Aiighland gillie, RENOLD, \ household servants, Sir HERPES ZOSTER, M.D,, a celebrated physician, S1R GRABSON JOBBS, Q.C., Solicitor-General, Mr. G. K,. CHESTERTON, LORD RONALD GOWER, as Chorus. A Horny-Handed Brother (Plymouth), A conscientious Chemist. A Theatre-Goer. Large but unseen body of retainers. MAUD, MARCHIONESS OF GLENSTRAE, ANGELA, LADY BAIRD, HORTENSE, er maid, MOLLY TYSON, daughter of Tyson, Aged (Plymouth) Sisters, &c,, &c. The action of the play occupies three years. DEDICATIO MINIMA. My dear Christ, A person, purporting to be a friend and disciple of yours, and calling himself John, reports you to have wept. Hts testimony is now considered by the best authorities to be of avery doubtful order. But if you did weep, this (vide infra) is why. Or if not, surely tt would have made you weep, had it met your eye. Excuse the rhyme! ~ You ask me (on ait) to believe you. I shall be willing to do so—merely as a gentleman— till you betray the trust ; but at present nobody worthy of sertous consideration can give me any clear notion of what you actually assert. I labour under no such disadvantages. So have no diffidence in asking you to believe me, Yours affectionately, ALEISTER CROWLEY, DEDICATIO MINOR. My dear Lady I quite agree with your expressed opinion that no true gentleman would (with or with- out reason) compare any portion of your ladyship’s anatomy to a ptece of wet chamots leather ; the best I can do to repair his rude- ness ts to acknowledge the notable part your ladyship played in the conception of thts masterpiece by the insertion of as much of your name as my lawyers will permit me. I am your ladyship~’s most humble and obedient servant, ALEISTER CROWLE ¥. ? DEDICATIO MAJOR, My Friends, To you, Eastern of the Easterns, who have respectively given up all to find Truth ; you, Jinawaravansa,’ who esteemed the Yellow Robe 1 A Siamese prince who became a Buddhist monk, 20