Collected Works (Vol. II)

500 505 510 520 530 ASCENSION DAY 157 On just belief or unbelief ; And an involuntary act Make difference infinite in fact Between the right and left-hand thief ? Belief is not an act of will !” I think, Sir, that I have you still, Free will. Even allowing (much indeed !) gctbert That any will at all is freed, penest And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed: I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading ! ) “ But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed If there is free As a mere mirage in the mind, will how can Un j fr Al. But all P leadiny there be pain p Jumps fee will. ut all 1m pleading or damnation? Is against pain and hell. Freewill not-Self being Then can damn man? No fearful mill an illusion. eae . nn : , Self or not-Self Grinding catastrophe, is speeding real? Chute Outside—some whence, some whither? And % d’Icare. I think we easier understand Where Schelling (to the Buddha leading Calls real not-self. In any case There is not, there can never be A soul, or sword or armour needing, Incapable in time or space Or to inflict or suffer. We I think are gradually weeding The soil of dualism. Pheugh! Drop to the common Christian’s view! This is my point ; the world lies bleeding :—- | have pity: (Result of sin ?)—I do not care ; had Christ I will admit : here ! any? The you anywhere . Sheep and the I take your premisses themselves Goats. And, like the droll despiteful elves They are, they yet outwit your plan. 1 will prove Christ a wicked man