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THE SWORD OF SONG
Recapitulation
of principal cos-
mic theories..
Bard check-
mates himself.
Consciousness
and Christi-
anity. ,
Dhyana and
Hinduism.
Sammasa-
madhi and
Buddhism. —
You know for me the soul is nought
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Save a mere phantom in the thought,
That thought itself impermanent,
Save as a casual element
With such another may combine
To form now water and now wine ;
The element itself may be
Changeless to all eternity,
But compounds ever fluctuate
With time or space or various state.
(Ask chemists else!) So I must claim
Spirit and matter are the same ”
Or else the prey of putrefaction.
This matters to the present action
Little or nothing. Here’s your theories !
Think if you like: I find it wearies !
It matters little whether we
With Fichte and the Brahmins preach
That Ego-Atman sole must be ;
With Schelling and the Buddha own
Non-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; |
With Hegel and—the Christian? téach
That which completes, includes, absorbs
Both mighty unrevolving orbs.
In one informing masterless
Master-idea of consciousness—
All differences as these indeed
Are chess play, conjuring. “ Proceed !”
Nay! Pll go back. The exposition
Above, has points. But simple fission
Has reproduced a different bliss,
At last a heterogenesis! — |
The metaphysics of these verses
Is perfectly absurd. My curse is
No sooner in an iron word
I formulate my thought than I
Perceive the same to be absurd ©
(Tannhauser). So for this, Sir, why!
Your metaphysics in your teeth ! _
Confer A. Crowley, “ Berashith.”
But hear! The Christian is a Dualist ;
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