The Law is for All

110 The Law is for All speed.”1 Any one who is doing his true Will is drunk with the delight of Life. 1 [A paraphrase of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound ii, 4.] 2 [William Ashley (Billy) Sunday (1862-1935), baseball player turned Revivalist preacher, noted for his flamboyant style and crusading zeal.] Wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with Origi­ nal Sin. In Latin countries, where Sin is not taken seriously, and sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, drunkenness is a rare accident. It is only in Puritan countries, where self-analysis, under the whip of a coarse bully like Billy Sunday,1 2 brings the hearer to “conviction of sin,” that he hits first the “trail” and then the “booze.” Can you imagine an evangelist in Taormina? It is to laugh. This is why missionaries, in all these centuries, have produced no conversions whatever, save among the lowest types of negro, who resemble the Anglo-Saxon in this possession of the “fear-of- God” and “Sin” psychopathies. Truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. Therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an ansesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. The craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. If you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. There is no bet­ ter rough test of a soul than its attitude to drugs. If a man is sim­ ple, fearless, eager, he is all right; he will not become a slave. If he is afraid, he is already a slave. Let the whole world take opium, hashish, and the rest; those who are liable to abuse them were better dead. For it is in the power of all so-called intoxicating drugs to reveal a man to himself. If this revelation declare a Star, then it shines brighter ever after. If it declare a Christian—a thing nor man nor beast, but a muddle of mind—he craves the drug, no more for its analytical but for its numbing effect. Lytton has a