The Law is for All

Chapter II A Verses 22-24 113 It is the heritage of the whip, the brand of the born slave. Inciden­ tally, we cannot allow people who believe in this “God;” they are troglodytes, as dangerous to society as any other thieves and murderers. The Christians to the Lions! Yet, in the reign of Good Queen Victoria, Matthew Arnold was considered rather hot stuff as an infidel! Tempora mutantur, p.d.q.,1 when a Magus gets on the job. 1 [Lat. “times change” and slang “pretty damn quick.”] The quintessence of this verse is (however) its revelation of the nature of Hadit as a self-conscious and individual Being, although impersonal. He is an ultifnate, independent, and unique element in Nature, impenetrably aloof. The negative electron seems to be his physical analogue. Each such electron is indistinguishable from any other; yet each is determined diversely by its relations with various positive complementary electrons. The verse is introduced at this juncture in order to throw light on the passage which follows. It is important to understand Hadit as the “core of every star” when we come to consider the charac­ ter of those stars, his “friends” or sympathetic ideas grouped about him, who are “hermits”, individualities eternally isolated in reality though they may appear to be lost in their relations with external things. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. Commentary: The Christians to the Lions! A hermit is one who dwells isolated in the desert, exactly as a soul, a star, or an electron in the wilderness of space-time. The 11:6 11:24