Chapter II * Verses 24-25
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let us drive them to the “hell” or secret sanctuary within their 
consciousness. There dwells “the worm that dieth not and the fire 
that is not quenched”;1 that is, “the secret serpent coiled about to 
spring” and “the flame that burns in every heart of man”— 
Hadit. In other words, we take up arms against falsehood; we 
cannot help it if that falsehood forces the King it has imprisoned 
to assent to its edicts, even to believe that his interests are those of 
his oppressor, and to fear Truth as once Jehovah did the Serpent.
1 [Mark 9:44, paraphrase; see also Isaiah 66:24.]
2 Beast-food; even The New York Times of November 13, 1918 E.v. has 
it. [This issue announced the end of World War I, giving casualty 
totals. At the back is a six-line item reporting the massacre of Arme­
nians by the Turks, the first wholesale ethnic genocide of the century.]
25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen!
Commentary: By “the people” is meant that canting, whin­
ing, servile breed of whipped dogs which refuses to admit its deity. 
The mob is always afraid for its bread and butter—when its 
tyrants let it have any butter—and now and then the bread has 
60% substitutes of cattle-fodder.1 2 So, being afraid, it dare not 
strike. And when the trouble begins, we aristocrats of Freedom, 
from the castle or the cottage, the tower or the tenement, shall 
have the slave mob against us. The newspapers will point out to 
us that “the People” prefer to starve, and thank John D. Rock­
efeller for the permission to do so.
Still deeper, there is a meaning in this verse applicable to the 
process of personal initiation. By “the people” we may under­
stand the many-headed and mutable mob which swarms in the 
slums of our own minds. Most men are almost entirely at the 
mercy of a mass of loud and violent emotions, without discipline 
or even organization. They sway with the mood of the moment. 
They lack purpose, foresight, and intelligence. They are moved by 
ignorant and irrational instincts, many of which affront the law 
of self-preservation itself, with suicidal stupidity. The moral Idea 
which we call “the people” is the natural enemy of good 
government. He who is “chosen” by Hadit to Kingship must 
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