Book 4 (Part II)

88 But one hardly dare comment upon a theme which has been so fruit- fully treated by Ludovicus Carolus, that most holy illuminated man of God. His masterly treatment of the identity of the three reciprocating paths of Daleth, Teth, and Pe, is one of the most wonderful passages in all the Holy Qabalah. His resolution of what we take to be the bond of slavery into very love, the embroidered neckband of honour bestowed upon us by the King himself, is one of the most sublime passages in this class of literature. Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. He put her in a peanut shell; Then he kept her very well. This early authentic text of the Hinayana school of Buddhism is much esteemed even to-day by the more cultured and devoted followers of that school. The pumpkin is of course the symbol of resurrection, as is familiar to all students of the story of Jonah and the gourd. Peter is therefore the Arahat who has put an end to his series of resurrections. That he is called Peter is a reference to the symbolizing of Arahats as stones in the great wall of the guardians of mankind. His wife is of course (by the usual symboHsm) his body, which he could not keep until he put her in a peanut shell, the yellow robe of a Bhikkhu.