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The Magician
cannot wield
the Sword
unless the Crown
is on his head.
Those Magicians,
who have attempted
to make the Sword
the sole or
even the principal
weapon,
have only destroyed
themselves,
not by the
destruction
of combination,
but by the destruction
of division/
Weak-
ness overcomes
strength.
The
most
stable political edifice of history
has been
that of China,
which
was founded
principally
on
politeness;
and
that of India
has
proved
strong enough
to absorb
its many conquerors."
The Sword
has been the great weapon of the last century.
Every idea
has been attacked
by thinkers,
and none
has withstood
attack.
Hence
civilization
crumbles.
No settled
principles
remain.
To-day all
constructive
statesmanship
is empiricism
or
opportunism.
It
has
been
doubted
whether
there
is
any
real
relation
between
Mother
and
Child,
any
real
distinction
between Male and Female.
The human mind, in despair, seeing insanity
imminent
in the breaking
' It should
be noted
that
this
ambiguity
in the word "destruction"
has been the
cause of much misunderstanding.
Solve is destruction,
but so is coagitla.
The
aim of
the Magus is to destroy his partial
thought
by uniting
it with the Universal
Thought,
not to make a further breach and division
in the Whole.
^ The
Brahmin
caste is not
so strict
as that of the "heaven-born" (Indian
Civil
Service).