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Discarded
all
proportion just
,
And thundered
in
our ears
“
I
know
,”
And bellowed
in
our brains
“
ye
must
. "
1
In
“
Why Jesus Wept
”
our eyes
are startled with
the
following
horrid
blasphemy
,
“
The badger Jesus
skulketh
in
his holt
,"
?
which
,
after all
,
is
not
a
quarter
so
blasphemous
as
to
suppose that Jesus
,
the Son
of
God
,
the Very God
,
resides
in
a
loaf and
a
bottle
,
as
the
Plymouth
brethren did
in
the
same
satire
-
vide
scene xiii
.
Finally
,
instead
of
allowing
this most un
fortunate
of
unfortunate individuals
to
peacefully ascend
to
heaven
from two places simultaneously
he
unfeel
ingly dismisses him
,
the Omnipotent
,
in
a
jest
.'
Crowley
further
shows
,
by
quoting
the
parable
of
the sheep
and the goats
,
that
the historical
(?)
Christ
was
to
a
great
extent
devoid
of
pity
,
and
a
little
further on
in
the same
poem
,
“
Ascension
Day
,”
that
he
was but
a
cantankerous
divider
and obstreperous
upstart
:
Give me omnipotence
?
To call me God
I
would exert
That power
to
heal creation's hurt
;
Not
to
divide my devotees
From those
who scorned me
to
the close
:
A
worm
,
a
fire
,
a
thirst for these
;
A
harp
-
resounding heaven
for those
!4
Concerning
the mother
of
the eternal God
,
Crowley
has little
to
tell
us
,
and
the
Blessed Virgin's affaire
du
cœur with the
amiable
Gabriel
is
but touched
on
for
a
moment
:
21
The Sword
of
Song
,
Pentecost
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
181
.
Why Jesus Wept
,
vol
.
iii,
p
.
40
.
3
The Sword
of
Song
,
Ascension Day
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
163
.
*
Ibid
.
vol
.
ii,
p
.
158
.