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Such
is the
step of their duality , when they
face the
awful unity of their existence .
... their logic fails ,
Their jarring jargon jingles
—even such
An empty
brazen pot-wise men deride
The clouds that mimic whales.
Man's darkness is a leathern sheath ,
Myself
the sun -bright sword !'
Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser
the
following
as answer to the
simple Elizabeth's
asser
tion ,
“ but God is absolute Good ” !
God slips you , He is Undefinable !
Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at
all
That heart can grasp
,
or
reason
frame
,
or
soul
Shadow the sense of
!2
Such
a
definition
whether
applied
to
God
or
the
Ain Soph
is
one
and
the
same
.
In
the
Qabalistic
Dogmas
of
Pistorius
we
read even
as
regards Kether
,
the Crown
,
“
There
is
no
name among Qabalists
by
which the supreme King
is
designated
;
they speak
of
the
crown
only
,
which
proves
the
existence
of
the
King
,
and they say that this crown
is
Heaven
.”
If
so
of
Kether
,
how much more
so
of
the Ain Soph
!
Above
the Crown
Kether
,
the first Sephirah
,
is
the
(7*X),
i.e.
,
Ain
,
the
No
-
Thing
.
“
It
is
so
named
be
cause we do not know
,
that which
there
is
in
this
Principle
,
because
it
never descends
as
far
as
our
ignorance
,
and because
it
is
above Wisdom
itself
."
3
“
Not only does the Qabbalah repudiate the adage
·
Mysteries
:
Lyrical
and Dramatic
,
vol
,
i,
pp
.
104
,
105
.
2
Tannhäuser
,
vol
.
i,
p
.
258
.
s
Zohar
,
iii,
fol
.
2886
(
Meyer
).