Magick Without Tears

206 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS But nobody else will have the same set of qualities in his private museum; you have, as everyone has always done, made another God in your own image. Then the Vedantists define God as 'having neither quality nor quantity'; and some Yogis have a practice of setting up images to knock them down at once with "Not that! Not that! " And the Buddhists won't admit any God at all in anything at all like the sense in which you use the word. 3 What's worse, whatever you may mean by 'God' conveys no idea to me: I can only guess by the light of my exceedingly small knowledge of YOH and your general habits of thought and action . Then what sense was there in chucking it at my head? Half a brick would have served you better. You think you can explain to me viva voce, perhaps? Don't you dare try! Whatever you said, I should prove to be nonsense, philosophically and in a dozen other ways. And the County Council Ambulance would bundle you off in your battered and bewildered debris to the Bug-house, as is so etymologically indicated. Do see it simply; the word must in any event connote ideas of Neschamah, not of Ruach. "But you use the word all the time." Yes, I do, and rely on the context to crystallize this most fluid-or gaseous-of expressions. 'Us'. Why 'us'? Is this a reference to the Old School Tie, or that Finishing School in Brussels, and the ticket to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot? I do not suppose for a moment that you meant it that way: but it's there. And so- Anecdote of Lao-tze. The Old One was surrounded as usual by a galaxy of adoring disciples, and they were trying to get him to show them where the Tao was to be found. It was in the Sun and Moon, he admitted; it was in the Son 3. One of the most amusing passages of irony is to be found in The Questions of King Milindo where the Arahat Nagasena demolishes Maha Brahma.