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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.