Magick Without Tears

"GOD" AND "SELF" 207 of Heaven and in the Superior Man. (Not George Nathaniel Curzon, however.) It was in the Blossoms of Springtide, and in the chilling winds that swept over from Siberia, and in the Wild Geese that it bore Southward when their instinct bade them. In short, the catalogue began to look as if it were going to extend indefinitely; and an impatient disciple, pointing to certain traces left by a mule in its recent passage, asked: And is the Tao also in that? The Master nodded, and echoed: Also in that. Then what becomes of this privileged 'us'? We are obliged to extend it to include everything. Then, as we have just seen, 'God' also is unfettered by definitions. Net result : "God within us" means precisely nothing at all. And so it does, by Brahman! "Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing and any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this. let him be the chief of all!" (AL . I: 22-23) I implore you not to point out that , this being the case, words like 'hurt' and 'chief' cannot possibly mean anything. The fact is that if we are to get on peaceably in the Club, we have to know when to take any given expression in a Pickwickian sense. In the Ruach all the laws of logic apply: they don't in Neschamah. The real meaning of the passage is simple enough, if you understand that it refers to a specific result of Initiation. You have to be able to reckon up the Universe, as a whole and in every part; and to get rid of all its false or partial realities by discarding everything but the One Reality which is the sole truth in, and of, Illusion. There is one set of equations which expresses the relation of the Perceiver and the Perceived, adjusted in accordance with the particular limitations on both sides; another cancels out all the finite terms, and leaves us with an ultimate x = 0 = 0° . See?