Magick Without Tears

36 Quo Stet Olympus Where the Gods and Angels Live Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. We settled what Gods, angels, demons, elementals were some little while ago; we also wrote of how they live, so now, insatiable Seeker, you ask where. In India the earth was supported by an elephant who stood on a tortoise-who . . . ? No floor above. Nothing but empty space with swarming galaxies; no room for "heaven." Simpler to call Olympus or Meru the home of the Gods-believe it or not! don't ask questions! Yet all the time the difficulty is of our own silly making. The most elementary consideration of the nature of Gods, angels, demons and the rest, as shown by their peculiar faculties , stamps them all instantly as Beings pertaining to more than three dimensions! Just as no number of lines is enough to produce the smallest plane, as a cube is capable of containing an infinite number of squares, so, far from there being no room for heaven, there is absolutely nothing but room! Yet of course the nature of that space is forever incomprehensible, nay inconceivable, by any being of a lower dimension . Only when we have succeeded in uniting our Conscious (three-dimensional) with our Unconscious (four-dimensional) Self can we expect even a symbolic conception of how things go on "in them furrin parts." Speculation on such points is unpardonably profitless; I have only devoted these few paragraphs to the subject 240