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…he holy Ark? What does it matter? All these images are of wood and stone, the wood and stone of our own stupid brains! The Fatherhood of God is but a human type; the idea of a human father con- joined with the idea of immensity. Two for One again! No combination of thoughts can be greater than the think- ing brain itself; all we can think of God or say of Him, so long as our words really represent thoughts, is less than the whole brain which thinks, and orders speech. Very good; shall we proceed by denying Him all think- able qualities, as do t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…tation and the nature of the cow. “Deeper, ever deeper, into the mire of things !” Shall we cut the Gordian knot? shall we say “There is God”? What, in the devil’s name, is God? If (with Moses) we picture Him as an old man showing us His back parts, who shall blame us? The great Question 11g
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
…terminate; all our knowledge is relative, even in a narrower sense than is usually implied by the statement. Under the whip of the clown God, our performing donkeys the philosophers and men of science run round and round in the ring; they have amusing tricks : they are cleverly trained ; but they get nowhere. I don’t seem to be getting anywhere myself. II A fresh attempt. Let us look into the simplest and most certain of all possible statements. Thought exists, or if you will, Cogitatur. Descartes supposed himself to have touched bed-rock with …
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…; for his truth is ower true! But it is your own fault if you are the world instead of the beloved; and only see of me what Moses saw of God! It is disgusting to have to spend one’s life jetting dirt in the face of the British publicin the hope that in washing it they may wash off the acrid grease of their commercialism, the saline streaks of their hypocritical tears, the putrid perspi- ration of their morality, the dribbling slobber of their senti- mentality and their religion. And they don’t wash it!. . . But let us take a less unpleasing met…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
… Egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double Empire of Asar. Hume put his little ? to Berkeley's God-!; Buddha his ? to the Vedic Atman-!—and neither Hume nor Buddha was baulked of his reward. Ourselves may put? to our own? since we have found no ! to put it to; and wouldn't it be jolly if our own second ? suddenly straightened its back and threw its chest out and marched off as ! ? Suppose then we accept our scepticism as having destroyed our knowledge root and branch—is there no limit to its action? Doe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…obtain the volume entitled “The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage”; or the magical writings of that holy illuminated Man of God, Captain Fuller, and carry out fully their instructions. And only when we have succeeded, when we have put a colossal ! against our vital ? need we inquire whether after all the soldier is not going to develop spinal curvature. Let us take the first step ; let us sing: “1 do not ask to see The distant path ; one step’s enough for me.” But (you will doubtless say) I pith your ? itself with another ?: Why qu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
…elation between the two ideas is unthink- able; causality is itself unthinkable; it depends, for one thing, upon experience—and what, in God’s name, is experi- 114
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…stent, a most awful speci- men, that her buns were stale, and her tea stewed; evgo, that I was having a very poor time of it. Talk! Good God! But Dorothy kept on quietly and took no notice; and in the end I forgot about them. Thinking it over soberly, I see now that very likely they were quite right: I can’t prove it either way. Butas a mere practical man, I intend taking the steamer—for my sins I am 122
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
…ing Malkuth ; he refuses to allow Malkuth to obsess his thought. He keeps on crying out that there is no difference between a goat and a God, in the hope of hypnotising himself (as it were) into that percep- tion of their identity, which is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from Kether. 126
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
… passing spasm of an hour; the magnetism of the path itself was the true lure. It is as foolish to ask me “ Why do you adep ?” as to ask God “‘ Why do you pardon?” Crest son métier. I am not so foolish as to think that my doctrine can ever gain the ear of the world. I expect that ten centuries hence the “nominal Crowleians” will be as pestilent and numerous a body as the “nominal Christians” are to-day; for (at present)I have been able to devise no mechanism for excluding them. Rather, perhaps, should I seek to find them a niche in the shrine, …