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1909 · PDF PAGE 27

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…re rod of Light, thy left hand clasped upon the scarlet scourge of Death; thy body girdled with a snake more brilliant than the sun, its name Eternity; thy mouth curved moonlike in a smile, in the invisible kiss of Nuit, our Lady of the Starry Abodes; thy body’s electric flesh stilled by sheer might to a movement closed upon itself in the con- trolled fury of Her love—nay, beyond all these Images art thou (little brother!) who art passed from I and Thou, and He unto That which hath no Name, no Image. . . . Little brother, give me thy hand; for …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 11

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…e 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

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1909 · PDF PAGE 6

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…n 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

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1909 · PDF PAGE 20

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…nocks Samadhi to pieces, is such a stupendous Idea that it is far more of a! than all previous !’s whatever, for all its ? form. And the name of that Question is Nibbana. Take this matter of the soul. When Mr. Judas McCabbage asks the Man in the Street why he believes in a soul, the Man stammers out that he has always heard so; naturally McCabbage has no difficulty in proving to him by biological methods that he has no soul; and with a sunny smile each passes on his way. 128

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