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1904 · PDF PAGE 1

Mr. Crowley and The Creeds

MR. CROWLEY AND THE CREEDS AND THE CREED OF MR. CHESTERTON WITH A POSTSCRIPT ENTITLED A CHILD OF EPHRAIM* CHESTERTON’S COLOSSAL COLLAPSE * The Children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 3

Mr. Crowley and The Creeds

… up like vermin ; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a common hypothesis, for it is hated. Next week I hope to make a fuller study of Mr. Crowley’s interpretation of Buddhism, for I have not room for it in this column today. Suffice it for the moment to say that if this be indeed a true interpretation of the creed, as it is certainly a capable one, I need go no further than its pages for examples of how a change of abstract belief…

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Mr. Crowley and The Creeds

…arly emotion is hatred of Christianity, bred of compulsion to it, but who subdues that negative passion and forces his way to a positive creed, were it but the cult of Kali or Priapus. Here, indeed, modern Agnostics are at fault. They sensibly enough reject error ; but they are over-proud of their lofty attitude, and, letting slip the real problems of life, busy themselves with side-issues, or try to satisfy the spiritual part of the brain (which needs food like any other part) with the husks of hate. How few among us can reach the supreme sani…

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