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…n him, and the peace ! ” War, I think, if those be the terms. POST-SCRIPT War under certain conditions becomes a question of pace, and I really cannot give my cavalry as much work as Our Brer Rabbit would require. On the appearance of his article “ Mr. Crowley and the creeds ” I signified my intention to reply. It aborted his attack on me, and he has not since been heard of. In the midst of the words he was trying to say, In the midst of his laughter and glee, He has softly and suddenly vanished away— I supposed I always was a bit of a Boojum !
1904 · PDF PAGE 2
…ood ; but this also, though very affected, is very interesting. But the main fact about it is that it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intent to explain the beauty of the Buddhist philosophy ; he knows a great deal about it ; he believes in it. But as he went on writing one thing became stronger and stronger in his soul — the living hatred of Christianity. Before he has finished he has descended to the babyish “ difficulties ” of…
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
…two continents through many centuries, might pos- sibly, under special circumstances, make the East and West almost as different as they really are. THE CREED OF MR. CHESTERTON (BY ALEISTER CROWLEY) When a battle is all but lost and won, the victor is sometimes aware of a brilliancy and dash in the last forlorn hope which was lacking in those initial manœvers which decided the fortune of the day. Hence comes it that Our Reviewer’s apology for Christianity compares so favourably with the methods of ponderous blunder on which people like Paley an…
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…- tion of the Transvaal which resulted therefrom left us so weak that we fell an easy prey to William the Conqueror. Our Novelist should really make a strong effort to materialise his creation in “ The Napoleon of Notting Hill ” of the gentlemen weeping by the graves of their descendents. Any sound philosophy must be first destructive of previous error, then constructive by harmonising truths into Truth. Nor can the human mind rest content with negation ; I honour him rather whose early emotion is hatred of Christianity, bred of compulsion to i…