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Page 1 of 11904 · PDF PAGE 7
… : “ Praise be to Allah for the Apostle of Allah, and for the Faith of Islam. And the favour of Allah upon 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…
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
… a change of abstract belief might break a civilisation to pieces. Under the influ- ence of this book earnest modern philosophers may, I think, begin to perceive the outlines of two vast and mystical philosophies, which if they were subtly and slowly worked out in 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 a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…n this claim on behalf of death. We all die ; it was the Resurrection and Ascension which stamped Christ as God. Our Philosopher will, I think, fight shy of these events. The two thieves were “ nailed up like vermin ” on either side of Christ by precisely the same people ; are they also gods ? To found a religion on the fact of death, murder though it were, is hardly more than African fetichism. Does death prove more than life ? Will Mr. Chesterton never be happy until he is hanged ? These then are the rear-guard actions of his retiring and bea…