THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK
This man performs great magic; very strong medicine.
He does really find gold on the midden and skeletons in
pretty girls.
In Abiegnus the Sacred Mountain of the Rosicrucians the
Postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that
coffin contains Christian Rosencreutz who is dead and is alive
for evermore and hath the keys of Hell and of Death.
Ay! your Tiphereth man, child of Mercy and Justice, looks
deeper than the skin!
But he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the
Malkuth man and to the Kether man.
Still, he’s the most interesting man there is; and we all
must pass through that stage before we get our heads really
clear, the Kether-vision above the Clouds that encircle the
mountain Abiegnus.
Ix
Running and returning, like the Cherubim, we may now
resume our attempt to drill our hunchback friend into a pre-
sentable soldier. The digression will not have been all
digression, either; for it will have thrown a deal of light on
the question of the limitations of scepticism.
We have questioned the Malkuth point of view ; it appears
absurd, be it agreed. But the Tiphereth position is unshaken ;
Tiphereth needs no telling that Malkuth is absurd. When
we turn our artillery against Tiphereth, that too crumbles;
but Kether frowns above us.
Attack Kether, and it falls ; but the Yetziratic Malkuth is
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