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all the maddest, fiercest vices that 
the mind  
of fiends ever brought up from the pit.  But 
always to the very end his power is un-
exhausted, immense, terrible.   H is delerium 
does not amuse ; it appals !  A man who could 
conceive as he did must himself have had some 
glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the 
eternal principle of Boundless Love.  
That  
this love was wrecked is for me,  in some sort  
a relative of his,
 a real and 
bitter sorrow.   
He might have been so great 
!  He missed 
Heaven !  Think kindly of him ! 
169. Correctly rhymes.41—Such lines, how-
ever noble in sentiment,
 as: “
À bas 
les  
Anglais !  The Irish up !” w ill not be admitted 
to the competition.   Irish is 
accented on the 
penultimate—bad cess ot the bloody Saxons 
that made it so ! 
The same with Tarshish (see Browning, 
Pippa Passes, II., in the long speech of Blu-
phocks) and many others. 
173. The liar Copleston.42*—Bishop of Cal- 
 
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sons 
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by the follow-ing letter: 
 
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Sir, 
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by underlining it, 
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(c) homage to your grandeur 
 
(d) reference to your conduct 
 
(e) appeal to your finer feelings 
on page —— of  my masterpiece, “The Sword of  
Song,” that I should send you a copy, as I do here-
with, to give you an oppor tunity of defending 
your-self 
against m y m onstrous asser tions, 
thanking me for the advertisment, or——in short, 
replying as may best seem to you to suit the case. 
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ALEISTER CROWLEY. 
cutta.  While holding the see of Ceylon he 
 
wrote a book in which “Buddhism” is de-
scribed as consisting of “devil-dances.”  Now, 
when a man, in a postion to know the 
facts, 
writes a book of the subscription-cadging type, 
whose value for the purpose depends on the 
suppression of these facts, I think I am to be 
commended for my moderation in using the 
term “liar.” 
212. Ibsen.42—Norwegian dramatist.  This 
and the next sentence have nineteen distinct 
meanings.  As, however, all (with one doubt- 
ful exception) are truem and 
taken together 
synthetically connote my concept, I have let 
 
the passage stand. 
219. I was Lord Roberts, he De Wet.44—Vide 
Sir A. Conan Doyle’s masterly 
fiction, “The 
Great Boer War.” 
222. Hill.45—An archaic phrase signifying 
kopje. 
223. Ditch.46—Probably an obsolete slang 
term for spruit. 
273. Some.47—The reader  may  search 
modern periodicals for this theory. 
282. The Tmolian.48—Tmolus, who decided 
the musical contest between Pan and 
Apollo  
in favour of the latter. 
321.  As masters teach.49—Consult Viveka-
nanda, op. cit., or  t he Hathayoga Pradi- 
pika.  Unfortunately, I am unable to 
say  
where (or even whether) a copy of this latter 
work exists. 
331, 332. Stand (Stephen) or sit (Paul).50—
Acts vii. 36 ; Heb. xii, 2. 
337. Samadhi-Dak.51—“Ecstasy-of-medita-
tion mail.” 
338. Maha-Meru.52—The “mystic moun-
tain” of the Hindus.  See Southey’s Curse of 
Kehama. 
339. Gaurisankar.53—Called also Chomo-
kankar, Devadhunga, and Everest. 
341. Chogo.54—The Giant.  This is the native 
name of “K
2” ; or Mount Godwin-Austen, 
 
as C ol. G odwin-Austen w ould call it.   It is  
the second highest known 
mountain in the 
world, as Devadhunga is the first. 
356. The History of the West.55— 
 
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                                       tory of the Indies. 
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Benzoni . . . History 
of the New World. 
Buckle . .  .  H istory of Civilisation. 
Burton, J. H . . History of Scotland. 
Carlyle . . . History 
of Frederick the  
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Carlyle . . . Ol
iver Cromwell. 
Carlyle . . . Pas
t and Present. 
Cheruel, A. . .  Dictionnaire 
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