MOTHER LOVE 
343 
Anyone who has not totally and for ever destroyed in 
himself every vestige of this instinct , extirpating every root 
and charring it with Fire , cannot take the first step on the 
Path of the Wise. 
How nobly opposite is the Man-Formula! Its freight the 
wealth of the whole Universe, that splendid Argosy leaps free 
upon the glittering Ocean, to cast the very Soul of Life upon 
uncharted and enchanted isles! 
It is not to these few but well-chosen words that I propose 
to look to enhance my popularity in the Women's Clubs of 
the United States. 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours fraternally , 
666 
P.S. "Mother-Love" 
is, of course, a branch of family 
affection about which I have already written to you in no 
uncertain terms. Of all its sub-sections this is the worst 
because it is the strongest, the most natural, that is to say, 
the most brutish. You have complained pathetically on more 
than one occasion that I do not seem to know my own mind 
about 
Nature; that I am always contradicting 
myself. 
Sometimes I tell you that everything is in Nature ; that 
everything moves by Nature; that to oppose Nature is to 
provoke endothermic reaction, and then I leap headlong 
through the hoop of my own construction and want you to 
defy nature, to attack her, to overcome her. Really, dear 
Master, it is too bad of you! 
I know it sounds bad but there is not really the opposition 
that on the surface there seems to be. Perhaps it is that we 
are talking about two kinds of Nature. In one sense it might 
be asserted that the final formula of Nature is Inertia; in 
other words, that the dyad of manifested existence is an 
arbitrary and artificial development of the Zero to which 
everything must always cancel out. 
Now by saying that, we have to all intents and purposes, 
answered 
the question 
which it poses; all positive