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1909 · PDF PAGE 10

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…d hardly impregnable to the simple reflection that all mathematics is conventional, and not essential; relative, and not absolute. We go deeper and deeper, then, it seems, from the One into the Many. Our primary proposition depends no longer upon itself, but upon the whole complex being of man, poor, disputing, muddle-headed man! Man with all his limitations and ignorance ; man—man! 118

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1909 · PDF PAGE 11

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…pends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things. Cheese depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the cow. “Deeper, ever deeper, into the mire of things !” Shall we cut the Gordian knot? shall we say “There is God”? What, in the devil’s name, is God? If (with Moses) we picture Him as an old man showing us His back parts, who shall blame us? The great Question 11g

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1909 · PDF PAGE 19

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

… 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 in…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…er than that into which Moses ground the calf. These golden Elohim! Our calf-heads that brought us not out of Egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double Empire of Asar. Hume put his little ? to Berkeley's God-!; Buddha his ? to the Vedic Atman-!—and neither Hume nor Buddha was baulked of his reward. Ourselves may put? to our own? since we have found no ! to put it to; and wouldn't it be jolly if our own second ? suddenly straightened its back and threw its chest out and marched off as ! ? Suppose then we…

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