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Page 1 of 11909 · PDF PAGE 17
…pearing to digress, insist upon this distinction between philosophical and practical points of view, or (in Qabalistic language) between Kether and Malkuth. In private conversation I find it hard—almost impossible— to get people to understand what seems to me so very simple a point. I shall try to make it exceptionally clear. A boot is an illusion. A hat is an illusion. Therefore, a boot is a hat. So argue my friends, not distributing the middle term. But thus argue I. All boots are illusions. All hats are illusions. Therefore (though it is not…
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
THE EQUINOX You, they say, claim to be a man in Kether (I don’t). Why then, do you not wear boots on your head and hats on your feet ? I can only answer that I the man in Kether (‘tis but an argument) am out of all relation as much with feet and heads as with boots and hats. But why should I (from my exalted pinnacle) stoop down and worry the headed and footed gentle- man in Malkuth, who after all doesn’t exist for me, by these drastic alterations in his toilet? There is no distinction whatever ; I might easily put the boots on his shoulders, w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 19
… 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…
1909 · PDF PAGE 20
THE EQUINOX still there . . . . until we reach Kether of Atziluth and the Infinite Light, and Space, and Nothing. So then we retire up the path, fighting rear-guard actions ; at every moment a soldier is slain by a hunchback; but as we retire there is always a soldier just by us. Until the end. The end? Buddha thought the supply of hunchbacks infinite ; but why should not the soldiers them- selves be infinite in number? However that may be, here is the point; it takes a moment for a hunchback to kill his man, and the farther we get from our bas…