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Page 1 of 11909 · PDF PAGE 18
… 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, with his head on one foot and the hat on the other. In short, why not be a clean-living Irish gentleman, even if you do have insane ideas about the universe? Very good, say my friends, unabashed, then why not stick to that? Why glorify Spanis…
1909 · PDF PAGE 19
…ath. 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 digressi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…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 a syllogis…