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… be small comfort to our grilled widows and lacerated backs. Yet this is the political condition of England at this hour. You invoke a “ casual cameldriver ” to serve your political ends and prevent me having eighteen wives as against four : I prove him an imposter, and you call my attention to the artistic beauty of Ya Sin. I point out that Ya Sin says nothing about four wives, and you say that all moral codes limit the number. I ask you why all this fuss about Mohammed, in that case, and you write all my sentences — and your own — Qabalistica…
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
— 4 — A casual carpenter wandered about a string of villages and suddenly a horde of rich men and sceptics and Sadducees and respectable persons rushed at him and nailed him up like vermin ; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a common hypothesis, for it is hated. Next week I hope to make a fuller study of Mr. Crowley’s interpretation of Buddhism, for I have not room for it in this column today. Suffice it for the moment to say tha…
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…between the canonical Buddhist doctrine and that of modern Agnostics. None of these deal with Christianity at all, save for a chance and casual word. I look forward with pleasure to a new History of England, in which it will be pointed out how the warlike enthusiasm aroused by the Tibetan expedition led to the disastrous plunge into the Boer War ; disastrous because he separa- tion of the Transvaal which resulted therefrom left us so weak that we fell an easy prey to William the Conqueror. Our Novelist should really make a strong effort to mate…
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
…e thousands in this country who would gladly see him writhing in eternal torture — that physiological impossibi- lity — for his word “ a casual carpenter,” albeit he wrote it in reverence. That is the kind of Christian I would hang. The Christian who can write as Our Cham- pion of Christendom does about his faith is innocuous and pleasant, though in my heart I am compelled to class him with the bloodless desperadoes of the “ Order of the White Rose ” and the “ moutons enragés ” that preach revo- lution in Hyde Park. When he says that he will tr…