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MR. CROWLEY AND THE CREEDS AND THE CREED OF MR. CHESTERTON WITH A POSTSCRIPT ENTITLED A CHILD OF EPHRAIM* CHESTERTON’S COLOSSAL COLLAPSE * The Children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
MR. CROWLEY AND THE CREEDS (BY G. K. CHESTERTON) Mr. Aleister Crowley publishes a work, “ The Sword of Song : Called by Christians ‘ The Book of the Beast,’ ” and called, I am ashamed to say, “ Ye Sword of Song ” on the cover, by some singularly uneducated man. Mr. Aleister Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet ; his “ Soul of Osiris,” written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood ; but this also, though very affected, is very interesting. But the main fact about it is that …
…enturies, might pos- sibly, under special circumstances, make the East and West almost as different as they really are. THE CREED OF MR. CHESTERTON (BY ALEISTER CROWLEY) When a battle is all but lost and won, the victor is sometimes aware of a brilliancy and dash in the last forlorn hope which was lacking in those initial manœvers which decided the fortune of the day. Hence comes it that Our Reviewer’s apology for Christianity compares so favourably with the methods of ponderous blunder on which people like Paley and Gladstone have relied. But …
… religion on the fact of death, murder though it were, is hardly more than African fetichism. Does death prove more than life ? Will Mr. Chesterton never be happy until he is hanged ? These then are the rear-guard actions of his retiring and beaten and army. The army itself is pretty well out of sight. There is a puff of artillery from afar to the effect that “ no man can contrive to be agnostic about Christianity.” This is very blank cartridge. Who is agnostic about the shape of the earth ? Who prides himself upon a profound reserve about the …
— 5 — that I end up literally raving. My book is possibly difficult in many ways, but only Mr. Chesterton would have tried to understand it by reading it backward. Repartee apart, it is surely an ascertainable fact that while the first 29 pages are almost exclusively occupied with an attack on Christianity as bitter and violent as I can make it, the remaining 161 are composed of (a) an attack on materialism, (b) an essay in metaphysics opposing advaitism, (c) an attempt to demonstrate the close analogy between the canonical Buddhist doctrine an…