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Page 1 of 11904 · PDF PAGE 5
— 6 — actually making money, but to argue their eternal truth, or even their value at that time, is a further and false step. Does the fact that a cobra is alive prove it to be innocuous ? With the reported murder of Jesus of Nazareth I am not concerned ; but Vespasian’s “ Ut puto Deus fio ” is commonly thought to have been meant as a jest. Our Romanticist’s unique and magnificent dramatisation of the war between the sceptic or lover of truth, and the religious man or lover of life, may be well quoted against me. Though Vespasian did jest, thou…
1904 · PDF PAGE 2
…tter 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 it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intent to explain the beauty of the Buddhist philosophy ; he knows a great deal about it ; he believes in it. But as he went on writing one thing became stronger and stronger in his soul — the living hatred of Christianity. Before he has …
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…ny 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 and that of modern Agnostics. None of these deal with Christianity at all, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
…to appreciate the beauty of the Tantras if the Government (on their authority) enforced the practices of hook-swinging and Sati, and the fact that the cited passages were of doubtful authority, and ambi-