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1904 · PDF PAGE 4

Mr. Crowley and The Creeds

…. I would define myself as an agnostic with a future. But to the enthymeme itself. A word is enough to expose it. Other things have been hated before and since Christ lived — if he lived. Slavery was hated. A million men died about it, and it was cast out of every- where but the hearts of men. Euripides hated Greek religion, and he killed the form thereof. Does Our Logician argue from these facts the vitality of slavery or Delphi ? Yes, perhaps, when Simon Legree and the Pythoness were

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1904 · PDF PAGE 3

Mr. Crowley and The Creeds

…ved 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 that if this be indeed a true interpretation of the creed, as it is certainly a capable one, I need go no further than its pages for examples of how a change of abstract belief might break a civilisation to pieces. Under the influ- ence of…

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