Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light by Aliester Crowley

Author:Aliester Crowley [Crowley, Aliester]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780933429048
Google: 5OrzDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0933429045
Barnesnoble: 0933429045
Goodreads: 1317803
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

1 It needs little creative genius to introduce dextrously the various members of Dr. Waistcoat’s troupe. I therefore leave the rest of it to Stage Managers to arrange as they will.

ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS

33

Bones. That is in Kether again. If you wish to cancel a number, however, zero is no use to you; you need a minus quantity.

Bowley. Which (you are no doubt going to say) demands a geometrical interpretation, and a very conventional one at that.

Bones. Yes; even the Ruach can in a sense get rid of the Opposites. How much more then when we observe the matter from the point of view of Samadhi!

Bowley. Then what is the converse of Truth?

Bones. My dear Pilate, it certainly is not falsehood. A crooked line is not the contradictory of a straight one. Curves and corners alike exclude the straight line and——

Bowley. No proposition can possibly have two logical contradictories.

Bones. There I pass.

Bowley. Keynes.

Bones. I should certainly have brought it in justifiable homicide had the remark been Abel’s.

Bowley. Our old friendship——

Bones. All very well—you know I should never have made such a remark in real life and it’s dam bad form to give it me in a dialogue where I can’t help myself, but have to say exactly what you like.

Bowley. Oh, come! I’ve given you all the best speeches. The Lord hath given—

look out!

Bones. I trust to your honour. Where were we? Anyway, I tell you this: it’s a ripping good formula as such.

Bowley. Now we come down to the Black Magician and his circle again; all right, I am with you. I can never help suspecting you of morality, though; you’re a devilish deep Johnny, but the atavism comes through. As long as you wear a tie that the Neanderthal cave man would have discarded as out of date I can never quite class you with this century.

Bones. Before Abraham was, I am.

Bowley. [ Taking no notice.] I call it a Christian tie. Faith in your wife’s affection surviving it; charity, which is not ashamed; hope—no, only Hope Brothers.

Bones. This is in some ways a digression——

Bowley. I can prove——

Bones. I know you can. Don’t.

Bowley. Well, about truth. Surely I am right in saying that “I don’t know” and keeping silence—both subjective formulas—are equal in value to yours of telling truth to a man in the sense he understands.

Bones. Yes; I may grant so much: but my formula is a good one too.

Bowley. I promise to try it.

Bones. You have two advantages. One is the common or Garden Magic; you acquire the habit of telling truth in the low material objective sense, and nature is bound (as Levi says) “to accommodate herself to the statement of the magician.” Thus, one may take hold of a hot iron, or coal, saying “It does not hurt” and it doesn’t.

Bowley. I have tried that. But I thought it a question of courage and will.

34

KONX OM PAX

The Hindus have a game they call the Act of Truth. I remember one time King

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.