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the Master Mason has written, indited, carved, marked, engraved, or otherwise there delineated', and
thousands of pages of parallel passages from the rituals of Dionysus and Attis to those of Set and
Quetzlacoatl. The work has been done, and the conclusions are as certain as anything can be in human
knowledge; and despite the Spanish proverb De las cosas mas seguras, mas seguro es duvidar, the reader
may rely on them.
Every new fact that comes under his notice will enlarge and confirm his confidence. Enough then of the
death of Jesus; he dies and is reborn in the life of man and the life of the year; {216} and he was wrong
when he said The poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always, and a thousand times right
when he said Lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world. Amen.
The Unnatural Wedding
A few words upon the psychology of the people. In Syria 2000 years ago, as in London to-day, there
were people who go to church like sheep, not knowing so much as the nature of the doctrines they are
supposed to hold, and others who were like those modern Christians who think a little, and prefer the
Rev. R.J. Campbell to the Rev. F.B. Meyer, or the 'Gloomy Dean' to the 'Boisterous Bishop'. In India
to-day there are many who pay strict reverence to custom, and have only vague and distant admiration
(sometimes, indeed, contempt) for the 'holy men' who deliberately violate convention in order to prove
superior sanctity.
Jesus, the Jesus of Mr. Shaw, appealed naturally to the rarer class that knows a little of Yoga, and
appreciates it. Now, when Paul came to the throne he found these people, and these people only, already
'Christians'. His dream of world-dominion asked for more. He needed orthodox Jews, and he needed
Gentiles. Having himself been an orthodox Jew, he at first regarded the idea of converting them as
chimerical, called them all the bad names he could lay his tongue to, went out with a gun loaded
exclusively for Gentiles, proved himself a Roman citizen free-born, broke with Peter because he avoided
dining with Gentiles when certain visitors from James came to see him (Galatians XI, 11-14[WEH NOTE:
There is no Chapter XI, Galatians. Crowley probably intended Galatians II, 6-8
]) and generally acted as
though he hoped never to see a Jew again. {217}
But whether the Gentile campaign went badly, or whether he found some unexpected Jews in the bag, he
suddenly changed front. He found a community of real Hebrews large enough to write to, and devoted an
epistle to the most passionate endeavour to persuade them that Jesus was the real High Priest of Israel after
the order of Melchisedec.
This policy of pleasing everybody was successful; and when it came to be desirable to issue histories of
the movement, those in charge simply classified the world as they knew it, the Roman world, and saw to
it that something was put in to suit everybody. Contradictions might arise, but who minds contradictions?
Germany and the Critical Spirit were in their infancy.
So, as there were patriotic Jews, they must be told that Jesus was the Messiah, of the seed of David;
Talmudic Jews, who must be told that Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it; mystical and
Qabalistic Jews, Gnostics and Pythagoreans and Platonists, who must have Jesus identified with the
Logos, and the Wisdom by whom God made the world; Pagans, who must be made happy by the story of
the Virgin Birth; worshippers of Attis, Adonis, and Osiris, who must see the eternal sacrifice and
resurrection of Nature crystalized in Jesus; ascetics who must be told of renunciation, and voluptuaries
who must be comforted with the doctrines of atonement; slaves who must have freedom preached to
them, and masters who must be reassured that Caesar shall always have the things that are Caesar's;
primitive folk such as loving hearing stories of miracles and prophecies fulfilled; metaphysical folk, who
must be tickled with abstruse theological dogmas; literary folk, who enjoy witty {218} dialogues, and
people with conviction of sin who want a Saviour. Whosoever will may come! The Gospels have
something to please every single one of you. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on;
and it doesn't matter who made the bed!
The whole hotch-potch of the Testament is now explained in the simplest manner. Everything becomes
natural and probable.[I am happy to find myself in agreement with scholars of such eminence as Jung,
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