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the inutility
of dragging in this imaginary pachyderm. Since our
Parabrahm, he said to
the Hindu philosophers, is actually nothing, why not stick
to or original
perception that everything is sorrow, and admit that the
only way to
escape from sorrow is to arrive at nothingness?
We may complete the whole tradition of the Indian peninsula
very simply.
To the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Tripitaka of the
Buddhists, we
have only to add the Tantras of what are called the
Vamacharya Schools.
Paradoxical as it may sound the Tantrics are in reality the
most advanced
of the Hindus. Their theory is, in its philosophical
ultimatum, a primi-
tive stage of the White tradition, for the essence of the
Tantric cults
is that by the performance of certain rites of Magick, one
does not only
escape disaster, but obtains positive benediction. The
Tantric is not
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obsessed by the will-to-die. It is a difficult business, no
doubt, to
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get any fun out of existence; but at least it is not
impossible. In
other words, he implicitly denies the fundamental
proposition that
existence is sorrow, and he formulates the essential
postulate of the
White School of Magick, that means exist by which the
universal sorrow
(apparent indeed to all ordinary observation) may be
unmasked, even as
at the initiatory rite of Isis in the ancient days of Kehm.
There, a
Neophyte presenting his mouth, under compulsion, to the
pouting buttocks
of the Goat of Mendez, found himself caressed by the chaste
lips of a
virginal priestess of that Goddess at the base of whose
shrine is written
that No man has lifted her veil.
The basis of the Black philosophy is not impossibly mere
climate, with
its resulting etiolation of the native, its languid,
bilious, anaemic,
fever-prostrated, emasculation of the soul of man. We
accordingly find
few true equivalents of this School in Europe. In Greek
philosophy there
is no trace of any such doctrine. The poison in its foulest
and most
virulent form only entered with Christianity33. But even
so, few men of
any real eminence were found to take the axioms of pessimism
seriously.
Huxley, for all of his harping on the minor key, was an
eupeptic Tory. The
culmination of the Black philosophy is only found in
Schopenhauer, and
we may regard him as having been obsessed, on the one hand,
by the despair
born of that false scepticism which he learnt from the
bankruptcy of Hume
and Kant; on the other, by the direct obsession of the
Buddhist docu-
ments to which he was one of the earliest Europeans to
obtain access.
He was, so to speak, driven to suicide by his own vanity, a
curious
parallel to Kiriloff in The Possessed of Dostoiewsky.
We have, however, examples plentiful enough of religions
deriving almost
exclusively from the Black tradition in the different
stages. We have
already mentioned the Evangelical cults with their ferocious
devil-god
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who creates mankind for the pleasure of damning it and
forcing it to
crawl before him, while he yells with druken glee over the
agony of his
only son34. But in the same class, we must place Christian
Science, so
grotesquely afraid of pain, suffering and evil of every
sort, that its
dupes can think of nothing better than to bleat denials of
its actuality,
in the hope of hypnotizing themselves into anaesthesia.
Practically no Westerns have reached the third stage of the
Black tradi-
tion, the Buddhist stage. It is only isolated mystics, and
those men
who rank themselves with a contemptuous compliance under the
standard
of the nearest religion, the one which will bother them
least in their
quest of nothingness, who carry the sorites so far.
The documents of the Black School of Magick have already
been indicated.
They are, for the most part, tedious to the last degree and
repulsive to
every wholesome-minded man; yet it can hardly be denied that
such books
as The Dhammapada and Ecclesiastes are masterpieces of
literature. They
represent the agony of human despair at its utmost degree of
intensity,
and the melancholy contemplation which is induced by their
perusal is
not favourable to the inception of that mood which should
lead every
truly courageous intelligence to the determination to escape
from the
33* Anti-semite writers in Europe --- e.g. Weininger ---
call the Black
theory and practice Judaism, while by a curious confusion,
the same ideas
are called Christian among Anglo-Saxons. In 1936 e.v. the
"Nazi" School
began to observe this fact.
34* N.B. Christianity was in its first stage a Jewish
Communism, hardly
distinguishable from Marxism.
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the inutility
of dragging in this imaginary pachyderm. Since our
Parabrahm, he said to
the Hindu philosophers, is actually nothing, why not stick
to or original
perception that everything is sorrow, and admit that the
only way to
escape from sorrow is to arrive at nothingness?
We may complete the whole tradition of the Indian peninsula
very simply.
To the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Tripitaka of the
Buddhists, we
have only to add the Tantras of what are called the
Vamacharya Schools.
Paradoxical as it may sound the Tantrics are in reality the
most advanced
of the Hindus. Their theory is, in its philosophical
ultimatum, a primi-
tive stage of the White tradition, for the essence of the
Tantric cults
is that by the performance of certain rites of Magick, one
does not only
escape disaster, but obtains positive benediction. The
Tantric is not
51
obsessed by the will-to-die. It is a difficult business, no
doubt, to
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get any fun out of existence; but at least it is not
impossible. In
other words, he implicitly denies the fundamental
proposition that
existence is sorrow, and he formulates the essential
postulate of the
White School of Magick, that means exist by which the
universal sorrow
(apparent indeed to all ordinary observation) may be
unmasked, even as
at the initiatory rite of Isis in the ancient days of Kehm.
There, a
Neophyte presenting his mouth, under compulsion, to the
pouting buttocks
of the Goat of Mendez, found himself caressed by the chaste
lips of a
virginal priestess of that Goddess at the base of whose
shrine is written
that No man has lifted her veil.
The basis of the Black philosophy is not impossibly mere
climate, with
its resulting etiolation of the native, its languid,
bilious, anaemic,
fever-prostrated, emasculation of the soul of man. We
accordingly find
few true equivalents of this School in Europe. In Greek
philosophy there
is no trace of any such doctrine. The poison in its foulest
and most
virulent form only entered with Christianity33. But even
so, few men of
any real eminence were found to take the axioms of pessimism
seriously.
Huxley, for all of his harping on the minor key, was an
eupeptic Tory. The
culmination of the Black philosophy is only found in
Schopenhauer, and
we may regard him as having been obsessed, on the one hand,
by the despair
born of that false scepticism which he learnt from the
bankruptcy of Hume
and Kant; on the other, by the direct obsession of the
Buddhist docu-
ments to which he was one of the earliest Europeans to
obtain access.
He was, so to speak, driven to suicide by his own vanity, a
curious
parallel to Kiriloff in The Possessed of Dostoiewsky.
We have, however, examples plentiful enough of religions
deriving almost
exclusively from the Black tradition in the different
stages. We have
already mentioned the Evangelical cults with their ferocious
devil-god
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who creates mankind for the pleasure of damning it and
forcing it to
crawl before him, while he yells with druken glee over the
agony of his
only son34. But in the same class, we must place Christian
Science, so
grotesquely afraid of pain, suffering and evil of every
sort, that its
dupes can think of nothing better than to bleat denials of
its actuality,
in the hope of hypnotizing themselves into anaesthesia.
Practically no Westerns have reached the third stage of the
Black tradi-
tion, the Buddhist stage. It is only isolated mystics, and
those men
who rank themselves with a contemptuous compliance under the
standard
of the nearest religion, the one which will bother them
least in their
quest of nothingness, who carry the sorites so far.
The documents of the Black School of Magick have already
been indicated.
They are, for the most part, tedious to the last degree and
repulsive to
every wholesome-minded man; yet it can hardly be denied that
such books
as The Dhammapada and Ecclesiastes are masterpieces of
literature. They
represent the agony of human despair at its utmost degree of
intensity,
and the melancholy contemplation which is induced by their
perusal is
not favourable to the inception of that mood which should
lead every
truly courageous intelligence to the determination to escape
from the
33* Anti-semite writers in Europe --- e.g. Weininger ---
call the Black
theory and practice Judaism, while by a curious confusion,
the same ideas
are called Christian among Anglo-Saxons. In 1936 e.v. the
"Nazi" School
began to observe this fact.
34* N.B. Christianity was in its first stage a Jewish
Communism, hardly
distinguishable from Marxism.
52
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ferule of the Black Schoolmaster to the outstretched arms of
the White
Mistress of Life. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]