THE LEOPARD AND THE DEERThe spots of the leopard are the sunlight in the glade; pursue thou the deer stealthily at thy pleasure. The dappling of the deer is the sunlight in the glade; concealed from the leopard do thou feed at thy pleasure. Resemble all that surroundeth thee; yet be Thyself --and take thy pleasure among the living. This is that which is written --Lurk!-- in The Book of The Law. |
COMMENTARY (ΙΘ)19 is the last Trump, "The Sun", which is the representative of God in the Macrocosm, as the Phallus is in the Microcosm. There is a certain universality and adaptability among its secret powers. The chapter is taken from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories". The Master urges his disciples to a certain holy stealth, a concealment of the real purpose of their lives; in this way making the best of both worlds. This counsels a course of action hardly distinguishable from hypocrisy; but the distinction is obvious to any clear thinker, though not altogether so to Frater P. |