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one and the other. Hullo, what s that? the Christian way of getting truth.  True!
Why, there s a holy man near that Bo-Tree. replied the sage,  but precious little they get.
He ll tell me what it all means. Poor silly Learn, O Mahabrahma (for I penetrate this
old Lord of the Universe ! Had he carried disguise), that all existin things, even from
his memory back one more step he d have thee unto this grain of sand, possess
known all about Jehjaour and the con- Three Characteristics. These are Mutability,
spiracy, and that he was a Srotapatti and had Sorrow, and Unsubstantiality.
only one more birth; and might well have   All right for the sand, but how about
put in the 311,040,000,000,000 myriads of æons Me ? Why, they define me as unchange-
which would elapse before lunch in able.  You can define a quirk as being a
rejoicing over his imminent annihilation. two-sided triangle, retorted the Saviour,
  Venerable Sir! said Mahabrahma,  but that does not prove the actual existence
who had assumed the guise of a cowherd,  I of any such oxymoron.1 The truth is that
kiss your worshipful Trilbies :1 I prostrate you re a very spiritual sort of being and a
myself before your eminent respectability. prey to longevity. Men s lives are so short
 Sir, said the holy man, none other than that yours seems eternal in comparison. But
Our Lord Himself !  thou seekest illumina-  why, you re a nice one to talk ! You ll be
tion! Mahabrahma smirked and admitted dead in a week from now.
it.  From negative to positive, explained   I quite appreciate the force of your
the Thrice-Honoured One,  through Poten- remarks ! said the seeming cowherd;  that
tial Existence eternally vibrates the Divine about the Characteristics is very clever; and
Absolute of the Hidden Unity of proces- curiously enough, my perception of this had
sional form masked in the Eternal Abyss always just preceded my death for the last
of the Unknowable, the synthetic hiero- six goes.
glyph of an illimitable, pastless, futureless   Well, so long, old chap, said Gautama,
PRESENT.  I must really be off. I have an appoint-
  To the uttermost bounds of space rushes ment with Brother Mara at the Bo-Tree. He
the voice of Ages unheard of save in the has promised to introduce his charming
concentrated unity of the thought-formulated daughters 
Abstract; and eternally that voice formu-   Good-bye, and don t do anything
lates a word which is glyphed in the vast rash !
ocean of limitless life.2 Do I make myself  Rejoice ! our Lord wended unto the
clear ?  Perfectly. Who would have Tree !2 As blank verse this scan but ill, but it
thought it was all so simple ? The God clearly shows what happened.
cleared his throat, and rather diffidently,
even shamefacedly, went on :
  But what I really wished to know was
XI.
about my incarnation. How is it I have so
 The  Nineteenth Mahakalpa brought
suddenly risen from change and death to the
ought its April Number. There was a paper
unchangeable ?
by Huxlananda Swami.
  Child ! answered Gautama,  your facts
 Mahabrahma had never been much
are wrong you can hardly expect to make
more than an idea. He had only lived six
1
days.
Feet.
2
This astonishing piece of bombastic drivel is
1
verbatim from a note by S.L. Mathers to the A contradiction in terms.
2
 Kabbalah Unveiled. Arnold,  Light of Asia.
76
APPENDIX I
consider the Universe. More, its
consciousness seems ingrained in my very
XII.
nature, perhaps through my having known
this for many incarnations. I have never
 At the hour of the great Initiation,
thought otherwise.
continued the Buddha, in the midst of the
 Rise, Sir Abhavananda, I dub thee
Five Hundred Thousand Arahats,  the
Arahat! cried the Buddha, striking the
wicked Jehjaour had joined himself with
neophyte ently on the back with the flat
Mara to prevent the discovery of the truth.
of his ear.1
And in Mara s fall he fell. At that moment
And he perceived.
all the currents of his continued and concen-
When the applause and praise and glory
trated Hate recoiled upon him and he fell
had a little faded, the Buddha, in that golden
into the Abyss of Being. And in the Halls of
delight of sunset, explained these marvellous
Birth he was cast out into the Lowest Hell
events.  Thou, Abhavananda, he said,  art
he became a clergyman of the Church of
the Perdu R Abu of my lengthy tale. The
England, further than he had ever been
wicked Jehjaour has got something linger-
before from Truth and Light and Peace and
ing with boiling oil in it, while waiting for
Love; deeper and deeper enmeshed in the
his clerical clothes: while, as for me, I
net of Circumstance, bogged in the mire of
myself was the Bacillus in the forest of
Tanha1 and Avigga2 and all things base and
Lanka : I was the old Lady : I was (he
vile. False Vichi-Kichi3 had caught him at
shuddered) the British Government : I was
last !
the mosquito that buzzed in the girl s flute :
I was Bhavani : I was Huxlananda Swami ;
XIII.
and at the last, at this blessed hour, I am
that I am.
 Aye! The hour was at hand. Perdu R
 But, Lord, said the Five Hundred
Abu was reincarnated as a child of Western
Thousand and One Arahats in a breath,
parents, ignorant of all his wonderful past.
 thou art then guilty of six violent deaths !
But a strange fate has brought him to this
Nay, thou hast hounded one soul from death
village. The Buddha paused, probalby for
to death through all these incarnations !
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