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				Comments 
				by 
				
				Aleister 
				 
				Crowley: | 
				     Once 
				more, the irrational incidents of the life of Christ become 
				entirely normal when understood as the rubric of a ritual of 
				initiation. 
				     I 
				claim that my book establishes the outline of an entirely final 
				theory of the construction of Christianity. The subject is far 
				too vast and complex to be adequately discussed in this 
				autohagiography. But I have no hesitation in referring the 
				student to my essay for the solution of any and every difficulty 
				which he may have found in the consideration of this matter. 
				
				     Having completed this treatise, I discovered myself to be 
				inspired to write a number of short stories based on The 
				Golden Bough. They are "The Hearth", "The God of Ibreez", 
				"The Burning of Melcarth", "The Old Man of the Peepul Tree", 
				"The Mass of St Secaire", "The King of the Wood", "The Oracle of 
				Cocytus" and "The Stone of Cybele". 
				    — 
				The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.  
				New York, NY.  Hill and Wang, 1969.  Page 809. |  |