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CREATIVE OMNIPOTENCE 149
you require order in movement. You are going to understand man and you are going to make a synthesis to create him.
Here appear forms for all the forces of nature which are prompted by the supreme autonomy to become autonomous and living in their own right. All these forces will be subject to you and all shall conform to the likeness of your thought. Listen to the roar of the lion and you will hear the echo of your anger; the mastodon and the elephant make a mockery of your swollen pride; you resemble them, you, their master. No, you must tame them and make them serve your ends; but before you can impose your might upon them it is necessary to tame within yourself the vices some of them represent.
If you are greedy like the pig, lustful like the goat, ferocious like the wolf or thievish like the fox, you are only an animal disguised as a human being. Kin of the animals, assume your dignity and become a man; say I will be a man’, and so you shall, because God wants you to be a man, but He awaits your consent for He has created you free. Why is this? It is because all monarchs must be acclaimed and proclaimed by their peers; it is because only liberty can understand and honour the divine power; it is because God needs this great dignity in man before man can legitimately adore God.
The occultism of God is as necessary as that of knowledge. If God were to reveal Himself to all men in a dazzling and irrefragable manner, the doctrine of everlasting Hell would be renewed in all its horror, and human crimes would no longer have any extenuating circumstances.
Men would be compelled to do good or be lost for ever, a thing which God could not possibly, and does not, wish. It is essential for doctrine to retain its integrity and for mercy to preserve its immense freedom.
God (if we may be permitted at this point, after the example of the great Qabalists and the inspired authors of the Bible to represent Him in human form), God I say has two hands: one He uses to chastise, the other to relieve and bless. The first is fettered by our ignorance and folly; the other always wishes to be free, and that is why God respects our own iiberty and never compels our faith.
The human spirit is rapidly isolating itself from God. Forms of worship without authority are falling into a philosophy which is
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