FASCINATION 153
to get hold of God for themselves at all costs. This was not what the Lord, Adonai, had intended. He was slighted and opposed by a golden calf. The flutes and tambourines parodied the trumpets and the thunder and the people, seeing that the mountains no longer danced, began to dance in their turn.
Moses, in a rage, broke the tables of the law and turned the performance into a great massacre. The feast was drowned in blood and the vile multitude, seeing the flashing blades remembered the lightning flashes and began to believe once more; they could no longer look Moses in the face; the most terrible of lawgivers shone with the light of Adonai, he had horns like Bacchus and Jupiter Ammon, and henceforward he no longer showed himself with a veil over his face, so that his dread might be lasting and the fascination might continue. No-one, from then on, could resist with impunity this man whose wrath could strike like the sand-storm and who had the secret of the thunders and the inextinguishable flames. There is no doubt that the Egyptian priests Iad a knowledge of science well in advance of ours, and as we have already said, the Assyrian Magi were acquainted with electricity and could imitate thunder.
With that difference which there is between Jupiter and Thersites, Moses held the same opinions as Marat. He believed, that for the health of a people who were destined to be a light to the world, a Pontiff of the future should not recoil from bloodshed. What prevented Marat from being the Moses of France? Two important things: genius and success. Besides, Murat was a grotesque pygmy and Moses was a giant. if we can believe the divine intuition of Michelangelo.
Dare we say that the Hebrew legislator was an impostor? One is never an impostor when one is dedicated. This master who dared to play on the terrible instrument of death with such an air of omnipotence was the first t anathematize himself in expiation of the blood shed; he led his people to a land of promise which he knew that only he would not enter. He disappeared one day among caverns and precipices like Oedipus in the tempest and those who admired his genius were unable to recover his bones.
The wise men of the ancient world, being convinced of the necessity of occultism, carefully concealed those sciences which to a certain extent made them masters of nature, using them to give their teaching the prestige of divine co-operarion. Why blame
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