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Then I suddenly saw that there was a symbolic division which might be paralleled from biology. Brave men are vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. But these modern cowards are all crustaceans; their hardness is all on the cover and their softness is inside. But the softness is there; everything in this twilight temple is soft. XXXIV. The Diabolist
Soames, I said emphatically to the Devil, 'is a CATHOLIC Diabolist'; but my poor friend did the Devil's bidding, not mine; and now, with his master's eyes again fixed on him, he arose, he shuffled past me. I tried to speak. It was he that spoke. 'Try, was the prayer he threw back at me as the Devil pushed him roughly out through the door, 'TRY to make them know that I did exist!
Was he quite serious about Venus, like a diabolist, or merely frivolous about Venus, like a Christian? If the spirit was different from ours we cannot hope to understand it, and if the spirit was like ours, the spirit was expressed in images that no longer express it. But it is here that he and I meet; and salute the same images in the end.
"It's more a matter of trusting and encouraging." "I see, yes. I had rather gathered from the preface to 'Negations' that you were a a Catholic." "Je l'etais a cette epoque. In fact, I still am. I am a Catholic diabolist." But this profession he made in an almost cursory tone. I could see that what was upmost in his mind was the fact that I had read "Negations."
Soames," I said emphatically to the devil, "is a Catholic diabolist"; but my poor friend did the devil's bidding, not mine; and now, with his master's eyes again fixed on him, he arose, he shuffled past me. I tried to speak. It was he that spoke. "Try," was the prayer he threw back at me as the devil pushed him roughly out through the door "TRY to make them know that I did exist!"
He sat crouched forward, with his elbows squared on the table, and his head just above the level of his hands, staring up at the devil. "Go on," he nodded. I had no remnant of laughter in me now. "It will be the more pleasant, our little deal," the devil went on, "because you are I mistake not? a diabolist." "A Catholic diabolist," said Soames. The devil accepted the reservation genially.
'It's more a matter of trusting and encouraging. 'Ah, yes.... But I had rather gathered from the preface to "Negations" that you were a a Catholic. 'Je l'etais a cette epoque. Perhaps I still am. Yes, I'm a Catholic Diabolist. This profession he made in an almost cursory tone.
While, therefore, the adoration of a good principle under this discredited name may in one of its aspects be merely an error of judgment, and not the worship of a devil, apart from other facts which destroy this consideration, we must all agree that from the standpoint of Christian and Latin orthodoxy the Luciferian is a diabolist, though not in the sense of the Satanist.
When Miss Vaughan states that Dr Westcott is a Palladist, a diabolist, a worshipper of Lucifer, or however she may elect to distinguish it, I reply that she is guilty of a gross libel, which is at the same time an abominable and cruel falsehood.
"Oh, yes, that fellow " "Briefly, messieurs," resumed Gévingey, "all these people are incapable of obtaining in practise any effect whatever. The only man in this century who, without being either a saint or a diabolist, has penetrated the mysteries, is William Crookes."
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