THE PSEUDO-OCCULTIST

(From AHA! By Aleister Crowley)

Published in the Occult Review

London, England

July 1914

(page 29)

The tallest peaks most straitly hide

With clouds their holy heads. Divide

The planes! Be ever as you can

A simple honest gentleman!

Body and manners be at ease,

Not bloat with blazoned sanctities!

Who fights as fights the soldier-saint?

And see the artist-adept paint!

Weak are those souls that fear the stress

Of earth upon their holiness!

They fast, they eat fantastic food,

They prate of beans and brotherhood,

Wear sandals, and long hair, and spate,

And think that makes them Arahats!

How shall man still his spirit storm?

Rational Dress and Food Reform!!