Reflections of an Ardent Apostle of Materialism on God

Hieronymus von Mansfeld · Black versus White Magic Series · 12 pages

Compiled by Hieronymus von Mansfeld — the same hand behind The True Colours of Man in the Major Works series — and built around a letter sent to Lucifer by a correspondent named J. Hunter, with Blavatsky's editorial notes appended. Its argument is stated in the running head: that belief in, and fear of, a human-like god breeds selfishness and sensuality.

The reasoning turns on a relocation. To the question 'Where is God?' the answer offered is that God dwells in the heart of every man, so that when we wound our brother we wound God — which removes at a stroke the distance between religious duty and ordinary conduct that an external deity permits. A personal god who can be feared, placated and bargained with is on this account precisely what allows a believer to behave badly and remain devout. The compilation includes a drawing of the Dawn of Chaos–Theos–Cosmos, and belongs in this series because it treats a form of religion as itself a corrupting technique rather than merely a mistaken one.

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