Sedition in the Body of a Commonwealth

Crowley compares sedition to both a dangerous disease in the body and an unwonted weed or plant in a garden. He is essentially doing the same thing by shedding light on the problems that plague so many people in england. Note that he also makes the analogy to picking out weeds by the root. This is ananlo that he expands upon in the following passage. The most substantial way of curing diseases is by putting away the causes whereof they grew, so it is in the pulling up of sedition. For if the cause be once taken away, then must the effect necessarily fail. If the root be cut off, the branch must necessarily die. A tree cannot bud