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xiv 777 REVISED wicked imposture to pretend to have received it from Rosicrucian manuscripts which are to be found in the British Museum. To obtain money on these grounds, as has been done by certain moderns, is clear (and, I trust, indictable) fraud. The secrets of Adepts are not to be revealed to men. We only wish they were. When a man comes to me and asks for the Truth, I go away and practice teaching the Differential Calculus to a Bushman; and I answer the former only when I have succeeded with the latter. But to withhold the Alphabet of Mysticism from the learner is the device of a selfish charlatan. That which can be taught shall be taught, and that which cannot be taught may at last be learnt. 3. As a weary but victorious warrior delights to recall his battles—Fortisan hæc olim meminisse juvabit*—we would linger for a moment upon the difficulties of our task. The question of sacred alphabets has been abandoned as hopeless. As one who should probe the nature of woman, the deeper he goes the rottener it gets; so that at last it is seen that there is no sound bottom. All is arbitrary;† withdrawing out caustics and adopting a protective treatment, we point to the beautiful clean bandages and ask the clinic to admire! To take one concrete example: the English T is clearly equivalent in sound to the Hebrew t, the Greek t, the Arabic ت and the Coptic t, but the numeration is not the same. Again, we have a clear analogy in shape (perhaps a whole series of analogies), which, on comparing the modern alphabets with primeval examples, breaks up and is indecipherable. * [Lat. approx. “perhaps it will be pleasant to remember these things one day.”] † All symbolism is perhaps ultimately so; there is no necessary relation in thought between the idea of a mother, the sound of the child’s cry “Ma,” and the combination of lines ma. This, too, is the extreme case, since “ma” is the sound naturally just produced by opening the lips and breathing. Hindus would make a great fuss over this true connection; but it is very nearly the only one. All these beautiful schemes break down sooner or later, mostly sooner.
INTRODUCTION xv The same difficulty in another form permeates the question of gods. Priests, to propitiate their local fetish, would flatter him with the title of creator; philosophers, with a wider outlook, would draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. Time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. Thus, where shall we put Isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? As the type of motherhood? As the moon? As the great goddess Earth? As Nature? As the Cosmic Egg from which all Nature sprang? For as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! What of Jehovah, that testy senior of Genesis, that lawgiver of Leviticus, that Phallus of the depopulated slaves of the Egyptians, that jealous King-God of the times of the Kings, that more spiritual conception of the Captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that mediæval battleground of crosschopped logic, that Being stripped of all his attributes and assimilated to Parabrahman and the Absolute of the Philosopher? Satan, again, who in Job is merely Attorney-General and prosecutes for the Crown, acquires in time all the obloquy attaching to that functionary in the eyes of the criminal classes, and becomes a slanderer. Does any one really think that any angel is such a fool as to try to gull the Omniscient God into injustice to his saints? Then, on the other hand, what of Moloch, that form of Jehovah denounced by those who did not draw huge profit from his rites? What of the savage and morose Jesus of the Evangelicals, cut by their petty malice from the gentle Jesus of the Italian children? How shall we identify the thaumaturgic Chauvinist of Matthew with the metaphysical Logos of John? In short, while the human mind is mobile, so long will the definitions of all our terms vary.
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Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS * EDITORIAL PREFACE (to 77
Page 7 and 8: EDITORIAL PREFACE fountain head fro
Page 9 and 10: LIBER 777 VEL P ROLEGOMENA S YMBOLI
Page 11 and 12: 777 THE FOLLOWING is an attempt to
Page 13: INTRODUCTION putrid bones of their
Page 17 and 18: INTRODUCTION xvii “ Forthwith on
Page 19 and 20: TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCES
Page 21 and 22: 0 VI. The Heavens of Assiah. . . .
Page 23 and 24: 0 XIII. The Paths of the Sepher Yet
Page 25 and 26: XIX.* Selection of Egyptian Gods. T
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Page 29 and 30: 0 XXXVIII.* Animals, Real and Imagi
Page 31 and 32: 0 XLII.* Perfumes. [[No attribution
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Page 35 and 36: LII. The Arabic Alphabet. CLXXXIV.
Page 37 and 38: LXXI. TABLE II (continued) The Cour
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Page 41 and 42: CVI. * The Ten Hells in Seven Palac
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[The Angels of the Planets accordin
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Attribution to Quarters. Planetary
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THE HEXAGRAMS Figure. Nature. Name.
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60 777 REVISED It should be underst
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62 777 REVISED mathematical, which
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66 777 REVISED 9. SHADDAI EL CHAI.
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68 777 REVISED “element” here m
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70 777 REVISED COLUMN X: MYSTIC NUM
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72 777 REVISED antinomies. There is
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74 777 REVISED The student is expec
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76 777 REVISED 5. The orange sugges
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78 777 REVISED and the visions of L
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80 777 REVISED 10. Malkuth. Just as
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82 777 REVISED The colours of the E
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84 777 REVISED under “31. Fire,
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86 777 REVISED The more thoroughly
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88 777 REVISED COLUMN XIX: SOME EGY
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90 777 REVISED 25. Nephthys. Perfec
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92 777 REVISED 19. Demeter borne by
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94 777 REVISED the Eld of the All-F
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96 777 REVISED refers to Venus as c
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98 777 REVISED 17. All animals of d
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104 777 REVISED watery spots. 14. T
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106 777 REVISED COLUMN XL: PRECIOUS
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108 777 REVISED 30. Chrysolith, as
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110 777 REVISED Spear. These weapon
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112 777 REVISED 31 bis. The Winged
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114 777 REVISED Lamp has the same s
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116 777 REVISED naturally gross. On
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118 777 REVISED Sandal is free from
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122 777 REVISED of the Abyss, along
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ON THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF T
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126 777 REVISED point—for most or
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128 777 REVISED psychology of appre
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130 777 REVISED such which makes it
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THE MEANING OF THE PRIMES FROM 11 T
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WHAT IS A “NUMBER” OR “SYMBOL
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136 777 REVISED indicated by the Bo
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138 777 REVISED To return to our so
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140 777 REVISED question to be only
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142 777 REVISED considerations of a
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Transcriber’s notes [The work as
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