SEERSHIP; Guide to Soul Sight - Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

In these days of turmoil, climatic changes, political change and revolution, imposture and true
revelation, rampant quackery and blooming science, honesty and villany side by side people may
falter and despair of the world and its fortunes; but to do so is to distrust God, and doubt his
providence, for he has safely brought us through so far, and therefore let us truly trust him to the
end.
Reader, whoever you may be, I beg you to not only read, but study well, the glorious meaning of the
following sublime jewel from the pen of one of Islam's poets; for once armed with its philosophy
you will be impregnable to all assaults, and stand firm amidst the wildest tempest.
"‘Allah! Allah!' cried the sick man, racked with pain the long night thro,
Till with prayer his heart grew tender, till his lips like honey grew.
But at morning came the tempter; said, ‘Call louder, child of Pain,
See if Allah ever hears, or answers, "Here am I," again.'
Like a stab the cruel cavil through his brain and pulses went;
To his heart an icy coldness, to his brain a darkness sent.
Then before him stands Elias: says, ‘My child, why thus dismayed?
Dost repent thy former fervor? Is thy soul of prayer afraid?'
‘Ah!' he cried, ‘I've called so often; never heard the :Here am I;
And I thought God will not pity; will not turn on me his eye.'
Then the grave Elias answered, ‘God said, "Rise, Elias, go
Speak to him, the sorely tempted; lift him from his gulf of woe.
Tell him that his very longing is itself an answering cry;
That his prayer, "COME GRACIOUS ALLAH!" is my answer HERE AM I"'
Every inmost aspiration is God's angel undefiled;
And in every ‘O my Father!' slumbers deep a ‘Here, my child!'"(26)
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(26) No grander lines were ever penned and all Neophytes should commit them to
memory so they may quickly come to mind when discouragement, sorrow, or failure
seem to stalk abroad. If your supplication is from the heart, then under the Law, there
must be an answer to it and there shall be.
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Women, a last word to you. Perhaps you have a lover or husband, and, that being the case, I say,
If you prize him, let him know it;
If you love him, show it, show it.
The cure for wrong and evil is to be found in Clairvoyance, which will enable woman to avoid
certain risks, at certain times; enable man to understand himself, his wife and his neighbor; and
thus will seership banish crime and bring peace on earth and good-will among men. So may it be.
Let us now turn to another branch of the great subject of seership.