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47See Liber Legis. Equinox VII. {{SIC to the quote, correctly: ".. bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let ...

48WEH: here in Greek letters: tau-omicron-xi-omicron-nu

49Liber LXI, the book given to those who wish to become Probationers of A.'.A.'.

50The Oxygen in the air would be too fierce for life; it must be largely diluted with the inert nitrogen. The rational mind supports life, but about seventy-nine per cent. of it not only refuses itself to enter into combination, but prevents the remaining twenty-one per cent. from doing so. Enthusiasms are checked; the intellect is the great enemy of devotion. One of the tasks of the Magician is to manage somehow to separate the Oxygen and Nitrogen in his mind, to stifle four-fifts so that he may burn up the remainder, a flame of holiness. But this cannot be done by the Sword.

51It should be noted that this ambiguity in the word "destruction" has been the cause of much misunderstanding. "Solve" is destruction, but so is "coagula." The aim of the Magus is to destroy his partial thought by uniting it with the Universal Thought, not to make a further breach and division in the Whole.

52The Brahmin caste is not so strict as that of the "heaven-born" (Indian Civil Service).

53But as it is said, "Similia similibus curantur," we find this Ruach also the symbol of the Spirit. RVCh ALHIM, the Spirit of God, is 300, the number of the holy letter Shin. As this is the breath, which by its nature is double, the two edges of the Sword, the letter H symbolises breath, and H is the letter of Aries -- the House of Mars, of the Sword: and H is also the letter of the Mother; this is the link between the Sword and the Cup.

54It is undoubted that Ruach means primarily "that which moves or revolves," "a going," "a wheel," "the wind," and that its secondary meaning was mind because of the observed instability of mind, and its tendency to a circular motion. "Spiritus" only came to mean Spirit in the modern technical sense owing to the efforts of the theologians. We have an example of the proper use of the word in the term: Spirit of Wine -- the airy portion of wine. But the word "inspire" was perhaps derived from observing the derangement of the breathing of persons in divine ecstasy.

55Compare the first set of verses in Liber XVI. (XVI in the Taro is Pe, Mars, the Sword.)

56It is true that sometimes sympathy is necessary to comprehension.

57See Crowley, "Collected Works," vol. ii, pp. 252-254.

58We have avoided dealing with the Pantacle as the Paten of the Sacrament, though special instructions about it are given in Liber Legis. It is composed of meal, honey, wine, holy oil, and blood.

59The Motto of the Chief of the A.'.A.'., "the Light of the World Himself."

60It does not occur to a newly-hatched chicken to behave in the same way as a new-born child.

61To surrender all, one must give up not only the bad but the good; not only weakness but strength. How can the mystic surrender all, while he clings to his virtues?

62NEMO is the Master of the Temple, whose task it is to develop the beginner. See Liber CDXVIII, Aethyr XIII.

63During certain meditation-practices the Student hears a bell resound in the depths of his being. It is not subjective, for it is sometimes heard by other people. Some Magicians are able to call the attention of those with whom they wish to communicate at a distance by its means, or, so it is said.

64Scholars are uncertain as to what these really were, though apparently they were methods of divination.

65Some writers have actually confused the Lamen with the Pantacle, usually through a misunderstanding of the nature of the latter. Dr. Dee's "Sigillum Dei Amath" makes a fine pantacle, but it would be useless as a lamen, Eliphas Levi made several attempts to draw one or the other, he never seemed sure which. Fortunately he knows better now. The lamens given in the Lesser and Greater Keys of "Solomon" are rather better, but we know of no perfect example. The design on the cover of "The Star in the West" represents an early effort of Fra. P.

66Because Shin the Hebrew letter of Fire, has three tongues of flame, and its value is 300.

67Note that there are two arrows: the Divine shot downward, the human upward. The former is the Oil, the latter the Incense, or rather the finest part of it. See Liber CDXVIII, Fifth Aethyr.

68"One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad." -- "Crowley."

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ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Α

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ B

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Γ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ B

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ E

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ F

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Ζ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Η

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Θ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Ι

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΑ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ IB

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΓ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΔ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΕ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΣ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΖ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΗ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΘ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Κ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΑ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΒ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΓ (23)

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΔ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΕ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚF

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΖ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΗ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΘ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Λ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΑ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΒ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΓ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΔ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΕ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΣ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΖ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΗ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΘ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Μ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΑ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΒ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΓ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΔ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΕ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜF

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΗ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΘ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Ν

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΑ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΒ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΓ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΔ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΕ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝF

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΖ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΗ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΘ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Ξ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΑ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΒ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΒ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΔ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΕ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞF

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΖ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΗ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΘ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Ο

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΑ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΒ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΓ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΔ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΕ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟF

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΖ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΗ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΘ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Π

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΑ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΒ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΓ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΔ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΕ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠF

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΖ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΗ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΘ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Ρ

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΡΑ

NOTES

PRO AND CON TENTS

Ο ! 1

Nothing is.

Nothing Becomes.

Nothing is not.

I utter The Word.

I hear The Word.

The Word is broken up.

There is Knowledge.

Knowledge is Relation.

These fragments are Creation.

The broken manifests Light. 2

GOD the Father and Mother is concealed in Generation.

GOD is concealed in the whirling energy of Nature.

GOD is manifest in gathering : harmony : consideration : the Mirror of the Sun and of the Heart.

Bearing : preparing.

Wavering : flowing : flashing.

Stability : begetting.

The world.

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