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corrected, and the involved tissues brought
back to tone, in obedience to currents started
from the brain.
So for all other phenomena.
effect which is truly and
miraculous.
Our Ceremonial Magic fines down, then, to
a series of minute, though of course empirical,
physiological experiments, and whoso will
carry them through intelligently need not fear
the result.
I have all the health, and treasure, and logic
I need; I have notime to waste. ‘‘ There is
a lion in the way.” For me these practices are
useless; but for the benefit of others less
fortunate I give them to the world, together
with this explanation of, and apology for,
them.
I trust that the explanation will enable many
students who have hitherto, by a puerile
objectivity in their view of the question, ob-
tained no results, to succeed ; that the apology
may impress upon our scornful men of science
that the study of the bacillus should give place
to that of the baculum, the little to the great—
how great one only realises when one identifies
the wand with the Mahalingam,* up which
Brahma flew at the rate of 84,000 yojanas a
second for 84,000 mahakalpas, down which
Vishnu flew at the rate of 84,000 crores of
yojanas a second for 84,000 crores of maha-
kalpas—yet neither reached an end.
But I reach an end.
There is no
necessarily
23. The cryptic Coptic.2—Vide the Papyrus
of Bruce.
24. ANET' AER-K, etc.4—Invocation of
Ra. From the Papyrus of Harris.
26. MacGregor.5—The Mage.
29. Abramelin 8—The Mage.
32. Ancient rituals.'—From the Papyrus of
MRS. Harris.+
33. Golden Dawn .8—These rituals were later
annexed by Madame Horos,t that superior
Swami. ‘The earnest seeker is liable to some
pretty severe shocks. To see one’s ‘‘ Obliga-
tion” printed in the Dezly Mail/// Luckily,
I have no nerves.
4g. <TH CTA Wete.9—** Thou, as I, art God
(for this is the esoteric meaning of the common
Hindu salutation), A long road and a heavy
price! To know isalways a difficult work .. .
Hullo! Bravo! Thy name (I have seen) is
written in the stars. Come with me, pupil! I
will give thee medicine for the mind.”
* The Phallus of Shiva the Destroyer. It is really
identical with the;Qabalistic ‘‘ Middle Pillar” of the
‘* Tree of Life.”
t An imaginary laiy to whom Sairey Gamp in
Dickens’ ‘* Martin Chuzzlewit ” used to appeal.
{ Vide the daily papers of June-July rgor.
Cf. Macbeth: ‘‘Canst thou not minister to
a mind diseased ? ”
58. VA tl.10_Enough.
N
60. FHAATAA i u— why?
60. WA VIT1'—What will be?
61. Strange and painful attttude.'3 — Sid-
dhasana.
62, He was very rude.\4—The following is a
sample :—
‘*O Devatas! behold this yogi !
Accurséd abode of Tamas art thou! Eater of
Beef, guzzling as an Herd of Swine! Sleeper
of a thousand sleeps, as an Harlot heavy with
Wine! Void of Will! Sensualist! Enraged
O Chela !
Sheep! Blasphemer of the Names of Shiva
and of Devi! Christian in disguise! Thou
shalt be reborn in the lowest Avitchi! Fast!
Walk! Wake! these are the keys of the King-
dom! Peace be with thy Beard! Aum!”
This sort of talk did me good: I hope it
may do as much for you.
63. With eyes wellfixed on my proboscis, 5—
See Bhagavad-Gita, Atmasamyamyog.
67. Brahma-charya.'*—Right conduct, and in
particular, chastity in the highest sense.
72. Baccy.“—A poisonous plant used by
nicotomaniacs in their orgies and debauches.
‘“The filthy tobacco habit,” says ‘‘ Elijah the
Restorer” of Zion, late of Sydney and Chicago.
That colossal genius-donkey, Shaw, is another
of them. But see Calverley.
78. His hat.\8—lt may be objected that
Western, but never Eastern, magicians turn
their headgear into a cornucopia or Pandora's
box. But I must submit that the Hat Question
is still swb judice. Here’s a health to Lord
Ronald Gower !
86. Swinburne.9—
‘‘ But this thing is God,
To be man with thy might,
To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit,
and live out thy life as the light.”
— Hertha.
104. My big beauty.»°—Pink on Spot ; Player,
Green, in Hand. But I have ‘‘ starred” since I
went down in ¢hat pocket.
120. My Balti coolies.A—See my ‘‘ The
Higher the Fewer.” *
125. ton.22—A school, noted for its breed of
cads. ‘The battle of Waterloo (1815) was won
on its playing-fields.
128-30. /’ve seen them.—Sir J. Maundevill,
‘‘Voiage and Travill,” ch. xvi., recounts a
similar incident, and, Christian as he is, puts a
similar poser.
135. A— What ?74—I beg your pardon. It
was a slip.
146. Zahuti.>—In Coptic, Thoth.
* Title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on
mountain exploration, etc.