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LIBER CD analyses the Hebrew alphabet into seven triads, each of which forms a Trinity of 
sympathetic ideas relating respectively to the Three Orders comprised in the A.'. A.'.. It is really an 
attempt to find a Periodic Law in the system. 
LIBER CDLXXIV. The Book of the Mouth of the Abyss or of Knowledge. A course of study in philosophy 
is prescribed as a preliminary. The aspirant having assimilated all existing systems, he is instructed 
how to analyse the nature of the reason itself and thus how to cross the Abyss on the Intellectual 
Plane. Having cleansed and renewed his mental faculties in this way, he resumes his aspiration to 
the Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, with whose reappearance he perfects 
his Magical Powers so that he is ready to undertake the Work of annihilating the universe, which, 
being done, he becomes a full Master of the Temple. 
LIBER DLV. This is a paraphrase of the instructions given in The book of the Law for attaining Hadit. 
LIBER DCCCXXXI, The Book of Vesta. This book describes three main methods of reducing the 
multiplicity of thoughts to one. (The magical method is to banish ceremonially the 32 parts of the 
universe in turn. One mystical method is to deny in consciousness that any part of the body or mind 
is real. Another is to stimulate the senses in turn with such concentration as to put it out of gear.) 
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LIBER DCCCLXVIII. This is an analysis of the 22 letters. To each is attributed a magical or mystical 
practice of progressive difficulty until attainment is complete. 
LIBER CMXIII. The Book of the Memory of the Path. Here are given two methods of acquiring the 
Magical Memory so as to enable the aspirant to calculate his True Orbit in eternity. The first method 
is to learn to think backwards till he acquires the power of recalling the events of his life in reverse 
chronological order. The idea is to get back beyond one's birth to one's previous death, and so on for 
many lives. It should then be easy to understand the general object of one's existence. The second 
(easier and surer) method is to consider every event in one's past, determine the influence which 
each has had upon one's life, and by synthesizing these forces, calculate their resultant; that is 
determine one's general direction so as to be able to concentrate one's energies on fulfilling the 
function for which one is fit. Character, conduct an circumstances are to be considered as terms of 
a complex dynamic equation. This method is of extreme value to all. It should be applied even to 
the education of children so as not to force them into unnatural developments. 
These nineteen books were published in numbers six and seven of The Equinox. During this summer, 
I also prepared the extremely important account of the circumstances in which the stele was 
discovered and The Book of the Law written, for number seven. In this manner I published a 
facsimile of the manuscript of that Book and my Comment thereon. This latter is shamefully meagre 
and incomplete. The truth is, that despite everything, I still felt an indescribable repugnance. I 
knew well how unworthy the Comment was as it stood, yet I could not force myself to work on it, 
partly, no doubt, because I felt, as indeed I feel now, that nothing I can write can possibly be 
worthy of or adequate to the text; but partly also, from an instinctive fear and dislike of the 
subject. 
And so passed away this superb summer. The autumn had a new experience in store for me. The 
current of my life was once more to be suddenly turned; and as usual, this critical change came 
about as the result of a series of casual chances. I was caught in a web, some of whose strands had 
been woven as early as 1902. I must deal with this new development in a new chapter. 
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That fertile passage through Paris on my return from Chogo Ri, which had already born so much fruit 
in my life, had still some seed --- which now came to harvest. I have mentioned Nina Olivier, whom 
I loved so well and sang so passionately. In my sunlight she had blossomed into La Dame de