Chapter I a Verses 7—10
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ridiculous, a senseless and inexcusable folly. It would throw us 
back on the dilemma of Manichaeism. The idea of incarnations 
“perfecting” a thing originally perfect by definition is imbecile. 
The only sane solution is as given previously, to suppose that the 
Perfect enjoys experience of (apparent) Imperfection. (There are 
deeper resolutions of this problem appropriate to the highest 
grades of initiation; but the above should suffice the average 
intelligence.)
9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!
Commentary: We are to pay attention to this Inmost Light; 
then comes the answering Light of Infinite Space. Note that the 
Light of Space is what men call Darkness; its nature is utterly 
incomprehensible to our uninitiated minds. It is the “veils” men­
tioned previously in this comment that obstruct the relation 
between Nuit and Hadit.
We are not to worship the Khu, to fall in love with our Magi­
cal Image. To do this—we have all done it—is to forget our 
Truth. If we adore Form, it becomes opaque to Being, and may 
soon prove false to itself. The Khu in each of us includes the Cos­
mos as he knows it. To me, even another Khabs is only part of my 
Khu. Our own Khabs is our one sole Truth.
10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & 
the known.
Commentary: The nature of magical power is quite incom­
prehensible to the vulgar. The prophet Ezekiel besieging a tile 
in order to destroy Jerusalem,1 and the adventures of Hosea with 
Gomer,2 seem as absurd to the “practical” man as do the 
researches of any other scientific man until the Sunday News­
papers have furnished him with a plausible explanation which 
explains nothing. (Book 4, Part III, must be read in this 
connection.)
1 [Ezekiel 4:1-2.]
2 [Hosea 1:1-2.]