Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

(This latter operation is facilitated by severing the fraenum linguæ, which, if done, shouJd be done by a competent surgeon. We do not advise this or any similar method of cheating difficultés. This is, however, harmless.) In this manner the practice is to be raised from the physical to the spiritual plane, even as the words Ruh, Ruach, Pneuma, Spiritus, Geist, Ghost, and indeed words of almost ail languages, hâve been raised from their physical meaning of wind, breath, or movement, to the spiritual plane. (RV is the old root meaning Yoni and hence Wheel (Fr. roue, Lat. rota, wheel) and the corresponding Semitic root means “to go”. Similarly spirit is connected with “spiral”. — Ed.) 17- Let the Zelator attach no crédit to any statements that may hâve been made throughout the course of this instruction, and reflect that even the counsel which we hâve given as suitable to the average case may be entirely unsuitable to his own. 409 —