Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

must convey a Iruth not known to any human mind, past or présent. Yet this Truth must be vérifiable. There îs but one document in the world which présents evidence that fui]y satisfies these conditions. This is LIBER AL vel LEGIS the Book of the Law of this New Aeon of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, the Aeon whose Logos is The Beast 666, whose name in the Outer Order was Frater Perdurabo. The nature of the proof of the separate existence of praeter- human Intelligence, independent of bodily form, is extremely complicated. Its main divisions may be briefly enumerated. He telephoned a friend named Feilding at the latter’s house, and was answered b)' Mr. Feilding’s secretary, who said that his employer had left the house a few minutes previously, and could only be reached by telephoning a certain office in the City at between 11 o’clock and a quarter past. Frater Perdurabo had an appointment at il o’clock with a music-hall star, the place being the entrance to a theatre. In order to remind himself, he made a mental note that as soon as he saw the lady, he would raise his hand and say, before greeting her : “Remind me that I must téléphoné at once to Feilding”, when he met her. He did this, and she advanced toward Plim with the same gesture, and said in the same breath, “Remind me that I hâve to téléphoné to Tom Jones” —the name of a music-hall agent employed by her. It will be seen that there is here no question of any connection between the éléments of the coincidence. If a similar occurrence had taken place in the course of communication with an alleged spirit, it would hâve been regarded as furnishing a very high degree of proof of the existence of an independent intelligence. To make this clear, Jet me substitute the terms of the équation. Suppose two independent médiums, A and B, were to receive respectively at the same moment two messages, the first; “Ask B who wrote Hamlet”, the second; “Ask A the name of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy.” The coincidence is here much simpler and less striking than the one recorded above, for there is no question of arriving at the identity by way of accidentai synonyms concealing their rational connection. Yet most students of Occult phenomena would admit that there was a strong presumption that a single intelligence had deliberately devised the two messages as a means of proving his existence. 3. In The International of November, 1918, was published the con- — 257 —