Ego. A <:Spell” of God is any form of conscious- 
ness, and a “Scourge” any form of action. 
The Charge, as a whole, demands for the Adept 
the control of every detail of the Universe which 
His Angel has created as a means of manifesting 
Himself to Himself. It covers command of the 
primary projection of the Possible in individuality, 
in the antithetical artifice which is the device 
of Mind, and in a balanced triplicity of modes or 
States of being whose combinations constitute the 
characteristics of Cosmos. It includes also a 
standard of structure, a rigidity to make reference 
possible. Upon these foundations of condition 
which are not things in themselves, but the canon 
to which things conform, is builded the Temple of 
Being, whose materials are themselves perfectly 
mysterious, inscrutable as the Soûl, and like the 
Soûl imagining themselves by symbols which we 
may feel, perceive, and adapt to our use without 
ever knowing the whole Truth about them. The 
Adept sums up ail these items by claiming authority 
over every form of expression possible to Exis¬ 
tence, whether it be a “spell” (idea) or a “scourge” 
(act) of “God”, that is, of himself. The Adept 
must accept every “spirit”, every “spell”, every 
“scourge”, as part of his environment, and make 
them ail “subject to” himself ; that is, consider 
them as contributory causes of himself. They hâve 
made him what he is. They correspond exactly 
to his own faculties. They are ail — ultimately 
— of equal importance. The fact that he is what 
he is proves that each item is equilibrated. The 
impact of each new impression affects the entire 
System in due measure. He must thereiore realize 
that every event is subject to him. It occurs 
because he had need of it. Iron rusts because the 
molécules demand oxygen for the satisfaction ©f 
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