Section C. 
Section D. 
Section E. 
their tendencies. They do not crave hydrogen; 
therefore combination with that gas is an event 
which does not happen. Ail expériences contribute 
to make us complété in ourselves. We feel our- 
selves subject to them so long as we fail to 
recognise this; when we do, we perceive that they 
are subject to us. And whenever we strive to 
évadé an expérience, whatever it may be, we 
thereby do wrong to ourselves. We thwart our 
own tendencies. To live is to change; and to 
oppose change is to revoit against the law which 
we hâve enacted to govern our lives. To resent 
destiny is thus to abdicate our sovereignty, and to 
invoke death. Indeed, we hâve decreed the doom 
of death for every breach of the law of life. And 
every failure to incorporate any impression starves 
the particular faculty which stood in need of it. 
This Section B invokes Air in the East, with a 
shaft of golden glory. 
The adept now invokes Fire in the South; flamc 
red are the rays that burst from his Verendum. 
He invokes Water in the West, his Wand 
billowing forth blue radiance. 
He goes to the North to invoke Earth; flowers 
of green flame flash from his weapon. As practice 
makes the Adept perfect in this Work, it becomes 
automatic to attach ail these complicated ideas and 
intentions to their correlated words and acts. When 
this is attained he may go deeper into the formula 
by amplifying its correspondences. Thus, he may 
invoke water in the manner of water, extending 
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