THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY
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De aliquibus Modis Oraculi Petendi
(Of some Modes of Seeking an Oracle)
Y Son, in all Judgment and Decision is great Deli-
cacy, but most in these Matters of the Will.
For
thou art Advocate as well as Judge, and unless
thou have well organized thy Mind thou art Bondslave of
Prejudice. For this Cause it is adjuvant to thy Wisdom to
call Witnesses that are not of thine own Nature, and to ask
Oracles whose Interpretation is bound by fixed rule. This is
the Use of the Book TAROT, of the Divination by Earth, or by
the other Elements, or by the Book Yi-King, and many
another Mode of Truth. Thou knowest by thine Experience
that these Arts deceive thee not, save insofar as hou
deceivest thyself. So then to thee that art NEMO is no Siege
Perilous at this Table, but to them that are yet below he
Abyss is very notable Danger of Error. Yet must they train
themselves constantly in these Modes, for Experience itself
shall teach them how their Bias toward their Desires reacteth
in the End against themselves, and hindereth them in he
Execution of their Wills. Nevertheless, as thou well knowest,
the best Mode is the Creation of an Intelligible Image by
Virtue of the Mass of the Holy Ghost, declaring the true Will
unto thee in Terms of thy Qabalah!
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