THE EQUINOX
Ones may take their pleasure.) O ye heavens, arise; the
lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you. (This is a
command for the whole of things to join in universal rapture.)
Govern those that govern; cast down such as fall; bring forth
those that increase; and destroy the rotten. (This means that
everything shall take its own pleasure in its own way.) No
place let it remain in onenumber. (‘‘ No place” is the infinite
Ain. . . . “Let remain in one number”; that is, let it be con-
centrated in Kether.) Add and diminish until the stars be
numbered. (It is a mystery of the Logos being formulated by
the Qabalah, because the stars are all letters of the Holy
Alphabet, as it was said in a former Aethyr.) Arise! Movel
and Appear! before the covenant of his mouth which he hath
shewn unto us in his justice. (‘The Covenant” is the letter
Aleph; “His mouth,” pé; “His Justice,” lamed; and these
add up again to Aleph, so that it is in the letter Aleph, which
is zero, thus symbolizing the circles of the Aethyrs, that he
calleth them forth. But men thought that Aleph was the
initial of ARR, cursing, when it was really the initial of
AChD, unity, and AHBH, love. So that it was the most
horrible and wicked blasphemy of the blackest of all the black
brothers to begin Berashith with a beth, with the letter of the
Magician. Yet, by this simple device, hath he created the
whole illusion of sorrow.) Open the mysteries of your creation,
and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge. (The word
here “IADNAMAD_” is not the ordinary word for knowledge.
It is a word of eight letters, which is the secret name of God,
summarized in the letter cheth; for which see the Aethyr
which correspondeth to that letter, the twelfth Aethyr.)
Now from time to time I have looked into the Stone, but
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