THE VISION AND THE VOICE
One important meaning of “Ix4ve: it is formed of the initials
of five Egyptian deities and also of five Greek deities; in both
cases a magic formula of tremendous power is concealed.)
As to the Holy Table itself, I cannot see it for the blaze of
light; but Iam given to understand that it appears in another
Aethyr, of which it forms practically the whole content. And
I am bidden to study the Holy Table very intently so as to be
able to concentrate on it when it appears.
I have grown greater, so that Iam as great as the Angel.
And we are standing, as if crucified, face to face, our hands
and lips and -reasts and knees and feet together, and her eyes
pierce into my eyes like whirling shafts of steel, so that I fall
backwards headlong through the Aethyr—and there is a
sudden and tremendous shout, absolutely stunning, cold and
brutal: Osiris was a black god!* And the Aethyr claps its
hands, greater than the peal of a thousand mighty thunders.
I am back.
Bou-SAapa.
November 30, 1909. 10-11.45 p.m.
Tue Cry OF THE 18TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED ZEN
A voice comes before any vision: Accursed are they who
enter herein if they have nails, for they shall be pierced there-
with; or if they have thorns, for they shall be crowned withal;
or if they have whips, for with whips they shall be scourged;
or if they bear wine, for their wine shall be turned to bitter-
ness; or if they have a spear, for with a spear shall they be
pierced unto the heart. And the nails are desires, of which
* The Doctrine implied is that one must not be the child, but the Mother.
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