THE VISION AND THE VOICE
All this while the Adepts have been chanting as it were
an oratorio for seven instruments. And this oratorio hath
one dominant theme of rapture. Yet it applieth to every detail
of the universe as well as to the whole. And herein is
Choronzon brought utterly to ruin, that all his work is against
his will, not only in the whole, but in every part thereof, even
as a fly that walketh upon a beryl-stone.
And the tablet blazeth ever brighter till it filleth the whole
Aire. And behold! there is one God therein, and the letters
of the stars in his crown, Orion, and the Pleiades, and Alde-
baran, and Alpha Centauri, and Cor Leonis, and Cor Scorpionis,
and Spica, and the pole-star, and Hercules, and Regulus, and
Aquila, and the Ram’s Eye.
And upon a map of the stars shalt thou draw the sigil of
that name; and because also some of the letters are alike, thou
shalt know that the stars also have tribes and nations. The
letter of a star is but the totem thereof. And the letter repre-
senteth not the whole nature of the star, but each star must
be known by itself in the wisdom of him that hath the Cyno-
cephalus in leash.
And this pertaineth unto the grade of a Magus,—and that
is beyond thine. (All this is communicated not by voice, or
by writing; and there is no form in the stone, but only the
brilliance of the Table. And now I am withdrawn from all
that, but the Rosy Cross of 49 petals is set upright upon the
summit of a pyramid, and all is dark, because of the exceeding
light behind.)
And there cometh a voice: The fly cried unto the ox,
‘Beware! Strengthen thyself. Set thy feet firmly upon the
earth, for it is my purpose to alight between thy shoulders,
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