THE EQUINOX
false understanding is called understanding, for this is their
most potent spell.
Yet of their own poison do they perish, and in their lonely
fortresses shall they be eaten up by Time that hath cheated
them to serve him, and by the mighty devil Choronzon, their
master, whose name is the Second Death, for the blood that
they have sprinkled on their Pylon, that is a bar against the
Angel Death, is the key by which he entereth in.*
The Angel sayeth: And this is the word of double power
in the voice of the Master, wherein the Five interpenetrateth
the Six. This is its secret interpretation that may not be
understood, save only of them that understand. And for this
is it the Key of the Pylon of Power, because there is no power
that may endure, save only the power that descendeth in this
my chariot from Babylon, the city of the Fifty Gates, the Gate
of the God On [}ybxax2]. Moreover is On the Key of the
Vault that is 120. So also do the Majesty and the Beauty
derive from the Supernal Wisdom.
But this is a mystery utterly beyond thine understanding.
For Wisdom is the Man, and Understanding the Woman,
and not until thou hast perfectly understood canst thou begin
to be wise. But I reveal unto thee a mystery of the Aethyrs,
that not only are they bound up with the Sephiroth, but also
with the Paths. Now, the plane of the Aethyrs interpenetrateth
and surroundeth the universe wherein the Sephiroth are estab-
lished, and therefore is the order of the Aethyrs not the order
of the Tree of Life. And only
in a few places do they coincide.
* (I think the trouble with these people was, that they wanted to substitute
the blood of someone else for their own blood, because they wanted to keep
their personalities).
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