Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

is faased upon actual spiritual expérience, but the trained reason 1 can reach a réflexion of this idea by the method of logical con¬ tradiction which ends in reason transcending itself. The reader should consult “The Soldier and the Hunchback” in Equinox I, I, and “Konx Om PaxT Unity transcends consctoiisness. It is above ail division. The Father of thought — the Word —* is called Chaos — the dyad. The number Three, the Mother, is called Babalon. In connection with this the reader should study “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I, V, and Liber 418. This first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. The compréhension of this Trinity is a matter of spiritual expérience. Ail true gods are attrîbuted to this Trinity. 2 3 An immeasurable abyss divides it from ail manifestations of Reason or the lower qualifies of man. In the ultimate analysis of Reason, we find ail reason identified with this abyss. Yet this abyss is the crown of the mind. Purely intellectual faculties ail obtain here. This abyss has no number, for in it ail is confusion. Below this abyss we find the moral qualifies of Man, of which there are six. The highest is symbolised by the number Four. Its nature is fatherly s; Mercy and Authority are the attributes of its dignity. The number Five is balanced against it. The attributes of Five are Energy and Justice. Four and Five are again combined and harmonized in the number Six, whose nature is beauty and harmony, mortality and immortality. In the number Seven the féminine nature is again prédominant, 1. Ail advance in understanding demands the acquisition of a new point-of-view. Modem conceptions of Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics are sheer paradox to the “plain man” who thinks of Matter as something that one can knock up against. 2. Considérations of the Christian Trinity are of a nature suited only to Initiâtes of the IX° of O. T. O., as they enclose the final secret of ail praçtical Magick. 3. Each conception is, however, balanced in itself. Four is also Daleth, the letter of Venus; so that the mother-idea is included. Again, the Sephira of 4 is Chesed, referred to Water. 4 is ruled by Jupiter, Lord of the Lightning (Fire) yet ruler of Air. Each Sephira is complété in its way. 2