Firstly, it represents the complété course of sound. It is pro- 
nounced by forcing the breath from the back of the throat with 
the mouth wide open, through the buccal cavity with the lips so 
shaped as to modify the sound from A to O (or U), to the closed 
lips, when it becomes M. Symbolically, this announces the course 
of Nature as proceeding from free and formless création through 
controlled and formed préservation to the silence of destruction. 
The three sounds are harmonized into one; and thus the Word 
represents the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva; and 
the operations in the Universe of their triune energy. It is thus 
the formula of a Manvantara, or period of manifested existence, 
which alternâtes with a Pralaya, during which création is latent. 
Analysed Qabalistically, the Word is found to possess similar 
properties. A is the négative, and also the unity which concentrâtes 
it into a positive form. A is the Holy Spirit who begets God in 
flesh upon the Virgin, according to the formula familial* to students 
of “The Golden Bough”. A is also the “babe in the Egg” thus 
produced. The quality of A is thus bisexual. It is the original 
being — Zeus Arrhenothelus, Bacchus Diphues, or Baphomet. 
U or V is the manifested son himself. Its number is 6. It refers 
therefore, to the dual nature of the Logos as divine and human; 
the interlacing of the upright and averse triangles in the hexagram. 
It is the first number of the Sun, whose last number 1 is 666, “the 
number of a man”. 
The letter M exhibits the termination of this process. It is the 
Hanged Man of the Tarot ; the formation of the individual from 
the absolute is closed by his death. 
We see accordingly how AUM is, on either System, the expres¬ 
sion of a dogma which implies catastrophe in nature. It is cognate 
with the formula of the Slain God. The “résurrection” and 
“ascension” are not implied in it. They are later inventions 
without basis in necessity; they may be described indeed as 
Freudian phantasms conjured up by the fear of facing reality. To 
I. The Sun being 6, a square 6X6 contains 36 squares. We arrange 
the numbers fiom I to 36 in this square, so that each line, file, and 
diagonal adds to the same number. This number is 111 ; the total of ail 
is 666. 
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