Berashith

21 nite number of means: they need not even be compatible; Karma, rebirth, Providence, prayer, sacrifice, baptism, there is room for all. On the old and, I hope, now finally discredited hypothesis of an infinite being, the sup- porters of these various ideas, while explicitly affirming them, implicitly denied. Similarly, note that the Qaba- listic idea of a supreme God (and innumerable hierarchies) is quite compatible with this theory, provided that the supreme God is not infinite. Now as to our weapons. The more advanced Yogis of the Bast, like the Nonconformists at home, have pra- tically abandoned ceremonial as idle. I have yet to learn, however, by what dissenters have replaced it! I take this to be an error, except in the case of the very advanced Yogi. For there exists a true magical cere- monial, vital and direct, whose purpose has, however, at any rate of recent times, been hopelessly misunderstood. Nobody any longer supposes that any means but that of meditation is of avail to grasp the immediate causes of our being; if some person retorts that he prefers to rely on a Glorified Redeemer, I simply answer that he is the very nobody to whomI now refer. Meditation is then the means; but only the supreme means. The agony column ofthe “Times” is the supreme means of meeting with the gentleman in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing. a straw, who was at the soirée of the Carlton Club last Monday night; no doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cow-elephant desiring her bull in the jungles of Geylon.