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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.