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The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 120
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therewith. Now, hear this: it was given unto me in my Visions of the Aethyrs, when I was in the
Wilderness of Sahara, by Tolga, upon the Brink of the Great Eastern Erg, that above the Abyss,
Contradiction is Unity, and that nothing could be true save by Virtue of the Contradiction that
is contained in itself. Behold, therefore, in this Method thou shalt come presently to Ideas of
this Order that include in themselves their own Contradiction, and have no Antithesis. Here
then is thy Lever of Antinomy broken in thine Hand; yet, being in true Balance, thou mayest
soar, passionate and eager, from Heaven to Heaven, by the Expansion of thine Idea, and its Ex‐
altation, or by Concentration as thou understandest, by Virtue of thy Studies in the Book of the
Law, the Word thereof concerning Our Lady Nuith, and Hadith that is the Core of every Star.
And this last Going upon thy Ladder is easy, if thou be truly Initiate, for the Momentum of thy
Force in Transcendental Antithesis serveth to propel thee, and the Emancipation from the Fet‐
ters of Thought that thou hast won in that Praxis of Art maketh the Whirlpool and Gravitation
of Truth of Competence to draw thee unto itself.
DE VIA SOLA SOLIS
This is the Profit of mine Intoxication of this holy Herb, The Grass of the Arabs, that it
hath shewed me this Mystery (with many others), not as a New Light, for I had that aforetime,
but by its swift Synthesis and Manifestation of a long Sequence of Events in a Moment. I had
Wit to analyze this Method, and to discover its Essential Law, which before had escaped the
Focus of the Lens of mine Understanding. Yea, O my Son, there is no True Path of Light, save
that which I have formerly made plain; yet in every Path is Profit, if thou be cunning to per‐
ceive it and to clasp it. For we win Truth oftentimes by Refiexion, or by the Composition and
Selection of an Artist in his Presentation thereof, when else we were blind thereunto, lacking
his Mode of Light. Yet were that Art of none avail unless we had already the Root of that Truth
in our Nature, and a Bud ready to flower at the Summoning of that Sun. In Witness, nor a Boy
nor a Stone hath Knowledge of the Sections of a Cone, and their Properties; but thou mayest
teach these to the Boy by right Presentation, because he hath in his Nature those Laws of
Mind that are consonant with our Art Mathematical, and hath Need only of Fledging (I may
say this), so that he apply them consciously to the Work, when, all being in Truth, that is, in
the necessary Relations that rule our Illusion, he cometh in Course to Apprehension.
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