Book 4 (Part II)

lOO up of these coherent images, has tried to replace them by ideals which are only saved from destruction, at the very moment of their birth, by their vagueness. The Will of the King was at least ascertainable at any moment; nobody has yet devised a means for ascertaining the will of the people. All conscious willed action is impeded; the march of events is now nothing but inertia. Let the Magician consider these matters before he takes the Sword in his hand. Let him understand that the Ruach, this loose combina- tion of 6 Sephiroth, only bound together by their attachment to the human will in Tiphereth, must be rent asunder. The mind must be broken up into a form of insanity before it can be transcended. David said: " I hate thoughts." The Hindu says: "That which can be thought is not true." Paul said: "The carnal mind is enmity against God." And every one who meditates, even for an hour, will soon discover how this gusty aimless wind makes his flame flicker. "The wind bloweth where it listeth." The normal man is less than a straw. ^ ' But as it is said, Shnilia similibus curanttir, we find this Ruach also the symbol of the Spirit. RVCh ALHIM, the Spirit of God, is 300, the number of the holy letter Shin. As this is the breath, which by its nature is double, the two edges of the