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