lOI
The
connection
between
Breath
and
Mind
has
been
supposed
by
some to exist merely in etymology.
But the connection
is a truer one/
In any case there is undoubtedly
a connection
between the
respiratory
and
mental
functions.
The Student will
find
this
out
by practising
Pranayama.
By this exercise
some
thoughts
are
barred,
and
those which
do
come
into
the
mind
come
more slowly than before, so that the mind has
time to perceive their falsity and to destroy them.
On the
blade
of the Magick
Sword
is etched
the name AGLA,
a
Notariqon formed
from the initials of the sentence
Ateh Gibor Leolahm
Adonai, " To Thee be the Power unto the Ages, O my Lord."
And the acid which
eats into
the steel should
be oil of vitriol.
Vitriol
is a Notariqon of " Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando
Invenies
Oc-
cultum
Lapidem."
That
is
to
say:
By
investigating
everything
and
Sword,
the letter H symbolises
breath,
and H is the letter
of Aries— the House
of
Mars,
of the Sword: and H is also the letter of the Mother;
this is the link
between
the Sword
and the Cup.
^ It is undoubted
that Ruach
means primarily
"that which
moves or revolves,"
" a
going,"
" a v/heel," " the wind," and that
its secondary
meaning was mind
because
of the observed instability
of mind,
and its tendency to a circular
motion.
" Spiritus
"
only came to mean Spirit in the modern
technical
sense owing
to the efforts of the
theologians.
We have an example of the proper use of the word in the term : Spirit of
Wine —the airy portion
of wine.
But the word " inspire " was perhaps
derived
from
observing
the derangement of the breathing of persons in divine
ecstasy.