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the Temple
asks,
on
seeing
a
slug:
"What
is
the
purpose
of this
message
from
the
Unseen?
How
shall I interpret
this Word of God
Most High?"
The Magus
thinks: "How
shall I use
this slug?"
And
in this course
he must persist.
Though
many things
useless, so far
as
he
can
see,
are sent
to him,
one
day
he will find
the
one
thing
he
needs,
while
his
Understanding will
appreciate
the
fact
that
none of
those other things
were useless.
So
with
these early practices
of renunciation
it will
now
be clearly
understood
that
they
were
but
of temporary
use.
They
were
only
of
value
as
training.
The adept
will laugh
over his early absurdities —the
disproportions
will have
been
harmonized;
and
the
structure
of his
soul
will
be
seen
as
perfectly
organic,
with
no
one
thing
out
of its
place.
He will
see himself
as
the
positive
Tau
with
its
ten complete
squares within
the triangle
of the negatives;
and this figure will become
one,
as
soon
as
from
the equilibrium
of opposites
he has attained
to
the identity
of opposites.
In all this it will
have been seen that the most powerful weapon
in the hand of the student
is the Vow of Holy Obedience;
and many will wish that they had the opportunity of putting
themselves
under
a holy
Guru.
Let
them
take
heart— for
any
being
capable
of
giving
commands
is an efficient
Guru for the purpose of this Vow,
pro-
vided
that he is not too amiable
and lazy.