AN INTERLUDE'
EVERY
nursery
rime
contains
profound
magical
secrets which
are
open to every one who has made
a study of the
correspondences
of
the
Holy
Qabalah.
To puzzle
out
an
imaginary
meaning
for
this
"nonsense"
sets one thinking of the Mysteries;
one
enters
into
deep
contemplation
of holy
things,
and God Himself
leads
the soul to a real
illumination.
Hence
also
the
necessity of Incarnation:
the
soul
must
descend
into all falsity
in order
to attain
All-Truth.
For instance:
Old Mother
Hubbard
Went
to her cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone ;
When
she got there,
' This
chapter
was
dictated
in
answer
to a casual
remark
by
Soror
Virakam.
Fra.
P. said jokingly that everything
contained
the Truth, if you knew how to find it;
and, being challenged,
proceeded
to make good.
It is here inserted, not for any value
that it may have, but to test the reader.
If it is thought to be a joke,
the reader is one
useless kind
of fool ; if it is thought
that Fra.
P. believes that the makers of the rimes
had any occult intention,
he is another
useless kind
of fool.
Soror
Virakam
chose the
rimes at hazard.