Book 4 (Part II)

87 spinal column, or, if you prefer it, Time, chosen as one of the conditions of normal consciousness. The mouse is the Ego ; " Mus,'' a mouse, being only Sum, " I am," spelt Qabalistically backwards. This Ego or Prana or Kundalini force being driven up the spine, the clock strikes one, that is, the duality of consciousness is abolished. And the force again subsides to its original level. " Hickory, dickory, dock!" is perhaps merely the mantra which was used by the Adept who constructed this rime, thereby hoping to fix it in the minds of men, so that they might attain to Samadhi by the same method. Others attribute to it a more profound significance —which it is impossible to go into at this moment, for we must turn to: — Ilumpty Dumpty sat on the wall; Humpty Dumpty got a great fall; All the king's horses And all the king's men Couldn't set up Humpty Dumpty again. This is so simple as hardly to require explanation. Humpty Dumpty is of course the Egg of Spirit, and the wall is the Abyss — his " fall " is therefore the descent of spirit into matter; and it is only too painfully familiar to us that all the king's horses and all his men cannot restore us to the height. Only The King Himself can do that!