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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!