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the Serpent should be his at last.  “None for the fool,” they
 laughed 
back—nay, even his maiden queen.  For she would not any should know 
thereof.  Yet all were right, both he 
and they.  But truth ran quickly  
about; for that was the House of Truth; and Mercury  stood far from the 
Sun.  Yet the Suggler was ever in the 
Sign of Sorrow, and the Fig Tree 
was not far.  So went our Father to the Fool’s Paradise of Air.  But it is 
not lawful that I should write to y ou, brethren, of what there came to him 
at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written.  F or alway 
doth this Arcanum  differ from  itself on this wise, that the Not and 
the 
Amen,1 passing, are void either on the one  side or the other, and Who 
shall tell their ways ? 
So our Father, having won the Serpent Crown, the Uræus of Antient 
Khem, did bind it upon his head, and rejoiced 
in that Kingdom for the 
space of two hundred and thirty  and one days2 and nights, and turned him 
toward the Flaming Sword. 3  Now the Sword governeth ten mighty King-
doms, and evil, and above them is the ninefold lotus, and a virgin came 
forth unto him in the hour of his rejoicing and propounded her riddle. 
The first riddle :4 
The maiden is blind. 
Our Father : She shall be what she doth not. 
And a second virgin came forth to him and said : 
The second riddle : Detegitur Yod. 
Quoth our Father : The moon is full. 
So also a third virgin the third riddle : 
Man and woman : O fountain of the balance! 
To whom our F ather answered with a swift f lash of h is sword, so swift 
she saw it not. 
Came a fourth virgin, having a fourth riddle : 
What egg hath no shell ? 
And our Father pondered a while and then said : 
On a wave of the sea : on a shell of the wave : blessed be her name ! 
The fifth virgin issued suddenly and said : 
I have four arms and six sides : red I am, and gold.  To whom our Father : 
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ! 
(For wit ye well, there be two Arcana therein.) 
Then saith the sixth virgin openly : 
Power lieth in the river of fire. 
And our Father laughed aloud and answered : I am come from the 
waterfall. 
So at that the seventh virgin came forth: and 
her countenance was 
troubled. 
The seventh riddle : 
The oldest said to the most beautiful: What doest thou here ? 
 
1 This is obscure. 
2 0 + 1 + 2 + . . . + 21 = 231. 
3 The Sepiroth. 
4 The m aiden ( Malkuth) is blind (
unredeemed).  Answer : She shall 
be  
what she doth not,  i.e., see.  She shall be the sea, 
i.e., “ exalted to the throne  
of Binah” ( the gr eat sea) , the Qabalistic  phr ase to expr ess her  r edemption.   
We leave it to the reader’s ingenuity to so lve the rest.  Each ref ers to the Sephira 
indicated by the number, but going upward. 
 
 
 
Hammer of  
Thor. 
 
 
 
Arcanum. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Griphus I. 
 
 
 
Griphus II. 
 
Griphus III. 
 
 
 
Griphus IV. 
 
 
 
Griphus V. 
 
 
 
Griphus VI. 
 
 
 
Griphus VII.