In the Qabalah, the candidate must discover for himself, and
prove to the examiner beyond all doubt, the properties of a number
never previously examined by any student.
In invocation the divine force must be made as manifest and
unmistakable as the effects of chloroform; in evocation, the spirit
called forth must be at least as visible and tangible as the heaviest
vapours; in divination, the answer must be as precise as a scientific
thesis, and as accurate as an audit; in meditation, the results must
read like a specialist’s report of a classical case.
But such methods, the A.. A... intends to make occult science
as systematic and scientific as chemistry; to rescue it from the ill
repute which, thanks both to the ignorant and dishonest quacks that
have prostituted its name, and to the fanatical and narrow-minded
enthusiasts that have turned it into a fetish, has made it an object
of aversion to those very minds whose enthusiasm and integrity
make them most in need of its benefits, and most fit to obtain them.
It is the one really important science, for it transcends the condi-
tions of material existence and so is not liable to perish with the
planet, and it must be studied as a science, sceptically, with the
utmost energy and patience.
The A-. A... possesses the secrets of success; it makes no secret
of its knowledge, and if its secrets are not everywhere known and
practised, it is because the abuses connected with the name of occult
science disincline official investigators to examine the evidence at
their disposal.
This paper has been written not only with the object of at-
tracting individual seekers into the way of Truth, but of affirming
the propriety of the methods of the A-. A.. as the basis for the
next great step in the advance of human knowledge.
Love is the law, love under will.
O.M.7° == gO A.A
Praemonstrator of the
Order of the R... C...
Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalu, Sicily,
in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in
23° Virgo and the Moon in 14° Pisces.