ASTRAL JOURNEY 
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o thou that settest out upon the Path, false is the 
Phantom that thou seekest. When thou hast it thou 
shalt know all bitterness, thy teeth fixed in the 
Sodom-Apple. 
Thus hast thou been lured along that Path, whose terror 
else had driven thee far away. 
o thou that stridest upon the middle of the Path, no 
phantoms mock thee. For the stride's sake thou 
stridest. 
Thus art thou lured along that Path, whose fascination 
else had driven thee far away. 
o thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, effort 
is no more. Faster and faster dost thou fall; thy 
weariness is changed into Ineffable Rest . 
For there is no Thou upon that Path: thou hast become 
The Way. 
As in the Yi King, the 3rd hexagram has departed from the 
original perfection, and it takes all the rest of the hexagrams 
to put things right again. The result, it is true , is superior; the 
perfection of the original has been enhanced and enriched by 
its experience. 
There is another way of defining the Great Work that 
explains to us the whole object of manifestation, of departing 
from the perfection of "Nothing" towards the perfection of 
"everything," and one may consider this advantage, that it is 
quite impossible to go wrong. Every experience, whatever 
may be its nature, is just another necessary bump. 
Naturally one cannot realize this until one becomes a 
Master . of the Temple; consequently, one is perpetually 
plunged in sorrow and despair. There is, you see, a good deal 
more to it than merely learning one's mistakes. One can never 
be sure what is right and what is wrong, until one appreciates