Magick Without Tears

ASTRAL JOURNEY 147 got so far; but then of course you must know if he is "one of the believing J inn." Briefly, is he a friend or an enemy? You accordingly say to him "The word of the Law is Thelema." It turns out that he doesn't understand Greek at all, so you were certainly right in choosing Hebrew. You put it to him, "What is the word of the Law?" and he replies darkly: "The word of the Law is Thora." That means nothing to you; any one might know as much as that , Thora being the ordinary word for the Sacred Law of Israel, and you accordingly ask him to spell it to make sure you have heard aright; and he gives you the letters , perhaps by speaking them, perhaps by showing them: Teth, Resh, Ayin. You add these up and get 279. This again is divisible by the Saturnian 3, and the result is 93; in other words, he has been precisely right. On the plane of Saturn one may multiply by three and therefore he has given you the correct word "Thelema" in a form unfamiliar to you . You may now consider yourself satisfied of his good faith , and may proceed to inspect him more closely. The stars above his head suggest the influence of Binah, whose number also is three , while the most striking thing about him is the core of his being: the letter Yod. (One does not count the termination A H: being a divine suffix it represents the inmost light and the outermost light.) This Yod, this spark of intense brilliance, is of that pale greenish gold which one sees (in this world) in the fine gold leaf of Tibet . It glows with ever greater intensity as you concentrate upon observing him, which you could not do while you were preoccupied with investigating his credentials . Confidence being thus established, you inquire why he has appeared to you at this time and at this place; and the answer to this question is of course your original idea, that is to say, he is presenting to you in other terms that "mountainous Fugue" which invoked him. You listen to him with attention, make such enquiries as seem good to you, and record the proceedings. The above example is, of course, pure imagination, and