Magick Without Tears

THE GODS 465 Mohammed was in reality a "Master" or messenger of some such person , more or less as Aiwass describes himself as "the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat ." (AL , I: 7) His name implies some such function ; for G.B.R. is Mercury between the Two Greater Lights, Sol and Luna . This seems to mean that he is something more than a lunar or terrestrial archangel ; as he would appear to be from 777. (There now! That was my private fiend again- the Demon of Digression. Back to our Gods!) 777 itself, to say nothing of The Golden Bough and the Good Lord knows how many other similar monuments of lexicography (for really they are little more) , is our text-book . We are bound to · note at once that the Gods sympathise , run into one another , coalesce much more closely than any other of the Orders of Being. There is not really much in common between a jackal and a beetle , or between a wolf and an owl, although they are grouped under Pisces or Aries respectively. But Adonis, Attis , Osiris, Melcarth, Mithras, Marsyas-a whole string of them comes tripping off the tongue. They all have histories ; their birth , their life, their death , their subsequent career; all goes naturally with them exactly as if they were (say) a set of warriors , painters , anything superbly human. We feel instinctively that we know them, or at least know of them in the same sense that we know of our fellow men and women ; and that in a sense which never so much as occurs to us when we discuss Archangels. The great exception is the Holy Guardian Angel; and this as I have shewn in another letter is for exactly the same reason; He is a Person , a macrocosmic Individual. (We do not know about his birth and so on ; but that is because he is, so to speak a private God ; he only appears to the world at all through some reference to him by his client ; for instance , the genius or Augoeides of Socrates.) Let us see how this works in practice. Consider Zeus, Jupiter , Amoun-Ra , Indra , etc. , we can think of them as the same identical people known and described by Greeks , Romans, Egyptians and Hindus ; they differ as Mont Cervin