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nearly 
so exalted: 
Hanuman hardly at all. Nor is 
Tetragrammaton 
lAO, though even etymology asserts the 
identity . 
In these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even 
synchretic. And you must consider the nature of your work. 
If I wanted to evoke Taphthartharath, there would be little 
help indeed from any but the Qabalistic system; for that 
spirit's precise forms and numbers are not to be found in any 
other. 
The converse, however, is not so true. The Qabalah, 
properly understood , properly treated , is so universal that 
one can vamp up a ritual to suit almost "any name and 
form." But in such a case one may expect to have to 
reinforce it by a certain amount of historical, literary, or 
philosophic study-and research. 
4. Quite 
right, 
dear lady, about your incarnation 
memories acting as a "Guide to the Way Back." Of course, if 
you "missed an Egyptian Incarnation," you would not be so 
likely to be a little Martha, worried "about much serving." 
Don't get surfeited with knowledge, above all things; it is so 
very fascinating , so dreadfully easy; and the danger of 
becoming a pedant-"Deuce 
take all your pedants! say I." 
Don't "dry-rot at ease 'till the Judgment Day." 
No, I will NOT recommend a book. It should not hurt you 
too much to browse on condensed hay (or thistles) such as 
articles in Encyclopedias . Take Roget's Thesaurus or Smith's 
Smaller Classical Dictionary (and the like) to read yourself to 
sleep on. But don 't stultify yourself by taking up such study 
too seriously. You only make yourself ridiculous by trying to 
do at 50 what you ought to have done at IS. As you 
didn't-tant pis! You can't possibly get the spirit; if you 
could, it would mean merely mental indigestion . We have all 
read how Cato started to learn Greek at 90: but the story 
stops there. We have never been told what good it did to 
himself or anyone else. 
5. God-forms . See Magick pp. 378-9. Quite clear: quite 
adequate: no use at all without continual practice. No one