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The Qabalah 
The Best Training for Memory 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Now you must learn Qabalah. Learn this Alphabet of 
Magick. You must take it on trust, as a child does his own 
alphabet. No one has ever found out why the order of the 
letters is what it is. Probably there isn't any answer. 
But our Magical Alphabet is primarily not letters, but 
figures, not sounds but mathematical ideas. Sir Humphrey 
Davy, coming out of his famous illumination (with some help 
from Nitrous Oxide he got in) exclaimed : The Universe is 
composed solely of ideas. We, analyzing this a little, say: The 
Universe is a mathematical expression. 
Sir James Jeans might have said this, only his banker 
advised him to cash in on God. The simplest form of this 
expression is 0=2, elsewhere expounded at great length. This 
2 might itself be expressed in an indefinitely great number of 
ways. Every prime number, including some not in the series 
of "natural numbers," is an individual. The other numbers 
with perhaps a few exceptions (e.g. 418) are composed of 
their primes. 
Each of these ideas may be explained, investigated, 
understood, by means very various. Firstly, the Hebrew, 
Greek and Arabic numbers are also letters. Then, each of 
these letters is further described by one of the (arbitrarily 
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