THE QABALAH 
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composed) "elements of Nature" ; the Four (or Five) 
Elements, the Seven (or Ten) Planets, and the Twelve Signs 
of the Zodiac. 
All these are arranged in a geometrical design composed of 
ten "Sephiroth" (numbers) and twenty-two "Paths" joining 
them; this is called the Tree of Life. 
Every idea soever can be, and should be, attributed to one 
or more of these primary symbols; thus green, in different 
shades, is a quality or function of Venus, the Earth , the Sea, 
Libra, and others. So also abstract ideas; dishonesty means 
"an afflicted Mercury," generosity a good, though not always 
strong, Jupiter ; and so on. 
The Tree of Life has got to be learnt by heart ; you must 
know it backwards , forwards, sideways, and upside down; it 
must become the automatic background of all your thinking. 
You must keep on hanging everything that comes your way 
upon its proper bough. 
At first, of course, all this is dreadfully confusing ; but 
persist, and a time will come when all the odd bits fit into the 
jig-saw, and you behold-with 
what adoring wonder!-the 
marvellous beauty and symmetry of the Qabalistic system. 
And then-what a weapon you will have forged! 
What power to analyze, to order, to manipulate your 
thinking! 
The Book of the Law itself insists upon the fact that it 
contains a Qabalah which was beyond me at the time of its 
dictation , is beyond me now, and always will be beyond me 
in this incarnation . Let me direct your spiritual attention at 
AL, I: 54; I: 56; II: 54-55; II: 76; III: 47. 
Now there was enough comprehensible at the time to 
assure me that the Author of the Book knew at least as much 
Qabalah as I did. I discovered subsequently more than 
enough to make it certain without error that he knew a very 
great deal more, and that of an altogether higher order, than I 
knew; finally, such glimmerings of light as time and desperate 
(See Appendi x I The Constitution of Man)