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equation of the Universe, however complex it may seem, 
inevitably reels out to Zero; for to accomplish this is the 
formula of your Work as a Mystic. To remind you, and to 
amplify certain points of the above, let me quote from 
Magick, pp. 152-3, footnote 2. 
All elements must at one time have been separate-that 
would be the case with great heat. Now when atoms get 
to the sun, we get that immense extreme heat, and all 
the elements are themselves again. Imagine that each 
atom of each element possesses the memory of all his 
adventures in combination . By the way, that atom 
(fortified with that memory) would not be the same 
atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from 
anywhere except this memory. Therefore, by the lapse 
of time, and by virtue of memory, a thing could become 
something more than itself; thus a real development is 
possible. One can then see a reason for any element 
deciding to go through this series of incarnations, 
because so, and only so, can he go; and he suffers the 
lapse of memory which he has during these incarnations, 
because he knows he will come through unchanged. 
Therefore you can have an infinite number of gods, 
individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme 
and utterly 
indestructible. 
This is also the only 
explanation of how a "Perfect Being" could create a 
world in which war, evil, etc., exist. God is only an 
appearance, because (/ike "good") it cannot affect the 
substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. 
This is something the same as mystic monotheism; but 
the objection to that theory is that God has to create 
things which are all parts of himself, so that their 
interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their 
interplay is natural. 
It is no objection to this theory to ask who made the 
elements-the 
elements are at least there, and God, 
when you look for him, is not there. Theism is 
obscurum per obscurius. A male star is built up from the