THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
“Verily I say unto thee, that the time cometh when men shall
no longer worship God, either in Jerusalem, or on this moun-
tain; for God is a spirit,’ and they that worship Him must
worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
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THE ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF THE QABALAH
Tue key of the Sephiroth. (Vide Dogme et rituel de la
haute magie.)
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THE NUMBER ELEVEN
ELEVEN is the number of force; it is that of strife and
martyrdom.
Every man who dies for an idea is a martyr, for in him the
aspirations of the spirit have triumphed over the fears of the
animal.
Every man who falls in war is a martyr, for he dies for
others.
Every man who dies of starvation is a martyr, for he is
like a soldier struck down in the battle of life.
Those who die in defence of right are as holy in their
sacrifice as the victims of duty, and in the great struggles and
revolutions against power, martyrs fell equally on both sides.
Right being the root of duty, our duty is to defend our
rights.
What is a crime? The exaggeration of a right. Murder
1 A mistranslation by monotheists. The Greek is veda 6 Oedg: “Spirit
is God.”—TRANS,
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