THE EQUINOX
the initiator or the man of genius whose eternal destiny is to
be killed by those whom he initiates. The disciple does not
become the living realization of the thoughts of the Master
until he has drunk his blood and eaten his flesh, to use the
energetic and allegorical expression of the initiator, so ill
understood by Christians.
The conception of the primitive alphabet was, as one may
easily see, the idea of a universal language which should
enclose in its combinations, and even in its signs themselves,
the recapitulation and the evolutionary law of all sciences,
divine and human. In our own opinion, nothing finer or
greater has ever been dreamt by the genius of man; and we
are convinced that the discovery of this secret of the ancient
world has fully repaid us for so many years of sterile research
and thankless toil in the crypts of lost sciences and the
cemeteries of the past.
One of the first results of this discovery should be to give
a new direction to the study of the hieroglyphic writings as
yet so imperfectly deciphered by the rivals and successors of
M. Champollion.
The system of writing of the disciples of Hermes being
analogical and synthetical, like all the signs of the Qabalah,
would it not be useful, in order to read the pages engraved
upon the stones of the ancient temples, to replace these stones
in their place, and to count the numbers of their letters,
comparing them with the numbers of other stones?
The obelisk of Luxor, for example, was it not one of the two
columns at the entrance of atemple? Wasit at the right-hand
or the left-hand pillar? If at the right, these signs refer to
the active principle; if at the left, it is by the passive principle
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