called Atmadarshana might arise from simple concentration of the 
thought on an imagined triangle or on the heart. 
But as the union of two bodies in chemistry may be endothermie 
or exothermic, the combination of Oxygen with Nitrogen is gentle, 
while that of Oxygen with Hydrogen is explosive 5 and as it is 
found that the most heat is disengaged as a rule by the union of 
bodies most opposite in character, and that the compound resulting 
from such is most stable, so it seems reasonable to suggest that the 
most important and enduring Samadhi results from the contempla¬ 
tion of the Object most opposite to the devotee. 
On other planes, it has been suggested that the most opposed 
types make the best marriages and produce the healthiest children. 
The greatest pictures and opéras are those in which violent extremes 
are blended, and so generally in every field of activity. Even in 
mathematics, the greatest parallelogram is formed if the lines 
composing it are set at right angles. 
41. Conclusions from the foregoing. — It may then be 
suggested to the Philosophus, that although his work will be 
harder his reward will be greater if he choose a Deity most remote 
from his own nature. This method is harder and higher than that 
of Liber E. For a simple object as there suggested is of the same 
nature as the commonest things of life, while even the meanest 
Deity is beyond uninitiated human understanding. On the same 
plane, too, Venus is nearer to man than Aphrodite, Aphrodite than 
Isis, Isis than Babalon, Babalon than Nuit. 
Let him décidé therefore according to his discrétion on the one 
hand and his aspiration on the other ; and let not one overrun his 
fellow. 
42. Further concerning the value of this Method. — Certain 
objections arise. Firstly, in the nature of ail human love is illusion, 
and a certain blindness. Nor is there any true love below the Veil 
of the Abyss. For this reason we give this method to the Philoso¬ 
phus, as the reflection of the Exempt Adept, who reflects the 
Magister Templi and the Magus. Let then the Philosophus 
attain this Method as a foundation of the higher Methods to be 
given to him when he attains those higher grades. 
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