(This latter operation is facilitated by severing the fraenum 
linguæ, which, if done, shouJd be done by a competent surgeon. 
We do not advise this or any similar method of cheating difficultés. 
This is, however, harmless.) 
In this manner the practice is to be raised from the physical to 
the spiritual plane, even as the words Ruh, Ruach, Pneuma, Spiritus, 
Geist, Ghost, and indeed words of almost ail languages, hâve been 
raised from their physical meaning of wind, breath, or movement, 
to the spiritual plane. (RV is the old root meaning Yoni and 
hence Wheel (Fr. roue, Lat. rota, wheel) and the corresponding 
Semitic root means “to go”. Similarly spirit is connected with 
“spiral”. — Ed.) 
17- Let the Zelator attach no crédit to any statements that may 
hâve been made throughout the course of this instruction, and 
reflect that even the counsel which we hâve given as suitable to 
the average case may be entirely unsuitable to his own. 
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