A NOTE ON GENESIS
PREFATORY NOTE
Tue following Essay is one of the most remarkable studies in
the Hebrew Qabalah known to me.
Its venerable author was an adept familiar with many
systems of symbolism, and able to harmonise them for him-
self, even as now is accomplished for all men in the Book 777.
In the year 1899 he was graciously pleased to receive me
as his pupil, and, living in his house, I studied daily under
his guidance the Holy Qabalah. Upon his withdrawal—
whether to enjoy his Earned Reward, or to perform the Work
of the Brotherhood in other lands or planets matters nothing
here—he bequeathed to me a beautiful Garden, the like of
which hath rarely been seen upon Earth.
It has been my pious duty to collate and comment upon
this arcane knowledge, long treasured in my heart, watered
alike by my tears and my blood, and sunned by that all-
glorious Ray that multiplieth itself into an Orb ineffable.
In this Garden no flower was fairer than this exquisite
discourse; I beg my readers to pluck it and lay it in their hearts.
It should be studied in connection with the Book 777, and
with the Sepher Sephiroth, a magical dictionary of pure
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