A NOTE ON GENESIS God create the Heavens and the Earth. And the total numeration of its numbers is the Perfect Number, even the Decad of the Sephiroth. (1 + 2 +3 +4 = 10) Thus can our Science teach us wherefore the Door* of ¢ ,3, is the Gateway of Initiation: that one planet whose symbol alone embraceth the 10 Sephiroth; the Entrance to the Shrine of our Father C.R.C., the Tomb of Osiris; the God Revealer, coming, moreover, by the Central Path of o through the midst of the Triangle of Light. And the Lock which guards that Door is as the Four Gates of the Universe. And the Key is The Ankh, Immortal Life—the Rose and Cross of Life; and the Symbol of Venus ¢. 3. 6. 3. 4 4 . 7. Fic. I1I.—THIRD SYMBOL. By producing the Paths whereby the Forces of the Three (see Second Symbol) were concentred into four, we find they * As above, so below; wherefore saith the Holy Qabalah that alone amongst the Shells is Nogah, the Sphere of Venus, exalted unto Holiness. (Venus is the Goddess of Love.) 173