Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

E. g. “The Word of the Law is 0EAHMA” (Will) ; this Word has the value of 93. “Love is the law, love under will.” Love, Aya-ruy), likeBsXyjua, adds to 93. AIWAZ itself adds to 93.1 This was ail strange to the scribe; yet years later he discovered the “Lest Word” of one of his own Orders; it was 93 also. The Word of His most holy Order proved equally to count up not entirely beyond possibility. This theory is telepathy. One may postulate that the solution of his problem existed in the subconscious minci of the Master Therion or in that of His seer, and that this solution was telepathi- cally impressed upon the consciousness of the Assyrian so forcibly as to impel him to communicate it to the Master Therion’s colîeague on The International. Apart from the general improbability of this hypothesis, it is strange that if “Amalantrah” were really the subconscious mind of the seer, he should hâve given a wrong orthography. His doing so (if he knew the correct spelling) is only explicable by his wish not to take the edge off his plan for making the Assyrian’s letter a fulminating révélation of his existence, as would hâve happened if the secret had been prematurely disclosed. The case is here cited in order to illustrate the extreme care which ought to be taken in excluding ail alternative hypothèses before admitting the existence of disembodied intelligences. It may be mentioned, however, that in this particular case there are numerous other incidents which make the télépathie theory untenable. 4. There is a well-known story quoted in several treatises of psychology in which the heroine is an ignorant English servant girl of quite inferior intelligence, and unacquainted with any language, even her own. In the course of a fever, she became delirious, and proceeded to reel off long passages of scholarly Hebrew. Investigations showed that in her hrst youth she had been for a time in the service of a Jewish Rabbi who had been accustomed to declaim his sermons in the hearing of the girl. Although attaching no meaning to the words, she had stored them mechanically in her subconscious memory, to be reproduced when the action of the fever excited the group of cells where they were recorded. I. This numération was discovered years later. The question then arose out of considération of this discovery through S. Jacobs: “Why is Aiwaz spelt Aiwass, not Aiwaz, in the Book of the Law?” In Greek AiJFa<rç =418. The author of the Book had concealed in His own name not orve only but two numbers, those of suprême importance in the Book. — 260 —