The Scented Garden

The relations between the twins of rapture. 149 they concealed behind Kether three veils of the negative, culminating in Ain, pure negation. But this was rather an effect of the Brahminical (or post-Fichtean) metaphysic, in which an Absolute is reached by denying to it all possible predicates as thinkable and therefore derogatory. Even when one retorted, “ He is then Unthinkable ” the wary Rabbi would reply, “ Neither Thinkable nor Un- thinkable.” You can’t win ; but you don’t want to play any more ! All this is far, far indeed from the true practical Qabalah, which contents itself with leading the student to the next stage, which teaches the ani- mal to think, the thinker to aspire, the aspirant to wisdom, and crowneth the wise man with the glory of the 12 Stars, his holy Genius. Not that it is for a mere dabbler like myself to suggest to others even a line of research ; but love conquers modesty, and I should like to hint that in the restoration of a duodecimal notation and cos- mography lies the best hope of a perfect recovery of the perfect Way. A. L. One is sorry to have to object that the Arabic Hua is spelt [Persian text] not [Persian text] and equals 11, not 12. The number 11 however does represent the squaring of the circle, the Great Work, since there are 11 letters in Abrahadabra, whose symbolism is so enigmatical : [Persian text] is further the equation of [Persian text] 5 the Pen- tagram and [Persian text] 6 the Hexagram, Micro and Macro-prosopus, Man and God. 17. This is the extreme sceptico-mystical posi- tion : to admit that phenomena are perfectly mys- terious, while asserting a direct consciousness of the Absolute.