lions are symbolized in Mathematicg. “God is the Gréai 
Arithmetician.” “God is the Grand Geomeler.” It is bèst 
therefore to préparé lo apprehend Him by formula ting our 
minds according to these measures. 1 
lo return, each letter of this alphabet may hâve its spécial 
magical sigil. The student must not expect to be given a cut- 
and-dried définition of what exactly is meant by any of ali this. 
On the contrary, he must work backwards, putting the whole of 
his mental and moral outfit into these pigeon-holes. You would 
not expect to be able to buy a filing cabinet with the names of ali 
y our past, présent and future correspondents ready indexed: y our 
cabinet has a System of letters and numbers meaningless in them- 
selves, but ready to take on a meaning to you, as you fill up the 
files. As your business increased, each letter and number would 
receive fresh accessions of meaning for youj and by adopting this 
orderly arrangement you would be able to hâve a much more 
comprehensive grasp of your affairs than would otherwise be the 
case. By the use of this System the magician is able 
ultimately to unify the whole of his knowledge — to trans¬ 
mute, even on the Intellectual Plane, the Many into the 
One. 
* 
The reader can now understand that the sketch given above 
of the magical Hierarchy is hardly even an outline of the real 
theory of the Universe. This theory may indeed be studied iii 
the article already referred to in No. V of the Equinox, and, môre 
deeply, in the Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon: 
but the true understanding dépends entirely upon the work of the 
Magician himself. Without magical expérience it will be 
meaningless. 
In this there is nothing peculiar. It is so with ail scientific 
knowledge. A blind man might cram up astronomy for the 
purpose of passing examinations, but his knowledge would be 
I. By “God” I here mean the Idéal Identity of a man’s inmost 
nature. “Something ourseîves (I erase Arnold's imbécile and guilty ‘not’) 
^that makes for righteousness; ” righteousness being rightly defined as 
internai cohérence. (Internai Cohérence împlies that which is written 
“Detegitur Yod.”)