THE EQUINOX
parables of the ancients. This secret we have arrived at
deciphering, and we shall submit its letter to the investigations
of the gold-makers. Here it is:
1°. The four imponderable fluids are nothing but the
diverse manifestations of one same universal agent, which
is light.
2°. Light is the fire which serves for the Great Work
under the form of electricity.
3°. The human will directs the vital light by means of the
nervous system. In our days this is called Magnetism.
4°. The secret agent of the Great Work, the Azoth of the
sages, the living and life-giving gold of the philosophers,
the universal metallic productive agent, is MAGNETIZED
ELECTRICITY."
The alliance of these two words still does not tell us
much, and yet, perhaps, they contain a force sufficient to
overturn the world. We say “perhaps” on philosophical
grounds, for, personally, we have no doubt whatever of the
high importance of this great hermetic arcanum.
We have just said that alchemy is the daughter of the
Qabalah; to convince oneself of the truth of this it is
sufficient to look at the symbols of Flamel, of Basil Valen-
tine, the pages of the Jew Abraham, and the more or less
apocryphal oracles of the Emerald Table of Hermes. Every-
where one finds the traces of that decade of Pythagoras,
which is so magnificently applied in the Sepher Yetzirah to
the complete and absolute notion of divine things, that decade
composed of unity and a triple ternary which the Rabbis have
1 In this joke, Levi indicates that he really knew the Great Arcanum; but
only those who also possess it can recognize it, and enjoy the joke—O. M.
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