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In yet one other way is magic a capital training-
ground for the Arahat. True symbols do really awake
those macrocosmic forces of which they are the cidola,
and it is possible in this manner very largely to increase
the magical “ potential,” to borrow a term from electrical
science.
Of course, there are bad and invalid processes, which
tend rather to disperse or to excite the mind-stuff than
to control it; these we must discard. But there is a true
magical ceremonial, the central Arcanum alike of Eastern
and Western practical transcendentalism. Needless to
observe, ifI knew it, I should not disclose it.
I therefore definitely affirm ‘the validity of the
Qabalistic tradition in its practical part as well as in
those exalted regions of thought through which we have
so recently, and so hardly, travelled.
Eight are the limbs of Yoga: morality and virtue,
control of body, thought, and force, leading to concen-
tration, meditation, and rapture.
Only when the last of these has been attained, and
itself refined upon by removing the gross and even the
fine objects of its sphere can the causes, subtle and
coarse, the unborn causes whose seed is hardly sown, of
continued existence be grasped and annihilated, so Gite
the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction.
of Nirvana, while even in this world of pain, where he
must remain until the ancient causes, those which have
already germinated, are utterly worked out (for even the
Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the