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This Magical Will
is the wand in your hand
by which the Great Work
is
accomplished,
by which
the
Daughter
is not
merely
set
upon
the
throne of the Mother,
but assumed
into
the Highest.^
The Magick Wand is thus
the principal weapon
of the Magus; and
the name of that wand is the Magical Oath.
The will being
twofold
is in Chokmah,
who
is the Logos,
the word;
hence some have said that the word is the will.
Thoth the Lord of
Magic
is also
the Lord
of Speech;
Hermes the
messenger
bears
the
Caduceus.
Word should
express will:
hence the Mystic Name
of the Pro-
bationer is the expression
of his highest Will.
There
are,
of course,
few
Probationers
who
understand
themselves
sufficiently
to be able to formulate
this will to themselves,
and therefore
at the end of their probation
they choose
a new name.
adding
to 463.
Now 400 is Tau,
the path
leading
from
Malkuth to Yesod.
Sixty
is
Samekh,
the path leading leading
from Yesod
to Tiphereth
; and 3 is Gimel,
the path
leading
thence to Kether.
The whole rod therefore gives the paths from the Kingdom
to the Crown.
^ In
one, the best, system of Magick,
the Absolute
is called
the Crown,
God
is
called
the Father,
the Pure Soul
is called
the
Mother,
the Holy Guardian
Angel
is
called
the Son,
and
the Natural
Soul is called
the Daughter.
The Son
purifies
the
Daughter
by wedding
her;
she thus becomes
the Mother,
the uniting
of whom with
the Father
absorbs all into the Crown.
See Liber CDXVIII.