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Apollonius. You had better read them over again, to have the 
matter clear and fresh in your mind. 
Now then, let me call your attention to the extreme care 
which Levi took to construct a proper Magical Link between 
himself and the Ancient Master. Alas! It was rather a case of 
building with bricks made without straw; he had not at his 
command any fresh and vital object pertaining intimately to 
Apollonius. A "relic" would have been immensely helpful, 
especially if it had been consecrated and re-consecrated 
through 
the centuries 
by devout veneration. This, 
incidentally, is the great advantage that one may often obtain 
when invoking Gods; their images, constantly 
revered, 
nourished by continual sacrifice, serve as a receptacle for the 
Prana driven into them by thousands or millions of 
worshippers. In fact , such idols are often already consecrated 
talismans; and their possession and daily use is at least 
two-thirds of the battle. 
Apollonius was indeed as refractory a subject as Levi could 
possibly have chosen. All the cards were against him. 
Why? Let me remind you of the sublimity of the man's 
genius, and the extent of his attainment. Apollonius must 
certainly have made the closest links between his Ruach and 
his Supernal Triad, and this would have gone seeking a new 
incarnation elsewhere. All the available Ruach left floating 
around 
in the Akasha must have been comparatively 
worthless odds and ends, true QIiphoth or "Shells of the 
Dead" -just those parts of him, in a word, which Apollonius 
would have deliberately discarded at his death. So what use 
would they be to Levi? Even if there were among them a few 
such elements as would serve his purpose, they would have 
been devitalized and frittered away by the mere lapse of the 
centuries, since they had lost connection with the reality of 
the Sage. Alternatively, they might have been caught up and 
adopted by some wandering Entity, quite probably some 
malignant demon.