INTRODUCfION 
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Your sub-questions a, b, and c are really answered by the 
above. All the terms you use are very indefinite . I hope it will 
not take too long to get you out of the way of thinking in 
these terms. For instance , the word "initiation" includes the 
whole process, and how to distinguish between it and 
enlightenment I cannot tell you . "Probation," moreover , if it 
means "Proving," continues throughout the entire process. 
Nothing is worse for the student than to indulge in these mild 
speculations about ambiguous terms. 
5. You can, if you like, try to work out a progress of 
Osiris through Amennti on the Tree of Life, but I doubt 
whether you will get any satisfactory result. 
It seems to me that you should confine yourself very 
closely to the actual work in front of you. At the present 
moment, of course, this includes a great deal of general 
study ; but my point is that the terms employed in that study 
should always be capable of precise definition. I am not sure 
whether you have my Little Essays Toward Truth. The first 
essay in the book entitled "Man" gives a full account of the 
five principles which go to make up Man according to the 
Qabalistic system. I have tried to define these terms as 
accurately as possible, and I think you will find them, in any 
case, 
clearer than those to which you have become 
accustomed with the Eastern systems. In India, by the way, 
no attempt is ever made to use these vague terms. They 
always have a very clear idea of what is meant by words like 
"Buddhi," "Manas," and the like. Attempts at translation are 
very unsatisfactory . I find that even with such a simple 
matter as the "Eight Limbs of Yoga," as you will see when 
you come to read my Eight Lectures. 
I am very pleased with your illustrations; that is excellent 
practice for you . Presently you have to make talismans, and a 
Lamen for yourself, and even to devise a seal to serve as what 
you might call a magical coat-of-arms, and all this sort of 
thing is very helpful. 
It occurs to me that so far we have done nothing about the 
astral plane and this path of Tau of which you speak. Have