HIEROGLYPHICS 
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meanings, these words again combined into phrases by no less 
high-handed a procedure . 
And then folk wonder how it is that there should be error 
and misunderstanding in the transmission of thought from 
one person to another! Rather regard it as a miraculous 
intervention of Providence when even one of even the 
simplest ideas "gets across." Now then, this being so, it is 
evidently good sense to construct one's own alphabet , with 
one's own very precise definitions, in order to handle an 
abstruse and technical subject like Magick. The "ordinary" 
words such as God, self, soul, spirit and the rest have been 
used so many thousand times in so many thousand ways, 
usually by writers who knew not, or cared not for the 
necessity of definition that to use them to-day in any 
scientific essay is almost ludicrous. 
That is all, just now, sister; no more of your cavilling, 
please; sit down quietly with your 777, and get it by heart! 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Fraternally , 
666