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THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSCENDENT MAGIC
athanor of the highest grade of Hermetists. cable axiom
The incommuni-
kabbalistically enclosed in the four letters of the tetragram arranged in the following manner is
:
AZOTH and INEl written kabin the and monogram of Christ as embroidered balistically on the labarum, which the Kabbalist Postel interprets by the word EOTA, whence the adepts have formed their Taro or in the letters of the words ;
Tarot, circle,
by the repetition of the first letter, thus indicating the and suggesting that the word is put backwards. All is comprised in the knowledge of this secret. and have the courage to use it is human omnipo-
magical science
To know
it
to reveal it to a profane person is to lose it to reveal even to a disciple is to abdicate in favour of that disciple, who, henceforward, possesses the right of life and death over I am speaking from the magical standpoint his master
tence
;
;
it
and
will certainly slay
this has nothing in
him
But dying himself. deeds qualified as murder
for fear of
common with
the practical philosophy which is the and point of departure for our laws does not recognise the facts of bewitchment and of occult influences. We touch here upon extraordinary revelations, and are prepared in criminal legislation
basis
;