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creation.
Since at the best this water
also a heart, as shown by the transition from the ancient to the modern Tarot;
the suit "Hearts" in old packs of cards, and even in modern Spanish and Italian
cards, is called "Cups") is the letter "Mem" (the Hebrew word for water), which
has for its Tarot trump the Hanged Man. This Hanged Man represents the Adept
hanging by one heel from a gallows, which is in the shape of the letter Daleth -
- the letter of the Empress, the heavenly Venus in the Tarot. His legs form a
cross, his arms a triangle, as if by his equilibrium and self-sacrifice he were
bringing the light down and establishing it even in the abyss.
Elementary as this is, it is a very satisfactory hieroglyph of the Great Work,
though the student is warned that the obvious sentimental interpretation will
have to be discarded as soon as it has been understood. It is a very noble
illusion, and therefore a very dangerous one, to figure one's self as the
Redeemer. For, of all the illusions in this Cup -- the subtler and purer they
are, the more difficult they are to detect.>> is but a reflection, how
tremendously important it becomes that it should be still!
If the cup is shaken the light will be broken up.
Therefore the Cup is placed upon the Altar, which is foursquare, will
multiplied by will, the confirmation of the will in the Magical Oath, its
fixation in Law.
It is easy to see when water is muddy, and easy to get rid of the mud; but
there are many impurities which defy everything but distillation and even some
which must be fractionated unto 70 times 7.
There is, however, a universal solvent and harmonizer, a certain dew which is
so pure that a single drop of it cast into the water of the Cup will for the
time being bring all to perfection.
This dew is called Love. Even as in the case of human love, the whole
Universe appears perfect to the man who is under its control, so is it, and much
more, with the Divine Love of which it is now spoken.
For human love is an excitement, and not a stilling, of the mind; and as it
is bound to the individual, only leads to greater trouble in the end.
This Divine Love, on the contrary, is attached to no symbol.
It abhors limitation, either in its intensity or its scope. And this is the
dew of the stars of which it is spoken in the Holy Books, for NUIT the Lady of
the Stars is called "the Continuous One of Heaven," and it is that Dew which
bathes the body of the Adept "in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat."
See Liber Legis. Equinox VII. {{SIC to the quote, correctly: ".. bathing his
whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of
Heaven, let ...>>
In this cup, therefore, though all things are placed, by virtue of this {87}
dew all lose their identity. And therefore this Cup is in the hand of BABALON,
the Lady of the City of the Pyramids, wherein no one can be distinguished from
any other, wherein no one may sit until he has lost his name.
Of that which is in the Cup it is also said that it is wine. This is the Cup
of Intoxication. Intoxication means poisoning, and in particular refers to the
poison in which arrows are dipped (Greek
omicron-xi-omicron-nu>>, "a bow"). Think of the Vision of the Arrow in Liber
418, and look at the passages in the Holy Books which speak of the action of the
spirit under the figure of a deadly poison.
For to each individual thing attainment means first and foremost the
destruction of the individuality.
Each of our ideas must be made to give up the Self to the Beloved, so that we
may eventually give up the Self to the Beloved in our turn.
It will be remembered in the History Lection
given to those who wish to become Probationers of A.'.A.'.>> how the Adepts "who
had with smiling faces abandoned their homes and their possessions -- could with
steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work itself; for this is the
last and greatest projection of the Alchemist."
The Master of the Temple has crossed the Abyss, has entered the Palace of the
King's Daughter; he has only to utter one word, and all is dissolved. But,
instead of that, he is found hidden in the earth, tending a garden.
This mystery is all too complex to be elucidated in these fragments of impure
thought; it is a suitable subject for meditation.
{88}
An Interlude
Every nursery rime contains profound magical secrets which are open to every
one who has made a study of the correspondences of the Holy Qabalah. To puzzle
out an imaginary meaning for this "nonsense" sets one thinking of the Mysteries;
one enters into deep contemplation of holy things and God Himself leads the soul
to a real illumination. Hence also the necessity of Incarnation; the soul must
descend into all falsity in order to attain All-Truth.
For instance:
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to her cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone;
When she got there,
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
Who is this ancient and venerable mother of whom it is spoken? Verily she is
none other than Binah, as is evident in the use of the holy letter H with which
her name begins.
Nor is she the sterile Mother Ama-but the fertile Aima; for within her she
bears Vau, the son, for the second letter of her name, and R, the penultimate,
is the Sun, Tiphareth, the Son.
The other three letters of her name, B, A, and D, are the three paths which
join the three supernals.
To what cupboard did she go? Even to the most secret caverns of the Universe.
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