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No. IV. will contain in its 400 pages:
VARIOUS OFFICIAL INSTRUCTION of the A.'. A.'.
THE ELEMENTAL CALLS OF KEYS, WITH THE
GREAT WATCH TOWERS OF THE UNI-
VERSE and their explanation. A complete treatise, fully
illustrated, upon the Spirits of the Elements, their names and
offices, with the method of calling them forth and controlling
them. With an account of The Heptarchical Mystery, The
Thirty Aethyrs or Aires with "The Vision and the Voice," being
the Cries of the Angels of the Aethyrs, a revelation of the highest
truths pertaining to the grade of Magister Templi, and many
other matters. Fully illustrated.
THE CONTINUATION OF THE HERB DAN-
GEROUS. Selections from H. G. Ludlow, "the Hashish-
Eater."
MR. TODD: A Morality, by the author of "Rosa Mundi."
THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH, by
ETHEL RAMSAY.
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING.
[Continuation.
FRATER P.'S EXPERIENCES IN THE EAST. A
complete account of the various kinds of Yoga.
DIANA OF THE INLET. By KATHERINE S. PRITCHARD.
Fully Illustrated.
ACROSS THE GULF: An adept's memory of his incarnation
in Egypt under the 26th dynasty; with an account of the Passing
of the Equinox of Isis.
&c. &c. &c.
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THIS book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the
symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the
Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time
published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.'.
D.'. and R. R. et A. C. It forms, in short, a complete magical and
philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult
working.
For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized
with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, &c. By a glance at
the Tables, anybody conversant with any one system can understand perfectly
all others.
The "Occult Review" says:
"Despite its cumbrous sub-title and high price per page, this work has only
to come under the notice o {sic} the right people to be sure of a ready sale.
In its author's words, it represents 'an attempt to systematise alike the data
of mysticism and the results of comparative religion,' and so far as any book
can succeed in such an attempt, this book does succeed; that is to say, it
condenses in some sixty pages as much information as many an intelligent
reader at the Museum has been able to collect in years. The book proper
consists of a Table of 'Correspondences,' and is, in fact, an attempt to
reduce to a common denominator the symbolism of as many religious and magical
systems as the author is acquainted with. The denominator chosen is
necessarily a large one, as the author's object is to reconcile systems which
divide all things into 3, 7, 10, 12, as the case may be. Since our expression
'common denominator' is used in a figurative and not in a strictly
mathematical sense, the task is less complex than appears at first sight, and
the 32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah, or Book of Formation of the Qabalah,
provide a convenient scale. These 32 Paths are attributed by the Qabalists to
the 10 Sephiroth, or Emanations of Deity, and to the 22 letters of the Hebrew
alphabet, which are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters,
and 12 simple letters. On this basis, that of the Qabalistic 'Tree of Life,'
as a certain arrangement of the Sephiroth and 22 remaining Paths connecting
them is termed, the author has constructed no less than 183 tables.
"The Qabalistic information is very full, and there are tables of Egyptian
and Hindu deities, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and
animals. The information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be
found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. The author
appears to be acquainted with Chinese, Arabic, and other classic texts. Here
your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his Hebrew does credit alike to him
and to his printer. Among several hundred words, mostly proper names, we
found and marked a few misprints, but subsequently discovered each one of them
in a printed table of errata, which we had overlooked. When one remembers the
misprints in 'Agrippa' and the fact that the ordinary Hebrew compositor and
reader is no more fitted for this task than a boy cognisant of no more than
the shapes of the Hebrew letters, one wonders how many proofs there were and
what the printer's bill was. A knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet and the
Qabalistic Tree of Life is all that is needed to lay open to the reader the
enormous mass of information contained in this book. The 'Alphabet of
Mysticism,' as the author says ___ several alphabets we should prefer to say
___ is here. Much that has been jealously and foolishly kept secret in the
past is here, but though our author has secured for his work the "imprimatur" of
some body with the mysterious title of the A.'. A.'., and though he remains
himself anonymous, he appears to be no mystery-monger. Obviously he is widely
read, but he makes no pretence that he has secrets to reveal. On the
contrary, he says, 'an indicible arcanum is an arcanum which "cannot" be
revealed.' The writer of that sentence has learned at least one fact not to
be learned from books.
"G.C.J."
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