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An unknown quantity, a hope of progression, ideal love, and all truemental and spiritual ideals; aspiration to become that which we feel to be noble and true; the symbol of the monad, the soul which, receiving its life from the Sun--the Ego--is constantly revealing new forces and potencies of that God-life.Each soul's Ego is its maker and God.The Ego is like the Deific potency of the universe, unlimited in potential power, but limited by its monad as to what will be evolved from its awful depth of being.Deity progresses through its expressions of the cosmos.The Ego, your God, finds progressive expression through you, through your soul.That soul is not immortal that becomes separated from its Ego--its God.So, soul, spread your spiritual wings and soar upward.

O child of Adam! Know these three things: Eternity is the creator of the universal life; universal life creates the world, and the world is the creator of time.And of these, the Universe is Life, and the World is Mind, and Time is the Soul.The sum total of all is Experience.And this is individual, conscious life--"Jacta est alea" (the die is cast)--the wings are spread.

TABLET THE TENTH

The Cypher - the unknown SYMBOL

A Shining Nebulae; within it a dot, aimlessly wandering around an unknown center.

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TABLET THE TENTH

The unknown in very truth.It is everything--it is also nothing.Inconceivable visions arise within the mental universe, but nothing assumes definite form.It is all that is past.It is likewise everything that the future has in store.Amen.

O child of Adam! "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or loose the bands of Orion?"PART III of The Book which is called THE TABLETS OF AETHOF THE TEN GREAT KABBALISTICAL POWERS or ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSEPART III

VISION

Each angel standing in front of the symbol is dimly outlined and transparent.Through the angel's form is seen its symbol.

FIRST A luminous something, which gives the impression of sleep.SECOND Something moving, like an ocean.

THIRD A storm, and lightning.FOURTH A mist.

FIFTH An animal moving, resembling a turtle.

SIXTH A blue light; in the center a star with three points.

SEVENTH An expanse of water, a blue sky, a shining disk rising on the horizon.

EIGHTH A lurid sky, like a red dawn; in the water floats an egg.

NINTH Five stars on a convex arc, like a rainbow; the shell of the egg is broken and forms continents.

TENTH A man lying fast asleep under a magnificent palm tree, with his face turned toward the horizon of the sea.

EXPLANATION

Only the pure in heart can see God, and to those pure souls I commend the following brief explanation of the Vision of the Angels of Life, which I have here recorded for the benefit of all whom it may now and hereafter concern.

In the original Vision of the Tablets of Aeth a great circle was seen, in the center a head, a faint shimmer above the head, as if the light were about to dawn; a dull, lurid glow beneath, as if of chaos or hell; the hair around the head like floating clouds, the beard like strange cloud-streaks.Each sign of the Zodiac surrounding the center head had within it a faintly seen face.Beginning with the first, it became more and more distinct and perfect with each sign until it evolved into godlike beauty in Pisces.

The symbolic planets were around the Zodiac, and beyond these, making a third grand circle, were the ten Evolutionary Angels.The vision is that of the evolution of all life, spiritual and material.We gaze at the cosmic sex mystery, and the discerning mind, the loving spirit, can read the correspondence of the great sacred conjugal act of both man and God; of its heights, of its depths, and of all that lies between.

To aid in meditation on the bead at the center, herein is written a vision, an experience of the soul in the Sleep of Sialam.

The Hermetic brethren encircled my astral body, which was deeply entranced."From whence," the great question, quivered through my inmost being.To answer that awful problem of the soul the released spirit went on its fearsome journey, back through star systems; back, back beyond all stars, back to the blackness of nothing-- that awful nothing, whose outside ring vibrated with fearful flames; the fiery cherubim, winged, taking all possible shapes, and unformed living shapes.A human flamed and changed and vanished.The tornado of whirling, flashing, chaotic life swirled and drove through the darkness of chaos of nothing from nothing--and that great, unknown abyss is God! But the life is EVOLUTIONARY.

Deity is progressive, so never can man cease to be.Never can he return to that awful center of nothingness, or be absorbed within the bosom of the unmanifested being.On, and on, and on, with Deific power, God moves in ever-increasing whirls of evolution.

Thus came the answer of the ages: "From primeval force, from the mighty breath of unmanifested being, through every phase of action and reaction, from the energies of storm and lightning, from star-dust to sunlight, has come the spirit of man!"And the Astral Brethren understood.THE TWO SEALS OF THE EARTH I SYMBOLA human being, with a flaming, burning heart.II SYMBOLA round disk inside a light, as from a sun, conceived, but not seen.

So here endeth the Book which is called "The Tablets of Aeth," transcribed from the astral originals in the Year of Doom MDCCCXCIII."Omnia Vincit Veritas.""THY KINGDOM COME." (Zanoni) April, 1893