An unknown quantity, a hope of progression, ideal love, and all true mental 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. X REFLECTION 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 AETH OF THE TEN GREAT KABBALISTICAL POWERS or ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE PART 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.