. Kabbalah, the harmony of opposites : a treatise elucidating Bible allegories and the significance of numbers . )stery who lightly utter words of the deepest spiritual im-port, but almost powerlessly for good or ill becauseof the absence of any definite intention or expecta-tion in the will or thought of the speakers. To workSioly or unholy spells one must have cultivated defi-rfiite will and imagination and must act with clearf^urpose aforethought. The key to the working ofKabbalah can never be found in knowledge alone,though such is valuable. There must be force ofintention coupled with uns
. Kabbalah, the harmony of opposites : a treatise elucidating Bible allegories and the significance of numbers . )stery who lightly utter words of the deepest spiritual im-port, but almost powerlessly for good or ill becauseof the absence of any definite intention or expecta-tion in the will or thought of the speakers. To workSioly or unholy spells one must have cultivated defi-rfiite will and imagination and must act with clearf^urpose aforethought. The key to the working ofKabbalah can never be found in knowledge alone,though such is valuable. There must be force ofintention coupled with unshaking confidence in theeflticacy of words spoken or other means employed,otherwise the most elaborate ritual observances willprove of no CHAPTER IV. BOOK OF CONCEALED MYSTERY HUMANITY, SPIRIT-UAL AND PHYSICAL Following closely upon dissertations concerningthe Ineffable Name, the awe-inspiring Tetragram-MATON, the Kabbalah undertakes to analyze human-ity in accordance with the renowned Hermeticaxiom, As Above, so Below, and necessarily byinverse deduction, As Below, so Above. Themind which can comprehend the plan of the Uni-verse is itself a miniature universe; thence is de-rived the famous and well-nigh universal doctrineof the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. It is in theKabbalah and other esoteric works of great pro-fundity and antiquity that we may look, and not invain, for a reconciliation of the various seeminglymutually exclusive philosophies which have longdivided the intellectual world into contentious fac-tions. Idealism and Realism; Spiritualism and Ma-terialism ; Transcendentalism and Utilitarianism arecontinually pitted against each other by argumenta-tive debaters who are very ready to assume affirma- 67 68 Bo
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