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02:14 pm
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Iraq Soldiers using Ouija board like device to detect bombs
Superstition leading to many deaths...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html
The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works “on the same principle as a Ouija board” — the power of suggestion — said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack, who described the wand as nothing more than an explosives divining rod.
The suicide bombers who managed to get two tons of explosives into downtown Baghdad on Oct. 25, killing 155 people and destroying three ministries, had to pass at least one checkpoint where the ADE 651 is typically deployed, judging from surveillance videos released by Baghdad’s provincial governor. The American military does not use the devices. “I don’t believe there’s a magic wand that can detect explosives,” said Maj. Gen. Richard J. Rowe Jr., who oversees Iraqi police training for the American military. “If there was, we would all be using it. I have no confidence that these work.”
The Iraqis, however, believe passionately in them. “Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs,” said Maj. Gen. Jehad al-Jabiri, head of the Ministry of the Interior’s General Directorate for Combating Explosives.
Proponents of the wand often argue that errors stem from the human operator, who they say must be rested, with a steady pulse and body temperature, before using the device.
Then the operator must walk in place a few moments to “charge” the device, since it has no battery or other power source, and walk with the wand at right angles to the body. If there are explosives or drugs to the operator’s left, the wand is supposed to swivel to the operator’s left and point at them.
If, as often happens, no explosives or weapons are found, the police may blame a false positive on other things found in the car, like perfume, air fresheners or gold fillings in the driver’s teeth.
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09:20 pm
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SQL test
I had three minutes a piece to answer thirty questions all like the one below today, the most obnoxious test in my job hunt so far. Five minutes maybe, but three is just enough to read the question and take a guess. The purpose of all of them was to see how well I could emulate an SQL engine??
Tool_job
tool_id job_id
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1 0
1 1
1 2
2 1
3 1
3 2
3 3
4 4
Jobs
job_id
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1
2
3
SELECT DISTINCT tool_id FROM tool_job tj1 WHERE NOT EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM jobs j WHERE NOT EXISTS
( SELECT *
FROM tool_job tj2
WHERE tj2.job_id = j.job_id
AND tj2.tool_id <> tj1.tool_id)
)
Referring to the table above, to what command does the query respond?
a.) Display all listed tools that can do all of the listed jobs.
b.) Display all listed tools that can do at least some of the jobs that other tools can do.
c.) Display all listed tools that can be substituted by another tool.
d.) Display all listed tools that cannot do at least some of the listed jobs.
e.) Display all listed tools that can do none of the listed jobs.
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04:13 pm
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Tired of Interviewing
My last interview the interviewer asked "Can you explain the difference between the stack and the heap?" I went on for about five minutes about what the two are and the reasoning for separating heap and stack memory space, how it helps with memory management, execution time etc.
Over all I felt like it was a pretty good interview, I felt like I nailed the questions and that we had a good report. So at the end of the interview I asked if she felt like it was a good fit. She responded by saying that she would have to think about it, explaining that I nailed all of the technical questions except for the heap/stack question. "The heap is where objects are stored and the stack is where ... {there is a pause here while she thinks of the right word}, where, well, I guess non-objects are stored. I would expect a software developer to know something like that."
::sigh:: I'm getting tired of dumb shit managers pretending they know the ins and outs of comp-sci merely because they looked up some sample interview questions on the net.
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10:30 am
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Twins
From http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/articles/sperry/index.html:
Sperry and his students showed that if the two hemispheres of the brain are separated by severing the corpus callosum (the large band of fibers that connects them), the transfer of information between the hemispheres ceases, and the coexistence in the same individual of two functionally different brains can be demonstrated. The findings contradicted the generally held view - again based on misinterpretation of evidence - that sectioning of the corpus callosum produced no definite behavioral effects. The probable explanation is that the two hemispheres, although separated from one another, are usually in agreement, so that no obvious conflict results. By means of ingenious tests, however, Sperry and his group showed that definite behavioral phenomena can be demonstrated following the brain-splitting operation.
Sperry started this investigation with cats and monkeys, but later extended it to human beings when patients became available whose hemispheres had been surgically separated in order to control intractable epilepsy. It was with these patients that he was able to show that a conscious mind exists in each hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the one with speech, as had been known, and it is dominant in all activities involving language, arithmetic, and analysis. The right hemisphere, although mute and capable only of simple addition (up to about 20) is superior to the left hemisphere in, among other things, spatial comprehension - in understanding maps, for example, or recognizing faces. Until these patients were studied, it had been doubted whether the right hemisphere was even conscious. By devising ways of communicating with the right hemisphere, Sperry could show that this hemisphere is, to quote him: "indeed a conscious system in its own right, perceiving, thinking, remembering, reasoning, willing, and emoting, all at a characteristically human level, and ... both the left and the right hemisphere may be conscious simultaneously in different, even in mutually conflicting, mental experiences that run along in parallel."
One with speech the other with silence, Ra-Hoor-Khut and Hoor-paar-kraat?
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11:15 am
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Lance
John 19:31-34
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
I've been researching Roman spears. I'm picking out a new lance to use for mass. I'm trying to decide between a hasta or a pilum.
A hasta is how most modern people would envision a spear, 6 foot shaft made of ash, double edge blade on the end of about 6 to 12 inches. Mostly used for thrusting, hardly ever for throwing, this was carried by the hastati in the early roman republic, usually by poor or young soldiers. In the 3rd century BC these began to be phased out and were totally out of use by of the roman army proper by 107 BC, replaced by short swords and pilum.
A pilum is a heavy javelin, having a thin, long (~30 inches) metal shaft attached to a thicker wood shaft. They are designed in such a way that makes them very efficient at piercing shields and armour, much more so than the wider blade of the hasta. The most common of soldiers were armed with two of these and a short sword.
There is a third option, the lancea, where the modern term "lance" is derived. This was used by the roman auxiliary soldiers (soldiers who were not citizens), pretty much the lowest of the low weapons. Usually about 8-9 feet long from butt to tip, with shoddy metal work. Basically a longer, cheaper version of the hasta.
As for what the soldier who pierced the side of Jesus would have used? If he was a citizen of Rome, at 0 AD he would have had a pilum, if not a citizen then most likely a lancea. Of course, he could have just been carrying around a sharp pointed stick for all we know. If his main duties were to break the legs of crucified people so the jews wouldn't have to look at them on sabbath, it seems unlikely that he would have been given the latest in equipment.
Right now I'm leaning toward the pilum, due to its qualities, and the fact that I can take it apart for easy transport. Here is a link showing some pictures of the one I want:
http://www.armae.com/antiquite/boucliers_et_lances/pilum_romain.htm
I've found a similar one for $102 http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=CIXH2031
This is the site that seems to have the best research on what to look for in roman replicas (Warning is LARP!)
auxilia and pilum
Lancea'd!! (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) babalonyieh would not approve of such a lance)
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05:53 pm
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56 = Typhon?
5. The Pythagorics also seem to consider Typhon a daimonic power; for they say that Typhon was produced on the six-and-fiftieth even measure; and again that the [power 4] of the equilateral triangle is that of Hades and Dionysus and Ares; that of the square is that of Rhea and Aphroditē and Demeter and Hestia (that is, Hera); that of the dodecagon, that of Zeus; and that of the fifty-six angled [regular polygon], that of Typhon (as Eudoxus relates).
- Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906] p.305
Does anyone have any information regarding why Typhon would be associated with the number 56? BTW a 56 sided polygon is almost indistinguishable from a circle.
For the numbers of the nine gods mentioned in the passage:
3x3 + 4x4 + 12 + 56 = 93
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03:32 pm
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BAG
The name of the 29th Aethyr is BAG.
Of all the letters that compose the names of the Aethyrs, B and G are the only ones that occur once, all others appear multiple times in different aethyr names. Though C and K appear only once apiece, in the adamicall alphabet these are the same letter. A is the letter that appears the most, 12 times total throughout the names.
The letters B, A, G are the first three letters of both the Hebrew and Greek languages. As such these represent the first three paths on the tree of life, all of the paths that lead from kether. In his vision of the third aethyr, Crowley sees this:
And this is the mystery that I declare unto thee: that from the Crown itself spring the three great delusions; Aleph is madness, and Beth is falsehood, and Gimel is glamour. And these three be greater than all, for they are beyond the words that I speak unto thee; how much more therefore are they beyond the words that thou transmittest unto men.
[Aleph is incapacity to apprehend --- the absence of any steady truth. (Aleph = Air, the volatile). Beth is the assertion of false relations, even in the illusion of the dyad. (Bet = Mercury) And Gimel is the clouding of aspiration by the marsh miasma of desire (Gemel = Moon). Such are the evil and averse counterparts of the three highest faculties of the Soul: Aleph, the inspiration of the soul in ecstasy; Beth, the virtue of Truthfulness without care of other issues; and Gimel, the direct link of the human with the divine Consciousness.]
Some info on the word:
Etymologically, baga- "god" belongs to the verbal root bag "to distribute, allot" and may be equated with Old Indian bhága-, a divine epithet probably meaning "dispenser; generous one", beside which there exists also a second noun bhága- "distribution, allotted portion" equivalent to Avestan baγa- "portion, lot.". It is this latter word which is personified in the Rigveda as the minor deity Bhaga (one of the Ādityas, a group headed by Varuṇa and Mitra).
Av. baga- occurs only once in the Gāθās, in a much-debated passage (Y. 32.8) where it possibly means “portion” or “distribution.” In the later Avestan texts baγa- occurs occasionally as a title of divinities (Ahura Mazdā, Māh, Mithra), but it is debatable whether it should still be understood in the earlier sense of “dispenser” (cf. Old Indian bhága-) or already as “god.” The development of the latter meaning is securely attested in Old Persian, where baga-, translated by words meaning “god” in Babylonian and Elamite, is the only generic term for the divinities worshipped by the Achaemenids.
- http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?Article=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v3f4/v3f4a064.html
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05:35 pm
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Divinity
What is your definition of divinity?
I have found that my conception divinity changes as I progress down the spiritual path. Or rather that my conception of divinity defines my progress. That the true conception of divinity is the ultimate goal and all other ways are false, leading into illusion and error.
From LIBER TAV:
The Rituals of Initiation:
| ו | 8°=3□ Asar as Bull |
| מ | 5°=6□ Asar as Man |
| ר | 0°=0□ Asar as Sun |
I can see Asar as the sun, bringing light and life to our rock, and on a more sublime level the total unity of things, the majesty of the harmonious workings of the universe.
I can see Asar as Man, the one that experiences the wonders of manifestation, the vehicle of awareness, the vehicle of hadit, one tree whose branches envelop the world with life, one star whose rays bath the world with light. Divided portions of the godhead, which experiencing each other in love through virtue of this liberty.
I can not see Asar, the bull clearly, though it seems to be something horrible, at least from this side. Wild beastial movement and energy, unreasoning, unchecked.
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02:17 pm
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Meaning of 40 in the bible?
Does anyone know the significance of the number 40 in the bible?
Flood was 40 days/nights, Moses was on the mount for 40 days, Jesus fasted in the wilderness 40 days, etc.
40 = 4x10, could be Malkuth with the elements/IHVH, IHVH come down to malkuth, therefore completion. Crowley has: A "dead" number of fixed law, 4 × 10, Tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of Malkuth.
40 = Mem, water. Could be significant implying lustration.
40 = לי (To Me)
This site claims that it is because the Egyptian priests cut the year into 9 parts of 40 days a piece, one for each of the gods in the Ennead. I haven't found another source for this, so it seems unlikely.
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01:19 pm
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Liber Loagaeth Reception
While researching and looking up dates for the book I am writing on liber loagaeth I found something very interesting. Dee and Kelly were given forty days to receive Liber Loagaeth, this reception started on Good Friday of 1583, dated by Dee as the 29th of march. This, however, was a Julian date, the British Empire did not adopt the Gregorian Calendar until 14 September 1752.
Converted to the Gregorian calendar, the reception of Liber Loagaeth was April 8th 1583. This is the same day, exactly 321 years previous, of the first day of the writing of The Book of the Law, which happened April 8th 1904.
It is interesting to note that as 1583 was the first year of the Gregorian calendar, for the catholic world this day really was April 8th. Had this reception happened a year previous, we would not be able to make this assertion.
For in the book Tarot was preserved all of the wisdom (for the Tarot was called the Book of Thoth), of the Aeon that is passed. And in the Book of Enoch was first given the wisdom of the New Aeon. And it was hidden for three hundred years, because it was wrested untimely from the Tree of Life by the hand of a desperate magician. For it was the Master of that Magician who overthrew the power of the Christian church; but the pupil rebelled against the master, for he foresaw that the New (i.e., the Protestant) would be worse than the Old. But he understood not the purpose of his Master, and that was, to prepare the way for the overthrowing of the Aeon.
- Liber 418, 6th Aethyr
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10:13 pm
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INTJ
Anybody else here an INTJ? I've been one since my first state sponsored MB test in grade school. (On a side note, who the fuck thought giving personality quizes to small children would be a good idea?)
From that site:
INTJ Weaknesses
1. Not naturally in tune with others feelings; may be insensitive at times
2. May tend to respond to conflict with logic and reason, rather than the desired emotional support
3. Not naturally good at expressing feelings and affections
4. Tendency to believe that they're always right
5. Tendency to be unwilling or unable to accept blame
6. Their constant quest to improve everything may be taxing on relationships
7. Tend to hold back part of themselves
::Sigh::, all except #5 apply to me. Besides anything on this list that I do is obviously the fault of my personality type ;) Now if they could just tell me how to deal with the other ones.
At least I got the strengths too:
1. Not threatened by conflict or criticism
2. Usually self-confident
3. Take their relationships and commitments seriously
4. Generally extremely intelligent and capable
5. Able to leave a relationship which should be ended, although they may dwell on it in their minds for awhile afterwards
6. Interested in "optimizing" their relationships
7. Good listeners
Well, #2 comes and goes.
Also I may have this one from the love advice section tattooed on my arm:
INTJs are not naturally in tune with their own feelings, or with what other people are feeling. They also have a tendency to believe that they are always right. While their self-confidence and esteem is attractive, their lack of sensitivity to others can be a problem if it causes them to inadvertantly hurt their partner's feelings. If this is a problem for an INTJ, they should remember to sometimes let their mate be the one who is right, and to try to be aware of the emotional effect that your words have upon them. In conflict situations, INTJs need to remember to be supportive to their mate's emotional needs, rather than treating the conflict as if it is an interesting idea to analyze.
( The Mechanics, which I find Fascinating )
"the INTJ's sacred inner world", yea.
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12:45 pm
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LIBER LOAGAETH Animations
See here very clearly the movements of the 5 layers of the circle from LIBER LOAGAETH.
Here is the entire sheet from where the circle is taken.
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04:45 pm
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Facebook
I just signed up for a facebook account, the first thing it showed me was a list of like 40 people who I consider to be friends. The only thing I had given was an email address. I'm not sure if that's cool or really scary.
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03:01 pm
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Great Tablet #2 - Sigil Worms
Now hovering over the Table, appear infinite sort of things like worms, sometimes going up and sometimes down; these seem somewhat brightish.
- Edward Kelly, June 25th 1584
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gahdiih73rw
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11:38 am
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Great Tablet #1 - Color Rotation
My latest project, highlighting the original layout of the great table. Variations to come. (Click the little HD button for better quality.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9wcSEIdI1k
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02:11 am
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333
X 17. We shall bring you to Absolute Truth, Absolute Light, Absolute Bliss.
A bsolute
T ruth
L ight
B liss
A T L B = 1 + 300 + 30 + 2 = 333
Triune Truth
Triune Light
Triune Bliss
The first stage of Magic is the trial of building up a world. This is done for the sake of the second stage, comprehension of all and that which resides apart from all. Taking all of the visions, realizing the sum of all the aethyrs about you, you are the god about which they revolve. You are the darkness that wears the mask, the black god of the sun, whose messenger is mercury.
PA RA OA NL = 333
The four groups of two left over letters on each of the tablets of enoch. The name which connects the four tablets.
PARAOAN is the 65th governour.
LXV 23. I am thou, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the void.
LXV 24. Also thou art beyond the stabilities of Being and of Consciousness and of Bliss; for I am thou, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the void.
LXV 25. Also thou shalt discourse of these things unto the man that writeth them, and he shall partake of them as a sacrament; for I who am thou am he, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the void.
LXV 26. From the Crown to the Abyss, so goeth it single and erect. Also the limitless sphere shall glow with the brilliance thereof.
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09:41 am
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36/120
We have explored before how the 6 letters of the Ring sum to 156, there are 156 squares in each of the four tablets and the call of the aethyrs has 156 words.
The two center letters of the ring sum to 36. The letters in the four corners sum to 120.
The central cross in each tablet has 36 squares, each of the four corners has 30, with a total of 120 squares in the corners.
We could also look at the 19th call, the first 36 words are seperated from the rest by the word IDOIGO, a name taken from one of the corners of one of the tablets. The first 36 words address the heavens, the ones that follow address the earth. IDOIGO is whom the magician identifies with.
This division is also seen in the words אהל מועד
Meaning "Tabernacle of the Congregation" from Leviticus 1:1.
אהל(Tabernacle) = 36
מועד(of the congregation) = 120
So in these symbols we have the tabernacle surrounded by the congregation.
36 is also the second mystic number of the Sun, being the number of squares in the magic square of the Sun.
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04:33 pm
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An Ideal Mass Setup
ד, ג, ס, ת
The Empress, The Priestess, Art and the Universe.
4 + 3 + 60 + 400 = 467 = גלגלתא (Golgatha)
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10:53 pm
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Fools that men adore
I invoke, I greet
Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
Unity uttermost showed!
I adore the might of Thy breath!
Just as Nuit is Gimel, the Uniting Intelligence, Hadit Beth, the Transparent Intelligence, so is Ra-Hoor-Khuit Aleph, the Fiery or Scintillating Intelligence. The divine fiery breath that roars throughout existence.
According to Crowley's Rota aleph is:
The hidden light - "the wisdom of God foolishness with men."
Him who is without fear or care beyond his own will which moves freely as the wind. The common men being weighed down by the ignorance of their own nature, call this foolish.
CCXX* III:17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk "folly!", nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms.
From "Ritual of Passing through the Tuat":
I who am nothing deny all that I was.
I who am nothing affirm all that I shall be.
I swear that as Nuit is about me, as Hadit is within me, so am I Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
ATU 0:
Know Naught!
All ways are lawful to Innocence.
Pure folly is the Key to Initiation.
Silence breaks into Rapture.
Be neither man nor woman, but both in one.
Be silent, Babe in the Egg of Blue, that thou mayest grow to bear the Lance and Graal!
Wander alone, and sing! In the King's Palace his daughter awaits thee.
- Secret Instructions of the Master
* Punctuation slightly modified
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02:28 pm
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Hadit - The Unknown that is Everywhere
1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.
3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.
4. Yet she shall be known & I never.
Take for a moment that Nuit Is Gimel and Hadit is Beth, according to the Sepher Yetzirah, Nuit would be the Uniting Intelligence and Hadit the Transparent Intelligence. Nuit being that which binds all together, the great circumference that circumscribes all. Hadit being that which is everywhere, but transparent and thus invisible to all.
| Gimel | Nuit | Uniting Intelligence |
| Beth | Hadit | Transparent Intelligence |
26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.
Hadit is that which is between Nuit, the boundless infinite and her sister the world, the bound immediate. He is that which may partake of both, being everywhere connects him to the world, but being unknown prevents him from being bound and separated from Nuit. That which is not infinite may not know that which is infinite.
Hadit is the creative power in man that allows him to become more than matter, allows him to become God. More plainly spoken, he is the spark of awareness in man, that which knows or is aware, that which makes man more than an automaton or flesh-bound mind.
7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
Secret Instructions of the Master
The True Self is the meaning of the True Will: know Thyself through Thy Way! Calculate well the Formula of Thy Way! Create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate completely. Work thou, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, in and for Eternity.
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