For He reduces chaos to order, and indraws the external to the centre.
He has learnt that Matter is illusion, and that Spirit alone is real.
He has found His own Central Point; and all power is given unto Him in heaven and on earth.
Now, the Central Point is the number Thirteen: it is the number of the Marriage of the Son of God.
And all the members of the microcosm are bidden to the banquet of the marriage.
But if there chance to be even one among them which has not on a wedding garment,
Such a one is a Traitor, and the microcosm is found divided against itself.
And that it may be wholly regenerate, it is necessary that Judas be cast out.
Now the members of the microcosm are Twelve: of the Senses three, of the Mind three, of the Heart three, and of the Conscience three.
For of the Body there are four elements; and the sign of the four is Sense, in the which are three Gates,