Here beginneth Chapter 4 of the Book which is called—"The Tablets of Aeth," wherein is transcribed the Fourth Quadrant of the Twelve Mansions.
"A hair, perhaps, divides the false and true. Yes, and a single alif were the clue— Could you but find it—to the treasure house, And, peradventure, to THE MASTER, too.
"Beware, O my son, of self-incense. It is the most dangerous on account of its agreeable intoxication. * * * Learn, O my beloved, that the light of Allah's truth will often penetrate an empty head more easily than one too crammed with learning."
TABLET THE TENTH
Capricorn
A deep, black ground, o'er which shimmers a phosphorescent light; at each side an aurora borealis rises, mountain like; above all, a tiny star.
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REFLECTION
TABLET THE TENTH
Here is revealed the symbol of the messenger of the Most High. The star hovers over the phosphorescent light cast on the darkness as the spirit hovers over the blackness of matter. The aurora borealis stands as the emblem for the magnetic attraction of Earth on spirit, the Christ soon to be born in the manger of the Goat; the descent of the Holy Ghost into material form, so that heavenly truth may illumine the drear speculum of earthly thought with the Divine iridescence of celestial light. It is the lowest arc of the cycle that reveals the new birth of death unto life—the divine egg of Brahma, containing the promise of the new law: "Peace on Earth, good will towards men."