PART I 



NO problem of Occult knowledge has ex- 

 cited more controversy than the one we 

 must now consider, the correspondence 

 of the Principles with color and tone, and therefore 

 with number. For myself, I think it not merely 

 unwise but impossible to surround it with hard and 

 fast lines. To suggest the reasonable scheme 

 the one that imagination can accept, and in things 

 Occult it is of paramount importance to see with 

 the imagination is the utmost I shall attempt. 



There is deep insight as well as truth in the state- 

 ment that " those who receive the wisdom of the 

 past or the impressions of the present as something 

 to have and to hold, gain absolutely nothing." 

 That is, one must form original mental concepts 

 of everything; receive all light, all suggestions, 

 with open mind, but think, ever think, oneself, till 

 more light is thrown upon the subject. The Yery 

 nomenclature employed in this subject, the multi- 

 plicity of names for a single sheath, betrays the 



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