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upon the intellectual faculties. A judge must know the law in every point,
and be detached from personal prejudices, and incorruptible, or iniquity will
triumph. Dogma, with persecution, delusion, paralysis of progress, and
many another evil, as its satraps, has always established a tyranny when
Genius has proclaimed it. Islam making a bonfire of written Wisdom,
and Haeckel forging biological evidence; physicists ignorant of radioactivity
disputing the conclusions of geology, and theologians impatient of truth
struggling against the tide of thought; all such must perish at the hands of
their own error in making their minds, internally defective or externally
deflected, the measure of the Universe.


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Ego. A "Spell" of God is any form of consciousness, and a
"Scourge" any form of action.

The Charge, as a whole, demands for the Adept the control of
every detail of the Universe which His Angel has created as a
means of manifesting Himself to Himself. It covers command of
the primary projection of the Possible in individuality, in the
antithetical artifice which is the device of Mind, and in a
balanced triplicity of modes or states of being whose
combinations constitute the characteristics of Cosmos. It
includes also a standard of structure, a rigidity to make
reference possible. Upon these foundations of condition which
are not things in themselves, but the canon to which things
conform, is builded the Temple of Being, whose materials are
themselves perfectly mysterious, inscrutable as the Soul, and
like the Soul imagining themselves by symbols which we may feel,
perceive, and adapt to our use without ever knowing the whole
Truth about them. The Adept sums up all these items by claiming
authority over every form of expression possible to Existence,
whether it be a "spell" (idea) or a "scourge" (act) of "God",
that is, of himself. The Adept must accept every "spirit", every
"spell", every "scourge", as part of his environment, and make
them all "subject to" himself; that is, consider them as
contributory causes of himself. They have made him what he is.
They correspond exactly to his own faculties. They are all ---
ultimately --- of equal importance. The fact that he is what he
is proves that each item is equilibrated. The impact of each new
impression affects the entire system in due measure. He must
therefore realize that every event is subject to him. It occurs
because he had need of it. Iron rusts because the molecules
demand oxygen for the satisfaction of
their tendencies. They do not crave hydrogen; therefore
combination with that gas is an event which does not happen. All
experiences contribute to make us complete in ourselves. We feel