Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf

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when I looked back the chair was raised, and he was still the same. I
realized I was alone, and thinking he was dead or gone—or some other
terrible thing—I lost consciousness.)
[This discourse has been thus left unfinished; but it is only necessary
to add that the capacity to extract such spiritual honey from these
unpromising flowers is the mark of an adept who has perfected his
Magick Cup. This method of Qabalistic exegesis is one of the best ways
of exalting the reason to the higher consciousness. Evidently it
“started” Fra. P. so that in a moment he became completely
concentrated and entranced. 1 — ED.]
1 See remarks on absurdity of prayer in “Eleusis” (Crowley, “Collected Works,” vol.
iii, pp. 223, 224.)