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where the pure lights of the Supernals converge upon the Adeptus Minor. The highest
of these is Kether, and its single vertical descending ray—which I believe is related to
the Daughter of Fortitude—is represented in the tarot as the Priestess of the Silver
Star. By this power, the Adept commands the Princes, and it is efficacious because its
point of origin lies beyond that of their “fall”.
Applying this idea to the Four Watchers, or Four Mighty Kings of the Watchtowers
of this World, it is easy to see that, if anything, Mr C may well be their Ruler, the spirit
of Chaos that is the root cause of material existence. The Four may be much as Tyson
says, upholding and ordering this little bubble of reality in which we live. Pure Chaos is
exceptionally rare, as that new science tells us. Most of what we normally encounter is
bounded chaos. Viewed in this light, this seems to agree with what the angels told Dee,
of “Keepers, Watch-men, and Princes”, placed over this world at the moment Adam
fell. Budge speaks of a four headed deity of the Egyptians that appears to have been
adopted and used by the Gnostics, and this may well be significant. Jones taught me to
use inverted invoking spirit pentagrams for the 2 nd Key, four of them, one for each
name of five letters on the Spirit Table, saying they were evil, but so is the 2 nd Key.
Mr C doesn’t exist, in a way. It is the bogeyman that we create staring into the
formless void of stochastic events, an epiphenomenon of the pure influence of the
Supernals as it is ground down into matter. It is nonetheless the unadulterated
embodiment of evil for the individual who experiences it directly.
[Ed’s note—In Turner (p 54) and James (p 112) different sigils are given for Paraoan,
but both are incorrect. Robert Turner’s sigil on p 54 is that of “Laxdizi” (one of the
three “regular” governors of the 22 nd Æthyr). It is unclear what Geoffrey James intends.
In the original manuscript of Sloane 3191, under the section for the sigils of the 22 nd
Æthyr lin from “Liber Scientiæ, Auxilli, et Victoriæ Terrestris”, folio 26 v , there was no
sigil included for Paraoan.]
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