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Introduction Paul Foster Case (1884-1954), the author of these texts, is known to students of the Secret Wisdom a s a n unexcelled authority on the esoteric teachings of Tarot, Qabalah, and Alchemy. Dr. Case's linkage with the secret Mystery Schools that preserved the true Christ teachings is indicated also by several other of his works, which include: THE TRUE AND INVISIBLE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER; TAROT, KEY TO WISDOM OF THE AGES; THE BOOK OF TOKENS; THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE; THE GREAT SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES; THE MASONIC LETTER G. Besides being the producer of these works in book form, Paul Case was the founder of Builders of the Adytum, a

non-profit organization which is the custodian and disseminator of his incomparable works on esoteric subjects. These are presented in graded lesson form. Through the lessons the same spiritual unfoldment can be attained today as was possible only for Mystery School students in former world periods. Dr. Case was chosen by the Third Order for the transmission of Western Mysteries for this period. His work was to perserve, extend and update the teachings that have always existed since the beginning of the world. Human consciousness, as a whole, has evolved a capacity for individuality and intellectual comprehension that did not exist to the same extent in former ages. These new human capacities--indicated exoterically by

the advancements of the 'scientific age--had to be taken into account. Initiation today cannot be attained in the same manner as it was in former ages. For a modern aspirant to experience the inner worlds in the right way he must be prepared with a mental comprehension that harmonizes with the present evolutionary deirelopment of humanity. This is precisely what the spiritual teachings of B.O.T.A., initiated by Paul Case, take into full account. For this reason, the Western Mystery training system is more valid for the modern Western aspirant than the older Eastern system. These methods allow for the freedom and independence of the Western student; a freedom which this treatise indicates

a s being the fiuit of a continuously growing grasp of Reality. Indeea, as you will read, the true meaning of the Name of Names is "that which was, is and shall be; the nature of Reality liberates." The reality that liberates includes levels of existence beyond those we can experience through the physical senses. To be able to enter fully into the Larger Reality is the essence of the freedom which awaits us as we become ever more conscious of Christ a s the Divine Ego, the Central Presence seated within the heart of every human being. May Light Be Extended upon You, BUILDERS OF THE ADYTUM.

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Daniel, Master of Magicians Materialists, infidels and atheists may scoff a t astrology as much as they please. No person who pretends to accept the Bible a s his rule and guide in faith and pra.ctice can possibly deny the validity ofthe ancient art without betraying either his ignorance of the Scriptures he affects to believe, or else the hollow insincerity of his pose of reverence. The fundamental principles of astrology are explicitly stated in Holy Writ. The astrological point of view is implied in much of the Biblical teaching. Passage after passage in both Testaments is unintelligible unless one uses the key of astrology to unlock their meaning. The 14th verse of the first chapter of Genesis speaks of the lights of heaven as being for signs, and the Hebrew original shows clearly that these signs are more than mere indicators of time-periods. They mark out the destinies of man.

Daniel, Master of Magicians The 19th Psalm begins: "The heavens declare the glory of God." and the fourth verse, in the Authorized Version, is translated: "Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." A better rendering, truer to the spirit of the original Hebrew, would be: "Their rule extends through all the earth, and their commands to the end of the world." That is to say, the rule or order of the heavenly spaces permeates the entire field of terrestrial activity. This is the first premise of astrology. Furthermore, many Rabbinical interpreters tell us that the noun translated "line" in the King James Version, which I have rendered "rule," signifies the power, running throughout the whole universe, which gives shape and form to things. For the occultist who has had the benefit of acquaintance with the Rosicrucian tradition, the sentence, "The heavens

Daniel, Master of Magicians declare the glory of God," has special meaning, because the total value of its words in Hebrew is 888, the number of the Greek name Iesous, Jesus, and the Hebrew words Jehovah Tzabaoth, ha-Messhiach, "Jehovah of hosts, the Messiah." I n the doctrine of the Western School of occultism it is a basic principle that all phenomena whatever are manifestations of a single power, designated a t the beginning of St. John's Gospel as the h g o s , or Word. In the esoteric teaching that Word, identical with Jehovah of hosts, in essence, is the One Reality announced to the world through the message of Jesus, and that message is based upon Jesus' own clear perception of the true nature of the innermost spirit of man--the identity of that spirit with the One Living Mind which projects itself in the heavenly order of the skies. We must never forget that the literal translation of the words so often on Jesus'

Daniel, Master of Magicians lips, "The kingdom of heaven," is actually "The rule of the heavens." The phrase occurs again and again, and one need only study Jesus' parables of the kingdom to see clearly two things: First--That the kingdom of the heavens is not a future state, following death; Second--That it is not a political realm, as some have fondly and foolishly imagined. On the contrary, it is an order, a rule, perfectly manifested in the stellar spaces, and in our Lord's Prayer we ask that this same rule and order be manifested upon the earth. In the vision of Ezekiel, recorded in the first chapter of his prophecy, are four living creatures, every one having four faces, which were the face of a man, the face of a lion, the face of an ox, and the face of an eagle. These four are also described in the theophany recorded in the fourth chapterof Revelation. The representations of these four were on the standards of four tribes of

Daniel, Master of Magicians Israel. The standard of Judah bore a lion, that of Dan a n eagle, that of Ephraim a n ox, and that of Manasseh a man. All this is purely astrological. The lion, eagle, man and ox are the representatives of the four fixed signs of the zodiac: Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Taurus. Scorpio is represented by a n eagle because the extrazodiacal constellation Aquila, the eagle, rises a the same time as Scorpio. Leo the fixed sign of the fire triplicity is, in the Qabalah, associated with the first letter of the divine name IHVH (fl'lnl), Jehovah. Scorpio, the fixed sign of the water triplicity, is associated with the second letter, Aquarius, fixed sign, of the airy triplicity, is connected with the third letter, and Taurus, the fixed sign of earth, is assigned to the last letter. In this connection i t should be noted that Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Taurus are the 5th, Sth, l l t h , and 2nd signs of the zodiac, and that the sum of the numbers indicating

Daniel, Master of Magicians their positions in the zodiacal series, 5, 8, 11, and 2, is 26, the sum of the values of the four letters composing the name IHVH (fllfl'), Jehovah. The twelve tribes of Israel are also the representatives of the twelve signs of the zodiac, though there has been much confusion a s to the correct arrangement of the signs in relation to the tribes. Thus the stones in the high-priests breastplate must also be related to the signs of the zodiac. And so must the gates and foundations of the New Jerusalem describedin the Book of Revelation. The four living creatures representing the fixed signs are also traditionally related to the Four Gospels, and they are shown in the four quarters of the arms of Freemasonry. Furthermore, in the correct horoscope of the Declaration of Independence, Leo is on the mid-heaven, Scorpio on the ascendant,

Daniel, Master of Magicians Aquarius on the nadir, and Taurus on the descendant. Thus if we begin a t the top of the horoscope, and go around the wheel to the left, in the direction that Hebrew is read, the four cardinal points of the horoscope spell out the name Jehovah, in accordance with the attribution of its four letters to these signs. Moreover, the degrees of the signs on the mid-heaven and nadir are 21, and those of the ascendant and descendant are 13. This is a n interesting coincidence, because the name of our country, United States of America, has 21 letters, and the national motto, E Pluribus Unum, has 13 letters. These are about a few of the astrological allusions in the Bible, found all the way from Genesis to Revelation. But we do not have to depend upon allusions and interpretations for our certainty that astrological philosophy is to be found in Scriptures. The 20th verse of the 5th

Daniel, Master of Magicians chapter of Judges gives us a clear, definite statement, about which there can be no question. It says: "The stars in their courses fought against Sisera." Here the noun translated "courses" is that which in later Hebrew literature invariably designates the twelve signs of the zodiac. The same noun is used in Proverbs 16:17 to indicate the course of human destiny, in the sentence: "The highway of the upright is to depart from evil," where the noun translated "highway" is Masloth, the same as that translated "courses" in the quotation from Judges. Note the contrast. Sisera was by no means upright. He was a tyrant, seeking to enslave the Israelites. The stars of the zodiac fought against him because the heavenly order is, as St. James tells us, a perfect law of liberty. Similarly, the name Jesus, which is the numerical equivalent of the phrase "The heavens declare the glory of God," signifies

Daniel, Master of Magicians literally, "The nature of Reality is to set free." Consequently, the upright, who harmonize their lives with the order of the skies, find that order like a great highway, enabling them to depart from evil. For astrology is sadly misunderstood if it be thought to be concerned with the irrevocable decrees of fate. The highway of the upright is the wise man's co-operation with the cosmic forces whose ebb and flow is marked by the changing configurations of the heavens. To be ignorant of the stellar influences is to be bound by that ignorance, as are all self-willed tyrants, of whom Sisera is a type. To know the courses of the stars is to be able, a t all times, to utilize their influences constructively, and so to depart from the bondage of chance, elf-will and evil into the perfect freedom of those who make obedience to the heavenly order the basis of their thought and action.

Daniel, Master of Magicians The Bible, however, contains stronger evidence in the favor of astrologythan any I have yet cited. One whole book of the Old Testament was written by a man who held the office of chief astrologer a t the Babylonian court, under Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, and continued in that office until the first year of the reign of Cyrus. This man was Daniel. His very name has an astrological flavor. Astrologers call the analytical and predictive part of their work the judgement of the horoscope, and Daniel means "God is the judge." Competent astrologers are well aware that in reading a horoscope something more is necessary than experience, something that goes deeper than literal interpretation of rules. Without intuition no astrologer can succeed, and intuition is really the inner instruction of the all-knowing Spirit. The omnipresence of God necessitates His real presence in human personality, and those only who

Daniel, Master of Magicians have established contact with this inner source of knowledge are fully qualified for astrological judgement. The story of Daniel shows that from his youth he was accounted one of the leading astrologers a t the Babylonian court. It shows, too, that he cultivated assiduously the attitude of receptivity to Divine direction which is indispensable to proper judgement of a horoscope. In the second chapter of his book, which dealswith one of the greatest long-range astrological prophecies ever recorded, he reports himself as saying to Nebuchadnezzar: "The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; but there is a God in heaven which revealeth secrets, and maketh knownto the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days."

Daniel, Master o f Magicians As a reward for his success in interpreting the king's dream, Daniel was made master of the magicians. This was his official title, according to the translation of the Authorized Version; but the original text calls him rub chartomia, "master of the astrologers." Now, the Mosaic law is specific in its decrees against certain kinds of evil magic. The loth, 11th and 12th verses of the 18th chapter of Deuteronomy say: "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or a n observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are a n abomination unto Jehovah."

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Persons who confine their Biblical studies to English translation often cite this passage in condemnation of astrology, but Daniel certainly must have known it, and yet he had no scruples against being made chief of the Chaldean wise men who are described in the King James Version a s magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans and soothsayers." Daniel risked his life again and again rather than violate the Mosaic code. We must conclude, then, that the practices of the Chaldeans involved no transgression against the law of Moses. 'I

This conclusion is justified by a n examination of the original text. In Deuteronomy, the word translated "divination" is qesem, meaning any method of judging by lot, such as the fall of dice or arrows, the inspection of the entrails of slaughtered victims, or the observation of the flight of birds. "Observation of the times" has nothing to do withastrology. The

Daniel, Master of Magicians word so translated is anan, and it designates those forms of magic which are intended to give the magician control over evll spirits. The word translated "enchanter" is nachash, closely related to another noun of the same spelling meaning "serpent," and used in the story of the temptation of Eve. The modern Egyptian snake-charmer is such an enchanter, and the practices of such persons have to do with the misuse of psychology in gaining undue influence over others, usually through fear, or through perversions of the power of suggestion such as are common in modern high-pressure salesmanship, propaganda, and patent-medicine advertising over the radio. A "witch in Hebrew, is one who whispers spells, like those used even to this day by the superstitious country-folk of Eastern Pennsylvania, where, not long ago, there was a dreadful murder growingout of these so-called "Hex" practices. Consultation with

Daniel, Master of Magicians familiar spirits survives to this day as the practice of seeking guidance from the departed. Wizardry is akin to witchcraft, and consists of those practices which are familiar to medicine-men all over the world. These practices combine suggestion, appeals to fear, and the use of subtle poisons. Finally, the word "necromancy" of the King James Version would be better translated "worship of the dead." All these forms of evil magic are based on superstition and ignorance. Those who profess and practice them are shrewd judges of the weaknesses of human nature, and prey upon and pander to those weaknesses. They are liars and impostors, who pretend to powers not possessed by humanity a t large, and play upon the credulity of their dupes. Their one thought is to get their victims under their influence, for the sake of power and money. Thus their object is to enslave rather than to liberate.

Daniel, Master of Magicians Not so the practitioners of genuine astrology, however much the practice of this royal and ancient art may be misrepresented and abused by charlatans. The evil magic enslaves all who believe in it, and tends to make those believers suppose themselves to be in bondage to chance, and subject to the capricious moods of hosts of invisible entities. True astrology begins with recognition of a universal order, in which nothing happens by chance, and in which every part is related to every other part. No astrologer worthy of the name could for a moment suppose that human beings are a t the mercy of invisible spirits who must be propitiated by sacrifice, or cajoled into temporary good humor by the spells of a sorcerer, a t so much per spell. Astrology emphasizes order, the law of cause and effect; and behind that law it discovers and adores the great lawgiver, God Himself.

Daniel, Master of Magicians Such was the science and a r t of the wise men of Babylon. The noun translated "magician" in the Book of Daniel really means "astrologer," or "caster of horoscopes." That which. is translated "astrologer" would be more accurately rendered "enchanter," for it signifies a person skilled in the correlation of the various kinds of vibration, and the control of the various kinds of vibration through the use of sound. This science and a r t of controlling all modes of vibration through certain uses of sounds is akin to what the Hindus call Mantra-yoga, and it is closely allied to astrology. "Chaldeans" was the official designation of the priestly caste in Babylonia, who were much occupied with astronomical observations. "Soothsayers" is a rather poor translation ofgezaria, which means "determiners of destiny." Thus it becomes evident that the wise men, who had the general designation of "Chaldeans," were divided into three main classes: First--

Daniel,Master of Magicians The makers of horoscopes; Second--The practitioners of the art of controlling vibration by sound; Third-thep persons who specialized in judging horoscopes. In other words, the wise men of Babylon believed in division of labor and among them there were three kinds of specialists, all concerned with some aspect of astrology. The long-range prediction to which I have alluded is based upon the dream recorded in the second chapter of the Book of Daniel, supplemented by visions recorded in the seventh, eighth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth chapters The dream of the image is told as follows: "Thou, 0 king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of the fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and thighs of brass,

Daniel, Master of Magicians his legs of iron, his feet part of imn and part of clay. "Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was t h e iron, the clay, the brass, the sliver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them; and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and £illed the whole earth. "This is the dream: and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, 0 king, a r t a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. . . Thou a r t this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another kingdom of brass, which shall bear

Daniel, Master of Magicians rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet andtoes, part of the potters' clay, and part iron, the kingdom shall be divided: but there shall be in it the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, t and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as

Daniel, Master of Magicians thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, and silver and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shallcome to pass hereafter; and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof is sure." Students of chronological prophecy agree that the four parts of the image represent four world empires. The first, corresponding to the head, is that of the Babylonians, which began with the accession of Nabonassar on February 26th, B.C. 747. The great popular deity of this empire was the sun-god, and gold is the metal corresponding to the sun. The second empire was that ofthe Medes and Persians; and its religion emphasized the moongoddess, corresponding to silver. The third empire was that of the Greeks, notable for the predominance of the worship of Aphrodite, or Venus, whose metal is copper,

Daniel, Master of Magicians the correct translation of the noun rendered "brass" in the King James Version. Under the Greek empire the arts, of which Venus is the patron, reached a high perfection, and during the same period the most extravagant types of sensuality, also under the rulership of Venus, and related to those parts of the body which are described as being made of brass, eventually brought about the destruction of the Greek worlddominion. The Roman rule is appropriately represented by the legs and feet of the image, for iron is the metal of Mars, the war-god chiefly honored by the Romans. Furthermore, the Romans establishedtheir empire by the force of great armies, whose marches took them over the surface of the whole world, and left their traces in the famous Roman roads. The Roman empire mingled itself with the seed of men, but while the Romans were great conquerors, they were not good

Daniel, Master of Magicians colonizers. Thus the Roman Empire in its later stages is perfectly symbolized by the feet of the image, in which the iron of the Roman military rule is mingled with the customs and traditions of the subjugated nations, without overc~mingthe essential characteristics of those nations. In the fourth chapter of Daniel is a vision of four beasts. The first, a lion with eagle's wings, represents the Babylonian empire. The second, like a bear, stands for the Medes and Persians. The third, like a leopard, having four wings like afowl, and four heads, corresponds to the Greek empire, which, in its later stages, was actually divided into four parts, or heads. The fourth beast, with iron teeth, has ten horns, amongst which rises another little horn. These horns represent the kingdoms into which the Roman empire was divided after the fall of the central power.

Daniel, Master of Magicians Concerning these ten kingdoms, Guiness says: "That the number of these kingdoms, ten, would not be invariable or constant is implied by the statement that there would spring up amongst them a 'Little Horn,' which would make the number eleven, and t h a t three others would be plucked up before this 'Little Horn,' when, of course, there would be only eight left for a time. Fresh 'horns' or kingdoms, however, would take the place of the uprooted ones, for a t the end of the history the number is presented a s still ten. . . European history $om the fifth century onwards presents us with the fulfillment of this remarkable prediction, all the more remarkable because it foretold a state of things which hadnever existed in the world a t the time when the prophecy was given, and which never did exist tdl a thousand years afterwards. Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome in its

Daniel, Master of Magicians first phase, all sought and obtained universal dominion, and could brook no rival power. . . . Never since the fall of the old Roman empire has Europe been united under one monarch, nor has it ever been divided into thirty or forty kingdoms. On the contrary, amid incessant changes, the number of kingdoms of the European commonwealth has, as a rule averaged ten. The northern nations, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Russia; and the eastern nations which territorially belong to the Greek and not to the Roman empire (through subject to it inits golden days), do not, of course, enter into the calculation of the kingdoms occupying the territory of Rome proper. There is a s permanent a distinction between the geographical spheres of the four empiresas between their chronological periods. Neither overlay each other; i.e. the body ofeach 'beast,' is distinct from his dominion for a time over the other 'beasts.' Each empire actually governed all

Daniel, Master of Magicians in its day of dominion, but it had nevertheless its own proper sphere. Dan. 7:12 says, 'They had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged; Persia remains distinct from Greece, and Greece from Rome." From the establishment of the Babylonian empire, the head of the image, a t the accession of Nabonassar in B.C. 747, the prophecy of Daniel speaks of a period called "The times of the Gentiles," which is described a s covering what is clearly indicated in various parts of the prophecy (as well a s elsewhere in the Bible) as a great week. Each day of this "week is a year of years or 360 years. The entire duration of this prophetic "great week" is therefore seven times 360 years, or 2520 years. This is purely astrological, and is based upon the method of progression according to

Daniel, Master of Magicians which every day succeeding the native's birthday is reckoned as representing a year o f his life. In the Book of Daniel, and elsewhere in the Bible, a "time" is understood as an astrol'ogical year of 360 days, in which each day corresponds to an ordinary year. This great week of 2520 years is reckoned according to three scales. One is the lunar scale, corresponhng to the sacred year of the Jews and Mohammedans, and consisting of 354 days. Another is the Egyptian and astrological calendar year of 360 days. The third is the solar year of 365 days. The starting-points for this prophetic reckoning are two: B.C. 747, the time of the beginning of the Babylonian empire; and B.C. 587, the year of the final destructionof Jerusalem, and the fall of Zedekiah. 2520 year from these dates, reckoned according

Daniel, Master of Magicians to the three scales just mentioned, bring us to periods which are undoubtedly critical points in world-history. Seven "times" by the lunar scale from B.C. 747, bring us to 1699, the close of the seventeenth century, which marks a great step forward towards world freedom with the signing of the Peace of Carlowitz, which began the destruction of Ottoman tyranny, which until then had been the greatest threat to human freedom. By the same scale, but measured from B.C. 587, seven "times" bring us to 1860, the year of the secession of South Carolina, leading to the Civil War which settled the. question of slavery, and meant another step forward in the history of human liberty.

By the solar scale, starting from B.C. 747, seven "times" takes us to 1774, A.D. This was the year of the first Continental

Daniel, Master of Magicians Congress a t Philadelphia, which might well be called the year of the initial conception of the United States. This was also the year of the accession of Louis XVI, in whose reign came to its end the power of absolute monarchy, aristocracy and ecclesiasticism in France. Starting from B.C. 587, the seven "times" of the solar scale are completed in 1934 A.D., and the summer of that year marked the completion of the "Times of the Gentiles." The year 1934 marked the end of the Roman domination over race-mind, and the beginning of the spiritual kingdom represented by the stone cut out without hands. This is not, of course, a t all obvious to uninstructed persons, butthose who have had sufficient contact with theInner Scho 01 to sharpen their spiritual vision know that we are already in the midst of the beginning of that glorious kingdom which shall never be destroyed.

Daniel, Master of Magicians In the eighth chapter of Daniel a period of 2300 days is mentioned, corresponding to 2300 years. This cycle begins with the Restoration Era which followed the Babylonian captivity of Israel, and exactly 2300 years by the lunar scale brings us to 1776 A.D., the year of the Declaration of Independence. This year, 1776 A.D., is also seven "times" solar from the date of the first captivity of Israel, under Tigla th-Pileser, B.C. 745. Thus 1776 is a n important year, the close of two great cycles marked out by Daniel's prophecy. Curiously enough the number 1776 is the value of the Greek words making the phrase "the Salvation of Israel". In the Declaration of Independence were declared principles which began the end of the Roman domination throughout the world. In 1776 the fathers of our republic began a government based upon ideas

Daniel, Master of Magicians taught in the Bible, and essentially the same as those on which Moses founded his theocratic republic. . The American government was the first to recognize the political and social equality of Jew and Gentile. And the horoscope of the United States shows the zodiacal sign Leo, the sign of the Tribe of Judah, on its mid-heaven, or cusp of the 10th house. This reminds us of the words of the 49th chapter of Genesis: "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah until Shiloh come." The tenth house of any national horoscope represents the executive, the king or president; but more than this, it shows the actual power behind the throne. And who can deny that in the United States the Tribe of Judah, through its control over the money power, is the real ruler and executive, no matter who sits in the White House?

Daniel, Master of Magicians The entire passage in Genesis reads: "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." In Hebrew "Shiloh shall come" is written with two words, Iba Shiloh. The first word adds to 13, the number of the original American States. The second adds to 345, the equivalent of the numbering of the proper name Moses (MshH; ;ltUD), of the divine Name El Shaddai, "Almighty God," and of a Rabbinical word signifying "the end." 345 is also connected with Freemasonry, because its digits are those of the sides of the famous Pythagorean triangle which sums up, as I maybe able to show you a t some other time, the whole esoteric philosophy of the Inner School. The United States was founded on the law of Moses, and in the Declaration of

Daniel, Master of Magicians Independence, as in the symbolism of the seal, it gives full recognition to Almighty God, as the lawgiver whence proceeds the order of the heavens. The fulfillment of the American idea is what is represented by the stone in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. This is the coming of Shiloh, the coming of unbroken tranquility, following the strife and wars of the times of the Gentiles. And here we may note that the phrase Iba Shdoh, having the number 358, which is the same as that of the word Messiach, or Messiah, is understood by Qabalistic interpreters of Scripture to refer to the longawaited coming of the Anointed One who shall establish the law of liberty over the whole earth. What are we to understand from all this? Simply that Daniel, by that study of books which he mentions, and by his knowledge of astrological cycles, was able to predict the exact time of the beginning ofthe end of the

Daniel, Master of Magicians "times of the Gentiles." That was the year 1776 A.D., and the same knowledge enabled our Master of Astrologers to set the year 1934 as the final terminus ofthe rule of the Roman ideas i n the world. Here in America, the "strong child of Europe" predicted in the Rosicrucian Fana Fraternitatis, we are to witness the final destruction of the falseYRomandoctrine of conquest, the end of the lie that might makes right. Here in America is the predestined scene of the final fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy. In the time that remains let me sketch what I believe to be the essential nature of that fulfillment.

The kingdom that is never to be destroyed is pictured as a stone. The Hebrew word for stone is ehben, spelt with three letters ABN(2SN). The first two letters spell the

Daniel, Master of Magicians noun AB (AN), Father, which is the name assigned by the Qabalistic Rabbis to that aspect of Reality which they call Wisdom. To Wisdom, furthermore, they assign Masloth, the very word that is used i n the Bible to describe the zodiac, and the way of the upright. The last two letters of ABN (JAN) spell the word BN (jA), ben, the Son, which the same wise men assign to that aspect of reahty which they call Beauty, the sphere of the Sun. In Qabalistic psychology, Wisdom, sphere of the zodiac, is also the seat of the life-force of man. That is to say, the Qabalists regard the life-force in every human body a s being energy directly derived from the radiations of the stars, and as having its cycles of ebb and flow synchronized with the movements of those heavenly bodies. This is good science now, though not so long ago it might have seemed fantastic. Furthermore, the light-energy of the celestial spaces is

Daniel, Master of Magicians regarded by these wise men as being the spiritual force whereby the Divine Mind carries out its plans and carries on the immense undertaking we call the universe. Ben, the Son, refers to the human Self, to the I AM we all feel centered within us. Jesus, the great Way-shower, was the first man to announce to the world in unequivocal terms the identity of that Self with the Paternal Life-force. "I and the Father are One." said He, and St. Paul in the second chapter of Philippians exhorts us thus: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, subsisting in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but emptied himself, and took upon himself the form of a servant." In other words, that which is the ruling power of the universe, and the source of all its laws, is identical with the life-force which in us centers itself as the point of

Daniel, Master of Magicians self-consciousness we call the "I AM." This power is the servant of all mankind. It is what Qabalists mean when they say that the name Ben, the Son, stands for the secret nature of the physical world. It is what St. John meant when he wrote, concerning the Logos: "That which hath been made was life in him and the life was the light of men." The Stone Kingdom, which shall break all others in pieces, and which shall never be destroyed, is a system of government democratic in outer form. The units of its body-politic, the persons from whose consent this government derives its powers, have come to a realization of the identity of the I AM in man with its heavenly Source, the identity implied in the junction of the letters which spell Father and Son in the one word ehben, Stone. Such a new political system is even now in process of formation. The human

Daniel, Master of Magicians personalities which are its units have emptied themselves of all false notions of personal separateness, self-wdl, "every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost," which are the seeds of bondage and tyranny. To this country of ours such minds turn a s the scene of the physical realization of Daniel's prophecy. The times of the Gentiles are ended. The salvation of Spiritual Israel is a t hand. Shiloh, meaning inner peace and tranquility, is already come to those of us who have awakened to the great truth which is the stone refused through the ages by the builders of governments, prior to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Remember that this mental union of the Son with the Father is not just a n emotional ecstasy. For some, nay, in all probabhty for the greater number, it must begin as an intellectual perception, as a clear vision of reason. Its basis is the reasonable

Daniel, Master of Magicians knowledge that nothing in all this vast universe is outside the realm of law, that nothing has been left to chance, that down to the last detail the phenomena by which we are surrounded and of which our lives are a part, are manifestations of a celestial order, proceeding from the mind of God. Nothing more perfectly conduces to such clear mental vision than the intelligent study of astrology and the practical arts related to it. Astrology liberates us by dispelling our ignorance of the causes of the effect we see around us. It liberates us, too, from the intolerance which makes us so harsh in our judgements of others. For when we know how the stellar cycles are coordinated with those of human life, we understand as we can understand in no other way, the secret springs of human behavior. And to understand is to be free from the spirit of condemnation. For understanding is the golden clue that leads

Daniel, Master of Magicians us straight into the sanctuary of love. Thus astrology by revealing to its earnest students and practitioners the hidden lines of connection between the life of man and the mind of God, enables us to follow the highways of the stars, and thus depart from evil. Its greatest living exponent, in my estimation, was this same prophet, Daniel, whose range of foresight and accuracy of judgement has never been equalled, much less surpassed.

I like to believe that the time is near when the promise recorded in his book will find its final fulfillment. For there we read: "Go thy way till the end; for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of days." For I am fully persuaded that in no long time from now Shiloh shall come indeed, to be known of all, and the new World Order shall be truly established. Then, indeed, wdl Daniel, who is as much a part of the cosmic life as

Daniel, Master of Magicians he ever was, see the completion of all that was promised to him. And theMaster of the Magicians will rejoice with the rest of us a t the transformations that have been wrought in accordance with the teachings of that same celestial science in which he excelled twenty-five centuries ago a t the court of Babylon.