they are called Dinosaurs because of their seeming to be terrible devouring creatures. They are Masters of the Temple, for their number is 6 (1 plus 2 plus 3), the mystic number of Binah; but they are called "None", because they have attained. If it were not so, they would be called "six" in its bad sense of mere intellect. They are called Seven, although they are Eight, because Lao-tzu counts as nought, owing to the nature of his doctrine. The reference to their "living not" is to be found in Liber 418.

The word "Perdurabo" means "I will endure unto the end". The allusion is explained in the note. Siddartha, or Gotama, was the name of the last Budda.

Krishna was the principal incarnation of the Indian Vishnu, the preserver, the principal expounder of Vedantism.

Tahuti, or Thoth, the Egyptian God of Wisdom. Mosheh, Moses, the founder of the Hebrew system. Dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the East. Mahmud, Mohammed.

All these were men; their Godhead is the result of mythopoeia.

NOTES

(5) Masters of the Temple, whose grade has the mystic number 6 (= 1 + 2 + 3).

(6) These are not eight, as apparent; for Lao-tzu counts as 0.

(7) The legend of "Christ" is only a corruption and perversion of other legends. Especially of Dionysus: compare the account of Christ before Herod/Pilate in the gospels, and of Dionysus before Pentheus in

"The Baccae".

(8) O, the last letter of Perdurabo, is Naught.

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{Kappa-epsilon-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Eta}

STEEPED HORSEHAIR

Mind is a disease of semen.

All that a man is or may be is hidden therein. Bodily functions are parts of the machine; silent, unless in dis-ease.

But mind, never at ease, creaketh "I". This I persisteth not, posteth not through genera-tions, changeth momently, finally is dead. Therefore is man only himself when lost to himself in The Charioting.

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COMMENTARY ({Eta})

Cheth is the Chariot in the Tarot. The Charioteer is the bearer of the Holy Grail. All this should be studied in Liber 418, the 12th Aethyr.

The chapter is called "Steeped Horsehair" because of the mediaeval tradition that by steeping horsehair a snake is produced, and the snake is the hieroplyphic representation of semen, particularly in Gnostic and Egyptian emblems.

The meaning of the chapter is quite clear; the whole race-consciousness, that which is omnipotent, omnis-cient, omnipresent, is hidden therein.