Master Albertus Magnus, Archbishop

of Regensburg, says: "Hidden here are

invaluable treasures, and only those

whom God wishes to reveal them to

know them." Shine in glory, my

Disciple! I have led you to the tenth

degree and you have learned to purify

your concepts, to refine your thoughts

on the true Way. The Phoenix of

Hermes has now transformed into a

Pelican, and soon the veil covering the

Absolute will rise before you!

You now stand, like the Adam Kadmon, in Paradise, in the presence of two

trees: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge.

The first is the spiritual Way of mystical contemplation; it is analogy,

ecstasy. The other is the path of reasoning, objection, and doubt.

Choose the path that yields the fruits you wish to harvest and beware of all

error.

It is especially dangerous to abandon the Way of the Absolute at this

point, but know, to guide you in your choice, that everything science

teaches us in thousands of books can be acquired through mystical

illumination in a few seconds, because your spirit will grasp the Key to

universal harmony when it confronts the Absolute face to face.

This Key, books will never give you! Reading all that the masters have

written will avail you nothing; if you do not possess it, you will understand

nothing of their language.

Will you be able to overcome the preliminary test of doubt? Pay attention,

your eternal future is at stake. If you succumb, you will never see the light

and remember that the opportunity to be initiated is unique in life. If you

let it slip, it will not recur.

“Request the Light in the very Light,” you cannot obtain it in any other

way.

“Whiten the brass and close the books, lest your heart be torn by worry!”

exclaims the wise Moria.

There are too many books, indeed, and it is energy and will that be often

lacking to polish the Stone.

The Great Work! But, if it is written everywhere — exposed to all eyes, as

clearly as possible, without violating the secret of the Adepts.

You can read it on the right portal of Notre Dame in Paris and on the tower

of Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie. I have found it isagogically depicted in the

stained glass of the heart of the Madeleine in Troyes and carved in the

palace of the alchemist Jacques Cœur in Bourges.

It is revealed in the Milesian Letters, to the Kois of the Greeks, to the

Pardes, and in the Garden of the Cabalists. "Whiten the brass and close

your books!" Yes, my Disciple, all the Work is here.

Conquer the Urim and the Tumim. Reap the fruit of the tree of the gnostic

Edot; the jewel is within the Lotus!

Remember it and the Universe shall be yours.

Grillot de Givry

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