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KEFALH IQ

THE LEOPARD AND THE DEER

The spots of the leopard are the sunlight in the glade; pursue thou the deer stealthily at thy pleasure.

The dappling of the deer is the sunlight in the glade; concealed from the leopard do thou feed at thy pleasure.

Resemble all that surroundeth thee; yet be Thyself --and take thy pleasure among the living.

This is that which is written --Lurk!-- in The Book of The Law.

COMMENTARY (IQ)

     19 is the last Trump, "The Sun", which is the representative of God in the Macrocosm, as the Phallus is in the Microcosm.
     There is a certain universality and adaptability among its secret powers. The chapter is taken from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories".
     The Master urges his disciples to a certain holy stealth, a concealment of the real purpose of their lives; in this way making the best of both worlds. This counsels a course of action hardly distinguishable from hypocrisy; but the distinction is obvious to any clear thinker, though not altogether so to Frater P.

 

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