CHAPTER IV.

THE ANTAGONISATION.

"Ye are not yet perfected"--Our respective _Auras_--An exhortation--The Seven Spirits of God, their co-operation necessary for a perfect work--"You belong to us now, to do our work and not your own"--Enforced silence--"The Powers of the Air;" their mode of attack--A strange visitant and his communication--A strained situation--Visions of guidance--The "refractory team," and the "Two Stars"--The promised land reached only through the wilderness--"The Word a Word of mystery, and they who guard it Seven"--"One Neophyte could not save himself"--A Horoscope--A descent into hell--Counsels of Perfection--A "Merry Christmas"--A timely arrival--Neoplatonic recognition of Hermes--The one Truth, never without a witness in the world--The key of knowledge restored--Problems solved--The mystic "Woman" of Holy Writ. 109-141