CHAPTER XI.

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THE STRANGE CO-ORDINATIONS OF THE TRIANGLE.
JE have glanced briefly at the wonderful Egyp- tian tai'ots, and we have but to finish our book with a few other exemplifications of the math- ematical co-ordinations of the little Mystic Test Book.
We have already shown, in former pages, how the book fits the Zodiac; one particular arrangement being upon page 27.
Another arrangement is such that each suit is spread in its own quarter, and the spot values are just equal to the degrees in each house. The four aces appear at the four corners and indicate the four quarters by suits; hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades.
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The illustration, on this page, shows the emblems in the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Twelve times thirty equals 860, the degrees in the circle.
So the Test Book not only represents the days in a year but the degrees of the celestial circle. The two outside cards
in each house add nine, the golden number^ while the two inside ones add 21, that is, three sevens.
THE WORD OF OEIENTAL MYSTICISM.
" In the beginning was the word." That is, the long-lost word has its foundations in the very beginning of life, in the fundamental principles of nature.
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Thousands and millions of human students of magic and occult knowledge, have searched for this word in vain. Thousands have claimed the possession of it, with no power or knowledge to back their pretentions.
Tho whole world has the ivord; the whole world knows the word', but few can live the word.
It is the most peculiar thing ever known on this planet. It is neither oblong, round nor square, yet it is a thing of beauty and "■ abideth with man for all earthly time."
It is two in one, it is three in one, and it is four in one. Its principles " abideth eternal in the heavens." It is of God, yet it is of man, for man, and by man.
The " word " must not only be lived m its component parts, but each and every mystic syllable and even each letter must be lived by the mystic who hopes to be able to use its wondrous power.
I am permitted by the higher brotherhood, to give one of the expressions of the "Word," the three, four and five expressed in mystic emblems, forming the sacred triangle.
It is generally known that all ancient secret orders both in Europe and Asia, regard this triangle as a significant portion of their teachings.
It is a basic, right-angled triangle, with its sides in such a proportion to each other that the smallest possible whole numbers can represent each of the sides. These numbers being three, four and Jive.
The sides of all right-angled triangles have the well known mathematical property, that the square of the base, plus the square of the perpendicular, will equal the square of the hypotenuse.
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To find numbers with these mathematical relations is not very easy, except by actual trial with figures. If you take the base, haphazard, and perpendicular also, when you come to square them and add them together, the chances are very great that no root can be found to the number produced by the addition.
For example, take for the base, 2, for the perpendicular, 3. The sum of their squares is equal to 13, therefore, the third side is equal to the square root of thirteen. There is no such number really in existence, in the universe.
1st. Any fraction, squared, must on pure mathematical principles produce a fractional number.
2d. Two whole numbers added must produce a whole number. Therefore a right triangle, such that the base and perpendicular each squared and added together forms a whole number, cannot have a hypotenuse that can be found, unless it be in whole numbers.
We know that the squares of 9 and 16 have for their roots 3 and 4, therefore 13 can have no whole number root. As we have shown heretofore, that a whole number cannot have a fractional root, because no fractional number in existence can be squared so as to produce a whole number, it follows that 13 can have no numerical square root. The root thereof is forever hidden from man.
Our readers may wonder why we introduce this explana- tion here. The reason is this, that those who are not practical, or even theoretical mathematicians, may thereby understand the wonders connected with the word in its relations to the emblems from the Magic Test Book. That they may fully understand that the wonderful co-ordina-
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tions that exist in the one phase given here, could not exist by any system of chance, by any arbitrary arrangement of the emblems, or by any species of occult necromancy known to human beings.
MYSTIC TRIANGLE OF THE MAGI.
We will now explain the symbolism of the mystic trian- gle, as spread upon a diagram of the celestial circle.
THE INNER AND OUTER, CIRCLES.
The inmost circle, or " Circle of Mercury," is drawn about the sun and just impinges upon the hypbtenuse of the triangle. The " Venus Circle " touches the perpen-
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dicular. The " Mars Circle " touches the base. That of Jupiter, the intersection of the base and perpendicular. " Saturn Circle " comes to the intersection of the base and hypotenuse. The "Circle of Uranus" strikes the third in- tersection. " Neptune Circle " encloses all and represents the outer darkness.
Thus we have the six points of this triangle represented, although the relative distances of the circles do not corre- spond to the physical distances of the orbits of the planets named. These circles all have fixed mathematical princi- ples and proportions, wholly separate and apart from mere physical or concrete distance.
This being the case, the triangle can be conceived, of any dimension whatsoever and the one actually given has the same qualities both mathematical and geometrical, as one would have, that should extend from the orbit of Saturn on the second meridian to the orbit of Uranus, where it cuts the upper celestial meridian.
In fact, the same proportional triangle can be construct- ed so as to impinge at the points shown on the diagram, with the actual orbits of any two planets that may be selected,at one time.
The triangle is shown in the illustration with the cards composing it placed so as to show the actual proportions 3: 4: 0, the cards thus forming by their number, the first or primary representation of the sides of the triangle.
Th« next co-ordination is shown from the Q values of the cards, which are as follows: Base, two spades=8. one heart=l, making 9. Perpendicular, one spade=4, two diamonds=6, one club=2, total 12. Hypotenuse, two
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spa(ies=8, two clubs^4, one diamond=3, total 15. The square of 9+ the square of 12 equals the square of 15. That is, 81+144=-225.
Next construct the triangle from suit values, and to save space, we will use the initial letter of each of the names of the sides in place of the full name.
Suit values. B=39+39+0=78. P=39+26+26+ 13=104. H=78+26+26=l30. Now we apply the test and we find that 78, 104 and 130 form a perfect triangle.
TRIANGLE FROM SOLAR VALUES.
B=l+48-|-41, total 90. P=20+31 +29+40, total 120. H=19+18+43+42+28, total 150. Now we square these totals and find that the square of 90 plus that of 120, just equals the square of 150, which is 22,500. Another per- fect co-ordination.
Remember what we have said about the difficulty of forming perfect triangles with perfect roots, and then con- sider the wonderful character of the above.
But this is not all, for another strange co-ordination exists. That is, that the sides of the solar value triangle add up exactly 360, the degrees in the circle. That is not all either, for the triangle covers the number of houses with each side that corresponds to the length of the sides and the solar values of each of these divisions exactly equals the degrees in the houses covered.
THE FINAL GRAND TEST.
All of the ^bove is wonderful enough; but now we come to a higher and grander test still, one that is enough to almost take the breath away from a student of the occult, and to make him bow down in awe before the " little book"
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that possesses so many mysterious and divine attributes. I confess that I should be afraid to give this final won- der, were it not that it is mathematically demonstrable, so that no skeptic can dispute it.
THE SPIKITS OF THE MYSTIC TRIANGLE.
Take the base. The spirit of the ace of hearts is 10, of the nine of spades 35, of the two of spades 54, a total of 99.
Take the perpendicular. The spirit of the seven of clubs is 22, of the five of diamonds 43, of the three of diamonds 23 and of the ace of spades 44, total 182.
Take the hypotenuse. The spirit of the two of diamonds is 13, of the three of spades 64, of the four of spades 74, of the five of clubs 2 and of the six of clubs 12, which together add up one hundred and sixty-five. Now, 99 squared^ 9801. 182 squared=17424. 165 squared=27225. As 9801+ 17424=27225, the numbers again represent a perfect triangle.
The latter number represents the square of 15 in its 3 last figures, and 27, the 8 times 9, in its first two figures. The reader will remember the relations of these numbers in the 3x3 tarot heretofore given.
Aside from the overpowering proofs furnished by the absolute demonstration by mathematics, we notice many other peculiarities about the mystic triangle, which can be best appreciated by those persons who have made the journey " around the Zodiac."
For instance, it is " eternal in the heavens," inasmuch as it geometrically covers a given circle in the heavens in any and all cases. It always did; it always will. If every planet, as well as our sun, was annihilated, or turned to cold barren masses, the " word " would still, in the form
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of this grand triangle, cover its majestic sweep of the heavens; would still hold its mystic sway forever and ever.
We also notice in some minute particulars, such as the place of the Secret Magi emblem in the house of Libra that the cards themselves occupy emblematic places.
The nine of spades occupies the " house of death." The ace of hearts begins the quarter of love, with a heart single to the labor of love. From that house upward to the house of Virgo, each card corresponds in spot value to the house it occupies.
Coming down the line of the perpendicular, we have the one, three, five, seven, steps of the Mystic Temple. Add each spot value to that of its mate on the hypotenuse, be- ginning at the apex of the triangle, and we produce numbers which give the numbers of the house where the emblems are placed on the perpendicular line.
The sacred triangle is constantly showing itself in a multi- tude of ways in tarotology. It is truly wonderful to analyze card emblem tarots in all their manifestations under various conditions and to observe the peculiar triangular formations that manifest themselves.
On the next page we give the birth tarot of Mrs. L. J. Shafer, Grand Sentinel of the Temple at Chicago. We select this particular tarot for the reason that it exhibits several peculiar features, among which the " word " appears, exhibit- ed in suits, in a variety of ways. It is a " mystic tarot " in every sense of the word.
The reader will first be apt to notice the row of mystic sevens running through the tarot. This is a peculiar feature and the strange part of it is^ that in all this line, those four
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sevens stay together, sometimes running from corner to corner; again forming a group of four in the center of the tarot or in one corner. But they invariably appear in one of the sixteen characteristic positions which add 84 in the numerical birth tarot.
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The one given is a Venus tarot; solar number 106, spirit 132, series 231, and the series contains 74,976 tarots.
THE TRIANGULAR FORMATION.
All through the tarot the right-angled triangle appears, both in suits and spot co-ordinates. For instance, the 7, 8
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and 10 of spades as well as the 7, 8 and 9 form a triangle in each group. On close examination it will be observed that each suit forms in itself a counterpart of each of the others. So that what is true of one, is true of all. So we have eight perfect right-angled triangles, in suits, in this tarot.
Next we observe that the three sixes are in the form of a triangle on the right hand upper corner while the three eights balance them in a like triangle in the lower corner on the same side.
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The number of tarots having the triangular peculiarity of
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their suit arrangement is enormous. They appear in great numbers in the century series and likewise extend through all the other lines. Their exact number has not yet been computed, but it extends into millions.
We give a few isolated examples from various lines, on this and contiguous pages.
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SOLAR TAROT NO. 112. SPOT VALUE 34.
Number 116 solar, illustrates a peculiar feature of certain lines of tarots. The reader will notice in different tarots, also in the tarot given on page 249, that the light suits form a peculiar shape which appears also reversed in the same shape in the light suits. The dark suits also form a counter- part, or negative to the light ones. Now, number 116 not only has this peculiarity in the suits, crossing the tarot horizontally, but it also shows the same identical form, in
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court cards and common cards alternated, perpendicularly. As a curiosity, we will give a wonderful court tarot in nine squares, that enjoys the distinction of being the most unique of all tarots, inasmuch as but few of them exist. The same is true also of one co-ordinating tarot in clubs, diamonds, and spades, the only rival to the one given. The reader wil/
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