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“ The Superior agrees with the Inferior ; and the Inferior with the Superior ; to effect that one truly wonderful Work ” — which is {{Style S-Small capitals|Man}}. For the secret work of Chiram, or King Hiram in the Kabala, “ one in Essence, but three in Aspect,” is the Universal Agent or ''Lapis Philosophorum. ''The culmination of the Secret Work is Spiritual Perfect Man, at one end of the line ; the union of the three elements is the Occult Solvent in the “ Soul of the World,” the ''Cosmic ''Soul or Astral Light, at the other ; and, on the material plane, it is ''Hydrogen ''in its relation to the other gases. The To on, truly ; the one “ whom no person has seen except the Son ” ; this sentence applying both to the metaphysical and physical Kosmos, and to the spiritual and material Man. For how could the latter understand the {{Style S-Small capitals|To on}} the “ One Father,” if his ''Manas'', the “ Son,” does not become (''as'') “ One with the Father,” and through this absorption receive enlightenment from the “ divine instructor,” Guru — ''Atma-Buddhi ?''

And these three are all quaternaries completed by their Root, Fire. The Spirit, beyond manifested Nature, is the fiery breath in its absolute Unity. In the manifested Universe, it is the Central Spiritual Sun, the electric Fire of all Life. In our System it is the visible Sun, the Spirit of Nature, the terrestrial god. And in, on, and around the Earth, the fiery Spirit thereof — air, fluidic fire ; ''water'', liquid fire ; ''Earth'', solid fire. All is fire — ''ignis'', in its ultimate constitution, or I, the root of which is O ''( nought ) ''in our conceptions, the All in nature and its mind. ''Pro-Mater ''is divine fire. It is the Creator, the Destroyer, the Preserver. The primitive names of the gods are all connected with fire, from agni, the Aryan, to the Jewish god who “ is a consuming fire.” In India, God is called in various dialects, ''Eashoor'', ''Esur'', ''Iswur'', and ''Is''’''Vara'', in Sanskrit the Lord, from ''Isa'', but this is primarily the name of Siva, the Destroyer ; and the three Vedic chief gods are Agni (''ignis''), Vayu, and Sûrya — Fire, Air, and the Sun, three occult degrees of fire. In the Hebrew {{Style S-Hebrew|אזא}} (''aza''), means to illuminate, and {{Style S-Hebrew|אשא}} (''asha'') is fire. In Occultism, “ to kindle a fire ” is synonymous to evoking one of the three great fire-powers, or “ to call on God.” In Sanskrit ''Osch ''or ''Asch ''is fire or heat ; and the Egyptian word Osiris is compounded (as shown by Schelling) of the two primitives ''aish ''and ''asr'', or a “ fire-enchanter.” ''Aesar ''in the old Etruscan meant a God (being perhaps derived from ''Asura ''of the Vedas). ''Aeswar ''and ''Eswara ''are analogous terms, as Dr. Kenealy thought. In the ''Bhagavad Gîtâ ''we read, “ Iswara resides in every mortal being and puts in motion, by his supernatural power, all things which mount on the Wheel of Time.” It is the creator and the destroyer, truly. “ The primitive fire was supposed to have an insatiable appetite for devouring. Maximus of Tyre relates that the ancient Persians threw into the fire combustible matter crying : ‘ Devour, oh Lord ! ’ In the Irish language ''Easam'', or ''Asam'', means ‘ to create,’ and ''Aesar ''was the name of an ancient Irish god, meaning ‘ to light a fire ’ ” (''Kenealy''). The Christian Kabalists and symbologists who disfigured Pymander —  prominent among them the Bishop of Ayre, François de Tours, in the 16th century — divide the elements in this way : —