ALEPH, the “Ox”—the burden-bearer—the tiller of the soil. Aleph the formless, indivisible, changeless, the “nothing which is the substance of all things,”—the “Tao” of which Lao Tze says “It is not this, not that, nor anything of which men speak—for what men speak of is not Tao.”

HEARKEN, O Israel, unto My Voice, and give ear unto My Instruction. My Word shall go before thee as a pillar of fire by night and as a pillar of cloud shalt thou follow it by day. Turn not aside, nor faint, and it shall lead thee to a land of plenty, flowing with the milk of Life Eternal, and the honey of Unblemished Wisdom.

I am, without beginning, without end. Older than Night or Day, younger than the babe newborn, brighter than light, darker than darkness, beyond all things and creatures, yet fixed in the heart of everyone.

From Me the shining worlds flow forth, to Me all at last return; yet to Me neither men nor angels may draw nigh, for I am known only to Myself. Ever the same is My inmost Being; absolutely one, complete, whole, perfect; always Itself; eternal, infinite, ultimate; formless, indivisible, changeless.

Of all existences I am the source, the continuation, and the end. I am the germ, I am the growth, I am the decay. All things and creatures I send forth; I support them while yet they stand without; and when the dream of separation ends, I cause their return unto Myself.

I am the Life, and the Wheel of the Law, and the Way that leadeth to the Beyond. There is none else. I am the Fire of Mind which divideth itself into the Superior and Inferior natures, and putteth on a robe of flesh to come