THE MAGICAL APHORISMS OF EUGENIUS PHILALETHES . This is the Primal Truth, This-is the Ultimate Truth. 1. The Primordial Point existed before all things; not the Atom, even Mathematical, but Diffusive. 2. The Monad was Explicit. The Myriad was Implicit. Light existed, and so also Darkness ; Principle, and the end of Principle ; All things and Nothing ; it existed, and was also non-existent. The Monad moved itself in the Dyad, and through the Triad the Faces of the Second Light were produced. 3· Simple Fire existed uncreated, and beneath the waters clothed itself with a garment of the Multiplied Created Fire. 4· He looks back upon the Superior Fountain and has sealed the inferior, of a reduced type, with the Triple Countenance. 5· The Unity has created One, and the Trinity has distinguished it into Three, it becomes even a Quaternary, a connexion and a medium of Reduction. 6. 7· Water at first shone forth from visible things ; the Female of the Incubating Fire, and the Pregnant Mother of things having form. The interior was porous and various with its coverings ; whose Belly was the Revolving skies and the inseparable Stars. 8. The Separating Creator divided this into vast Regions, as the offspring was produced, the Mother disappeared. 9. The Mother indeed brought forth Shining Sons, flowing over the earth of Chai, Life. 10. These generate the Mother in the Newest forms, whose Fountain singeth in the Miraculous Grove. 11. This is the Foundation of wisdom, be thou who thou canst, thou Steward of the Mysteries, and Discloser. 12. He is the Father of the Whole Creation, and the Father is generated from the Created Son, by the living analysis of the Son. Now thou hast the highest Mystery of the Generating Circle : He is the Son of the Son, who was the Father of the Son. Glory be to God alone. Translated from tlu original Latin by W. Wynn Westcott, M.B., Quod scis nescis.