John Baptist is the figure cut off by the involution. He is the figure word of the external limitation of Law. The involution, upon every plane, will be the force which, rising with the law, cuts off the external expansion, to establish an involution, as the creative force, of a regeneration. The involution of the Seven expansive periods, or days, will be seven veiled. And those veils will be holy, holy unto the Lord God of Hosts. And they will be rent though the heavens fall, and the naked law of the woman stand revealed in the house of Herod.

At Seven, physical veils are rent, the woman conceives with the breath of the Lord God. Here the regeneration begins to be. At Seven, nature, adding a triune One to seven, arrives at Ten; the whole Net is cast and "another Nine" is manifest in the flesh. And thus the woman "is accompanied forever by the number nine."

"The way I pass,

Ne'er yet was run: Minerva breathes the gale;
Apollo guides me; and another Nine,

To my wrapt sight, the arctic beams reveal."

And thus the "arctic" North is related to the Nine of Law.

Ancient legend declares that 10 is the first number of Paradise. Nine is the regeneration. Seven is the generated form. We shall see that this seven generative scale of creation is completed only by the birth of 9, from the woman and the Law. The seven scale is in reality a ten scale. At seven

(and without our musical scale we shall not follow the law) the fundamental note of the scale is lifted up to give the last note of the octave, and in this the first has become the last. Now this last is a triune one, under the law. The whole See here must reveal the whole law of ascension. This last note of the octave, which was the first, is a note of triune relation. As the seven scale is the measure of the word of nature, as well as the measure of the Biblical measuring rod, and as all understanding of creative ascension is measured by this seven rod, and as all spiritual and physical understanding rests upon this natural expression of lifting up which makes the first the last and the last the first, the musical measuring rod may perhaps in very truth be the creative measure of the creation which began with the songs of morning stars. In all nature, the first the third and the fifth are holy unto the creative law. This the first triune five-pointed star of the ascension.

Nature in all activity will carry the ascension naturally and automatically, from C to C, covering the physical ara. The ascension rests upon the triune note which closes the scale and which was the first and is the last, and, as the last, is also the first note of new ascending scale. As the first note our C is one, as the last note of the scale the fundamental one is 8. As the first note of the new ascending scale the same note is Nine,-or one-I— here entering the paradise which is Ten: a paradise guarded, in all fact and ancient legend which re

cords fact, by one, who holds the dual keys of fall and ascension. At seven we see the fulfilment of the one Law. This note seven is musically Be. At seven the human voice (and all human affairs) meets a natural fall, where, to overcome the fall, the involved one, which was the fundamental one, is lifted up to complete the octave, expressing upon the closing note the whole seven (evolved from one) with the eighth and the ninth, involving the Seventh in an immortal union with the fundamental one, forming a union reaching from C to C.

That the creative law should today seek the voice of music as its interpreter is a natural relativity. The sky of the times is full of morning stars. "Cast thy bread upon the waters. . . Give a portion to seven, also to eight."

CHAPTER IV

THE SABBATH OF THE LAW

"Well it is earth with me: Silence resumes her reign:

I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. Give me the keys, I feel for the common chord again,

Sliding by semitones till I sink to the minor, yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground,

Surveying a while the heights I rolled from into the deep;

Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting place is found,

The C Major of this life."-Browning.

Nature in automatic motion will carry creation over and through the seven scale covering six creative days. The struggle of all life in all affairs is to complete the lifting up of the fundamental, completing the octave, revealing the Nine, in which lies revelation of the universal One, which is One covering an evolution and involution from One to ten upon Seven notes. Seven has an involution to be expressed in three added to Seven.

After the Seven creative days an involution is to stand forth. An Eve is to be born from a side, and dual sons given, by the law, to Life. As the physical Seven has grown, within that growth life has planted the eternal involution for the dual Law. When the Seven is complete the involution stands

forth by the eternal power of Law The senses of men and nations in the march of life mark time.

At the Seven limit Life in ascension commands that men strike the Eighth which is also the Ninth to behead that automatic motion which swings the pendulum of force back to the fundamental to rise again only to the Seventh, to ignore again the Nine, which alone establishes the Seventh, by the midst, creating in the midst of all life the Sabbath of the Law in which only the Triune One is seen and adored.

At the Seven limit man, with all the forces of the ascension back of him, with the whole earth travailing with him, may command the Nine and bring forth the One Law and be its Lord of Light. In commanding the Nine he rises from the power of that fall which carries man to hell, leaving him to rise through purgatory by the slow climb of animal evolutionary days. Nine is the rest where men and nations survey "the heights I rolled from into the deep." The to-and-fro motion of time cannot strike the Nine which is lying in the Eighth, which was the fundamental and is lifted up and held as the Mount of the Law The to-and-fro motion cannot establish the Fifth principle of the scale or escape to another scale by way of a fifth principle. For the temple of music, made under the law, has a black keyed pillar and a white pillar-and the black pillar is again Boaz, at whose feet we learn to establish the square House, which is the dual House of David, in which lies a fountain of ascending Life.