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242 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.

The whole world has the word; 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 five.

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.