Tav

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   I AM the end and summation of all things,The end which is without end,Even as the beginning.

2. 2

   Fourfold am I in activity,And tenfold in aspect,And within meAre four hundred Lights of Emanation,Manifest in Ten,And having also four-and-twenty thronesOf primal forces.

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   Yea, I am Th V, TAV—Th, the End, and V, the sign of continuation.Learn by this, O Israel,That never do I cease my self-expression.Therefore is it written,Le Olahm, 'throughout endless ages.'

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   My going-forth is a perpetual instruction,For verily the path of TAV hath its beginningIn the Foundation of Instruction.Now the burden of the instruction is this:End and Beginning are One.

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   What, then, is the End which is the Beginning also?Behold, in Th V, TAV, is it concealed,For Th V is A Th H, Atah, also.And thus is it made clearThat Thou, even ThouArt Beginning and End,And the Window of VisionWhich looketh inward to the SourceAnd outward to the Goal.

6. 6

   Through all the shifting changes of existenceI remain myself,And the Self which I amIs thine own true Self.

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   Therefore is the end of all wisdomHid within the one word A Th H, THOU.What thou seekest,Truly that thou art.The treasure thou journeyest afar to findIs the Jewel of EternityIn thy heart of hearts.