To reach this sphere he has had to pass through the path of darkness where the Four Elements [Tav] seem to him to be the Universe entire. For how should he know that they are no more than the last of the 22 segments of the Snake that is twined on the Tree? Assailed by gross phantoms of matter, unreal and unintelligible, his ordeal is of terror and darkness. He may pass only by favour of his own silent God, extended and exalted within him by virtue of his conscious act in affronting the ordeal Aleister Crowley on the initiation of the Tav path between Malkuth and Yesod, also known as Chapel Perilous or the confrontation with the Lesser Guardian of the Threshold
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