Each angel standing in front of the symbol is dimly outlined and transparent. Through the angel's form is seen its symbol. FIRST A luminous something, which gives the impression of sleep.
SECOND Something moving, like an ocean.
THIRD A storm, and lightning.
FOURTH A mist.
FIFTH An animal moving, resembling a turtle.
SIXTH A blue light; in the center a star with three points.
SEVENTH An expanse of water, a blue sky, a shining disk rising on the horizon.
EIGHTH A lurid sky, like a red dawn; in the water floats an egg.
NINTH Five stars on a convex arc, like a rainbow; the shell of the egg is broken and forms continents.
TENTH A man lying fast asleep under a magnificent palm tree, with his face turned toward the horizon of the sea.
Only the pure in heart can see God, and to those pure souls I commend the following brief explanation of the Ten Great Kabbalistical Powers, which I have here recorded for the benefit of all whom it may now and hereafter concern.
In the original Kabbalistical Powers a great circle was seen, in the center a head, a faint shimmer above the head, as if the light were about to dawn; a dull, lurid glow beneath, as if of chaos or hell; the hair around the head like floating clouds, the beard like strange cloud-streaks. Each sign of the Kabbalistical Powers surrounding the center head had within it a faintly seen face. Beginning with the first, it became more and more distinct and perfect with each sign until it evolved into godlike beauty in Pisces.
Kabbalistical Powers is progressive, so never can man cease to be. Never can he return to that awful center of nothingness, or be absorbed within the bosom of the unmanifested being. On, and on, and on, with Deific power, God moves in ever-increasing whirls of evolution. Thus came the answer of the ages: "From primeval force, from the mighty breath of unmanifested being, through every phase of action and reaction, from the energies of storm and lightning, from star-dust to sunlight, has come the spirit of man!"
And the Ten Great Kabbalistical Powers understood.