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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.
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upright. Each half section of each arm has a solar value of 106.

There are just 7 spades and 7 hearts in both arms of the cross. These emblems can also be placed in such a position that the spots not only add 4 sevens across, but also perpendicularly the same, thus

10 1 4 13
6 8 12 2
2 9 7 10
10 10 5 3

How remarkable it is, that after four complete 3x3 tarots have been taken from the Test Book, the cards remaining should have so many mystic properties based upon the deific number seven.

The card representing the Christ comes in the center in his old place on all the Crosses. Above His head is the "Magi Card" and with Him the 3 Marys. The 12 Court Cards emblematic of the 12 Signs of the Zodiac, have another face card with them in this cross, making 13, which emblematizes the whole 13 points on our Altar. The whole 13 forming a beautiful "Court Diamond" in the center of the cross. Taken as a whole, what could be made beautiful, both mathematically and geometrically, both mystically and emblematically than the Cross of our Order?

Jesus of Nazareth did not bear this cross. He bore the "cross of healing," a cross which thousands upon thousands are bearing to-day. Just as no person who has not attempted to bear the Cross of OM can tell how heavy it is, no person can realize the weight of the cross of mystic healing, except