Letter 16:
TOWER OF DESTRUCTION

"...Genesis awakens profound memories of a remote past which slumber in the depths of the soul -- memories from the "collective unconscious" as Jung would have said.

Being a magical text, Genesis does not say that man "fashioned" the animals, but rather that "he gave them names". Now, the "name" is the formative principle in the language of magic. To give a name means to say, in magic, to assign a mission, to charge with a function and at the same time to render capable of acquitting it. Man, according to Genesis, gave the animals created by God their specific missions and functions on the plane of realization -- which entailed a specific organism. He fashioned them by giving them names with respect to the plane of realization." --VT

"Genesis Animal"
pastel  11"x15"