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horribly disfigured with great advertisements, and every single house had written all over it:

So I was furious, as you may imagine, and had men go and put all the proper numbers on them, and a little sarcastic remark to make them ashamed; so they read:

and so on. And on each one I put "No thoroughfare from here to the First House. The only way is out of doors. By order."

Gladium, quod omnibus viis custodet portas Otz Chiim

This was frightfully annoying, because in the old days we could walk about inside everywhere, and not get wet if it rained, but nowadays there isn't any way from the Fourth to the Third House. You could go of course by chariot from the Fifth to the Third, or through the House where the twins live from the Sixth to the Third, but that isn't allowed unless you have been to the Fourth House too, and go from there at the same time.

Nomen (Hebrew characters)

Nomen ADNI (Hebrew characters) ‫תלד‬‎ . ‫ףלא‬

It was here they told me what T.A.R.O. on the ring meant. First it means gate, and it is the name of my Fairy Prince, when you spell it in full letter by letter.

Cartae Tarot v. Aegyptiorum I.R.I.=(Hebrew characters)=(symbol characters)=I. A. O.=L. V. X.

(Hebrew characters)=65

(Hebrew characters)=LXV

There are seventy-eight parts to it, which makes a perfect plan of the whole Palace, so you can always find your way, if you remember to say T.A.R.O. Then you remember I.N.R.I. was on the ring too. I.N.R.I. is short for L.V.X., which means the brilliance of the wide-wide-wake Light, and that too is the name of my Fairy Prince only spelt short.

The Romans said it had sixty-five parts, which is five times thirteen,