Dear Rawn, >>>The Key is like a finger ritual but on a vastly greater scale. The preparatory work of KTQ is very much like the repetitive work of creating a finger ritual, except that here, it is quadrapolar in nature.<<< *chuckles* My thoughts exactly. Just like the finger ritual, in which learning the first ritual that took a lot of time, each subsequent finger ritual took a little bit less time. With learning the Letters it's the same sort of learning curve: the first Letter too me two days to get a good handle upon it, whereas each subsequent Letter have been taking me progressively less and less time to master. Which matches what Bardon said about the learning of the Letters. >>>Furthermore, when you utter a Key, it is not just your small self that is uttering the Letter. It is your Unified Self. This is so vastly different than condensing an Element or Light or Fluid that it defies description.<<< >>>The quality is the same but the quantity is vastly different. It's a matter of scale.<<< In other words, it is the difference between applying the quality of the Letter within the microcosm and the macrocosm. As a magician, one can only apply the universal qualities within the microcosm. As a Kabbalahist, who is soverign over the micro- and macrocosm as the title of KTQ states, acts as the Divine that encompasses the whole of the macrocosm and is hence able to apply these qualities upon a much larger scale. Yet, at the same time, I'm pretty sure it is not just a matter of MORE POWER! :) Thank you for your in depth analysis of the Archeous in conjunciton with the work of IIH. However, what interests me just as much is how the Archeous acts as an expression of some of the Letters. While I may be shooting from the hip, I get the distinct feeling that the Archeous seems to express the qualities of the Letters "F" and "C". "F" in the sense that it is an expression of the quadrapolar magnet within each of the three bodies. "C" in the sense that one is impreginating Divine ideas in the form of the four elements within their respective regions in the three bodies. This work with the Letter "C" seems more apparent when one is working with the impregination of the structure of the Tree of Life within the three bodies. An expression of a higher expression of the magic of the Eucharist, an impregination of the highest divine virtues within a form. Love and Live well, Peter Reist