The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

LI BER A’ASH VEL CAPRICORNI PNEVMATICI SVB FIGVRA CCCLXX o. Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested! Above thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk. 1. Thou art blasted and black! Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub. 2. Up! The ruddy clouds hang over thee! It is the storm. 3. There is a flaming gash in the sky. 4. Up. 5. Thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an æon and an aeon and an æon. But thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F. I. A. T. is enthroned on the day of Be—with-Us. 7. For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpo- crates his twin is hidden within him. Set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of Μ. Α. Α. T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple ofA c., A ,.?.־whose name is Truth. 35