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JOHN ST, JOHN
Thus and not otherwise is he made a partaker of the
Mysteries, and the Lightning Flash strikes him.
The
Lord hath descended from heaven with a shout and
with the Voice of the Archangel, and the trump of
God.
He is installed in the Throne of the Double Kingdom,
and he wields the Wand of Double Power by the signs
of the grade.
He is recognised an initiate, and the word of Secret
Power, and the silent administration of the Sacrament
of Sword and Flame, acknowledge him.
Then, the words being duly spoken and the deeds duly
done, all is symbolically sealed by the Thirty Voices,
and the Word that vibrateth from the Silence to the
Speech, and from the Speech again unto the Silence.
Then the Pyramid is sealed up, even as it was opened ;
yet in the sealing thereof the three men partake in a
certain mystical manner of the Eucharist of the Four
Elements that are consumed for the Perfection of the
Oil.
Konx Om Pax. [With these mystic words the Mysteries
Eleusinian were sealed—Eu]
Having written out this explanation,
I will read it
through and meditate solemnly thereupon.
All this I
wrote in the Might of the Secret Ring committed unto
me by the Masters;
so that all might be absolutely
correct.
One thing strikes
me as worthy of mention.
Last
night when I went into the restaurant to speak to
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