Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

médiusy whenever he is not holding the Lance. The PRIEST takes the censer from the childy and makes five crosses as bejore. The chïldren replace their weapons on their respective altars. The PRIEST hisses the hook of the JLaw three ti/mes. He kneels for a space in adoration y with joined handsy knuckles closedy thumb in position as aforesaid. He rises and draws the veil over the whole alta-r. Ail rise and stand to order. The PRIEST takes the lance from the DEACON and holds it as beforey as Osiris or Ththah. He circumambulates the Temple three timeSy f ollowed by the DEACON and the children as before. (Thesey when not using their handsy keep their arms crossed upon their breasts.) At the last circumambulation they leave him and go to the place between the font and the small altary where they kneel in adorationy their hands joined palm to palmy and raised above their heads. Ail imitate this motion. The PRIEST returns to the East and mounts the first step of the Altar. The PRIEST. O circle of Stars whereof our Father is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soûl of infinité space, before whom Time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark, not unto Thee may we attain, unless Thine image be Love. Therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit we do invoke Thee. Then the priest answered and said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; O Nuit, con- tinuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus, that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at ail, since thou art continuous. Euring this speech the PRIESTESS must hâve divesied her self completely of her robey See CCXX.1.61. The PRIESTESS. But to love me is better than ail things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt corne a little to lie in my bosom. For one