A NOTE ON GENESIS
IGNIS DEI: which is also the AGNUS DEI, or Lamb of
God that destroyeth (literally devs out) the Sins of the World.
As it is written in the Ordinary of the Mass: the Priest goeth
unto the South of the Altar and prays: “O Agnus Dei! qui
tollis—qui tollis Peccata Mundi—Dona Nobis Pacem!” And
this Fire, this Lamb of God, is 4vies, Symbol of the Dawn-
ing Year: whose colour also is as the Red Fire, and which
is the head of the Fiery Triplicity in the Zodiac. So also in
the Grade of Neophyte in the Order of the Golden Dawn the
Hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of
the Dawn.
Note.—It may be objected to this enunciation of the colours
that », the Father, is Fire; that 7, the Mother, is Water; that
1, the Son, is Air, and Yellow instead of Red. This also is
true, but it relates to the governance of the Elemental King-
doms, which are in the Astral Worlds, and whose monads are
on the descending arc of Life, whilst Man is on the Ascending ;
that scale is therefore inverted. For by the mighty sacrifice
of the Man Made Flesh and by His Torturous Pilgrimage is
evolved that Glorified Son Who is Greater than His Father.
In Alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find
that the ved powder cast upon the Water of the Metals pro-
duceth the Golden Sol. But it is important not to confuse.
The Christians have terribly muddled their Trinity by
making the Son the second instead of the third Principle;
whilst with them the Holy Spirit at one Time symbolises
the Mother and at another the Son.
Thus at the Annunciation and at the Baptism of the
Christ the S.S. appeareth as a Dove, emblem of ¢ and the
Mother: whilst the S.S. that descended upon the Apostles at
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