THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
celestial signs, and the perfections of their science, according to the rules of their
resolutions. It is therefore the reflection of the Sphere of the Sun; and the Path
connecting Yesod with Hod, the Foundation with Splendour.”
And then enters upon the symbolism of the Nineteenth Key of the Tarot, which
resumes these ideas: The Sun has twelve
principal rays which represent the Zodiac ;
these are divided into thirty-six rays to ft fot fot
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represent the thirty-six Decanates; and
then again into seventy-two Quinaries. RETO
Thus the Sun itself embraces the whole we * Pent
creation in its rays. The seven Hebrew Banner
of Cast
Yodhs falling through the air refer to
the Solar influence descending. «The | {/\} 2...
two children, standing respectively on ere Sars
Water and Earth, represent the generating Osun EEE
influences of both, brought into action by JE | totam oy
the rays of the Sun. They are the two &
inferior and passive elements, as the Sun Fegre | Bessey
and the Air above them are the superior Reaves =r faa
and active elements of Fire and Air.” — V
Furthermore, these two children resemble be osatt,
svar af weak
the sign Gemini (which the Greeks and
Romans referred to Castor and Pollux), eon arot8
which unites the Earthy sign of Taurus n fone
and the Watery sign of Cancer.
The Hiereus then shows the Theoricus Diacram 30.
the tablet of“ The astrological symbols of The Arrangement of the Temple for the oth Path
ne ‘ . in the 3° = 8° Ritual.
the Planets,”* and explains to him the
tablet of ‘The true and genuine attribution of the Tarot Trumps to the Hebrew Alpha-
bet.”+ After which the Hegemon leads him to “The Tablet of the Olympic, or aerial
planetary spirits,” t and shows him “ The Geomantic Figures ” with the ruling intelligences
and genii, also the Talismanic symbols allotted to each geomantic figure.§
The Hierophant now confers upon the Theoricus the title of Lord of the Thirteenth
Path, who quits the Temple for a short time.
By means of the symbol of the Stolistes—the chalice of Lustral Water—the Theoricus
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* See 777, col. clxxvii., p. 35.
+ See 777, col. xiv., p. 4.
T See 777, col. lxxx., p. 18.
§ See ‘‘ Handbook of Geomancy,” THe Equinox, vol. i., No, II.
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