The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The Second Part The Second Part, the passage of the Path of y begins by the Hierophant saying to the Practicus : “Frater Monokeros de Astris, the Path now open to you is the Twenty-eighth, leading from the 2° = 9° of Theoricus tothe 4° = 7° of Philosophus. Take in your right hand the Solid pyramid of the Elements and follow your guide through the Path.” D vy Then, as before, the Hierophant raises his red lamp, and cries : mae] “The Priestess with the Mask of Isis Frorsu] Lemp cheeee frtsivat| spake and said: ‘Iam the rain of Heaven Proven CH bution descending upon the Earth, bearing with it the fructifying and germinating power. fas I am the plenteous yielder of Harvest; I Sa cnr of sew do [Me | am the cherisher of Life.’” the bast WK ‘ A 5 ee “The Priestess with the Mask of Tarot . 7 5 7 Nephthys spake and said: ‘I am the dew a descending, viewless, Cases] | | civ. ie » sore — bomen | and silent, gemming |_\“% 4 Roomex 2 Via fitsize] | the Earth with count- 2 0 mor . Fart, ere less Diamondsof Dew, ma bearing down the in- fluence from above in the solemn darkness Diacram 42. of Night.’ ” adw The Arrangement of the Temple for the 28th Path After which the in the 4° = 7° Ritual. Hegemon says : “The Priestess with the Mask of Athoor spake and said; «1 Diacram 43. am the ruler of mist and of cloud, wrapping the Earth as it were The Pyramid of the ‘ : Four Elements. with a garment, floating and hovering between Earth and Heaven. Tam the giver of the mist-veil of Autumn: the Successor unto the dew-clad Night.’” Shortly after this, the Hzerophant explains to the Practicus the truncated Pyramid : This pyramid is attributed to the four elements ; on its apex is the word my (Ath) composed of the first and last letters of the Alphabet, it signifies Essence. The square base represents the material universe. And then the Seventeenth Key of the Tarot : This Key represents a Star with seven principal and fourteen secondary rays, altogether twenty-one, the number of the divine name Eheieh. In the Egyptian sense it is Sirius, the Dog-Star, the star of Isis-Sothis. Around it are the seven planets. The nude figure 279