CHAPTER VIII 
Of Equilibrium, and of the General and Particular 
Method of Préparation of the Furniture of the 
Temple and of the Instruments of Art. 
I 
“Before there was equilibrium, countenance beheld not count¬ 
enance.” 1 So sayeth the holiest of the Books of the ancient 
Qabalah. (Siphra Tzeniutha I. 2.) One countenance here spoken 
of is the Macrocosm, the other the Microcosm.2 
As said above, the object of any magick ceremony is to unité the 
Macrocosm and the Microcosm. 
It is as in optics; the angles of incidence and reflection are equal. 
You must get your Macrocosm and Microcosm exactly 
balanced, vertically and horizontally, or the images will 
not coincide. 
This equilibrium is affirmed by the magician in arranging the 
Temple. Nothing must be lop-sided. If you hâve anything in 
the North, you must put something equal and opposite to it in the 
South. The importance of this is so great, and the truth of 
it so obvious, that no one with the most médiocre capacity 
1. The full significance of this aphorism is an Arcanum of the grade 
of Ipsissimus. It may, however, be partially apprehended by study of 
Liber Aleph, and the Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon. 
It explains Existence. 
2. This is the case because we happen ourselves to be Microcosms 
whose Law is “love under will”. But it is aîso Magick for an unit 
which has attained Perfection (in absolute nothingness,0°), to become 
“divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union”. 
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