The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

TWO FRAGMENTS OF RITUAL I THE SUPREME RITUAL “A feast for the Supreme Ritual.” “To him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.” —Liber Legis. Let a feast be made by the Officers of the Temple. This Temple, into which they then retire, may be any convenient place. An altar is necessary; also a vessel of wine; other- wise as may be appointed by them: e.g. the robes, etc., as said ims. ee. eee The Officers are two in number, and seek Nuit and Hadit through Babalon and the Beast.1 To conceal themselves, they are disguised as Isis and Osiris. [The officers meet and clasp hands above the altar. Any preliminary operations, such as opening, banishing, etc., are now done by 1.,2 who returns, and they again greet, but as inttiates.] o. and 1. [face to face}. 0. What is the hour? 1. When time hath no power. o. What is the place? 1. At the limits of space. 0. What God do we wake? 1 This is the nearest idea I can give of the text, which is in hieroglyph impossible to reproduce. 2 It is clear that this ritual is full of intentional blinds. G2 83