THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
de Astris, the Path now open to you is the Twenty-seventh, which leads from the 3°=8°
degree of Practicus to the 4° = 7° degree of Philosophus.
Take in your right hand
the Calvary Cross of ten squares and follow your guide through the Path of Mars.”
After which the Hierophant explains
the Calvary Cross of ten squares: “ The
Calvary Cross of ten squares refers to the
ten Sephiroth in balanced disposition ;
before which the formless and the void
rolled back. It is also the opened-out
form of the double cube, and of the Altar
of Incense.”
And the Sixteenth Key of the Tarot :
It represents a Tower struck by a
lightning-flash proceeding from a rayed
circle and terminating in a triangle, It
is the Tower of Babel. The flash exactly
forms the Astronomical symbol of Mars.
It is the Power of the Triad rushing down
and destroying the Column of Darkness.
‘The men falling from the tower represent
the fali of the kings of Edom. ‘On the
right-hand side of the Tower is Light, and
the representation of the Tree of Life by
Ten Circles. On the left-hand side is
Darkness, and Eleven Circles symbolically
representing the Qliphoth.”
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Arrangement of the Temple for the 27th Path
in the 4° = 7° Ritual.
The Alchemical Symbols of Sulphur and of Salt on the Tree of Life are then shown.
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DiAGRAM 45.
The Calvary Cross
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Diacram 46.
The Symbol of Salt on
the Tree of Life.
DiaGram 47.
The Symbol of Sulphur
on the Tree of Life,
After which the Hieveus explains the tablet of the Trinity operating through the Sephiroth ;
and the Hegemon that of the seven Yetziratic palaces * containing the ten Sephiroth ; and
* See 777, col. xc., p. 18.
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