The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING eight Edomite kings, and on the horns the names of the eleven dukes of Edom. And because in Daath was the utmost rise of the Great Serpent of Evil ; therefore there is as it were another Sephira, making eight heads according to the num- ber of the eight Kings; and for the Infernal and Averse Sephiroth eleven instead of ten, according to the number of the eleven dukes of n \~< Edom. The infernal waters of Daith rushed from the mouth of the Dragon—and this is the Leviathan. Tetragrammaton Elo- him placed four letters of the Holy Name, and also the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the Tree rar of Life might not be involved in the Fall of Adam.” ‘The Hierophant then explains the symbolism of the Temple, and says: «I now congratulate you on C) having passed through the cere- aos mony of the 4° = 7° of Philosophus Oo @) and in the recognition there- ©) of, I confer upon you. the mystic title of «PHAROS ILLUMI. NANS’ which signifies—the Illuminating Tower of Light, and I give you the symbol of yy (Ash), which is the Hebrew name for fire. Having passed through this grade, thenewly made Philosophusearns — Dracrant 52, the title of Honoured Frater and is eligible for the post of Hiereus, The Altar Symbol in The closing then takes place, the adoration of the King of Fire the 4° i is made, and the Prayer of the Salamanders is rehearsed, and in the name of TETRAGRAMMATON TZEBAOTH the Temple is closed in the grade of 4°= 7°. In the space of seven months from a mere student in the Mysteries, P. had risen to the grade of Philosophus in the Order of the Golden Dawn. A light had indeed been 283 D1aGRaM 51. The Fall.