The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING entitled “The Task undertaken by the Adeptus Minor,” and is lucidly summarised as follows : This then is the task undertaken by the Adeptus Minor : To expel from the Sephiroth of the Nephesch the usurpation of the Evil Sephiroth. To equally balance the action of the Sephiroth of the Ruach and those of the Nephesch, To prevent the Lower Will and Human Consciousness from falling into and usurping the place of the Automatic Consciousness. To render the King of the Body (the Lower Will) obedient and anxious to execute the commands of the Higher Will; so that he be neither a usurper of the faculties of the Higher, nor a Sensual Despot, but an initiated ruler and an anointed King, the Vice-Roy and representative of the Higher Will (because inspired thereby in his Kingdom which is the Man.) Then shall it happen that the Higher Will, é.e., the Lower Genius, shall descend into the Royal Habitation, so that the Higher Will and the Lower Will shall be as one, and the Higher Genius shall descend into the Kether of the Man, bringing with him the tremendous illumination of his Angelic Nature; and the man shall become what was said of Enoch: “And Chanokh made himself to walk for ever close with the essence of the Elohim, and he existed not apart, seeing that the Elohim took possession of his being.” This is also a great mystery which the Adeptus Minor must know: How the Spiritual Consciousness can act around and beyond the Sphere of Sensation, “ Thought ” isa mighty force when projected with all the strength of the Lower Will, under the Guidance of the Reasoning Faculty, and illuminated by the Higher Will. Therefore, it is, that in thine occult working thou art advised to invoke the Divine and Angelic Names, so that thy Lower Will may wildingly receive the influx of the Higher Will, which is also the Lower Genius, behind which are all potent forces. This, therefore, is the magical manner of operation of the initiate, when “Skrying in the Spirit Vision.” He knowing ¢horoughly through his Arcane Wisdom the disposition and correspon- dences of the Force of the Microcosmus, selecting not any, but a certain symbol and that balanced with its correlatives, then sendeth he, as before said, a Thought-Ray from his Spiritual Consciousness, illuminated by his Higher Will, directly unto the part of his Sphere of Sensation or M. M. of the U.* which is consonant with the symbol employed. There, as in a mirror, doth he perceive its properties as reflected from the Macrocosmus shining forth into the Infinite Abyss of the Heavens ; thence can he follow the Ray of * Magical Mirror of the Universe. Il x 321