CHAPTER XVI
THK MAGICK
KIRE;
Willi CONSIDERATIONS
OF THK THURIBLE,
THE
CHARCOAL, AND THE INCENSE
INTO
the Magick Fire all things
are
cast.
It symbolizes
the final burning
up of all things
in Shivadarshana.
It
is the
absolute
destruction
alike of the Magician
and
the
Universe.
'I'hc Thurible
stands upon
a small altar.
"My'altar
is of open brass-
work;
burn
thereon
in silver or gold."
This altar stands in the East,
as
if to symbolize
the identity
of Hope and Annihilation.
This brass con-
tains
the metals
of Jupiter
and ^'cnus
fused
in
a homogeneous
alloy.
This
is
then
symbolical
of
divine
love, and
it is " open
brass work
'
because this love
is not
limited
in
direction
or
extent;
it
is
not
par-
ticularized,
it is universal.
Upon
this
altar
stands
the
Censer
proper;
it
has
three
legs
sym-
bolical
of fire."
Its cup
is a
hemisphere,
and
supported
from
its
edge
'
Because .Shin, the Hebrew
letter of Fire, has three tongues of flame, and its value
is 300.
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