Magick Without Tears

168 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS sachet of rose-petals in yellow silk, and another in green silk packed with salt. In the wilds it was easy, agreeable, and most efficacious to make a Circle, and build an altar, of stones; my Alpine Lantern served admirably for the Lamp. It did double duty when required: e.g. in partaking of the Sacrament of the Four Elements, it served for Fire. But your conditions are not so restricted as this. Let us consider what one can do with an ordinary house, such as you are happy enough to possess. First of all, it is of immense advantage to have a room specially consecrated to the Work, never used for any other purpose, and never entered by any other person than yourself, unless it were another Initiate, either for inspection or in case you were working together. The aura accumulates with the regularity and frequency of Use. The first point is the Banishing : Everything is to be removed from the room which is not absolutely necessary to the Work. In this country, one must attend to the heating. An electric stove in the East or the South, is best: it must not need attention. One can usually buy stoves with excellent appropriate symbolism. (Last time I did this- 13 e.v.-I got a perfect Ferranti at Harrods. The circular copper bowl, with the central Disk as the source of heat, is unsurpassable.) The walls should be "self-coloured," a neutral tint-green, grey or blue-grey? -and entirely bare, unless you put up, in the proper quarters, the proper designs, such as the "Watch Towers"-see The Equinox. Vol. I, No.7. Remember that your "East," your Kiblah, is Boleskine House, which is as near as possible due North from Plymouth. Find North by the shadow of a vertical rod at noon, or by the Pole-Star. Work out the angle as usual. The Stele of Revealing may be just on the North Wall to make your "East." Next, your Circle. The floor ought to be "Earth" green;