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… to man. One of the old beliefs is that seals are human beings under magic spells. The seal was credited with being able to assume human form. While in human guise, he contracted marriages with human beings, and if we are to credit tradition, the Mac- Codrums of North Uist are the offspring of such a union. In former times the MacCodrums were known in the Western Islands as Stiechd nan Ron, or the offspring of the seals. Asa seal could assume the form of a man and make his abode on land, soa MacCodrum could assume the form of a seal and betake …
1909 · PDF PAGE 273
…Holy of Holies stood the Ark of the Covenant. Before the veil stood the altar of Incense, of which this altar is a symbol. It was in the form of a Double Cube, thus representing material form as the reflection and the duplication of that which is spiritual. The sides of the altar, 265,
1909 · PDF PAGE 170
…- monises with one or both by nature (pp. 158, 159). Now con- sider all you have written, and according to the balance of Good and Evil, form your final judgment. Consider also always in money questions where the part of Fortune falls. Take, e.g., the figure on p. 144, and form a judgment for loss of money in business therefrom. Tables of Witnesses and Judge say: Moderate. In 2ndis :. Evil, showing obstacle, delay. Part of Fortune @ is in Asc. with %, showing loss through Querent’ s own blunders. = springs into no other House; . this does not a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 258
…the place of the Threshold” is the name of the Hegemon ; and she is the Goddess ‘Thmais * Thmait.t The Kerux.—The Kerux is the principal form of Anubis. The sentinel being the subsidiary form. The Kerux is the Anubis of the East, whilst the Sentinel is the Anubis of the West. The Kerux is the herald, the guardian and watcher within the Temple; as the sen- tinel is the watcher without. And therefore is his charge the proper disposition of the furniture of the Temple. His peculiar insignia of office are the red lamp and the wand.} “ Watcher of th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 280
…OX figure Samael, the ruler of Volcanic Fire—he is also Axiokersos ; the right-hand figure is Axiokersa. « These three principal figures form the Triangle of Fire ; and they further represent Fire operating in the other three elements of Earth, Water and Air.” The central lower figure is Erd, the ruler of latent heat, he is the candidate in the Samothracian mysteries, and rises from the Earth as if to receive and absorb the properties of the D1acraM 27, Dracram 28. The Ten Sephiroth in the Seven The Attributions of the Ten Sephiroth Palaces. to…
1909 · PDF PAGE 292
…HE EQUINOX winnowed from the husks of darkness, and now as an eye of silver it glided over the dark face of the waters. Chaos was taking form—red, vague and immense. He had passed through the Ritual of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire, and now it was left to him to pass through the Ritual of the Portal, or the Ritual which completes the four elemental rituals by a fifth, the Ritual of the Spirit, before he could pass from the First Order to the Second. This ritual is an important one, as it is the connecting- link between the first two orders, and i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 127
… It wasa woman of perhaps sixty years of age, the head of an angel—so regular were the features, so silver-white the hair—set upon the deformed body of a dwarf. Hairy hands and twisted arms, a hunched back and bandy legs; in the gnarled right hand a terrible whip, the carved jade handle blossoming into a rose of fine cords, shin- ing with silver—sharp, three-cornered chips of silver! The whole dripped black with blood. Upon the angel face stood asneer, a snarl,a malediction. The effect upon one’s sense of something beyond the ordinary was, too,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 346
…eir side lay a bundle of skins, which, on his approach, the maidens seized and then plunged with them into the surf, where they took the form of seals. But the fisherman had managed to snatch up one skin, which lay apart from the rest, and so one maiden was left behind. Despite her entreaties and her tears, he kept the skin, and she was at last obliged to follow him to his hut. They married and had many children, who were like all other children, except for a thin web between their fingers, and for years husband and wife lived at peace. But eve…
1909 · PDF PAGE 254
…e apices so as to bear each a lamp. At the Eastern part of Malkuth, at its junction-point with the path of n, is placed the altar in the form of a double cube. Its colour is black to represent to the Neophyte the colour of Malkuth; but to the adept there lies hidden in the blackness the four colours of the Earth, in their appropriate positions on the sides. The base only is wholly black ; whilst the summit will be of a brilliant whiteness although invisible to the material eye, “The symbols upon the altar represent the forces and manifestations…
1909 · PDF PAGE 295
… Pan of the Greeks and the Egyptian Goat of Mendes. As his hands bear the torch and the horn, the symbols of Fire and Water, so does his form unite the Earth in his hairy and bestial aspect, and the Air in his bat-like wings. The whole would be an evil symbol were it not for the Pentagram of Light above his head which regulates and guides his movements. The figure of Pan is then explained, after which the Hierophant Inductor shows the Philosophus the 14th Key of the Tarot. The more ancient form shows us a female figure crowned with a crown of f…
1909 · PDF PAGE 182
…, Aphrodite: Centrum in Trigonis Centri—by whatsoever of a myriad names we call Her, still the same in Spirit, the same in Number and in form! And this number is herein formulated by the Concen- tration of the Three in One. 3+ 1 = 4. Now in this Figure II. we behold six certain Paths; and in six days did 172
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
… The four pillars being thus established, now only is the Candidate invested with the badge of the White Triangle of the Three Supernals formulating in Darkness ; and now only is the Higher Soul able to formulate a link with him if the human will of the natural man be in reality consenting thereto, For the free will of the Candidate as a natural man is never obsessed, either by the Higher Soul, or by the ceremony. But the Will consenting, the whole of the ceremony is directed to the strengthening of its action. And as this badge is placed upon …
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… A H I H. (ix) Turning to the North, the same, but say AG L A. Pronounce: Ye-ho-wau, Adénai, Eheieh, Agla. (x) Extending the arms in the form of a Cross, say : (xi) Before me Raphael; (xii) Behind me Gabriel ; (xiii) On my right hand Michael; (xiv) On my left hand Auriel; (xv) For about me flames the Pentagram, (xvi) And in the Column stands the six-rayed Star. (xvii-xxi) Repeat (i) to (v), the “ Qabalistic Cross.” 19
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LIBER O (iii) Extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say: “The sign of Osiris Slain.” (See Illustra- tion.) (iv) Raise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes follow the left forearm, and say: “The sign of the Mourning of Isis.” (See Illustration.) (v) Raise the arms at an angle of sixty degrees to each other above the head, which is thrown back, and say: ‘“ The sign of Apophis a…
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LIBER O The signs of 4°=7°: Raise the arms above the head and join the hands so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle. (See Illustration). (The Grade of 4° = 7° is particularly attributed to the element Fire; it refers to the planet Venus; the paths of px and » are attributed to this degree. For other attri- butions see “777,” lines 7 and 31.) Tue Pentacrams or WaTER o/\- «Ne ~@~4 The signs of 3° = 8°: Raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touchi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
…int of the Daath junction (i.e., of the brain with the spine) thus affirming the power of Life and Death over the natural body : and the Form of the Higher Self advanceth and layeth its hand on the Candidate’s head for the first time, at the words: “So help me the Lord of the Universe and my own Higher Soul.” And this is the first assertion of the connecting-link between them. Then after this connec- tion is established doth the Hierophant in the following words raise the Candidate to his feet: “ Rise, newly obligated Neophyte in the o°= 0° Gra…
1909 · PDF PAGE 294
…f Light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse. But if thy meditation prolongeth itself thou shalt unite all these symbols into the form of the Lion.’* For thus wilt thou cleave upwards by the Path of D, through the sixth Sephira unto the Path of 0 answering unto Leo, the Lion, the Reconciling Path between Mercy and Severity, Chesed and Geburah ; beneath whose centre hangs the Glorious Sun of Tiphereth. “V.H. Associate Adept, will you explain to the Philosophus the 1 3th Key of the Tarot.” Associate Adept: The 13th Key of the Tarot represe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 239
…reatment which with lavish and cruel hand was squandered on him. Then youth came, and with it God’s name had grown to bea curse, and the form of Jesus stood forth in the gloom of Golgotha, a chill and hideous horror which vampire-like had sucked dry the joy of his boyhood; when suddenly one summer night he broke away from the ghouls that had tormented him, casting aside the sordid conventions of life, defying the laws of his 231
1909 · PDF PAGE 277
…DracraM 23. Arrangement of the Temple for the Ceremony of Theoricus in the 2° = 9° Ritual. Yetzirah.” Before you stands the Tree of Life formed of the : The connecting paths are twenty-two in L/ DiacraM 25. The Altar Symbol in the 2° = 9° Ritual. The letters, he then points out to him, form the symbol of the Serpent of Wisdom, and the Sephiroth the Flaming Sword. « The two pillars right and left of the Tree are the symbols of the active and passive, male and female—Adam and Eve. . . . The pillars further represent the two Kerubim of the Ark; th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 403
…t the point of view is throughout that of a flunkey, of a tradesman, of a gelded toady, of a stewed prune! So too the very perfection of form which marks Tennyson is a shocking fault, a guide to the governess’ mind of the creature. He is so determined to keep all the rules that he 395