The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX And I confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. AUMN. AUMN. AUMN. Music isnow played. The child enters with the ewer and the salt. The Virct1n enters with the Sword and the Paten. The child enters with the censer and the perfume. They face the Deacon, deploy- ing into line, from the space between the two altars. Tue Vircin. Greeting of Earth and Heaven! All give the Hailing sign of a Magician, the Deacon leading. The Priestess, the negative child on her left, the positive on her right, ascends the steps of the High Altar, they awaiting her below. She places the Paten before the Graal. Having adored it, she descends, and with the children following her, the positive next her, she moves in a serpentine man- ner involving 3% circles of the temple. (Deosil about altar, widdershins about font, deosil about altar and font, widdershins about altar and to the Tomb in the West.) She draws her Sword, and pulls down the Veil, therewith. Tue Priestess. By the power of * Iron, I say unto thee, Arise. Inthe name of our Lord the Sun, and of our Lord ... that thou mayst administer the virtues to the Brethren. She sheathes the Sword. The PRIEST, issuing from the Tomb, holding the Lance erect with both hands, right over left, against his breast, takes the first three regular steps. 252