The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The Hierophant then says: ‘“ The symbols before you represent alike the Garden of Eden,* and the Holy of Holies: Sephiroth and their connecting paths. . . number, and are distinguished by the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, making with the ten Sephiroth themselves the thirty-two paths of Wisdom of the Sepher Ai fet fst Y Dave Rata} “ Meow lov Tree lof Lise] ial Meoy| ste cotene, Tallekesfart| lineal figures Tree of Lise [_ i [| Geopantic Figures [ Ty |] ernie Sirens iL 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; the right, male—Metatron ; and the left, female—Sandalphon. Above them ever burn the lamps of their Spiritual Essence, the Higher Life, of which they are the partakers in the Eternal Uncreated One.” The Zelator is then instructed in the sign, grip, grand word, &c. : After which the * See Diagram of the Paths and Grades. 269