The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX and Earth.” ‘The four Yodhs refer to the four letters of the Holy Name. The dogs are the jackals of Anubis guarding the gates of the East and the West symbolised by the two Towers. The cray-fish is the sign Cancer, the Scarabzeus or God Kephera. “The emblem of the Sun below the horizon, as he ever is when the Moon is increasing above.’ The Hierophant then leads the Practicus to the Serpent of Brass, m2) and says: “This is the Serpent Nehushtan, which Moses made. ‘And he set it upon a Pole’ —that is, he twined it about the middle pillar of the Se- phiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of Geburah (Sera- phim, fiery serpents) or Severity, and the Waters of Chesed or Mercy. This serpent is also a type of Christ the Reconciler, also it is known as Nogah amongst the Shells, and the Celestial Serpent of Wisdom. «But the Serpent of the Temptation was the Serpent of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil, and (Siey eNPIBIORS) Dracram 38. The Calvary Cross of Twelve Squares. i ‘The Serpent of Brass. not the Serpent of the Tree of Life.’” After which the Hiereus shows the Practicus “The Qabalah of the Nine Num- Dracram 40. L) ‘The Qabalah of Nine Diacram 41. bers,” and the tablet of the Chambers, “Forming the Tree of Life ‘The Tablet of the Three Columns, in the Tarot.” And the Hegemon: The tablet repre- senting the Formation of the Hexagram, and known as “ The tablet of the Three Columns”; and also explains to him the mode of using the Talismanic Forms drawn from the Geomantic Figures. The Hierophant then confers upon the Practicus the title of « Lord of the Twenty- ninth Path,” and the first part of the Ritual is ended. 278