The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX the Qliphoth* with their twelve princes, who are the heads of the Evil of the twelve months of the year. to an end, oTM The Hierophant tells him: “ This cross em- braces, as you will see, Tiphereth, Net- Hod and Yesod, resting upon Malkuth. Also the Calvary Cross of six squares forms the Cube unfolded, and is thus referred to the six Sephiroth of Microprosopus, which are: Chesed, Ge- burah, Tiphereth, Hod, Netzach and Yesod.” And then explains to him the sym- bolic representation of the fall: “The Great Goddess, who in the 3° = 8° degree, was supporting the Columns of the A Sephiroth in the form of the sign A oo of Theoricus(i.e., of Atlas support- Diacram 50. ing the World) The Calvary Cross of Six Squares. V The Hierophant then confers upon the Practicus the title of « Lord of the Twenty-seventh Path,” and the third part of the Ritual comes The Fourth Part In the Advancement Ceremony the Practicus seeks admission by the sign of the Calvary Cross of six squares within a circle. At Table: on of Aw oat Sauls $Q Tam» cr © Pantacte Roeroppane Fall] Kameaoy Q G aw &Oo @ Blacte Wyte te A. CD [roan Seow) DraGRaM 49. Arrangement of the Temple for the Ceremony of Philosophus in the 4” = 7° Ritual. being tempted by the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, stooped down to the Qliphoth . . . the Sephirotic Scheme was shattered; and with it fell Adam the Microprosopus. heads and ten horns, cutting by his folds Malkuth from the Sephiroth, and linking it to the Kingdom of the Shells. Seven lower Sephiroth were cut off from the Three Supernals in the Columns were unsupported, and Then arose the Great Dragon with seven The Daath, at the feet of Aima Elohim. And on the head of the Dragon are the names of the * See 777, col. viii, p. 2. 282