THE VISION AND THE VOICE
ported upon three legs, of silver, and within it an hemisphere
of copper, and upon the top a grating of gilded silver, and there-
upon shall he burn incense made of four parts of olibanum
and two parts of stacte, and one part of lignum aloes, or of
cedar, or of sandal. And this is enough.
And he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within
the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and
galangal.
And even if he be of higher rank than a Probationer, he
shall yet wear the robe of the Probationer, for the star of flame
showeth forth Ra Hoor Khuit openly upon the breast, and
secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is Nuit, and the red
triangle that ascendeth is Hadit. And I am the golden Tau
in the midst of their marriage. Also, if he choose, he may
instead wear a close-fitting robe of shot silk, purple and green,
and upon it a cloak without sleeves, of bright blue, covered
with golden sequins, and scarlet within.
And he shall make himself a wand of almond wood or of
hazel cut by his own hands at dawn at the Equinox, or at the
Solstice, or on the day of Corpus Christi, or on one of the
feast-days that are appointed in the Book of the Law.
And he shall engrave with his own hand upon a plate of
gold the Holy Sevenfold Table, or the Holy Twelvefold
Table, or some particular device. And it shall be foursquare
within a circle, and the circle shall be winged, and he shall
attach it about his forehead by a ribbon of blue silk.
Moreover, he shall wear a fillet of laurel or rose or ivy or
rue, and every day, after the prayer of sunrise, he shall burn it
in the fire of the censer.
Now he shall pray thrice daily, about sunset, and at mid-
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