the spiral, or in the opposite direction. Each combination involves 
a different symbolism. 
There is also the dance proper; it has many different forms, 
each God having his spécial dance. One of the easiest and most 
effective dances is the ordinary waltz-step combined with the three 
signs of L.V.X. It is much easier to attain ecstasy in this way than 
is generally supposed. The essence of the process consists in the 
struggle of the Will against giddiness; but this struggle must be 
prolonged and severe, and upon the degree of this the quality and 
intensity of ecstasy atained may dépend. 
With practice, giddiness is altogether conquered; exhaustion 
then takes its place as the enemy of Will. It is through the 
mutual destruction of these antagonisms in the mental and 
moral being of the magician that Samadhi is begotten. 
III 
Good examples of the use of change of position are given in 
the manuscripts Z.i and Z.3; 1 explanatory of the Néophyte 
Ritual of the G. D., where the candidate is taken to various stations 
in the Temple, each station having a symbolic meaning of its own; 
but in pure invocation a better example is given in Liber 831 2. 
In the construction of a ceremony an important thing to décidé 
is whether you will or will not make such movements. For every 
Circle has its natural symbolism, and even if no use is to be made 
of these facts, one must be careful not to let anything be inhar- 
monious with the natural attributions. 3 For the sensitive aura of 
the magician might be disturbed, and the value of the ceremony 
completely destroyed, by the embarassment caused by the discoverv 
of some such error, just as if a pre-occupied T-totaller found that 
he had strayed into a Temple of the Démon Rum! It is therefore 
impossible to neglect the theory of the Circle. 
1. Equinox I, II, pp. 244-260. 
2. Equinox I, VII, pp. 93 sqq. 
3. The practical necessities of the work are likely to require certain 
movements. One should either exclude this symbolism altogether, or 
else think out everything beforehand, and make it significant. Do not 
let some actions be symbolic and others haphazard. 
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