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THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST
THE HOLY OF HOLIES
THE PALACE OF THE WORLD.
THE fragrant gateways of the dawn?
Teem with the scent of flowers.
The mother, Midnight, has withdrawn
Her slumberous kissing hours :
Day springs, with footsteps as a fawn,
Into her rosy bowers.
The pale and holy maiden horn?
In highest heaven is set.
1 Describes the spiritual aspect of the
‘‘Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram,” which we
append, with its explanation. The abstruse
nature of many of these poems is well reflected
in this one.
(i.) Touching the forehead, say Ateh (Unto
Kingdom).
(iii.) Touching the right shoulder, say ve-
Geburah (and the Power).
(iv.) Touching the left shoulder, say ve-
Gedulah (and the Glory).
({v.) Clasping the hands upon the breast, say
le-Olahm, Amen (to the Ages, Amen).
(vi.) Turning to the East, make a pentagram
with the proper weapon. Say Mit’.
(vii.) Turning to the South, the same, but
say ‘37IN.
(viii.) Turning to the West, the same, but
say MTN. |
(ix.}, Turning to the North, the same, but
say NON.
(x.) Extending the arms in the form of a
cross, say—
(xi.) Before me Raphael,
(xii.) Behind me Gabriel,
(xiii.) On my right hand Michael,
xiv.) On my left hand Auriel,
on for about me flames the Pentagram,
(xvi.) and in the Column stands the six-rayed
Star.
(xvii.-xxi.) Repeat (i.) to (v.), the ‘‘ Qabalistic
Cross.”
Those who regard this ritual as a mere
device to invoke or banish spirits, are unworthy
to possess it. Properly understood, it is the
Medicine of Metals and the Stone of the Wise.
fAuthor’s Note.]
2 This ritual was given to Neophytes of the
Order of the Golden Dawn.
3 The moon, as before, signifies Aspiration
to the Highest.
My forehead, bathed in her forlorn
Light, with her lips is met ;
My lips, that murmur in the morn,
With lustrous dew are wet.
My prayer is mighty with my will ;
My purpose as a sword !
Flames through the adamant, to fill
The gardens of the Lord
With music, that the air be still,
Dumb to its mighty chord.
I stand above the tides of time
And elemental strife ;
My figure stands above, sublime,
Shadowing the Key of Life,”
And the passion of my mighty rhyme
Divides me as a knife.
For secret symbols on my brow,
And secret thoughts within,
Compel eternity to Now,
Draw the Infinite within.
Light is extended.? I and Thou
Are as they had not been.
So on my head the light is one,
Unity manifest ;
A star more splendid than the sun
Burns for my crownéd crest;
Burns, as the murmuring orison
Of waters in the west.
What angel from the silver gate
Flames to my fierier face?
What angel, as I contemplate
The unsubstantial space?
Move with my lips the laws of Fate
That bind earth’s carapace?
1 For the '' Flaming Sword” is the ‘‘ Penta-
gram unwound.”
2 The arms being extended, and the magus
being clad in a Tau-shaped robe and a nemmes,
the sacred Egyptian headdress, his figure would
cast a shadow resembling the Ankh, or ‘' Key
of Life.”
3 Khabs am Pekht. Konxom Pax. Light
in Extension. The mystic words which seal
the current of light in the sphere of the aspirant.
4 Cf. Omar Khayyam the Sufi,