Collected Works (Vol. I)

APPENDIX 267 is WM, a Circle or Orbit; WW, to seethe or boil; and some other Words, which we will neglect in this Example, though we should not dare to do so if we were really trying to find out a Thing we none of us knew. To help our Deduction about Redemption, too, we find 11M, to brighten or make glad. We also work in another Way. I is the Straight Line or Central Pillar of the Temple of Life; also it stands for Unity, and for the Generative Force. A is the Pentagram, which means the Will of Man working Redemption. O is the Circle from which everything came, also Nothingness, and the Female, who absorbs the Male. The Progress of the Name shows then the Way from Life to Nirvana by means of the Will: and is a Hieroglyph of the Great Work. Look at all our Meanings! Every one shows that the Name, if it has any Power at all, and that we must try, has the Power to redeem us from the Love of Life which is the Cause of Life, by its masculine Whirlings, and to gladden us and to bring us to the Bosom of the Great Mother, Death. Before what is known as the Equinox of the Gods, a little while ago, there was an initiated Formula which expressed these Ideas to the Wise. As these Formulas are done with, it is of no Consequence if I reveal them. Truth is not eternal, any more than God; and it would be but a poor God that could not and did not alter his Ways at his Pleasure. This Formula was used to open the Vault of the Mystic Mountain of Abiegnus, within which lay (so the Ceremony of Initiation supposed) the Body of our Father Christian Rosen Creutz, to be discovered by the Brethren with the Postulant as said in the Book called Fama Fraternitatis. There are three Officers, and they repeat the Analysis of the Word as follows :— Chief. Let us analyse the Key Word—I. 2nd. N. 3rd. R. All. I. Chief. Yod. ° 2nd. Nun. 3 3rd. Resh. 4 All. Yod. ° Chief. Virgo (TM) Isis, Mighty Mother. 2nd. Scorpio ("l) Apophis, Destroyer. 3rd. Sol (©) Osiris, slain and risen. All, Isis, Apophis, Osiris, LAO. All spread Arms as if on a Cross, and say :— The Sign of Osiris slain ! Chief bows his Head to the Left, raises his Right Arm, and lowers his Left, keep- ing the Elbow at right Angles, thus forming the Letter L (also the Swastika). The Sign of the Mourning of Isis. 2nc. With erect Head, raises his Arms to form a V (but really to form the triple Tongue of Flame, the Spirit), and says :— The Sign of Apophis and Typhon.