The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING celestial signs, and the perfections of their science, according to the rules of their resolutions. It is therefore the reflection of the Sphere of the Sun; and the Path connecting Yesod with Hod, the Foundation with Splendour.” And then enters upon the symbolism of the Nineteenth Key of the Tarot, which resumes these ideas: The Sun has twelve principal rays which represent the Zodiac ; these are divided into thirty-six rays to ft fot fot Vv represent the thirty-six Decanates; and then again into seventy-two Quinaries. RETO Thus the Sun itself embraces the whole we * Pent creation in its rays. The seven Hebrew Banner of Cast Yodhs falling through the air refer to the Solar influence descending. «The | {/\} 2... two children, standing respectively on ere Sars Water and Earth, represent the generating Osun EEE influences of both, brought into action by JE | totam oy the rays of the Sun. They are the two & inferior and passive elements, as the Sun Fegre | Bessey and the Air above them are the superior Reaves =r faa and active elements of Fire and Air.” — V Furthermore, these two children resemble be osatt, svar af weak the sign Gemini (which the Greeks and Romans referred to Castor and Pollux), eon arot8 which unites the Earthy sign of Taurus n fone and the Watery sign of Cancer. The Hiereus then shows the Theoricus Diacram 30. the tablet of“ The astrological symbols of The Arrangement of the Temple for the oth Path ne ‘ . in the 3° = 8° Ritual. the Planets,”* and explains to him the tablet of ‘The true and genuine attribution of the Tarot Trumps to the Hebrew Alpha- bet.”+ After which the Hegemon leads him to “The Tablet of the Olympic, or aerial planetary spirits,” t and shows him “ The Geomantic Figures ” with the ruling intelligences and genii, also the Talismanic symbols allotted to each geomantic figure.§ The Hierophant now confers upon the Theoricus the title of Lord of the Thirteenth Path, who quits the Temple for a short time. By means of the symbol of the Stolistes—the chalice of Lustral Water—the Theoricus 7kg} * See 777, col. clxxvii., p. 35. + See 777, col. xiv., p. 4. T See 777, col. lxxx., p. 18. § See ‘‘ Handbook of Geomancy,” THe Equinox, vol. i., No, II. II s 273