The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING de Astris, the Path now open to you is the Twenty-seventh, which leads from the 3°=8° degree of Practicus to the 4° = 7° degree of Philosophus. Take in your right hand the Calvary Cross of ten squares and follow your guide through the Path of Mars.” After which the Hierophant explains the Calvary Cross of ten squares: “ The Calvary Cross of ten squares refers to the ten Sephiroth in balanced disposition ; before which the formless and the void rolled back. It is also the opened-out form of the double cube, and of the Altar of Incense.” And the Sixteenth Key of the Tarot : It represents a Tower struck by a lightning-flash proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle, It is the Tower of Babel. The flash exactly forms the Astronomical symbol of Mars. It is the Power of the Triad rushing down and destroying the Column of Darkness. ‘The men falling from the tower represent the fali of the kings of Edom. ‘On the right-hand side of the Tower is Light, and the representation of the Tree of Life by Ten Circles. On the left-hand side is Darkness, and Eleven Circles symbolically representing the Qliphoth.” Suibbew Reon [e) ey aD a) of bet QZ) fee a Wyte Ow [remote [Danccts >|] tates atue Restect Tepe ‘Stat Diacram 44. Arrangement of the Temple for the 27th Path in the 4° = 7° Ritual. The Alchemical Symbols of Sulphur and of Salt on the Tree of Life are then shown. Els (sJoJ=[Nyel= DiAGRAM 45. The Calvary Cross of Ten Squares.94 Diacram 46. The Symbol of Salt on the Tree of Life. DiaGram 47. The Symbol of Sulphur on the Tree of Life, After which the Hieveus explains the tablet of the Trinity operating through the Sephiroth ; and the Hegemon that of the seven Yetziratic palaces * containing the ten Sephiroth ; and * See 777, col. xc., p. 18. 281