CHAPTER
XI
THE CROWN
THE
Crown
of the Magician
represents
the Attainment
of his Work.
It is
a band of pure
gold,
on the front
of which
stand
three
pentagrams,
and
on
the
back
a
hexagram.
The
central
pentagram
contains
a diamond or a great opal; the other three symbols
contain
the
Tau.
Around
this
Crown
is
twined
the
golden
Uraeus
serpent,
with
erect
head
and
expanded
hood.
Under
the Crown is
a
crimson
cap of maintenance,
which falls to the shoulders.
Instead
of this, the Ateph Crown of Thoth
is
sometimes
worn;
for
Thoth
is
the God of Truth, of Wisdom, and
the Teacher of Magick.
The Ateph Crown has two ram's
horns,
showing
energy, dominion, the
force
that
breaks
down
obstacles,
the
sign
of
the
spring.
Between
these horns
is the disk of the sun;
from
this springs
a Lotus upheld
by
the twin plumes
of truth,
and three other
sun-disks
are upheld,
one
by
the cup of the lotus,
the others
beneath
the curving
feathers.
There
is
still
another
Crown,
the Crown of Amoun, the concealed
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