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be attached
to the chain.
At the other
end
of the chain
is the striker;
which,
in Tibet,
is usually
made of human
bone.
The Bell itself is made of electrum
magicum,
an alloy of the "seven
metals " blended
together
in a special
manner.
First the gold is melted
up with
the
silver
during
a favourable
aspect
of the
sun
and
moon;
these
are then
fused with
tin when
Jupiter
is well
dignified.
Lead is
added
under
an auspicious
Saturn
: and
so for the quicksilver,
copper,
and iron,
when
Mercury,
Venus,
and Mars are of good
augury.
The
sound
of this
Bell
is indescribably commanding,
solemn,
and
majestic.
Without even the
minutest
jar, its
single
notes tinkle
fainter
and fainter
into silence.
At the sound of this Bell the Universe
ceases for
an indivisible
moment
of time,
and
attends
to
the Will of the Magician.
Let him not interrupt the sound of this
Bell.
Let this
be that which
is written.
Liber VII, v,
31 : "There
is a
solemnity
of the silence.
There is no more voice at all."
As the Magical
Book was the record of the past,
so is the
Magick Bell the prophecy of the future.
The
manifested
shall
repeat
itself
again
and
again,
always
a clear
thin
note,
always
a sim-
plicity of music,
yet
ever less and
less
disturbing
the
infinite
silence
until the end.