The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF SATURN AQUARIUS aha! [952%/?ש”קdance wild/yforjoy to the sound ofthe [vm-tom.] [During the eonfnsion BRo. CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS slits into the temlfile and hides hehino’ the veil, where he removes his disguise and dons his dancing robe] MAGISTER TEMPLI. Silencel [A pause. MAGISTER TEMPLI. I. AQUARIUS. I. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Ι. Holy be the Lamps οἱJoy! AQUARIUS. Holy be the Lamps of Sorrow! MAGISTER TEMPLI. Let us enter the ark οἱ Increased Knowledge! CAPRICORNUS. Hail, thou that sittest in the City of the Pyramids! AQUARIUS. Hail, thou that art encamped upon the Great Sea! MAGISTER TEMPLI. Hail, brethren! CAPRICORNUS. Master, what is Increased Knowledge? MAGISTER TEMPLI. Death. AQUARIUS. Master, what is the Ark thereof? MAGISTER TEMPLL The grave. AQUARIUS and CAPRICORNUS. Master, how shall we enter it? MAGISTER TEMPLI. Arise and follow me! [He rises and eircninamhn/ates the 6/?!שושwiddershins. CAPRICORNUS flutes forth every third flerson and makes themfol/ow hiinY continuing this girum-s nntil one only is left. T0 this one MAGISTER TEMPLI addresses the allata/ion, as he hates himforth] MAGISTER TEMPLI. Thou also must die ! [MAGISTER TEMPLI staþ: in Ε. 13