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THE EQUINOX The Kerux, however, at once bars the way, as the Candidate is still unpurified. Thereupon the Goddesses of the Scales purify and consecrate him. This is the first consecration. ‘But even as there be four pillars at the extremities of a sphere when the ten Sephiroth are projected therein; so also are there four separate consecrations of the Candidate.” The reception and consecration takes place in the black portion of Malkuth ; when it is finished the Candidate is conducted to the foot of the altar, the citrine portion of Malkuth, an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 265
…t either the station of Har- pocrates, the place of the Evil Triad, or at the East of the Altar. The Hiereus standeth on the left of the Candidate, and the Hegemon on hisright. Thus again completing the formulation of the Triad of the Three Supernals. The Hierophant and Hiereus may hold their banners; anyhow it is done astrally ; and the Higher Self of the Candidate will be formulated once more in the Invisible station of Harpocrates. The Hierophant then says: “ Let the Candidate kneel, while I invoke the LORD OF THE UNIVERSE!” After the prayer…
1909 · PDF PAGE 264
…ine Light, but rather a spark from the Infinite Flame. After the Kerux comes the Hegemon, the translator of the Higher Self, leading the Candidate, then the Stolistes and Dadouchos. Once they pass round the temple in solemn procession: it is the foundation in Darkness of the Binah angle of the whole Triangle of the Ineffable Light. The Hierophant knocks once as they pass him, and the Hiereus does likewise, as the affirmations of Mercy and Vengeance respectively. A second time they pass the Hierophant affirming the commencement of the formulatio…
1909 · PDF PAGE 266
THE EQUINOX The Hierophant then continues: “Let the Candidate be conducted to the East of the Altar. Honoured Hiereus, I delegate to you the duty of entrusting the Candidate with the secret signs, grip, grand word and present pass-word of the o°=o° Grade of the Order of the Golden Dawn in the Outer, of placing him between the mystic pillars, and of superintending his fourth and final consecration.” The East of the Altar is the place of the Evil Triad, and he is brought there as though affirming that he will trample upon and cast out his evil pe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 261
…greatly honoured chiefs of the Second Order, for the purpose of commencing the process of the initiation which shall ultimately lead the Candidate to the knowledge of his Higher Self, But he is first admitted to the Grade of Neophyte which hath no number, concealing the commencement of All-Things under the simulacrum of No-Thing. The Hegemon, the representative of the Gods of Truth and Justice, is consequently sent to superintend the preparation, thus symbolising that it is the Presider of Equilibrium who is to administrate the process of initi…
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…sted by the lightning flash!* (Hiereus here suddenly applies sword.) So help me THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE and my own Higher Soul.” As the Candidate affirmeth his own penalty should he prove a traitor to the Order, the evil triad riseth up in menace, and the avenger of the Gods, Horus, layeth the blade of his sword on the point of the Daath junction (i.e., of the brain with the spine) thus affirming the power of Life and Death over the natural body : and the Form of the Higher Self advanceth and layeth its hand on the Candidate’s head for the fir…
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
… distinguish- ing badge of the grade. It symbolises Light dawning in Darkness.” The four pillars being thus established, now only is the Candidate invested with the badge of the White Triangle of the Three Supernals formulating in Darkness ; and now only is the Higher Soul able to formulate a link with him if the human will of the natural man be in reality consenting thereto, For the free will of the Candidate as a natural man is never obsessed, either by the Higher Soul, or by the ceremony. But the Will consenting, the whole of the ceremony is…
1909 · PDF PAGE 297
…, as we have seen, the complexities already involved by the introduction of Ancient Egyptian deities, concerning whom it is probable the candidate has but little knowledge, are further heightened by a general intrusion on the part of Hebrew, Christian, Mace- donian and Phrygian gods, angels and demons, and a profuse scattering of symbols; which, unitedly, are apt either so to bewilder the candidate that he leaves the temple with an impression that the whole ritual is a huge joke, a kind of buffoonish carnival of Gods which in the sane can only …
1909 · PDF PAGE 269
… of rank : Hegemon from Hiereus, Stolistes from Hegemon, Dadouchos from Stolistes, Senior Members from Dadouchos, and the Kerux from the Candidate. But the Kerux says: “It is finished,” inverting the cup, to show that the symbols of Self-sacrifice and Regeneration are accomplished. And this proclamation is confirmed by the Hierophant, and the three chief officers give the three strokes emblematic of the Mystic Triad, and in the three different languages repeat the three mystic words: “KHABS AM PEKHT!” “KONX OM PAX!” “LIGHT IN EXTENSION!” The Hi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 293
…the Portal of the Vault of the Adepts duly opened. THE CEREMONY At the bidding of the Hierophant Inductor the Associate Adept places the Candidate in the West between the Banner and the Black Pillar, before the Elemental Tablets, but facing the West. After which he presents him to the Hierophant Inductor. ~ - ~ - > The Hierophant Inductor then ad- Dy Ty oD Iq 1> dresses the Philosophus and points out Koay ot tohim that if in the previous grades much ES | & information was imparted to him; it was | fsecsnaud “S* Fcopetha] WP Peak Aa] i paw Tas e…
1909 · PDF PAGE 280
…ire operating in the other three elements of Earth, Water and Air.” The central lower figure is Erd, the ruler of latent heat, he is the candidate in the Samothracian mysteries, and rises from the Earth as if to receive and absorb the properties of the D1acraM 27, Dracram 28. The Ten Sephiroth in the Seven The Attributions of the Ten Sephiroth Palaces. to the Four Letters, other three. The three lower figures form the Hebrew letter schin, to which Fire is especially referred ; the seven Hebrew Yodhs refer to the Sephiroth operating in each of t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 301
…donai glimmering through the veils and consuming the elementary Rituals of the 1°=10°, 2°=9°, 3°=8°, and 4°=7° grades. In many cases the candidate, it is to be feared, can never have realised the necessity of this destruction of superficial knowledge, and the harnessing of the Bull, Eagle, Man and Lion under the dazzling lash of the Spirit. And we find that though these rituals enabled P. to master a language, they in many ways hindered his otherwise natural progress by helping largely to obsess his Nephesh by the Qliphoth—his passions and emot…
1909 · PDF PAGE 299
…er dressed in its simple yet luminous symbols. In the o°=o° Ritual this is much more clearly carried out than in the following four. The candidate, the would-be 291
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
…s : “KHABS AM PEKHT!” “ KONX OM PAX!” “LIGHT IN EXTENSION!” THE OPENING is then at an end, and the next ceremony is: THE ADMISSION.{ The Candidate is in waiting without the Portal, under the care of the sentinel, the “ Watcher Without,” that is, under the care of the form of Anubis of the West. "Zo + The following explanatory remarks on the Admission and Ceremony of the Neophyte are taken from the MS. called Z. 3. 252