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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
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BOOK II The Scaffolding of the Temple of SOLOMON THE KING and The ten mighty Supports which are set between the Pillars of Death and Life.
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…JANUS, By AtzisTeR CrowLry THE DREAM CIRCEAN. By Martiat Nay THE LOST SHEPHERD. By Vicror B. Nevsurc A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY THE ORGAN IN KING’S CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. By G. H. S. PINSENT A NOTE ON GENESIS THE FIVE ADORATIONS. By Dost Acumma Kuan ILLUSION D’AMOUREUX. By Francis Benpick THE OPIUM-SMOKER POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS. By Ateister CRowLEY THE WILD ASS. By Atys Cusack THE SPHINX AT GIZEH. By Lorp Dunsany THE PRIESTESS OF PANORMITA. By Exaine Carr , THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (Boox II) AMONGST THE MERMAIDS. By Norman Rog AVE ADONAI. By A…
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POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS III. So will the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king. The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained. YOGA AND MAGIC I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea. It has four methods. Gnana-Yoga. Union by Knowledge. Raja-Yoga. Union by Will. Bhakta-Yoga. Union by Love. Hatha-Yoga. Union by Courage. add Mantra-Yoga. Union through Speech. Karma-Yoga. Union through …
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Cause ye the Paths of Wrath to be opened unto me; that I may advance over the Tree of Life unto the Place of the River. I stand upon the Northern Quarter of the Universe of Matter, and around me glows the Ruddy Flame of Earth. Before me is the Portal of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal Flame: Thence gleameth the Red Glory into the World of Assiah. Lift up your Heads O ye Gates! And be ye lifted up, ye Everlasting Doors! And the King of Glory shall come in. I am come forth from the Gates of Matter: I advance ov…
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING entitled “The Task undertaken by the Adeptus Minor,” and is lucidly summarised as follows : This then is the task undertaken by the Adeptus Minor : To expel from the Sephiroth of the Nephesch the usurpation of the Evil Sephiroth. To equally balance the action of the Sephiroth of the Ruach and those of the Nephesch, To prevent the Lower Will and Human Consciousness from falling into and usurping the place of the Automatic Consciousness. To render the King of the Body (the Lower Will) obedient and anxious to execute…
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING eight Edomite kings, and on the horns the names of the eleven dukes of Edom. And because in Daath was the utmost rise of the Great Serpent of Evil ; therefore there is as it were another Sephira, making eight heads according to the num- ber of the eight Kings; and for the Infernal and Averse Sephiroth eleven instead of ten, according to the number of the eleven dukes of n \~< Edom. The infernal waters of Daith rushed from the mouth of the Dragon—and this is the Leviathan. Tetragrammaton Elo- him placed four letter…
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THE ORGAN IN KING'S CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE THEN silence, and the veil of light is raised And darkness seen behind. Now softly sound The Angels’ herald-trumpets, calling round Thunders and mighty winds and powers amazed. Now laden with the spirit of man’s hand There bursts an awful clarion-shout and brings Strange whispering and rushing of strange wings Battling, and furtive secrets of command. Down from the height and up from the abyss Are swept dominion, power, angel, throne, For unimaginable ends, and hiss, And fall. The heralds trumpet ; they are…
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202 THE EQUINOX II The secret of the House of Set. As a poor pilgrim clambering Toils on the slopes, so I to get Halidom for my lord the King. Faintly and feebly murmuring I uttered the mysterious runes, And bade my body’s sleekness sing Silky, satanic, subtle tunes. Was he not holy? Milk of moons Were not so pallid as his cheek, And roses of a million Junes His mouth left livid. So I seek In all God’s seas a tiny creek Wherein to moor my shallop. Nay! He is a mountain, chill with bleak Stark winds of innocence astray! The fearful passion sweep…
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…straint Hardly one ray Pierced to the ragged earth about their roots that lay. VIII I wandered, crying on my Lord. I wandered Eagerly seeking everywhere. The stores of life that on my lips he squandered Grew into shrill cries of despair, Until the dryads frightened and dumfoundered Fled into space— Like to a demon-king’s was grown my maiden face | IX At last I came unto the well, my soul. In that still glass, I saw no sign 95
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING DaATH Iam insane. My reason tumbles; The tower of my being crumbles. Here all is doubt, distress, despair: There is no force in strength or prayer. If pass I may, it is by might Of the momentum of my flight. I match, &c. Grex (and the crossing of Daleth) Free from that curse, loosed from that prison ; From all that ruin am I risen! Pure still, the virgin moon beguiles My azure passage with her smiles. Now! O what love divine redeems My death, and bathes it in her beams! What sacring transubstantiates My flesh and …
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING YESOD Hail, thou full moon, O flame of amethyst| Stupendous mountain on whose shoulders rest The Eight Above. More stable is my crest Than thine—and nowI pierce thee, veil of mist! Even as an arrow from the war-bow springs I leap—my life is set with loftier things. I match, &c. Samecu (and the crossing of the Path of Pe) Now swift, thou azure shaft of fading fire, Pierce through the rainbow! Swift, O swift! how streams The world by! Let Sandalphon and his quire Of Angels ward me! Ho! what planet beams This angry r…
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Dracram 16, DraGRaM 17. The Rose of Creation, The Seven-branched Candlestick. 4 R aAS The Offering. ST non o 3 fein [Se TAS A sical — | —> qb Beteg Bor] DeRisht Bor ae FSHDA WSs fe) ) nome : J0Rings left The Body of theALtay| TwoRings right} Diacram 18. ita ‘The Heptagram of the Seven Days, Tanstcorerarste The Heptagram itself refers to the seven eimai days of the week, and may also be made to show how their order is derived from the planets when placed at the angles of the Heptagram. =@ @ “ .. The lamp within the…
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…reach the ultimate shores, I arm myself the war to win :— Lift up your heads, O mighty gates | Be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ! The King of Glory shall come in. Tau I pass from the citrine; deep indigo Is this tall column. Snakes and vultures bend Their hooded hate on him that would ascend. O may the Four avail me! Ageless woe, Fear, torture throng the threshold. Lo! The end Of matter! The Immensity of things Let loose—new laws, new beings, new conditions :-— Dire chaos; see! these new-fledged wings Fail in its vaguenesses and inanitions. …
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…ted ones,” and gives unto him the symbol of Ruach, which is the Hebrew for Air. The Closing then takes place. “Let us adore the Lord and King of Air!” says the Hierophant. The prayer of the Sylphs follows ; and in the Name of SHADDAI EL CHAI the Temple is closed in the 2°=9° Grade of Theoricus. The following month, February, P. passed through the next grade, that of 3° = 8°. RITUAL OF THE 3° = 8° GRADE OF PRACTICUS This Grade is particularly attributed to the element of Water, and especially refers to the planet Mercury and to the thirty-first …
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…erfection. It should be pure, balanced, calm, complete, fitted in every way to dominate the mind, as it will. Even as in the choice of a king to be crowned.
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING the mystic title of “MONOKEROS DE ASTRIS,” which means “The Unicorn from the Stars,” and gives him the symbol of Maim—water. The closing of the Temple now takes place, and the prayer to the Undines is tehearsed, and in thename of ELOHIM TZABAOTH is the Dismissal pro- nounced, In May, 1899, three months after P. had passed through the ceremony of 3°=8°, he was sufficiently prepared for the further advancement to the grade of 4°=7°. RITUAL OF THE 4° = 7° GRADE OF PHILOSOPHUS The First Part This Ritual is particularl…
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The Hierophant then says: ‘“ The symbols before you represent alike the Garden of Eden,* and the Holy of Holies: Sephiroth and their connecting paths. . . number, and are distinguished by the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, making with the ten Sephiroth themselves the thirty-two paths of Wisdom of the Sepher Ai fet fst Y Dave Rata} “ Meow lov Tree lof Lise] ial Meoy| ste cotene, Tallekesfart| lineal figures Tree of Lise [_ i [| Geopantic Figures [ Ty |] ernie Sirens iL DracraM 23. Arrangement of the Tem…
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…of calling them forth and controlling them. From the MSS. of Dr. Dee and Sir Epwarp Ketty. THE CONTINUATION OF THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING. A full account of the reception of Fra. P. into the Rosicrucian Order, with illustrations; and of his operations in Ceremonial Magic, &c. [His Studies of Eastern Magic and Meditation, &c., to follow in Nos, IV. and V.] THE CONTINUATION OF THE HERB DANGEROUS: “The Poem of Hashish,” translated from the French of Cuarces Baupevarre by AxzisteR Crow Ley. THE SOUL-HUNTER, unpublished pages from the Diary of D…
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