Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.pdf

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
The three principle figures form the Fire Triangle, and further represent Fire operating
in the other Three Elements of Earth, Air, and Water.
The central lower figure with his back turned, and his arms in the sign of the Two
equals Nine, is Arel, the Ruler of latent heat. He is rising from the Earth as if to receive the
properties of the other three. He is also Kasimillos, the Candidate in the Samothracian
Mysteries, and the Horus of Egypt. He rises from the rock-hewn cubical Tomb and he also
alludes to the Candidate who traverses the Path of Fire. The three lower figures represent the
letter Shin, to which Fire is especially referred. The seven Hebrew Yods allude to the
Sephiroth operating in each of the Planets and to the Schem-hamphoresch.
The magical title is The Spirit of the Primal Fire.
19th KEY-THE SUN
Before you upon the Altar is the Nineteenth Key of Tarot which symbolically resumes
these ideas. The Sun has twelve principal rays which represent the Twelve Signs of the
Zodiac. They are alternately waved and salient as symbolising the alternation of the
masculine and feminine natures. These again are subdivided into 36 Decanates or sets of ten
degrees in the Zodiac, and these again into 72, typifying the 72 quinances or sets of five, and the
72-fold name of Schem ha-mephorasch. Thus the Sun embraces the whole creation in its rays.
The seven Hebrew Yods on each side, falling through the air, refer to the Solar
influence descending. The Wall is the Circle of the Zodiac, and the stones are its various
degrees and divisions.
The two children standing respectively on the Water and Earth represent the generating
influence of both, brought into action by the rays of the Sun. They are the two inferior and
passive Elements, as the Sun and Air above them are the superior and active Elements of Fire
and Air. Furthermore, these two children resemble the sign Gemini which unites the Earthy
Sign of Taurus with the Watery Sign Cancer, and this sign was, by the Greeks and Romans,
referred to Apollo and the Sun.
The magical title is Lord of the Fire of the World.
18th KEY-THE MOON
Before you upon the Altar is the 18th Key of Tarot which symbolically resumes ideas.
It represents the Moon with four Hebrew Yods like drops of dew falling, two Dogs, two
Towers, a winding Path leading to the Horizon, and in the foreground, Water with a Crayfish
crawling through it to the land. The Moon is in its increase on the side of Mercy, Gedulah, and
from it proceed sixteen principle and sixteen secondary rays, which make 32, the number of the
Paths of Yetzirah. She is the Moon at the feet of the Woman of Revelations, ruling equally
over the cold and moist natures and the passive elements of Earth and Water. It is to be noted
that the symbol of the Sign is formed of two lunar crescents bound together. It thus shows
the lunar nature of the Sign. The Dogs are the
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