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

VOLUME FOUR
It should be suspended from a yellow silk collarette or ribbon. It is to be made and
consecrated by him unassisted and when not in use should be wrapped in white silk or linen.
Like the Lotus Wand, it should not be touched by another person after consecration, only by its
owner.
It is a complete synthesis of the Positive, Masculine, or Rainbow Scale of Colour
attribution, the ‘Scale of the King,’ as it is called. These colours may be found in a Knowledge
Lecture. The four ends are attributed to the Elements, the white portion to the Spirit and to the
Planets, the 22 petals of the Rose to the 22 paths. it is the Cross in Tiphareth, the receptacle and
centre of the forces of the Sephiroth and the Paths. The extreme centre of the Rose is White, the
reflected spiritual brightness of Kether, bearing upon it the Red Rose and Golden Cross from
which the second Order takes its name; the symbols of the rescuing force.
Around the Hexagram on the white part, below the Rose, are placed the planets in the
order which is the Key of the Supreme Ritual of the Hexagram. Around the Pentagrams are the
symbols of the Spirit and the four Elements in the order which is the Key of the Supreme Ritual
of the Pentagram. in each of the floreated ends of the Cross itself are arranged the three
Alchemical principles, but in different order in each element, and as showing their operation
therein.
The uppermost arm of the Cross allotted to Air, is of the yellow colour of Tiphareth. in it
the flowing philosophic mercurial nature is chief and without hindrance to its mobility, hence the
ever moving nature of Air. Its Suiphurous side is drawn from the part of Fire whence its
luminous and electrical qualities, its Saline from the Water, whence clouds and rains, from the
action of the Solar forces.
The lowest arm of the Cross allotted to Earth is of the four colours of Malkuth, the Earth
being of the nature of a container and receiver of the other influences. The Citrine answers to its
airy part; the Olive to the watery; the Russet to the fiery part; and the Black to the lowest part,
earthy of the Earth.
Here is also the Mercurial part chief, but hindered by the compound nature, whence its
faculty becomes germinative, rather than mobile. While the Sulphur and the Salt are respectively
from the sides of Water and Fire, which almost neutralize their natural operation and bring about
the fixedness and immobility of Earth.
The extremity allotted to fire is of the scarlet colour of GEBURAH, and in it the
Suiphurous nature is chief, whence its powers of heat and burning. The Salt is from the side of
water, whence the necessity for a constant substantial pabulum whereon to act; and the Mercury
is from the side of Air, whence the leaping, lambent motion of flame especially when acted on
by wind.
The extremity allotted to Water is of the blue color of CHESED and in it the Salt nature
is chief as exemplified in the Salt nature of the Ocean, to which all waters go; and thence also is
derived the nature of always preserving the horizontal line. The Mercury is from Earth whence
the weight and force of its flux and reflux. Its Sulphur part is from the Air
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