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

VOLUME FIVE
which I can but dimly follow. The gold each time appearing to undergo a change.
When these last figures have retired again behind the curtains, the King and Queen used a
species of ladle and compressed together the gold, making it into solid shapes and placing
one of these at each of the curtained doors. Some gold still remained in the bowl. The
King and Queen departed, and it seemed to me that I saw a figure again appear from
behind each curtain and draw away the pieces of gold."
The second one I shall quote is a vision of Spirit of Water, Akasa of Apas, also
by Vestigia.
"A wide expanse of water with many reflections of bright light, and occasionally
glimpses of rainbow colours appearing (perhaps symbolising the beginning of formation in
Water). When divine and other names were pronounced, elementals of the mermaid and
merman type appear, but few of other elemental forms. These water forms are extremely
changeable, one moment appearing as solid mermaids and mermen, the next melting into
foam.
"Raising myself by means of the highest symbols I have been taught, and vibrating
the names of Water, I rose until the Water vanished, and instead I beheld a mighty world
or globe. with its dimensions and divisions of Gods, Angels, elementals, demons - the
whole universe of Water (like the tablet ruled in EMPEH ARSEL GAIOL), I called on this
latter name, and the Universe seemed to vivify more and more. I then called on HCOMA,
and there appeared standing before me a mighty Archangel (with four wings) robed in
glistening white, and crowned. In one hand, the right, he held a species of trident, and in the
left a Cup filled to the brim with an essence which appeared to be derived from above. This
essence, brimming over, poured down below on either side, From the overflowing or over
running of this Cup, which derives its essence from Atziluth, apparently the cup being in
Briah, the World of Yetzirah obtains its moisture. It is there differentiated into its various
operative forces.
"These operative forces are represented by Angels each with their respective office in
the world of moisture. These forces working in Yetzirah, when descending and mingling
with the Kether of Assiah, are initiating the force of that which we as human beings call
Moisture."
Here is another good example of a Tattwa vision. It was obtained over a score of
years ago by Countess Tamara Bourkoun-Dolgoruky when she visited me in Los
Angeles.
"I found myself suspended in an unfathomable abyss of space. Nothing was
visible, neither sky nor clouds, no stars or any other heavenly bodies, save a diffused pale
grey light. I was conscious of myself as a colossal figure in a yellow robe and a yellow
and violet nemyss, holding a yellow dagger and tracing with it the appropriate
Pentagrams and Divine Names. However, they did not appear outlined in flashing colours,
as had been the case when skrying in the realms of Fire and Water. Rather I heard them
vibrating through the waves of Aether and reaching the confines of the Universe, whence
their echoes rushed back to me, reverberating with a deafening roar.
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