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

VOLUME SIX
the Veil. Each member in passing gives the Sign of the Enterer, thus projecting the Light forward on his
Path from East to West, as he receives it from the Hierophant’s Throne. Horus passes only once, for he is
the Son of Osiris and inherits the Light by birthright from him. Therefore he goes at once to his station to
fix the Light there. Thmaest, the Goddess of Truth, passes twice because her rule is of the Balance of the
Two Scales, and she retires to her Station between the Pillars there to complete the reflex of the Middle
Column. The Watcher within and the rest circumambulate thrice as affirming the completion of the
Reflection of the Perfecting of the White Triangle of the Three Supernals upon the Altar.
Then follows the Adoration of God the Vast One, the Lord of the Universe - at which again all give the
Sign of the Enterer, the Sign of the Projection of the Force of the Light. Then only does the Watcher
declare that the Sun has arisen and that the Light shineth in Darkness. Now comes the Battery of the
Neophyte Grade - the single knock of Hierophant repeated by Hiereus and Hegemon. This affirms the
establishment of the White Triangle and therefore the Completion of the Opening Ceremony. The Mystic
Words “Khabs Am Pekht” which accompany the knocks seal the image of the Light. Their significance
imples, by various Qabalistic methods of analysis, as well as by a certain reading of the Coptic and
Egyptian hieroglyphics, “Light in Extension” or “May Light be extended in Abundance upon you.”
Konx Om Pax is the Greek corrupted pronunciation of this, put here to link it with its right origin.
The Grade of Neophyte has 0 or the Circle for its Number, as if hiding all things under the negative
symbol. This is placed within a circle and a square connected by equal lines, as if affirming the hidden
quality of their origin in Kether where all things are One, and the consequent universal application of the
Secret Formulae.
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