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

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
pointed Star or Heptagram alludes to the Seven Palaces of Assiah, the crossed legs to the Symbol of the
Four Letters of the Name. The surmounting Crescent receives the Influences alike of Geburah and of
Gedulah. She is the synthesis of the 32 nd Path uniting Malkuth with Yesod. The oval of 72 small circles is
the Schem-hamphorasch, or the 72 fold Name of the Deity. The 12 larger circles form the Zodiac. At the
angles are the four Kerubim, which are the vivified Powers of the Letters of the Name Tetragramaton
operating in the elements, through which you have just symbolically passed in the preceding ceremony.
The Fan, Lamp, Cup and Salt represent the four elements themselves, whose inhabitants are the Sylphs,
Salamanders, Undines and Gnomes. Be thou therefore prompt and active as the sylphs, but avoid frivolity
and caprice; be energetic and strong like the salamanders but avoid irritability and ferocity; be flexible
and attentive to images like the undines, but avoid idleness and changeability; be laborious and patient
like the gnomes but avoid grossness and avarice. So shalt thou gradually develop the powers of thy soul,
and fit thyself to command the Spirits of the elements. The Altar as in the preceding degrees represents
the Material universe, and on its right is the Garden of Eden, symbolized by the Station of the Hegemon,
and on its left is Gehenna the abode of the Shells symbolized by the Tablet of the Kerux. These Officers
will now explain these drawings.
Hiero:
Returns to his place.
Heg:
Leads Candidate to his Tablet in The South.
Heg:
The drawing before you shows in part the Occult symbolism of the Garden of Eden and the Holy City of
the Apocalypse. The Outer circle is the enclosing Paradisiacal Wall guarded by the Kerubim and the
Flame, and the Seven Squares are the Seven Mansions thereof, or the Seven Spheres, wherein
Tetragramaton Elohim planted every Tree which is pleasant and good for food symbolized by the Palm
Trees wrought upon the Veil of the Tabernacle and the Door of the Holy of Holies in the Temple. But in
the midst is the Tree of Life, the Throne of God, and the Lamb. Twelve are the foundations and twelve
are the Gates, shown by the twelve entrances in the drawing. The four streams rising from one
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