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

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
(This is the Angelical Formula, which brings the holy hills about the
Jerusalem of the Temple and makes the Temple itself as a ring of holy hills about his
own Jerusalem within. He finishes as he began, namely, with the SEAL IN G PRAYE R ,
which signifies the closing of the gates within and without against the images of evil.
He goes before the Throne of the Hierophant, which he faces, and recites the
following prayer.)
P RAY ER B EFORE THE TH RO NE
Hierophant.
Creator of the Universe, Lord of the Visible Worlds, Who hast by Thy
Supreme Power set up Thy Holy Signs in all the quarters of the Heavens and dost
speak to us by day and by night in Thy greater and lesser luminaries, Thy suns and
stars and constellations: Grant, we beseech Thee, that the hidden grace which abides
in the Radiant East, the Dayspring of Light and the Font of Life. may in answer to
this our prayer - be here and now communicated to the 1 hrone of the Hierophant.
Make him in Thy benignity the efficacious emblem of that Dawning Golden Light
which illuminates the Path of Thy Mysteries, and may that light lead us to the
attainment of the Quintessence, the tingeing Stone of the Wise. the Wisdom which has
its source in hheeand the Beatitude which is found in Thy Presence.
( ( h e Officers and the Temple are in this manner dedicated to the work
about to be performed, and the clearing is done invariably with a solemn
recollection of the intention belonging to its several points. If the Temple is opened to
communicate a higher Grade than that of Neophyte, it must he preceded by this
clearing in the same manner. In such case. the communication of the Neophyte Grade
subsequently on the same day does not carry with it the necessity of another clearing.
The Prayer being finished. the Hierophant takes his place on the Throne rn the East,
approaching it by the northern side of the pedestal before the Throne. He assumes
his sceptre. Members are seated: a pause. All rise. The Sentinel leaves the Temple.
The Kerux passes by the North to the North-East side of the Temple, and so
standing at the right hand but to the front of the Hierophant, and facing West, he
raises his Lamp and Wand.)
Hierophant.
Fratres et Sorores of the Isis Urania Temple, duly assembled under warrant
for the Mysteries of the Golden Dawn, assist me to open the Temple of our Holy
Order in the Grade of Neophyte.
K erux.
Hekas, Hekas. este heheloi.
He return:, to his place by the South and West, giving the Signs of the Grade as
he passes the Throne of the Hierophant. Except in the reverse circumambulation at
the close of this Grade, the course of the sun must be followed in the movements of
all Officers and
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