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

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
hearts, we look to be reintegrated in Thy love. Receive us, we beseech Thee; aid us still in
our necessity; and do Thou, the Throne of Whose Majesty is exalted in heavens
inaccessible, so purify and transmute Thy children of the Second Birth, the poor Brothers of
this Thy lowly Sodality, that Thy place may be also in our hearts. Come to us in the Life of
the Cross, come to us in the Death of the Mystic, bring us to the Resurrection which is in
Thee. And through all the Grades of the Christhood, give unto us the realisation of the
union, that we may attain that self which is in Thee. So shall we come into our own, in the
kingdom which is ours and Thine; and those who have been separate in manifestation shall
know themselves one spirit in Thee, Who art All in all.
(Those who are on their knees rise up. The Second and Third Celebrants are seated,
with the unofficial Brethren. The Usher of the Grade brings the Rose-Crucifix from the
Altar and presents it to the Celebrant in Chief. The Usher of the Grade goes to the Western
side of the Altar, where he faces East. The Postulant has his back to the Altar on the Eastern
side. The Merciful Exempt Adept elevates the Rose-Crucifix before the assembled Fratres
et Sorores, as he approaches the Postulant, saying:)
Adeptus Exemptus.
IN HOC SIGNO VINCES. (When he reaches the Postulant, the Merciful Exempt
Adept raises the Rose-Crucifix over the bowed head of the Postulant, and says:)
Adeptus Exemptus.
Frater Adveniat Regnum (vet nomen aliud), give me the First Sign which you received
on the Threshold of TI PH ERETH in the Portal of the Third Order. (There is no prompting,
as the Postulant has been tested previously. He gives and maintains thereafter the Sign of
the Opening of the Veil. The Merciful Exempt Adept dips the Dagger in the Wine and
cross-marks the Postulant on his forehead.)
Adeptus Exemptus.
There are Three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost.
These Three are One. (He dips the Dagger in the Wine and cross-marks the feet of the
Postulant.)
Adeptus Exemptus.
There are three that bear witness on earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one. (He dips the Dagger in the Wine and cross-marks the Postulant
in the palm of the right hand.)
Adeptus Exemptus.
Except a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the
Kingdom of GOD. (He dips the Dagger in the Wine and cross-marks the Postulant in the
palm of the left hand.)
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