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

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THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC<br />

the Spirit shews forth, at the centre <strong>of</strong> the Altar-circle, shall be Life <strong>of</strong> life withiii thee.<br />

And death shall be no more. (<strong>The</strong> Celebrants turn to the East.)<br />

Adeptus Major.<br />

PATER AETERNUS DEUS, DONA NOBIS VITAM.<br />

Auxiliary Frater Adeptus.<br />

VITEM AETERNAM TUAM DONA NOBIS, DOMINE.<br />

Adeptus Major.<br />

FILL REDEMPTOR MUNDI DEUS, DONA NOBIS VERBUM.<br />

Auxiliary Frater Adeptus.<br />

Eh VERBUM CARO FACTUM ERIT.<br />

Adeptus Major.<br />

SPIRITUS SANCTE DEUS, LUMEN DONA NOBIS.<br />

Auxiliary Frater Adeptus.<br />

LUMEN VERITATIS TUAE, ET IN TE RESURGAMUS NOS.<br />

(After these versicles there is a hush <strong>of</strong> complete silence. <strong>The</strong> Celebrant in Chief<br />

speaks from within the veil.)<br />

Adeptus Exemptus.<br />

In six days <strong>of</strong> his life is material man created, and thereafter cometh a Jubilee. <strong>The</strong><br />

natural man is complete in his own degree, but above this there is the manhood <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Sacred Temple. From the life <strong>of</strong> man in Nature, from the death which ensues thereon and<br />

opens the further prospects, we who have been called <strong>of</strong> the spirit have sought a path <strong>of</strong><br />

elevation toward a more perfect mode. It is in losing that which the natural man holds most<br />

desirable that the spiritual man, after six days, shall find himself. We have looked for life in<br />

GOD and have been crucified in Him to all which here below interposes between Life Divine<br />

and the free way <strong>of</strong> the Quest. We have stripped <strong>of</strong>f the old vestures, praying to be clothed in<br />

GOD. We have found that the quest is love and that is also the end. In paths <strong>of</strong> contemplation,<br />

and these are paths <strong>of</strong> love; in the rule <strong>of</strong> sacrifice, which is love rnade holy; we have found<br />

that life is love. Opened to Divine Love on the threshold <strong>of</strong> the life <strong>of</strong> TIPHERETH, we<br />

have been born by love into true life forever. We have laid bare our whole being to the<br />

sacred influx <strong>of</strong> love, and this is the life <strong>of</strong> the Cross. We have become the Mystic Rose in the<br />

centre <strong>of</strong> the Holy Cross. But the Secret <strong>of</strong> Death is also the Secret <strong>of</strong> Love. We have died<br />

upon the Cross <strong>of</strong> TIPHERETH. It is the mystic death <strong>of</strong> the kiss. <strong>The</strong>re is a desire which<br />

kills, and the same also makes alive, Amen, for ever and evermore. (<strong>The</strong> voice dies away<br />

within the veil, and again there is complete silence. Afterwards the voice speaks.)<br />

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