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

VOLUME EIGHT
It is necessary to balance the people sitting in the Tomb. The most practised
should take the place at the head of the Pastos, with the beginner on either side. But
where only two are working together, they should sit opposite each other at the sides
or at the head and foot of the Pastos.
The Lotus Wand should be held by the white portion when Spirit is being
invoked. When an Element is chosen, a suitable coloured band should be selected.
After some practice, it is not difficult to find the correct band in the dark. At first it
is better to hold it before extinguishing the light.
Even when first sitting in the Tomb, strange bluish balls of floating light,
like phosphorus, will be seen by natural clairvoyants. These are not to be confused
with the ordinary daylight remaining in the eyes when we go into a dark room.
CONCERNING THE CROOK AND THE SCOURGE
The Crook therefore is divided into the colours symbolic of Kether, Air,
Chokmah, Taurus, Chesed, Leo, Tiphareth, Aries, Hod, Capricorn. The Scourge is
divided into the colours symbolising Netzach, Tiphareth, Gemini, Binah, Cancer,
Geburah and Water.
CONCERNING THE WALLS
Each Wall of the Tomb is said mystically to be 5 feet in breadth, 8 feet in
height, thus yielding 40 squares, of which 10 are marked and salient representing the
Ten Sephiroth in the form of the Tree of Life, acting through the planets.
(Note: There are various methods of colouring the sides. That here described
is considered the best and most effective. But it requires perfect pigments and very
great artistic skill in blending them. If not perfectly done, the result is dull and
unluminous. And even pigments originally perfect, change with time. N.O.M.)
Another method and that used in the Amen-Ka Vault (in Edinburgh) is to
form the symbol in its own colours placed on the square of its own color -- the planet
on its own side being expressed in its complimentary colour. Thus the Venus symbol on
the door side is red on a green ground. These colours cut from coloured paper, if
accurate, are more brilliant than pigments.
Note that in all the central upper squares above remain white and
unchangeable, representing the changelessness of the Divine Spirit, thus
developing all from the One through the many under the government of the One.
The colour of the varying squares may either be represented by the colour of
the Planet and the colour of the force therein being mixed together, or by these colours
being placed in juxtaposition or in any other convenient manner, but the foundation
of them all is under the Minutum Mundum Diagram.
The Spirit square on each side has the same outward appearance, but when
studied clairvoyantly each will be found to have characteristics in harmony with the
Planet. (that is, of the particular side.)
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