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

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
There is, then, a new key to their order to be found and used, and such as are very intuitive
see it at a glance. The planets are in the order of the Rainbow colours, and in colours because this
Adeptus Minor grade is the especial exponent of colours. You Adepti are in the Path of the
Chamelion—Hodos Chamelionis.
If now you take the planetary colours and affix the planets and arrange them in the order of
the solar spectrum and then bend up the series into a ring and make the chain into a Heptagram,
and turn the whole about until you get the two ends of the series to meet at the Eastern point, you
will have this mysterium:
Violet—Jupiter Indigo—Saturn Blue—Moon
Green—Venus Yellow—Mercury Orange—Sun
Red—Mars
Science teaches, and has rediscovered a great truth, that however valuable the seven colours
of the prism may be, there are rays invisible and so not demonstrated here by space. Beyond the
red end of the spectrum begins the violet, and these have a great chemical or Yetsiratic force.
These forces, ever present and unseen, are represented by the Chief Adept standing erect at the
Eastern angle, the most powerful person in the group, and delegate of the Chiefs of the Second
Order, and through them of the mystic Third Order. He it is who has, symbolically, at any rate,
passed from death unto life, and holds the Keys of all the creeds. And he it is who may place in
our hands the Keys of the locked Palace of the King if we are able to make our knocking heard.
Representing the East, coming from the East, he faces the Western world, bringing intuition with
him; before him lies the symbolic body of our Master C.R.C., our grand exemplar and founder—
or at other times, the empty pastos, from which he has arisen, the Chief Adept.
He has Mars and Geburah at his right hand, and Jupiter and Gedulah at his left hand. He
faces Venus in the West, the Evening Star, which represents the entry of the Candidate who has
toiled all day until the evening. At even he enters the Western door of the planet Venus, that sole
planet unto whose symbol alone all the Sephiroth are conformed. At “evening time there shall be
light,” the light of the mixed colours. So the newly admitted Adept comes in contact with a
totality of the planetary forces for the first time. A great opportunity opens before him; let him
see well that he use it worthily. He enters through the green side of the vault. Green is the colour
of growth; let him see that he grows.
Upon each side of the vault are forty squares, five vertical series and eight horizontal, the
whole being symbolically 5’ x 8’. Now the published and printed Fama Fraternatitas says these
forty feet were divided into ten squares. If you are mathematicians you would know that ten
similar squares could not alone be placed in such an area and yet fill it. Ten squares alone to fill a
rectangle could only be placed in an area of the shape 5’ x 6’. Hence in the Fama, ten squares are
marked and salient” — they are the Sephiroth.
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