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

VOLUME EIGHT
Lay down the Lotus Wand on the right side of the Disc, and lay the Sword down upon the
left of the Disc and Ring. Give then the Sign of the Interposer, namely that of a Zelator, and then
invoke the Great Goddess THMAH to manifest the forces of Truth therein by the virtue of:
and concluding with the Threefold Name of the Goddess:
When the ceremony is completed, and when the Disc and the Ring are not in use, wrap
them up in a clean covering of White Silk or White Linen, as in the cases of the Rose-Cross and
the Lotus Wand.
THE PHILOSOPHICAL EXPOSITION OF THE WORKING
OF THE RING AND THE DISC
Let the Theoricus Adeptus Minor recall that which was said in the lecture on the
Microcosm, under the headings of “How the Spiritual Consciousness can act around and beyond
the Sphere of Sensation,” and “Of Travelling in the Spirit Vision.”
In the working by the Ring and Disc then, the Operator buildeth up partly from his own
Nephesch and partly from the surrounding atmosphere a species of truncated cone of astral light.
The Disc is its base, while the truncated summit thereof is at the point of suspension of the Ring
where the thread thereof passeth between the thumb and finger of the Operator. The action of the
Will of the Operator in formulating his desire of communication buildeth up the symbol of a
receptacle of impressions. This will take the form of another inverted cone rising from the point
of suspension of the Ring. So that upon the Disc as a base there will be built up in the astral light
a form somewhat resembling an hourglass of which the center will be the place of the finger and
the thumb of the Operator, holding the thread of suspension of the Ring. And from the
impressions received by the conical receptacle, the hand will translate into action in the lower
cone the expression of these ideas, in words and sentences spelled out by the movements of the
Ring over the letters of the Disc.
But were it an uninitiated person who attempted this form of Divination or of
consultation, he or she, being ignorant of the formulas involved, would almost to a certainty open
a conical receptacular funnel in the sphere of sensation (of him or her) thus preparing a ready
path unto obession. Therefore, it is not entirely the Force invoked which actually spells out the
words, but to a great extent it is the Operator himself who translates
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