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

VOLUME NINE
Summer Solstice, which she thus recalleth as the affirmation of the Life Force
of Osiris.
The Sign of Typhon and Apophis: the space between the hands above the head
will mark the diminished extent of the whole "Arc" of the Sun and his Winter
Solstice, thus representing the corresponding excess of the Darkness over the
Light.
The Signs of the Rending asunder, and of the Closing of the Veil: mark the
Arcs of Light midway between the Equinoxes and the Solstices.
The Sign of Osiris Risen: representeth the Synthetical extent of the variation
between the utmost extent of the Light of the Solstices and the Equinoxes, as thus
affirming that the power of the governance of these Forces may be found in the Self
when depending on the higher illumination, as the New Name is found from the
initials of the others.
In the diagrams the Light is therefore shewn as coming from above the
figure; thus affirming its descent from, and also the Solar course of the Seasons
dependeth from the movement of the Forces symbolized in the Book T, by the 4
Aces at the North Pole of the Universe, and their convoluted revolution.
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