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

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
The Servient Squares:
No. 1. Elemental Emblem of Great Tablet. Astrological
attribution. No. 2. Elemental Emblem of letter ruling Column. Tarot
Trump. No. 3. Elemental Emblem of Lesser angle. Geomantic Figure.
No. 4. Elemental Emblem of Letter ruling Rank. Hebrew letter
corresponding to Trump in 2.
Each triangle is coloured according to its elemental emblem. This method may sound
fearfully complex, but it is actually much easier than it sounds. It takes far less time to work out a
square than to describe how it is done.
Let us take at random the 3rd square in the 3rd rank of the 2nd Lesser angle of Air. (I
have not at this moment the slightest idea what it is.)
Air Tablet - therefore No. 1. Yellow
Water angle - therefore No. 3. Blue. Heh on right of Kerubim, therefore
Vau at head of our column, and Heh (final) for 3rd rank.
Therefore No. 2. Yellow, No. 4. black or citrine. Air column, earth
rank, therefore Air, Fool, Aleph, and Fortuna Minor and we can put the
square together thus:
By pure accident I lit on a square which illustrates a doubtful point, viz: whether black
should be used throughout for earth, or whether the four colours of Malkuth from the Minutum
Mundum are more correct. It introduces the Queen's Scale, which seems against it. but they are
used in the Sigil of the Earth Tablet, and I have used them in working out the complete Tablets. If
they are used, citrine should be used for the lesser angle of earth in the Air Tablet wherever the
lesser angle Element determines the colour. Also wherever in any angle Earth column crosses
Air rank or vice versa. So with the olive, russet and black.
The Tablet of Union.
Nos. 2 and 4 always Spirit.
No. I. Element of column (Spirit in first
column) No. 3. Element of rank and so coloured.
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