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

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
Sphynx. The two triangles right and left show the Body with the arms or fore
limbs here also. If Angel or Eagle there are Wings added unto the representation of
the Figure. The lowest triangle adds the lower limbs and the tail of the Bull, Hawk
and Lion.
When Air and Fire predominate there is a male tendency. When Water and
Earth the type tendeth to female. Then as the symbolic forms of the Egyptian Gods
who rule above the Pyramid, it is to be understood that what is here written
regarding the Sphynx of the Pyramid and the God of Egypt ruling above is
applicable especially unto the 16 squares of the Servient Angels in each lesser
angle.
TWO EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK OF THE CONCOURSE OF THE
FORCES
I. Of squares marked by reversed letters, the full understanding hereof
belongeth unto a more advanced grade than that of Z.A.M. Wherefore in this place it
is enough to say that a reversed Letter signifieth that a certain more isolated action
of the square is distinguished, so that it doth as it were not so much complete and
harmonise with the other squares about it, as that it expresseth a certain faculty or
faculties which do not entirely harmonise with them, and which for this reason are
kept apart. They do not necessarily represent an evil form of action, though in one
sense the evil forces grasp them more readily than through their lesser harmony
with the other surrounding squares of the Tablet, that is in what are termed the
"Battle Formulae."
11. Of the skrying of the squares servient in the spirit vision. Having in
readiness the necessary implements and insignia, and the symbol of the Pyramid of
the Square, having rehearsed the Angelic calls appropriate thereunto, and having
invoked the appropriate names governing the Plane and division thereof in
question, let the Z.A.M. imagine unto himself that he is enclosed within, or
believe that he is voluntarily standing within an atmosphere corresponding unto
that symbolised by the Pyramid of the Square, whether of Heat or Moisture, of
Cold or Dryness, or of combinations of these.
Let him endeavour to follow the Ray therefrom unto the limits of the
Macrocosmic World and to find himself in a scene corresponding unto the nature of
the Pyramid Square. That is, either of landscape, or clouds, or water or Fire, or
Ether, or vapour, or mist, or raying light, or a combination or combinations of
these, according unto the nature of the Plane.
For the Pyramids of the Squares are not solid pyramids of brick or stone,
built by the
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