Cicero - Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition_Part 01

210 SELF-INTI1ATIONINTO THE GoLDEN DAWN TRAOmON
Lesser Invoking
Pentagram
Lesser Banishing
Pentagram
The Forms oftheLesser Pentagram
URIEL look withfavor upon thisceremony! May theAngelPHORLAKH
and the rulerKERUB bealso in attendance! I have gained admission to
this temple through the Badge of theHermetic Cross. Hear me!I am one
whohas received theMystic Title ofPericlinus deFaustis andthesymbol
ofARETZ. As a wanderer in theWilderness, I invoke thepowers of Earth
to bear witnessto my spiritual endeavor. Grant me the knowledge of the
Element of Earth and the Active Realm, so that I may obtain greater
understanding ofHidden Things andthereby advance in theGreat Work.
Circumambulate the temple three times, saluting with the Neophyte Signs when
passing the East. Go to the West and face East. Give the Adoration to the Lord of
the Universe:
Holyart Thou, Lord of theUniverse! (Projection Sign)
Holyart Thou, Whom Nature hathnotformed! (PS)
Holyart Thou, theVast and theMighty One!(PS)
Lord of theLight, andof theDarkness! (Sign of Silence)
Go to the North and give the Zelator Sign. Recite the Prayer of the Gnomes:
o Invisible King, Who, taking theEarth for Foundation, didsthollow its
depths tofill themwith Thy Almighty Power. Thou whose Nameshaketh
theArches oftheWorld. Thou whocausest theSeven Metals toflow in the
veinsoftherocks, KingoftheSeven Lights, Rewarder ofthesubterranean
Workers, lead us intothedesirable Air andintotheRealm ofSplendor. We
watch and we labor unceasingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve
stones of theHoly City,by theburied talismans, by theAxis of the Lodestonewhichpasses
through thecenter of the Earth-O Lord, 0 Lord, 0
Lord! Have pity upon those whosuffer. Expand our hearts, unbindand
upraise our minds,enlarge our natures.
o Stability andMotion! 0 Darkness veiled in Brilliance! 0 Dayclothed
in Night! 0 Master whonever dostwithhold thewages ofThy Workmen!