Cicero - Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition_Part 01

The Theoricus Grade 233
Thme leads you clockwise to the East, where she
traces the figure of the cross and triangle with the
miter-headed wand. As she does so, you vibrate the
name "OUSIRI." The familiar image of the godform
begins to grow stronger in the East. Visualize the
mummy-wrapped form of the god strongly. Osiris
traces in the air before you the figure of a cross and
circle. He then hands you his crown-headed
scepter. Picking up the Wand of Power, you take on The Signof Theoricus
the office of Hierophant that Osiris has bestowed
upon you. Give the Sign of the Spiraling Light toward the East, then say, "Let the
white brilliance of the Divine Spirit descend!" Feel a flood of Divine Light flow
through your body from the Kether of the universe. Equilibrate this Light through
your body by performing the Qabalistic Cross, vibrating the Hebrew names.
Give a knock and say, "Let us adore the Lord and King of Air!" Trace a circle toward
the East with the scepter. Say, "SHADDAI EL CHAI, Almighty and Ever-Lasting­
Ever Living be Thy Name, Ever Magnified in the Life ofAll! Amen." Salute with the
Theoricus Sign.
Stand facing the Air Tablet. Visualize the rest of the astral officer/ godforms leaving
their stations to face East. Hiereus advances to just West of the altar. Hegemon and
Keryx advance and stand at the outer sides of the pillars.
Through the authority of the office of Hierophant bestowed upon you by Osiris,
invoke the powers of the Air Tablet. Give a knock, then trace with the wand a
large circle in front of the Tablet. Then draw the invoking pentagram of Spirit
Active. As you do so vibrate "EXARP" (Ex-ar-pay). Trace the sigil of Spirit in the
center and intone "EHEIEH" (Eh-heh-yay). Give the Sign of the Spiraling Light.
Then trace the invoking pentagram of Air. As you do so vibrate the name "ORO
IBAHAOZP/" (Or-oh Ee-bah-hay Ah-oh-zohd-pee). Draw the sigil of Aquarius in
the center and intone "YHVH." Give the Sign of Theoricus. Say:
And the Elohim said, "Let us make ADAM in Our Image, after our likeness,
and let them have dominion over thefowl of the Air." In the Name
YOD HEH VAV HEH and in the Name of SHADDAI ELCHAI, Spirits
ofAir adoreyour Creator.
Take up the fan from the altar and return to the East. Trace with the fan the sigil of
Aquarius before the Tablet. 66 Say:
66 In Regardie's The Golden Dawn, the Hierophant uses a pentacle to trace these figures before the
Tablet of the East. This is due to the fact that the number five is considered an esoteric Lunar number
associated with Yesod, and it hints at a subtle correspondence that exists between the 2=9 grade
and the Portal grade. However, we have always felt that the use of the pentacle to invoke the powers
of Air was a bit too esoteric. For the sake of balance and cohesion with the tools used in the other Elemental
grades, we have substituted the fan as the tool used to invoke Air.