Cicero - Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition_Part 01

240 SELF-INITIATION INTO THE GoLDEN DAWN TRADITION
The Kerub stands back and traces the sigil of Taurus before you with the Salt. A
cool sense of physical stability envelopes you as he does so. Visualize the sigil at
your heart center as your aura is filled temporarily with an Earthy black Light.
Take up the Salt at the station of the Keryx and trace the sigil in the air before you.
The Kerub speaks once more:
In the signof theOx, and in the name of theKerub SHOR, Child of the
Elements, thou art purified. Pass thou on.
Thme leads you to the East where you replace the Banner of Light. She then leads
you around the temple again, enabling you to replace all the Elements upon the
altar as you circumambulate from East to South, West and North.
Visualize all the great Kerubic forms that you have encountered on
the Path of Tau. Like mighty pillars with outstretched wings they
stand at the four quarters supporting the Vault of the Heavens, surrounded
by a starry blue-violet tapestry. They are the guardians of
the equilibrium and harmony of the universe and the stewards of
the fourfold Name, balancing between the physical and the nonphysical
realms.
Return to between the pillars and strongly visualize all the officer/ godforms at their
stations as in the beginning of the ceremony. They have shed their outer appearance
as the Kerubim. Hold the Admission Badge for the Path of Tau high and say:
The Cubical Cross is afitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced
forces oftheElements. It is composed of22 squares externally, thus referringto
the22 letters thatare placed thereon. Twenty-two are theletters of
the Eternal Voice, in the Vault of Heaven, in thedepth of Earth, in the
Abyss of Water, in theAll-Presence of Fire. Heaven cannot speak their
fullness-Earth cannot utter it. Yet hath the Creator bound themin all
things. He hath mingled them in Water. He hath whirled themaloft in
Fire. Hehathsealed them in theAir ofHeaven. Hehathdistributed them
through the Planets. He hathassigned unto them the Twelve Constellations
of theuniverse.
Put the cross aside and focus your attention on the Tau plaque ahead of you. Say:
The 32ndPath oftheSepher Yetzirah, which answereth untoMalkuth and
theletter Tau, is called theAdministrative Intelligence, andit is so-called
because it directeth andassociateth in alltheir operations, theSeven Planets,evenallofthemin
their ownduecourses. To it therefore isattributed
the due knowledge of the Seven Abodes of Assiah, the Material World,
which are symbolized in theApocalypse by theSeven Churches.