Cicero - Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition_Part 01

244 SELF-INITIATION INTO TIlE GoLDEN DAWN TRADITION
The plaque of the Hebrew letter Tau should be placed in the West behind the
Hiereus. In the East should the letters Resh, Samekh and Tzaddi, along with the
seal, Qamea, and sigils of Luna. On the front side of the altar should be the diagram
of the Flaming Sword. On the top of the altar should be the red cross within
the white triangle, apex downwards. Near the top right-hand point of the triangle
a red lamp or candle should be placed. At the left-hand corner should be a cup of
Water. Just East of the lamp, cup and triangle should be the diagram of the Serpent
on the Tree of Life (on a diagram stand).
PART 2: Entry into Yesod
After setting up the Hall, spend a few moments more in relaxed meditation in the
antechamber. Visualize the Air triangle once more and then perform the Qabalistic
Cross. Take up the Caduceus Admission Badge. When ready, stand just outside
the temple door and give the Battery of knocks:3-3-3. Brieflyvisualize all of the
astralofficer / godforms at their respective stations. Then imagine Thme and Anubis
at the entrance facing you. Anubis bids you to enter. Remain just inside the
door. Youhear the voice of Osiris from the East:
Frater Periclinus de Faustis (Soror Pericline de Faustis), as in the
Zelator grade there were given the symbolic representations of the
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, of the Gate of Eden and of
the Holy Place, so in this grade of Theoricus, the Sanctum Sanctorum
with the Ark and the Kerubim is shown, as well as the Garden
of Eden with which it coincides; while in the 32nd Path leading
hereunto, through which you have just symbolically passed the
Kerubic Guardians are represented, and the Palm Trees or Trees of
Progression in the Garden of Eden.
Thme leads you to the West and places you before the Portal of the 32nd Path of
Tau by which you have symbolically entered. She gestures for you to face the station
of Hiereus. Horus questions you:
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By what symbol dost thou enter herein?
(You answer holding up the Admission Badge:) I enterby the peculiaremblem
of the Keryx, which is the Caduceus of Hermes. The Tree of
Lifeand the Three Mother Letters are the Keys wherewith to unlockthe
Caduceus of Hermes. The upper pointof the Wand rests on Kether, and
the Wings stretch out to Chokmah and Binah, the Three Supernal Sephiroth.
Thelower seven are embraced by theSerpents, whose headsfall upon
Chesed and Geburah. Theyare theTwin Serpents of Egypt-the currents
of theAstral Light. Furthermore, thewingsandtopoftheWandform the