Cicero - Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition_Part 01

6 SELF-INITIATION INlOmE GoLDEN DAWN TRADmON
are appropriate for beginning students. The more advanced forms should not be
envisioned until after the student has become proficient in the art of godform
visualization.
The throne of each godform is also ornamented with the flashing pair of
colors that reflect that officer's particular Elemental or Sephirotic affinity. Each
throne is considered a receptacle or dwelling place for the Divine Powers of the
god. They are batteries of specific energy forces.
The wands, swords and other implements associated with the various
godforms in the Hall are also heavy with symbolic meaning. These items act to
reinforce the respective potencies of the godforms.e
General Note
The Godforms of the Visible Stations
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The human portions of the godforms follow the coloring conventions of Egyptian
iconography in that the skin tone of women is represented as a rich yellow-gold
and that of men as a warm reddish-brown.>
Above each of the godforms of the officers on the Dais may be envisioned
a circled cross of white light (like the lamen of the Hierophant) symbolic of the
Inner Order, and above each of the other godforms of officers in the Hall may be
envisioned a cross and triangle of white lightsymbolic of the Outer Order. Above
the godform of the Phylaxn in the Pronaos may be envisioned a triangle of white
light (like the sash badge of the Neophyte) symbolic of the light extended into
the Darkness of the outer and uninitiated world.
The Godforms
Praemonstrator or Praemonstratrix
[Egyptian Iset, Coptic HCE 'Ese (Ay-say), Graeco-Egyptian Isis] Isis has a human
head, and wears a nemyss striped blue and orange. Her linen gown is blue. Her
14 The colors given here are different from those given in a manuscript published in Regardie's The
Golden Dawn. That paper, entitled ''The Egyptian Godforms of the Neophyte Grade" was writtenby
someone in the Stella Matutina, and was never a part of the original Z documents by Mathers. The
colors it assigns to the officers are in reality colors that apply only to the godforms in the game of
Enochian Chess, and not to the godforms of the Neophyte Hall. It lists, for example, the colors of
Nephthys as being primarily black-the color of Earth. In Enochian Chess Nephthys represents the
Element of Earth, but in the Neophyte Hall she represents the Sephirah of Geburah and her colors
would correspond to that sphere-primarily red. The other godforms would also be colored in
accordance with their roles in the Neophyte Hall; the Hegemon's godform would be primarily yellow
because of her role as the Reconciler.
15 The Sentinel of the old G:. D:. documents.