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Depart therefore, for the Vision of the Voice of the ninth
Æthyr that is called ZIP is passed.
Then I threw back myself into my body by my will
BOU-SÂADA.
December 7th, 1909. 9.30-11.10 p.m.
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THE CRY OF THE 8TH ÆTHYR, WHICH IS CALLED ZID
There appears in the stone a tiny spark of light. It grows a
little, and seems almost to go out, and grows again, and it is
blown about the Æthyr, and by the wind that blows it is it fanned,
and now it gathers strength, and darts like a snake or a sword,
and now it steadies itself, and is like a Pyramid of light that
filleth the whole Æthyr.
And in the Pyramid is one like unto an Angel, yet at the same
time he is the Pyramid, and he hath no form because he is of the
substance of light, and he taketh not form upon him, for though
by him is form visible, he maketh it visible only to destroy it.
And he saith: The light is come to the darkness, and the
darkness is made light. Then is light married with light, and the
child of their love is that other darkness, wherein they abide that
have lost name and form. Therefore did I kindle him that had
not understanding, and in the Book of the Law did I write the
secrets of truth that are like unto a star and a snake and a sword.
And unto him that understandeth at last do I deliver the
secrets of truth in such wise that the least of the little children of
the light may run to the knees of the mother and be brought to
understand.
And thus shall he do who will attain unto the mystery of the
knowledge and conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel:
First, let him prepare a chamber, of which the walls and the
roof shall be white, and the floor shall be covered with a carpet
of black squares and white, and the border thereof shall be blue
and gold.
And if it be in a town, the room shall have no window,
and if it be in the country, then it is better if the window be in the
roof. Or, if it be possible, let this invocation be performed in a
temple prepared for the ritual of passing through the Tuat.
From the roof he shall hang a lamp, wherein is a red glass, to
burn olive oil. And this lamp shall he cleanse and make ready
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after the prayer of sunset, and beneath the lamp shall be an altar,
foursquare, and the height shall be thrice half of the breadth or
double the breadth.
And upon the altar shall be a censor, hemispherical, sup-
ported upon three legs, of silver, and within it an hemisphere of
copper, and upon the top a grating of gilded silver, and thereupon
shall he burn incense made of four parts of olibanum and two
parts of stacte, and one part of lignum aloes, or of cedar, or of
sandal. And this is enough.
And he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within the
altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and
galangal.
And even if he be of higher rank than a Probationer, he shall
yet wear the robe of the Probationer, for the star of flame
showeth forth Ra Hoor Khuit openly upon the breast, and
secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is Nuit, and the red
triangle that ascendeth is Hadit. And I am the golden Tau in the
midst of their marriage. Also, if he choose, he may instead wear
a close-fitting robe of shot silk, purple and green, and upon it a
cloak without sleeves, of bright blue, covered with golden
sequins, and scarlet within.
And he shall make himself a wand of almond wood or of
hazel cut by his own hands at dawn at the Equinox, or at the
Solstice, or on the day of Corpus Christi, or on one of the feast-
days that are appointed in the Book of the Law.
And he shall engrave with his own hand upon a plate of gold
the Holy Sevenfold Table, or the Holy Twelvefold Table, or
some particular device. And it shall be foursquare within a
circle, and the circle shall be winged, and he shall attach it about
his forehead by a ribbon of blue silk.
Moreover, he shall wear a fillet of laurel or rose or ivy or rue,
and every day, after the prayer of sunrise, he shall burn it in the
fire of the censor.
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Now he shall pray thrice daily, about sunset, and at midnight,
and at sunrise. And if he be able, he shall pray also four times
between sunrise and sunset.
The prayer shall last for the space of an hour, at the least, and
he shall seek ever to extend it, and to inflame himself in praying.
Thus shall he invoke his Holy Guardian Angel for eleven weeks,
and in any case he shall pray seven times daily during the last
week of the eleven weeks.
And during all this time he shall have composed an
invocation suitable, with such wisdom and understanding as may
be given him from the Crown, and this shall he write in letters of
gold upon the top of the altar.
For the top of the altar shall be of white wood, well polished,
and in the centre thereof he shall have placed a triangle of oak-
wood, painted with scarlet, and upon this triangle the three legs
of the censer shall stand.
Moreover, he shall copy his invocation upon a sheet of pure
white vellum, with Indian ink, and he shall illuminate it
according to his fancy and imagination, that shall be informed by
beauty.
And on the first day of the twelfth week he shall enter the
chamber at sunrise, and he shall make his prayer, having first
burnt the conjuration that he had made upon the vellum in the
fire of the lamp.
Then, at his prayer, shall the chamber be filled with light
insufferable for splendour, and a perfume intolerable for
sweetness. And his Holy Guardian Angel shall appear unto him,
yea, his Holy Guardian Angel shall appear untohim, so that he
shall be wrapt away into the Mystery of Holiness.
All that day shall he remain in the enjoyment of the
knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
And for three days after he shall remain from sunrise unto
sunset in the temple, and he shall obey the counsel that his Angel
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shall have given unto him, and he shall suffer those things that
are appointed.
And for ten days thereafter shall he withdraw himself as shall
have been taught unto him from the fullness of that communion,
for he must harmonize the world that is within with the world
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