The first qoutation reads: The Great Work must be begun in the Night House of Saturn: The Blackness appears in forty days Sun in in the Day house of Saturn: The Blackness deepens into the Night house of Jupiter on reaching Aries a separation occurs. The Whiteness of Luna develops when the Sun is in the house Cancer of Luna. The Sun begins his special form of change in Leo his own house. Redness is produced in the Day house of the red metal copper, Venus, this is Libra, next Scorpio follows and the Work reaches completion in Sagittarius follows, and the Work reaches completion in Sagittarius the Day house of Jupiter. The second quotation reads: I Within the golden portal of the garden of the wise, Watching the seven sprayed fountain, The Hesperian Dragon lies. Like the types of Asia's churches those glorious jets appear. Three times the magick waters Must the Winged Dragon drain Then his scales shall burst asunder Then his heart be rent in twain. Forth shall flow an emanation Forth shall spring a shape divine, And if Sol and Cynthia and thee Shall the charmed Key be thine. II In the solemn groves of Wisdom Where black pines their shadows fling Near the haunted cell of Hermes, Three lovely flowerets spring The violet Damask tinted In scent all flowers above: The milk white vestal Lily And the purple flower of Love. Red Sol a sign shall give thee Where the Sapphire Violets gleam, Watered by the rills that wander From the viewless golden stream: One violet shalt thy gather -- But ah -- beware, beware! The Lily and the Amaranth Demand thy chiefest care. III With in the lake of the crystal, Roseate as Sol's first ray With eyes of diamond lustre, A thousand fishes play A net within that water A net with web of gold If cast where air bills glitter One shining fish shall hold. IV Amid the oldest mountains Whose tops are next the Sun, The everlasting rivers Through glowing channels run Those channels are of gold And thence the countless treasures Of kings of earth rolled. But far -- far must he wander Oe'r realms and seas unknown Who seeks the ancient mountains Where shines the Wonderous Stone. |
King, Francis. Ritual Magick of the Golden Dawn: works by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and Others. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books 1987. |
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