The Magister 3

by Marcus Katz

  “Eheieh” (Eh-HEH-yeh) meaning ‘I am that I am (Existence is Existence)’

  Hebrew letters: Aleph-Heh-Yod-Heh

  Tarot sequence: The Fool / The Emperor / The Hermit / The Emperor

  Vibrate this word until it is the only thought in your conscious mind.

  4. Imagine a shaft of light beaming down from your Kether into the energy centre about the level of the nape of your neck / throat. Here, visualise another sphere of light similar to your Kether, though smaller in size. This is your Da’ath centre. It is an important gateway of knowledge and communication, and represents knowledge. When you can feel this sphere strongly, vibrate slowly (three or four times, etc.):

  “YHVH Elohim” (Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh Eh-loh-heem) meaning ‘Lord of Hosts’

  Hebrew letters: Yod-Heh-Vau-Heh Aleph-Heh-Yod-Mem

  Tarot sequence: The Hermit / The Emperor / The Hierophant / The Emperor + The Fool / The Emperor / The Hermit / The Hanged Man

  5. Bring a shaft of light from your Da’ath center straight down until it reaches the level of your heart. This is your Tiphareth centre. Visualise a sphere of light similar to the others. Regardie says in The Middle Pillar, “from there a warmth and a quite different sense of power will gently radiate as though from an interior sun.” This is your inner beauty and the beauty of the Self in relation to the divine through gnosis / knowledge (Tiphareth – Da’ath – Kether). When you can feel this sphere strongly, vibrate slowly:

  “YHVH Eloah Ve-Daath” (Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh Eh-loh-ah Veh-Dah-Ath) meaning ‘Lord of Knowledge’

  Hebrew letters: Yod-Heh-Vau-Heh Aleph-Lamed-Vau-Heh Vau-Daleth-Ayin-Tau

  Tarot sequence: The Hermit / The Emperor / The Hierophant / The Emperor + The Fool / Justice / The Hierophant / The Emperor + The Hierophant / The Empress / The Devil / The World

  6. Bring the shaft of light from your Tiphareth centre straight down until it reaches the Yesod center in the genital region. Imagine another sphere of light there. When you can feel it strongly, vibrate slowly as before:

  “Shaddai El Chai” (Shah-dye-El-Chai, with ‘Ch’ being a coughy ‘kH’ sound as in the German ‘Ch’ or the Scottish ‘Loch’) meaning ‘Almighty Living God’

  Hebrew letters: Shin-Daleth-Yod Aleph-Lamed Cheth-Yod

  Tarot sequence: The Last Judgement / The Empress / The Hermit + The Fool / Justice + The Chariot / The Hermit

  7. Imagine the shaft of light descending from Yesod into your Malkuth centre at your feet and ankles. You should be stood upon this sphere. When you can feel this sphere strongly, vibrate slowly as before:

  “Adonai ha-Aretz” (Ah-doh-nye ha-Ah-retz) meaning ‘Lord of Earth’

  Hebrew letters: Aleph-Daleth-Nun-Yod Heh-Aleph-Resh-Tzaddi

  Tarot sequence: The Fool / The Empress / Death / The Hermit + The Emperor / The Fool / The Sun / The Star

  8. At this point, according to Regardie, you may “make the Kabbalistic Cross [that you have learnt as part of your previous Crucible work in the Lesser Banishing Ritual] to indicate that you have called the Light of your Kether and balanced it in your aura.”

  Circulation of the Light

  Here are some additional energy circulation exercises that are worth experimentation following the Middle Pillar exercise. You may find that each method works in a different way, some more appropriate for you than others.

  I personally recommend the third circulation which is that also favoured by Regardie. Here we draw up the light from our Malkuth to our Kether on the in-breath, and cascade it like a fountain down all around us back to Malkuth on the out-breath. This forms an oval seed-like shape around our whole self, through which we enter into a relationship with our Self and our environment mediated by the sephiroth. If you choose to experiment with these methods, I also recommend using one for a couple of days in order to notice its effect before moving onto another (unless it makes you dizzy, or feel unbalanced, in which case move to another).

  Circulation 1: Exhale and visualise the light from your Kether travelling down the left side of your body and into Malkuth. Inhale and bring it from Malkuth up the right side of your body back into Kether.

  Circulation 2: Imagine a ribbon of light descending from your Kether and going down along the front of your body to Malkuth, and then going up along your back and returning to Kether.

  Circulation 3: Bring the light up your Middle Pillar and when it reaches your Kether, imagine it showering down along the outside of your body as it returns to Malkuth.

  Circulation 4: Spiral the energy around the outside of your body from Malkuth to Kether.

  This ritual should be practised in stages until you can perform the whole in a simple yet forceful manner. It should be practised at least once a week, or preferably daily, certainly when learning the method. You may write out the divine names on cards and have them where you can read them out loud.

  As with our previous exercises, its continual working over an extended period of time will establish its own routine and revelations. You will also begin to experience how the triad of exercises you are now performing integrate with each other and other emergent properties arise.

  You might see this exercise in the tarot card of Temperance.

  It should also be repeated that you may notice that in establishing such a willed and equilibrated space in the banishing ritual, which may precede the Middle Pillar (although later we will use the Rose Cross before the Middle Pillar, as a gentler method and more appropriate preparation), and then establishing a willed and calibrated relationship to the Self and relationship to the environment through the Middle Pillar, that those elements of your life that are not so balanced will be called into attention.

  This may result in some disruption to your routine and the way that you see others and your relationship to them. Such disruptions and changes of perspective should be taken as evidence that you are working towards balance and not as distractions or challenges to your work. At this stage, if you have not already started the practical work, or started and dropped it, then you should consider whether this path is for you, as it is not too late to re-commence your work and establish the calcination required for later revelations and initiation.

  The Peace Profound of the Rose Cross and Key

  Our technical practice of the Rose Cross (and Key) squares the triangle of previous techniques and prepares us for another order of work. It is a spatial method similar to the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, but one in which we work to the centre rather than out from the centre. It is called the Rose Cross Ritual and was developed by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and, like the Middle Pillar, was favoured and popularised by Israel Regardie.[149]

  As we have previously discussed in Liber Resh, we re-orientate ourselves to magickal time, and in the Banishing Ritual, we re-orientate ourselves to magickal space. In the Midlle Pillar exercise, we re-orientate ourselves to the magickal Self. Here we now re-orientate that Self to the centre and its relationship to the whole. The energy of this ritual can be compared with the Lesser Banishing Ritual and you should find it a more calming, passive, meditative state after initial practice.

  This is an ideal technique for meditation, contemplation and healing work. It is said that this method closes down the astral, whereas the Lesser Banishing Ritual lights it up. It is certainly a powerful and profound method of moving into a state of tranquility, in contrast to the dynamic force of the pentagram which prepares us for active magical work.

  I would recommend learning this ritual and performing it with peaceful music and lightly-fragranced incense. Japanese incense is ideal, or a blended incense of rose or jasmine.

  In the sense of the map of the Tree of Life, this method corresponds to the sephirah Tiphareth, meaning ‘beauty’ and the grade of Adeptus Minor. As such, it corresponds to the experience of the pure Self, undifferentiated awareness, and a lightness of being. These may all be experienced within this technique after practice.

  The Rose Cross Ritual

  1a. Light a
stick of incense. Go to the South-East corner of the room. Make a large cross and circle thus:

  The Rose Cross

  1b. And holding the point of the incense in the centre, vibrate the word: “Yeheshuah.”

  2. With arm outstretched on a level with the centre of the cross, and holding the incense stick, go to the South-West corner and make a similar cross, repeating the word.

  3. Go to the North-West corner and repeat the cross and the word.

  4. Go to the North-East corner and repeat the cross and the word.

  5. Complete your circle by returning to the South-East corner and bringing the point of the incense to the central point of the first cross which you should imagine astrally there.

  6. Holding the stick on high, go to the centre of the room, walking diagonally across the room towards the North-West corner. In the centre of the room, above your head, trace the cross and circle and vibrate the name.

  7. Holding the stick on high, go to the North-West and bring the point of the stick down to the centre of the astral cross there.

  8. Turn towards the South-East and retrace your steps there, but now, holding the incense stick directed across the floor. In the centre of the room, make the cross and circle towards the floor, as it were, under your feet, and vibrate the name.

  9. Complete this circle by returning to the South-East and bringing the point of the stick again to the centre of the cross, then move with arm outstretched to South-West corner.

  10. From the centre of this cross, and raising the incense stick in front of you as before, walk diagonally across the room towards the North-East corner. In the centre of the room, pick up again the cross above your head previously made, vibrating the name. It is not necessary to make another cross.

  11. Bring the stick to the centre of the North-East cross and return to the South-West, incense stick down, and pausing in the centre of the room to link up with the cross under your feet.

  12. Return to the South-West and rest the point of the incense a moment in the centre of the cross there. Holding the stick out, retrace your circle to the North-West, link on to the North-West cross – proceed to the North-East cross and complete your circle by returning to the South-East, and the centre of the first cross.

  13. Retrace the cross, but larger, and make a big circle, vibrating for the lower half “Yeheshuah,” and for the upper half “Yehovashah.”

  14. Return to the centre of the room, and visualise the six crosses in a network around you.

  Rose Cross Ritual

  This ceremony can be concluded by the ‘analysis of the Keyword’ given as follows:

  1. Stand with arms outstretched in the form of a cross, facing East.

  2. Vibrate these words:

  I.N.R.I. (Yod-Nun-Resh-Yod) – The Sign of Osiris Slain.

  3. Right arm up, left arm extended out from shoulder, head bowed toward left hand.

  L – The Sign of the Mourning of Isis.

  4. Both arms up in a V shape.

  V – The Sign of Typhon and Apophis.

  5. Arms crossed on breast, head bowed.

  X – The Sign of Osiris Risen.

  6. Make the signs again as you repeat L.V.X.

  L.V.X. Lux.

  7. Arms folded on breast, head bowed. The Light of the Cross.

  8. Then arms extended in the Sign of Osiris Slain (see 1). Virgo – Isis – Mighty Mother

  Scorpio – Apophis – Destroyer Sol – Osiris – Slain and Risen

  9. Gradually raise arms.

  Isis – Apophis – Osiris

  10. Arms above head, face raised. I.A.O.

  [This following section 11 is in the Enochian language and for now you can choose whether you wish to use it or otherwise.]

  11. Except when in the Vault, now vibrate the four Tablet of Union names to equilibriate the light.

  Exarp – Hcoma – Nanta – Biton

  12. Aspire to the light and draw it down over your head to your feet. Let the Divine Light Descend.

  GD 2-1-2 p134 INRI from Original Golden Dawn Manuscripts

  GD 2-1-2 p135 INRI from Original Golden Dawn Manuscripts

  The Opening of the Golden Dawn into the Everlasting Day

  All rituals are constructed upon basic principles, such as confirming a space of working, purification, consecration, invocation, and banishing prior to opening and closing. These principles establish a state in which magical work can be undertaken.

  In the following simple ritual format, we create an opening in which we might practice one of the exercises that we have already learnt, such as the Middle Pillar. This opening and closing of the temple is a fundamental practice and precedes initiatory and magical work.

  The ritual is an essential component of the elemental workings that follow in later work, and more advanced methods such as the Greater Pentagram Rituals, Hexagram Rituals, elemental, planetary and zodiacal workings, as well as advanced methods beyond that including invocations, evocations, Enochian, and angelic workings.

  There are also elements of this ritual that will stand the Adept in good stead when he or she attempts the Abramelin Ritual in order to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of their Holy Guardian Angel, as discussed earlier.

  The performance format given here is suitable for an individual working, but might easily be modified for other participants. You can build upon this ritual with appropriate visualisations, which will be covered in later volumes.

  The Opening of the Everlasting Day

  Opening Ritual in the Grade of Neophyte of the Order of Everlasting Day:

  One knock (K) – give a knock (usually with a staff or wand). You may wish to use a bell, allowing the ring to completely ring out ‘onto the astral’ each chime.

  Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP).

  Exclaim: “Hekas Hekas Este Bebeloi! Be ye hence far from us, O ye profane, for we are about to open a Temple of the Everlasting Day. Enter this place with hands clean of deed and heart pure of thought, lest ye defile the source of all life itself.”

  Sign of Neophyte – Make the Sign of Entering and of Silence. Go to the South.

  Say: “In the South stands the Dadouchos, symbolising heat and dryness. Here is the incense attended and from here the Dadouchos assists in the consecration by fire.”

  Go to the North.

  Say: “In the North stands the Stolistes, symbolising cold and moisture. Here is the cup attended and from here the Stolistes assists in the purification by water.”

  Go to the West.

  Say: “In the throne of the West sits the Hiereus, symbolizing increase of darkness, decrease of light. He presides over twilight and darkness and guards the gate of the West.”

  Go to the East. It is here that you should stand or have a chair for your working.

  Say: “In the throne of the East I sit, symbolising the rise of the Sun of light and life.”

  Purify with water and consecrate with fire.

  Trace the temple floor with water, saying: “So therefore first the priest(ess) who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud coagulating sea ...”

  Trace the temple perimeter with a candle or incense, saying: “... and when, after all the phantoms of illusion have departed, thou shalt see that holy formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes throughout the hidden depths of the universe.”

  Raise the light above the altar or in the East, proclaiming: “Hear thou the voice of the fire!”

  Make three circumabulations of the temple, deosil (clock-wise walks of the temple area), and each time passing the East make the Sign of the Enterer. Imagine that the light is pouring into the temple through the East, and that you are projecting it into the circle as you make the sign. Furthermore, feel that you are rising higher with each circle, making a threefold spiral ascent.

  This is usually written in shorthand as: 3 x C (0=0 Signs in East).

  Take a moment to centre yourself in the temple space, and then make the follow
ing adoration:

  Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe!

  Holy art Thou, Whom Nature hath not Formed! Holy art Thou, the Vast and the Mighty One!

  Lord of the Light and of the Darkness!

  Pause a moment in reflection of this adoration.

  Say: “In the name of the Lord of the universe, I declare that the Sun hath arisen and the light shineth in the darkness.”

  Make the following mystic statements, knocking or ringing a chime at each:

  Khabs am Pekht (K)

  Konx om Pax (K) Light in Extension (K)