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concealeth the Lion and the Serpent that His Image may appear
adorably upon the Earth for ever.

Let then the Adept extend his Will beyond the Circle in this
imagined Shape and let it radiate with the Light proper to the
element invoked, and let each Word issue along the Shaft with
passionate impulse, as if its voice gave command thereto that it
should thrust itself leapingly forward. Let also each Word
accumulate authority, so that the Head of the Shaft may plunge
twice as far for the Second Word as for the First, and Four Times
for

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1. This is an assumption based on Liber Legis II, 78 and III, 34.

2. Having experience of success in the practices of Liber 536, BATRAXO-
"RENOBOOKOSMOMAXIA.


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the Third as the Second, and thus to the end. Moreover, let the
Adept fling forth his whole consciousness thither. Then at the
final Word, let him bring rushing back his Will within himself,
steadily streaming, and let him offer himself to its point, as
Artemis to PAN, that this perfectly pure concentration of the
Element purge him thoroughly, and possess him with its passion.

In this Sacrament being wholly at one with that Element, let
the Adept utter the Charge "Hear me, and make", etc. with strong
sense that this unity with that quarter of the Universe confers
upon him the fullest freedom and privilege appurtenant thereto.

Let the Adept take note of the wording of the Charge. The
"Firmament" is the Ruach, the "mental plane"; it is the realm of
Shu, or Zeus, where revolves the Wheel of the Gunas, the Three
forms1 of Being. The Aethyr is the

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1. They correspond to the Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt of Alchemy; to
Sattvas, Rajas, and Tamas in the Hindu system; and are rather modes of
action than actual qualities even when conceived as latent. They are the
apparatus of communication between the planes; as such, they are
conventions. There is no absolute validity in any means of mental
apprehension; but unless we make these spirits of the Firmament subject