the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
sail, and sped past Circe, through Scylla and Carybdis; beyond
the singing sisters of Sicily, back to the fair plains of Thessaly
and the wooded slopes of Olympus. And one day shall it
come to pass that he will return to that far distant land where
hung that Fleece of Gold, the Fleece he brought to the
Children of Men so that they might weave from it a little
garment of comfort; and there on that Self-same Tree shall he
hand himself, and others shall crucify him; so that in that
Winter which draweth nigh, he who is to come may find yet
another garment to cover the hideous nakedness of man, the
Robe that hath no Seam. And those who shall receive, though
they cast lots for it, yet shall they not rend it, for it is woven
from the top throughout.
For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come
is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, the rest is allowed,
yea, perfect goodness and wisdom. The root of evil is sealed up from you,
weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled unto hell to be
forgotten: sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immor-
tality.*
Yea! the Treasure of Immortality. In his own words let us
now describe this sudden change.
IN NOMINE DEI
}ma
Insit Naturae Regina Isis.
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At the End of the Century:
At the End of the Year:
At the Hour of Midnight:
Did I complete and bring to perfection the Work of
L.I.L.†
* ii Esdras, viii, 52-54.
† Lamp of Invisible Light. L.I.L. The title of the first Æthyr derived from
the initial letters of the Three Mighty Names of God. In all there are thirty of
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