Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf

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CHAPTER XI
THE CROWN
HE Crown of the Magician represents the Attainment
of his Work. It is a band of pure gold, on the front of which
stand three pentagrams, and on the back a hexagram. The central
pentagram contains a diamond or great opal; the other three symbols
contain the Tau. Around this Crown is twined the golden Uræus
serpent, with erect head and expanded hood. Under the Crown is a
crimson cap of maintenance, which falls to the shoulders.
Instead of this, the Ateph Crown of Thoth is sometimes worn; for
Thoth is the God of Truth, of Wisdom, and the Teacher of Magick.
The Ateph Crown has two ram’s horns, showing energy, dominion, the
force that breaks down obstacles, the sign of the spring. Between
these horns is the disk of the sun; from this springs a Lotus upheld by
the twin plumes of truth, and three other sun-disks are upheld, one by
the cup of the lotus, the others beneath the curving feathers.
There is still another Crown, the Crown of Amoun, the concealed
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