Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf

CHAPTER XVI
THE MAGICK FIRE; WITH CONSIDERATIONS OF THE THURIBLE, THE
CHARCOAL, AND THE INCENSE
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NTO the Magick Fire all things are cast. It symbolizes
the final burning up of all things in Shivadarshana. It
is the absolute destruction alike of the Magician and the
Universe.
The Thurible stands upon a small altar. “My altar is of open brasswork;
burn thereon in silver or gold.” This altar stands in the East, as
if to symbolize the identity of Hope and Annihilation. This brass comtains
the metals of Jupiter and Venus fused in a homogenous alloy.
This is then symbolical of divine love, and it is “open brass work”
because this love is not limited in direction or extent; it is not particularized,
it is universal.
Upon this altar stands the Censer proper; it has thre legs symbolical
of fire. 1 Its cup is a hemisphere, and supported from its edge
1 Because Shin, the Hebrew letter of Fire, has three tongues of flame, and its vlaue
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