Moon Magic by Dion Fortune

Author:Dion Fortune
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781609250348
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Conari

CHAPTER TEN

I took Malcolm up to the robing-room. In order to get there, we had to pass through my bedroom. Malcolm gave one startled look round and cast down his eyes. Beyond that, he did not flinch, though I think he breathed more freely on the stairs, steep as they were.

I left him in the robing-room, and taking from the cupboard the black velvet vestment and silver head-dress of a moon priestess, went up to the temple to robe, for it was not fitting to appear in the presence of the Goddess in mundane garments. Having robed, I invoked, and remained in meditation before the moon-symbol for a few minutes. Then I went to fetch Malcolm.

Framed in the dark arch of the stairs, I must have looked an amazing figure in my robes, for Malcolm threw back his head like a frightened horse. Neither of us spoke for a moment; then:

“Come,” I said.

I held aside the heavy curtain for him to pass into the temple. Silently he crossed the threshold of Isis. I came and stood beside him.

“This is my temple,” I said.

“What do you do here? said he.

“Contact the moon,” I said.

“I understand,” said he, though I don't suppose he did.

He stared about him. Never in his wildest dreams had Rupert Malcolm, F.R.C.P., seen anything like it, and they see a good many queer things before they get the F.R.C.P.

“This is a diagram of the universe,” said I. “Those symbols round the seven sides represent the seven planets and indicate where their influence comes in. The side by which we entered represents the way back to earth. The four sides of the cubical altar represent the four elements—those are their symbols, those triangles. Go up to the altar. How high is it on you?”

“Waist high to me, and I am five foot seven.”

“It is the height of the navel of a six foot man, and it is a double cube, meaning “As above, so below.” It is the cubical altar of the universe. Double the cubes again, and it is the height of a man. That other tablealtar, or couch according to which way you look at it, which forms a T with the cubical altar, is the altar of sacrifice. That big mirror is the doorway to the higher planes. We hang on it the symbol of whatever force we are working with, and shift the other symbols round accordingly. That light hanging overhead is the spirit-light. It represents the Creator. The floating wick in the lotus-shaped vase on the altar represents the power of the Creator brought through into the universe—God made manifest in Nature. That light in the opalescent bowl in front of the mirror represents the Moon-power. There are coloured bowls with floating wicks under all the symbols of the planets, but only the Moonbowl is lit tonight because it is only the Moon-power with which we are working. Those two pillars, black and silver, represent positive and negative force, and they stand on either

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