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Everywhere you look, there are sparkling silver streams that wander, seemingly randomly through the
city, in and out of its roads. And everywhere, there are bridges, which form the city's most striking
feature, such that it seems a veritable City of Bridges.
Soon, you find your way to the central thoroughfare, broad, clean and leading straight into the heart of
the city. A few people tall, lithe and tanned, with golden hair promenade up and down this street, but
they don't seem to notice you.
As you proceed, you realize that this city is familiar to you. You recognize it, and suddenly it seems as
if the city becomes aware of you, making you feel welcome. A curious feeling of lightness comes
over your body and unconsciously you walk a little higher and a little straighter with a little more
spring in your step. Now you are approaching your objective, for the thoroughfare opens up into a
vast courtyard in the centre of which is an enormous building. You have reached the Central Temple.
When you have reached this stage and not only read the description of your route until you are
thoroughly familiar with it, but also travelled it in visualization until it lives for you, you will have no
difficulty in continuing to the next stage, which is to enter the temple and establish the contact.
Description of the Temple
The entrance to the temple is reached by a broad flight of white marble steps flagged on either side by
two large sphinx-like statues. At the top of the steps there is a square heavy wooden door, inlaid with
brass and of considerable age. On either side of the door are two tall marble pillars. As you mount the
steps the door swings inwards and you pass through into a hall of vast dimensions. Two rows of
pillars, whose capitals high above you support a central dome, extend into the distance. Like the
Pantheon the centre of the dome is open, allowing the rays of the sun to penetrate to the altar in the
centre of the floor.
The altar, also made of white marble is shaped like a double cube, and waist high: across it lies a
sword, patterned in a fashion similar to a crusader's sword. Also on the altar are a dagger, chalice, and
lamp.
In the East is a high white marble throne, and between it and the altar are two enormous pillars, one of
a black stone and the other one glowing faintly silver. Set on the floor between them is an inlaid black
marble circle.
At this point you move from your position in front of the altar travelling clockwise to the centre of the
circle where you turn and face West. From this point of balance the magician should 'inflame himself
with praying', and wait.
It is now that the care you have put into the preliminary build up of this practice will pay off: if you
have really 'created' this temple on the astral, then the vortex formed by your impassioned yearning
for your Holy Guardian Angel should open the channel through which you will achieve the initiation
that you are seeking.
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