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While you are repeating this prayer you must imagine as strongly as possible that a river of glowing
whiteness is flowing from the palm of your hand into the salt.
Extend your hand over the ash, palm downwards as before, and say:
'May this ash return unto the fount of Living Water; may it become a fertile Earth; may it bring forth
the Tree of Life.'
Moving to the eastern side of your altar but facing inwards (ie towards the West), add the salt and ash
to the water in your glass and recite:
'In the salt of eternal wisdom, in the water of preparation, in the ash whence the new earth springeth,
be all things accomplished unto the Age of the Ages. So mote it be.'
You have now completed the preparation of Holy Water; the rite you have used is one popular
amongst present-day magicians and, to avoid mystification, it is worth adding that it is a modern
adaptation of certain instructions incorporated into the Doctrine and Ritual of Transcendental Magic
of the French occultist Eliphas Levi.
Take up your glass of Holy Water and, sprinkling a little with your fingertips as you go, make a
complete circuit of your Temple in a clockwise direction, reciting as you do so the following words:
'So therefore first the Priest who governeth the works of Fire must sprinkle with the Lustral Water of
the loud-resounding sea.'
Light your joss-stick, take it in your hand, and make another circuit of the Temple reciting:
'And when after all the phantoms have vanished thou shalt see that holy formless Fire, that Fire which
darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of Fire.'
Replace the joss-stick upon your altar and make three further clockwise circuits of your Temple, each
time reciting the following Adoration:
'Holy are Thou Lord of the Universe. Holy art Thou whom Nature hath not formed. Holy art Thou, the
vast and the mighty One, Lord of the Light and the Darkness.'
Stand before your altar facing North and make over the implements the Invoking Pentagram of Earth,
(3) then recite the following prayer:
'O Thou Who are from everlasting, Thou Who hast created all things, and doth clothe Thyself with the
forces of Nature as with a garment by Thy holy and divine Name Adonai whereby Thou art known
especially in that quarter we name Tzaphon (pronounce Za-fon), the North, I beseech Thee to grant
unto me strength and insight for my search after the hidden Light and Wisdom. I entreat Thee to cause
Thy Archangel Auriel who governeth the works of Earth to guide me in the pathway, and furthermore
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