I had determined to do an exploration of a square of an Enochian tablet following the directions and system described by Regardie in The Golden Dawn. I selected a square from the Earth tablet, "T" or "M"1, the rightmost kerubic square of the Fiery Lesser Angle. I derived the appropriate divine names for invoking the square, and constructed the pyramid in the imagination. The north side and top colored black, the other three visible sides colored red. I imagined the kerub being hidden within the pyramid, and a ray of light descending to or ascending from the pyramid.2 I performed the sign of the Enterer, and went into the pyramid. As this happened, the sides attributed to Fire changed from red to the flashing color, green. On the inside, the walls changed from green to red. I saw the sphinx of the sub-element, which had the head of a bull and the body, legs, and tail of the male lion. I gave the 5=6 signs, and tested him with the letters, at which he seemed to expand while maintaining shape. This indicated he was genuine. I invited the sphinx to take me to a place where I could see the effect of this square in nature. Immediately we went to a place far underground, where a river of fire was being constricted and pushed back by a wall or barrier of rock. It seemed to be as if the fire was sealed off in a round space entirely surrounded by cold rock. I was told that the effect of the square had to do with the encapsulation of a force, all-potent within its own sphere of action, by a slower force acting on a larger scale. The wall of rock could be seen to move very slowly, forcing the fire into a smaller space. An example was shown. We went to the western edge of the United States, and to the subduction zone where the edge of the Pacific tectonic plate was forced down underneath the edge of the continent. Despite its great melting heat, the molten rock of the mantle is pushed back down by the edge of the plate. As another example I was taken to a Kimberlite pipe in Africa. These "pipes" are the cooled remains from an action like that of the square. The hot material had been cut off from the mantle and forced close to the surface by immense pressure from the surrounding rock. The combination of heat and pressure caused the formation of carbon crystals, diamonds, in the pipe. I asked to see the spiritual animal of the square. Only gnomes were shown. The gnomes all had stubby arms and legs, and heads elongated from front to back until they were almost football-shaped. The short limbs and the shape of the head allowed them to move very quickly (in a horizontal position) along very small tunnels in the rock. They appeared to be strong. I vibrated the name of the god of the square, Horus. (He is god because the square has three fiery sides, despite being in the tablet of Earth). Horus appeared, and I gave him the 5=6 signs. He responded with the same signs, then added the signs of 1=10 and 4=7. I judged this to be reasonable since these are the signs of earth and fire, represented by this square. Horus showed me the sphinx of the square again, but his varied from mine in that the head was that of a buffalo with a fringe of hair along the jaw-line. The body was more elongated than the sphinx who guided me, like a cheetah, and of a reddish-orange color. The head was black that turned a dark glowing green, like the shine on beetle's wings, where it was highlighted.3 Horus said: "Bemoan me, o worshiper, for though I am truly the god of this pyramid, yet my own powers have come to naught in this place. The fire is ever smothered by the greater earth, and here my force and fire are leached from me." He appeared to have nothing more to say, so I requested to see the type of man represented by the square. I was shown a large, thick-headed man with a square brow and dark hair. His body was like that of a wrestler, or like that of the God Mars, and he wore nothing but a loincloth. The skin was colored dark brown, but the features were caucasian. I got the impression that this man was stolid and determined, and that he got his way in life by forcing himself into the position he wanted, and then refusing to move from it until everyone else accepted the fait accompli. He is lacking in any really demonstrative characteristics, but has the slow but unremitting force of a glacier. In the plant kingdom, this square controls the lives of seeds buried in permafrost or hard ground, and also the way in which roots of plants force their way into tiny cracks in rock. In the animal kingdom, the force was shown me in those mammals that bury themselves for the winter, and in insects that store their eggs in underground capsules while they hatch. I asked to see the effect in human society, and was shown a group of persons entering a cave for purposes of worship. They did so because the ground insulated them from the influences of other living things, allowing them to concentrate an unusually large amount of pure god-force without having it leak away. In the human arts, the square relates to the use of pigments produced by burning or roasting certain minerals. On a cosmic scale, the square shares with others the responsibility for the formation of a cold crust on molten, recently-formed planets. It was pointed out to me that the entire column of squares governed by this square also had a part to play in the details of the processed described. At this point, I felt I was getting tired, so I ended the vision and returned to my body. I closed the temple by banishing the forces.
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