And when like our master, thou art extended on the Tree through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the Light of the Holy One to invoke the Divine Brightness, not for thyself, but for those who have not yet attained unto the Pathway, even though they be thy tormentors. For as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness, even so must the Son of Adam must be lifted up, raised through the balance of Strife and of Trial, to the pathway of the Eternal Life. Banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the Life of Ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our Master, 0 Brother of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Regard thou therefore the Celestial Serpent as of Brass, glistening with green and gold, the colours of vegetation and of growth. But the Serpent of the Temptation is that of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil the antithesis and opposer of the other: the Red Coiled Stooping Dragon of the Apocalypse, the Serpent of the Terrestrial Eden. In the Tree of Life, by the Waters of the River, in the Garden of Wisdom, is the serpent of the Paths it is the Serpent of the Celestial Eden. Seven are the Infernal Palaces, yet do they include Ten. Eleven are their classes, yet Ten are they called seven are the heads and yet an eighth head arises. These be they who are Unclean and Evil, even the Distortion and Perversion of the Sephiroth the fallen restriction of the Universe the rays of the Coils of the Stooping Dragon.
Addressed to the grade of 4°=7° Philosophus
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