Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- Care Charla > > Admonitio. > > This call may be given on the Solstices and the Equinoxes > > to herald the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (4). > > These Horsemen represent celestial phenomena related > > to the transitions into the 4 seasons and are related > > to the Seals that stand at the corners and above > > the 4 Terrestrial Tables (5). > > > 5. Compare pp. 207-210 et passim of M. Denning & O. Phillips' MYSTERIA > > MAGICA (1992). This final correlation is there proposed, but the > > attribution therein poses a contradiction between the colors of the > > Clothes of Passage and the Horses. > > You say that you use this call at the Solstices and Equinoxes. > Do you call all 4 Horsemen on each of these dates or do you call > one Horseman specific to each date? I hope to elaborate in more detail later, but the logic, which is biblical is as follows: Consider first that the Kings of the Tables and the 24 seniors are clearly to be identified with, and have the same relationship with each other as the 4 Beasts (Living Creatures) and 24 Elders of REVELATIONS IV: 4: And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. 5: And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. 6: And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. 7: And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. 8: And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. 9: And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 10: The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, See here, how the 6 wings are like the 6 lines proceeding from the central king of each elemental table. 6 X 4 = 24 The number of Elders, the eyes of the wings being those of the heads of the Seniors that are contiguous with the bodies of the kings in each of the terrestrial tables. Cf. THE HIEROGLYPHIC MONAD Theorem 24. Note also that the 4 Beasts are the 4 fixed signs of the Zodiac: The Lion = Leo The Calf = Taurus The Man = Aquarius The Eagle = Scorpio (Some would reverse these last two) I believe it is most 'holy' to call the 4 Kings of the Tables on the 4 traditional mid-season holidays: Lammas = 15 Degrees Leo Beltaine (Roodmass) = 15 Degrees Taurus Candlemas (Brigit) = 15 Degrees Aquarius Samhain (All Hallows Eve) = 15 Degrees Scorpio , though more precisely when the Sun has reached the 15th degree of each sign and not on the calendrically behind Gregorian date. And also on the date, at midnight, that the star anciently identified with each of these positions reaches culmination (ie solar opposition). These are: The Lion = Leo = Regulus The Calf = Taurus = Aldeberan The Man = Aquarius = Fomaulhaut (Albemuth) The Eagle = Scorpio = Antares respectively. See Richard H. Allen's STAR NAMES: THEIR LORE AND MEANING for more details on this. Each of these Kings has two names according to the Spirit Actions and I use the first for the solar ritual, and the second for the stellar ritual. This correlates to the traditional astrological significance of these positions in the context of what is said about them in the Spirit Actions. I call the Seniors according to the Reformed arrangement on the Vernal Equinox and according to the Original arrangement on the Autumnal Equinox. But the reasons for this are a little complex to go into here. > As for the contradiction in 'Mysteria Magica' do you mean that > there is a contradiction between the color of the horse and the > element of The King? Or what do you mean? Denning & Phillips give: > > The King of Air - white horse > The King of Earth - red horse > The King of Water - black horse > The King of Fire - pale horse The traditional attribution of colors to elements is Red = Air White = Fire Black = Earth Green = Water By this arrangement the original vision of the Watchtowers can be made to agree with the Reformed attributions (cf GD) and with the only explicite identification of the colors with elements by Kelly in the Spirit Action of January 14, 1585 (TR&R 355 et passim). If this is correct and the colors of the doors and the clothes of passage correlate to the colors of the Horsemen in REVELATIONS then the relationship should be as follows: Red Horseman = Air White Horseman = Fire Black Horseman = Earth Pale Horseman = Water (by default) Now let us examine the relavant passage in REVELATIONS VI: 1: And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2: And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. The Bowman is traditionally Sagittarius, and if we examine the relevant celestial space: RA 20H30 to 18H by Declination 40s30 to 20s30 it can be seen that the bowman has a crown, Corona Austrlalis. In astrology the Winter Solisticial colour is at the cusp of Sagittarius and Capricorn. Note also that Sag. is the location of the center of our Galaxy, the southernmost Zodiacal constellation and the location of the conjunction of the Galactic Equator with the Ecliptic. Note also the triplicity of fire implicit in the above passage: Aries = Lamb, First Beast = Leo, and Bowman = Sagittarius. 3: And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 4: And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. Red would then equal air, and mutable air is Gemini. And the cusp of Gemini and Cancer is the Summer Solstice. The Sword is attributed both to air and Mars equalling Red Air. Zain = Sword = Gemini in the Tarot. Castor the lucida of Gemini is both a swordsman and called the horseman of the Zodiac. Note too that as Sag. is the view in to the center of the Galaxy, Gemini looks outward to the closest edge, thus are both crossed by the Milky Way. 5: And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6: And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. Here can be seen the cusp of Virgo and Libra that marks the Autumnal Equinox. Black = Earth, and mutable Earth is Virgo. The pair of balances is obviously Libra. Also the measure of wheat can be seen as Spica, a spike of wheat, the lucida of Virgo. Virgo is also Astreae who is in reality Justice. Note on a grand celestial scale Virgo is the location of the center of the great Galactic supercluster to which our local group and home galaxy the Milky Way belong. 7: And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. This attribution is somewhat by default. But water does equal the Hanged Man and Death is Scorpio, fixed water. The cusp of Pisces, mutable water and Aries is the Vernal Equinox, and by precession the equinox has drifted into Pisces towards Aquarius, who though airy is the Water Bearer. Note that the Lamb = Aries began this set of attributions and it ends with Pisces at the beginning of the year at Vernal Equinox so the first is both first and last and visa versa. So if the Seals above the Tables are to be associated with the 4 Horseman, as purported by the Aurum Solis, then they are, I believe clearly associated with the cusps that begin the seasons as shown above. This can be further verified by placing a Reformed Great Table in the center of a circular astological diagram and alligning the 4 corners to the cusps as given. I have attached a digram which puts this in some perspective, but unfortunately isn't of the quality I would like. I hope this clarifies things somewhat, if not I will be happy to provide further extrapolation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love is the law, love under will. David R. Jones aka Prospero jdnolan@budget.net http://w3.one.net/~parker/JonesArt.html Magick code: MEN/TH (# S* W---->----- N++>* PWM/AM++++ Ds@/d++/r+++ A+++ a+++ C++++>* G* QO+++++(#196884q) 666+++ Y+++>++++