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To control the Will power and make it subservient to the law of Intelligence—this is the Great Work of our sacerdotal art. Ceremonies are made use of to educate the Will by means of the Imagination. Ceremonies which are performed without intelligence and without faith, in the absence of the higher aspirations of the soul, are but superstitious observances which tend to degrade those who take part in them. It is an error to attribute Magical Power to ceremonials, for Magical Power exists only in the trained Will of the operator. For this reason is the Magical Axiom true, that the Sanctum Regnum—the Divine Kingdom—the Kingdom of God—is within us. I.N.R.I., Intra nobis Regnum Del; and hence also is it that great marvels can be shown by the Pentagram, which is the seal of the Microcosm; for the Microcosm is the reflection of the Macrocosm; the Microcosm is Man and his human Will; he is the reflection of the Universe, which is the Macrocosm. The Man whose Intelligence has received culture can by his Will Power, exerted through the Pentagram, control and command the powers and beings of the Elements, and restrain evil elementaries from their perverse works.

The Hexagram is the symbol of the Macrocosm ; it is often called the Seal of Solomon. It consists of two interlaced triangles; the erect triangle is of flame colour, the inverse triangle is coloured blue. In the centre space there may be drawn a Tau Cross and three Hebrew Yods, or a Crux ansata, or the Triple Tau of the Arch-masons. He who with Intelligence and Will is armed with this emblem has need of no other thing, he should be all potent, for this is the perfect sign of the Absolute.

This is the Monogram of Hermetic Truth; it expresses the subject of the Great Work. It is made up of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin letters, and the mode of expressing this ideal in the presence of un-initiates is by the word Azoth, or by the name Magnes: other Magi have applied to it the titles of the flying dragon of Medea, and the serpent of the mystical Eden.