06-13-2020, 03:17 PM
(06-13-2020, 12:08 PM)Dtris Wrote: This particular passage is dealing specifically with the tradition which Don was practicing of the Golden Dawn system and the short invocation known as the Qabbalistic Cross. This invocation is done at the start and end of every ritual and is the beginning and end of the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram which is mentioned in the material elsewhere.
The gesture of "putting on something" is the hand reaching up to the sky sword fingers pointing upward and drawing the hand down to the forehead while vibrating the word ATOH, which is hebrew for "thou art".
You then perform the gesture of the catholic cross while saying and imaging lights at specific sephirah and vibrating the rest of the words; ATOH, MAKUTH, VE_GEDULAH, VE_GEVURAH, LE-OLAM, AMEN (Thou art the kingdom, the power, the glory, forever Amen). When making the gestures and vibrating the final two words you imagine a bright cross within the body, the vertical line from just above the head to just below the feet, and the horizontal line from just outside the body thru the shoulders.
The great cross of life refers to this cross imagined during the ritual, which is most similar to the Cavalry Cross.
It's a possibility. However, Ra seems to describe magic outside of any tradition. In a "universal" way I would say. The phrase "All magical workings" seems to indicate that it is not something particular or exclusive to Golden Dawn. But I don't discard your assumption.