Description
A page from BoS titled ‘Prayer of the Gnomes’
Taken from Eliphas Levi’s Rituel de la Haute Magie, this version was translated by A. E. Waite.
Transcription
PRAYER OF THE GNOMES
King Invisible, Who, taking the earth as a support, didst furrow
the abysses to fill them with
Thine omnipotence;
Thou Whose name doth shake the vaults of the world, Thou Who causest the seven metals to flow through the veins of the rock, monarch of the seven lights, rewarder of the subterranean toilers, lead us unto the desirable air and to the realm of splendour. We watch and we work unremittingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the Holy City, by the hidden
talismans,
by the pole of loadstone
which passes through the centre of the world! Saviour,
Saviour, Saviour, have pity on those who suffer, expand
our hearts, detach and elevate our minds, enlarge
our entire being!
O stability and motion! O day
clothed with night! O darkness veiled by splendour! O [M]aster Who never keepest back the wages of Thy labourers! O silver whiteness! O golden splendour! O crown of living
and melodious diamonds! Thou who wearest
the heaven on Thy finger like a sapphire ring, Thou Who concealest under earth, in the stone kingdom, the marvellous seed
of stars, live, reign, be
the eternal dispenser of the wealth whereof
Thou hast made us
the wardens!
Amen.