Nuptial Chamber

Upon entering, you find yourself in an empty semi-circular chamber, which is the vestibule to the place of power itself. Do not be deceived by its emptiness it is only the spacious quality of Akasha. The guardian of this chamber—when she or he comes—will be of critical importance in advanced aspects of the Work. Set in the eastern wall is a life-sized representation of tarot Key 1, The Magician. It is fashioned, like the others in the central column, of stained glass, and is lit from behind. The only way to enter the Nuptial Chamber proper is to become the Magician to take on the mode of consciousness this tarot key represents. 

Within the Nuptial Chamber of the secret temple of Yod resides an image of the Black Isis. She is the veiled or concealed one, the Co-Emergent Mother of the Alchemical Qabalah. 

This citadel of your self is much older than your present occupation of it, for, being archetypal, it precedes your current incarnation. Below the levels we have been recreating there are much more primitive rooms. Some of these rooms, far below the surface, retain prisoners from your remote past. Others contain prisoners from more recent times. Far below this is the chthonic Hall of the Bride. And above it, in the Nuptial Chamber, is that Fiery Power that, if unleashed, could destroy the whole edifice as depicted in Key XVI, The Tower. 

In translation, Maier s motto states mysteriously He is received into the Bath, and he is born in the sky, but, having become red, he strides over the waters. The epigram makes the situation much clearer, and here it is explained that the Bath is actually the watery nuptial chamber within which the Royal Couple mutually conceive the Philosophers Stone ... 

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