Liber O's illustration of it is the photograph “Blind Force”
See Illustration in Vol. I. No. 1, “Blind Force.”
Rituals · sign
The Sign of the Enterer
A step forward and a thrust of both hands: the gesture that sends a vibrated name out, and that projects force in the Golden Dawn's other work.
Liber O calls it “the typical position of the God Horus”. The Golden Dawn's rituals call it the Sign of the Enterer, and its papers the Saluting Sign of a Neophyte.
- Steps
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- Text
- Liber O, 1909
The steps
Each step gives the action in plain language, the spoken words with their Hebrew, and the corresponding line from Liber O in The Equinox I:2 (1909). The drawings follow those instructions.
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III 4 (d)
Draw the hands back to the sides of the eyes; then step forward about twelve inches with the left foot, throw the body forward, and shoot the hands out in front.
quickly advance the left foot about twelve inches, throw forward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus
The Equinox, Vol. I, No. 2 · 1909 · p. 18, III 4 (d) ↗
What else the sources say
The Enterer sends force out; the Sign of Silence closes it off
Then in the sign of the Enterer doth he direct the whole current of his will upon the sigil. Thus he continueth until such time as he shall perceive his will-power to be weakening, when he protects himself from the reflex of the current by the sign of silence, and then drops his hands.
From the Golden Dawn's instruction for evocation, cited here for the two signs only. The operation itself is not reproduced.
As the Saluting Sign of a Neophyte, it casts a disturbing thought out
The Golden Dawn's papers have the thought imagined before the performer and projected out of the aura with this sign, and its return prevented with the Sign of Silence.
as part of a technique to “get rid of obsessing or disturbing thoughts”