The Magical Weapon of Geburah is the Sword.
In another passage from -the mystical qabalah- (p.125, about the sephirah Geburah) Dion Fortune states:
Here is a different view on Geburah for you:
It might help some to understand that power can never stand alone (for long, if at all).
Looking at the Tree of Life one sees it attributed to the 5th sphere. It needs to balanced and applied with the 4th ( “Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil.” )
Also, above that is ‘knowledge’ and that must be used (through application of power and ‘flexibility’ of the 4th sphere– like the proverbial willow in the storm i.e.’ Daoist principles’).
Knowledge must be ruled by ‘Understanding’ - 3rd sphere ( understanding what the result of any application of knowledge through power might be) and ‘Wisdom’ – 2nd sphere ( creating beneficial and intelligent * results from applying the understanding of knowledge through power).
It just isn’t power alone … that will become an ‘evil qlippoth’. An excellent example of this is in the classic ‘medieval’ Japanese movie called ‘Sword of Doom’ - especially the final scenes.
[ “…There, in a quiet (and he is told, haunted) room, he starts seeing the ghosts of all the people he has killed. Further, he is haunted by the words of Shimada: "The sword is the soul. Study the soul to know the sword. Evil mind, evil sword” …. With this realization, Ryunosuke appears to descend into complete insanity. He starts slashing at the shadows of the ghosts that surround him, and then begins attacking his fellow assassins, who seem to number in the hundreds. In one of the longest (seven minutes) and most famous sword fight scenes on film, Ryunosuke kills dozens of gang members in the burning courtesan house as they gradually wear him down with what few wounds they can inflict. Finally it appears that Ryunosuke will surely be killed; bleeding and staggering, his face contorted in rage, he lurches forward, raises his sword once more, and the film ends; a freeze-frame catching Ryunosuke in mid sword-slash ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Doom
How’s that for a rendition of a Rite of Mars? (Rites are to teach us lessons )
I often quote from Crowley’s Rite of Mars to help those that think power and lower ego must be entwined.
Here is a good description IMO of Power:
“ This is the day which down the void abysm
At the Earth-born's spell yawns for Heaven's despotism,
And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep;
Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dead endurance, from the slippery steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance--
These are the seals of that most firm assurance
Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength;
And if, with infirm hand, Eternity,
Mother of many acts and hours, should free
The serpent that would clasp her with his length,
These are the spells by which to reassume
An empire o'er the disentangled doom.
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory! “
The Rite of Mars.
* intelligence = actions that gain benefit for oneself while benefiting others