John St. John

10.55. 11.17. 11.30. 72 THE EQUINOX Bartzabel! Madim! I conjure ye in the Number Five. By the Flaming Star of my Will! By the Senses of my Body! By the Five Elements of my Being! Rise! Move! Appear! Come ye forth unto me and torture me with your fierce pangs . . . for why? because I am the Servant of the Same your God, the True Worshipper of the Highest. Ol sonuf vaoresaji, gono Iadapiel. elonusaha cælazod. 1 rule above ye, said the Lord of Lords, exalted in power. [From Dr. Dee's MSS.—ED.] Will now try the Hanged Man again. Very Vigorous and good, my willing of Adonai. . . . I should like to explain the difficulty. It would be easy enough to form a magical Image of Adonai; and He would doubtless inform it. But it would only be an Image. This. may be the meaning of the command- ment “Thou shalt not make any graven image,” etc., just as “ Thou shalt not have any other Gods but me" implies single-minded devotion (Ekagrata) to Adonai. So any mental or magical Image must necessarily fall short of the Truth. Consequently one has to will that which is formless ; and this is very difficult. Το con- centrate the mind upon a definite thing is hard enough ; yet at least there is something to grasp, and some means of checking one’s result. But in this case, the moment one’s will takes a magical shape—and the will simply revels in creating shapes—at that moment one knows that one has gone off the track.