Collected Works (Vol. II)

Ye Fylfat +. Mysterium Matris.! Evocatio. Lucus. The Chariot. Four hundred and eighteen. Five are one, and six are diverse, five in the midst and three on each side. The Word of Power, 220 AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM . Ain Elohim. Abracadabra. double in the Voice of the Master. Ain Elohim. Amethsh, Four sounds of four forces. O the Snake hath a long tail! Amen Ain Elohim. Sudden death: thick darkness: ho! the ox! One, and one, and one: Creator, Preserver, Destroyer, ho! the Re- deemer! Thunder-stone: whirlpool : lotus-flower: ho! for the gold of the sages ! Ain Elohim. And he was silent for a great while, and so departed our Father from Him. Forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bear- ing a bright crown of gold, studded with gems, one on each knee. Dressed in rags she was, and squatted clumsily on the sand. A horn grew from her forehead ; and she spat black foam and froth. Foul was the hag and evil, yet our Father bowed down flat on his face to the earth. ‘‘ Holy Virgin of God,” said he, ‘‘ what dost thou here? What wilt thou with thy servant?” At that she stank so that the air gasped about her, like a fish brought out of the sea. So she told him she was gathering simples for her daughter that had died to bury her withal. Now no simples grew in the desert. Therefore our Father drew with his sword lines of power in the sand, so that a black and terrible demon appeared squeezing up in thin flat plates of flesh along the sword-lines. So our Father cried: ‘¢Simples, O Axcaxrabortharax, for my mother!” Then the demon was wroth and shrieked : ‘‘ Thy mother to black hell! She is mine!” So the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that fiend of the pit. But our Father paid no heed thereto and bade the demon to do his will, so that he brought him herbs-many, and good, with which ou: Father planted a great grove that grew about him (for the sun was now waxen bitter hot) wherein he worshipped, offering in vessels of clay these seven ofterings : ? The first offering, dust ; The second offering, ashes ; The third offering, sand ; The fourth offering, bay-leaves; The fifth offering, gold ; The sixth offering, dung; The seventh offering, poison. With the dust he gave also a sickle to gather the harvest of that dust. ' With the ashes he gave a sceptre, that one might rule them aright. With the sand he gave a sword, to cut that sand withal. With the bay-leaves he gave a sun, to wither them. With the gold he gave also a garland of sores, and that was for luck. With the dung he gave a Rod of Life to quicken it. 1 This is all obscure. 2 Refer to the planets.