succession of new lives. 1 Without this union, and without this 
death of the individual, the cycle would be broken. 
A chapter will be consecrated to removing the practical diffi- 
culties of this method of Invocation. It will doubtless hâve 
been noted by the acumen of the reader that in the great 
essentials these three methods are one. In each case the 
magician identifies himself with the Deity invoked. To 
invoke is to call in, just as to evoke ïs to call forth. This is the 
essential différence between the two branches of Magick. In 
invocation, the macrocosm floods the consciousness. In évocation, 
the magician, having become the macrocosm, créâtes a microcosm. 
You i/zvoke a God into the Circle. You evokt a Spirit into the 
Triangle. In the first method identity with the God is attained 
by J ove and by surrender, by giving up or suppressing ail irrelevant 
(and illusionary) parts of yourself. It is the weeding of a garden. 
In the second method identity is attained by paying spécial 
attention to the desired part of yourself: positive, as the first 
method is négative. It is the potting-out and watering of a 
particular flower in the garden, and the exposure of it to the sun. 
In the third, identity is attained by sympathy. It is very 
difficult for the ordinary man to lose himself completely in the 
subject of a play or of a novelj but for those who can do so, this 
method is unquestionably the best. 
Observe: each element in this cycle is of equal value. It is 
wrong to say triumphantly “Mors janua vitæ”, unless you add, 
with equal triumph, “Vita janua mortis”. To one who understands 
this chain of the Aeons from the point of view alike of the sorrowing 
Isis and of the triumphant Osiris, not forgetting their link in the 
destroyer Apophis, there remains no secret veiled in Nature. He 
cries that name of God which throughout History has been echoed 
by one religion to another, the infinité swelling paean I.A.O. ! 2 
1. See “The Book of Lies”, Liber 333, for several sermons to this 
effect. The whole theory of Death must be sought in Liber CXI Aleph. 
2. This name. I. A. O. is qabalistically identical with that of The 
Beast and with His number 666, so that he who invokes the former 
invokes also the îatter. Also with AIWAZ and the Number 93. See 
Chapter V. 
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