Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

CBAPTER V The Formula of I.A.O. This formula is the principal and most characteristic formula of Osiris, of the Rédemption of Mankind. I is Isis, Nature, ruined by A, Apophis the Destroyer, and restored to life by the Redeemer Osiris.1 The sanie idea is expressed by the Rosicrucian formula of the Trinity: Ex Deo nas ci mur. In Je su morimur. Per Sfiritum Sanctum reviviscimus. This is also identical with the Word Lux L.V.X., which is formed by the arrns of a cross. It is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modem monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the Saviour of the World. The doctrine of résurrection as vulgarly understood is false and absurd. It is not even “Scriptural”. St. Paul does not identify the glorified body which rises with the mortal body which dies. On the contrary, he repeatedly insists on the distinction. The same is true of a magical ceremony. The magician who is destroyed by absorption in the Godhead is really destroyed. The I. There is a quite different formula in which I is the Father, O the Mother, A the child — and yet another, in which I. A. O. are ail fathers of different kir.ds balanced by H. H. H., 3 Mothers, to complété the Universe. In a third, the true formula of the Beast 666, I and O are îhe opposites which form the field for the operation of A. But this is a higher matter unsuited for this eîementary handbook. See, however, Liber Samekh, Point II, Section J. 28