Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

advance to any of them. But an example of such an operation may be studied in Equinox I, VII, “The Temple of Solomon the King”, where an invocation of Horus on this formula is given in full. Note the réverbération of the ideas one against another. The formula of Horus has not yet been so fully worked out in details as to justify a treatise upon its exoteric theory and practice; but one may say that it is, to the formula of Osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of great efficacity in particular operations. For example, V.I.T.R.I.O.L gives a certain Regimen of the Planets useful in Alchemical work. Ararita is a formula of the macrocosm potent in certain very lofty Operations of the Magick of the Inmost Light. (See Liber 813.) The formula of Thelema may be summarized thus: Q “Babalon and The Beast conjoined” — £ unto Nuith (CCXX, 1, 51) — A The Work accomplished in Justice — y) the Holy Graal — p. The Water therein — a The Babe in the Egg (Harpocrates on the Lotus.) That of Agape is as follows: Dionysus (Capital A) — The Virgin Earth y — The Babe in the Egg (small a — the image of the Father) — The Massacre of the Innocents, tz (winepress) — The Draught of Ecstasy, y). The student will find it well worth his while to seek out these ideas in detail, and develop the technique of their application. There is also the Gnostic Name of the Seven Vowels, which gives a musical formula most puissant in évocations of the Soûl of Nature. There is moreover ABRAXAS; there is XNOUBIS; there is MEITHRAS; and indeed it may briefly be stated that every true name of God gives the formula of the invocation of that God.1 It would therefore be impossible, even were it désirable, to analyse ail such names. The general method of doing so has been I. Members of the IV° of the O. T. O . are well aware of a Magick Word whose analysis contains ail Truth, human and Divine, a Word indeed potent for any group which dares to use it. 43