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1930 · PDF PAGE 61

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

APPENDIX IV LIBER SAMEKH Theurgia Goetia Summa (CONGRESSUS CUM DAEMONE) sub figura DCCC being the Ritual employed by the Beast 666 for the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel during the Semester of His performance of the Operation of the Sacred Magick of ABRAMELIN THE MAGE. (Prepared An XVII © in np at the Abbey of Thelema in Cephalædium by the Beast 666 in service to FRATER PROGRA- DIOR.) OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of A.-. A.-. Class D for the Grade of Adeptus Minor. — 265 —

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1930 · PDF PAGE 86

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…, unbiassed, unboundedj in act gentle, patient and persistent. Hermes to hear, Dionysus to touch, Pan to behold. A Virgin, a Babe, and a Beast! A Liar, an Idiot, and a Master of Men! A kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow; he that hath ears to hear, let him hear! Take ten that be one, and one that is one in three, to conceal them in six! Thy wand to al] Cups, and thy Disk to ail Swords, but betray not thine Egg! Moreover also is IAF verily 666 by virtue of Number; and this is a Mystery of Mysteries; Who knoweth it, he is adept of adepts, and Mighty amo…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 57

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…cometh after thee; he shall discover the key.” This one was to be the “child” of the scribe, “and that strangely”. Nine months after The Beast 666 had gotten a Magical “child” upon His concubine Jane Foster, a “Babe of the Abyss” was born, Frater Achad asserting his right to that grade, and thus “coming after” The Beast 666, who had been the last Adept to do so. And this “child” was definitely “one”, since “one” is the meaning of his motto Achad. Finally, he did in fact adiscover the key of it ail” after The Beast Himself had failed to do so in…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 63

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…— AR ThIAF 1 RhEIBET A-ThELE-BER-SET A BELAThA ‘ ABEU EBEU Phl-ThETA-SOE aO breathing, flowing Sun!” “O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” aThou that flowest! Thou that goest!” aThou Satan-Sun Hadith that goest without Will!” “Thou Air ! Breath ! Spirit ! Thou without bound or bond ! ” “Thou Essence, Air Swift-streaming, Elasticity! ” aThou Wanderer, Father of Ail!” “Thou Wanderer, Spirit of Ail!” “Thou Shilling Force of Breath! Thou Lion-Serpent Sun! Thou Saviour, save ! ” IB “Thou I…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 87

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ant in continuai ardour, dismissing ail but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.2 For know that the true Formula3 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus : INVOKE OFTEN 4 So may ail men corne at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel : thus sayeth the Beast, and prayeth His own Angel that this book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein. 666 !• The consonants of LOGOS, “Word”, add (Hebrew values,) to 93. And EIIH, “Words”, (whence “Epie”) has also t…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 85

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ulation demands the going forth together of the Adept and his Angel ato do their pleasure on the Earth among the living.” Section J. The Beast 666 having devised the présent method of using this Ritual, having proved it by his own practice to be of infallible puissance when properly performed, and now having written it down for the World, it shall be an ornament for the Adept who adopts it to cry Hail to His name at the end of his work. This shall moreover encourage him in Magick, to recall that indeed there was One who attained by its use to t…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 25

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ork ? No star in siglit ! Thy G ods proved puppets of the priest. “Truth ? All’s relation !” science sighed. In bondaae with thy brother beast, Love tortured thee, as Love’s hope died And Love’s faith rotted. Life no least Dim star descried. Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled To find itself a chance-cast clod Whose Pain was purposeless; appalled That aimless accident thus trod Its agony, that void skies sprawled On the vain sod ! Ail soûls eternally exist, Each individual, ultimate, Perfect -— each makes itself a mist Of mind and flesh to…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 22

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… p. 83. Liber DCXXXII1. De Thaumaturgie. A statement of certain ethical considérations concerning Magick. Unpublished. Liber DCLXVI. The Beast. An account of the Magical Personality who is the Logos of the présent Aeon. Unpublished. Liber DCCLXXVIL (777). Vel Proiegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-IÆysticœ Vice Explicandce, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicorum Sanctissi- morum Scientiæ Summce. A complété Dictionary of the Correspondences of ail magical éléments, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the 226

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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… a Probationer. Unpublished. Liber CXCVIL The High History of Good Sir Palamedes the Saracen Knight and of his following of the Questing Beast. 222

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1930 · PDF PAGE 54

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…al of Magick” by the Master Therion. The last sentence reads: “Herein is Wisdom; let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and three score and six. TO ME! A 0HPION, the Great Wild Beast, has the value, according to the Greek System, of 666. It is, of course, the title of the Master Therion. The Master H herion was, about this time, in communication with an intelligence who gave the name of Amalantrah. On Sunday, February 24, 1918, at 9*3° P* m-, The Master Therion…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 67

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…- tor compassed about with Force and Fire! ” “Indwelling Soûl of Myself” (Vide Supra) “Sun-lion Serpent, hail! Ail Hail, thou Great Wild Beast, thou I AO!” “Breaths of my Soûl, breaths of mine Angel.” “Lust of my Soûl, lust of mine Angel!” (Vide Supra). “Ho for the Sangraal! Ho for the Cup of Babalon! Ho for mine Angel pouring Himself forth within my Soûl!” “The Eye! Satan, my Lord! The Lust of the Goat! ” “Mine Angel! Mine initiator! Thou one with me — the Sixfold Star! ” — 271 — IOU PUR IAFTh IAEO IOOU ABRASAX SABRIAM OO FF

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1930 · PDF PAGE 26

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…is a star. Pan is not dead; he liveth, Pan ! Break down the bar ! To man I corne, the number of A man my number, Lion of Light; I am The Beast whose Law is Love. Love under will, bis royal right — Behold within, and not above, One star in sight ! ONE STAR IN SIGHT. A glimpse of the structure and System of the Great White Brotherhood. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. i. The Order of the Star called S. S. is, in respect of its existence upon the Earth, an organised body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qua…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 66

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ce of “death”; GN is the nasal sound of génération & knowledge. “Identical Point!” “Nuith ! Hadith ! Ra-Hoor-Khuit ! ” “Hail, Great Wild Beast!” “Hail, I A O ! ” I. Sacred to AHAThOOR. The idea is that of the Female conceived as invulnérable, reposeful, of enormous swallowing capacity etc. — 270 — obedient unto Me. Sec lion F. Hear Me: AFT ABAFT BAS-AUMGN. ISAK SA-BA-FT

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1930 · PDF PAGE 79

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…the Tiphereth square of his Tau, and invokes Spirit, facing toward Boleskine, by the active Pentagrams, the sigil called the Mark of the Beast, and the Signs of L.V.X. (See plate as before). He then vibrâtes the Names extending his will in the same way as before, but vertically upward. At the same time he expands the Source of that Will — the secret symbol of Self — both about him and below, as if to affirm that Self, duplex as is its form, reluctant to acquiesce in its failure to coincide with the Sphere of Nuith. Let him now imagine, at the l…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 73

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…as Adeptus Minor. For “Ish- rael” let him prefer his own Magical Race, according to the obligations of his Oaths to Our Holy Order! (The Beast 666 Himself used “Ankh-f-n-khonsu” and aKhem” in this section.) The Adept reminds his Angel that He has created That One Substance of which Hermes hath written in the Table of Emerald, whose virtue is to unité in itself ail opposite modes of Being, thereby to serve as a Talisman charged with the Spiritual Energy of Existence, an Elixir or Stone composed of the physical basis of Life. This Commémoration i…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 69

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ter: of Whirling Air or of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God, may be obedient unto me! Section J. The Proclamation of the Beast 666. IAF : SABAF 4 Such are the Words! 1. A thorough compréhension of Psycho-analysis will contribute notably to the proper appréciation of this Ritual. 2. It is said among men that the word Hell deriveth from the word ‘helan’, to hele or conceal, in the tongue of the Anglo-Saxons. That is, it is the concealed place, which since ail things are in thine own self, is the unconscious. Liber CXI (Aleph) cap …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 97

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… Abyss. The Adept must control a compact and cohérent mass if he is to make sure of hurling it from him with a clean-cut gesture. I, The Beast 666, lift up my voice and swear that I myself hâve been brought hither by mine Angel. After that I had attained unto the Knowledge and Conversation of Him by virtue of mine ardour towards Him, and of this Ritual that I bestow upon men my fellows, and most of His great Love that He beareth to me, yea, verily, He led me to the Abyss ; He bade me fling away ail that I had and ail that I was; and He forsook …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 93

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…e rapture!” sayeth the Book of the Law.1 The Adept must therefore play the man, arousing himself to harden his soûl. To this end, I, the Beast, hâve made trial and proof of divers devices. Of these the most potent is to set the body to strive with I. Liber Al vel Legis, II, 61-68, where the details of the proper tech¬ nique are discussed. — 297 —

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1930 · PDF PAGE 46

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…; as when Saint John distinguishes between the Whore Babalon and the Woman clothed with the Sun, between the Lamb that was slain and the Beast 666 whose deadly wound was healed; nor understands that Satan, the Old Serpent, in the Abyss, the Lake of Fire and Sulphur, is the Sun-Father, the vibration of Life, Lord of Infinité Space that fiâmes with His Consuming Energy, and is also that throned Light whose Spirit is suffused throughout the City of Jewels. Each “plane” is a veil of the one above it; the original individual Ideas become diversified…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 30

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ber 418 in the Higher Aethyrs. There is also a full and précisé description of the attainment of this Grade in the Magical Record of the Beast 666. The essential characteristic of the Grade is that its possessor utters a Creative Magical Word, which transforms the planet on 234 —

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