_Thee I invoke, the Bornless one.
Thee, that didst create the Earth and the Heavens:
Thee, that didst create the Night and the Day.
Thee, that didst create the Darkness and the Light.
Thou art Osorronophris: Whom no man has seen at any time.
Thou art Jäbas
Thou art Jäpōs:
Thou hast distinguished between the Just and the Unjust.
Thou didst make the Female and the Male.
Thou didst produce the Seed and the Fruit.
Thou didst form Men to love one another, and to hate one another._
_I am Mosheh Thy Prophet, unto Whom Thou didst commit Thy Mysteries, the
Ceremonies of Ishrael:_
_Thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all
created Life._
_Hear Thou Me, for I am the Angel of Paphrō Osorronophris: this is Thy
True Name, handed down to the Prophets of Ishrael._
* * * * *
_Hear Me:_—
_Ar: Thiao: Rheibet: Atheleberseth:_
_A: Blatha: Abeu: Ebeu: Phi:_
_Thitasoe: Ib: Thiao._
_Hear Me, and make all Spirits subject unto Me: so that every Spirit of
the Firmament and of the Ether; upon the Earth and under the Earth: on
dry Land and in the Water: of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire: and
every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me._
* * * * *
_I invoke Thee, the Terrible and Invisible God: Who dwellest in the Void
Place of the Spirit:_—
_Arogogorobraō: Sothou:_
_Modoriō: Phalarthaō: Döö: Apé, The Bornless One:_
_Hear Me: etc._
* * * * *
_Hear me:_—
_Roubriaō: Mariōdam: Balbnabaoth: Assalonai: Aphniaō: I: Thoteth:
Abrasar: Aëöōü: Ischure, Mighty and Bornless One!_
_Hear me: etc._
* * * * *
_I invoke thee:_—
_Ma: Barraiō: Jōēl: Kotha:_
_Athorēbalō: Abraoth:_
_Hear Me: etc._
* * * * *
_Hear me!
Aōth: Abaōth: Basum: Isak:
Sabaoth: Iao:_
_This is the Lord of the Gods:
This is the Lord of the Universe:
This is He Whom the Winds fear._
_This is He, Who having made Voice by His Commandment, is Lord of All
Things; King, Ruler and Helper._
_Hear Me, etc._
* * * * *
_Hear Me:_—
_Ieou: Pūr: Iou: Pūr: Iaōt: Iaeō: Ioou: Abrasar: Sabriam: Do: Uu:
Adonaie: Ede: Edu: Angelos ton Theon: Aniaia Lai: Gaia: Ape: Diathanna
Thorun._
* * * * *
_I am He! the Bornless Spirit! having sight in the feet: Strong, and the
Immortal Fire!_
_I am He! the Truth!_
_I am He! Who hate that evil should be wrought in the World!_
_I am He, that lighteneth and thundereth._
_I am He, from Whom is the Shower of the Life of Earth:_
_I am He, Whose mouth ever flameth:_
_I am He, the Begetter and Manifester unto the Light:_
_I am He; the Grace of the World:_
* * * * *
_“The Heart Girt with a Serpent” is My Name!_
* * * * *
_Come Thou forth, and follow Me: and make all Spirits subject unto Me so
that every Spirit of the Firmament, and of the Ether: upon the Earth and
under the Earth: on dry Land, or in the Water: of whirling Air or of
rushing Fire: and every Spell and Scourge of God, may be obedient unto
me!_
_Iao: Sabao:_
_Such are the Words!_
Goetia
The Lesser Key Of Solomon
THE INITIATED INTERPRETATION OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC.
It is loftily amusing to the student of _Magical_ literature who is not
quite a fool—and rare is such a combination!—to note the criticism
directed by the Philistine against the citadel of his science. Truly,
since our childhood has ingrained into us not only literal belief in the
Bible, but also substantial belief in _Alf Laylah_ wa _Laylah_, and only
adolescence can cure us, we are only too liable, in the rush and energy
of dawning manhood, to overturn roughly and rashly both these classics,
to regard them both on the same level, as interesting documents from the
standpoint of folk-lore and anthropology, and as nothing more.
Even when we learn that the Bible, by a profound and minute study of the
text, may be forced to yield up _Qabalistic_ arcana of cosmic scope and
importance, we are too often slow to apply a similar restorative to the
companion volume, even if we are the luck holders of Burton’s veritable
edition.
To me, then, it remains to raise the _Alf Laylah_ wa Laylah into its
proper place once more.
I am not concerned to deny the objective reality of all “_magical_”
phenomena; if they are illusions, they are at least as real as many
unquestioned facts of daily life; and, if we follow Herbert Spencer,
they are at least evidence of some cause.[4]
Now, this fact is our base. What is the cause of my illusion of seeing a
spirit in the triangle of Art?
Every smatterer, every expert in psychology, will answer: “That cause
lies in your brain.”
English children (_pace_ the Education Act) are taught that the Universe
lies in infinite Space; Hindu children, in the Akasa, which is the same
thing.
Those Europeans who go a little deeper learn from Fichte, that the
phenomenal Universe is the creation of the Ego; Hindus, or Europeans
studying under Hindu Gurus, are told, that by Akasa is meant the
Chitakasa. The Chitakasa is situated in the “Third Eye”, _i.e._, in the
brain. By assuming higher dimensions of space, we can assimilate this
fact to Realism; but we have no need to take so much trouble.
This being true for the ordinary Universe, that all sense-impressions
are dependent on changes in the brain,[5] we must include illusions,
which are after all sense-impressions as much as “realities” are, in the
class of “phenomena dependent on brain-changes.”
Magical phenomena, however, come under a special sub-class, since they
are willed, and their cause is the series of “real” phenomena called the
operations of ceremonial Magic.