Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

of the Earth, continuing knowledge from génération unto généra¬ tion, thou adored of us upon heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the market-places and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest thy glory unto menyLao-tze and Siddartha and Krishna and Tahuti, Mosheh, DionysuSy Mohammed and To Mega Therion, with these alsoy Hermes, Pan, Priapus, Osiris, and Melchizedeck, Khem and Amoun and Mm tu y Heraclesy Orpheus and Odysseus; with Vergilius, CatulluSy Martialis, Rabelais, Swinburne and many an holy bard; Apollonius TyanaeuSy Simon Magus, Mânes, Pythagorasy Basilides, Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytusy that transmitted the light of the Gnosis to us their succès sors and their heirs; with Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against the Heathen, and these alsoy Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with William of Schyren, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Roger Bacon, Jacobus Burgundus Molensis the Martyr, Christian Rosen- creutZy Ulrich von Hutten, Paracelsus, Michael Maier, Roderic Borgia Pope Alexander the Sixthy Jacob Boehme, Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, Andrea, Robertus de Fluctibus, Johannes Dee, Sir Edward Kelly, Thomas Vaughan, Elias Ashmole, Molinos, Adam Weishaupt, Wolfang von Goethe, Ludovicus Rex Bavariæ, Richard Wagner, Alphonse Rouis Constant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hargrave Jennings, Cari Kellner, Forlong dux, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Richard Payne Knight, Paul Gauguin, Docteur Gérard Encausse, Doctor Theodor Reuss, and Sir Aleister Crowley. Oh Sons of the Lion and the Snake! with ail thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to corne. May their Essence be here présent, potent, puissant, and paternal to perfect this feast! (At each name the DEACON signs -f- with thumb between index and médius. At ordinary mass it is only necessary to comme¬ morate those whose names are italicisedy with wording as is shown.) y The PEOPLE. So mote it be. — 354 —