Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

Air. Section B. Hear Me: — 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 Ibis, secret solitary Bird, inviolate Wisdom, whose Word is Truth, creating the World by its Magick!” ThIAF “O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” (The conception is of Air, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Bird, “the Holy Ghost”, of a Mercurial Nature.) Hear me, and make ail Spirits subject unto Me 5 so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth, on dry land and in the waterj of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me. I. Il he letter F is used to represent the Hebrew Vau and the Greek Digamma; its Sound lies between those of the English long o and long 00, as in Rope and Tooth. — 267 —