Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

“Thou, Gâte of the Great God ON! Thou Lady of the Understanding of the Ways ! ” ASAL-ON-AI “Hail Thou, the unstirred ! Hail, sister and bride of ON, of the God that is ail and is none, by the Power of Eleven ! ” APhEN-IAF aThou Treasure of IAO!” I “Thou Virgin twin-sexed! Thou Secret Seed! Thou inviolate Wisdom!” PhOTETh “Abode of the Light. ABRASAX “.of the Father, the Sun, of Hadith, of the spell of the Aeon of Horus !” AEOOU “Our Lady of the Western Gâte of Heaven !” ISChURE “Mighty art Thou !” Mighty and Bornless One! (Vide Supra) (The conception is of Water, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Dragon-Serpent, of a Neptunian nature.) Hear Me: and make ail 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. Section E. Earth. I invoke Thee: — MA BARRAIO IOEL KOThA “O Mother ! O Truth ! ” “Thou Mass!”1 “Hail, Thou that art!” “Thou hollow one!” I. “Mass”, in the sense of the word which is used by physicists. The impossibility of defîning it will not deter the intrepid initiate (in view of the fact that the fundamental conception is beyond the normal categories of reason.) — 269 —