AD-ON-A-I1 
EDE 
EDU 
“My Lord! My secret self beyond self, 
Hadith, Ail Father! Hail, ON, thou 
Sun, thou Life of Man, thou Fivefold 
Sword of Flame! Thou Goat exalted 
upon Earth in Lust, thou Snake ex- 
tended upon Earth in Life! Spirit 
most hoiy! Seed most Wise! Inno¬ 
cent Babe. Inviolate Maid! Begetter 
of Being! Soûl of ail Soûls! Word 
of ail Words, Corne forth, most 
hidden Light!” 
“Devour thou me!” 
“Thou dost devour Me!” 
ANGELOS TON ThEON “Thou Angel of the Gods!” 
ANLALA “Arise thou in Me, free flowing, Thou 
who art Naught, who art Naught, and 
utter thy Word! ” 
EAI “I also am Naught! I Will Thee! I 
behold Thee! My nothingness!” 
GAIA “Leap up, thou Earth!” 
(This is also an agonising appeal to the 
Earth, the Mother; for at this point 
of the ceremony the Adept should be 
torn from his mortal attachments, and 
I* In Hebrew, ADNI, 65. Fhe Gnostic Initiâtes transliterated it to 
imply their own secret formulae; we follow sa excellent an example. ON 
is an Arcanum of Arcana; its significance is taught, gradually, in the 
O.T.O. Also AD is the paternal formula, Hadit; ON is its complément 
NUIT; the final Yod signifies “mine” etymologically and essentially the 
Mercurial (transmitted) hermaphroditic virginal seed — The Hermit of the 
1 aro The use of the name is therefore to invoke one5s own inmost 
secrecy, considered as the resuit of the conjonction of Nuit and Hadit. If 
the second A is included, its import is to afhrm the operation of the Holy 
Ghost and the formulation of the Babe in the Egg, which précédés the 
appearance of the Hermit. 
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