Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

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. — 272 —