Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

Line 2 Line 3 Section B the meanings and correspondences of 9, 15, 24, 45, 300, 345-) 45 is moreover A D M, man. “Mosheh” is thus the name cf man as a God-concealing Form. But in the Ritual let the Adept replace this “Mosheh” by his own motto as Adeptus Minor. For “Ish- rael” let him prefer his own Magical Race, according to the obligations of his Oaths to Our Holy Order! (The Beast 666 Himself used “Ankh-f-n-khonsu” and aKhem” in this section.) The Adept reminds his Angel that He has created That One Substance of which Hermes hath written in the Table of Emerald, whose virtue is to unité in itself ail opposite modes of Being, thereby to serve as a Talisman charged with the Spiritual Energy of Existence, an Elixir or Stone composed of the physical basis of Life. This Commémoration is placed between the two Per¬ sonal appeals to the Angel, as if to claim privilège to partake of this Eucharist which createth, sus- taineth and redeemeth ail things. He now asserts that he is himself the “Angel” or messenger of his Angel 5 that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the Word of his Angel. He hails his Angel not only as “un-nefer” the Perfection of “Asar” himself as a man, but as Ptah-Apophrasz- Ra, the identity (Hadit) wrapped in the Dragon (Nuith) and thereby manifested as a Sun (Ra- Hoor-Khuit). The “Egg” (or Heart) “girt with a Serpent” is a cognate symbole the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual. (See Liber LXV. which expands this to the uttermost.) The Adept passes from contemplation to action in the sections now following B to Gg. He is tô travel astrally around the circle, making the appro- priate pentagrams, sigils, and signs. His direction — 277 —