the seul. Let the muscles take grip on themselves as if one were 
wrestling. Let the jaw and mouth, in particular, be tightened to 
the utmost. Breathe deeply, slowly, yet strongly. Keep mastery 
over the mind by muttering forcibly and audibly. But lest such 
muttering tend to disturb communion with the Angel, speak only 
His Name. Until the Adept hâve heard that Name, therefore, he 
may not abide in the perfect possession of his Beloved. His most 
important task is thus to open his ears to the voice of his Angel, 
that he may know him, how he is called. For hearken! this Name, 
understood rightly and fully, declareth the nature of the Angel in 
every point, wherefore also that Name is the formula of the per¬ 
fection to which the Adept must aspire, and also of the power of 
Magick by virtue whereof he must work. 
He then that is as yet ignorant of that Name, let him repeat a 
Word worthy of this particular Ritual. Such are Abrahadabra, the 
Word of the Aeon, which signifieth aThe Great Work accom- 
plished”; and Aumgn interpreted in Part III of Book 4 1-y and the 
name of THE BEAST, for that His number showeth forth this 
Union with the Angel, and His Work is no other than to make 
ail men partakers of this Mystery of the Mysteries of Magick. 
So then saying this Word or that, let the Adept wrestle with his 
Angel and withstand Him, that he may constrain Him to consent 
to continue in communion until the consciousness becomes capable 
of clear compréhension, and of accurate transmission2 of the 
1. The essence of this matter is that the Word A U IM, which expresses 
the course of Breath (spiritual life) from free utterance through controlled 
concentration to Silence, is transmuted by the création of the compound 
letter MTN to . replace M: that is, Silence is realised as passing into 
continuous ecstatic vibration, of the nature of “Love” under “Will” as 
shewn by MPN = 40 + 3 + 50 = 93 ArAIlH, 0EAHMA etc., and the 
whole word has the value of 100, Perfection Perfected, the Unity in 
completion, and équivalent to KP the conjuncticn of the essential male and 
female principles. 
2. The “normal” intellect is incapable of these functions; a superior 
faculty must hâve been developed. As Zoroaster says: “Extend the void 
mind of thy soûl to that Intelligible that thou mayst learn the Intelligible, 
because it subsisteth beyond Mind. Fhou wilt not understand It as when 
understanding some common thing.” 
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