most important is the bell \ though this is used not so much for 
actual conjuration as to mark stages in the ceremony. Of ail 
these the tom-tom will be found to be the most generally useful. 
While on the subject of barbarous names of évocation we 
should not omit the utterance of certain suprême words which 
enshrine (a) the complété formula of the God invoked, or (3 
the whole ceremony. 
Examples of the former kind are Tetragrammaton, I.A.O., and 
Abrahadabra. 
An example of the latter kind is the great Word StiBeTTChe- 
PhMeFSHiSS, which is a line drawn on the Tree of Life (Coptic 
attributions) in a certain manner.1 2 
With ail such words it is of the utmost importance that 
they should never be spoken until the suprême moment, 
and even then they should burst from the magician almost 
despite himself — so great should be his réluctance 3 to 
utter them. In fact, they should be the utterance of the 
God in him at the first onset of the divine possession. So 
uttered, they cannot fail of effect, for they hâve become the effect. 
Every wise magician will hâve constructed (according to the 
principles of the Holy Qabalah) many such words, and he should 
hâve quintessentialised them ail in one Word, which last Word, 
once he has formed it, he should never utter consciously even in 
thought, until perhaps with it he gives up the ghost. Such a 
Word should in fact be so potent that man cannot hear it 
and live. 
1. See Part II. It should be said that in expérience no bell save His 
own Tibetan bell of Electrum Magicum has ever sounded satisfactory 
to the Master Therion. Most bells jar and repel. 
2. It represents the descent of a certain Influnce. See the Evocation 
of Taphtatharath, Equinox I, III. The attributions are given in 777. 
This Word expresses the current Kether - Beth - Binah - Cheth - Geburch - 
Mem - Hod - Shin - Malkuth, the descent from 1 to 10 via the Pillar of 
Severity. 
3. This réluctance is Freudian, due to the power of these words to 
awaken the suppressed subconscious libido. 
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