unshakeable mental picture of the god is présent to the mind. 
Similarly, the attributes of the god are enshrined in speech, and 
such speeches are committed perfectly to memory. The invoca¬ 
tion will then begin with a prayer to the god, commemorating his 
physical attributes, always with profound understanding of their 
real meaning. In the second fart of the invocation, the voice of 
the god is heard, and His characteristic utterance is recited. 
In the thirâ fortion of the invocation the magician asserts the 
identity of himself with the god. In the fourth fortion the god is 
again invoked, but as if by Himself, as if it were the utterance of 
the will of the god that He should manifest in the magician. At 
the conclusion of this, the original object of the invocation is 
stateci. 
Th us, in the invocation of Thoth which is to be found in the 
rite of Mercury (Equinox I, VI) and in Liber LXIV, the first 
part begins with the words “Majesty of Godhead, wisdom- 
crowned TAHUTI, Thee, Thee I invoke. Oh Thou of the Ibis 
head, Thee, Thee I invoke”$ and so on. At the conclusion of this 
a mental image of the God, infinitely vast and infinitely splendid, 
should be perceived, in just the same sense as a man might see the 
Sun. 
The second part begins with the words: 
'“Behold! I am yesterday, to~day, and the brother of to- 
morrow.” 
The magician should imagine that he is hearing this voice, and 
at the same time that he is echoing it, that it is true also of himself. 
This thought should so exalt him that he is able at its conclusion 
to utter the sublime words which open the third part: “Behold! 
he is in me, and I am in him.” At this moment, he loses con- 
sciousness of his mortal being; he is that mental image which he 
previously but saw. This consciousness is only complété as he 
goes on: “Mine is the radiance wherein Ptah floateth over his 
firmament. I travel upon high. I tread upon the firmament of 
Nu. I raise a flashing flame with the lightnings of mine eye: 
ever rushing on in the splendour of the daily glorified Ra — giving 
my life to the treaders of Earth ! ” This thought gives the relation 
of God and Man from the divine point of view. 
The magician is only recalled to himself at the conclusion of the 
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