CBAPTER V 
The Formula of I.A.O. 
This formula is the principal and most characteristic formula 
of Osiris, of the Rédemption of Mankind. I is Isis, Nature, 
ruined by A, Apophis the Destroyer, and restored to life by the 
Redeemer Osiris.1 The sanie idea is expressed by the Rosicrucian 
formula of the Trinity: 
Ex Deo nas ci mur. 
In Je su morimur. 
Per Sfiritum Sanctum reviviscimus. 
This is also identical with the Word Lux L.V.X., which is 
formed by the arrns of a cross. It is this formula which is implied 
in those ancient and modem monuments in which the phallus is 
worshipped as the Saviour of the World. 
The doctrine of résurrection as vulgarly understood is false and 
absurd. It is not even “Scriptural”. St. Paul does not identify 
the glorified body which rises with the mortal body which dies. 
On the contrary, he repeatedly insists on the distinction. 
The same is true of a magical ceremony. The magician who is 
destroyed by absorption in the Godhead is really destroyed. The 
I. There is a quite different formula in which I is the Father, O the 
Mother, A the child — and yet another, in which I. A. O. are ail fathers 
of different kir.ds balanced by H. H. H., 3 Mothers, to complété the 
Universe. In a third, the true formula of the Beast 666, I and O are 
îhe opposites which form the field for the operation of A. But this is a 
higher matter unsuited for this eîementary handbook. See, however, 
Liber Samekh, Point II, Section J. 
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