A FEW PRINCIPAL RITUALS
Grimorium Sanctissimum.
Arcanum Arcanorum Quod Continet Nondum Revelandum ipsis
Regibus supremis O.T.O. Grimorium Quod Baphomet X Degree M... suo
fecit.
De Templo.
1. Oriente ............... Altare
2. Occidente ............. Tabula dei invocandi
3. Septentrione .......... Sacerdos
4. Meridione ............. Ignis cum thuribulo, GR:chi.
GR:tau. GR:lambda.
5. Centro ................ Lapis quadratus cum
Imagine Dei
Maximi Igentis Nefandi
Ineffabilis Sanctissimi
et cum ferro, tintinnabulo,
oleo.
Virgo. Stet
imago juxta librum GR:Theta-Epsilon-Lambda-Eta-Mu-Alpha.
De ceremonio Principii.
Fiat ut in Libro DCLXXI dicitur, sed antea virgo lavata sit cum verbis
"Asperge me..." GR:chi. GR:tau. GR:lambda., et habilimenta ponat
cum verbis "Per sanctum Mysterium," GR:chi. GR:tau. GR:lambda.
Ita Pyramis fiat. Tunc virgo lavabit sacerdotem et vestimenta
ponat ut supra ordinatur.
(Hic dicat virgo orationes dei operis).
De ceremonio Thuribuli.
Manibus accedat et ignem et sacerdotem virgo, dicens: {325}
"Accendat in nobis Dominus ignem sui amoris et flamman aeternae caritatis.
De ceremonio Dedicationis.
Invocet virgo Imaginem Dei. M.I.N.I.S. his verbis. ---
Tu qui es prater omnia... GR:chi. GR:tau. GR:lambda."
Nec relinquet alteram Imaginem.
De Sacrificio Summo.
Deinde silentium frangat sacerdos cum verbis versiculi
sancti dei particularitur invocandi.
Ineat ad Sanctum Sanctorum.
Caveat; caveat, caveat.
Duo qui fiunt UNUS sine intermissione verba versiculi
sancti alta voce cantent.
De Benedictione Benedicti.
Missa rore, dicat mulier haec verba "Quia patris et filii s.s." GR:chi. GR:tau. GR:lambda.
De Ceremonio Finis
Fiat ut in Libro DCLXXI dicitur. GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu.
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LIBER XXV
THE STAR RUBY.
Facing East, in the centre, draw deep deep deep thy breath
closing thy mouth with thy right forefinger prest against thy lower lip.
Then dashing down the hand with a great sweep back and out, expelling forcibly
thy breath, cry GR:Alpha-Pi-Omicron GR:Pi-Alpha-Nu-Tau-Omicron-Sigma
GR:Kappa-Alpha-Kappa-Omicron-Delta-Alpha-Iota-Mu-Omicron-Nu-Omicron-Sigma.
With the same forefinger touch thy forehead, and say
GR:Sigma-Omicron-Iota, thy member, and say GR:Omega GR:Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Lambda-Epsilon<>,
thy right shoulder, and say GR:Iota-Sigma-Chi-Upsilon-Rho-Omicron-Sigma,
thy left shoulder, and say GR:Epsilon-Upsilon-Chi-Alpha-Rho-Iota-Sigma-Tau-Omicron-Sigma;
then clasp thine hands, locking the fingers, and cry GR:Iota-Alpha-Omega.
Advance to the East. Imagine strongly a Pentagram, aright, in thy
forehead. Drawing the hands to the eyes, fling it forth, making the
sign of Horus and roar
GR:Theta-Eta-Rho-Iota-Omicron-Nu. Retire thine hand in
the sign of Hoor-paar-Kraat.
Go round to the North and repeat; but say NUIT.
Go round to the West and repeat; but whisper BABALON.
Go round to the South and repeat; but bellow HADIT.
Completing the circle widdershins, retire to the centre
and raise thy voice in the Paian, with these words GR:Iota-Omega
GR:Pi-Alpha-Nu, with the signs of N.O.X.
Extend the arms in the form of a Tau and say low but clear:
GR:Pi-Rho-Omicron GR:Mu-Omicron-Upsilon GR:Iota-Upsilon-Gamma-Gamma-Epsilon-Sigma
GR:Omicron-Pi-Iota-Chi-Omega GR:Mu-Omicron-Upsilon GR:Tau-Epsilon-Lambda-Epsilon-Tau-Alpha-Rho-Chi-Alpha-Iota
GR:Epsilon-Pi-Iota GR:Delta-Epsilon-Xi-Iota-Alpha GR:Chi-Upsilon-Nu-Omicron-Chi-Epsilon-Sigma
GR:Epsilon-Pi-Alpha-Rho-Iota-Sigma-Tau-Epsilon-Rho-Alpha GR:Delta-Alpha-Iota-Mu-Omicron-Nu-Omicron-Sigma
GR:Phi-Epsilon-Gamma GR:Epsilon-Iota GR:Gamma-Alpha-Rho
GR:Pi-Epsilon-Rho-Iota GR:Mu-Omicron-Upsilon GR:Omicron
GR:Alpha-Sigma-Tau-Eta-Rho GR:Tau-Omega-Nu GR:Pi-Epsilon-Nu-Tau-Epsilon
GR:Kappa-Alpha-Iota GR:Epsilon-Nu GR:Tau-Eta-Iota GR:Sigma-Tau-Eta-Lambda-Eta-Iota
GR:Omega GR:Alpha-Sigma-Tau-Eta-Rho GR:Tau-Omega-Nu GR:Epsilon-Xi
GR:Epsilon-Sigma-Tau-Eta-Chi-Epsilon.
Repeat the Cross Qabalistic, as above, and end as thou
didst begin.
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LIBER XXXVI
THE STAR SAPPHIRE.
Let the Adept be armed with his Magick Rood [and provided
with his mystic Rose].
In the centre, let him give the L.V.X. signs; or if he
know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them,
the signs of N.O.X. being the signs of Puer, Vir, Puella, Mulier.
Omit the sign. I.R.
Then let him advance to the East and make the Holy Hexagram,
saying: "Pater et Mater unus deus Ararita."
Let him go round to the South, make the Holy Hexagram
and say: "Mater et Filius unus deus Ararita."
Let him go round to the North, make the Holy Hexagram
and then say: "Filia et Pater unus deus Ararita."
Let him then return to the Centre, and so to The Centre
of All (making the "Rosy Cross" as he may know how) saying "Ararita Ararita
Ararita". (In this the Signs shall be those of Set Triumphant and of Baphomet.
Also shall Set appear in the Circle. Let him drink of the Sacrament
and let him communicate the same.) Then let him say: "Omnia
in Duos: Duo in Unum: Unus in Nihil: Haec nec Quatuor nec Omnia nec Duo
nec Unus nec Nihil Sunt.
Gloria Patri et Matri et Filio et Filiae et Spiritui Sancto
externo et Spiritui Sancto interno ut erat est erit in saecula Saeculorum
sex in uno per nomen Septem in uno Ararita."
Let him then repeat the signs of L.V.X. but not the signs
of N.O.X.: for it is not he that shall arise in the Sign of Isis Rejoicing.
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LIBER XLIV
THE MASS OF THE PHOENIX
"The Magician, his breast bare, stands before an altar on which
are his Burin, Bell, Thurible, and two of the Cakes of Light. In
the Sign of the Enterer he reaches West across the Altar, and cries:"
Hail Ra, that goest in thy bark
Into the caverns of the Dark! "He gives the sign of Silence,
and takes the Bell, and Fire, in his hands."
East of the Altar see me stand
With light and musick in my hand! "He strikes Eleven times
upon the Bell" 333 - 55555 - 333 "and places the Fire in the Thurible."
I strike the Bell: I light the Flame;
I utter the mysterious Name.
ABRAHADABRA "He strikes eleven times upon the Bell."
Now I begin to pray: Thou Child,
Holy Thy name and undefiled!
Thy reign is come; Thy will is done.
Here is the Bread; here is the Blood.
Bring me through midnight to the Sun!
Save me from Evil and from Good!
That Thy one crown of all the Ten
Even now and here be mine. AMEN. "He puts the first
Cake on the Fire of the Thurible."
I burn the Incense-cake, proclaim
These adorations of Thy name. "He makes them as in Liber
Legis, and strikes again Eleven times upon the Bell. With the Burin
he then makes upon his breast the proper sign." {329}
Behold this bleeding breast of mine
Gashed with the sacramental sign!
"He puts the second Cake to the wound."
I stanch the Blood; the wafer soaks
It up, and the high priest invokes!
"He eats the second Cake."
This Bread I eat. This Oath I swear
As I enflame myself with prayer:
"There is no grace: there is no guilt:
This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!"
"He strikes Eleven times upon the Bell, and cries"
ABRAHADABRA.
I entered in with woe; with mirth
I now go forth, and with thanksgiving,
To do my pleasure on the earth
Among the legions of the living.
"He goeth forth."
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LIBER V
vel
REGULI.
A.'. A.'. publication in Class D. Being the Ritual of the Mark of the Beast: an incantation proper to invoke the Energies of the Aeon of Horus, adapted for the daily use of the Magician of whatever grade.
THE FIRST GESTURE.
The Oath of the Enchantment, which is called The Elevenfold Seal.
"The Animadversion towards the Aeon."
1. Let the Magician, robed and armed as he may deem to be
fit, turn his face towards Boleskine,<>
that is the House of
The Beast 666.
2. Let him strike the battery 1-3-3-3-1.
3. Let him put the Thumb of his right hand between its index
and medius, and make the gestures hereafter
following.
"The Vertical Component of the Enchantment."
1. Let him describe a circle about his head, crying NUIT!
2. Let him draw the Thumb vertically downward and touch
the Muladhara Cakkra, crying, HADIT!
3. Let him, retracing the line, touch the centre of his breast
an cry RA-HOOR-KHUIT!
"The Horizontal Components of the Enchantment."
1. Let him touch the Centre of his Forehead, his mouth, and
his larynx, crying AIWAZ!
2. Let him draw his thumb from right to left across his face
at the level of the nostrils.
3. Let him touch the centre of his breast, and his solar plexus,
crying, THERION!
4. Let him draw his thumb from left to right across his breast,
at the level of the sternum. {331}
5. Let him touch the Svadistthana, and the Muladhara Chakkra,
crying, BABALON!
6. Let him draw his thumb from right to left across his
abdomen, at the level of the hips. (Thus shall
he formulate the Sigil of the Grand Hierophant, but dependent from the
Circle.)
"The Asseveration of the Spells."
1. Let the Magician clasp his hands upon his Wand, his fingers
and thumbs interlaced, crying LAShTAL!
GR:Theta-Epsilon-Lambda-Eta-Mu-Alpha!
GR:Digamma-Iota-Alpha-Omicron-Digamma!
GR:Alpha-Gamma-Alpha-Pi-Eta!
GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu!
(Thus shall be declared the Words of Power whereby the
Energies of the Aeon of Horus work his will in the World.)
"The Proclamation of the Accomplishment."
1. Let the Magician strike the Battery: 3-5-3, crying
ABRAHADABRA.
The SECOND GESTURE.
"The Enchantment."
1. Let the Magician, still facing Boleskine, advance to the
circumference of his circle.
2. Let him turn himself towards the left, and pace with the
stealth and swiftness of a tiger the precincts
of his circle,
until he complete one revolution thereof.
3. Let him give the Sign of Horus (or The Enterer) as he
passeth, so to project the force that radiateth
from Boleskine
before him.
4. Let him pace his path until he comes to the North; there
let him halt, and turn his face to the North.
5. Let him trace with his wand the Averse Pentagram proper
to invoke Air (Aquarius).
6. Let him bring the wand to the centre of the Pentagram and
call upon NUIT!
7. Let him make the sign called Puella, standing with his
feet together, head bowed, his left hand shielding
the {332}
Muladhara Cakkra, and his right hand shielding
his
breast (attitude of the Venus de Medici).
8. Let him turn again to the left, and pursue his Path as
before, projecting the force from Boleskine
as he passeth;
let him halt when he next cometh to the South
and face
outward.
9. Let him trace the Averse Pentagram that invoketh Fire
(Leo).
10. Let him point his wand to the centre of the Pentagram,
and cry, HADIT!
11. Let him give the sign Puer, standing with feet together,
and head erect. Let his right hand (the
thumb extended
at right angles to the fingers) be raised,
the forearm
vertical at a right angle with the upper arm,
which is
horizontally extended in the line joining
the shoulders.
Let his left hand, the thumb extended forwards
and the
fingers clenched, rest at the junction of
the thighs (Attitude
of the gods Mentu, Khem, etc.).
12. Let him proceed as before; then in the East, let him make
the Averse Pentagram that invoketh Earth (Taurus).
13. Let him point his wand to the centre of the pentagram,
and cry, THERION!
14. Let him give the sign called Vir, the feet being together.
The hands, with clenched finger and thumbs
thrust out
forwards, are held to the temples; the head
is then bowed
and pushed out, as if to symbolize the butting
of an horned
beast (attitude of Pan, Bacchus, etc.).
(Frontispiece,
Equinox I, III).
15. Proceeding as before, let him make in the West the
Averse Pentagram whereby Water is invoked.
16. Pointing the wand to the centre of the Pentagram, let him
call upon BABALON!!
17. Let him give the sign Mulier. The feet are widely
separated, and the arms raised so as to suggest
a crescent.
The head is thrown back (attitude of Baphomet,
Isis in
Welcome, the Microcosm of Vitruvius).
(See Book 4,
Part II). {333}
18. Let him break into the dance, tracing a centripetal spiral
widdershins, enriched by revolutions upon
his axis as he
passeth each quarter, until he come to the
centre of the
circle. There let him halt, facing Boleskine.
19. Let him raise the wand, trace the Mark of the Beast, and
cry AIWAZ!
20. Let him trace the invoking Hexagram of The Beast.
21. Let him lower the wand, striking the Earth therewith.
22. Let him give the sign of Mater Triumphans (The feet are
together; the left arm is curved as if it
supported a child;
the thumb and index finger of the right hand
pinch the
nipple of the left breast, as if offering
it to that child).
Let him utter the word GR:Theta-Epsilon-Lambda-Eta-Mu-Alpha!
23. Perform the spiral dance, moving deosil and whirling
widdershins.
Each time on passing the West extend the wand
to the
Quarter in question, and bow:
a. "Before me the powers of LA!" (to West.)
b. "Behind me the powers of AL!" (to East.)
c. "On my right hand the powers of LA!" (to North.)
d. "On my left hand the powers of AL!" (to South.)
e. "Above me the powers of ShT!" (leaping in the air.)
f. "Beneath me the powers of ShT!" (striking the ground.)
g. "Within me the Powers!" (in the attitude of Phthah erect, the
feet together, the hands clasped
upon the vertical wand.)
h. "About me flames my Father's face, the Star of Force and
Fire."
i. "And in the Column stands His six-rayed Splendour!"
(This dance may be omitted, and the whole utterance chanted
in the attitude of Phthah.)
The FINAL GESTURE.
This is identical with the First Gesture.
(Here followeth an impression of the ideas implied in this Paean.) {334}
I also am a Star in Space, unique and self-existent, an
individual essence incorruptible; I also am one Soul; I am identical with
All and None. I am in All and all in Me; I am, apart from all and
lord of all, and one with all.
I am a God, I very God of very God; I go upon my way to
work my will; I have made matter and motion for my mirror; I have decreed
for my delight that Nothingness should figure itself as twain, that I might
dream a dance of names and natures, and enjoy the substance of simplicity
by watching the wanderings of my shadows. I am not that which is
not; I know not that which knows not; I love not that which loves not.
For I am Love, whereby division dies in delight; I am Knowledge, whereby
all parts, plunged in the whole, perish and pass into perfection; and I
am that I am, the being wherein Being is lost in Nothing, nor deigns to
be but by its Will to unfold its nature, its need to express its perfection
in all possibilities, each phase a partial phantasm, and yet inevitable
and absolute.
I am Omniscient, for naught exists for me unless I know
it. I am Omnipotent, for naught occurs save by Necessity my soul's
expression through my will to be, to do, to suffer the symbols of itself.
I am Omnipresent, for naught exists where I am not, who fashioned space
as a condition of my consciousness of myself, who am the centre of all,
and my circumference the frame of mine own fancy.
I am the All, for all that exists for me is a necessary
expression in thought of some tendency of my nature, and all my thoughts
are only the letters of my Name.
I am the One, for all that I am is not the absolute all,
and all my all is mine and not another's; mine, who conceive of others
like myself in essence and truth, yet unlike in expression and illusion.
I am the None, for all that I am is the imperfect image
of the perfect; each partial phantom must perish in the clasp of its counterpart;
each form fulfil itself by finding its equated opposite, and satisfying
its need to be the Absolute by the attainment of annihilation.
The word, LAShTAL includes all this.
"LA" --- Naught. {335}
"AL" --- Two.
"L" is "Justice", the Kteis fulfilled by the Phallus,
"Naught and Two" because the plus and the minus have united in "love under
will."
"A" is "the Fool", Naught in Thought (Parzival), Word
(Harpocrates), and Action (Bacchus). He is the boundless air, the
wandering Ghost, but with "possibilities". He is the Naught that
the Two have made by "love under will".
"LA" thus represents the Ecstasy of Nuit and Hadit conjoined,
lost in love, and making themselves Naught thereby. Their child is
begotten and conceived, but is in the phase of Naught also, as yet.
"LA" is thus the Universe in that phase, with its potentialities of manifestation.
"AL" on the contarary, though it is essentially identical
with "LA", shows the Fool manifested through the Equilibrium of Contraries.
The weight is still nothing, but it is expressed as if it were two equal
weights in opposite scales. The indicator still points to zero.
"ShT" is equally 31 with "LA" and "AL", but it expresses
the secret nature which operates the Magick or the transmutations.
"ShT" is the formula of this particular aeon; another
aeon might have another way of saying 31.
"Sh" is Fire as T is Force; conjoined they express Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
"The Angel" represents the Stele 666, showing the Gods
of the Aeon, while "Strength" is a picture of Babalon and The Beast, the
earthly emissaries of those Gods.
"ShT" is the dynamic equivalent of "LA" and "AL".
"Sh" shows the Word of the Law, being triple, as 93 is thrice 31.
"T" shows the formula of Magick declared in that Word; the Lion, the Serpent,
the Sun, Courage and Sexual Love are all indicated by the card.
In "LA" note that Saturn or Satan is exalted in the House
of Venus or Astarte, and it is an airy sign. Thus "L" is Father-Mother,
Two and Naught, and the Spirit (Holy Ghost) of their Love is also Naught.
Love is AHBH, 13, which is AChD, Unity, I, Aleph, who is The Fool who is
Naught, but none the less an Individual One, who (as such) is not another,
yet unconscious of himself until his Oneness expresses itself as a duality.
Any impression or idea is unknowable in itself.
It can mean {336} nothing until brought into relation with other things.
The first step is to distinguish one thought from another; this is the
condition of recognizing it. To define it, we must perceive its orientation
to all our other ideas. The extent of our knowledge of any one thing
varies therefore with the number of ideas with which we can compare it.
Every new fact not only adds itself to our universe, but increases the
value of what we already possess.
In "AL" this "The" or "God" arranges for "Contenance to
behold contenance", by establishing itself as an equilibrium, "A" the One-Naught
conceived as "L" the Two-Naught. This "L" is the Son-Daughter Horus-Harpocrates
just as the other "L" was the Father-Mother Set-Isis. Here then is
Tetragrammaton once more, but expressed in identical equations in which
every term is perfect in itself as a mode of Naught.
"ShT" supplies the last element; making the Word of either
five or six letters, according as we regard "ShT" as one letter or two.
Thus the Word affirms the Great Work accomplished: 5 Degree = 6Square.
"ShT", is moreover a necessary resolution of the apparent
opposition of "LA" and "AL"; for one could hardly pass to the other without
the catalytic action of a third identical expression whose function should
be to transmute them. Such a term must be in itself a mode of Naught,
and its nature cannot encroach on the perfections of Not-Being, "LA" or
of Being, "AL". It must be purely Nothing-Matter, so as to create
a Matter-in-Motion which is a function of "Something".
Thus "ShT" is Motion in its double phase, an inertia composed
of two opposite currents, and each current is also thus polarized.
"Sh" is Heaven and Earth, "T" Male and Female; "ShT" is Spirit and Matter;
one is the word of Liberty and Love flashing its Light to restore Life
to Earth; the other is the act by which Life claims that Love is Light
and Liberty. And these are Two-in-One, the divine letter of Silence-in-Speech
whose symbol is the Sun in the arms of the Moon.
But "Sh" and "T" are alike formulae of force in action
as opposed to entities; they are not states of existence, but modes of
motion. They are verbs, not nouns.
"Sh" is the Holy Spirit as a "tongue of fire" manifest
in triplicity, {337} and is the child of Set-Isis as their Logos or Word
uttered by their "Angel". The card is XX, and 20 is the value of
Yod (the Angel or Herald) expressed in full as IVD. "Sh" is the Spiritual
congress of Heaven and Earth.
But "T" is the Holy Spirit in action as a "roaring lion"
or as the "old Serpent" instead of as an "Angel of Light". The twins
of Set-Isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous
lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the
cases of Mary and the Dove; Leda and the Swan, etc. The card is XI,
the number of Magick AVD: Aleph the Fool impregnating the woman according
to the word of Yod, the Angel of the Lord! His sister has seduced
her brother Beast, shaming the Sun with her sin; she has mastered the Lion
and enchanted the Serpent. Nature is outraged by Magick; man is bestialized
and woman defiled. The conjunction produces a monster; it affirms
regression of types. Instead of a man-God conceived of the Spirit
of God by a virgin in innocence, we are asked to adore the bastard of a
whore and a brute, begotten in shamefullest sin and born in most blasphemous
bliss.
This is in fact the formula of our Magick; we insist that
all acts must be equal; that existence asserts the right to exist; that
unless evil is a mere term expressing some relation of haphazard hostility
between forces equally self-justified, the universe is as inexplicable
and impossible as uncompensated action: that the orgies of Bacchus and
Pan are no less sacremental than the Masses of Jesus; that the scars of
syphilis are sacred and worthy of honour as such.
It should be unnecessary to insist that the above ideas
apply only to the Absolute. Toothache is still painful, and deceit
degrading, to a man, relatively to his situation in the world of illusion;
he does his Will by avoiding them. But the existence of "Evil" is
fatal to philosophy so long as it is supposed to be independent of conditions;
and to accustom the mind "to make no difference" between any two ideas
as such is to emancipate it from the thralldom of terror.
We affirm on our altars our faith in ourselves and our
wills, our love of all aspects of the Absolute All. {338}
And we make the Spirit Shin combine with the Flesh Teth
into a single letter, whose value is 31 even as those of "LA" the Naught,
and "AL" the All, to complete their Not-Being and Being with its Becoming,
to mediate between identical extremes as their mean --- the secret that
sunders and seals them.
It declares that all somethings are equally shadows of
Nothing, and justifies Nothing in its futile folly of pretending that something
is stable, by making us aware of a method of Magick through the practice
of which we may partake in the pleasure of the process.
The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique
for destroying "evil". The essence of such a practice will consist
in training the mind and the body to confront things which cause fear,
pain, disgust,<> shame and the like. He must learn to endure them,
then to become indifferent to them, then to analyse them until they give
pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own
sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon
them if they are really harmful in relation to health or comfort.
Also, our selection of "evils" is limited to those that cannot damage us
irreparably. E.g., one ought to practise smellying assafoetida until
one likes it; but not arsine or hydrocyanic acid. Again, one might
have a liaison with an ugly old woman until one beheld and loved the star
which she is; it would be too dangerous to overcome the distaste for dishonesty
by forcing oneself to pick pockets. Acts which are essentially dishonourable
must not be done; they should be justified only by calm contemplation of
their correctness in abstract cases.
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less
selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving
the slave-idea that one's neighbour is superior to oneself. It is
admirable only for its power to develop certain moral and mental qualities
in primitive types, to prevent the atrophy of such faculties as our own
vigilance, and for the interest which it adds to the "tragedy, Man."
{339}
Crime, folly, sickness and all such phenomena must be
contemplated with complete freedom from fear, aversion, or shame.
Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently;
in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them. Anatomists
and physiologists, grappling in the dark with death, have won hygiene,
surgery, prophylaxis and the rest for mankind. Anthropologists, archaeologists,
physicists and other men of science, risking thumbscrew, stake, infamy
and ostracism, have torn the spider-snare of superstition to shreds and
broken in pieces the monstrous idol of Morality, the murderous Moloch which
has made mankind its meat throughout history. Each fragment of that
coprolite is manifest as an image of some brute lust, some torpid dullness,
some ignorant instinct, or some furtive fear shapen in his own savage mind.
Man is indeed not wholly freed, even now. He is
still trampled under the hoofs of the stampeding mules that nightmare bore
to his wild ass, his creative forces that he had not mastered, the sterile
ghosts that he called gods. Their mystery cows men still; they fear,
they flinch, they dare not face the phantoms. Still, too, the fallen
fetich seems awful; it is frightful to them that there is no longer an
idol to adore with anthems, and to appease with the flesh of their firstborn.
Each scrambles in the bloody mire of the floor to snatch some scrap for
a relic, that he may bow down to it and serve it.
So, even to-day, a mass of maggots swarm heaving over
the carrion earth, a brotherhood bound by blind greed for rottenness.
Science still hesitates to raze the temple of Rimmon, though every year
finds more of her sons impatient of Naaman's prudence. The Privy
Council of the Kingdom of Mansoul sits in permanent secret session; it
dares not declare what must follow its deed in shattering the monarch morality
into scraps of crumbling conglomerate of climatic, tribal, and personal
prejudices, corrupted yet more by the action of crafty ambition, insane
impulse, ignorant arrogance, superstitious hysteria, fear fashioning falsehoods
on the stone that it sets on the grave of Truth whom it has murdered and
buried in the black earth Oblivion. Moral philosophy, psychology,
sociology, anthropology, mental pathology, physiology, and many another
of {340} the children of wisdom, of whom she is justified, well know that
the laws of Ethics are a chaos of confused conventions, based at best on
customs convenient in certain conditions, more often on the craft or caprice
of the biggest, the most savage, heartless, cunning and blood-thirsty brutes
of the pack, to secure their power or pander to their pleasure in cruelty.
There is no principle, even a false one, to give coherence to the clamour
of ethical propositions. Yet the very men that have smashed Moloch,
and strewn the earth with shapeless rubble, grow pale when they so much
as whisper among themselves, "While Moloch ruled all men were bound by
the one law, and by the oracles of them that, knowing the fraud, feared
not, but were his priests and wardens of his mystery. What now?
How can any of us, though wise and strong as never was known, prevail on
men to act in concert, now that each prays to his own chip of God, and
yet knows every other chip to be a worthless ort, dream-dust, ape-dung,
tradition-bone, or --- what not else?"
So science begins to see that the Initiates were maybe
not merely silly and selfish in making their rule of silence, and in protecting
philosophy from the profane. Yet still she hopes that the mischief
may not prove mortal, and begs that things may go on much as usual until
that secret session decide on some plan of action.
It has always been fatal when somebody finds out too much
too suddenly. If John Huss had cackled more like a hen, he might
have survived Michaelmas, and been esteemed for his eggs. The last
fifty years have laid the axe of analysis to the root of every axiom; they
are triflers who content themselves with lopping the blossoming twigs of
our beliefs, or the boughs of our intellectual instruments. We can
no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating
countless conditions which must be assumed.
This digression has outstayed its welcome; it was only
invited by Wisdom that it might warn Rashness of the dangers that encompass
even Sincerity, Energy and Intelligence when they happen not to contribute
to Fitness-in-their-environment.
The Magician must be wary in his use of his powers; he
must make every act not only accord with his Will, but with the proprieties
of his position at the time. It might be my will to reach {341} the
foot of a cliff; but the easiest way --- also the speediest, most direct,
least obstructed, the way of minimum effort --- would be simply to jump.
I should have destroyed my will in the act of fulfilling it, or what I
mistook for it; for the true will has no goal; its nature being to Go.
Similarly a parabola is bound by one law which fixes its relations with
two straight lines at every point; yet it has no end short of infinity,
and it continually changes its direction. The initiate who is aware
Who he is can always check his conduct by reference to the determinants
of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings and his
proper course at any assigned moment; he can even comprehend himself as
a simple idea. He may attain to measure fellow-parabolas, ellipses
that cross his path, hyperbolas that span all space with their twin wings.
Perhaps he may come at long last, leaping beyond the limits of his own
law, to conceive that sublimely stupendous outrage to Reason, the Cone!
Utterly inscrutable to him, he is yet well aware that he exists in the
nature thereof, that he is necessary thereto, that he is ordered thereby,
and that therefrom he is sprung, from the loins of so fearful a Father!
His own infinity becomes zero in relation to that of the least fragment
of the solid. He hardly exists at all. Trillions multiplied
by trillions of trillions of such as he could not cross the frontier even
of breadth, the idea which he came to guess at only because he felt himself
bound by some mysterious power. Yet breadth is equally a nothing
in the presence of the Cone. His first conception must evidently
be a frantic spasm, formless, insane, not to be classed as articulate thought.
Yet, if he develops the faculties of his mind, the more he knows of it
the more he sees that its nature is identical with his own whenever comparison
is possible.
The True Will is thus both determined by its equations,
and free because those equations are simply its own name, spelt out fully.
His sense of being under bondage comes from his inability to read it; his
sense that evil exists to thwart him arises when he begins to learn to
read, reads wrong, and is obstinate that his error is an improvement.
We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute
motion, absolute direction, absolute simultaneity, absolute truth, all
such {342} ideas; they have not, and never can have, any real meaning.
If a man in delirium tremens fell into the Hudson River, he might remember
the proverb and clutch at an imaginary straw. Words such as "truth"
are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence
denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with, "We know";
yet, questioned, "we" make haste to deny the possibility of possessing,
or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philolsopher
than that he could be approached in two ways, and two only? It would
be indeed little less than the whole body of his knowledge, implied in
the theory of his definition of himself, and confirmed by every single
experience. He could receive impressions only by meeting A, or being
caught up by B. Yet he would be wrong in an infinite number of ways.
There are therefore Aleph-Zero possibilities that at any moment a man may
find himself totally transformed. And it may be that our present
dazzled bewilderment is due to our recognition of the existence of a new
dimension of thought, which seems so "inscrutably infinite" and "absurd"
and "immoral", etc. --- because we have not studied it long enough to appreciate
that its laws are identical with our own, though extended to new conceptions.
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and
physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas.
It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and --- yea,
more! It shewed the substance of the Universe as a simplicity of
Light and Life, possessed of limitless liberty to enjoy Love by combining
its units in various manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper
self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with
its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the
world where all things are possible. It revealed the omnipresence
of Hadit identical with Himself, yet fulfilling Himself by dividing his
interplay with Nuit into episodes, each form of his energy isolated with
each aspect of Her receptivity, delight developing delight continuous from
complex to complex. It was the voice of Nature awakening at the dawn
of the Aeon, as Aiwaz uttered the Word of the Law of Thelema. {343}
So also shall he who invoketh often behold the Formless
Fire, with trembling and bewilderment; but if he prolong his meditation,
he shall resolve it into coherent and intelligible symbols, and he shall
hear the articulate utterance of that Fire, interpret the thunder thereof
as a still small voice in his heart. And the Fire shall reveal to
his eyes his own image in its own true glory; and it shall speak in his
ears the Mystery that is his own right Name.
This then is the virtue of the Magick of The Beast 666,
and the canon of its proper usage: to destroy the tendency to discriminate
between any two things in theory, and in practice to pierce the veils of
every sanctuary, pressing forward to embrace every image; for there is
none that is not very Isis. The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet
the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness.
He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water.
But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution
giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail
against it, shall be increase. "The word of Sin is Restriction"; seek therefore
Righteousness, enquiring into Iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome
it.
{344}
LIBER XV
O.T.O.
ECCLESIAE GNOSTICAE CATHOLICAE
CANON MISSAE.
I.<>
Of the Furnishings of the Temple.
In the East, that is, in the direction of Boleskine, which
is situated on the south-eastern shore of Loch Ness in Scotland, two miles
east of Foyers, is a shrine or High Altar. Its dimensions should
be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. It should
be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys
in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem.
On each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with
countercharges in black and white.
Below it should be the dias of three steps, in black and
white squares.
Above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the Stele
of Revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it.
Below the stele is a place for the Book of the Law, with six candles on
each side of it. Below this again is the Holy Graal, with roses on
each side of it. There is room in front of the Cup for the Paten.
On each side beyond the roses are two great candles.
All this is enclosed within a great veil.
Forming the apex of an equilateral triangle whose base
is a line drawn between the pillars, is a small black square altar, of
two superimposed cubes.
Taking this altar as the middle of the base of a similar
and equal triangle, at the apex of this second triangle is a small circular
font.
Repeating, the apex of a third triangle is an upright
tomb. {345}
II.
Of the Officers of the Mass.
The PRIEST. Bears the Sacred Lance, and is clothed
at first in a plain white robe.
The PRIESTESS. Should be actually Virgo Intacta
or specially dedicated to the service of the Great Order. She is
clothed in white, blue and gold. She bears the sword from a red girdle,
and the Paten and Hosts, or Cakes of Light.
The DEACON. He is clothed in white and yellow.
He bears the Book of the Law.
"Two Children." They are clothed in white and black.
One bears a pitcher of water and a cellar of salt, the other a censer of
fire and a casket of perfume.
III.
Of the ceremony of the Introit.
"The" DEACON, "opening the door of the Temple, admits the
congregation and takes his stand between the small altar and the font.
(There should be a door-keeper to attend to the admission.)"
"The" DEACON "advances and bows before the open shrine
where the Graal is exalted. He kisses the Book of the Law three times,
opens it, and places it upon the super-altar. He turns West."
The DEACON. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole
of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light, Life, Love, and Liberty
in the name of
GR:Iota-Alpha-Omega.
The CONGREGATION. Love is the law, love under will.
"The" DEACON "goes to his place between the altar of incense
and the font, faces East, and gives the step and sign of a Man and a Brother.
All imitate him."
The DEACON and all the PEOPLE. I believe in one
secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the company of Stars of whose
fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of
Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name {346} CHAOS, the sole viceregent
of the Sun upon Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breaths.
And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and
in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest,
Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.
And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of
Mystery, in his name BAPHOMET.
And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light,
Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is GR:Theta-Epsilon-Lambda-Eta-Mu-Alpha.
And I believe in the communion of Saints.
And, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us
daily into spiritual substance, I believe in the Miracle of the Mass.
And I confess one Baptism of Wisdom whereby we accomplish
the Miracle of Incarnation.
And I confess my life one, individual, and eternal that
was, and is, and is to come.
GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu, GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu, GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu.
"Music is now played. The child enters with the ewer and the salt. The "VIRGIN" enters with the Sword and the Paten, The child enters with the censer and the perfume. They face the "DEACON "deploying into line from the space between the two altars."
The VIRGIN. Greeting of Earth and Heaven!
"All give the hailing sign of a Magician, the "DEACON "leading.
The" PRIESTESS, "the negative child on her left, the positive
child on her right, ascends the steps of the High Altar. They await
her below. She places the Paten before the Graal. Having adored
it, she descends, and with the children following her, the positive next
her, she moves in a serpentine manner involving 3 1/2 circles of the Temple.
(Deosil about altar, widdershins about font, deosil about altar and font,
widdershins about altar and so to the Tomb in the west.) She draws
her sword and pulls down the Veil therewith.)"
The PRIESTESS. By the power of + Iron, I say unto
thee, {347} Arise. In the name of our Lord + the Sun, and of our
Lord + that thou mayst administer the virtues to the Brethren.
"She sheathes the Sword."
"The "PRIEST, "issuing from the Tomb, holding the Lance
erect with both hands, right over left, against his breast, takes the first
three regular steps. He then gives the Lance to the "PRIESTESS "and
gives the three penal signs.
He then kneels and worships the Lance with both hands.
Penitential music."
The PRIEST. I am a man among men.
"He takes again the Lance and lowers it. He rises."
The PRIEST. How should I be worthy to administer
the virtues to the Brethren?
"The "PRIESTESS "takes from the child the water and the
salt, and mixes them in the font."
The PRIESTESS. Let the salt of Earth admonish the
Water to bear the virtue of the Great Sea. "(Genuflects)."
Mother, be thou adored!
"She returns to the West, + on "PRIEST "with open hand
doth she make, over his forehead, breast and body."
Be the PRIEST pure of body and soul!
"The "PRIESTESS "takes the censer from the child, and
places it on the small altar. She puts incense therein. "Let
the Fire and the Air make sweet the world! "Genuflects." Father,
be thou adored!
"She returns West, and makes with the censer + before
the "PRIEST, "thrice as before."
Be the PRIEST fervent of body and soul!
"(The children resume their weapons as they are done with.)
The "DEACON "now takes the consecrated Robe from the High
Altar and brings it to her. She robes the "PRIEST "in his Robe of
scarlet and gold."
Be the flame of the Sun thine ambiance, O thou PRIEST
of the SUN!
"The "DEACON "brings the crown from the High Altar.
(The" {348} "crown may be of gold or platinum, or of electrum magicum;
but with no other metals, save the small proportions necessary to a proper
alloy. It may be adorned with divers jewels; at will. But it
must have the Uraeus serpent twined about it, and the cap of maintenance
must match the scarlet of the robe. Its texture should be velvet.)"
Be the Serpent thy crown, O thou PRIEST of the LORD!
"Kneeling she takes the Lance between her open hands,
and runs them up and down upon the shaft eleven times, very gently."
Be the LORD present among us!
"All give the Hailing Sign."
The PEOPLE: so mote it be.
IV.
Of the Ceremony of the opening of the Veil.
The PRIEST. Thee therefore whom we adore we also
invoke. By the power of the lifted Lance!
"He raises the Lance. All repeat Hailing Sign.
A phrase of triumphant music.
The "PRIEST "takes the "PRIESTESS "by her right hand with
his left, keeping the Lance raised."
I, PRIEST and KING, take thee, Virgin pure without spot;
I upraise thee; I lead thee to the East; I set thee upon the summit of
the Earth.
"He thrones the "PRIESTESS "upon the altar. The
"DEACON "and the children follow, they in rank, behind him. The "PRIESTESS
"takes the book of the Law, resumes her seat, and holds it open on her
breast with her two hands, making a descending triangle with thumbs and
forefingers.
The "PRIEST "gives the lance to the "DEACON "to hold;
and takes the ewer from the child, and sprinkles the "PRIESTESS, "making
five crosses, forehead, shoulders, and thighs.
The thumb of the "PRIEST "is always between his index
and" {349} "medius, whenever he is not holding the Lance. The "PRIEST
"takes the censer from the child, and makes five crosses as before.
The children replace their weapons on their respective
altars.
The "PRIEST "kisses the Book of the Law three times.
He kneels for a space in adoration, with joined hands, knuckles closed,
thumb in position as aforesaid. He rises and draws the veil over
the whole altar. All rise and stand to order.
The "PRIEST "takes the lance from the "DEACON "and holds
it as before, as Osiris or Phthah. He circumambulates the Temple
three times, followed by the "DEACON "and the children as before.
(These, when not using their hands, keep their arms crossed upon their
breasts.) At the last circumambulation they leave him and go to the
place between the font and the small altar, where they kneel in adoration,
their hands joined palm to palm, and raised above their heads.
All imitate this motion.
The "PRIEST "returns to the East and mounts the first
step of the Altar."
The PRIEST. O circle of Stars whereof our Father
is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite
space, before whom Time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding
dark, not unto Thee may we attain, unless Thine image be Love. Therefore
by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit we do invoke
Thee.
"Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of
Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole
body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven,
let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and
let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous!"
"During this speech the "PRIESTESS "must have divested
herself completely of her robe, See CCXX.I.62."
The PRIESTESS. "But to love me is better than all
things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine
incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame
therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one {350}
kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle
of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store
of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations
of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and
so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before
me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. I love you!
I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all
pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you.
Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto
me!" To me! To me! "Sing the rapturous love-song unto
me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to
me, for I love you! I love you! I am the blue-lidded daughter
of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
To me! To me!"
"The "PRIEST "mounts the second step."
The PRIEST. O secret of secrets that art hidden
in the being of all that lives, not Thee do we adore, for that which adoreth
is also Thou. Thou art that, and That am I.
"I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and
in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet
therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death." "I am alone:
there is no God where I am."
"(The "DEACON "and all rise to their feet with Hailing
Sign.)"
The DEACON. "But ye, o my people, rise up &
awake! Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!"
"There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times."
"A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride!"
"A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book
of the Law."
"A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet-secret,
O Prophet!"
"A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox
of the Gods."
"A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life
and a greater feast for death!"
"A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!"
{351}
"A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost
delight!"
"(The "PRIEST "mounts the third step.)"
The PRIEST: Thou that art One, our Lord in the Universe,
the Sun, our Lord in ourselves whose name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost
being whose radiance, enlightening the worlds, is also the breath that
maketh every God even and Death to tremble before thee --- by the Sign
of Light appear thou glorious upon the throne of the Sun.
Make open the path of creation and of intelligence between
us and our minds. Enlighten our understanding.
Encourage our hearts. Let thy light crystallize
itself in our blood, fulfilling us of Resurrection.
A ka dua
Tuf ur biu
Bi a'a chefu
Dudu nur af an nuteru!
The PRIESTESS. "There is no law beyond Do what thou
wilt."
"(The "PRIEST "parts the veil with his Lance.)
(During the previous speeches the "PRIESTESS "has resumed
her robe.)"
The PRIEST: GR:Iota-Omega GR:Iota-Omega
GR:Iota-Omega GR:Iota-Alpha-Omega GR:Sigma-Alpha-Beta-Alpha-Omicron
GR:Kappa-Upsilon-Rho-Iota-Epsilon GR:Alpha-Beta-Rho-Alpha-Sigma-Alpha-Chi
GR:Kappa-Upsilon-Rho-Iota-Epsilon GR:Mu-Epsilon-Iota-Theta-Rho-Alpha-Sigma
GR:Kappa-Upsilon-Rho-Iota-Epsilon GR:Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Lambda-Epsilon.
GR:Iota-Omega GR:Pi-Alpha-Nu, GR:Iota-Omega GR:Pi-Alpha-Nu
GR:Pi-Alpha-Nu GR:Iota-Omicron GR:Iota-Sigma-Chi-Upsilon-Rho-Omicron-Chi,
GR:Iota-Omega GR:Alpha-Theta-Alpha-Nu-Alpha-Tau-Omicron-Nu,
GR:Iota-Omega GR:Alpha-Beta-Rho-Omicron-Tau-Omicron-Nu GR:Iota-Omega
GR:Iota-Alpha-Omega GR:Kappa-Alpha-Iota-Rho-Epsilon GR:Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Lambda-Epsilon
GR:Kappa-Alpha-Iota-Rho-Epsilon GR:Pi-Alpha-Mu-Phi-Alpha-Gamma-Epsilon
GR:Kappa-Alpha-Iota-Rho-Epsilon GR:Pi-Alpha-Nu-Gamma-Epsilon-Nu-Epsilon-Tau-Omicron-Rho.
GR:Alpha-Gamma-Iota-Omicron-Sigma, GR:Alpha-Gamma-Iota-Omicron-Sigma,
GR:Alpha-Gamma-Iota-Omicron-Sigma GR:Iota-Alpha-Omega.<>
"The "PRIESTESS "is seated with the Paten in her right
hand and the Cup in her left. The "PRIEST "presents the Lance which
she kisses eleven times. She then holds it to her breast while the
"PRIEST "falling at her knees, kisses them, his arms stretched along her
thighs. He remains in this adoration while the Deacon intones the
collects. All stand to order, with the Dieu Garde, that is: feet
square, hands, with linked thumbs, held loosely. This is the universal
position when standing, unless other direction is given.)" {352}
V.
Of the Office of the
Collects which are Eleven in Number
(THE SUN)
The DEACON. Lord visible an sensible of whom this
earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal
motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpetual radiance hearten
us to continual labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers
of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance
and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or
effulgence for ever.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(THE LORD)
The DEACON. Lord secret and most holy, source
of light, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever
constant and mighty within us, force of energy, fire of motion; with diligence
let us ever labour with thee, that we may remain in thine abundant joy.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(THE MOON)
The DEACON. Lady of night, that turning ever about
us art now visible and now invisible in thy season, be thou favourable
to hunters, and lovers, and to all men that toil upon the earth and to
all mariners upon the sea.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(THE LADY)
The DEACON. Giver and receiver of joy, gate of life
and love, be thou ever ready, thou and thine handmaiden, in thine office
of gladness.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(THE SAINTS)
The DEACON. Lord of Life and Joy, that art the might
of man, that art the essence of every true god that is upon the surface
{353} of the Earth, continuing knowledge from generation unto generation,
thou adored of us upon heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves,
openly in the market-places and secretly in the chambers of our houses,
in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our
bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee
and manifest thy glory unto men, "Lao-tze and Siddhartha" and Krishna and
"Tahuti," Mosheh, "Dionysus, Mohammed and To Mega Therion, with these also,"
Hermes, "Pan," Priapus, Osiris, and Melchizedeck, Khem and Amoun "and Mentu,
Heracles," Orpheus and Odysseus; with Vergilius, "Catullus," Martialis,
"Rabelais, Swinburne and many an holy bard; Apollonius Tyanaeus," Simon
Magus, Manes, "Pythagoras," Basilides, Valentinus, "Bardesanes and Hippolytus,
that transmitted the light of the Gnosis to us their successors and their
heirs;" with Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival, and many another, prophet,
priest and king, that bore the Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against
the Heathen, "and these also," Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with William
of Schyren, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Roger Bacon, "Jacobus Burgundus
Molensis the Martyr, Christian Rosencreutz," Ulrich von Hutten, Paracelsus,
Michael Maier, "Roderic Borgia Pope Alexander the Sixth," Jacob Boehme,
Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, Andrea, Robertus de Fluctibus, Johannes Dee,
"Sir Edward Kelly," Thomas Vaughan, Elias Ashmole, Molinos, Adam Weishaupt,
Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludovicus Rex Bavariae, Richard Wagner, "Alphonse
Louis Constant," Friedrich Nietzsche, Hargrave Jennings, Carl Kellner,
Forlong dux, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Richard Payne Knight, Paul Gauguin,
Docteur Gerard Encausse, Doctor Theodor Reuss, "and Sir Aleister Crowley."
Oh Sons of the Lion and the Snake! With all thy saints we worthily
commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come.
May their Essence be here present, potent, puissant, and
paternal to perfect this feast!
"(At each name the "DEACON "signs + with thumb between
index
and medius. At ordinary mass it
is only necessary to
commemorate those whose names are italicised,
with
wording as is shown.)"
The PEOPLE. So mote it be. {354}
(THE EARTH)
The DEACON. Mother of fertility on whose breast lieth
water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun's
fire, womb of all life, recurring grace of seasons, answer favourably the
prayer of labour, and to pastors and husbandmen be thou propitious.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(THE PRINCIPLES)
The DEACON. Mysterious energy triform, mysterious
Matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division; the interplay of which things
weave the dance of the Veil of Life upon the Face of the Spirit, let there
be harmony and beauty in your mystic loves, that in us may be health and
wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the Law of Liberty;
let each pursue his Will as a strong man that rejoiceth in his way, as
the course of a Star that blazeth for ever among the joyous company of
Heaven.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(BIRTH)
The DEACON. Be the hour auspicious, and the gate
of life open in peace and in well being, so that she that beareth children
may rejoice, and the babe catch life with both hands.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(MARRIAGE)
The DEACON. Upon all that this day unite with love
under will let fall success; may strength and skill unite to bring forth
ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(DEATH)
" (All stand, Head erect, Eyes open.)"
The DEACON. Term of all that liveth, whose name
is inscrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour.
The PEOPLE. So mote it be.
(THE END)
The DEACON. Unto them from whose eyes the veil of
life {355} hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their
true Wills; whether they will absorption in the Infinite, or to be united
with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at
peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet
or another, or in any Star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted
the accomplishment of their Wills.
GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu, GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu,
GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu.
"(All sit.)
(The" DEACON "and the children attend the "PRIEST "and
"PRIESTESS, "ready to hold any appropriate weapon as may be necessary.)"
VI.
Of the Consecration of the Elements.
"The "PRIEST "makes five croses. "+3+1+2 "on paten and
cup; "+4 "on paten alone; "+5 "on cup alone.)"
The PRIEST. Life of man upon earth, fruit of labour,
sustenance of endeavour, thus be thou nourishment of the Spirit!
"(He touches the Host with the Lance.)"
By the virtue of the Rod!
Be this bread the Body of God!
"(He takes the Host.)"
GR:Tau-Omicron-Upsilon-Tau-Omicron GR:Epsilon-Sigma-Tau-Iota
GR:Tau-Omicron GR:Sigma-Omicron-Mu-Alpha GR:Mu-Omicron-Upsilon.
"He kneels, adores, rises, turns, shows Host to the PEOPLE,
turns, replaces Host and adores. Music. He takes the Cup.)"
Vehicle of the joy of Man upon Earth, solace of labour,
inspiration of endeavour, thus be thou ecstasy of the Spirit!
"(He touches the Cup with the Lance.)"
By the virtue of the rod!
Be this wine the Blood of God!
"(He takes the Cup)"
GR:Tau-Omicron-Upsilon-Tau-Omicron GR:Epsilon-Sigma-Tau-Iota -Tau-Omicron
GR:Pi-Omicron-Tau-Eta-Rho-Iota-Omicron-Nu GR:Tau-Omicron-Upsilon
GR:Alpha-Iota-Mu-Alpha-Tau-Omicron-Sigma GR:Mu-Omicron-Upsilon.
"(He kneels, adores, rises, turns, shows the Cup to the people, turns, replaces the Cup and adores. Music.)" {356}
For this is the Covenant of Resurrection.
"He makes the five crosses on the "PRIESTESS.
Accept, O Lord, this sacrifice of life and joy, true warrants of the Covenant of Resurrection.
"The "PRIEST "offers the Lance to the "PRIESTESS, "who
kisses it; he then touches her between the breasts and upon the body.
He then flings out his arms upward as comprehending the whole shrine.)"
Let this offering be born upon the waves of Aethyr to
our Lord and Father the Sun that travelleth over the Heavens in his name
ON.
"(He closes his hands, kisses the "PRIESTESS "between
the breasts and makes three great crosses over the Paten, the Cup and Himself.
He strikes his breast. All repeat this action.)"
Hear ye all, saints of the true church of old time now essentially present, that of ye we claim heirship, with ye we claim communion, from ye we claim benediction in the name of GR:Iota-Alpha-Omega.
"(He makes three crosses on Paten and Cup together. He uncovers the Cup, genuflects, takes the Cup in his left hand and the Host in his right. With the host he makes the five crosses on the Cup.)"
+1
+3 +2
+5 +4
"(He elevates the Host and the Cup.)
(The Bell strikes.)"
GR:Alpha-Gamma-Iota-Omicron-Sigma, GR:Alpha-Gamma-Iota-Omicron-Sigma,
GR:Alpha-Gamma-Iota-Omicron-Sigma, GR:Iota-Alpha-Omega!
"He replaces the Host and the Cup and adores.)"
VII.
Of the Office of the Anthem.
The PRIEST. Thou who
art I, beyond all I am,
Who hast no nature, and no name,
Who art, when all but thou are gone, {357}
Thou, centre and secret of the Sun,
Thou, hidden spring of all things known
And unknown, Thou aloof, alone,
Thou, the true fire within the reed
Brooding and breeding, source and seed
Of life, love, liberty and light,
Thou beyond speech and beyond sight,
Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire
Kindling as mine intents aspire.
Thee I invoke, abiding one,
Thee, centre and secret of the Sun,
And that most holy mystery
Of which the vehicle am I.
Appear, most awful and most mild,
As it is lawful, in thy child!<>
The CHORUS: For of the Father
and the Son
The Holy Spirit is the norm;
Male-female, quintessential, one,
Man-being veiled in woman-form.
Glory and worship in the highest,
Thou Dove, mankind that deifiest,
Being that race, most royally run,
To spring sunshine through winter storm.
Glory and worship be to Thee,
Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree!
FIRST SEMICHORUS: MEN. Glory to thee
from
Gilded Tomb.
SECOND SEMICHORUS: WOMEN. Glory to thee
from
Waiting Womb.
MEN. Glory to Thee from earth unploughed!
WOMEN. Glory to thee from virgin vowed!
MEN. Glory to thee, true Unity
Of the Eternal Trinity!
WOMEN. Glory to thee, thou sire and
dam
And Self of I am that I am! {358}
MEN. Glory to thee, eternal Sun,
Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One!
CHORUS. Glory and worship unto Thee,
Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree!
"These words are to form
the substance of the anthem; but the whole
or any
part thereof shall be set to music, which may be as
elaborate
as art can. But even should other anthems be
authorised
by the Father of the Church, this shall hold its
place
as the first of its kind, the father of all others.)"
VIII.
Of the Mystic Marriage and Consummation of the Elements.
"(The" PRIEST "takes the Paten between the index and medius
of the right hand. The "PRIESTESS "clasps
the Cup in her
right hand.)"
The PRIEST. Lord most secret, bless this spiritual
food unto our bodies, bestowing upon {us} health and wealth and strength
and joy and peace, and that fulfilment of will and of love under will that
is perpetual happiness.
"(He makes "+ "with Paten and kisses it. He uncovers
the
Cup, genuflects, rises. Music.
He takes the Host, and
breaks it over the Cup. He replaces
the right hand
portion in the Paten. He breaks off
a particle of the
left hand portion.)"
GR:Tau-Omicron-Upsilon-Tau-Omicron
GR:Epsilon-Sigma-Tau-Iota GR:Tau-Omicron GR:Sigma-Pi-Epsilon-Rho-Mu-Alpha
GR:Mu-Omicron-Upsilon. GR:Eta-Omicron GR:Pi-Alpha-Tau-Eta-Rho
GR:Epsilon-Sigma-Tau-Iota-Nu
GR:Eta-Omicron GR:Eta GR:Upsilon-Iota-Omicron-Sigma -Delta-Iota-Alpha<>
GR:Tau-Omicron GR:Pi-Nu-Epsilon-Upsilon-Mu-Alpha GR:Alpha-Gamma-Iota-Omicron-Nu.
GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu. GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu.
GR:Alpha-Upsilon-Mu-Gamma-Nu.
"(He replaces the left hand part of the Host. The
"PRIESTESS
"extends the lance point with her left
hand to receive
the particle.)"
The PRIEST and The PRIESTESS. GR:Eta-Pi-Iota-Lambda-Iota-Upsilon.
"(The" PRIEST "takes the Lance. The "PRIESTESS "covers
the
Cup. The "PRIEST "genuflects, rises,
bows, joins hands.
He strikes his breast.)" {359} The PRIEST.
O Lion and O Serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us.
O Lion and O Serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us.
O Lion and O Serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us.
"(The "PRIEST "joins hands upon the breast of the "PRIESTESS,
"and takes back his Lance. He turns to the people, lowers and raises
the Lance, and makes "+ "upon them.)"
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The PEOPLE. Love is the law, love under will.
"(He lowers the Lance, and turns to East. The "PRIESTESS"
take the lance in her right hand, with her
left hand
she offers to Paten. The "PRIEST "kneels.)"
The PRIEST. In my mouth be the essence of the life
of the Sun.
"(He takes the Host with the right hand, makes "+ "with
it
on the Paten, and consumes it.)
(Silence.)
(The "PRIESTESS "takes, uncovers, and offers the cup,
as
before.)"
The PRIEST. In my mouth be the essence of the joy
of the Earth.
"(He takes the Cup, makes "+ "on the "PRIESTESS, "drains
it, and
returns it.)
(Silence.)
(He rises, takes the lance and turns to the people.)"
The PRIEST. There is no part of me that is not of
the Gods.<>
"(Those of the People who intend to communicate, and none
other should be present, having signified
their intention, a
whole Cake of Light and a whole goblet of
wine have been
prepared for each one. The" DEACON "
marshals them; they
advance one by one to the altar. The
children take the
elements and offer them. The "PEOPLE
"communicate as" {360}
"did the "PRIEST, "uttering the same words
in an attitude of
Resurrection;"
"There is no part of me that is
not of the Gods."
"The exceptions to this part of the ceremony
are when it is of
the nature of a celebration, in which case
none but the Priest
communicate, of a wedding, in which none,
save the two to
be married, partake; part of the ceremony
of baptism when
only the child baptised partakes, and of Confirmation
at
puberty when only the persons confirmed partake.
The
Sacrament may be reserved by the "PRIEST,
"for administration
to the sick in their homes.)
The "PRIEST "closes all within the veil. With the Lance
he
makes "+ "on the people thrice, thus.)" The PRIEST.
+ The LORD bless you.
+ The LORD enlighten your minds and comfort your hearts
and sustain your bodies.
+ The LORD bring you to the accomplishment of your true
wills, the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness.
"(He goes out, the "DEACON "and Children following, into
the tomb of the West.)
Music. (Voluntary.)" NOTE: "The "PRIESTESS "and other
officers never partake of the
sacrament, they being as it were part of the "PRIEST "himself."
NOTE: "Certain secret formulae of this Mass are taught to the
"PRIEST "in his ordination."
{361}