LIBER V VEL REGULI

An adaptation for group performance
By Frater OOO
Frater O.B. (John Tindsley)
and Frater D.I.C.E.

The participants are:

Conductor
Four people at the quarters
A circle of everyone else (outside the quarter people)

THE FIRST GESTURE

Triple cross descending from circle
The Oath of the Enchantment, which is called the Elevenfold Seal.

The Animadversion towards the Æon.

  1. Circle face inwards; quarters and conductor face Boleskine.
  2. Let the conductor strike the battery 1—3—3—3—1.
  3. Quarters and conductor put the Thumb of their right hand between the index and medius, and make the gestures hereafter following.

The Vertical Component of the Enchantment.

  1. Let them describe a circle about their heads, crying NUIT!
  2. Let them draw the Thumb vertically downward, and touch the muladhara cakra, crying HADIT!
  3. Let them, retracing the line, touch the centre of their breasts, and cry RA-HOOR-KHUIT!

The Horizontal Component of the Enchantment.

  1. Let them touch the Centre of the Forehead, the mouth, and the larynx, crying AIWAZ!
  2. Let them draw the Thumb from right to left across the face at the level of the nostrils.
  3. Let them touch the Centre of the Breast, and the Solar Plexus, crying THERION!
  4. Let them draw the Thumb from left to right across the breast at the level of the sternum.
  5. Let them touch the svadhisthana. and the muladhara cakra, crying BABALON!
  6. Let them draw their Thumb from right to left across the abdomen, at the level of the hips.

(Thus shall they formulate the Sigil of the Grand Hierophant, but dependent from the Circle.)

The Asserveration of the Spells.

  1. All clasp their hands upon their Wands, fingers and thumbs interlaced, crying LAShTAL! THELEMA! FIAOF! AGAPÉ! AUMGN!

(Thus shall be declared the Words of Power whereby the Energies of the Æon of Horus work their Wills in the world.)

The Proclamation of the Accomplishment.

  1. Let the conductor strike the Battery: 3—5—3, all crying ABRAHADABRA.

THE SECOND GESTURE

The Enchantment

  1. Let the quarters face the conductor, and the conductor, still facing Boleskine, perform the Sign of the Enterer.
  2. Let the circle turn themselves towards their right, and pace with the stealth and swiftness of a tiger the precincts of the circle.
  3. Let the circle begin chanting NUIT.
  4. Let the conductor and quarters turn their faces to the North.
  5. Let the northern officer trace with his Wand the Averse Pentagram proper to invoke Air (Aquarius). Let the conductor and the other three quarters assume the sign called Puella, standing with feet together, head bowed, left hand shielding the muladhara cakra, and right hand shielding breast (attitude of the Venus de Medici).

    (point down pentagram, first stroke left to right)

  6. Let the northern officer make the sign of the Enterer to the Centre of the Pentagram while the other officers vibrate NUIT.
  7. Let the circle, continuing to pace, change their chant to HADIT.
  8. Let the conductor and quarters turn their faces to the South.
  9. Let the southern officer trace the Averse Pentagram that invoketh Fire (Leo). Let the conductor and the other three quarters assume the sign called Puer, standing with feet together and head erect, the right hand (the thumb extended at right angles to the fingers) raised, the forearm vertical at a right angle with the upper arm, which is horizontally extended in the line joining the shoulders, the left hand, the thumb extended forwards, and the fingers clenched, resting at the junction of the thighs (attitudes of the gods Mentu, Khem, etc.)

    (point down pentagram, first stroke bottom to top left)

  10. Let the southern officer make the sign of the Enterer to the Centre of the Pentagram while the other officers vibrate HADIT.
  11. Let the circle, continuing to pace, change their chant to THERION.
  12. Let the conductor and quarters turn their faces to the East.
  13. Let the eastern officer make the Averse Pentagram that invoketh Earth (Taurus). Let the conductor and the other three quarters assume the sign called Vir, the feet being together, the hands, with clenched fingers and thumbs thrust out forwards, held to the temples, the head bowed and pushed out, as if to symbolize the butting of an horned beast (attitude of Pan, Bacchus, etc.). (Frontispiece, Equinox I (3)).

    Point down pentagram, first stroke bottom to top right

  14. Let the eastern officer make the sign of the Enterer to the Centre of the Pentagram while the other officers vibrate THERION.
  15. Let the circle, continuing to pace, change their chant to BABALON.
  16. Let the conductor and quarters turn their faces to the West.
  17. Let the western officer make the Averse Pentagram whereby Water is invoked. Let the conductor and the other three quarters assume the sign called 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).

    Point down pentagram, first stroke right to left

  18. Let the western officer make the sign of the Enterer to the Centre of the Pentagram while the other officers vibrate BABALON.
  19. Let the quarters face towards the conductor. Let the conductor, facing Boleskine make the sign of the Enterer. Let the circle, continuing to pace, cease their chant.
  20. Let the quarters turn to face Boleskine, while the conductor traces the Mark of the Beast in front of him.

    The Mark of the Beast (Sun and Moon conjoined with two witnesses)

  21. Let the conductor cry AIWAZ.
  22. Let the quarters assume 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.)
  23. Let the conductor trace the Invoking Hexagram of the Beast then, striking the earth, cry THELEMA.

    (Unicursal Hexagram, first stroke top to lower right)

  24. Let the quarters begin pacing deosil, keeping the same spacing between them.
  25. Let the conductor face west and proclaim:
          "Before me the powers of LA!"
          "Behind me the powers of AL!"
          "On my right hand the powers of LA!"
          "On my left hand the powers of AL!"
  26. Let the circle and quarters stop pacing.
  27. The conductor proclaims: "Above me the powers of ShT!" Let all leap in the air, to land as one upon "ShT."
  28. The conductor proclaims: "Beneath me the power of ShT!" Let all stamp upon the ground on the word "ShT."
  29. Let all stand in the attitude of Ptah erect (the feet together, the hands clasped upon the vertical Wand) as the conductor proclaims:
          "Within me the Powers!"
          "About me flames my Father's Face, the Star of Force and Fire!"
          "And in the Column stands his six-rayed Splendour!"

THE FINAL GESTURE

This is identical to the First Gesture, yeah, identical to the first gesture.

Notes
This is another ritual from the early days of Sunwheel; it has had occasional performances but was previously unpublished. The present form was worked up from surviving typed notes by the expedient of doing some cut and paste and changing relevant parts in a previously key-entered text of Crowley's solo write-up of Reguli from Magick. One very slight additional change was made for this edition; in the original Sunwheel group Reguli the people in the circle were required to circumambulate while holding the NOX signs. This was dropped on the grounds that it looked silly, especially with the sign Mulier.

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