The history of magic : $b including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteriesLévi, Éliphas
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The history of magic : $b including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries
Lévi, Éliphas
Magic -- History
The _Enchiridion_, from this point of view, should be regarded as a
collection of allegorical prayers and its secret Kabalistic pantacles
are keys thereto. Some of the chief figures may be described as
follows. The first, which appears on the cover of the work itself,
represents a reversed equilateral triangle inscribed within a double
circle. The two words, which are written within the triangle in
the form of a cross, are _Elohim_ and _Tzabaoth_, meaning the God
of armies, the equilibrium of natural forces and the harmony of
numbers.[170] On the three sides of the triangle are the three great
names—_Jehovah_, _Adonai_, _Agla_; above the name of Jehovah is the
Latin word _Formatio_; above that of Adonai is _Reformatio_; and above
Agla is _Transformatio_. Thus creation is ascribed to the Father,
redemption or reform to the Son and sanctification or transmutation
to the Holy Spirit—in consonance with the mathematical laws of action,
reaction and equilibrium. Furthermore, Jehovah is to be understood as
the genesis and formation of dogma in accordance with the elementary
significance of the four letters comprised in the sacred Tetragram;
_Adonai_ is the realisation of this dogma in human form, that is to
say, in the Lord manifest, who is Son of God or perfect man[171]; and
_Agla_, as we have explained fully elsewhere, expresses the synthesis
of all dogma and all Kabalistic science, seeing that the hieroglyphics
of which this name is formed exhibit in a clear manner the triple
secret of the Great Work.[172]
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