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
Rendered into a symbol or profession of faith, this pantacle is
therefore textually as follows:—Fatality reigns by virtue of
mathematics, and there is no other God than Nature. Dogmas are aids
to sacerdotal power and are imposed on the multitude to justify
sacrifices. The initiate is above any religion and makes use of all,
but that which he says is the antithesis of that which he believes. The
law of obedience prescribes and does not explain; initiates are made to
command and those who are profane to obey.
All who have studied the occult sciences know that the old magicians
never expressed their doctrine in writing but formulated it by the
symbolical characters of pantacles. On the second page of the book
there are two circular magical seals. In the first is the square of
the Tetragram with an inversion and substitution of names. Instead of
אהיה = EIEIE יהוה = JEHOVAH; אדני = ADONAI; אגלא = AGLA—the four sacred
words signifying:[228] The Absolute Being is Jehovah, the Lord in
Three Persons, God and the hierarchy of the Church, the author of the
Grimoire has substituted: יהוה, JEHOVAH; אדני, ADNI; דראר, D’RAR; אהיה,
EIEIE—which signifies: Jehovah, the Lord, is none other than the fatal
principle of eternal rebirth, personified by this same rebirth in the
Absolute Being.
About the square within the circle is the name of Jehovah in its
proper form, but also reversed; on the left is that of Adonai and on
the right are the three letters אהו, ACHV, followed by two points, the
whole meaning: Heaven and hell are each the reflection of each; that
which is above is as that which is below; God is humanity—humanity
being expressed by the letters ACHV, which are the initials of Adam and
Eve.[229]
On the second seal is the name אראריתא, ARARITA, and below it is ראש,
RASH, encircling twenty-six Kabalistic characters. Below the seal are
ten Hebrew letters, given in the following order: יב טבהברררר. The
whole is a formula of materialism and fatality, which is too long, and,
it may be, too perilous for explanation in this place. The prologue of
the Grimoire comes next in order and may be given at full length.[230]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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