A Study of Names

A Study of Names
Proper Names in the Class A Texts
A Complete Review of the Proper Names in all Class A Texts Including References
Author: Society for Thelemic Literature

Published: 17 July 2008
Society for Thelemic Literature
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Abaddon
Cor 4.34: On the threshold stood the fulminant figure of Evil, the Horror of emptiness, with his
ghastly eyes like poisonous wells. He stood, and the chamber was corrupt; the air stank.
He was an old and gnarled fish more hideous than the shells of Abaddon.
Abel
VV.2: This Child is also Abel.
Abramelin (oil of)

AL 3.23: For perfume mix meal & honey & thick leavings of red wine: then oil of Abramelin and
olive oil, and afterward soften & smooth down with rich fresh blood.
Adam
VV.7: And this mystery is reflected in the legend of the Creation, where Adam represents the
Concealed One, for Adam is Temurah of MAD, the Enochian word for God, and Eve, whom
he created for love, is tempted by the snake, Nechesh, who is Messiah her child.
VV.2: And also there is an Assyrian legend of a woman with a fish, and also there is a legend of
Eve and the Serpent, for Cain was the child of Eve and the Serpent, and not of Eve and
Adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having
sacrificed living things to his demon, had Cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark
of the Beast spoken of in the Apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation.
Adonai
Ara 3.10: Yea, verily, I the Lord Viceregent of His Kingdom, I, Adonai, who speak unto my servant
V.V.V.V.V. did rule and govern in His place.
Ara 4.0: Also the little child, the lover of Adonai, even V.V.V.V.V., reflecting the glory of Adonai,
lifted up his voice and said:
Arc 1.21: And in the heart of the Sphinx danced the Lord Adonai, in His garlands of roses and pearls
making glad the concourse of things; yea, making glad the concourse of things.
Cor 1.1: From the Lord Adonai, from the Lord Adonai!
Cor 1.2: Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V., saying: There must ever be division in the word.
Cor 1.32: Further Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V. and said:

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Cor 1.41: (The scribe was wroth thereat. He spake: O Adonai and my master, I have borne the
inkhorn and the pen without pay, in order that I might search this river of Amrit, and sail
thereon as one of ye. This I demand for my fee, that I partake of the echo of your kisses.)
Cor 1.50: Adonai spake yet again with V.V.V.V.V. and said: The earth is ripe for vintage; let us eat of
her grapes, and be drunken thereon.
Cor 1.54: Then said Adonai: Thou hast the Head of the Hawk, and thy Phallus is the Phallus of Asar.
Thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are
one. But why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence?
Cor 1.56: And Adonai said: The strong brown reaper swept his swathe and rejoiced. The wise man
counted his muscles, and pondered, and understood not, and was sad. / Reap thou, and
rejoice!
Cor 1.59: Stained is the purple of thy mouth, O brilliant one, with the white glory of the lips of
Adonai.
Cor 3.3: Then the word of Adonai came unto me by the mouth of the Magister mine, saying: O
heart that art girt about with the coils of the old serpent, lift up thyself unto the mountain
of initiation!
Cor 3.13: Then I said: O my beloved, O Lord Adonai, I pray thee to loosen the coils of the serpent!
Cor 3.45: So am I, O Adonai, my lord, and such are the waters of Thine intolerable Essence.
Cor 3.46: So am I, O Adonai, my beloved, and Thou hast burst me utterly in sunder.
Cor 3.55: This is the world of the waters of Maim; this is the bitter water that becometh sweet.
Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire!
Cor 4.15: Thus spake the Magister V.V.V.V.V. unto Adonai his God, as they played together in the
starlight over against the deep black pool that is in the Holy Place of the Holy House
beneath the Altar of the Holiest One.
Cor 4.16: But Adonai laughed, and played more languidly.
Cor 4.17: Then the scribe took note, and was glad. But Adonai had no fear of the Magician and his
play. For it was Adonai who had taught all his tricks to the Magician.
Cor 4.19: And Adonai said: Thou art enmeshed in the web of the Magician. This He said subtly, to
try him.
Cor 4.21: And Adonai delighted in him exceedingly.

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Cor 4.24: Arise, O serpent Apep, Thou art Adonai the beloved one! Thou art my darling and my lord,
and Thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of Isis the mother of the Gods!
Cor 5.1: Ah! my Lord Adonai, that dalliest with the Magister in the Treasure-House of Pearls, let
me listen to the echo of your kisses.
Cor 5.14: All this while did Adonai pierce my being with his sword that hath four blades; the blade
of the thunderbolt, the blade of the Pylon, the blade of the serpent, the blade of the
Phallus.
Cor 5.30: Also Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V. saying: O my little one, my tender one, my little
amorous one, my gazelle, my beautiful, my boy, let us fill up the pillar of the Infinite with
an infinite kiss!
Cor 5.41: And again I was caught up into the presence of my Lord Adonai, and the knowledge and
Conversation of the Holy One, the Angel that Guardeth me.
Cor 5.43: Adonai, divine Adonai, let Adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! Thus I concealed the name
of Her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the
light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts.
Cor 5.47: Bid Thy maidens who follow Thee bestrew us a bed of flowers immortal, that we may take
our pleasure thereupon. Bid Thy satyrs heap thorns among the flowers, that we may take
our pain thereupon. Let the pleasure and pain be mingled in one supreme offering unto
the Lord Adonai!
Cor 5.48: Also I heard the voice of Adonai the Lord the desirable one concerning that which is
beyond.
Cor 5.57: O thou Serpent Apep, my Lord Adonai, it is a speck of minutest time, this travelling
through eternity, and in Thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by
the tool of the graver. Therefore Thou art mine, even now and for ever and for
everlasting. Amen.
Cor 5.58: Moreover, I heard the voice of Adonai: Seal up the book of the Heart and the Serpent; in
the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. As fine gold that is beaten into a
diadem for the fair queen of Pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the
Pyramid of the ceremony of the Death of Asar, so do thou bind together the words and
the deeds, so that in all is one Thought of Me thy delight Adonai.
Cor 5.59: And I answered and said: It is done even according unto Thy word. And it was done. And
they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of Barren
Words. And they that sealed up the book into their blood were the chosen of Adonai, and
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the Thought of Adonai was a Word and a Deed; and they abode in the Land that the far-
off travellers call Naught.
Cor 5.61: And the Lord Adonai delighteth in me, and I bear the Cup of His gladness unto the weary
ones of the old grey land.
Cor 5.65: So also is the end of the book, and the Lord Adonai is about it on all sides like a
Thunderbolt, and a Pylon, and a Snake, and a Phallus, and in the midst thereof he is like
the Woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars
from her paps.
VV.17: Your truth is your troth with Adonai the Beloved one.
VV.10: I, Omnia Vincam, a Probationer of A∴A∴, hereby solemnly promise upon my magical
honour, and swear by Adonai the angel that guardeth me, that I will defend this magic
circle of Art with thoughts and words and deeds.
Adonis
VV.20: And from this vision have come all the legends of Bacchus and Kŗșņa and Adonis.
Ahathoor
AL 3.38: Of Khephra and of Ahathoor.
Cor 4.23: I who was the priestess of Ahathoor rejoice in your love. Arise, O Nile-God, and devour
the holy place of the Cow of Heaven! Let the milk of the stars be drunk up by Sebek the
dweller of Nile!
Ahrimanes
Cor 5.37: O ye that are beyond Aormuzdi and Ahrimanes! blessed are ye unto the ages.
Aiwass
AL 1.7: Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.
VV.17: And the voice of fire is in the second chapter of The Book of the Law, that is revealed unto
him that is a score and half a score and three that are scores, and six, by Aiwass, that is his
guardian, the mighty Angel that extendeth from the first unto the last, and maketh known
the mysteries that are beyond.
VV.17: And that is also the number of Aiwass the mighty Angel, the Minister of Silence.
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VV.8: For my name is called Aiwass, that is eight and seventy.
Al A'in
LLL 6.51: This was the tale of the memory of Al A'in the priest; yea, of Al A'in the priest.
Allah
VV.3: And Satan is worshipped by men under the name of Jesus; and Lucifer is worshipped by
men under the name of Brahma; and Leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of
Allah; and Belial is worshipped by men under the name of Buddha.
Ammon-Ra
LLL 3.1: I was the priest of Ammon-Ra in the temple of Ammon-Ra at Thebai.
LLL 3.4: But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra
LLL 3.11: O Pearl! thou hast come from the majesty of dread Ammon-Ra.
LLL 3.15: I who was priest of Ammon-Ra, who saw the Nile flow by for many moons, for many,
many moons, am the young fawn of the grey land.
Amoun
VV.5: The arrow is fledged with the plumes of Maat, that are the plumes of Amoun, and the
shaft is the phallus of Amoun, the Concealed One.
Ankh-af-na-khonsu
AL 1.14: Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
AL 1.36: My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this
book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-
it.
AL 3.37: The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu
AL 3.38: The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
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Aormuzdi
Cor 5.37: O ye that are beyond Aormuzdi and Ahrimanes! blessed are ye unto the ages.
Apep
Cor 4.25: For Thou art He! Yea, Thou shalt swallow up Asi and Asar, and the children of Ptah. Thou
shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works of the Magician. Only the Destroyer
shall devour Thee; Thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. Ah, serpent
Apep, but I love Thee!
Cor 5.57: O thou Serpent Apep, my Lord Adonai, it is a speck of minutest time, this travelling
through eternity, and in Thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by
the tool of the graver. Therefore Thou art mine, even now and for ever and for
everlasting. Amen.
LLL 7.19: Thou beautiful bull of Apis! Thou beautiful serpent of Apep! Thou beautiful child of the
Pregnant Goddess!
Stel 1.1: Apep deifieth Asar.
Stel 1.38: I, Apep the Serpent, am the heart of Iao. Isis shall await Asar, and I in the midst.
Stel 1.48: I am Apep, O thou slain One. Thou shalt slay thyself upon mine altar: I will have thy blood
to drink.
Aphrodite
Tri 1.13: Likewise also did certain sons and daughters of Hermes and of Aphrodite, more openly
Apis
LLL 7.19: Thou beautiful bull of Apis! Thou beautiful serpent of Apep! Thou beautiful child of the
Pregnant Goddess!
Apophis
VV.14: And there is an all-glorious Angel before me, standing in the sign of Apophis and Typhon.
VV.14: Here abideth terror, and the blind ache of the Soul, and lo! even I, who am the sole light, a
spark shut up, stand in the sign of Apophis and Typhon.
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Asar
AL 1.49: Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat
in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they
are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and
splendour is the Lord initiating.
Arc 1.0: A, the heart of IAO, dwelleth in ecstasy in the secret place of the thunders. Between Asar
and Asi he abideth in joy.
Arc 1.7: He is Asar between Asi and Nepthi; he cometh forth from the veil. He rideth upon the
chariot of eternity; the white and the black are harnessed to his car. Therefore he
reflecteth the Fool, and the sevenfold veil is reveiled.
Arc 1.13: Also Asar was hidden in Amennti; and the Lords of Time swept over him with the sickle of
death.
Arc 1.19: Then the sun did appear unclouded, and the mouth of Asi was on the mouth of Asar.
Cor 1.54: Then said Adonai: Thou hast the Head of the Hawk, and thy Phallus is the Phallus of Asar.
Thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are
one. But why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence?
Cor 3.30: Thou art Sebek the crocodile against Asar; thou art Mati, the Slayer in the Deep. Thou art
Typhon, the Wrath of the Elements, O Thou who transcendest the Forces in their
Concourse and Cohesion, in their Death and their Disruption. Thou art Python, the terrible
serpent about the end of all things!
Cor 5.5: Now is the Pillar established in the Void; now is Asi fulfilled of Asar; now is Hoor let down
into the Animal Soul of Things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of the earth.
Cor 5.58: Moreover, I heard the voice of Adonai: Seal up the book of the Heart and the Serpent; in
the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. As fine gold that is beaten into a
diadem for the fair queen of Pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the
Pyramid of the ceremony of the Death of Asar, so do thou bind together the words and
the deeds, so that in all is one Thought of Me thy delight Adonai.
Stel 1.1: Apep deifieth Asar.
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Asi
Arc 1.19: Then the sun did appear unclouded, and the mouth of Asi was on the mouth of Asar.
Cor 2.7: Moreover I beheld a vision of a river. There was a little boat thereon; and in it under
purple sails was a golden woman, an image of Asi wrought in finest gold. Also the river
was of blood, and the boat of shining steel. Then I loved her; and, loosing my girdle, cast
myself into the stream.
Av
VV.6: There cometh into the stone the great Angel whose name is Av, and in him there are
symbols which strive for mastery, — Sulphur and the Pentagram, and they are harmonized
by the Swastika. These symbols are found both in the name of Av and in the name of the
Aethyr.
Babalon
Chet 1.1: This is the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our Lady the Scarlet
Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our
Lord the Beast.
VV.12: Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, that rideth upon
the Beast, for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth and lo! she hath
mingled it in the cup of her whoredom.
VV.10: Then the Seer took the Holy Ring, and wrote the name BABALON, that is victory over
Choronzon, and he was no more manifest.
VV.9: This is he whose blood hath been gathered into the cup of BABALON.
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VV.9: And the ring of the horizon above her is a company of glorious Archangels with joined
hands, that stand and sing: This is the daughter of BABALON the Beautiful, that she hath
borne unto the Father of All.
VV.8: For they are the servants of Babalon, and of the Beast, and of those others of whom it is
not yet spoken.
VV.7: But they have given their blood, even to the last drop, to fill the cup of BABALON.
VV.6: And BABALON hath lulled him to sleep upon her breast, and she hath fled away, and left
him naked, and she hath called her children together, saying: Come up with me, and let us
make a mock of the nakedness of the Most High.
VV.5: For as thy blood is mingled in the cup of BABALON, so is thine heart the universal heart.
VV.4: He is spirit and matter; he is peace and power; in him is Chaos and Night and Pan, and
upon BABALON his concubine, that hath made him drunk upon the blood of the saints
that she hath gathered in her golden cup, hath he begotten the virgin that now he doth
deflower.
VV.3: Moreover, there is Mary, a blasphemy against BABALON, for she hath shut herself up; and
therefore is she the Queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that
thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the Heaven of Urania.
VV.3: And for this is BABALON under the power of the Magician, that she hath submitted
herself unto the work; and she guardeth the Abyss.
VV.3: And thou shalt give the sign of the Mother, for BABALON is thy fortress against the
iniquity of the Abyss, for the iniquity of that which bindeth her unto the Crown, and
barreth her from the Crown; for not until thou art made one with CHAOS canst thou begin
that last, that most terrible projection, the three-fold Regimen which alone constitutes the
Great Work.
VV.2: In the first place, there is again the woman riding on the bull, which is the reflection of
BABALON, that rideth on The Beast.
VV.2: And that legend too is the legend of BABALON.
VV.2: For this is the victory of BABALON over the Magician that ensorcelled her.
VV.2: And through the malice of BABALON I hunger, hunger, hunger.

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Babylon
VV.12: The voice continues: This is the Mystery of Babylon, the Mother of abominations, and this
is the mystery of her adulteries, for she hath yielded up herself to everything that liveth,
and hath become a partaker in its mystery.
VV.12: Beautiful art thou, O Babylon, and desirable, for thou hast given thyself to everything that
liveth, and thy weakness hath subdued their strength. For in that union thou didst
understand. Therefore art thou called Understanding, O Babylon, Lady of the Night.
VV.12: O Babylon, Babylon, thou mighty Mother, that ridest upon the crown d beast, let me be
drunken upon the wine of thy fornications; let thy kisses wanton me unto death, that even
I, thy cup-bearer, may understand. Now, through the ruddy glow of the cup, I may
perceive far above, and infinitely great, the vision of Babylon.
VV.12: For Babylon the Beautiful, the Mother of abominations, hath sworn by her holy cteis,
whereof every point is a pang, that she will not rest from her adulteries until the blood of
everything that liveth is gathered therein, and the wine thereof laid up and matured and
consecrated, and worthy to gladden the heart of my Father.
VV.12: They keep themselves from the kisses of my Mother Babylon, and in their lonely
fortresses they pray to the false moon.
VV.12: And for this is the Key of the Pylon of Power, because there is no power that may endure,
save only the power that descendeth in this my chariot from Babylon, the city of Fifty
Gates, the Gate of the God On [Hebrew missing].
VV.11: And none may speak with him, or understand him, but the servants of Babylon, that
understand, and they that are without understanding, his servants.
VV.11: Search, therefore, if there be yet one drop of blood that is not gathered into the cup of
Babylon the Beautiful, for in that little pile of dust, if there could be one drop of blood, it
should be utterly corrupt; it should breed scorpions and vipers, and the cat of slime
Bacchus
Aash 1.24: Yet I give more than Bacchus and Apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse.
Cor 1.63: Bacchus grew old, and was Silenus; Pan was ever Pan for ever and ever more throughout
the fons.
LLL 3.2: But Bacchus came singing with his troops of vine-clad girls, of girls in dark mantles; and
Bacchus in the midst like a fawn!
LLL 3.4: But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra.

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LLL 3.7: I will eat the ripe and the unripe fruit for the glory of Bacchus.
LLL 3.14: So I adored the God. Bacchus! thou art the lover of my God!
LLL 4.14: Nor is there any rest, Sweet Heart, save in the cradle of royal Bacchus, the thigh of the
most Holy One.
Baphomet
Aash 1.18: I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three.
Belial
VV.3: For he is wisdom, and by wisdom hath he made the Worlds, and from that wisdom issue
judgements 70 by 4, that are the 4 eyes of the double-headed one; that are the 4 devils,
Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan, Belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world.
VV.2: And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God.
Bes-na-Maut
AL 3.38: By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
Be-with-Us
Aash 1.6: Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F.I.A.T. is enthroned on the
day of Be-with-Us.
Chet 1.12: And behold! if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of thine, then shalt thou be
cast out into the abyss for ever; and thou shalt be the lonely one, the eater of dung, the
afflicted in the Day of Be-with-Us.
Betulah
VV.9: For Kor they have called her, and Malkuth, and Betulah, and Persephone.
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Brahma
Buddha
Por 1.18: Many adepts throughout the ages have sought to do this; but their words have been
perverted by their successors, and again and again the Veil has fallen upon the Holy of
Holies. 19) To you who yet wander in the Court of the Profane we cannot yet reveal all;
but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of
the Absolute Truth. So also are the philosophies. To the adept, seeing all these things from
above, there seems nothing to choose between Buddha and Mohammed, between
Atheism and Theism.
VV.6: Moses, and Buddha, and Lao Tan, and Kŗșņa, and Jesus, and Osiris, and Mohammed; for
all these attained unto the grade of Magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse
of Thoth.
Caesar
LLL 6.28: Who wast Thou, O Caesar, that Thou knewest God in an horse?
Cain
VV.2: And that is external religion; but Cain spake not with God, nor had the mark of initiation
upon his brow, so that he was shunned by all men, until he had shed blood.
VV.2: In the middle of the card stands Cain; in his right hand is the Hammer of Thor with which
he hath slain his brother, and it is all wet with his blood.
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Caligula
LLL 6.27: There dead Messalina bartered her crown for poison from the dead Locusta; there stood
Caligula, and smote the seas of forgetfulness.
Calypso
VV.2: He is like one's idea of Sappho and Calypso, and all seductive and deadly things; heavy
eye-lids, long lashes, a face like ivory, wonderful barbaric jewellery, intensely red lips, a
very small mouth, tiny ears, a Grecian face.
Casaubon
VV.27: She is not the mere elemental that one would suppose from the account of Casaubon.
Cerberus
VV.27: And I am the mother of the Dog Cerberus.
Ceres
VV.14: And for bread shalt thou eat salt, O thou on the corn of Ceres that didst wax fat.
Chaos
Chet 1.1: This is the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our Lady the Scarlet
Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our
Lord the Beast.
Chet 1.21: And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or to the Beast whereon She rideth;
nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned
Child is it known? It is not known if it be known.
Magi 1.21: And in the word CHAOS let the Book be sealed; yea, let the Book be sealed.
VV.14: Chaos is my name, and thick darkness.
VV.4: This is the meaning of that passage; they are attempts to interpret Chaos, but Chaos is
Peace.
VV.4: Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms!
VV.4: But when the balances are equal, scale matched with scale, then will Chaos return.
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deflower.
VV.3: Verily all things have been swallowed up in destruction; and Chaos hath opened his jaws
and crushed the Universe as a Bacchanal crusheth a grape between her teeth.
VV.3: And thou shalt give the sign of the Mother, for BABALON is thy fortress against the
iniquity of the Abyss, for the iniquity of that which bindeth her unto the Crown, and
barreth her from the Crown; for not until thou art made one with CHAOS canst thou begin
that last, that most terrible projection, the three-fold Regimen which alone constitutes the
Great Work.
VV.3: Therefore awake, and give secretly and apart the sign of the Mother, and call four times
upon the name of CHAOS, that is the four-fold word that is equal to her seven-fold word.
And then shalt thou purify thyself, and return into the World.
VV.2: And this is the Mystery of the incest of CHAOS with his daughter.
VV.2: Yet shall it be a potent spell, whereby thou mayest lay bare the womb of thy
understanding to the violence of CHAOS.
Choronzon
VV.17: And even as the shew-stone burneth thy forehead with its intolerable flame, so he who
hath known me, though but from afar, is marked out and chosen among men, and he shall
never turn back or turn aside, for he hath made the link that is not to be broken, nay, not
by the malice of the Four Great Princes of evil of the world, nor by Choronzon, that mighty
Devil, nor by the wrath of God, nor by the affliction and feebleness of the soul.
VV.15: And herein is Choronzon brought utterly to ruin, that all his work is against his will, not
only in the whole, but in every part thereof, even as a fly that walketh upon a beryl-stone.
VV.11: Behold the armies of light that are set against the outermost Abyss, against the horror of
emptiness, and the malice of Choronzon.
VV.11: Yet must he that understandeth go forth unto the outermost Abyss, and there must he
speak with him that is set above the four-fold terror, the Princes of Evil, even with
Choronzon, the mighty devil that inhabiteth the outermost Abyss.
VV.11: And whoso passeth into the outermost Abyss, except he be of them that understand,
holdeth out his hands, and boweth his neck, unto the chains of Choronzon.
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VV.10: And let the Demon be invoked within a triangle, wherein is inscribed the name of
Choronzon, and about it let him write ANAPHAXETON — ANAPHANETON --
PRIMEUMATON, and in the angles MI-CA-EL: and at each angle the Seer shall slay a
pigeon, and having done this, let him retire to a secret place, where is neither sight nor
hearing, and sit within his black robe, secretly invoking the Aethyr.
VV.10: Now, then, the Seer being entered within the triangle, let him take the Victims and cut
their throats, pouring the blood within the Triangle, and being most heedful that not one
drop fall without the Triangle; or else Choronzon should be able to manifest in the
universe.
VV.10: Then the Devil of the Aethyr, that mighty devil Choronzon, crieth aloud, Zazaz, Zazas,
Nasatanada Zasas.
VV.10: Here Choronzon attempts to seduce the Scribe by appealing to his pride.
VV.10: Choronzon hath no form, because he is the maker of all form; and so rapidly he changeth
from one to the other as he may best think fit to seduce those whom he hateth, the
servants of the Most High.
VV.10: This last was spoken from the triangle in the natural voice of the Frater, which Choronzon
again simulated.
VV.10: Choronzon attempted also to seduce the faithfulness of the Scribe.
VV.10: (Here the Scribe again commanded Choronzon to continue with the call.)
VV.10: Know thou that there is no Cry in the tenth Aethyr like unto the other Cries, for
Choronzon is Dispersion, and cannot fix his mind upon any one thing for any length of
time. Thou canst master him in argument, O talkative one; thou wast commanded, wast
thou not, to talk to Choronzon?
VV.10: The malice of Choronzon is not the malice of a being; it is the quality of malice, because
he that boasteth himself "I am I", hath in truth no self, and these are they that are fallen
under my power, the slaves of the Blind One that boasted himself to be the Enlightened
One.
VV.10: For thou that art the Scribe hast not the understanding that alone availeth against
Choronzon.
VV.10: For, while the Scribe talked, Choronzon had thrown sand into the circle, and filled it up.
But Choronzon could not think fast and continuously, and so resorted to the device of
quotation. The Scribe had written two or three words of "Tom o'Bedlam," when
Choronzon sprang within the circle (that part of the circumference of which that was
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nearest to him he had been filling up with sand all this time), and leaped upon the Scribe,
throwing him to the earth. The conflict took place within the circle. The Scribe called upon
Tetragrammaton, and succeeded in compelling Choronzon to return into his triangle.
VV.10: Here Choronzon wanted to leave the triangle to obtain wherewith to cover his nakedness.
VV.10: Choronzon succeed not in his design.
VV.10: Then the Seer took the Holy Ring, and wrote the name BABALON, that is victory over
Choronzon, and he was no more manifest.
VV.4: And this is the stone of the philosophers that is set as a seal upon the tomb of
Tetragrammaton, and the elixir of life that is distilled from the blood of the saints, and the
red powder that is the grinding-up of the bones of Choronzon.
VV.3: And all these are the excrement of Choronzon.
VV.3: … and the Ark should be touched, and the Lodge spied upon by them that are not masters,
and the bread of the Sacrament should be the dung of Choronzon; and the wine of the
Sacrament should be the water of Choronzon; and the incense should be dispersion; and
the fire upon the Altar should be hate.
VV.3: For Choronzon is as it were the shell or excrement of these three paths, and therefore is
his head raised unto Dath, and therefore have the Black Brotherhood declared him to be
the child of Wisdom and Understanding, who is but the bastard of the Svastika
Christ
See Jesus.
Christian Rosenkreutz
VV.22: And there are two black angels bending over me, covering me with their wings, shutting
me up into the darkness; and I am lying in the Pastos of our Father Christian Rosenkreutz,
beneath the Table in the Vault of seven sides.
Circe
VV.19: In her hands are the torch of Penelope and the cup of Circe.
Cynocephalus
VV.15: And the letter representeth not the whole nature of the star, but each star must be known
by itself in the wisdom of him that hath the Cynocephalus in leash.
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Diana
VV.6: And this is that mystery which is spoken of in the Acts of the Apostles; that Jupiter and
Mercury (Kether and Chokmah) visited (that is, inspired), Ephesus, the City of Diana, Binah
— was not Diana a black stone? — and they burnt their books of magick.
Dionysus Zagreus
VV.12: And this is the mystery of Dionysus Zagreus, that is celebrated upon the holy mountain of
Kithairon.
Elohim
VV.13: And he saith: First for the beauty and delight thereof; and next because it is written, "And
Tetragrammaton Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden."
VV.7: But the words are not Ain Elohim, but La (=nay!) and Elohim contracted from 86 to 14,
because La is 31, which x 14 is 434, Daleth, Lamed, Tau.
Enoch (Book of)

VV.15: And now the Table is become the universe; every star is a letter of the Book of Enoch. And
the Book of Enoch is drawn therefrom by an inscrutable Mystery, that is known only to
the Angels and the Holy Sevenfold Table.
VV.6: in the Book of Enoch was first given the wisdom of the New Aeon.
Erinyes
VV.4: Who is this, Oedipus, Tiresias, Erinyes?
Eros
Arc 1.6: Here then beneath the winged Eros is youth, delighting in the one and the other.
LLL 4.16: Uranus chid Eros; Marsyas chid Olympas; I chid my beautiful lover with his sunray mane;
shall I not sing?
LLL 5.39: We to silence and bliss, and the face is the laughing face of Eros.
VV.5: I am Eros.
VV.5: Then I fitted the white arrow to the string, and I shot it against the heart of Eros, and
though I shot with all my force, it fell harmlessly from his side.
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Eve
VV.7: And this mystery is reflected in the legend of the Creation, where Adam represents the
Concealed One, for Adam is Temurah of MAD, the Enochian word for God, and Eve, whom
he created for love, is tempted by the snake, Nechesh, who is Messiah her child.
VV.2: The shedding of blood is necessary, for God did not hear the children of Eve until blood
was shed.
VV.2: And on his right hand is his mother Eve, around whom the serpent is entwined with his
hood spread behind her head; and on his left hand is a figure somewhat like the Hindoo
Kali, but much more seductive.
F.I.A.T.
Aash 1.6: Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F.I.A.T. is enthroned on the
day of Be-with-Us.
Had
AL 1.1: Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
AL 2.64: Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail: prophet
of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet of Ra-Hoor-Khu! Now rejoice! now come in our splendour
& rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet words for the Kings!
Hades
Cor 1.48: Even instantly rode Hades heavily upon her, and ravished her away.
LLL 7.36: The forest of the spears of the Most High is called Night, and Hades, and the Day of
Wrath; but I am His captain, and I bear His cup.
Hadit
AL 1.6: Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!
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AL 1.21: With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth;
I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit.
AL 2.1: Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
AL 2.2: Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the
complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.
AL 2.21: We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel
not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law
of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That
Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of
the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The
Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.
AL 2.79: The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star!
AL 3.17: Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor
laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the
earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your
arms.
AL 3.38: O winged snake of light, Hadit!
AL 3.40: But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make
swift and secure thy pen.
AL 3.45: Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all
the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see & strike at the
worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit.
Arc 1.3: The Virgin of God is enthroned upon an oyster-shell; she is like a pearl, and seeketh
Seventy to her Four. In her heart is Hadit the invisible glory.
Chet 1.22: Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the
End and the Beginning.
VV.24: Yet must thou blot out the star in the heart of Hadit.
VV.21: Give thou praise unto thy lady Nuit, and unto her lord Hadit, that are for thee and thy
bride, and the winners of the ordeal X.
VV.20: Fear not for aught; turn not aside for aught, eremite of Nuit, apostle of Hadit, warrior of
Ra Hoor Khu!
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VV.16: And invisibly about him is Nuit, and in his heart is Hadit, and between his feet is the great
god Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
VV.8: And And even if he be of higher rank than a Probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the
Probationer, for the star of flame showeth forth Ra-Hoor-Khuit openly upon the breast,
and secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is Nuit, and the red triangle that ascendeth
is Hadit.
VV.6: Now it seems that the centre of infinite space is that Urn, and Hadit is the fire that hath
burnt up the book Tarot.
VV.6: Yet do thou distinguish between the upward and the downward Arrows, for the upward
arrow is straitened in its flight, and it is shot by a firm hand, for Jesod is Jod
Tetragrammaton, and Jod is a hand, but the downward arrow is shot by the topmost point
of the Jod; and that Jod is the Hermit, and it is the minute point that is not extended, that
is nigh unto the heart of Hadit.
VV.2: Yet is that tongue Hadit.
VV.2: Let me take the form of Hadit before thee, and sing:
VV.2: Before Ra Hoor Khuit! — Hadit! — Nuit!
Harpocrates
Aash 1.7: For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over to incest
and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpocrates his
twin is hidden within him. Set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of
M.A.A.T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple of A∴A∴, whose name is
Truth.
VV.30: I am in a vast crystal cube in the form of the Great God Harpocrates.
Hathor
Cor 1.34: Thou seest yon petal of amaranth, blown by the wind from the low sweet brows of
Hathor?
LLL 3.37: I know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the
holy house of Hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her altar!
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Hermanubis
VV.20: Now I see the figures on the wheel, which have been interpreted as the sworded Sphinx,
Hermanubis and Typhon.
Hermes
Chet 1.16: Nor shall the fon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared by
Hermes the Invisible.
Tri 1.13: Likewise also did certain sons and daughters of Hermes and of Aphrodite, more openly.
VV.14: I am Hermes, that am sent from the Father to expound all things discreetly in these the
last words that thou shalt hear before thou take thy seat among these, whose eyes are
sealed up, and whose ears are stopped, and whose mouths are clenched, who are folded
in upon themselves, the liquor of whose bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a
little pyramid of dust.
OL, Hymns: Behold! The Priest is joined to the Priest: illustrious King of the Staff
mayest thou come, Hermes, bearing the unutterable words!
Heru-pa-kraath
AL 2.8: Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper.
Heru-ra-ha
AL 3.35: The half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khut.
Honorius
VV.22: The light comes and goes on the tablet; and now it is steady, and I perceive that each
letter of the tablet is composed of forty-nine other letters, in a language which looks like
that of Honorius; but when I would read, the letter that I look at becomes indistinct at
once.
VV.10: And let the Scribe perform the Banishing Rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagram, and let
him call upon the Holy Names of God, and say the Exorcism of Honorius, and let him
beseech protection and help of the Most High.
Hoor
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Cor 5.6: Through the midnight thou art dropt, O my child, my conqueror, my sword-girt captain, O
Hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl'd glittering stone, and they shall worship
thee.
VV.16: Blessed are they who have turned the Eye of Hoor unto the zenith, for they shall be filled
with the vigour of the goat.
Hoor-paar-kraat
AL 1.7: Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.
Hoor-pa-kraat
Hoor-Ra
Cor 4.26: My God! Let Thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that I have kept
against the Day of Vengeance of Hoor-Ra. Let Kheph-Ra sound his sharded drone! let the
jackals of Day and Night howl in the wilderness of Time! let the Towers of the Universe
totter, and the guardians hasten away! For my Lord hath revealed Himself as a mighty
serpent, and my heart is the blood of His body.
Horus
Truth
LLL 1.30: Not Isis my mother, nor Osiris my self; but the incestuous Horus given over to Typhon, so
may I be!
VV.18: This light is that blue of Horus which we know, but being refined it is brilliance. For the
light of Horus only appears blue because of the imperfection of our eyes.
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VV.16: (These words probably mean that the Equinox of Horus is to be followed by that of
Themis.)
VV.7: Now, there is a mystery in the word Logos, that containeth the three letters whose
analogy hath been shown in the lower heavens, Samech, and Lamed, and Gimel, that are
93, which is thrice 31, and in them are set the two eyes of Horus.
VV.6: Thus he is neither Horus nor Osiris.
VV.5: Light streams through the pylon from before the face of Isis-Hathor, for she weareth the
lunar crown of cows' horns, with the disk in the centre; at her breast she beareth the child
Horus.
VV.1: FOR I AM HORUS, THE CROWNED AND CONQUERING CHILD, WHOM THOU KNEWEST
NOT!
Hrumachis
AL 3.34: But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and
sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand
until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded
one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from
the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & worship of the Snake; another soul of
God and beast shall mingle in the globid priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb;
another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical
Lord!
Hua
VV.4: Come Yet be thou wake and ware, for the great Angel Hua is about thee, and
overshadoweth thee, and at any moment he may come upon thee unawares.
Iacchus
LLL 4.23: Come, let us sing to thee, Iacchus invisible, Iacchus triumphant, Iacchus indicible!
LLL 4.24: Iacchus, O Iacchus, O Iacchus, be near us!
Tza 1.32: Only your mouths shall drink of a delicious wine -- the wine of Iacchus; they shall reach
ever to the heavenly kiss of the Beautiful God.
VV.14: This is thy wine, who wast drunk upon the wine of Iacchus.
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Iao
LLL 4.22: Ohi! the song to Iao, the song to Iao!
Stel 1.34: I who reveal the ritual am Iao and Oai; the Right and the Averse.
Isa
Isis
Truth.
Cor 5.50: Let not the priest of Isis uncover the nakedness of Nuit, for every step is a death and a
birth. The priest of Isis lifted the veil of Isis, and was slain by the kisses of her mouth. Then
was he the priest of Nuit, and drank of the milk of the stars.
may I be!
LLL 7.27: I am the Initiator and the Destroyer. Mine is the Globe -- and the Bennu Bird and the Lotus
of Isis my daughter!
VV.18: And now we go out of the chamber; on the right is a pylon, and the right figure is Isis, and
the left figure Nephthys, and they are folding their wings over, and supporting Ra.
VV.13: And then we bow silently, giving a certain sign, called the Sign of Isis Rejoicing.
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VV.6: It is the whirling Svastika which throws off all these things, for the Svastika is in aleph by
the shape and number, and in beth by the position of the arms of the Magician, and in
gimel because of the sign of the Mourning of Isis, and thus is the Crown defended by
these three thunderbolts.
VV.5: And is not Isis the Lady of Sorrow?
VV.5: And Isis must be known of all, but of how few is Nephthys known!
VV.5: But thou who hast adored her without fear, who hast made thy life an initiation into her
Mystery, thou that hast neither mother nor father, nor sister nor brother, nor wife nor
child, who hast made thyself lonely as the hermit crab that is in the waters of the Great
Sea, behold! when the sistrons are shaken, and the trumpets blare forth the glory of Isis,
at the end thereof there is silence, and thou shalt commune with Nephthys.
VV.2: The kiss of Isis is honeyed;
Isis-Hathor
VV.5: Light streams through the pylon from before the face of Isis-Hathor, for she weareth the
lunar crown of cows' horns, with the disk in the centre; at her breast she beareth the child
Horus.
Ixion
VV.2: A voice, neither in myself nor out of myself, is saying: Remember Prometheus; remember
Ixion.
Jehovah
VV.3: Of first way, the Mercy of God is that Mercy which Jehovah showed to the Amalekites;
and the second way is utterly beyond thine understanding, for it is the upright, and thou
knowest nothing but the averse, - until Wisdom shall inform thine Understanding, and
upon the base of the Ultimate triangle arise the smooth point.
Jesus / Christ
AL 3.51: With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross.
VV.29: And a great mingled cry arose: "No! no! no! All is changed; all is confounded; naught is
ordered: the white is stained with blood: the black is kissed of the Christ!
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of Thoth.
VV.3: So that they that worship Christ suck up her filth upon their tongues, and therefore their
breaths stink.
Juno
VV.7: Is not this bird the bird of Juno, that is an hundred, and thirty, and six?
VV.4: Terrible and wonderful is the Mystery thereof, O thou Titan that hast climbed into the bed
of Juno!
Jupiter
VV.14: And it appeareth in the heaven of Jupiter as a morning star, or as an evening star.
VV.7: And therefore is she the mate of Jupiter.
OL, Hymns: And just as when the priest purifies the boy
With foaming seed, while the other rejoicing accepts the waters,
Sprinkle, I pray, Jupiter, king of gods and men, all powerful,
Golden gifts upon thy servants.
Jupiter Ammon
OL, Hymns: Through the mark of the holy kingdom, give, o Jupiter Ammon,
Give to us abounding gifts with a full hand.
Kali
VV.2: And on his right hand is his mother Eve, around whom the serpent is entwined with his
hood spread behind her head; and on his left hand is a figure somewhat like the Hindoo
Kali, but much more seductive.
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Khem
Arc 1.15: Then the Lord Khem arose, He who is holy among the highest, and set up his crowned
staff for to redeem the universe.
Cor 2.5: I suffered the deadly embrace of the Snake and of the Goat; I paid the infernal homage to
the shame of Khem.
Cor 5.44: I have sucked out the blood with my lips; I have drained Her beauty of its sustenance; I
have abased Her before me, I have mastered Her, I have possessed Her, and Her life is
within me. In Her blood I inscribe the secret riddles of the Sphinx of the Gods, that none
shall understand, -- save only the pure and voluptuous, the chaste and obscene, the
androgyne and the gynander that have passed beyond the bars of the prison that the old
Slime of Khem set up in the Gates of Amennti.
Cor 5.52: There was also an humming-bird that spake unto the horned cerastes, and prayed him for
poison. And the great snake of Khem the Holy One, the royal Uraeus serpent, answered
him and said:
Khephra
AL 3.38: Of Khephra and of Ahathoor.
VV.10: I am afraid of sunset, for Tum is more terrible than Ra, and Khephra the Beetle is greater
than the Lion Mau.
Kheph-Ra
Arc 1.18: By her spells she invoked the Scarab, the Lord Kheph-Ra, so that the waters were cloven
and the illusion of the towers was destroyed.
Cor 4.26: My God! Let Thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that I have kept
against the Day of Vengeance of Hoor-Ra. Let Kheph-Ra sound his sharded drone! let the
jackals of Day and Night howl in the wilderness of Time! let the Towers of the Universe
totter, and the guardians hasten away! For my Lord hath revealed Himself as a mighty
serpent, and my heart is the blood of His body.
Kneph
VV.22: And now there is a mighty concourse of angels rushing toward me from every side, and
they melt upon the surface of the egg in which I am standing in the form of the god
Kneph, so that the surface of the egg is all one dazzling blaze of liquid light.
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Kor
Kŗșņa
of Thoth.
Lao Tan (Lao Tzu)

of Thoth.
Leviathan
VV.23: I disport myself in the ruins of Eden, even as Leviathan in the false sea, being whole as the
rose at the crown of the cross.
VV.2: I am Leviathan, the great Lost Serpent of the Sea.
Lilith
Cor 3.4: But I remembered. Yea, Than, yea, Theli, yea, Lilith! these three were about me from of
old. For they are one.
Cor 3.5: Beautiful wast thou, O Lilith, thou serpent-woman!
VV.3: And Lilith, a black monkey crawling with filth, running with open sores, an eye torn out,
eaten of worms, her teeth rotten, her nose eaten away, her mouth a putrid mass of green
slime, her dugs dropping and cancerous, clings to him, kisses him.
VV.3: Thus are all they fallen into the power of Lilith, who have dared to look upon his face.
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VV.2: Yet I know it to be Lilith.
Locusta
Lucifer
VV.2: I cling unto the burning Aethyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of
his flight kindled the air.
M.A.A.T.
Truth.
Maat
Arc 1.11: Also the lady Maat with her feather and her sword abode to judge the righteous. For Fate
was already established.
VV.17: And the feather of Maat is blue because the truth of justice is mercy.
VV.5: The arrow is fledged with the plumes of Maat, that are the plumes of Amoun, and the
shaft is the phallus of Amoun, the Concealed One.
VV.5: The plumes of Maat are its crown, set about the disk.
VV.5: The universe is put forth and swallowed up in the quivering of the plumes of Maat, that
are the plumes of the Arrow; but those plumes quiver not.
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VV.3: And joining them are the rays which are the plumes of Maat, and because the distance is
infinite, therefore are they parallel from the circumference, although they diverge from
the centre.
Madimi
VV.17: Into the stone there first cometh the head of a dragon, and then the Angel Madimi.
Mars
VV.25: Thus doth the fire of the sun temper the spear of Mars.
Marsyas
shall I not sing?
Mary
AL 3.55: Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly
despised among you!
VV.3: Moreover, there is Mary, a blasphemy against BABALON, for she hath shut herself up; and
therefore is she the Queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that
thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the Heaven of Urania.
Mati
Mau
than the Lion Mau.
Maut
VV.9: Who is this that travelleth between the hosts, that is poised upon the edge of the Aethyr
by the wings of Maut?
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VV.5: And having known these, there are the wings of Maut the Vulture.
Medusa
VV.2: My tongue cleaveth to my jaws, O thou Medusa that hast turned me to stone!
Mentu
AL 3.37: The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu;
AL 3.38: I am thy Theban, O Mentu,
Mercury
Messalina
Misericordia Dei
VV.3: And thou shouldst have beheld the face of the Magician that thou hast not been able to
behold, - of him from whom issue forth the severities that are upon Malkuth, and his
name is Misericordia Dei.
Mohammed
AL 3.52: I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him.
Por 1.19: Many adepts throughout the ages have sought to do this; but their words have been
perverted by their successors, and again and again the Veil has fallen upon the Holy of
Holies. 19) To you who yet wander in the Court of the Profane we cannot yet reveal all;
but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of
the Absolute Truth. So also are the philosophies. To the adept, seeing all these things from
above, there seems nothing to choose between Buddha and Mohammed, between
Atheism and Theism.
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of Thoth.
Moses
of Thoth.
NEMO
VV.13: But NEMO hath filled therefrom our springs. And I said: Who is NEMO?
VV.13: NEMO is therefore called 165 = 11 x 15; and is in himself 910 = 91 Amen x 10; and 13 x 70
= The One Eye, Achad Ayin.
VV.13: Therefore he that hath beheld it is called NEMO. And know thou that every man that is
called NEMO hath a garden that he tendeth. And every garden that is and flourisheth hath
been prepared from the desert by NEMO, watered with the waters that were called
death.
VV.13: And his name shall be called NEMO, when he beholdeth the face of my Father. And he
that tendeth the garden seeketh not to single out the flower that shall be NEMO.
VV.13: And he said: Bethink thee that NEMO hath beheld the face of my Father.
VV.13: Many indeed of these my songs shall go forth as maidens, but there is one among them,
which one I know not, that shall be a man-child, whose name shall be NEMO, when he
hath beheld the face of the Father, and become blind.
VV.13: Come with me, and behold how NEMO tendeth his garden.
VV.13: And now that thou art called NEMO, the answer to every riddle that thou hast not found
shall spring up in thy mind, unsought.
VV.13: All these words are heard by everyone that is called NEMO.
VV.13: And he answers: It is of the essence of him that is called NEMO, combined with essence of
the Aethyr, for from the 1st Aethyr to the 15th Aethyr, there is no vision and no voice,
save for him that is called NEMO. And he that seeketh the vision and the voice therein is
led away by dog- faced demons that show no sign of truth, seducing from the Sacred
Mysteries, unless his name be NEMO.
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VV.13: For NEMO hath all in himself.
Nephthys
VV.5: Nature is her name, and she hath a twin sister Nephthys, whose name is Perfection.
VV.5: And Isis must be known of all, but of how few is Nephthys known!
VV.5: But thou who hast adored her without fear, who hast made thy life an initiation into her
Mystery, thou that hast neither mother nor father, nor sister nor brother, nor wife nor
child, who hast made thyself lonely as the hermit crab that is in the waters of the Great
Sea, behold! when the sistrons are shaken, and the trumpets blare forth the glory of Isis,
at the end thereof there is silence, and thou shalt commune with Nephthys.
Nepthi
Nu
AL 2.1: Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
AL 2.2: Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the
complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.
AL 2.43: A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight!
AL 2.44: Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal
ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.
AL 2.76: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth this, o prophet?

Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall
expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit
heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.
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AL 3.17: Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor
laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the
earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your
arms.
AL 3.45: Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all
the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see & strike at the
worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit.
Cor 5.53: I sailed over the sky of Nu in the car called Millions-of-Years, and I saw not any creature
upon Seb that was equal to me. The venom of my fang is the inheritance of my father, and
of my father's father; and how shall I give it unto thee? Live thou and thy children as I and
my fathers have lived, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that
the mercy of the Mighty Ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld.
Nuit
Aash 1.38: Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At
the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself
as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the
darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils.
AL 1.1: Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
AL 1.14: The naked splendour of Nuit;
AL 1.22: Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I
will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars
thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you
between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.
AL 1.24: I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.
AL 1.27: 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!
AL 1.66: The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.
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AL 2.26: I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my
head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is
rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.
AL 3.38: Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!
Arc 1.2: Now hath Nuit veiled herself, that she may open the gate of her sister.
Chet 1.22: Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the
End and the Beginning.
Cor 3.54: Also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the Abode; bear me away upon
the Bosom of Nuit!
Cor 5.50: Let not the priest of Isis uncover the nakedness of Nuit, for every step is a death and a
birth. The priest of Isis lifted the veil of Isis, and was slain by the kisses of her mouth. Then
was he the priest of Nuit, and drank of the milk of the stars.
VV.27: I am the daughter of Nuit, the lady of the stars.
VV.26: And then at the top there steals a dawn of pure night-blue, — Oh, the stars, the stars in it
deeply set! — and drives the blood down; so that all round the top of the oval gradually
dawns the figure of our Lady Nuit, and beneath her is the flaming winged disk, and below
the altar of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, even as it is upon the Stèle of Revealing.
VV.23: Even as we say; glory unto the Rose that is Nuit the circumference of all, and glory unto
the Cross that is the heart of the Rose!
VV.21: Give thou praise unto thy lady Nuit, and unto her lord Hadit, that are for thee and thy
bride, and the winners of the ordeal X.
V.20: Fear not for aught; turn not aside for aught, eremite of Nuit, apostle of Hadit, warrior of
Ra Hoor Khu!
V.17: And this is the mystery of the camel that is ten days in the desert, and is not athirst,
because he hath within him that water which is the dew distilled from the the night of
Nuit.
god Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
VV.15: And the letters of the circumference declare in glory of Nuit, that beginneth from Aries.
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is Hadit.
VV.2: Thou art Nuit!
VV.2: Nuit! Nuit! Nuit!
VV.1: So, also, unless he be hidden from the light of life, he cannot behold Nuit.
OAI
Stel 1.14: Next, the infernal adorations of OAI.
Stel 1.34: I who reveal the ritual am Iao and Oai; the Right and the Averse.
VV.2: To the God OAI
Oedipus
Olympas
shall I not sing?
Osiris
Truth.
Cor 1.1: On the corpse of Osiris afloat in the tomb!
may I be!
LLL 7.3: These loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of Osiris, so that the
flaming God may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear.
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LLL 7.15: I remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the year, in the dusk of the Equinox of Osiris,
when first I beheld Thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out; when the
Ibis-headed One charmed away the strife.
VV.19: And we are standing, as if crucified, face to face, our hands and lips and breasts and knees
and feet together, and her eyes pierce into my eyes like whirling shafts of steel, so that I
fall backwards headlong through the Æthyr —and there is a sudden and tremendous
shout, absolutely stunning, cold and brutal: Osiris was a black god!
VV.6: Thus he is neither Horus nor Osiris.
of Thoth.
Pan
the fons.
Cor 2.43: Then the faun was enraptured, and followed far; at last the harper was silent, and the
faun became Pan in the midst of the primal forest of Eternity.
LLL P.4: And I behold Pan.
LLL P.8: To me only the distant flute, the abiding vision of Pan.
LLL P.9: On all sides Pan to the eye, to the ear;
LLL P.10: The perfume of Pan pervading, the taste of him utterly filling my mouth, so that the
tongue breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech.
LLL P.16: Pan! Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan!
LLL 1.6: Art Thou not Pan?
LLL 1.32: Pan! Pan! Io Pan! it is enough.
LLL 1.52: Io Pan! Io Pan! I love Thee. I love Thee.
LLL 2.34: O marble Pan! O false leering face! I love Thy dark kisses, bloody and stinking! O marble
Pan! Thy kisses are like sunlight on the blue Aegean; their blood is the blood of the sunset
over Athens; their stink is like a garden of Roses of Macedonia.
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Magi 1.15: Now the grade of a Magister teacheth the Mystery of Sorrow, and the grade of a Magus
the Mystery of Change, and the grade of Ipsissimus the Mystery of Selflessness, which is
called also the Mystery of Pan.
VV.15: Above the altar is a veiled Figure, whose name is Pan.
VV.12: And this is the comedy of Pan, that is played at night in the thick forest.
deflower.
VV.2: So also there were many images of Pan, and men adored them, and as a beautiful god he
made their olives bear double and their vines increase; but some were slain by the god,
for it was I that had woven the garlands about him.
Penelope
VV.19: In her hands are the torch of Penelope and the cup of Circe.
Perdurabo
Ara 5.6: And I came and saw, even I, Perdurabo, the Philosophus of the Outer College.
Persephone
Pertinax
LLL 2.13: I drank wine awhile agone in the house of Pertinax. The cup-boy favoured me, and gave
me of the right sweet Chian
LLL 2.15: I was pernicious drunk, O my God! Yet Pertinax brought me to the bridal.
Priapus
LLL 3.9: Within is a crystal shell, shaped like an oyster — O glory of Priapus! O beatitude of the
Great Goddess!
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Prometheus
VV.2: A voice, neither in myself nor out of myself, is saying: Remember Prometheus; remember
Ixion.
Ptah
VV.20: My form is the form of the God Ptah, in my essence, but the form of the god Seb in my
form.
Python
Ra
AL 3.37: Appear on the throne of Ra!
AL 3.38: Into the House of Ra and Tum,
AL 3.61: There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat, lightening the girders of
the soul.
Cor 5.64: They are gathered together into a glowing heart, as Ra that gathereth his clouds about
Him at eventide into a molten sea of Joy; and the snake that is the crown of Ra bindeth
them about with the golden girdle of the death-kisses.
LLL 4.34: In the boat of Ra did I travel, but I never found upon the visible Universe any being like
unto Thee!
than the Lion Mau.
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Ra Hoor Khuit
AL 1.52: If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They
are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor
Khuit!
Ra Hoor Khut
AL 3.1: Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
Ra-Hoor-Khu
AL 3.11: This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy
to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself
convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger &
trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords
& with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name.
Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat!
Ra Hoor Khu
VV.20: Fear not for aught; turn not aside for aught, eremite of Nuit, apostle of Hadit, warrior of
Ra Hoor Khu!
Ra-Hoor-Khu-it
AL 1.36: My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this
book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-
it.
Ra-Hoor-Khuit
in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with
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AL 3.2: There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known. Spelling is defunct; all is not
aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
AL 3.37: Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
AL 3.38: Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
AL 3.42: The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou
shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my
servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek
to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them
utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet deadlier than he! Drag
down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them!
Arc 1.4: Now riseth Ra-Hoor-Khuit, and dominion is established in the Star of the Flame.
VV.26: And then at the top there steals a dawn of pure night-blue, — Oh, the stars, the stars in it
deeply set! — and drives the blood down; so that all round the top of the oval gradually
dawns the figure of our Lady Nuit, and beneath her is the flaming winged disk, and below
the altar of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, even as it is upon the Stèle of Revealing.
god Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
VV.12: And there is a marvelous perfume in the Aire, like unto the perfume of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, but
sublimated, as if the quintessence of that perfume alone were burnt.
is Hadit.
VV.8: Therefore am I called the Minister of Ra-Hoor-Khuit: and yet he is but the Viceroy of the
unknown King.
Ra-Hoor-Khut
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Sakti
VV.7: For she is Sakti, the eternal energy of the Concealed One.
VV.7: And this explaineth the call of the Aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the
beginning being but the creation of Sakti.
Sappho
VV.2: He is like one's idea of Sappho and Calypso, and all seductive and deadly things; heavy
eye-lids, long lashes, a face like ivory, wonderful barbaric jewellery, intensely red lips, a
very small mouth, tiny ears, a Grecian face.
Satan
VV.14: And that bright light of comfort, and that piercing sword of truth, and all that power and
beauty that they have made of themselves, is cast from them, as it is written, "I saw Satan
like lightning fall from Heaven."
VV.2: And I am Satan! I am Satan!
Saturn
VV.30: The End! the End! the End: For the Eye of Śiva He hath opened: the Universe is naked
before Him: for the Æon of Saturn leaneth toward the Bosom of Death.
Seb
Cor 5.53: I sailed over the sky of Nu in the car called Millions-of-Years, and I saw not any creature
upon Seb that was equal to me. The venom of my fang is the inheritance of my father, and
of my father's father; and how shall I give it unto thee? Live thou and thy children as I and
my fathers have lived, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that
the mercy of the Mighty Ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld.
VV.26: But below is the supine figure of Seb, into whom is concentrated all that clotted blood.
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VV.20: My form is the form of the God Ptah, in my essence, but the form of the god Seb in my
form.
Sebek
Cor 4.23: I who was the priestess of Ahathoor rejoice in your love. Arise, O Nile-God, and devour the
holy place of the Cow of Heaven! Let the milk of the stars be drunk up by Sebek the
dweller of Nile!
VV.19: And now there is a mighty god, Sebek, with the head of a crocodile.
VV:19: She comes and kisses me on the mouth, and says: Blessed art thou who hast beheld Sebek
my Lord in his glory.
Sekhet
Arc 1.8: Also came forth mother Earth with her lion, even Sekhet, the lady of Asi.
Set
Truth
Shaddai El Chai
VV.10: First let the scribe be seated in the centre of the circle in the desert sand, and let the circle
be fortified by the Holy Names of God — Tetragrammaton and Shaddai El Chai and
Ararita.
Shu
VV.11: And between them and me is the God Shu, whom before I did not see, because his force
filleth the whole Aethyr.
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Silenus
the fons.
Śiva
VV.30: The End! the End! the End: For the Eye of Śiva He hath opened: the Universe is naked
before Him: for the Æon of Saturn leaneth toward the Bosom of Death.
VV.20: And now it is the dance of Śiva.
VV.20: This Arrow is the glance of the Eye of Śiva.
Solomon
VV.23: Peace in the twelve rays of the seal of Solomon, and peace in the four and thirty whirlings
of the hammer of Thor!
Tahuti
AL 2.39: A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet — secret, O Prophet!
Arc 1.1: The lightnings increased and the Lord Tahuti stood forth. The Voice came from the
Silence. Then the One ran and returned.
Ta-Nech
AL 3.38: By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell.
Terminus
Cor 2.55: Then let the End awake. Long hast thou slept, O great God Terminus! Long ages hast thou
waited at the end of the city and the roads thereof. Awake Thou! wait no more!
Tetragrammaton
VV.13: And he saith: First for the beauty and delight thereof; and next because it is written, "And
Tetragrammaton Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden."
VV.10: First let the scribe be seated in the centre of the circle in the desert sand, and let the circle
be fortified by the Holy Names of God — Tetragrammaton and Shaddai El Chai and
Ararita.
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VV.10: The Scribe called upon Tetragrammaton, and succeeded in compelling Choronzon to
return into his triangle.
VV.6: Yet do thou distinguish between the upward and the downward Arrows, for the upward
arrow is straitened in its flight, and it is shot by a firm hand, for Jesod is Jod
Tetragrammaton, and Jod is a hand, but the downward arrow is shot by the topmost
point of the Jod; and that Jod is the Hermit, and it is the minute point that is not extended,
that is nigh unto the heart of Hadit.
VV.4: And this is the stone of the philosophers that is set as a seal upon the tomb of
Tetragrammaton, and the elixir of life that is distilled from the blood of the saints, and the
red powder that is the grinding-up of the bones of Choronzon.
Than
Theli
Themis
VV.17: Now, therefore, I send forth a shaft of my light, even as a ladder let down from the heaven
upon the earth, and by this black cross of Themis that I hold before thine eyes, do I swear
unto thee that the path shall be open henceforth for evermore.
VV.16: And now there is nothing in the stone but the black cross of Themis, and on it these
words: Memento: Sequor. (These words probably mean that the Equinox of Horus is to be
followed by that of Themis.)
Thor (Hammer of)

VV.23: Peace in the twelve rays of the seal of Solomon, and peace in the four and thirty whirlings
of the hammer of Thor!
VV.2: In the middle of the card stands Cain; in his right hand is the Hammer of Thor with which
he hath slain his brother, and it is all wet with his blood.
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Thoth
VV.18: But enter into the mountain of the Caverns, for that this (how much more then that
Calvary which mocks it, as his ape mocks Thoth?) is but the empty shell of the mystery of
ZEN.
VV.6: He is called the radiance of Thoth; and this Aethyr is very hard to understand, for the
images form and dissolve more rapidly than lightning. These images are the illusions made
by the Ape of Thoth.
VV.6: Moses, and Buddha, and Lao Tan, and Kŗșņa, and Jesus, and Osiris, and Mohammed; for all
these attained unto the grade of Magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of
Thoth.
VV.6: Then again arose the God Thoth, in the sign of the Enterer, and he drove the seer from
before his face.
VV.5: It is the Ateph crown of Thoth, and there is the shaft of burning light, and beneath there is
a silver wedge.
V.22: For in the Holy letter Shin, that is the Resurrection in the Book of Thoth, that is the Holy
Spirit in the Trinity, that is three hundred in the tale of the years, hath the tomb been
opened, so that this great wisdom might be revealed.
Tiresias
Tum
AL 3.38: Into the House of Ra and Tum,
than the Lion Mau.
Typhon
Arc 1.10: Now then the Father of all issued as a mighty wheel; the Sphinx, and the dog-headed god,
and Typhon, were bound on his circumference.
Cor 1.1: Thou art given to Nile, to the terror Typhon!
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may I be!
VV.20: Now I see the figures on the wheel, which have been interpreted as the sworded Sphinx,
Hermanubis and Typhon.
VV.14: And there is an all-glorious Angel before me, standing in the sign of Apophis and Typhon.
VV.14: Here abideth terror, and the blind ache of the Soul, and lo! even I, who am the sole light, a
spark shut up, stand in the sign of Apophis and Typhon.
VV.2: Now there is naught but a vast black triangle having the apex downwards, and in the
centre of the black triangle is the face of Typhon, the Lord of the Tempest, and he crieth
aloud: Despair! Despair!
VV.2: Then I took the Flaming Sword, and I let it loose against Typhon, so that his head was
cloven asunder, and the black triangle dissolved in lightnings.
Uranus
shall I not sing?
V.V.V.V.V.
Ara 3.10: Yea, verily, I the Lord Viceregent of His Kingdom, I, Adonai, who speak unto my servant
V.V.V.V.V. did rule and govern in His place.
Ara 4.0: Also the little child, the lover of Adonai, even V.V.V.V.V., reflecting the glory of Adonai,
lifted up his voice and said:
Ara 4.2: Thus did V.V.V.V.V. become made, and wend about naked.
Cor 1.2: Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V., saying: There must ever be division in the word.
Cor 1.32: Further Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V. and said:
Cor 1.50: Adonai spake yet again with V.V.V.V.V. and said: The earth is ripe for vintage; let us eat of
her grapes, and be drunken thereon.
Cor 1.51: And V.V.V.V.V. answered and said: O my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this
word seem unto the children of men?
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Cor 4.15: Thus spake the Magister V.V.V.V.V. unto Adonai his God, as they played together in the
starlight over against the deep black pool that is in the Holy Place of the Holy House
beneath the Altar of the Holiest One.
Cor 5.30: Also Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V. saying: O my little one, my tender one, my little
amorous one, my gazelle, my beautiful, my boy, let us fill up the pillar of the Infinite with
an infinite kiss!
LLL 4.42: Also Vitriol and the hierophant's name V.V.V.V.V.
Por 1.2: I who comprehend in myself all the vast and the minute, all the bright and the dark, have
mitigated the brilliance of mine unutterable splendour, sending forth V.V.V.V.V. as a ray
of my light, as a messenger unto that small dark orb.
Por 1.3: Then V.V.V.V.V. taketh up the word, and sayeth:
Por 1.13: To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the servants of V.V.V.V.V., have
attained thereunto.
VV.4: Surely thou art bound unto, and broken upon, the wheel12; yet hast thou uncovered the
nakedness of the Holy One, and the Queen of Heaven is in travail of child, and his name
shall be called Vir, and Vis, and Virus, and Virtus, and Viridis, in one name that is all
these, and above all these.
Venus
OL, Hymns: Come thou, Venus, born of the sea, daughter of the Father.
Hear the seductive songs of the penis, I pray.
May our manly buggery not be a sin,
But let the cunt always flame with my love.
Vesta
OL, Hymns: Blessed Vesta, be present. O virgin, give thy lamp unto us!
Let the master give thrice and four times this semen to his woman!
Let the semen give vital flame and the wine of the gods,
Which things—let them return, blessed Vesta, to Thee!
Zeus
VV.11: They that sit upon the elephants are armed with the thunderbolt of Zeus.
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Appendix I:
Notes on the Compilation
Every effort has been made to be as complete as possible with the references. Sources are
documented and notation provided in Appendix II below. In all cases of the full Class A texts, the entire
verse is provided in the documentation. For those dual classed texts — The Vision & The Voice and The
Paris Working — only the sentence with the name was provided. This document is designed for research
purposes and should not be construed to provide any kind of context for meaning with these references.
Also, please note that the use of The Paris Working is extremely limited. Due to the limitations
of the text, only the "Hymns to the Great Gods" is used in this list. Future additions may alter this.
Corrections, changes, and additions are welcome. Suggestions for future additions in regards to
apocryphal texts for additional names are also welcome.
Appendix II:
Proposed ISV Notation Style
 Tza : Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus Sub Figurâ XC

 Cor : Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente Sub Figurâ XXVII
 LLL : Liber Liberi vel Lapidus Lazuli, Adumbratio Kabbalæ Ægyptiorum Sub Figurâ VII
 AL | ALM : Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figurâ CCXX | Sub Figurâ XXXI
 Tri : Liber Trigrammaton Sub Figurâ XXVII
 Ara : Vel Ararita Sub Figurâ DLXX
 Por : Liber Porta Lucis Sub Figurâ X
 Chet : Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni Sub Figurâ XC

 Aash : Liber A'ash vel Capricoroni Pneumatici Sub Figurâ CCCLXX
 Magi : Liber B vel Magi Sub Figurâ I
 Arc : Liber Arcanorvm των Atu του Tahuti Quas Vidit Asar in Amennti Sub Figurâ CCXXXI
Liber Carcerorum των Qliphoth Cum Suis Geniis. Assuntur Sigella et Nomina Eorum
 Stel : Liber Stellæ Rubeæ Sub Figurâ LXVI
 THI : Liber DCCCCLXII: ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟΥ ΗΙΔΩΛΩΝ [The Treasure-House of Images]
 VV : LIBER XXX Ærum vel Saeculi Sub Figurâ CCCCXVIII [The Vision & The Voice]
 OL : Liber Opus Lutetianum Sub Figurâ CDXV [The Paris Working]
 Tau : Liber Tau vel Kabbalæ Trium Literarum Sub Figurâ CD

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Cor 1.32: Further Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V. and said:

Cor 4.16: But Adonai laughed, and played more languidly.

Cor 4.21: And Adonai delighted in him exceedingly.

VV.8: For my name is called Aiwass, that is eight and seventy.

LLL 3.4: But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra

AL 3.37: The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu

AL 3.38: The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

Short Comment: (signed by)

Stel 1.1: Apep deifieth Asar.

Stel 1.1: Apep deifieth Asar.

VV.2: And that legend too is the legend of BABALON.

VV.2: And through the malice of BABALON I hunger, hunger, hunger.

LLL 3.4: But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra.

VV.14: Chaos is my name, and thick darkness.

VV.10: Choronzon attempted also to seduce the faithfulness of the Scribe.

VV.10: Choronzon succeed not in his design.

VV.3: And all these are the excrement of Choronzon.

Enoch (Book of)

AL 1.14: The secret ardours of Hadit.

AL 2.1: Nu! the hiding of Hadit.

AL 3.38: O winged snake of light, Hadit!

VV.2: Yet is that tongue Hadit.

VV.2: Before Ra Hoor Khuit! — Hadit! — Nuit!

VV.6: Thus he is neither Horus nor Osiris.

LLL 4.24: Iacchus, O Iacchus, O Iacchus, be near us!

LLL 4.22: Ohi! the song to Iao, the song to Iao!

VV.5: And is not Isis the Lady of Sorrow?

VV.2: The kiss of Isis is honeyed;

VV.7: And therefore is she the mate of Jupiter.

Lao Tan (Lao Tzu)

VV.2: I am Leviathan, the great Lost Serpent of the Sea.

Cor 3.5: Beautiful wast thou, O Lilith, thou serpent-woman!

VV.2: Yet I know it to be Lilith.

AL 3.38: I am thy Theban, O Mentu,

VV.13: For NEMO hath all in himself.

AL 2.76: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth this, o prophet?

AL 1.1: Had! The manifestation of Nuit.

AL 1.14: The naked splendour of Nuit;

AL 1.24: I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.

AL 1.66: The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.

AL 3.38: Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!

VV.27: I am the daughter of Nuit, the lady of the stars.

VV.2: Thou art Nuit!

VV.2: Nuit! Nuit! Nuit!

VV.2: Before Ra Hoor Khuit! — Hadit! — Nuit!

VV.2: To the God OAI

Cor 1.1: On the corpse of Osiris afloat in the tomb!

VV.6: Thus he is neither Horus nor Osiris.

LLL P.4: And I behold Pan.

LLL P.9: On all sides Pan to the eye, to the ear;

LLL P.16: Pan! Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan!

LLL 1.6: Art Thou not Pan?

LLL 1.32: Pan! Pan! Io Pan! it is enough.

LLL 1.52: Io Pan! Io Pan! I love Thee. I love Thee.

VV.15: Above the altar is a veiled Figure, whose name is Pan.

AL 3.38: Into the House of Ra and Tum,

VV.2: Before Ra Hoor Khuit! — Hadit! — Nuit!

AL 3.37: Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

AL 3.38: Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

VV.2: And I am Satan! I am Satan!