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The Invisible Basilica: The Palace of The World
The Invisible Basilica: The Palace of The World
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ALEISTER CROWLEY
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Notes:
1. Describes the spiritual aspect of the "Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram" which we append, with its
explanation. The abstruse nature of mastering poems is well reflected in this one.
Those who regard this ritual as a mere device to invoke or banish spirits, are unworthy to possess it.
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Properly understood, it is the Medicine of Metals and the Stone of the Wise. [Author's Note]
2. This ritual was given to Neophytes in the Order of the Golden Dawn.
5. The arms being extended, and the magus being clad in a Tau-shaped robe and a nemmes, the sacred
Egyptian headdress, his figure would cast a shadow resembling the Ankh, or "Key of Life."
6. Khabs am Pekht, Konx om Pax, Light in Extension. The mystic words which seal the current of light in
the sphere of the aspirant.
11. These archangels are at points on the "Tree of Life" which cause them to surround as described one
who is "crucified" thereon.
16. The path of [Thav], or Saturn and Earth, which leads from Malkuth to Yesod indeed, but is dark and
illusory. This first step upward attracts the bitterest opposition of all the Enemies of the Human Soul.
18. It flames both above and beneath thew magus, who is thus in a cube of 4 pentagrams and 2
hexagrams, 32 points in all. And 32 is [AHIHVH], the sacred word that expresses the Unity of the
Highest and the Human.
19. As in ritual.
20. Supreme affirmation of Unity with the Highest in the Lotus, the universal symbol of Attainment.
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