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Books

1 	The Magical Revival

2 	Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God

3 	Cults of the Shadow

4 	Nightside of Eden

5 	Outside the Circles of Time

6 	Hecate's Fountain

Sources

Af. 	African

Cn. 	Chinese

Ch. 	Chaldean term

Cr. 	Creole

Eg. 	Ancient Egypt

Gk. 	Greek

Gn. 	Gnostic

Heb.	Hebrew

Ma. 	Maatian

Nec.	Necronomicon Mythos

Skt. 	Sanskrit

Th.	Thelemic

Tib. 	Tibetan

Voo. 	Voodoo

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The Magical Revival


Cults of the Shadow


Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God


Nightside of Eden


Outside the Circles of Time


Hecate's Fountain


A.'.A.'.
A.'.A.'. (Argenteum Astrum)

The triangle of dots indicates that the Order is a secret society connected with the Ancient Mysteries. 1

The Silver Star; the Inner Order of the Great White Brotherhood. For the esoteric meaning of these initials, see Chapter 4 - Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God. 2

The name of the Inner Order of the Great White Brotherhood. (See Magick, App. 2) The reference is to Sothis, the Star of the Shadow (i.e. the twin star of Set-Isis). 3

The teachings of the A.'.A.'., or Silver Star, derived from extra-terrestrial sources, via. Sothis (Sirius), the Star of Set. See Sothis. 4

The teachings of the Order of The Silver Star derive from the Star of Set (i.e. Sirius). The A.'.A.'. emerged from the debris of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn around 1904, when Crowley established contact with Aiwass (q.v.) 5

The Star is Sirius, The Star of Set. The two 'A' have the value of two 'ones' read as eleven, the number of Magick and of the Qliphoth. They typify the raised stones or pillars emblematic of Set as the Devil, or Double; hence the Double Current(q.v.) 6


A'abirion
A'abirion (Heb)

'The Clayey'. An order of the Qliphoth (q.v.) ascribed to the 22nd Tunnel. 4


A'ano'nin
A'ano'nin (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 26th Tunnel. 4

Name of the Guardian of the 26th Tunnel of Set. 5


Aat
Aat (Eg.)

House, cell, division. See Atu. 5


Abait
Abait, Aba-it (Eg.)

A bee. A symbol of Sekhet. (q.v.). 4

A bird-fly equated with the bee. An emblem of Lower Egypt as the land of honey. It is the symbol of Sekhet. 5


Abel

The Child of Adam, by Eve. A form of Baal.2


Abrahadabra
Abrahadabra (Gn.)

The formula of the Great Work (q.v.). Abra is the Sun in the form of a ram, Amen; Amen was a title (not a name) of Sebek or Sevekh, the Draconian deity of the Typhonians in ancient Egypt. It was the Cult of this deity that the high priest, Ankh-f-n-Khonsu revived in the XXCIth Dynasty. Had is the secret name of Sebek-Ra, (who is also Shaitan), and the formula of his magick power. The final Abra indicates that he is the son of the Mother, and therefore Typhonian. Abrahadabra is not to be confused with Abracadabra: See Abrasax.1

The formula of the Great Work. Abra is the solar form of Amen, the Hidden God. Amen was a title of Sebek-Ra, or Set, in the Draconian Cult of ancient Egypt. It was the cult of this deity that Ankh-af-na-Khonsu revived in theXXVIth Dynasty. Had, the heart of Abrahadabra is the Chaldean name of Set or Shaitan, and Abrahadabra is the formula of his magick.2

Had is the secret form of Set hidden within the solar god. Qabalistic enumeration is 418. 3

The supreme spell or formula of the Great Work (q.v.) as restored by Crowley. Its number is 418. 4

The Key of Rituals. The restored form - according to the Book of the Law - of the Gnostic masterspell, Abracadabra. Abrahadabra is the formula of the Great Work of the Aeon of Horus. 5


Abrasax
Abrasax (Gn.)

The Supreme Deity of the Gnostics. The name gave rise to the mediaeval protective spell - Abracadabra 'Hurt me not!' Abraxas is a variant spelling. 1


Abuldiz

An extra-terrestrial entity with whom Crowley communicated in 1911 through the mediumship of his Scarlet Woman, Virakam (Mary d'Este Sturges).2


Abyss

The Gulf between the unreal and the real, i.e. between phenomena and noumenon. Crossing the Abyss is the most critical event on the Spiritual Path, and to take the Oath of the Abyss is the most serious responsibility which it is ever possible to assume. Only the total abolition of the ego, or limited individual consciousness, makes a successful crossing possible. 2

The gulf separating individual consciousness from its universal source. The Abyss is the abode of Choronzon (q.v.), the entified consumer of human consciousness that strays into extra-terrestrial dimensions. All magical and mystical attainments depends upon the successful crossing of the Abyss, which is symbolized as the nocturnal desert of arid human intellection. (see Magick, app.2). 3

The great gulf or void that constitutes a soultion de continuite between the phenomenal world of manifestation and its noumenal source, i.e. non-manifestation. 4


Abyss, Ordeal of the
Ordeal of the Abyss

Metaphysically considered, the Abyss is the Gulf between the phenomenal and the noumenal; the illusory and the real. Magically considered, the Oath of the Abyss means to make a willed effort to Cross the Abyss, or transcend the world of subject and object and resolve the antinomies of mundane consciousness. On the Tree of Life the Supernal Triad of Kether, Chokmah, and Binah, represents the Unity in Trinity above the Abyss, where all opposites are reconciled. Crossing the Abyss is the most critical stage upon the Spiritual Path. If the crossing is not achieved cleanly, insanity - temporary or permanent - results. A person can spend the best part of an incarnation being torn to pieces by the unresolved and irrational elements of his nature. Hence the danger of taking the Oath without being adhikari (competent). 1

The most critical experience of the spiritual life which, if successfully transcended, confers cosmic consciousness upon man. 5


Ad
Ad (Ch.)

See Had, Hadit. 2


Adam
Adam (Heb.)

Man. The word means the 'red earth or substance', blood being the basis of manifestation and therefore of incarnation. 4


Adena Indians

A prehistoric tribe which inhabited Ohio, U.S.A., between 1000 B.C. and 700 A.D. the probable originators of Serpent Mound, one of three mounds in Ohio and the largest Ophidian effigy in the world. 5


Adhikari
Adhikari (Skt.)

The state of being spiritually competent; a condition of preparedness for undertaking any form of mystical culture. 1


Adie-Irana
Adie-Irana (Af.)

The hen that guides the mummy to Orunrere (q.v.). 3


Adikalike
Adikalika (Skt.)

The primordial (adi) black (kali) goddess (ka). A description of Kali, whose symbol is the Night of Time. 'K' is the letter of the female generative organ and therefore of the goddess. 2


Adimiron
Adimiron (Heb.)

'The Bloody'. An Order of Qliphoth (q.v.) pertaining to the 16th Tunnel. 4


Adisakti
Adisakti (Skt)

Primordial Power. 2


Aditi
Aditi (Skt.)

The Goddess of Space. 6


Ado
Ado (Af.)

'The City of Prostitution', situated near Badagry (West Africa). Sacred to the primal goddess, Odudua (q.v.). 4


Adonai
Adonai (Heb)

A form of Adoneus, the Lord of Hell (the Abyss). (ch.4, K.G.- A.C. & H.G.) 2

Lord. Sometimes applied to the Holy Guardian Angel. 4


Adris

Magick stones sensitive to the approach of spirits (e.g. the crystal, which responds to the presence of alien entities). 6


Advaita
Advaita, Advita (Skt)

Lit. Not-two. The Vedantin doctrine of Non-duality, which reveals the supreme nature of the Self to be One, not two, or many; i.e. nothing exists apart from the Self (Atman), yet all things are forms assumed by the Self. 1

Lit. 'Not-Two'; the doctrine of Non-duality, the ultimate goal of Hinduism as of all spiritual culture. 2


Aeon
Aeon (Gn.)

A Gnostic term for the Supreme Deity; also a cycle of time denoting a period of approximately 2,000 years (in the Crowley Cult). The present Aeon is that of Horus, which commenced in 1904. It superseded the Aeon of Osiris, which was typified by the rise and fall of such religions as Judaism and Christianity. Previous to that was the Aeon of Isis, the Pagan era, many elements of which are reappearing in the present Aeon. 1

A cycle of time denoting a period of approximately 2000 years. There have been three such aeons within historic times: The Aeon of Isis, The Aeon of Osiris, and the Aeon of Horus, the present aeon. 5


Aethyr

A term used by Dr. Dee and revived by Crowley. It refers to angelic or non-terrestrial abodes; dimensions of consciousness not normally experienced. 2


Afefe
Afefe (Af.)

God of wind or spirit. Later Apap or Apophis (q.v.). 4


Agape
Agapè (Gk.)

 Love; particularly in the chemical sense of attraction and repulsion. Its number is 93. 1

Love. Qabalistically equivalent to Thelema (q.v.), both words adding to 93, the number of Aiwass. 3

Love. The word adds up to 93. It is one of the key words of the present Aeon. See Aiwass, and Thelema. 4

(Th.): A Greek word meaning 'love'. It is one of the three key words of the Aeon of Horus, the other two being Aiwaz (q.v.) and Thelema (q.v.) The numeration in each case is 93. (See Current 93). 5


Agartha
Agartha (Tib.)

The Underground City. Its number is 220, the number of verses, or cells, in the Book of the Law (see AL). It comprehends the Tunnels of Set; the cells of the Qliphoth; and the secret network of nadis (q.v.) which lace the occult anatomy of the astral universe. Materialists claim for Agartha a physical location beneath the Gobi Desert, and similar places. 6


Aidoneus

A form of Adonai (q.v.). Aidoneus is also a form of Ad or Had (cf. Hades), the Chaldean form of Set, Lord of the Abyss or underworld. 4

The Greek form of the Lord in the Underworld (cf. Hades). the reflex of Adoni (the Lord of the Upper World) and a form of the Plutonian Current that rules the Abyss. 5


Aidowedo
Aidowedo (Af.)

The Serpent Goddess of the Rainbow. 3

 	The rainbow Serpent Goddess of the Rainbow. 3

The rainbow goddess. See Qesheth.4


Ain
Ain (Heb)

Nothingness. The Void beyond Kether and out of which Kether appears as a concentration of Massive Consciousness which formulates itself as a single point. See the Tree of Life. 2

Ain Soph Aur: - OOO - Limitless Light.

Ain Soph: - OO - No Limit.

Ain: - O - Nothingness.

A form of Nuit or Naught. (These three concepts are represented qabalistically as, o, oo, & ooo. 3

Nothing. The Void. In a symbolic sense, the Eye of the void, for Ayin meaning 'an eye'.4

The void, or inane. It is the mystical equivalent of the Ayin (an Eye), symbolic of the Yoni. 6


Ain Soph Aur
Ain Soph Aur (Heb)

Limitless Light. The Void beyond the known Universe represented by the Tree of Life, of which Kether is the most remote outpost, is characterized by Ain Soph Aur.4


Aire

See Aethyr. 2


Aiwass

 The messenger of a certain unknown extra-terrestrial Intelligence that communicated The Book of the Law to Crowley, in Cairo in 1904. The number of Aiwass is 418, which is also that of Abrahadabra (q.v.), the formula of the Great Work. 1

A praeter-human Intelligence with whom Crowley was in contact at various times through his life. In 1904, Aiwass communicated The Book of the Law (AL) which forms the basis of Crowley's Cult of 'Do What Thou Wilt'. By Greek Qabalah, Aiwass is equivalent to 418 which is the number of the Great Work. See also Aiwaz. 2

 'The minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat', or Set, and the channel of extra-terrestrial energy that is permeating the earth's atmosphere during the present Aeon of Horus. Crowley claimed that Aiwass was his Guardian Angel and equivalent of Shaitan, the God of the Yezidi. See Zivo. 3

The extraterrestrial entity that transmitted the Book of the Law (AL) to Aleister Crowley in Cairo in 1904. A full account of the transaction appears in The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, and other of his writings. The number of Aiwass is 418, the number of the Great Work, while that of Aiwaz is 93 or thrice 31, the key number of the Book of the Law. (see Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law.) 4

In the present Aeon of Horus, Aiwass is one of the few open channels between humanity and the Great Old Ones. 5

 Aiwass is a minion of the Outer Ones. He is specifically charged by Them with the work ( the Great Work) of preparing humanity for the next step in its spiritual development. To this end the Book of the Law was transmitted by Them to Crowley. 6


Aiwaz

A Variant form of Aiwass. The different spelling yields 93 as the number of Aiwaz and therefore shows a slightly different formula. See Agapè, Thelema, etc. 1

A variant spelling of Aiwass (q.v.). The qabalistic value of Aiwass is 418, the number of the Great Work (q.v.); that of Aiwaz is 93, the number of the formula of 'Love under Will' whereby the Great Work is achieved. 2


Ajna
Ajna Chakra (Skt)

One of the Shatchakras (q.v.). Ajna Chakra is the Seat of the Will, and when the Kundalini reaches this center it becomes the most important power-zone in the subtle body of man. It is depicted on the outer, or physical, body as a two-petaled lotus flower situated between the eyebrows, and is often referred to as the Third Eye. In the Ajna Chakra are the fifteen Kalas and the Shadow or reflection of the sixteenth. 2

 The power-zone situated in the pineal gland. It is the center of Will and is of vital importance in the New Aeon Cults. 3

The occult center of magickal power situated in the region of the peneal gland, sometimes known as the 'third eye'. There is a magical affinity between the ajna eye, the Ayin eye, and the Yoni 'eye'. Ajna is the seat of magical vision, occult procreative power, and ecstasy.4


Akasha
Akasha (Skt)

Spirit or Aethyr (q.v.), symbolized by a Black Egg. 2

Spirit. Symbolized by a black egg.4

The astral ether symbolized in the Hindu Tattwa System by the Black Egg of Spirit. 5


Akunchanam
Akunchanam (Skt.)

A form of yogic control involving the anal sphincter. 3


Al
AL (Heb.), (Ch.)

 Lit. The Supreme, the Mighty, or 'God'. It is the technical title of Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) which was delivered to Crowley by Aiwaz in 1904. 1

Lit. 'The'; a term for God, Great, Almighty. Its Qabalistic value is 31 which is the key number of The Book of the Law, hence that Book is often referred to as Al. also see LA. 2

God, Mighty One. In the present book AL is used to denote The Book of the Law of the New Aeon which Crowley received from Aiwass in 1904. 3

God; the definite article.4

Abbreviated form of the title Liber AL vel Legis (the Book of the Law) communicated to Crowley by Aiwass, q.v.4

May therefore be interpreted as the Book of the Law of the Great Old Ones; it is the grimoire containing the keys to mans' intercourse with Them. 5

The work means God, or the 'Ancient One', and is thus a designation of the Old Ones (also the Outer Ones). It is also the name which Crowley gave to the Book of the Law, and, as the Book of AL, it is the Book of the Outer Ones. It contains the magical formula for Their Invocation. 6


Al Azif
Al Azif (Ar.)

The original title of The Necronomicon (q.v.) 5


Alaia
Alalia

'Not Talking'. See ch. 8 3


Alalus

The name given by Haeckel to the anthropoid ape. 3


Aleph
Aleph (Heb.)

The first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet; it is shaped like a swastika and represents the whirling energy of Creative Force. As a single letter- 'A' - its number is One (Unity); spelt in full, as Aleph, it becomes 111, the number of a title of Kether the Highest God. It is also the number of Death and Darkness, showing that in a mystical sense Death is a formula of Unity. 1

The first letter of the Hebrew and Chaldean alphabet. Its value is One. Being attributed to the Fool of the Tarot whose number is Naught, the nature of Unity is thereby referred to the Void. 2

God, Mighty One. In the present book AL is used to denote The Book of the Law of the New Aeon which Crowley received from Aiwass in 1904. 3

The number one, and the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its shape resembles a swastika.4


Alim
Alim (Heb.)

A formula of Witchcraft. its number being 81, a number of the Moon. Alim lacks the Spirit of the Mother represented by the letter H, which would turn an otherwise sterile formula into one of magical potency, for Alhim is the esoteric word for 'Gods'. See Crowley's Magick, pp. 162 et seq. 2

The elemental gods.4


Allala

The Word of the Aeon (value 93), according to Frater Achad. see ch. 8. 3

 A magical word vibrated by Frater Achad in 1926. It means 'God is not Not', and is the word of the Great or Perfect Aeon (Perfect-ion). Its number is 93


Allalia

A variant reading of Allala (q.v.) Its number, 103, equates it with Almala (q.v.) 5


Almass
Almass (Ar.)

'The Haunter of the Gobi Desert'. 5


Alma
Almla

'The Soul of Not', a motto of Aossic in the O.T.O. It may be compared with the Greek hallomai, meaning 'to leap upon', which connects it with the formula of the Voltigeurs (q.v.) 5


Almousin

One of the barbarous or aliens names of evocation which appears in a ritual preserved by Eliphas Levi. 5


Amalantrah

An extra-terrestrial entity with whom Crowley was in communication in 1918 through the mediumship of the Scarlet Woman, Ahitha (Roddie Minor). 2


Amavasya
Amavasya (Skt.)

New Moon. 3


Amen
Amen (Eg.)

The Hidden God, i.e. the power or force in the subconscious mind of man that enables him to establish contact with the Old Ones, 6


Amenta
Amenta (Eg.)

Lit. Hidden land, Amen-ta. The hell, underworld, of realm of the dead in the ancient Egyptian religion. In magical terms it is the subconscious with its buried and forgotten selves. 2

Hades or Hell; the subconsciousness, i.e. the abode of man's True Will. 3

The hidden (Amen) land (ta). The abode of the midnight sun, Khephra, q.v.. in the macrocosm Amenta symbolizes the subconscious or dreaming mind.4

Lit. the land or place of Amen. The Underworld. In terms of human psychology, the human subconsciousness. 6


Amoun
Amoun (Eg.)

A name of the Sun in Amenta (q.v.). The Hidden God. 2


Amprodias
Amprodias (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 11th Tunnel.4


Amrit
Amrit (Skt.)

In a religious context, 'nectar of the gods'; in magical terms, an elixir emanating from the kalas (q.v.). 2

The psycho-sexual ambrosia generated by the Fire Snake charged with the lunar current. 3

Ambrosia, nectar, honey, the elixir of immortality, the wine of paradise (Cf. vinum Sabbati). 5


Anansi
Anansi(Af.)

Ambrosia or nectar. In magical terminology, Amrit is the distillation of a Kala (q.v.) or Ray, which, when absorbed, inebriates with its divine and bliss-conferring flavor. 1

See Once.4

The Spider. Supreme totem of the Obeah Cult. Var. Onse. 5


Androgyne

The Double Current (q.v.) typified by the male magician, or priest. (See Gynander) 5


Andromeda

Together with Sirius, this is the most important constellation in the Horus-Maat gnosis. 5


Ankh-af-na-khonsu
Ankh-af-na-Khonsu (var. Ank-f-n-Khonsu)

The name of a High Priest of Ammon-Ra of the XXVI th Dynasty of whom Crowley claimed to be a reincarnation. Life (or Energy) of the Moon, is one of its meanings. 1

Khonsu, lit. 'traveler of the night-sky', i.e. the moon; thus Ankh-af-na-Khonsu means the life or child of the moon. Crowley claims to have been this 'moon-child' in the XXVIth Dynasty when, as a priest of that name, he temporarily revived the Draconian Cult of Sebek-Ra, or Set. 2

Priest of Amen in the XXVIth Dynasty who attempted to revive the Draconian Cult of Sebk-Ra, or Set. He embodied the formulae of this cult in a magical ste'le' which-several centuries later- was to form the basis of the New Aeon of Horus. Crowley claimed Ankh-af-na-Khonsu as one of his previous incarnations. The name means, literally, the life (ankh) of the Moon (Khonsu). Khonsu is the equivalent of Gue'de', the Voodoo deity if the nether world. Ankh-af-na-Khonsu therefore represents the power of the night-sun (i.e. nocturnal or subconscious phallic power). 3


Annedoti

The repulsive or abhorrent ones, Name given by Berosus to the Great Old Ones in amphibious form. 5


Anubis

The dog or jackal-headed guide of the 'dead' in Amenta. His god-form may be seen on the sarcophagus fragment illustrated in the text (Plate 4). 2


Anuttara Amnaya
Anuttara Amnaya (Skt.)

The Supreme or Ultimate Tantric Tradition. 2


Aossic Aiwass
Aossic-Aiwass

The magical name of the present O.H.O., or Outer Head of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) 5


Aossic

Name of a Great Old One; the extraterrestrial entity, which together with Aiwass maintains a link with mundane consciousness through the O.T.O. (q.v.). It is the magical name of the present head of that order. See Part 2 Chapter 3 of the present book.4

The name of a magical entity acting as an intermediary between the Great Old Ones and the O.T.O., the present Head of which Order has adopted the name, in combination with that of Aiwass (q.v.) to consolidate the link between humanity and the Great Old Ones. See Aossic-Aiwass. 5


Aour
Aour (Heb.)

Light; also Gold (Cf. Aur.). 3


Ape of Thoth

The shadow or double of Thoth, the god of magick. The ape is the symbol of the mirror-world or astral plane. Thoth is the Egyptian equivalent of Daäth. 6


Apap
Apap or Apep (Eg.)

The Serpent of the Dark; the 'shadow' of the Fire Snake, i.e. the lunar or Ophidian Current. 3

The God Set in his ophidian form. His sigil is given on page 140. The Greek version of Apep is Apophis. It derives from the earlier Afefe (q.v.).4

The Serpent symbolic of the Ophidian Current. It is also a symbol of the Draconian Tradition and has been adopted by present-day cultists as denoting the Typhonian Current. 5

The serpent that gave its name to the Ophidian Current. 6


Apophis
Apophis (Eg.)

The Serpent or Dragon typifying the black power of Darkness or Night, the field of interplay of the polarized energies represented by I and O in the formula IAO (q.v.). 2

he Greek of Apep. 3


Apsara-s
Apsara-s (Skt.)

A name denoting the 'houris' or 'whores' used in the sacred rites. 3


Aquarius, Age of

The Age or Aeon that follows that of Pisces. Said by Frater Achad to have commenced on April 2nd.,1948. 5


Aquarius

The Eleventh Sign of the Zodiac. It is ruled by Saturn, the planetary representation of Shaitan, and is of great importance in this Aeon because the Age of Aquarius, which is said to have commenced on April 8, 1948, runs parallel with the Aeon of Horus with which it interacts. 1

The eleventh sign of the zodiac. It is ruled by Saturn, the planetary representative of Set. The polarization of the twin streams of magical energy, anode and cathode, are glyphed by the double water emblem that serves as the zodiacal sign of Aquarius. 2

The eleventh zodiacal sign symbolizes the twin streams of polarized life fluids. It is ruled by Saturn, the planetary representative of Satan or Set whose influence is reflected into the terrestrial sphere via Aiwass.4

The astroglyph of the present 'space age' symbolizes the Aeon of the Double Current. 6


Arachne

The Spider. According to Vogh, the Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac. It is related to Zain, and the Aeon of Zain, through the twins of the Gemini complex. Arachne is of great significance in the Draconian Cults. 5


Ardhanareswara
Ardhanareswara (Skt.)

The biune deity of the Hindus. Shiva and Shakti combined in one image. 2


Ares

The Greek form of Horus (q.v.). 2


Arghya
Arghya (Skt.)

The Arkor receptacle of creative power. This term has particular reference to the A.'.A.'.. See remarks in ch. 4 2


Aries

A form of Ares (q.v.). Aries is represented in the zodiac by the ram, the glyph of Amen-Ra (the Hidden Sun), a late form of Sebek-Ra, or Set. 2


Arkashanis
Arkashanis (Skt.)

Women qualifying for the role of priestess in the Tantric rites. 3


Arrow Star

The Arrow is the glyph of Nuit, one of whose names means 'She who shoots' this is the Star of Sothis, Sirius or Set. 2


Asar-Un-Nefer
Asar-Un-Nefer (Eg.)

The Self-made-Perfect, a title of the Osirified or perfected spirit in Amenta. 2


Assiah
Assiah (Heb.)

One of the Four Worlds of the Qabalistic System. Assiah is the material world. Its equivalent in the Hindu system is Jagrat (q.v.). 2

The material world.4


Ataviqier

A term used in the Black Snake Cult to denote a formula similar to that of Austin Spares Atavistic Resurgence. (See The Magical Revival).4


Atavistic Resurgence

The name of a Magical Formula devised by Austin Osman Spare to tap subliminal levels of consciousness in order to re-vitalize dormant superhuman powers. 1


Atma, Atman
Atma, Atman (Skt.)

The True Self, as opposed to the illusory personality or ego. 1

The Self as distinct from the ego; cosmic and eternal consciousness as opposed to individual and ephemeral consciousness . 2


Atmadarshan
Atmadarshan (Skt.)

Vision (darshan) of the Real (Atma, the true Self as distinct from the ego).4


Atma-Vichara
Atma-Vichara (Skt.)

Inquiry (vichara) into the nature of the Atma (True Self). The highest form of spiritual culture which leads directly to the supreme experience of Reality. 1


Atu
Atu (Eg.)

House, cell, division. A term used in occultism to denote the twenty-two keys or trumps of The Book of Thoth (Tarot). 2


Atum
Atum (Eg.)

The red setting sun. A symbol of the solar-phallic energy illuminating the darkness of Amenta, q.v.4

The red deity; the setting sun of the day, and of the year (as Autumn). The origin of the Hebrew word Adam, the red earth, the clay. Cf. Atem, Goddess of periodicity; the red clay. 5


Atziluth
Atziluth (Heb)

The archetypal or spiritual world.4


Aub
Aub (Heb.)

See Ob. 4

See Ob. 5


Aud
Aud (Heb.)

See Od. 4

See Od. 5


Augoeides
Augoeides (Gk.)

The Holy Guardian Angel. Augoeides derives from Augos (Gk.), the morning light. A term used by Iamblichus in his De Mysteries. Bulwer Lytton popularized the term in his occult novel, Zanoni, where he interpreted it as meaning The Luminous Self or Higher Ego. The Attainment of the Knowledge of the Holy Guardian Angel is the foundation of the Training of a Magician, and beside the Crossing of the Abyss constitutes the most critical stage in his development. 1


Avaris

Seat of the last King of the Typhonians in the Nome of Set. see Ch. 3,3


Avatar
Avatar (Skt.)

The incarnation in human or animal form of a divine being or god. 2

The incarnation of a 'god', 'demon', or extra-terrestrial Intelligence. 3


Ayin
Ayin (Heb.)

The sixteenth letter of the Hebrew and Chaldean alphabet. Ayin means 'an eye' and it is attributed to Atu XV, The Devil; the 'eye' is the 'Eye of Set', which is the secret gate of power typified by the XIo O.T.O. 2

An Eye. Ayin is the number 70, and denotes the 'secret' eye of Set. It is a loaded term in the Draconian Cult.4

An Eye. See Yoni. 6


Aza
Aza (Gn)

'The evil mother of all demons'.4

'The evil mother of all demons'. The Gnostic concept of the source of alien energies, hence its relevance to the Typhonian Tradition. See Azathoth. 6


Azathoth
Azathoth (Nec.)

(Gn.): Aza is 'the evil mother of all demons'; Thoth is the god of magick. Azathoth is also the name of a god in the Necronomicon Mythos, where the synonymity of Thoth and Daäth is emphasized. 5

An entity given great prominence in the Necronomicom Mythos because it typifies the supreme reflex of Daäth in the form of Aza (q.v.) 6 Daäth


Azoth

An alchemical term for the fluid. The combined essences of the fully polarized power-zones in the human male and female organisms.4


Azyn

See Sin. 6

 A Gateway to the Abyss, and, ultimately, to Universe 'B'. It is a form of Azain, the Aeon of Zain (q.v.), and it comports the use of formulae of that Wordless Aeon. The number of Azyn is 718 which connects it with the Ste'le' of Revealing (q.v.), and with Aossic Aiwass, a Great Old One who is presently en rapport (via. the O.T.O.) with the planet earth. (Cf. Dzyan).


Ba
Ba (Eg.)

Soul or spirit. 4

The mystical symbol of the soul; the magical symbol of the male generative essence. 5


Babalon
Babalon (Th.)

 The unusual orthography is due to Aiwaz, for it is spelt thus in The Book of the Law. T he number of the name Babalon is 156 which equates it with The City of the Pyramids under the Night of Pan. See Dr. John Dee's Book of Enoch (published in part in The Equinox, Volume I, nos.7&8). 156 is also the number of Zion, the Sacred Mountain of Initiation. 1

 The curious orthography stems from The Book of the Law, for Babalon is the formula of Babylon, the Scarlet Woman of the Apocalypse before the Great Whore had become the scapegoat of the later Osirian or paternalistic cults. The qabalistic value of Babalon is 156, which is the number of shrines in the City of the Pyramids and of the Holy Mount Zion. 2

Lit. 'the gate of the sun', or solar-phallic force. Crowley's Cult, Babalon denotes a representative of the Feminine Principle or Scarlet Woman chosen for her magical ability to transmit the solar current and manifest it in oracular and/or tangible form. Like the suvasini (q.v.), she has special marks or signs indicative of her magical potential. The Babylon of the Apocalypse is a debased form of the original image. The peculiar orthography used in Crowley's Cult derives from The Book of the Law. 3

The title of the Scarlet Woman or consecrated priestess used in the rites of Draconian magick. her number is 156, whcih is the number of shrines in the City of Pyramids (q.v.). Babalon means, literally, the Gateway of the Sun, or solar-phallic power. But Babalon is not only the medium of the solar forece, she is the inspirer of its energy. At the height of her Rite she becomes oracular and endowed with magical siddhis (powers).4

The Gateway (Babel) of the Sun (On,) A title of the Scarlet Woman who is the symbolic gateway of the Ba (q.v.) of the Sun. The repetition of the Ba (in Bablalon ) denotes the Double Wanded One, and the Wielder of the Double Current (q.v.), hence the change from Babylon to Babalon, the new orthography having been given in Liber 418 (See bibliography, under Crowley). 5

 A name applicable to any woman magically competent to channel and/or transmit extraterrestrial forces. Her realm is then the Mauve Zone, the Crimson Desert, the Green Mist, the Black Shadow, etc., all of which terms are explained in the present volume. 6


Bacchus Diphues

The double-natured form of Bacchus; bi-sexual rather than hermaphroditic. 2


Bahlastti

A curse (See AL.III.54.). 5


Bahti

'Hideous gnomes'. 5


Bang
Bang (Af.)

Goddess of the Palm Nut. A form of the goddess Ofa, whence Eve. 3


Baphomet

Crowley's title as Head of the O.T.O. (q.v.). Its meaning is discussed in Chapter 3. 1

The Octinomos or eightfold formula of Magick Power with which Crowley identified himself as the Outer Head of the O.T.O. The god-form of Baphomet was said to have been adored by the Templars in the shape of a goat. 2

The Ocinomos or eightfold name of magick power which Crowley assumed as the Outer Head of the O.T.O. (q.v.) Baphomet was adored by the Templars in the form of a Head. That it had a feminine origin is shown by Geral Massey who writes: 'Mete was the Baphomet or mother of breath'. (Nat. Gen. II. 14.) According to Von Hammer, the formula of faith inscribed on a chalice belonging to the Templars is as follows: 'Let Mete be exalted who causes all things to bed and blossom, it is our root; it is one and seven', i.e. it is octinomos, the eightfold name.4


Baratchial
Baratchial (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 12th Tunnel.4


bardo
Bardo (Tib.)

The 'other' world. Tibetan equivalent of the Egyptian Amenta. 6


Bast

The Primordial Great Mother of the Egyptians, who 'catted', or gave birth, without the intervention of the male. She was therefore one of the original types of the 'immaculate conception' and remains as the type of the earliest Cult that existed before the fatherhood was established, either in a mystical or a sociological sense. She was represented in Egypt by the image of a Cat or the maneless lion, i.e. the solar force in its lunar phase. See Sekhet. 1

The Egyptian Cat goddess. One of the most ancient forms of the Mother-goddess, Bast represented the North. Her complement or Southern form was Sekhet, (q.v.). 3


Bath Kol
Bath Kol (Heb.)

'Daughter of the Voice'. A magical mode of oracular utterance which involves the lunar current.4

See Bes Qul. The Daughter of the Voice. 6


The Beast 666
Beast 666, The

 At an early age, Crowley identified himself with The Beast 666 (The Master Therion), and Aiwaz confirmed his intuitive identification with this Power in The Book of the Law. The word 'beast' has an etymological affinity with Bast (q.v.) and Besz (q.v.). 1

The title assumed by Crowley when he attained the Grade if Magus, 9=2 A.'.A.'., in 1915. For the esoteric meaning of this expression, see Ch. 1. As in the case of Babalon (q.v.), The Beast has been misrepresented in the Apocalypse because its compilers had lost touch with the genuine gnosis.2


Behemoth
Behemoth (Heb.)

Beast of the Deep. typified by the hippopotamus symbolic of Ta-Urt, or Tarot, the Mother of Revolutions or Circles of Time. 5


Behimiron
Behimiron (Heb.)

'The Bestial'. An order of Qliphoth (q.v.) pertaining to the 28th Tunnel.4


Bennu Bird

The mythical 'bird of return' used as the type of various cycles of time which vary according to specific astronomical references. See under Phoenix. 1


Bes
Bes, or Besz (Eg.)

The dwarf god-beast who presides over childbirth, which, in the magical language, signifies the reproduction of images. In other words, Besz is the god of manifestation with all the implications which that word has in the Cult of Maat. Besz, or Vesz, equates with Aivaz, the minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat, the Kraat or Dwarf that is the infinitely small and atomic point (bindu) typified by Hadit or Set. Besz is therefore the type of Universe 'B' represented by the Beast. (See Bes-na Maut). 5

The dwarf god, equivalent to Vesz, Vasz of Aivas. Bes presided over child-birth. In magical terms he determines the nature of the 'magical child'. 6


Bes Qul
Bes Qul (Ar.)

This is the Bath Kokl of the Arabs. It designates the oracular Kol or Kala (q.v.) of the ' magical child' in its 'daughter' avatar. 6


Besqul

A magical term denoting a subsidiary branch of the Tunnel of Qulielfi (q.v.). 5


Bes-na-Maut
Bes-na-Maut (Eg.)

The manifestation of the Besz-beast as the vulture of Maut, devouring the images he projects as Hadit (Ra-Hoor-Khuit, q.v.) in the mortuary feast of Hoor-Paar-Kraat (q.v.) thus reducing the Infinitely Great to the infinitely Small (dwarf avatar). 5


Besz

Lit. 'the transformer'. An early form of the Beast. this word, Besz, may supply the etymological source of the name Aiwaz (See Chapter 3, p. 57). 1


Beth
Beth (Heb.)

The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is attributed to The Magician in the Tarot and to the 12th Path of the Tree of Life. 2

The number two. Its similarity to our word 'both' is significant. It means a 'house' and is typical of the womb which is the primal divider into two.4


Bhaga
Bhaga (Skt.)

The female organ of generation. 2


Bhakta
Bhakta (Skt.)

Devotee. One who follows the Path of Devotion to a particular deity or ideal.4


Bhairavas
Bhairavas (Skt.)

Lit. The Fearless Ones; a term applied to the Tantrics who follow the worship of Kali and perform their rites in the cremation ground (smashanam) surrounded by jackal and hyena. Esoterically, the Adepts of the Left-Hand Path who use substances in their rites that are normally considered unclean. The science of the Bhairavas treats of the female genital organ and its secretions in relation to the magical formulae of the Ophidian Current. 2

See smashanam. 3


Bhavani

 A form of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Time. 1


Bhu Prastara
Bhu Prastara (Skt.)

One of the three major ritual postures assumed by the suvasini in the rites of the Vama Marg (q.v.) Bhu means earth, and in this posture the suvasini lies spread-eagled upon the ground. Sii Meru Prastara and Kailasa Prastasa. 3


Bija
Bija (Skt.)

Root or Seed. 2


Bija Mantra
Bija Mantra (Skt.)

Seed, or Root Mantra; the basic vibration of any given mantra or magical formula. 3

The Root or Seed Vibration. The most celebrated of all bija mantras is the pranava, Om. 5


Binah

The third Sephira of the Tree of Life. Binah means 'Understanding'; it is the first sephira above the Abyss. If Understanding does not illumine the mind, no matter how brilliant a man may be, he remains an idiot, academically speaking, compared with one who has crossed the Abyss. (See under Abyss for a fuller explanation of this term.). 1

The third sephira of the Tree of Life. It is attributed to Saturn, the Great Mother Goddess, and is sometimes known as the City of the Pyramids, being the first city entered by the pilgrim after he has crossed the Abyss. see Abyss. 2

The third cosmic power-zone or sephiroth. It is ascribed to Saturn, the planetary representitive of Set. It is also known as the city of the Pyramids (q.v.) and is the home of Babalon whose 156 shrines constitute the City. Binah means 'understanding', for this is the first power-zone beyond the Abyss and the first place on the Tree where true understanding can dawn.4

Binah means 'understanding', which is possible only beyond the Veil of the Abyss. Binah is attributed to Saturn, the planetary representative of Set. 5


Bindu
Bindu (Skt.)

Point, dot; the infinitely small yet supremely potent point within the Circle of Infinity. 2

 Seed, Drop, It is typified equally by a geometric point and by a globule of semen. 3

 It equates with Hadit in the Cult of Thelema. 5

The Hadit-point or invisible seed which is reified by the Kalas (Time). 6


Bion

'Vesicles representing transitional stages between non-living and living substances.' (Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm, vol.I. New York, 1942.) 1


Black Flame, The
Black Flame, The (Ma.)

A title of Maat as the twin of Nuit; Nuit being the stars, and Maat the spaces between them. 5


Black

The color attributed to sex. See Khem. 2

See Kalas, Khem, Set. 3


Black Snake

See Couleuvre Noire, La.4


Bon, or Pon
Bon, or Pon (Tib.)

The pre-Buddhist or Shamanist religion of Tibet. 6


Bon-Pa-s
Bon-Pa-s (Tib)

Followers of the Dug-pa or Red Cap Sect of Tibetan Tantricism. A cult of the Left Hand Path. 3


Brahmarandra Chakra
Brahmarandra Chakra (Skt.)

The human power-zone situated at the region of the cranial suture. 3

Brahmarandhra chakra (skt.)

The eighth or highest microcosmic power-zone situated at the region of the cranial suture and typified, in images of the Buddha, by the top-knot.4


Bultu
Bultu (Af.)

Hyena. See Bultungin. 4


Bultungin
Bultungin (Af.)

'I transform myself into a hyena'. The word of power used by votaries of the Cult of the Spectral Hyena. See Kabultiloa.4


Caducceus (of Mercury)

See under Ob, Od. 1


Cain

Adam's child by Lilith (q.v.). 2


Capricorn
Capricorn:

The tenth sign of the zodiac. The Goat is attributed to The Devil in the Tarot, also to Baphomet (q.v.). The esoteric significance of Capricorn is concealed by the number of the letter attributed to it, i.e. Ayin, 70. Ayin means 'an eye' and it is the left eye, the Eye of Set, that is implied. 2


Carfax
Carfax (Voo.)

God of the Crossing, or the Crossroads. A form of Baron Samedhi, or Baron Cimitiere, Lord of the Underworld and of the Dead. In the Cult of Choronzon: the Lord of the Daäth (i.e. Death).4

The Crossroads typifying the junction of Spirit and Matter. they are represented by the Barons Carrefour, Cimitiere, and Samedhi. 6


Carrefour, Baron
Carrefour, Baron (Voo.)

 Lord of the Crossroads, or Four Ways. Identical with Carfax. The point of intersection between Matter and Spirit, or Matter and Anti-Matter: Universe 'A' and Universe 'B'. (See also Cimitière, Baron, and Samedhi, Baron). 5

See Carfax. 6


Carrefour, Maitre
Carrefour, Maitre (Voo.)

see Carfax.4


Cancer

The Crab. The zodiacal sign denoting - in the Draconian Cult - the oblique or sideways Path. It is a glyph of the Greeat Work (q.v.).4


Cerberus

The hound of hell. He was the brother of Orthrus (i.e.Sirius). 5


Chaaya
Chaaya (Skt.)

The shadow or double. In a Magical sense, the halation of the risen Kundalini. See Ch. 11 2


Chakra
Chakra (Skt.)

 Wheel, disc, lotus; anything circular that whirls or flowers. It usually denotes one of the seven main power-zones in the occult anatomy of man. The chakras concentrate occult energies that work through the glands of the endocrine system (see, in particular, Chapter 4). 1

Wheel, disc, circle. A term used to indicate one of the power-zone in the subtle body created by the activity of the Kundalini (q.v.). There are six major chakras of which two, the Muladhara (q.v.) and the Ajna (q.v.), are supremely important in the Tantric science of the Kalas. 2

A lotus or wheel. Whirling vortices in the subtle anatomy of man whcih concentrate magical and mystical powers (siddhis) when aroused and set in motion by the Fire Snake (q.v.) in its dynamic aspect.4

 There are seven principal chakras in the human body, and 10 in the Cosmic Body, represented by the ten Sephiroth of the Qabalists. 6


Champana
Champana (Af.)

God of venereal diseases. A qliphotic reflex of the 14th kala.4


Chandra
Chandra (Skt.)

Moon. 2


Chandrabindu
Chandrabindu (Skt.)

Lit. Moon-seed. 2


Chandrakala
Chandrakala (Skt.)

The supreme or ultimate essence or ray of the Moon. see ch. 7, 2

Lit. 'moon-juice' or moon medicine. The ultimate alchemical metal or medicine identified witht the lunar current in its fullest manifestation.4

Lit. , Moon-juice. Physically, the Lunar Current in the human female. Metaphysically, the illusion of Time, which alone makes possible the appearance of the phenomenal universe. Chandrakala is thus a glyph of the Fourth Dimension. 6


Chaos
Chaos (Gn.)

 The primal substance that is, paradoxically, in nowise substantial, out of which the illusion of Matter appears to arise. The primordial Matrix. It number is 156. See Babalon. 1

The infinitely plastic substance out of which all manifestation emerges. Crowley identified it with Aiwaz. It is the Gnostic matrix of manifestation. 2

Its number is 156 which identifies it with Babalon (q.v.), who is one half of the Beast (Therion) 666. See Choronzon, and Shugal. Chaos is the ultimate substance of antimatter.4


Characith
Characith (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 18th Tunnel.4


Charis
Charis (Gn.)

The female 'Saviour'. The prototype of the long-haired 'Christ' of the later Mysteries. The equivalent of the Hindu Taradravamayi (q.v.). 2


Chaya
Chaya (Skt.)

Shadow, in the sense of Astral Double. 1


Chela
Chela (Skt.)

Disciple, follower, devotee. 5


Chesed
Chesed (Heb.)

The Fourth Cosmic Power-Zone or Sephira of the Tree of Life. It is the occult locus of the Starry Wisdom Temple. Its planetary representative is Neptune. 5


Cheth
Cheth (Heb.)

 When spelt in full - 418 the number of the Great Work, and Abrahadabra, the Word of the Aeon. 1

The eight letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is of great importance in Crowley's Cult because, spelt in full, its numeration is 418, the number of the Great Work (q.v.). Cheth, 8, is attributed to the zodiacal Cancer and the Grail of Babalon. 2

The number eight. Cheth means a 'fence', 'wall', or 'veil', i.e. the veil of the virgin. See Koth; also Paroketh.4


Chit
Chit (skt.)

Consciousness4.


Chittam
Chittam (Skt.)

Mind-stuff.4


Chit-jada-granthi
Chit-jada-granthi (skt.)

The subtle knot or complex at which sentience identifies itself with insentience and this appears to create an autonomous entity, or concious subject, having the 'world' as its object. Chit-jada-granthi is therefore the point at which the illusion of an ego, or separate self arises.4


Chokmah

 The second Sephira of the Tree of Life. Chokmah means 'Wisdom' and represents the Sphere of the Stars. It is the first concentration of the influence of Nuit (Ain) in the Supernal Triad. In the human organism the Phallus is the instrument or vehicle of this influence, hence Chokmah is the Sphere particularly associated with the Magus. 1

The second sephira of the Tree of Life. It is the Sphere of the Stars (see Kalas) and is attributed to the Magus 9=2 A.'.A.'. 2

The second cosminc power-zone. The abode of the Magus, as Binah is the abode of the Preistess. Chokmah is the power-zone associated with the 'forbidden' or 'hidden' Wisdom, which is the meaning of the word Chokmah.4


Choronzon

The Demon of Dispersion and Confusion. Its number is 333 which is also that of Impotence and lack of control, thus identifying these concepts. Dr. Dee described this 'demon' as quintessentialising the metaphysical antitheses of all that is implied by 'Magic'. 1

One half or aspect of The Beast 666, the Guardian on the threshold of the unknown Universe, or Universe 'B'. The number of Choronzon is 333. It is thus the feminine half of the Beast, whose other half is the desert howler, Shugal (q.v.). Choronzon is probably a corrupt form of Chozzar, q.v.4

The Guardian of the Abyss. Choronzon was described by Sir Edward Kelly as 'that mighty devil', and Crowley described it 'as the first and deadliest of all the powers of evil.' Its number, 333, is equal to Shugal, 333, and when magically united these Forces become the Beast 666. 5

The principle of disintegration (of the Ego) that must be brought into play in order to effect the ultimate reintegration of phenomena with their noumenal source. As Choronzin dissolves the Ego, it is regarded -by the Ego- as the essence of evil. The concept of Choronzon plays a vitally important role in the magick of the Mauve Zone. It is particularly dangerous because it can assume any form whatever in which to delude the magician rash enough to invoke it without first having established communion with his Angel. (See Tiphereth). 6


Chozzar

Lit. 'a pig'. The pig is one of the typonian teratomas, or symbols of Set. The symbol of Chozzar resembles the triple prong of Neptune, which is the name by which Chozzar is known to the uninitiated. He was, according to Blavatsky, the God of Atlantean Magic.4

The God of Atlantean Magic. Choronzon (q.v.), is a variant form of this name. 5


Chthonos
Chthonos (Ma.)

The substrate of Matter/Energy. (See Ychronos). 5


Cimitiere, Baron
Cimitière, Baron (Voo.)

See Carrefour, Baron. Lord of the Dead. 5

Lord of the Dead. The cemetery typifies the Place of the Cross, or crossing over to the realm of the dead; the crossroads. See Carfax. 6


City of the Pyramids

A designation of Binah, the third sephira. 2

A designation of Binah, the third sephira, on account of its being the abode of Babalon whose 156 shrines comprise the City.4


Coph

 See Koph.4


Coph Nia
Coph Nia (Th.)

A cypher used in AL. It denotes the secret or reverse eye (nia) of the daughter

The Eye of the Daughter, or intranced priestess, which possesses the magical faculty of inward-turned, or reverse vision. It is the visual counterpart of the Bath Kol (q.v.). 6


Couleuvre Noire, La

The Black Snake is the name of a modern Voodoo cult working with the Ophidian Current and directed by Michael Bertiaux. See Cults of the Shadow.4


Couleuvre Rouge, La

The Red or Scarlet Snake is a form of the Fire Snake, q.v.4


Cthulhu
Cthulhu (Nec.)

The Great Priest of the Deep Ones who waits - dead but dreaming - in the sunken City of R'lyeh. 6


Current, Draconian

The most ancient occult tradition is that of the Draconian Tradition of ancient Khem (Egypt). Named after Draco, the 'son' of Typhon the primeval Mother who gave her name to the Tarot (TaUrt) as the Mother (or womb) of Revolutions, from which the Circles of Time originally emanated. These Circles or Chakras are the eleven Power-Zones or Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. 5


Current, Maatian

The influx of the Maatian aspect of the Double Current (Horus-Maat) which unites past and future in a conscious experience of such intensity that Time is transcended, the Abyss 'crossed', and translation into Universe 'B' becomes rebirth or resurrection in a totally new and different order of 'reality'. 5


Current 93

The specific Current of the Aeon of Horus inaugurated by Aleister Crowley. The formula of its Working is 'love under will' (agapè = 93; Thelema = 93), which evokes the Great Old Ones (Aiwaz = 93). 5


Cynocephalus

The dog-headed ape or sacred baboon of ancient Egypt. See Kef-Ape.4


D'mammu

An African term signifying an 'effigy of blood'. Cf. the Hebrew DM, blood, and ADM, Adam, Man. The D'mammu was the 'portrait' of the deceased made of the red substance of creation or painted to resemble flesh and blood. Thus, the D'mammu was the earliest form of the mummy, a literal effigy of the deceased on earth who lives on as a 'ka' (spirit) in Amenta. 2


Daäth
Daäth (Heb.)

Knowledge: the child of Chokmah and Binah. See the Tree of Life. Daäth is sometime called the 'false' or eleventh sephira because it is the seat of conceptual knowledge as opposed to Absolute Knowledge. See Gnosis. 2

The so-called false or eleventh Sephira of the Tree of Life. It is the Gateway of the Abyss, the Guardian of which is Choronzon. Daäth is represented by the explosive energy of Uranus. 3

The eleventh cosmic power-zone; sometimes called the 'false' sephira. Daäth is the gateway to the 'other' world - Universe 'B' - sentinelled by the Beast 666 (shugal-Choronzon), hence its association with death as the formula of transition from the phenomenal world of appearance to its source in noumenon; the absense of the apparent and the presence of the real.4

The so-called 'false' sephira or Eleventh Power-zone on the Tree of Life. It is the sole gate of access to Universe 'B'. Its planetary representative is Uranus. 5

The place of the cross or Crossing over to the 'other side' (of the Sephirotic Tree of Life). The Gateway to the Mauve Zone, or to Universe 'B'. 6


Dagdagiel
Dagdagiel (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 14th Tunnel.4


Dagdagiron
Dagdagiron (Heb.)

'The Fishy'. An Order of Qliphoth (q.v.) pertaining to the 26th Tunnel.4


Dagon
Dagon (Nec.)

The God of the Deep whose number, 777, relates to the Venusian Current via the fish, symbolic of Water (the astral plane), especially in its more positive form of red fluid, or lunar blood. 5

A deity of the Deep Ones closely associated with the Cult of Cthulhu. The number of Dagon, 777, identifies him as a denzen of the Sphere of the Qlophoth (OVLMHQLIPVTh). 777 is also the number of Shaitan (or Set) combined with Aiwass, and therefore of Pan (ALL), for 777 is the total number of paths and sephiroth of the Tree of Life. 6


Dahna
Dahna (Ar.)

The Crimson Desert of Arab lore. A synonym of the Mauve Zone and of the Desert of Set, the Empty Place, the Great Abyss. 6


Dakini-s
Dakini-s (Skt.)

The celestial 'fairies' or goddesses that appear in conjunction with, or as a result of, the movement of the Fire Snake in the various human power-zones. See Kadomah-s 3


Dakshina Marg
Dakshina Marg (Skt.)

Dakshina, 'right'; Marg, 'path'. Dakshina also means 'south', thus Dakshina Marg is the Path of the Sun as Vama Marg (q.v.), the Left-Hand Path, is that of the Moon. 2

Dakshina Means 'south', 'right', and 'boon'; Marg means Way or Path, hence the Right Hand Path or Path of Solar Phallic Power. Cf. Vama Marg. 3


Dakshinakalika
Dakshinakalika (Skt.)

The goddess Kali, the One beyond Time; sometimes called Smashanamkalika (q.v.). Her yantra is given in Plate 6; her mantra is concentrated in seed-form in Krim; her tantra involves the use of the Ophidian Current with which this book treats. 2


Dakshinamurti
Dakshinamurti (Skt.)

Lit. Southward-facing. The title given to the spiritual North Pole- the Silent and Unmoving Witness of the Cycles of Existence. 1


Dangbe
Dangbe (Af.)

The Serpent of Life consecrated to the goddess Aidowedo (q.v.) of whom Dangbe is the messenger. 3

A serpent god, and therefore a symbol of the Ophidian Current.4


Daleth
Daleth (Heb.)

The number 4. This letter is attributed to Venus as the door (Daleth means a 'door') of all manifested life.4


Dark Doctrine
Dark Doctrine, The

see Mo Ayon.4


Darshan
Darshan (Skt.)

Vision, in the sense of direct or immediate perception of the noumenal base of phenomena.4

Vision or Direct Experience of Spiritual Energies and Forces. 5


Daughter of the Voice
Daughter of the Voice.

A priestess in her oracular phase. (Cf. Besqul). 5


Death Posture

A magical posture devised by Austin Osman Spare. It renders the senses inactive and brings about a total vacuity that can be made the womb for the birth of any desired form. (See chapter 12). 1

A term used in Zos Kia Cultus to indicate the god-form or mudra of Daäth, whereby the world of appearances ceases and its noumenal source is revealed.4


Deep Ones
Deep Ones (Nec.)

Forms of the Great Old Ones more particularly associated with the element of water (i.e. The Astral plane). Their zootypes are the frog, the octopus, and the sauria. 6


Devas
Devas (Skt.)

God, the Gods. Literally, the Shining Ones. (Cf. the word 'divine'). 5

Lit. 'Bright or Shining One'. The root of the word 'divine'. Being of celestial origin the devas are easily assimilated to ideas of extraterrestrial entities and cognate phenomena. 6


Dharana
Dharana (Skt.)

Concentration of mental energy on one point. 2


Dhuto
Dhuto (Skt.)

Messenger. 3


Dhyana
Dhyana (Skt.)

Meditation in the true sense of Thought-free Consciousness. Ch'an, Dz'yan and Zen are the Chinese, Senzar and Japanese forms of this word. 1

True Dhyana is a thought-free state of consciousness wherein there is immediate awareness of the noumenal substratum of phenomena. Cha'an and Zen are the Chinese and Japanese equivalents. See Cha'an. 3


Divine Ape, Formula of the

By 'aping' the god-form of the magical atavism required, the Adept acquires the power which it typifies. See chapter 8. 2


Dkini (s)
Dkini (s) (Tib.)

The shaktis or subconscious powers that manifest to the Adept in the course of his rites in the form of witches or terrifying female demons. 2


Dogon

An African tribe that has recently been found to have had a 'direct teachings' transmission from Star of Set (Sirius) which spans more than 10,000 years. (See Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery).4


Dorje Phagmo
Dorje Phagmo (Tib.)

Lit. 'Adamantine or Eternal Sow'. The Tibetan version of Vajra Varahe-Diamond Sow. The pig and sow are Typhonian types symbolic of certain processes connected with the science of the kalas. 3


Double Current

The Horus-Maat Current transmitted by Set, the Double-Wanded One, the Diable or Devil. Its implications form the subject of the present book. 5

A term used to denote the twin streams of energy that inform the terrestrial sphere (Earth) under the Aquarian Age. The white and the red fluids of magical creation and destruction are represented by Horus (93), and Maat (696). Their perfect polarisation engenders 789, the number of the Draconian Current embodied by Shaitan-Aiwass. 6


Draco

Identical with Taurt, the Mother of Revolutions. One of the constellations that swing round the North Pole; equivalent to Nuit. The revolution of the Dragon (Draco) round the Pole formed the earliest clock ever known. Nuit, as the time-teller and the keeper of time that in later mythologies was interpreted in a moral sense in relation to feminine periodicity. 1

The stellar representitive of Chozzar, q.v.4


Draconian Cult

The Cult of Set whose vehicle is the Dog-Star, Sothis, the 'Soul of Isis'. With his mother, Isis, represented by the seven stars of Ursa Major, Set was the eighth, and the first male deity ever to be worshipped. Cf. AL, I,15: 'I am eight, and one in eight.' Set, as the last of the eight was the height, top or supreme Light; as such he was worshipped as the son behind (i.e. anterior to) the sun. 2

The full flowering of the primal African Mysteries as it occurred in ancient Egypt in pre-monumental times. It is the cult of the Fire Snake represented celestially by the stellar complex, Draco, the Dragon or Fire-breathing Beast of the Great Deep (of Space). Draco is identical with the Goddess Kali of the later Tantric Cults of the Left Hand Path. The Draconian Cult is also alluded to as the Ophidian Current, when no specifically Egyptian reference is intended. It is also known as the Typhonian Tradition, for Typhon was the primal Goddess and the Mother of Set. 3

The Cult of the Dragon of the Deep (of Space) which brought to earth the Ophidian Current worshipped by the ancient Typhonians of Egypt under the symbol of Apep (q.v.), and used today by Typhonian Order of the Outer Ones, known as the O.T.O. 6


Draconian Tradition

(The Choronzon Cult, of Cult of the Beast, that originated in the Ophidian Mysteries of Inner Africa and flowered in Egypt as the Stellar Mythos or Typhonian Tradition.4


Drukpa, or Dugpa, or Dropa
Drukpa, or Dugpa, or Dropa (Tib.)

Lit. 'Sect or Cult of the Thunder Dragon'. It was brought to earth via LAM (q.v.)12000 years ago when it was established on the Plateau of Leng situated between China and Tibet. Modern descendants of the Drukpas yet flourish in Bhutan. (See Bibliography, under Levy, John). 6


Dukes of Edom

See Edom.4


Durga
Durga:

A form of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Time. 1


Echu
Echu (var. Legba, q.v.).

The fetish of the 'knotted stick', i.e. the phallus. Echu is the 'rejected'; rejected, that is, by the non-initiate who is unable to understand the symbolism of the creative current. See Shu.4


Edom
Edom (Heb.)

The Hebrew version of Tum or Atum, the red or setting sun symbolic of the phallic force illuminating the underworld (subconciousness), Amenta. The 11 Dukes of Edom refer to the reflections of the cosmic power-zones uncluding Daäth, in the subconsciousness of humanity, see Esau.4


Egugun
Egugun (Af.)

'Bones of the dead'. The name under which judicial power is entified by the Fetish priests of Yorouba. 3

Lit. 'bones of the dead'.4


Elder Gods

See Great Old Ones, The 5


Elixer Rubeus

Crowley used this expression to denote the moon-juice or lunar current manifesting periodically through the Scarlet Woman. 2

The effluvium of Babalon, the Scarlet Woman, which is the menstruum of the lunar current. See Crowley's Magical Record for accounts of workings involving this kala, which he abbreviates to El. Rub.4


El Shaddai
El Shaddai (Heb.)

The primal star-god of the Chaldeans whom the Jews replaced by Jehovah when the solar or paternalistic cult superseded that of the Moon and Stars. El Shaddai is Al Shaitan, the Set or Seat of Power adored in remotest antiquity. 2


Electrum Magicum

An alloy of the seven sacred metals. Crowley describes its composition in Magick: 'First the gold is melted up with the silver during a favorable aspect of the sun and moon; these are then fused with tin when Jupiter is well dignified. Lead is added under as auspicious Saturn; and so for the quicksilver, copper, and iron, when Mercury, Venus, and Mars are of good augury' (Magick, p.111). 2


Elegba
Elegba (Af.): (Also Legba)

The African equivalent of Priapus and Pan. Alternatively known as Ongogo Ogo, 'the genius of the knotted stick', i.e. the phallus; and Eshu or Echu, the 'evil one'. 3


Emkara
Emkara (Skt.)

See Omkara. 2


Equinox of the Gods

A technical term denoting a Change of Aeon when a new influence radiates through the stellar girdle (zodiac) of the Cosmos effecting radical changes in human and other forms of consciousness. The last Equinox of the Gods occurred in 1904. 1


Erzulie Fredda Dahomey
Erzulie Fredda Dahomey (Cr.)

The gracious goddess of the Voodoo Radha Rites, equivalent to Venus and Mary. 3


Erzulie Ge-Rouge
Erzulie Ge-Rouge (Cr.)

The demonic form of Erzulie Freda, and the Red or Scarlet Woman of the Voodoo Petro Rites. As Bhavani is to the Indian Kali, so is Erzulie Freda to Erzulie Ge-Rouge. 3


Esau
Esau (Heb.)

Another name for Edom. Esau means 'red'. According to Kuhn 'Tradition shows Esau imaged by the solar hawk, which symbolises blood'. The Kings of Edom therefore were Kings of the Red Land, or place of blood, hence their association with the idea of 'unbalanced force' typical of the Qliphoth.4


Eshu
Eshu (Af.) (Also Echu)

The African form of Set or Satan, and of Elegba, or solar energy in its phallic form. 3


Fa
Fa (Ch.)

Principle, essence, tarot (q.v.). 3


Fafnir Worm

The Norse equivalent of the African Afefe (q.v.) that became the Egyptian Apap or Apophis, the Ophidian form of Set.4


Fenekh

The desert fox with curiously square ears believed to have been a type of Set. The ear is the symbol of the Hearer (of the Word) in Darkness or Illusion. 3


Fire Snake

See Kundalini. 2

The central magical power in the human organism, having affinity with the entire gamut of power-zones, human and cosmic. Known to the Indians as the Kundalini, or Serpent Power. It is typified by them as a sleeping serpent coiled 3 1/2 times at the base of the spine, at the region of the Muladhara Chakra (q.v.). Its awakening and controlled ascent in the human body is the subject of the Tantras. Cf. the Caduceus of Hermes, the Serpents Ob and Od coiled 3 1/2 times about the Rod or Wand of Mercury. 3

The Kunalini. The primal shakti or power that is usually dormant in the non-initiate. She is embodied in and by the Scarlet (of fiery) Woman who awakens the solar-phalic force of the Magus and thereby inspires him with createive energy.4


Forgotten Ones, The
Forgotten Ones, The (Ma.)

The Elder Gods or Great Old Ones (q.v.). 5


Frog

The supreme totem and zootype of the Leapers of the Backward Paths or Tunnels of the Tree of Life. See Hacate, Hekt, and Voltigeurs.4


Gamaliel
Gamaliel (Heb)

An Order of Qliphoth relating to Yesod, the power-zone of sexual magick. Its formula is that of the 'Obscene Woman' whose zoomorphic symbol is the ass which the Templars were accuesed of worshipping.4


Gan Eden

The Garden of Eden which is the field of the interplay of polarized cosmic and microcosmic forces interpreted in terms of magical (i.e. sexual) energy. The number of Gan Eden is 177 which is that of Mu Aion (q.v.), the 'Dark Doctrine' concerning the 'other side' of the Tree.4


Ganin-Gub

A serpent sacred to the Hottentots. It is one of the zootypes assumed by the haunters of the 17th tunnel of Set. It also assumes the form of the Bultu or spectral hyena.4


Gargophias
Gargophias (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 13th Tunnel.4


Geburah
Geburah (Heb.)

Geburah (Strength) is the fifth sephira of the Tree of Life, attributed to Mars. Geburah is also called Pachad (terror), which suggests the God Pan and the peculiar nature of the strength and terror associated with this god. 2

The fifth Cosmic Power-zone. It is attributed to Mars, the planetary representative of Horus, and of Kali. It is connected with the latter through the symbolism of blood and the number 5- the Ruby Star-or Pentagram symbolic of the Scarlet Woman. 3

The Fifth Cosmic Power-Zone or Sephira on the Tree of Life. Its planetary representative is Mars which typifies the power that energizes the magical vortex of the bloody Goddess Kali; hence its association with the Scarlet Woman who drains the blood of the Saints in to her chalice. 5


Geh
Geh (Heb.)

The Earth-form of Lilith, the supreme Succuba or female phantom of the night. 5

A class of succubae subsumed to the Lilith complex of entities which includes also Hecate'. They sometimes assume the form of ghouls. 6


Gematria

A qabalistic system of interpretation whereby words having the same numerical value as other words are considered to be essentially identical.4

A qabalistic mode of exegesis based on the assumption that words and names of equal or similar numerical value, have occult affinities. 5

A qabalistic system in which the numerical value of each letter of a word are added to produce the number of the word. This number is a key to the magical meaning of the word, i.e. , it gives the meaning in a further dimension, of which the visible word is merely a veil or mask. 6


Gemini

The stellar representitives of the Eors-Libido current symbolised by the Lovers,or Twins.4


Ghagiel
Ghagiel (Heb.)

'The Hinderers of God'. An Order of Qliphoth ascribed to the Masolth or Zodiac.4


Ghue'dhe'
Ghue'dhe' (Vood.)

A group of (q.v.) represented by the Barons Cimitière and Samedhi. See Carfax. 6


Ghue'dhe'-Nibho
Ghue'dhe'-Nibho (Vood.)

The Black Goddess of Space. Counterpart of Baron Cimitière. 6


Gimel
Gimel (Heb.)

Lit. 'a camel'. The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet; it is attributed to the Path of the High Priestess which traverses the desert of the Abyss and links the human consciousness directly with the divine, the Son (Tiphereth) with the Father (Kether). 2

The number 3. Gimel means a 'camel'. Note the similarity to the English word camel. This creature is known as the 'ship of the desert', an apt symbol of the Priestess of The Silver Star (Set) who provides in herself the vehicle of transit accross the Desert of Set that lies beyond Daäth.4


Gnosis

Knowledge, Jnana; i.e. Knowledge of the Real as opposed to the unreal. Not the conceptual knowledge of phenomena (appearances), but the appreciative apprehension of noumenon. 2


Go
Go (Skt.)

 Lit. 'cow'; the type of woman, or the female. 3


Goetia

A peculiar form of magick involving the penetration of subconscious strata, the abode of 'spirits' and 'demons' that represent primal biological energies dissociated from the human life-wave. Goetia means 'howling', which well describes a manner of evoking bestial atavisms by the Formula of the Divine Ape (q.v.). 2


Golden Dawn
Golden Dawn (The Hermetic Order of the)

This Order was founded in 1888 and largely dominated by S. Liddell MacGregor-Mathers. Crowley, Spare and Fortune were members of the G.:D.: at various stages of their careers. When the Order failed to maintain contact with the Invisible or Secret Chiefs of the Great White Brotherhood, Crowley repaired the deficiency and revitalized the Current establishing contact with Aiwaz (q.v.), in 1904. Crowley subsequently renamed the Order the A.'.A.'. or Silver Star. 1


Golden One
Golden One, The (Ma.)

A form of the Goddess Maat and the feminine reflex of N'Aton (q.v.) 5


Gomaya
Gomaya (Skt.)

Product of the cow. Gomaya is a 'loaded' term and means, in the symbolism of the Left Hand Path, the magical emanations of the woman who represents the Goddess in the rituals of the Vama Marg. 3


Gopis
Gopis (Skt.)

Lit. 'Cow girls' or 'milkmaids'. Shaktis, or powers, associated with the kalas of the bright fortnight. See Nityas. 6


Goth
Aeon of Goth

The literal translation of Yug-Goth, whose astro-nomical representative is Pluto. It is a term used in the Necronomicon Mythos. (See Yog-Sothoth). 5


Gotra
Gotra (Skt.)

Clan, family, lineage. 6


Granthi
Granthi (Skt.)

'knot' or 'complex'. See Chit-jada-granthi.4


Great Old Ones
Great Old Ones (Nec.)

A term used in the Necronomicon to designate the Forces from Outside that are seeking to establish Their thrones upon Earth. They are the Elder Gods, or Maatians who, when manifesting as the Ophidian Current are known as the Great Old Ones 5

Those who control the destiny of this planet (and many other celestial bodies). They radiate their influence through the Stars; They also have secret representatives upon the Earth, and they have manifested in historic times through the Starry Wisdom Sect, the Esoteric Order of Dagon and through the Drukpas (or Dropas) and Nyingmapas of Tibet and Bhutan. In recent times they have been active through the Secret Chiefs of the A.'.A.'. (q.v.) and through the Temple of the Outer Ones, or O.T.O. (q.v.). 6


Great White Brotherhood
Great White Brotherhood, The

The A.'.A.'. (q.v.) The focus of its influence is located in Yuggoth, the First Cosmic Power-Zone and the farthest outpost of the known Universe. Through this Gate are transmitted the influences of The Silver Star (A.'.A.'.), or Nu-Isis. Its dark reflex is in Daäth, the Center of Pestilence known as the 'Black Lodge'. 5


Great Work
Great Work, The

An Alchemical term adopted by Crowley to designate the nature of the next stage in the evolution of humanity, consciousness, i.e. from mundane to Solar. The formula of this Work, according to Crowley, lies in the union of the Microcosm and the Macrocosm in the special manner indicated by the Word of the Aeon-Abrahadabra, which is a formula of sexual magick. Its number is 418. 1

This is primarily an Alchemical term and it denotes the bringing of a substance or an energy to the fullest possible degree of perfection. The so-called transmutation of base metal into gold is the typical example. In Crowley's Cult, the Great Work entails the union of the five and the six (i.e. man and god, woman and man, beast and angel, etc.), thus enabling humanity to attain cosmic consciousness. The 5 and the 6, the Pentagram and the Hexagram, together form the Elevenfold Star which is the Seal of the A.'.A.'.. In the Golden Dawn, the Ceremony of the 5=6 confirmed in the Candidate (or should have done) the realization of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel (q.v.). 2

An alchemical term frequently used by Crowley to designate the uniting of the microcosm and macrocosm (the 5 and the 6), the Pentagram and the Hexagram in the elevenfold formula of Abrahadabra (q.v.), of which the heart or essence is Had (i.e. Set). See Aleister Crowley & the Hidden God for a full explanation of this term.4


Guede'
Guede' (Cr.)

The Voodoo equivalent of Khonsu; his magick is performed at the time of the New Moon, the rising night-sun, Guede' resumes the twin currents of death and sex; he is a form of Baron Samedhi, the god of the crossroads (carfax). 2

Var. Ghede. A major Loa or spirit of the Voodoo pantheon. Gue'de' is associated mainly with obscenity and the dark humour peculiar to certain aspects of human sexuality. He is a form of the Egyptian Khonsu (q.v.), the night sun which fructifies in secret. Thus, Gue'de' is a god both of birth and of death and of the 'Comedy of Pan' enacted in between. 3


Guede-Nibho
Guede-Nibho (voo.)

A term used in the cult of the Black Snake to denote the dual polarities, Ob and Od (q.v.)4


Guna-s
Guna-s (Skt.)

The Three Gunas, or Principles, are: Rajas, Tamas, and Sattva. They equate with the three alchemical principles- Sulphur, Salt, and Mercury. See Tribindu. 3


Gynander
Gynander (Ma.)

The Double Current (q.v.) when used by the priestess. (See Amdrpgune). The word seems first to have been used by the French occultist Jose'phin Pe'ladan, though not in the sense in which the Maatians use it. 5


Had
Had (Ch.)

See Hadit. 2


Hadit
Hadit (Ch.)

The Chaldean form of Set. Hadit represents the infinitely small yet supremely potent point or bindu which, in union with Nuit, generates the manifest Universe (Ra-Hoor-Khuit). *1

The infinitesimal, omnipotent point, bindu, or creative seed. In man Hadit represents the Point of View, the True Will. The complement of Nuit (q.v.), Hadit is symbolized by the winged globe and by the solar-phallic Horus, or Ra-Hoor-Khuit. 3

'The manefestation of Nuit' (AL. I. i.), in the sense that the Child (Har, Horus) is the manifestation of the Mother. Hadit is the sun that illuminates the dark, as the son illunines of fulfills the hidden potential of the mother, for without him She cannot be.4

The infinitely small and atomic point, or bindu, that is the seed of manifestation. The Cult of Hadit has therefore been called the Cult of the Spermatozoon. 5

The infinitely small or atomic point (bindu). The Hidden God whose name, Had, is one with Adad, Daäth, and with Thoth whose union (yog) with Set, produces Yog-Sothoth (q.v.). 6


Hai
Hai (Ma.)

The name of one of the Forgotten Ones. It signifies completion, creation, birth. 5


Har
Har (Eg.)

Child. The Har (Greek, Horus) is the son of the mother (Typhon) and is therefore identical with Set. See Hadit.4


Harpocrates
Harpocrates (Gk.)

The Greek form of the Egyptian god, Hoor-Paar-Kraat, the dwarf-god or 'child' that is the symbol of the present Aeon of Horus. In magical terms Hoor-Paar-Kraat represents the result of the psycho-sexual formula of love under will; the 'child' assumes the form impressed upon its mother (Nuit) at the moment of its conception. 1

A form of Hoor-Paar-Kraat. 2

The Greek form of Hoor-Paar-Kraat, the god of silence; the child (Har) who is silent in the sense of being latent in the womb of its mother, yet filled with all the potentiallity of her being.4


Hastur

A Great Old One who manifests as mighty rushings of air; the Ultimate Wind. He guards the Eastern Gate. 5


Hathor
Hathor (eg.)

Lit. the womb (hat) of the child (hor). Hathor was popularized as the goddess of Love and sexual pleasure.4


He'
He' (Heb.)

The number 5 in Hebrew and Chaldaean qabalah, and therefore the number of the feminine principle, both in its creative form as the Mother (He' primal of Tetragrammaton) and as the Virgin or Daughter (He' final of Tetragrammaton). He' is attributed to The Star of Nuit (i.e. Sothis, Set-Typhon), the kalas or rays of which form the magical menstruum which charges the astral atmosphere of this planet during the current aeon. 3

The number 5 and therefore the number of the Woman par excellence. The two hes of Tetragrammaton (q.v.), IHVH, represent the Mother and the Daughter respectively.4


Hecate
Hecate (Gr.)

The Greek form of Hekt, q.v. Hecate is the goddess of witchcraft. 3

The Greek form of the Egyptian Hekt, the frog-headed goddess. She is one of the most important figures in the Draconian Cult, being symbolic of the Transformer from watery or astral existence to earth or tangible being. She is also the symbol of the leapers who 'jump' the paths on the reverse side of the Tree. (See Voltigeurs). Hecate is equivalent to the number 100 which is qoph (q.v.), the glyph of sexual magick, and the koph, the daughter of the 'secret' eye. (See Coph Nia).4


Hekt
Hekt or Hekat (Eg.)

The Frog-headed goddess; a type of transformation and periodic renewal, hence sacred to the feminine principle and the phenomena of magick (i.e. change). 3


Hemethterith
Hemethterith (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 15th Tunnel.4


Herakhaty
Herakhaty (Gk.)

Another form of Hoor-Paar-Kraat. 2


Hercules

The Greek version of Horus. 2


Heru
Heru (Eg.)

Horus. Heru is the prototypical hero; as Heru-ra-ha he represents the light and energy of the sun. 2


Heru-ra-ha
Heru-ra-ha (Eg.)

The breath (ha) or energy of the Sun; typified by Horus. 2

The Crowned and Conquering Child in his dual form of Ra-Hoor-Khuit (Horus) and Hoor-Paar-Kraat (Set).4


Hes
Hes (Eg.)

Isis. Her name means 'seta', the original foundation or fundament being the womb of the mother.4


Hod
Hod (Heb.)

The name of the 8th cosmic power-zone of sephira which is attributed to Mercury. It is primarily the zone of mental magick.4

The Eighth Cosmic Power-Zone of the Tree of Life. Its planetary representative is Mercury. 5


Holy Guardian Angel

See under Augoeides. 1

The Jiva or individualized spark if god-head which is the Hidden God in every man and woman. Through the Holy Guardian Angel, human consciousness is linked with, and can become consciously merged with, cosmic consciousness. 2


Hoor-paar-Kraat
Hoor-paar-Kraat (Eg.)

Horus the Child. The dwarf god identified by Crowley with the solar-phallic energies of the subconsciousness, whose 'minister' is Aiwass. Hoor-paar-Kraat is the twin or double of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the manifested Universe. His formula is the Silence of Set that precedes the vibration or 'word' of Horus. 2

The shadow or twin of Ra-Hoor-Khuit (q.v.). Hoor-paar-Kraat is the Egyptian original of the Greek Harpocrates, the 'dumb one', the child in the womb, symbolized by the child on the lotus with its finger pointing to its mouth in the gesture of Silence; the silence of gestation and potential life. 3

The god Set, the averse of other side of Horus or Ra-Hoor-khuit (q.v.)4

The dark and silent twin of Ra-Hoor-Khuit (q.v.). His representative is Aiwass. Hoor-paar-Kraat equates with Set, with Sirius 'B'; he is also known as the Blind Horus, the Dwarf or crippled Deity, all of which concepts indicate his connection with the hidden realms of Amenta and with Universe 'B'. 5

The dark twin of Ra-Hoor-Khuit (q.v.), and, as such, the shadow of Horus, which is Set. The Hoor-Khart or Hraat is the dwarf, manikin, or 'magical child', hence Hoor-pi-Khart as Hekhart, or Hecate', who presides over the abortion of the physical child in favor of the metaphysical or 'magical child'. 6


Hormaklu
Hormaklu (Eg.)

Lit.. Horus of the Star. The Star is The Silver Star (of Set). 5


Aeon of Horus

A period of approximately 2,000 years during which the planet earth will be predominately under the aegis of the energies typified by Horus, the god of manifestation and of the present period of materialism with its tendancy to total materialisation. Crowley announced the advent of the Aeon of Horus in 1904 when he 'received' The Book of the Law (AL) from Aiwass, who described himself as the 'minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat', and who is thereby manifesting upon earth.4

The technical name of the present Aeon in the Cult of Thelema. It began in 1904 when Crowley received the Book of the Law (Liber AL) from Aiwass. It will be superseded by the Aeon of Maat some 2000 years hence. Some occultists claim that this supercession has already occurred. 5


Horus-Maat
Horus-Maat (Eg.)

The Double Current-93 and 696- which fuses the Aeons of Horus and Maats opening the Gate for the return of the Great Old Ones. 5


Horus-Maat-Lodge

A Lodge founded in 1979 by Soror Andahadna for the purpose of earthing the Double Current. The lodge is a cell of the O.T.O. 5


Horus

The Greek form of the name Heru-ra-ha, the Egyptian god who comprises the twin forms, Hoor-Paar-Kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khuit (q.v.). Heru is the Hero of all ancient myths involving a triumphant solar deity, a triumph that is, of the sun over the dragon of darkness, Typhon, Draco, Nuit, etc. This victory represents merely the aeonic change of types from the Motherhood to the later conception of deity typified by the Fatherhood, both in mythology and in sociology. Horus is particularly the Winter Sun, and associated with the Northern hemisphere as Set, his twin, is the Lord of the South. In their constant conflict lies the mystery of Magick and the polarity of mutually antagonistic currents of energy. 1

The son and avenger of Osiris who was murdered by Horus' twin brother, or dark double, Set. The esoteric meaning of the legend is explained in Chapter 10. As the reincarnation of his father Osiris, whose reign ended in 1904, Horus, as Ra-Hoor-Khuit- the Crowned and Conquering Child- is the Lord of the present cycle or aeon which will last for another two thousand years. It is significant that AL (q.v.) was communicated to Crowley by an entity describing himself as the 'minister' of Hoor-Paar-Kraat (i.e. Set). 2

 	The phallic god symbolic of spirit and represented by a golden hawk in his light aspect and a raven or night-bird in his dark aspect, for he is a biune deity comprising Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Hoor-Paar-Kraat (q.v.), that is the solar, or waking, and the stellar or subconscious aspects of the life-current. 3

The general name or designation of the solar-phallic child that is the symbol of manefestation. Set is the reverse of this concept; he represents the backward path, or the way back, to non-manifestation. 4

The twin of Set. Horus is split into two halves- the light and the dark- represented by Ra-Hoor-Khuit (q.v.) and Hoor-Paar-Kraat (q.v.). He is the Heru or Hero of the Solar Cults, but his earliest form was as the son of the Mother, and thus a type of the original Draconian Tradition which Crowley revived through Liber AL. 5

The hawk-headed deity of the Egyptians. It gives its name to the present Aeon. As the twin of Set, Horus is the reflection in phenomena of his noumenal shadow. His invocation is by means of the sexual mechanics of the Ophidian Current, the formula of Life which is a reflection in phenomena of the formula of Death (Daäth). This Magick will achieve its apotheosis in the Aeon of Maat (q.v.). 6


Hot-Points
Hot-Points (Voo.)

See Points-Chauds. 5


Hriliu
Hriliu (Th)

Metaphysical Ecstacy. It is symbolised in the microcosm by sexual orgasm. Hriliu is the 'voice of the dove' - the emblem of Typhon and of the Venusian element of humanity.4

The Cry or Word of the Dove symbolic of the meta-physical ecstasy experienced by human consciousness in communion with its cosmic counterpart. 5

Lit. 'the shrill scream of orgasm', the metaphysical ecstasy that accompanies the act of creation. Both Hru (q.v.) and Hrumachis (q.v.) have important affinities with Hriliu. Other cognate terms are Vrihl; and R'lyeh which indicates the subconsciousness as the source of hriliu. 6


Hru
Hru (Th.)

The Angel presiding over the Tarot. The latter comprises the celestial power-zones visualized in the Book of Thoth (Crowley's recension is the most penetrating contemporary visualization). Hru has a markedly 'ufological' connotation, for the wheels, or discs, which represent the power-zones of the Tarot are vortices of magical energy Outside the Circles of Time (represented by the sephiroth). 6


Hrumachis
Hrumachis (Eg.)

The Greek form of the Egyptian god-name Harmakhu, lit. 'Horus of the Star'. 1

The Greek form of Hormakhu (q.v.) 5

'Horus of the Star'. The Star is Sothis, or Set, and the title has emphatic 'unfological' implications. See A.'.A.'. 6


Hum
Hum (Skt.)

A bija mantra associated with the root-vibration or hum of Cosmic Forces. The proximity of the Great Old Ones, the presence of UFOs.; etc., are said to emit a form of this vibration which is sometimes audible even to the physical organ of hearing. In the Tantras, Hum is the bija-mantra of Shiva, the Indian form of Set. 5

Together with Om (q.v.), this is the most important bijamantra (see Mantra) of the Eastern Tradition, particularly in its Tantric forms. Hum is the Basic vibration of the Old Ones, the buzz or hum that almost invariably accompanies their manifestation. (See diagram 2). 6


Iannu
Iannu (Ma.)

The name of a Great Old One embodying the forces of the present aeon extended both ways in time. (Cf. Janus). 5


IAO
IAO (Gn.)

The Supreme Deity of the Gnostics. Magically considered, IAO represents the active and passive potencies - I and O- united by 'A' (Aleph), the whirling energy of magnetic power that creates by binding things together. Hence, IAO is a formula of the All-Begetter. 1

The Supreme Deity of the Gnostics. In Crowley's Cult this formula has been developed to FIAOF (see Magick, pp.166 et seq). IAO, the initials of Isis, Apophis, and Osiris, also represents a secret formula wherein the phallus (I) and the kteis (O) unite under the form of Apophis (A), the vibration of the Ophidian Current. The corresponding reification of stresses in the astral light incarnates the image of the True Will or, in Spare's system, 'the inherent dream'. 2

The Gnostic designation of Supreme Deity. Also a magical formula wherein the phallus (I) and the kteis (O) unite under the form of the Fire Snake (A), Apophis, the Ophidian vibration which, if undirected or misdirected, is a destroying demon, but which, if controlled and exalted, is man's means of release from the thralldom of individualized consciousness. 3


Ibeji
Ibeji (Af.)

The invisible companion of twin children. 3


Ibis

The Ibis, heron, hawk, phoenix, swan, goose, peacock, etc., have been used as types of the Bird of Return, known in the Egyptian Mysteries as the Bennu Bird. The Ibis is especially sacred to Thoth, the God of Magick. 1


Iccha
Iccha (Skt.)

Will. 3


Iccha-sakti
Iccha-sakti (Skt.)

The power (sakti, or shakti) of creative Will (iccha). 6


Ida nadi
Ida nadi (Skt.)

The left nostril typifies the passage or flow of the lunar current of prana (q.v.) in the human body. Its complement is the Pingala nadi (q.v.). 3


Idagbe
Idagbe (Af.)

A variant form of Dangbe, q.v. 3


Ifa
Ifa (Af.)

The primal goddess, also known as Odudua, Bango, Ife, etc. Ifa is the origin of the name, Eve. Ifa's sacred city or power-zone is situated in Ado, the 'City of Prostitution'. 3


Ife
Ife (Af.)

The womb of the goddess Iyemoja, the 'Mother of the Fish.' 3

The primal African goddess. The Eve of the Hebrew.4


Ignaiye
Ignaiye (Ma.)

The force that invokes and evokes the Great Old Ones in a Cult of the Forgotten Ones, thus equating it directly with the 93 Current. 5


Ignator
Ignator (Ma.)

The Word of Initiation in the Cult of the Forgotten Ones. 5


IHVH
IHVH (Heb.)

The male-female potencies united in a single Name, Jehovah (Jah-Hovah) which is unpronounceable because it is unspoken. It is the Silent Word, and its effect are manifested through vibration. The number of Jehovah (IHVH) is 26, which is the sum of the numbers of the Trunk (central column) of the Tree of Life. IHVH also synthesizes the Elements, Fire, Water, Air and Earth, in that order. These are energized by Fire (Father), and Water (Mother), and transmitted through the atmosphere (Air, represented by the Son), and manifested in flesh (Earth represented by the Daughter). 1

See Chapter 10. The sacred fourfold Word and unpronounceable Name of the Hebrews, usually referred to as Jehovah. Qabalistically equal to twenty-six, the total enumeration of the numbers of the Sephiroth of the Middle Pillar of the Tree of Life, IHVH represents the predominantly masculine current that replaced that of El Shaddai when the stellar cult was superseded by the later luni-solar cults. As a magical formula, IHVH represents the entire course of creation: I, attributed to Fire and the Phallus, the Father: H, to Water and the Kteis; V, to the son resulting from the union of I and H: H ( final) to the daughter or full manifestation of the formula as concrete, objective phenomena. 2

In the Necronomicon Mythos, Cthulhu is the Hidden God of Great Old One who lies sleeping beneath the waves in the sunken City of R'lyeh. 5


Ile
Ile (Af.)

The earth.4


Ion

See Aeon. In Egyptian, the name of the Ape, thus linking it with the god Thoth and with Daäth. Another meaning is 'an howling animal of the desert', which links it with Set. 5


Ipissimus

Lit. 'His own very self', the Atman of the Hindus. Kether is the Sphere of the Ipsisimus (see the Tree of Life). In the Hindu system, a Paramahansa is the highest grade of spiritual enlightenment and it corresponds to the Ipsissimus Grade, 10=1, in the Western Tradition. Crowley describes himself as a Paramahansa in his Eight Lectures on Yoga, published by the O.T.O. in 1939. (See frontispiece to this book) 2 	(Latin): Lit. 'His own very self'. The title of the Highest grade of the A.'.A.'., attributed to the primal cosmic power-zone-Kether, typified celestially by the planet Pluto. See Magick (by A. Crowley), Appendix 2. Kether is the Hadit-center or True Will in man. 3

The Atman of the Hindus. This, the highest grade of spiritual development which it is possible to realize, is ascribed to the First Cosmic Power-Zone, Kether (Yuggoth). (See Magick, by Aleister Crowley, pp.329-330, EKPedn.). The Grade in the Great White Brotherhood (A.'.A.'.) approximating to Kether/Yuggoth. It is important to note that one having attained to this Aeon (i.e. the Yug-goth) has no Will in any direction, which signifies release from the conditions of embodied existence. The Ipsissimus is thus always disembodir\ed and yet Un-dead. 5


Ipsos
Ipsos (Ma.)

The Word of the goddess Maat. See Liber Pennae Praenumbra, transmitted via Gary Straw and Margaret Cook.4

The Word of the Aeon of Maat. 6


Ipsoslam

The Maatian mantra for invoking Lam (q.v.)


Isis

The wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus. She represents Nature , as her sister Nephthys, represents Art, or Magick. Their combination, Nu-ISIS, adumbrates the perfection of Nature by the influence of magick; in Alchemical terms, the transmutation of base metal into gold. 2

The Greek form of Hes, the goddess Isis whose name means the 'seat', 'foundation' or 'birth-place'. 3

The Greek form of the Egyptian goddess Hes who symbolises the base or foundation of life.4

'Infinite Space & the Infinite Stars thereof'. Frater Achad's notariqon, which defines better than anything else the nature of Isis as the Supreme Cosmic Power Zone, which, in conjunction with Nu, Nuit, constitutes the Nu-Isis Current presently radiating from transplutonic deeps of Space. 6


Ixaxaar

The 'secret unspeakable name' of the Hexecontalitho or Sixtystone. It is the 'barbarous' or alien formula for invoking the Qliphoth. Its number is 333, the number of Choronzon (q.v.) 5

The name of the Sixtystone, or Black Seal, set over the Gulf of Nether Earth where lurk the terrestrial reflexes of the Ophidian Current. The ancient geographer, Solinus, describes Ixaxaar, and Arthur Machen has woven around it a sinister magical allegory. Ixaxaar adds up to 333 which links the Stone with the Qliphoth. 6


Iyemoja
Iyemoja (Af.)

'The Mother of the Fish' and the origin of all the gods and goddesses in the African system. See Ifa and Ife. The Fish is the sexual principle in its feminine form. 3

Lit. 'The Mother of the Fish', i.e. the source of the gererative current, the fish being symbolic of the sexual principle in its feminine form.4


Jada
Jada (Skt.)

Inert. Usually applied to the body, which is animted by consciousness and merely jada without it.4


Jagrat
Jagrat (Skt.)

The waking-state of consciousness wherein the mundane world of objects is apparently experienced (see Swapna). 2

The state of wakeful or mundane conciousness. See Svapna, and Shushupti.4

Human consciousness in the wakeful state, i.e. the state of projecting images which it regards as actual or tangible entities. 5

Consciousness appears to manifest in terrestrial entities in three forms or states, of which Jagrat is the waking state. 6


Jakuta
Jakuta (Af.)

A name of Shango, q.v. 3


Japa
Japa (Skt.)

Constant repetition of a mystic word or mantra, the vibrations of which alter the composition of the subtle body. 2


Jiva
Jiva (Skt.)

The human or embodied spirit as distinct from Atma, the True Self, which is not necessarily embodied. 3


Jivanmukta
Jivanmukta (Skt.)

'Liberated while still embodied', i.e. the realization of the Atma, or True Self, by the embodied or human spirit. 3


Juggernaut

An Indian version of Yog-Nuit, the force that dissolves phenomenal existence and returns it to nonmanifestation.4


Ka
Ka (Eg.)

The shadow or astral double.4


Kaaba
Kaaba (Ar.)

A form of Kef, Keb, or Qaba, the Great Mother. 5


Kabultiloa

The African cult centre of the Bultu (q.v.) or Spectral Hyena. The name means, literally: the shadow (ka) of the spectre or spirit (loa) of the hyena (bultu). See Part II, chapter 7.4


Kadath
Kadath (Nec.)

The Cold Waste. A term from the Necronomicon Mythos which denotes the sheer cold whiteness symbolic of Yuggoth, the transplutonic focus of the Forces from Outside the known Universe. It is to the Macrocosm what Hadath (Hadit, q.v.) is to the Microcosm. 5

The primal creative energy - Hadith or Kadath-abides in the Cold Waste, which is named after it. Kadath signifies dimensions beyond the grasp of both the waking and the dreaming states of consciousness. (See Jagrat). 6


Kadomah
Kadomah-s (Tib.)

Tibetan equivalent of Dakini-s (q.v.) Female vampires attendant upon the goddess Kali. 3


Kaf-Ape

The cynocephalus or 'sacred' baboon, snactified on account of its periodic emissions which relate to solar and lunar phenomena. As the first recorder of Time, the Kaf-Ape became a symbol of Thoth, the moon god. The male cynocephalus (lit. dog-headed) ape, was the living prototype of the Word, for human speech originated in the primal utterances of the Kaf-Ape. 3

The cynocephalus or sacred baboon. One of the earliest zootypes of the lunar current, for by its periodic amissions time was first measured. It later became associated with Thoth, a moon god and god of magick and of writing, for the Kaf-ape was the living prototype of the Word that ante-dated human speech. The symbolism of the Kaf-ape is highly charged and very complex; it is treated extensively in the Typohonian Trilogy.4


Kailasa
Kailasa Prastara (Skt.)

An expression denoting the Tantric formula in which the priestess assumes the lofty or dominant role (symbolized by Mount Kailas, a Himalayan peak). Its analogue in the Cult of Thelema is typified by the posture of Nuit on The Stele of Revealing. The Kailasa Prastara is the formula for obtaining the elixir of life from the tumescent priestess during the practice of Viparita Karani (q.v.). 2

The ritual position in which the Priestess (i.e. the woman chosen to represent the Goddess) is arched over her worshipper, as Mount Kailasa in the region of the Himalayas, towers above man. Cf. the posture of the goddess Nuit on the Ste'le' 718, which posture is a form of the Kailasa Prastara.) For an illustration of the Ste'le', see The Magical Reveval, opp.p.116.) 3


Kaivaly
Kaivaly (Skt.)

The goddess Kali alone grants Kaivalya, or supreme liberation of consciousness from the thralldom of embodied (i.e. individualized) existence. 2


Kaivalya
Kaivalya (Skt.)

Mukti, i.e. Supreme Liberation, as conferred by Kali on her devotees. 3


Kala
Kala (s) (Skt.)

Time, a period, essence, emanation, a ray, a star, etc. 1

A loaded term in the Tantras, kala signifies time, a star, a perfume, essence, unguent, etc. It is the source of Kali, goddess of Time and the origin of our word calendar can be fathomed in this concept. In the Tantras it refers specifically to the vaginal vibrations brought on by an intensification of ritual procedure during the performance of the Kaula rites. See Kaula Circle. 2

Lit. Time, or periodic measurement; also essence, ray, perfume, star, flower, symbolic of Kali the Supreme Flow-er or periodic emanator of worlds. There are 32 major kalas in the cosmos, represented by the 32 Paths of the Tree of Life which contain the cosmic power-zones and the 16 kalas emanated by the human organism; 8 in the male, and 8 in the female. The kalas, of varying hue, have given their name to the 'colors', and their periodic manifestation to the 'calendars': concepts and words of everyday thought and speech. But the main kala, or color, is Kali which means Black (cf. our word 'coal'; also 'kohl', a substance used by women to darken their eyelids). Black has reference to the mysteries of Sex and Death, and the reason for the hitherto unexplained statement: 'Osiris is a black God'. Set or Sut (cf, soot) also means the black or burnt one; and so-called 'black' magick derived originally from cognate ideas which predated the 'white' magick of the solar cults. 3

Essences, principles, elements, flowers, perfumes, fragrances, medicines, metals, colours. The word has all these connotations and many more. In the Tantras, the kalas are divisions of Time, and have a very special connotation, being connected with the doctrine of the vaginal vibrations or effluvia of the female used in the sacred rites. These are represented on the qabalah and the tarot by magical glyphs which it is the purpose of my books to explain. See Typhonian Trilogy.4

Time, essence, ray, division, digit. A term used in the tantras to denote the essence or fragrance of the Suvasini (q.v.). In its sense of time, our word Calendar derives from kala; in its sense of essence or vibration, our word color. Hence, the 'flowers of the Goddess' are Her kalas. The china rose or blood red hibiscus is the symbol of Kali whose kalas manifest as the colors in the alchemical processes of transmutation and in the distillation of the elixir of life, or the Vinum Sabbati (q.v.). 5

Time; also, a digit of the moon as marker of the bright and dark fortnights. Our word calendar derives from kala. There are 16 kalas, or lunar fluids, known to terrestrial science, and they are situated in the organism of the human female; hence, Kali as Goddess of Time, and of the kalas. Time is the source of energy that powers spacecraft's. When converted into energy, the kalas appear as the power that motivates spacecraft's and enables them to travel infinite distances in the twinkling of an eye. 6


Kalachakra
Kalachakra (Skt.)

The Wheel or Chakra that distils the Supreme or Mahakala, sometimes called the Chandrakala or moon-medicine.4

The Circle or Power-zone of Time. The Mongolian Rite of the Kalachakra involves the 16 terrestrial sub-elements or kalas. (See Crowley's comments on Atu VII in The Book of Thoth). 6


Kalavidya
Kalavidya (Skt.)

The science of the Kalas. 2


Kali

Lit. Black. The Hindu Goddess of Time and Cycles of Time. She also represents the power of Dissolution, cosmic and otherwise, and is therefore equated with Night, Darkness, and Death. 1

The Tantric goddess of Time or Period. She represents the massive concentration of the kalas; her yoni is likened to the cremation-ground (smashanam) where all desire is extinguished and where her devotees are freed from tine, i.e. the recurring cycles of embodied existence. Her yantra is given in Plate 6. 2

The Black Goddess of Time (Kala). Our word Calendar derives from her name. She is black because Time dissolves phenomenal existence back into non-manifestation.4

The Great Mother Goddess of Time. See Kala(s). 6


Kalika

Kali in the form of the letter 'k', which is a glyph of the yoni and the letter attributed to sexual magick, which is one of the reasons why Crowley terminates magick with a 'k'. 2


Kalinian
Kalinian Current

A term coinded to denote the functins characteristics of Kala (q.v.).4


Kalpa
Kalpa (Skt.)

An age. 5


Kalpaka
Kalpaka (Skt.)

Lit. 'the fashioner of the world'. 2


Kam
Kam (Eg.)

Black. Its zootype is the crocodile, a symbolc of Mako (a form of Set), the son of Typhon.4


Kama
Kama (Skt.)

Desire; sexual passion. 2

Desire; also the God of Desire. 3

The God of Desire. The power that motivates and perpetuates existence in the conceptual or illusory universe. 6


Kamakala
Kamakala (Skt.)

Lit. 'Desire-ray'. 1

The kala or essence of desire. Technically, the trikona or triangle which represents the yoni of the goddess which contains the red, white and mixed essences or tribindu. 2

The ray or essence of Desire. For the tantric conception of the evolution and 'play' of this ray or kala see The Kamakalavilasa of Sri Punyanandanatha, translated by Sir John Woodroffe; Tantric Texts series, Madras,1953. 3


Kamrup
Kamrup (Skt.)

The form or image of desire. The principal mundane chakra or power-zone of the Goddess; situated at Kamrup in Assam. According to Tantric tradition, Kamrup is the yoni of the earth and the place of macrocosmic menstruation. 2


Kaph
Kaph (Heb.)

The letter of Jupiter, whose vahana (vehicle) is the Eagle. Kaph means 'a palm'. Spelt in full KPh=100=20 (K)+80(P). KP (Kteis/Phallus) are the initials of the magical instruments of creation. 100=Qoph (q.v.), which means 'the back of the head, the cerebellum, where the creative or reproductive force is primarily situated'. (Crowley, Magick, p. 183). See Diagram 1. 3

The eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is synonymous with Coph (Nia), Kaf (Ape), Qoph (Moon); all of which, see.4

K is the eleventh letter of the Magical Alphabet. It represents the Energy that distinguishes magic from magick. Eleven is the number of the 'other side'. See Coph Nia, Nia, etc. 6


Karezza

An ancient mode of magic in which energy is built up by erotic stimulation and directed to occult ends without physical discharge of sexual fluid. It was advocated in the West by Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) who adapted it from certain Tantric practices. 2

A sex-magical mathod whereby energy is built up by erotic stimulation, retained and directed to occult ends. It was advocated in the West by Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906), who adapted it from certain Tantric techniques.4

A method of sexual magick advocated in the West by Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) who adapted the formula from certain Tantric practices of building up magical energy by erotic stimulatiion and by suppressing its expression on the physical plane in order to create astral entities or magical mannikins on the astral plane. 5


Karma
Karma (Skt.)

The law, or loa, that determines the course of destiny in relation to the individual. It is an entirely illusory device which necessarily comports compensation of energy in terms of 'joy' and 'suffering, both of which are equally delusive. Objects alone are subject to karma, therefore consciousness disidentified with entity alone is free. 6


Karpuram
Karpuram (Skt.)

Camphor; the incense sacred to Shiva. See Shukra. The esoteric meaning of Karpuram may be found in Chapter 8. 2


Kartikeya
Kartikeya (Skt.)

The Hindu form of the Egyptian Khart or Kraat, the child begotten of Fire and sometimes equated with the planet Mars (Horus). His vahana or vehicle is the peacock which is, in another system, the symbol of Shaitan or Set. 3

The Hindu version of the earlier Egyptian Har, Khar, or Khart, the Child begotten of fire and sometimes equated with the planet Mars (Horus). His vehicle is the peacock which is the symbol of Shaitan or Set.4


Katesh
Katesh (Ch.)

See Qatesh. 2


Kaula
Kaula (Skt.)

The Kaula Division of the Tantras is devoted to the Goddess Kali. The Kaula or Kala Circle is, specifically, the yoni of Kali: the flow-er whose perfumes or vital essences are evoked in the Tantric rites. 3


Kaula Circle

The Magical Chakra or power-zone formed by the devotees of Kali for the purpose of generating magical energy for occult purposes. The Kaula or Kala Circle is, more specifically, the yoni of Kali, the abode of the flowers, perfumes, or vital essences used in magical ceremonies. 2


Kaula Marg
Kaula Marg (Skt.)

The Path or Way of those who invoke the kalas in the kalachakra or Kaula Circle.4


Kether
Kether (Heb.)

 The first concentration of the Ain (Void), represented by the first Sephira of The Tree of Life. Kether forms the apex of the Supernal Triad, above the Abyss, of which the two bases are Chokmah and Binah (q.v.). 1

The Crown. The first sephira of the Tree of Life (q.v.). The Sphere of the Ipsissimus. 2

The first cosmic power-zone and the crown of the Tree of Life through whcih pour down the influences of the Ain or Void, i.e. the 'other' universe that is beyond or ourside the known.4

The first Cosmic Power Zone. The ultimate pylon and outpost of a system that may be transcended only with the aid of extraterrestrial intervention, i.e. the Influence from Beyond. (See diagram of the Tree of Life). 6


Khabs
Khabs (Eg.)

An Egyptian word meaning 'a star'. Magically, the essence of magical power which resides in the Khu (q.v.). 1

A Star. 3

A star.4


Khart
Khart (Eg.)

The Child; represented by Har-pi-Khart, Horus the child. In a mystical sense, the khart is the silent operation of the will formulating its image in the invisible world as the 'child' is being generated. After a period of gestation, the child appears, 'crowned and conquering' (Ra-Hoor-Khuit): that is to say, he manifests to visible appearance in the objective world. Thus the magical 'child' is a result of sexual magick. 2

Child. The dwarf-soul or silent self typified by the phallus. See Kartikeya. Also, Harpocrates. 3

The dwarf deity, Hoor-Paar-Kraat, typified by the 'magical child', homunculus, or magical manikin. 6


Khebt
Khebt, Kheft, Khept, Khepsh &c. (Eg.)

The ancient name of Egypt, also called Khem (see Black) based upon the symbolism of the primal genetrix, the goddess of the seven stars. 3


Khem
Khem (Eg.)

The ithyphallic form of the god Horus. 1

Lit. Black. Khem also signifies the phallic power, hence the association of blackness with sex, and the reason for Osiris being described as a 'black god', i.e. a god of occult generation concealed in the darkness of Amenta; a form of the Hidden God. Khem was the ancient name for Egypt, and Alkhem or Alchemy was originally the 'black' art that had its origin in that land. 2

Black (q.v.). The Arabic form, Al-chemi, meaning the blackart, denoted the original alchemy of the kalas, first distilled magically in the Draconian Cult of Egypt; hence Egypt was known as Khem, the black or burning land. 3

Same as Kam (q.v.). Khem is a name applied to Egypt as the black or red land, and the anthropomorphic representation of this concept was ithyphallic. Primarily, however, the black or red Nilotic mud that literally formed Egypt, was identified symbolically with the red kala of the feminine fluid of manifestation.4

Lit. Black. The ancient name for Egypt as the black or red land. 5


Khepra

The Sun at Midnight represented in the form of a beetle-headed deity. Khepra is the Hidden God, or Sun in Amenti, that illumines the nether regions. Psychologically speaking, he is the 'god' who brings the subconscious to life, i.e. awakens the dead. 1


Khepr
Khepr-ta (eg.)

The frog-headed god of earth, i.e. after the transformation from aqueous (i.e. astral) existence. A symbol of magical transformation and reification.4


Khepsh
Khepsh (Eg.)

 The thigh of the Goddess represented celestially by the stellar complex Ursa Major, the Great Bear(er), and terrestrially, by the female generative organ. See Sefekh. 4


Kheru
Kheru (Eg.)

The 'true' voice which descends upon the male at the time of puberty. 3


Khonsu
Khonsu (Eg.)

Lit. 'traveler of the night sky', i.e. the moon. Khonsu compares with Gue'de or Ghede (q.v.) of the Voodoo cults. 3

Lit. 'Traveller of the night sky' (i.e. the moon). He is associated with the Pig of Chozzar (q,v,) and is the original of Gue'de, or Ghede, of the Voodoo cults. 4


Khu
Khu (Eg.)

The center, or abode, of Supreme Magical Power. 1

 The magical power par excellence. Cf. AL, I, 8: 'The Khabs[star] is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you.' The Star is Set; thus, by worshipping (i.e. using the formula of) Set, the magical power is invoked. 2

The Magical Power, par excellence, subsisting in the Goddess (cf. queue or tail). It is written in AL that ''The Khabs (i.e. the Star) is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs' (AL. I. 8.) The number of this verse-8-indicates that this star is the Star of the Eight Kalas identical with the human power-zone typified by The Cross. See chapter 1. 3

 The original queue or tail of the Goddess was the seat of magical power, of which the khu was the later stylised form.4

Magical power, par excellence. It is typified by the queue or tail of the feminine complex wherein the kalas (q.v.) are generated. 6


Kia

A term coined by Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) to denote the 'Atmospheric 'I'', symbolized by the Eye. Its complement is the Zos (q.v.). 3

The 'Atmospheric I', or Cosmic Spirit. A term used in Zos Kia Cults. Its symbolol is the Ayin, or Eye, and it is the centre of magical vision. 4

A term coined by A. O.Spare to denote pure or pre conceptual energy. 6


Kirtana
Kirtana (Skt.)

The song and dance that accompanies the celebration of the religious rites of the Vaishnavites (worshippers of Vishnu, Krishna, Mahadevi, ect.). 2


Koph

The daughter. See also Kaj-ape, Kaph, Qoph4.


Koth
Koth (Nec.)

The Hollow One (i.e. the vulva).4

In the Necromonicon Mythos, the name of a dreamtower which stands sentinel to the Tunnels of Set. Koth is also the 'Hollow One' as the ultimate female, or Void. 5

A dream tower admitting to other dimensions; it guards the Tunnels of Set. Sometimes known as the 'Hollow One', symbolic of woman as an Outer Gateway. 6


Kotha

'Thou Hollow One'. An invocation of the primal goddess that appears in an ancient Gnostic-coptic grimoire which Crowley restroed and re-presented as Liber Samekh. See Magick, p. 358.4


Koulini
Koulini (Skt.)

The name applied by the Kaulas to the Fire Snake at the Muladhara chakra, i.e. the fundamental human power-zone. 3


Kraat
Kraat (Eg.)

The Khart or Kraat is both the dwarf god (the Phallus) and the dwarf or 'magical child' that is begotten by the Phallus. His messenger or minister is Aiwass (q.v.). See Hoor-Paar-Kraat.


Krishna Paksha
Krishna paksha (Skt.)

The dark fortnight. The complement of Shukla paksha, q.v. Also, the period of the new moon. 3


Krishna

The supreme deity of the Vaishnites. Krishna is worshipped in conjunction with Radha, his consort, who typifies the evolutive power or Shakti of pure consciousness. What Shiva is to Shakti, so Krishna is to Radha. 2

The 'Dark' or 'Black' One. See Black. 3


Kriya
Kriya (Skt.)

Action. 3


Kronos
Kronos (Gk.)

A form of Saturn and therefore an enbodiment kof the idea of Time. The name is sometimes spelt Chronos and is peretuated in the word 'chronology'. 4


Kronotypes

A term used by Gerald Massey to denote the celestial time-keepers, whether stars or planets. See Part 1, chapter 10.4


Krut
Krut (Eg.)

See Khart. 2


Kshanika
Kshanika muktas (Skt.)

'Freed in an instant'. A claim made by the Tantric Adepts who worship Koulini. 3


Kteis
Kteis (Gk.)

The female organ of generation which, together with its complement, the Phallus, forms the physiological basis of the Ophidian Current. 2


Ku
Ku (Chi.)

Black Magic. The word has affinities with the Egyptian word Khu, q.v. and has reference to the feminine nature of its source. 6


Kulacara
Kulacara (Skt.)

The Way or Path of Kula (kala). See Kala(s). 2


Kumbhakam
Kumbhakam (Skt.)

Suspension of breath in yogic practice. 2


Kundalini
Kundalini (Skt.)

The Magical Power in the human organism, represented as a coiled serpent sleeping at the base of the spine until awakened by Will (Thelema). 1

The Fire Snake coiled at the base of the spine; ordinarily dormant in the unawakened individual. There are many ways of arousing this goddess, who is the supreme magical power in man. See Chapter 7. 2

The Hindu designation of the Fire Snake, q.v. 3

The magical power in man symbolized by a serpent having 3 1/2 coils which lies dormant at the base of the spine in the region of the Muladhara chakra. It is known to initiates, in whom it can be activated, as the Goddess of the Fire Snake. 4

The Serpent Power; the Fire Snake; the Thunder Dragon; the Ophidian Current or cosmic magical power as it inheres in the human-body complex. It lies dormant in the average human being. 6


Kurgasiax
Kurgasiax (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 21st Tunnel. 4


Kusuma
Kusuma (Skt.)

Lit. 'flower'. This name is particularly revered in Bengal where it is identified with the shakti to Thakur Haranath, a twentieth-century avatar of Krishna, Lord of Divine Love. Japa of the mantra Kusuma-Haranath refines the subtle body to such an extent that it may ultimately dissolve in the pure bliss of union with Krishna. 2


La
La (Th.)

An Hebrew word meaning 'Not', the Negative. It denotes the counterpart of AL, the positive article. In its triple form, AL-LA-LA (meaning' God is Not-Not'), Frater Achad recognized the supreme formula of the 93 Current (Allala=93). 6


Lafcursiax
Lafcursiax (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 22nd Tunnel.4

Guardian of the 22nd Tunnel of Set. 5


Lalita
Lalita (Skt.)

The sexual aspect of shakti, or power. The origial symbol of this concept was, not the woman, but the sow, known in ancient Egypt as Rerit. The Great Sow or Sower became the Lalita of the Indian and the Lilith of Chaldean lore, where she appears as the Queen of Night and the prototype of the succubus or sexual vampire.4


Lam
Lam (Tib.)

 An extra-terrestrial entity with whom Crowley established contact c. 1919 and which, in more recent years has been contacted by Soror Tanith of the O.T.O., and by Michael Bertiaux of the Black Snake Cult (Couleuvre Noire, La). A reproduction of Crowley's portrait of Lam appears in The Magical Revival. 4

An extra-terrestrial entity with whom contact was established by Crowley, c. 1919. Since that time, various members of the O.T.O. have had magical intercourse with Lam. Lam is a link between the star systems of Sirius and Andromeda. 5

Lit. 'The Way'. A loaded term for Typhonians for it is also the name of an extraterrestrial entity with whom Aleister Crowley established contact while in America in 1915. Lam's Cult is fast becoming a focus for those interested in the occult implications of 'Ufology' and intr-dimensional psionics. See Leng. 6


Lamal

A palindrome that reveals the true nature of the Cult of Lam as the transmitter to AL (Universe 'A') of, or from, LA (Universe 'B'), via MA (the daughter), (q.v.). 5


Lamed
Lamed (Heb.)

The letter Lamed, or 'L', plays a vital role in the symbolism of the New Aeon. Together with Aleph (q.v.) it forms the Name of The Book of the Law (AL). The influence especially associated with this letter is known as Nu-Isis (a combination of the two aspects of Nuit, the Heavenly and Earthly). This influence manifests as a cosmic force of which the planetary representative is Venus. 1

The number 30. The complete lunar cycle consisting of two lunations of 15 days each. Lamed is ascribed to Venus because of the sexual nature of the Lunar current.4

Lamipsos: The reverse formula for invoking Lam (q.v.) (See Ipsoslam). 5


Langage
Langage (Vd)

 A sacred tongue or language. 4


LAShTAL

A magical formula of supreme importance in the New Aeon. It is constructed on the same principle as IAO (q.v.). LA is Nuit, AL is Hadit (Horus), and ShT is the Astral Light (the god Set), the field of the operation of the infinities represented by AL and LA. 1

The basic formula of the New Aeon and of all sexual magick. LA (Nuit) unites with AL (Hadit), and the field of their interplay is ShT (Set), the Fire Snake. (The letter Sh=Fire; T=Serpent.) The qabalistic value of LAShTAL is 93, which equates it with Aiwaz, the Logos of the New Aeon, and with Agapè / Thelema, the formula of 'love under will'. 2


Left
Left-hand Path

See Vama Marg. 2


Legba
Legba (Af.)

See Elegba, i.e. Alegba. 3

 More correctly, AL-egba, the phallic deity of the Voodoo pantheon equivalent to the concept of Pan. Legba is also known as Ongogo Ogo, ' the genius of the knotted stick' (i.e. the phallus); and Eshu (cf. Shu), the 'evil one'. See echu.4


Leng
Leng, Abominable Plateau of

Its astral situation is in Central Asia. Roerich and Lovecraft were privy to its Mysteries. 5

 The name of the 'abominable plateau' which has been identified by some writers with a region in central Asia. In a magical sense, Leng is identical with certain dimensions of the Mauve Zone. Lam (q.v.) is the Lama of Leng. There are veiled references to him in the writings of Chambers, Lovecraft, Derleth, and others. 6


Leo

The fifth sign of the zodiac is in the form of a lion's tail ( ), which is emblematic of the (macrocosmic heat of summer. In the microcosm this typifies sexual heat, symbolized by the great cat or lioness, Sekhet. This was carried over into the Tantras as the idea of Shakti, or hidden magical power. 2

 The astrological glyph of Leo is in the form of the tail of a lioness. The tail or queue was the primal symbol of magical power (see Khepsh, khu) and that power was considered as feminine. The later cults, however, ascribed a solar-phallic origin to the power, and the lioness was transmogrified into the lion. 4


Leviathan
Leviathan (Heb.)

The old serpent ever seeking to penetrate into Paradise. In the Sepher Yetzirah, Leviathan is identified with Theli, the dragon. MacGregor Mathers suggests Than, the root of Leviathan. (See The Kabbalah Unveiled).4


Libra

The astrological sign of Libra is in the form of the double horizon, which the sun-disc rising or setting according as to whether the Spring or Autumn Equinox is implied. The letter Lamed (q.v.) is ascribed to Libra. Venus is its planetary representative and an indication of the nature of the formula whereby the two polarities (i.e. the two horizons) are perfectly balanced.4

The Balance associated with 'L', the letter of AL or Liber Legis (Book of the Law). It is also the letter of Maat, who represents the Balance between the aeons of the Son (Horus) and the Daughter (Ma). Libra therefore represents the equilibrium of the Double Current. 6


Lila
Lila (Skt.)

Play, sport, masque. The Indian concept of the World-Play usually considered as the sport of Radha and Krishna; in the New Aeon Cult, as the Play of Nuit and Hadit. 3

Play, sport, masque. A term used to denote the eternal play of energy and desire between Siva and Sakti. The eternal play of Consciousness (Krishna) with the objects of consciousness (Radha). 5

Play, masque, dance, or game, particularly the sport of hide-and-seek involving the ceaseless dalliance of Subject (Krishna) and Object (Radha) in the lila of phenomenal existence. 6


Lilith
Lilith:

In Talmudic lore, Lilith is the first wife of Adam. She represents, in the Mystery Schools, the sexual shadow, or succuba, formed of uncontrolled desire. Lilith is a vampire force, which, if projected beyond the aura of the magician, can obsess the object of its attentions. 1

Adam's first wife was the astral image of desire that become the type of the succuba. She represents the visions of unsatisfied desire reflected into conciousness as the vivid and voluptuous imagery that later manifested in the flesh as Eve (woman). See Lalita.4


Linga
Linga (Skt.)

The phallus. Its connection with the Word or Logos is implicit in such words as lingual, language. etc.4


Lingacara
Lingacara (Skt.)

The Way or Path of the Lingam. The worship of Shakti, or power, in its masculine form (i.e. the lingam) succeeded that of the Yoni (see Yonicara) when it was realized that the intervention of the male was necessary for physical conception and generation. The bitter antagonism between the lingacaras and the yonicaras, the Shaivites and the Shakteyas, has been the main cause of contention between rival religious factions throughout history. The pale reflection of this strife yet survives in the endless squabbles between the Protestant and Catholic elements of historic Christianity. 2


Linglessoux
Linglessoux, Les

A term used by Black Snake Cultists to denote the realms of the shrouds, or shells, of the Dead that may be animated by Voodoo sorcery. 6


Loa
Loa (Cr.)

A Voodoo term meaning 'god', 'spirit' or 'guardian angel'. 2

The gods or entities responsive to Voodoo rites. In a metaphysical sense, the loa are the laws basic to physical existence. 6


Loroo
Loroo (Ma.)

one of the Forgotten Ones described as the 'space between stars'. 5


Lutis
Lutis Nitra (Ma.)

A Mantra used in the Maat Cult to influence the astral body. 5


Lux
Lux, LVX (Gn.)

 Light, i .e. the Light of Consciousness in which the phenomenal appearance of this world-all occurs. *1

The Light of the Gnosis, i.e. the noumenal light of Consciousness which illumines the phenomenal universe. The complement of NOX (q.v.). 3

The Light of Conciousness. Its complement is NOX (q.v.).4

LVX The Light of Consciousness or Pure Being (Cf. Nox, the Darkness of Unconsciousness or Unbeing, i.e. the Un-dead). 5

The Light of Consciousness and, by metathesis, the LXV or Holy Guardian Angel that links man with Those beyond. (See Nox; also Tiphereth). 6


Lycanthropique
Lycanthropique, Mystère

A term used in the Black Snake Cult to denote a form of sorcery involving the use of the VIIIo, O.T.O. (See Part 2, chapter 9).4


Ma
Ma (Ma.)

The Daughter of Maat which designates the Lesser Circle or Aeon of Maat, i.e. Ma-ion 5.


Mahapurusha
Mahapurusha (Skt.)

A gigantic form radiant with light. A deva or shinning one.4


Ma-Ion

A term coined by Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones) to denote the formula of Manifestation and the nature of the New Aeon which he claimed to have inaugurated in 1948. See Chapter 8. 3

A term coined by Frater Achad to denote the Aeon of Maat. See Cults of the Shadow, chapter 8.4

(Ma.): The Aeon of the 'Daughter' which, according to Frater Achad, is the lesser cycle of the Maat-aeon, and which counterbalances the Aeon of the 'Son' (i.e. Horus). 6


The Aeon of Ma

(daughter aspect of Maat). The Lesser Cycle relating to the Daughter Darkness. As Set is to the Aeon of Horus, so is Ma to the Aeon of Maat, or the aeon of Full Manifestation, i.e. materialism or Matrialisation at its height. 5


Ma-Kheru
Ma-Kheru (Eg.)

'The true voice'. A term signifying the function of the god Hormakhu who represents the precise articulation of the Word or Logos which manifests at puberty. The true voice is thus of a creative nature and the vehicle of the Word of Power.4


Mako

The son of Typhon (and therefore a form of Set), typified by the crocodile. See Kam.4


Ma-Rada rites
Ma-Rada rites (Cr.)

See Petro rites. 2


Aeon of Maat

The Aeon that is to supersede the present Aeon of Horus. Frater Achad announced its inauguration on April 2nd., 1948. 5


Maat
Maat (Eg.)

The Egyptian goddess of Truth and Justice. Her name means 'measure' or 'truth'; our word mathematics is derived from it. 2

The ancient Egyptian goddess of Truth and Justice represented by the Balance of the Equinox (*) and of the Double Current (q.v.). In the Cult of Thelema, Maat denotes the Master of the Temple of the A.'.A.'. 5

The Goddess of Truth and Justice. The word mathematics derives from Maat; it is also a form of Mot, the Word. Maat has given her name to the Aeon which - according to AL - will succeed the Aeon of Horus with the Force and Fire of its sexual magick. Maat's Aeon will be characterized by Air (i.e. Space) and Water (i.e. the Deep), hence its association with Aquarius, and with Libra as the Balance of the Double Current. 6


Maatians

Those who partake already of the type of consciousness pertaining to , or typical of, the Aeon of Maat. Technically speaking, the Elder Gods are the Maatians who, when manifesting as the Ophidian Current are known as the Great Old Ones (q.v.) 5


Madhyamaka
Madhyamaka (Skt.)

The Doctrine of Sunyatavada, or Way of Emptiness, propounded by the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna (2nd cent. A.D.) and continued by Vimalakirti, Aryaveda, Chandrakirti and Santideva, etc. This school is probably the only one really to present the most profound implications of Buddhism and the highest Advaitic doctrines of India and China. It has had its modern exponents in the great Sri Ramana Maharshi of Tiruvannamalai, Sri Atmananda of Trivandrum and, in the West, Wei Wu Wei (Terence Gray). 6


Madya
Madya (Skt.)

Wine. One of the ingredients of the secret rite of the five elements or panchatattvas.(q.v.) 2

Wine. One of the Five makaras (q.v.). 3


Magical Child
Magical Child (Th.)

See Hoor-Paar-Kraat, Khrat, etc. Aiwass is the minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat, or Harpocrates, the silent dwarf-god symbolic of the child, Crowned and Conquering (Ra-Hoor-Khuit), that results from the magick of the Aeon of Horus. 6


Magick

The peculiar orthography is explained in Chapter I. Crowley used this spelling mainly to distinguish the magick of the New Aeon, which is of a directly electro-chemical nature, from the ceremonial techniques of the previous Aeon. 1


Magister Templi

Master of the Temple. The technical designation of a Grade in the A.'.A.'., the members of which have successfully 'crossed the Abyss'. See Abyss. The qabalistic notation of this Grade is 8=3, which indicates the total permeation of the Magician's universe (represented by Saturn, 3) by the Hermetic Light (8). 1


Magus

The technical designation of a Grade in the A.'.A.'. which is so exalted as to be achieved by a few individuals only during the course of an Aeon. Crowley attained the Grade in 1915, and took the motto The Master Therion (The Beast 666). The qabalistic notation of this Grade of Magus is 9=2, which indicates the total control of Yesod (the center of cosmic energy on the Tree of Life) by the Will of the Magician. It is the full and perfect attainment of the result of the formula of Love under will. 1

Magician; Octinomos. In the A.'.A.'., Magus is a title denoting attainment of the Grade 9=2, which is attributed to the second Cosmic Power-zone, Chokmah. See the Tree of Life. 3

The Octinomos, i.e., one who has reached the height of Magical Consciousness and who declares an aeonic 'Word'. The Grade of Logos, or Magus, pertains to the Second Cosmic Power-zone on the Tree of Life. It is the secret center of the Cult of Starry Wisdom, Chokmah, Sphere of the Stars that never set. 5


Maha-Yuga
Maha-Yuga (Skt.)

Maha, great; Yuga, aeon. 5


Mahachakra
Mahachakra (Skt.)

Great or Perfect Lotus. The flower that symbolizes Kali, the supreme flow-er or image of periodicity and continuous consciousness. 2


Mahakala
Mahakala (Skt.)

The Supreme Kala. See Kala-s. 3


Mahakalpa
Mahakalpa (Skt.)

Maha great; kalpa, age or aeon. It has a connation similar to Mahayuga. 5


Mahamudra
Mahamudra (Skt.)

The Great Seal, the Great Posture, the Great Woman. These terms, according to context, describe the priestess at various stages of her manifestation of Mahakali, the Great Goddess. 2


Mahapralaya
Mahapralaya (Skt.)

The great absorption of images into cosmic sleep. At the end of a kalpa or age, the supreme goddess (Kali) withdraws all the images that she, as Time, has projected onto the screen of Space during her active phase of manifestation. A period of cosmic laya, equivalent to the microcosmic state of deep sleep (sushupti), then supervenes, during which creation is absorbed back into its source prior to a new awakening, a new kalpa. 2

Lit. 'Great Dissoulution'. The period of rest or withdrawal to non-manifestation that occurs after the projection of phenomenal existence has gone its round of seven cycles of aeons.4


Mahasattipathana
Mahasattipathana (Skt.)

A Buddhist mode of meditation in which the mind is not restrained to a single object but is set to observe the flow of thoughts with the purpose of locating its source and analysing its nature. 1


Mahashakti
Mahashakti (Skt.)

Great power. 2


Mahavakya
Mahavakya (Skt.)

Lit. 'Great Word'. The sacred writings of the Hindus (Upanishads) contain four main sentences which concentrste the essence of Truth about Brahman (Pure Consciousness), the entire body of sacred writings being an exposition, on innumerable levels, of these mahavakyas. 2


Maion
Maion (Ma.)

See Ma. 5


Maithuna
Maithuna (Skt.)

Coupling, union, congress. In the Tantras maithuna connotes sexual intercourse, either symbolic or actual. Maithuna is one of the five makaras (q.v.). 2 The term is used more especially in the sense of trans-sexual congress. 3 Lit. 'coupling'; as of the lips in speech, the genitals in sexual congress, and the mind and its objects. (See Viparita maithuna). 6


Makara
Makara (Skt.)

There are five makaras known as the panchamakaras or panchatattvas (five truths, elements, principles). They are known as the Five M's: madya (wine), mamsa (flesh), meena (fish), mudra (attitudes), Maithuna (congress). The Tantras accord a special and secret meaning to the term makara. According to Tamil commentators makara is a rejuvenating and life-prolonging fluid obtained from women while in a state of magically induced trance or ecstasy. In Hindu mythology, makara is the crocodile, symbol of Sevekh or Set. It is equated with the zodiacal sign, Capricornus. Its figure is borne on the banner of Kama-deva, the god of desire. 2


Malatan
Malatan (Ma.)

Blood. See Talam. 5


Maldah
Maldah (Heb.)

The Bride. A term denoting the Tenth Cosmic Power-Zone, Malkuth. It represents the earth, or Waking State of consciousness wherein the dream becomes 'fixed' in matter. 5


Malkunofat
Malkunofat (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 23th Tunnel.4


Malkuth
Malkuth (Heb.)

The tenth and final Sephira of the Tree of Life. It is the Sphere of the Earth and represents the densest manifestation of the cosmic current. It is the equivalent of the 'daughter' in the formula of IHVH (q.v.). It is on the plane of Malkuth that the process of 'redemption' begins. The formula of this redemption varies with successive aeons. It is the purpose of the present book to indicate its mechanism in the New Aeon. 1

The tenth and densest Cosmic Power-zone. It is attributed to the Daughter, i.e. the He' (final) of Tetragrammaton. 3

'The bride'. The tenth power-zone, typified by the daughter. See Koth; Malkuth or Malkoth is the power-zone connected with the total manifestation of matter.4

The tenth Cosmic Power Zone; the sphere of manifestation at terrestrial levels represented by the Bride or Daughter. In magical terms, the sphere of the unawakened (or virgin) priestess entranced and ready to manifest extraterrestrial forces. 6


Mamsa
Mamsa (Skt.)

Flesh, meat. One of the Five M's. See Makara. 2,2


Manamana
Manamana (Af.)

Lightning; attributed to the 31st Kala - the Path of Fire. 3

Lightning.4


Mandala
Mandala (Skt.)

Circle. The fully projected circle of one's magical universe. Everything of which one is conscious forms a part of one's mandala. 5


Mani Stone

See Chintamani. 5


Manifestation
Manifestation (Ma.)

The 'Word of the Ma-Ion: the ultimate of materialism or materialization on the verge of dematerializing. The letters Ma ion begins and end the word Manifestation. 5


Manipura Chakra
Manipura Chakra (Skt.)

One of the seven major chakras or wheels of magical force in the human organism. 3


Manjari

A term used by Bengal shaktas to denote the female companion whose company is an essential adjunct of spiritual culture. 2


Mantra
Mantra, Mantric (Skt.)

A Divine Name or Vibration used in Tantric Ritual. See Yantra. 1

The manifest vibration of subtle sound in the form of a word (or series of words) which, by constant reveration, transforms the constitution of individual consciousness. Mantra is the 'sound' equivalent of the yantra (q.v.), and the Tantra its mode of precipitation. 2

The manifest vibration of sound in the form of a word (or series of words) which, by constant reverberation, alters the subtle anatomy of the mantrin (i.e. one who employs the mantra), attuning him to the plane of the force in question. Mantra is the 'sound' equivalent of yantra (q.v.), and tantra is the mode of its precipitation and activity. 3

A spell or charm vibrated vocally or silently that has the power of evoking a given response from occult spheres. (See Hum.) The bijamantra (i.e. root or primal mantra) is Om (q.v.). 6


Marg
Marg (Skt.)

Path, Way. 3


Marma
Marma(s) (Skt.)

A term used in the tantras to indicate the site of a power-zone in the human body. In the secret science of Sri Vidya such a site is indicated on the Sri Yantra at the intersection of three or more lines. 1

The intersection of three lines on the diagram known as Shri Chakra (see Plate 5) denotes a marma or power-zone in the human subtle body. See also Sandhi. 2

A point of intersecting lines on the Sriyantra denoting the locus of an erogenous zone in the human organism. This term has significance in the science of the Gnosis, Sri Vidya, in respect of the kalas (q.v.) of the Goddess. 5

A place of crossing, usually applied to the intersection of three lines on the Sri Chakra, at which junction is located an erogenous zone in the body of the Goddess represented by the Circle of Time (Kali, q.v.). 6


Mars

The Roman equivalent of the 'god' Horus, though more limited in its significance and application as a magical formula. See remarks on Mars in Chapter 4. See also Chapter 10 for the role of the Martian current in the New Aeon. 2


Masloth
Masloth (Heb.)

The Sphere of the Fixed Stars. A name given to the second cosmic power-sone, Chokmah, the realm of the Magus. 4


Marassas
Marassas (Voo.)

The twins. Gemini is the astrological glyph of this concept, which is of vital importance in the Draconian Cult. The twins, or lovers, typify the fully polarised aspect of shakti (power). Hence they are represented by the Sword. See Zain. 4


Mauve
Mauve Zone

A synonym for the Crimson Emptiness, the Abyss, the Great Gulf, Chaos, the Desert of Set, the Plateau of Leng, etc. Its locus on the Tree of Life is at Daäth, the Place of the Crossing typified by the explosive Hershchel whose astroglyph (***) resembles the Sign of the Drukpas (q.v.) the Triple Fire-tongue, and the Tridents of Chozzar and of Shiva. 6


Maya
Maya (Skt.)

The subtle power of cosmic consciousness which causes the universe of objectivized images to appear real. Thus the word connotes 'glamour', 'illusion' and is the root of the word magic. 2

Illusion. The word Maya is the basis of magic, the art or science of creating worlds of illusory forms. Mayan is the Great Magician, the Magus (q.v.). 3

The ultimate illusion. The Magic or Magic Play of Consciousness (Light) and Unconsciousness (Darkness) - Lux and Nox. 5


Meena
Meena (Skt.)

Fish. One of the Five M's. See Makara. 2


Megor
Megor-Marduk (Ma.)

One of the Forgotten Ones. 5


Meon

 A term used by votaries of the Black Snake Cult to denote the 'other' or unknown Universe, i.e. Universe 'B'. 4

A term used by members of the Cult of La Couleuvre. Noire to denote Universe 'B'. It is a form of Mu-Ayon, Mo-Ayin, or Ma-Ion. 5

A term coined by Michael Bertiaux to denote certain aspects of the Ma-Ion (q.v.) and the Aeon of the Maatians, in relation to the dark doctrine of the Daäthian Gnosis. 6


Meru Prastara
Meru Prastara (Skt.)

The ritual posture in which the suvasini (q.v.) remains seated on the throne (pitha) in the Kaula Circle. 3


Metatron
Metatron (Heb.)

 The angel of Briah (q.v.).4


Mina
Mina (Skt.)

Fish. One of the Five Makara-s, q.v. 3


Mirroir Fantastique

A reflection, in terms of the Meon (q.v.), of Universe 'A' (i.e. the known universe).4

The reflex of the Dayside of the Tree of Life, showing the shadow-graphs and inverse images of Universe 'A'. 5


Misra Kala
Misra Kala (Skt.)

The Mixed (misra) essence or seed (kala). One of the three bindus (see Tribindu). 2


Stone of Mnar

In the Necronomicon Mythos, the name of a talisman affording protection against uncontrolled invasion of the Great Old Ones. 5


Mo-Ayon

A term used by Black Snake Cultists to denote the Dark Doctrine, or the Doctrine of the Dark Side of the Tree.4

A term used by Black Snake Cultists to denote the 'Dark Doctrine'. See Meon. 5


Mounam
Mounam (Skt.)

Silence. To 'take' mounam is to take a vow of silence. 5


Mu

 The vulture's cry. Its number,46, is the Key of the Mysteries. (See Part 1, Chapter 11).4

The Cry or 'Word' of the Vulture of Maat. The formula of the Fire Snake, or Ophidian Current, at the locus of the Ninth Cosmic Power-Zone, where Maat manifests as Maut (the Vulture). 5


Mu Aion

A variant spelling kof Mo Ayon (q.v.). Its number, 177, is that of Gan Eden (the Garden of Eden), thus indicating the concern of the Dark Doctrine with the nightside of Eden. (See Part 2, chapter 19).4


Mudra
Mudra (Skt.)

Cereal, parched grain, attitude, posture, seal, woman; the word has all these meanings. It also has an esoteric significance as it is one of the Five M's. See Makara.2

Ritual gestures or magical passes. 3

Gesture; also a seal, in the sense of magical passes or gestrues of the hand that concentrate power in specific centres of the body.4

A mystic attitude or gesture which usually accompanies the vibration of a mantra (q.v.). It also means 'parched cereal' which is a symbolic mode of describing a certain manifestation of the entranced priestess engaged in the Kaula rites. 6


Mukti
Mukti (Skt.)

Liberation (i.e. from the thraldom of individualized consciousness). 3


Muladhara Chakra
Muladhara Chakra (skt.)

The first of the Shatchakras (q.v.) and the abode of the Fire Snake. 2

The basal power-zone in the human body at the region of the anus and genitals. The abode of the Fire Snake. 3

Lit. Root chakra. The power-zone at the base of the spine; the abode of the Fire Snake (q.v.).4


Musarus

An abomination. Term applied by Berosus to the messengers from Sirius, or Great Old Ones, in amphibious form. See Annedoti. 5


Mystère Lycanthropique

A term used in the Black Snake Cult (see chapter 9 and 10) to denote magical transformations analogous to those resulting from the Assumption of God-forms as practiced in the Golden Dawn, and the formula of Atavistic Resurgence used in Zos Kia Cultus, (q.v.). 3


Mystère Royale

A Meonic designation of Daäth as the consort of Ghuedhe-Nibho (q.v.). 6


Nada
Nada (Skt.)

Nerve-center related to sound or vibration. The Nadis are a ramifying network of nerve-centers in the human phychosomatic organism. The reception of transmission from Outside depends upon the Nadis being maintained in a state of hypersensitivity and clarity. This has not necessarily to do with any state of physical health, so-called. 6


Nadis
Nadis (Skt.)

There are said to be 72,000 nerve centers, or nades, in the subtle body of man. The three foremost are Sushumnanadi, Pingalanadi and Idanadi, which transmit the energies of the Fire Snake, the Sun, and the Moon, respectively. 2

Subtle nerve complexes in the human organism. The Hindus claim that there are 72,000 nadi-s. The 3 major nadi-s are the Pingala (solar nadi), the Ida (lunar nadi), and the Sushumna (fire nadi). These are typified respectively by the right and left currents of energy (prana) that enter and leave the body via the right and left nostrils, and the central fire of the Kundalini in the spinal passage wherein both sun and moon are dissolved in the conflagration of the risen Fire Snake. 3


Naga
Naga (Skt.)

A serpent. The type of the Ophidian Current (q.v.) especially in its relation to the Deep Ones. 6


Nagrikshamish
Nagrikshamish (Ma.)

A name of one of the Forgotten Ones. 5


Narcissus

The myth of Narcissus has a particular reference to the formula of the VIII' O.T.O. (See Part 2, chapter 9).4


Nashimiron
Nashimiron (Heb.)

'The Snaky'. An Order of Qliphoth pertaining to the 25th Tunnel.4


Nayika Siddhi
Nayika Siddhi (Skt.)

The magical power (siddhi) of evoking to visible and sensible appearance the forms of alluring women, and, by their means, of gaining control over their human counterparts. Also, a form of sexual magic in which female 'demons' are first evoked and then used. See Dakini-s, Kadomah-s. 3


Nechastheron
Nechastheron (Heb.)

'The Brazen Serpents'. An Order of Qliphoth pertaining to the 24th Tunnel.4


Necronomicon

See Al Azif. The Book of the Law of Dead Names. Its existence was drawn to the attention of earth dwellers by H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). It forms the basis of the Cult of the Great Old Ones (q.v.). 5


Neither-Neither

A term used by Auston Osman Spare (1886-1956) to denote meon (q.v.). 5


Nema

The magical motto under which Soror Andahadna channeled, in 1974, Liber Pennae Praenumbra, or the Book of Maat. 5


Nemirion

A term used by Michael Bertiaux to denote Boullanist Adepts of Rigel, in the constellation of Orion. The Abbe' Boullan (1824-1893) was a French occultist and friend of J.K. Huysmans. Boullan taught a mode of magick involving sexual congress with 'angels', or extraterrestrials. 6


Nephilim
Nephilim (Heb.)

Giants, Fallen Ones, Abortions. They were glyphed by the Ape. In a mystical sense they are the mahapurusas (q.v.) that 'fell through' the window in space typified by Daäth and spawned the Typhonian teratomas described by Berosus in his account of Creation. (See Part 1, chapters 8 and 9).


Neptune

See Chozzar; also, Nodens.4


Neter
Neter (Eg.)

The neter-sign or axe is a symbol of divinity as the cleaver into two. As such, it was originally a symbol of the Mother and her child, the latter being neter or neuter, i.e. neither male nor female, but having the potential of either. The axe as a figure of 7 is the symbol of Set, whose name means seven. This figure of seven was attributed also to Venus, the planetary representitive of the primordial mother whose original form was the thigh constellation in 'heaven', and the woman's womb upon earth.4


Netzach
Netzach (Heb.)

The seventh Cosmic Power-zone on the Tree of Life. It is attributed to the goddess Venus. 3

The seventh cosmic power-zone or sephira to which is ascribed the Goddess Venus.4

The Seventh Cosmic Power-Zone of the Tree of Life. Venus is its planetary representative. 5


New Aeon

A term used by Crowley to denote the current cycle or era which will endure for approximately 2,000 years and which is under the aegis of the 'god ' Horus. The Aeon of Horus commenced in 1904 when AL (q.v.) was transmitted to Crowley by an extra-terrestrial Intelligence named Aiwass. See Crowley's works for a full exposition of the Aeon of Horus. 2


New Isis Lodge

A Lodge of the O.T.O. operated by Kenneth Grant for seven years (1955-62), for the purpose of transmitting the Magical Knowledge of Nu-Isis (q.v.). See Chapter 10. 2

Founded by Kenneth Grant in 1955 for the transmission of magical techniques relating to the trans-plutonic power-zones known as Nu-Isis. The lodge functioned for precisely seven years, seven being the number of Set and of the Primal Goddess of the Seven Stars. See chapter 10 of Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God. 3

(also called Nu-Isis Lodge): A cell of the O.T.O. (q.v.) established by Kenneth Grant for the reception of transmissions from the transplutonic planet, Isis. Grant's two trilogies - of which this is the final volume - are based in large measure on these transmissions, which occurred during the seven years between the Lodge's founding in 1955 and its reabsorption into the O.T.O. in 1962. 6


Nexhagus
Nexhagus (Ma.)

A name found in the Book of the Forgotten Ones. 5


Nia
Nia (Th.)

The reflex of Ain (Heb.), meaning Nothing, the determinative of which is an Eye. It denotes the secret Gateway of the Daughter (Coph) which opens on to Universe 'B'. 5

The reflex of Ain (q.v.). The term has vital significance in the qabalahs of Besqul, where it represents the Left Eye (i.e. the Eye of the Daughter) and the Vama Marg (q.v.). See Coph Nia. 6


Niantiel
Niantiel (Heb.)

sentinal of the 24th Tunnel.4


Nibho
Nibho (Voo.)

Lord.4


Nirvana
Nirvana (Skt.)

The negative or noumenal source from which arises the illusory world of subjective and objective experience. 3

The interdependent counterpart of Samsara (q.v.). When the phenomenal world is dissovled in and by the mind of the Initiate, the result is Nirvana.4


Nitya
Nitya(s) (Skt.)

The Nityas are the days or digits of the dual lunation. There are sixteen Nitya deities presiding over the days of the bright fortnight and another sixteen presiding over those of the dark fortnight. The one added Nitya in each group is attributed to a single lunar digit, thus accounting in all for thirty, not thirty-two days to a month. See Chapter 11. 2

The days or rays of the dual lunation. Sixteen nitya deities preside over the days of the shukla paksha (q.v.) and the krishna paksha (q.v.). The additional nitya in both groups is attributed to a single lunar ray, thus accounting- in all- for a complete lunar cycle. 3

A technical designation in the tantras denoting the kalas of the Dark Fortnight. See Gopis. 6


Nivritti
Nivritti (Skt.)

The aim of all spiritual culture, or Yoga, is to eradicate the vrittis (mental tendencies), and many are the methods advocated. Success in any one of them leads to nivritti or cessation of mental tendencies, i.e. thought-constructions, consciousness is thereby achieved. 2


No
No* (Ma.)

A name appearing in the Book of the Forgotten Ones (See chapter 17 of the present volume). 5


Nodens

The God of the Deep, or Abyss, and, according to H.P. Lovecraft 'the only named Elder God'. This deity survived into Roman times and was worshipped in these islands at the earthly power-zone or chakra situated at Lydney in Gloucestershire. 2

A form of Neptune as God of the Deep, i.e. Amenta (q.v.). Nodens is a form of Chozzar, whose symbol is the trident or triple-tounged fire of Shin (or Sin) the letter of Set.4

The great god of the Deep, or of the Abyss (i.e. the subconsciousness). It was the magical name assumed by Frater Aossic as Head of New Isis Lodge. 5


Nox

Night. A secret name of the Goddess which, in its symbolic form represents the Mark of the Beast: (combined 0, x) hence Nox is sometimes called the Night of Pan. 2

NOX: The total withdrawal of consciousness from the pheno-menal world. The complement of LVX, q.v. The number of NOX, 210, symbolizes the reversal of the process of manifestation :012. Hence NOX is the formula of dissolution, and the Key of the Abyss. 3

Night. A name of Nuit and the Key of the Abyss. A formula of dissolution that contains the Mark of the Beast. See Crowley's Comment to Liber VII, published in the Magazine, Mezla (No. 4).4

See Lux. 5

Night. The counterpart of Lux (q.v.). The Unconscious Will which has its roots in the Night of Pan, i.e. the Mauve Zone. 6


Nu
Nu (Eg.)

The star-lit heaven. 5

The Waters of Space. Combined with Isis, the term connotes the kalas of the transyuggothian power-zone known as Nu-Isis. 6


Nu-Isis
Nu-Isis:

The combined powers of the celestial and terrestrial Currents as they manifest through the dual polarities of sex. Nuit and Isis typify the forces of Spirit and Matter respectively. 1

A term denoting the free circuit or polarity of the celestial (Nu) and terrestrial (Isis) currents which manifest through the twin terminals of sex, thus creating a vortex that incarnates cosmic forces of superhuman potential. 2

The transplutonic power-zone that inspired the teachings of New Isis Lodge, q.v. 3

That aspect of Nuit or Nox (q.v.) that raiates darkness from the transplutonic power-zone sacred to Set or Shaitan. See Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God, chapter 10.4

The star-lit earth, i.e. the earth open to, or receptibe of, the stellar influences from outside (Sirius, etc.) 5

A technical term designating the region of Space specifically associated with the transplutonic planet named Isis. (See New Isis Lodge). 6


Nu-Maat

The twinned Nuit-Maat complex fusing the magical currents of the Aeons of Horus and Maat. 5


Nuit

Infinite Space and the infinite stars thereof. In a metaphysical sense, Nuit is the Continuum of Bliss that results from the resolution of mundane existence into the elements of non-existence. She (Nuit) is represented as a human female form arched over the earth, as in the Ste'le' of Revealing. In a more specialized and magical sense Nuit is the complement of Hadit, the omnipresent point of which she is the infinite circumference. She is North, and equates with Horus; he is South, and equates with Set. 1

Goddess of the night-sky, frequently depicted by the ancient Egyptians in the form of a woman arched over the earth, her body sewn with stars.This representation is of vital importance in the Cult of Thelema. See The Stele of Revealing (Magical Revival, p116). 2

'Infinite Space, & the Infinite Stars thereof' is Nuit's definition of herself in AL. The sentence contains an asagram of ISIS, thus indicating the Seat or Throne of Power typified by Nu-Isis. (See New Isis Lodge.) Nuit is the complement of Hadit (q.v.).3

'Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof'. Nuit's definition of herself in AL (chapter 1, verse 22). As will be seen, her definition contains, hidden within it, the name ISIS.4

The Goddess of 'Infinite Space and the Infinite Stars thereof'. The initials of the phrase spell out the name of ISIS.5

The Sky Goddess emblematic of Space, and, metaphysically, of the Void. Space is the physical menstruum of the Outer Ones. In Thelemic cosmology, Nuit is more particularly the Night Sky, which qualification comports the nightside aspect of extraterrestrial energies.6


Nun
Nun (Heb.)

The fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; it represents the number fifty, or, if terminating a word, seven hundred. Nun means a 'fish', and to it is attributed the stellar current of Scorpio, in which Mars (Horus) is exalted, with its formula of moisture and putrefaction. In the Tarot its corresponding Atu is numbered thirteen and entitled Death. 2


Nuter
Nuter ( or Neter) (Eg.)

The Gods. Equivalent to our word 'Neither' and to 'Neuter' which - in an occult context - indicates the ultrasexual nature of the Creative Force. The Egyptian ideogram of Nuter is (*), the Sign of Seven, the number of the Goddess of the Seven Stars (i.e. of Space), and also of the Axe of Set wherewith he breaks open his Mother in order to manifest his Light (i.e. Sirius). 6


Nyarlathotep

In the Necronomicom Nythos, The Faceless or Headless God. He is described as the 'crawling Chaos that howls beyond the Stars'. He is said to be surrounded by 'idiot flute players'. 5


Nyingmapa
Nyingmapa (Tib.)

Lit. 'the Old Ones'. An ancient Tibetan sect which embodied (and yet embodies) the ancient and universal tradition of Gods from Space. (See also Drukpa). 6


Ob
Ob (Af.)

Serpent. A name given to the Astral Light. It is the root of the word 'obeah' (q.v.). See also Od. 1

Cf. Hebrew Aub, a serpent. The root of Obeah (q.v.). The number of Ob is 9, a number of Yesod and of the moon. See the Tree of Life. Nine is the key to its lunar and ophidian nature. Ob is the passive complement of its active counterpart Od, q.v. 3

A serpent. The root of the word Obeah, the Ophidian Current. Its number, 9, identifies it with the lunar power-zone, Yesod, and the magick of the Yezidi.4

ub, a serpent. Aub = 9, indicating the lunar nature of the Current implied. 5

 (Voo.): A Serpent. The Voodoo symbol of the Ophidian Current. 6


Obatala
Obatala (Af.)

The King of Whiteness and Light'. The African equivalent of the first Cosmic Power-zone, Kether. See Tree of Life. 3


Obeah
Obeah (Cr.)

African and West Indian sorcery. It involves the worship of the Serpent (Ob) and the projection of the Astral Light for magical purposes. Ob is the universal materializing agent, and of the twin serpents of the Caduceus of Mercury, or Hermes, represents the passive element, the active current being Od (q.v.). 1

Derived from the African root Ob, meaning a 'serpent', Obeah is a specialized form of the Ophidian Current used mainly in Jamaica. 2

African and West Indian sorcery based upon the use of the Ob or Ophidian Current in its lunar form. In conjunction with the Odic Current (see Od), these twin forces may be compared with the Wand of Hermes, or Caduceus of Mercury. See Diagram 3. 3

See Ob. The spider is the supreme zootype of this cult.4

(Voo.): Ob (q.v.) is the root of Obeah, the science or art of causing the spirits to Obey. 5

See Ob. Obeah has special reference to AL. I. 37. 6


Ochosè
Ochosè (Af.)

Lit. 'The hunter in moonlight', which identifies this deity with Khonsu (q.v.).4


Octinomos
Octinomos (Gk.)

The Master Magician is he having the eightlettered Name, i.e. Baphomet. Crowley assumed this title in his office as O.H.O. of the O.T.O. For the magical significance of the number eight, see 2

The Eightfold Name and therefore the height or summit of attainment. According to Crowley, Baphomet was the eightfold name, and the summit or Head of this Beast was adored by the Templars. Hence Crowley chose the name Baphomet on acceding to the headship of the O.T.O.4


Od
Od (Af.)

The positive current of Magical Energy that has its origin in the Serpent Power (see Kundalini) in man. Reichenbach called this force Odyle, and Wilhelm Reich, the Orgone. Experiments by these scientists have demonstrated the existence of this subtle force under laboratory conditions. Od is represented by the active 'serpent' of the Caduceus of Hermes. Together with Ob, Od forms the magical wand of Double Power wielded by the gods of ancient Egypt and mentioned in The Book of the Law. The polarization of the Ob and the Od is represented by the globe that surmounts the Caduceus or Wand round which the serpents twine. The globe symbolizes Aour (Heb.), Light (more properly, Lux) which is the result of this polarization and equilibrium. In Heaven, this LVX is typified by the Sun; in Man, by Consciousness; in Mineral Kingdom, by Gold, etc. 1

Compare Hebrew Aud, the magical light. Od is the positive magical current that has its origin in the Fire Snake. Its number is 11, the number of magick or 'energy tending to change'. See Ob, the passive counterpart of Od. 3

The Magical Light. Od is the positive form of Ob (q.v.) Its number, 11, identifies it with the light of Daäth (or death), and therefore with the formula of magick or 'energy tending to change'.4

Aud, Light. Aud = 11, indicating the magical nature of the Light (i.e. the astral light) which is the Odic or Vodic force utilized in the rites of Voodoo. 5

(Heb.): The Magick Light. In a sense, the masculine form of Ob, q.v. 6


Odn
Odn (Heb.)

Eden. The field of electro-magnetic force that is the playground of the Fire Snake (q.v.).4


Odudua
Odudua (Af.)

The feminine form of Obatala, q.v. She equates with the third Cosmic Power-zone, the planetary representative of which is Saturn. Another name of Obatala is Iya Agba (q.v.). In yet another of her forms she reigns as sovereign goddess in the City of Ado (q.v.) where she equates with the Scarlet Whore of Babylon. (See also Babylon). 3

The African original of the Od or Odic Force. She is the primal goddess of the African pantheon. Her cult center is Ado (q.v.), near Badagry, West Africa. On the Tree of Life Odudua equates with Binah, the power-zone associated with the Scarlet Woman, Babalon.4

The supreme goddess or Harlot in the African Cult of the Fetish Priest. At her earthly power-zone, at the City of Ado, was established a Temple of Prostitution. 5


Odun
Odun (Af.)

The African original of the Witches' Sabbath celebrated about October 1. Odun means ' the Year' and symbolizes fulfillment, perfection, or the completion of a cycle of time, or the 'end of an aeon'. It is thus attributed to the final or 32nd kala. 3

The African original of the Witche's Sabbath. Odun means 'the Year' and symbolises the fulfilment of a cycle of time. It is thus the glyph of the full moon and of the Goddess Fifteen.4


Ogboni
Ogboni (Af.)

The 'secret society' composed of all the kalas listed on page 47. 3

The secret or underground network of kalas represented by the Tunnels of Set.4


Ogoun
Ogoun (af.)

Sometimes called Ogun or Ogoun Badagry, the bloody war-god. He equates with the fifth Cosmic Power-zone represented by the planet Mars. The African Horus. 3

The African original of the fifth cosmic-power zone represented by the planet Mars. The African version of Horus.4


Ojas
Ojas (Skt.)

Electro-magnetic energy peculiar to the chakras or power-zones when vitalized by the Fire Snake. 2

Magical Energy 3

Energy. In a specifically occult sense, highly radioactive magical energy. Hence its relevance to the 'new' sexual magick which facilitates traffic with the Outer Ones. Hence its relevance, also, to the mutations and mutants now beginning to manifest at terrestrial levels. 6


Ojehun
Ojehun (Af.)

The genius who has his abode in the stomach. He maintains the sacred fire (of the Svadisthana chakra, q.v.) and never permits this element -which serves in the preparation of food- to be extinguished. The messenger of Ojhun is Ebi, hunger. 3


Okbish
Okbish (Heb.)

The Spider. The term has special relevance to the Arachnean aspect of the Ophidian Current and to the Aeon of Maat, of which the spider is the esoteric symbol. 6


Old Ones

See Great Old Ones. 6


Olis
Olis (Skt.)

Physical methods of achieving longevity, increased vitality, as well as of arousing the Kundalini, of which two are paramount- Sahajoli and Vajroli. See The Hathayogapradipika, The Shivasanhita and other yogic textbooks. 2


Olokun
Olokun (Af.)

The African form of Neptune, typified by the great deep. Also, the brother of Shango, q.v. 3


Olorun
Olorun, or Oliorun (Af.)

The Supreme Consciousness beyond even the first Cosmic Power-zone, Kether. The equivalent of the qabalistic Ain (q.v.) or Eye of the Void. 3


Olosa
Olosa (Af.)

The Lagoon. The consort of Olokun. Olasa has her palace beneath the waters. The crocodile is her totem, which connects her with the Typhonian mother and her child, Set. 3


OM

The bija-mantra or root-vibration of creation. In its hiero-glyphic form ( ) it is the number 30, signifying completion of a cycle and therefore perfection, surmounted by or subject to the influence of the chandrabindu, the lunar current impregnated by the creative seed. In its fuller form, OM is written as AUM, the three letters representing the three states of consciousness-jagrat, swapna and sushupti (q.v.). 2

The bijamantra (basic vibration ) of creation. See Hum. 6


Ombos

The ancient cult centre of Set in southern Egypt; seat of the shrine of Sevekh-Ra, the crocodile or dragon-headed deity of the dark dynasties. (See The Magical Revival, chapter 3).4


Omkara
Omkara (Skt.)

The mystic syllable OM (q.v.). 2

The bija-mantra Om, the root-mantra of creation. Omkara also denotes the letter M or Ma, which typifies the daughter and the agent of manifestation in the Aeon of Maat (as also in the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, q.v.) 5


Omne'
Omne' (Ma.)

The gestalt concerned with preparing humanity for Maatian consciousness. 5


Ompedha
Ompedha (Th.)

A great curse appearing in the Book of the Law (Liber AL) Note: Om (Ma) pe'h (mouth) da (earth), which may be interpreted as 'earth-mouth of the daughter', a particularly vile and blasphemous insult. 5


On
On (Eg.)

A name denoting the sun at the time of the Summer Solstice. Its chief terrestrial power-zone, in ancient Egypt, was named An or Annu (i.e. On). 3


Once
Once (Var. Anansi) (af.)

The spider. Supreme symbol of the Obeah Cult.4


Onse
Onse (Af.)

The Spider deity ascribed to the second Cosmic Power-zone. 3 See Anansi. 5


Ontic Sphere

The interior universe. A term used by Black Snake Cultists to denote the magical universe of the magician as distinct from his apparent existence in the illusory world of mundane events. 6


Ophidian Current

The sexual energies used in connection with magical or mystical rites, i.e. for causing change to occur in the 'external' world and/or for transforming the 'interion' universe. Draconian Current, Typhonian Current, 93 Current, are cognate expressions though having rather more specialized implications. 2

The Draconian tradition of Apap or Apophis, the primal serpent typical of the Goddess in her dual aspect, viz: la Couleuvre Noire and la Couleuvre Rouge, or Apophis and the Fire Snake.4

The Magical Current of the Fire Snake or Serpent Power. The Magick Current par excellence. It embraces all the Currents here defined and represents the mode of magick employed in re-activating all past and future states of consciousness. It is known to Thelemin and Maat Cultists as the 93 Current because of its association with the Great Old Ones (Aiwass), and because the magical formulae used in Their evocation are Love and Will (Agapè and Thelema), which, like Aiwaz, add up to 93. 5

See Apep. 6


Ordeal of the Abyss

See Abyss. 2


Ordo Templi Orientis
Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.)

The Order of the Temple of the East, the East being the place of ascending solar-phallic power. See the Magical Revival for historical data. Crowley assumed control of the O.T.O. in 1922 when Theodor Reuss seceded in his favor. It is the first great Order of antiquity to accept the Law of Thelema. 2

The Order of the Temple of the East, East being the source of solar-phallic energy. See The Magical Revival for historical data. Crowley assumed control of the O.T.O. in 1922 when Theodor Reuss seceded in his favor. The O.T.O. is the first Order in the West to use the Ophidian Current in its Thelemic form. 3

The Order of the Temple of the East. In the macrocosm, the east is the place of the rising sub. This is represented in the microcosm by the rising phallus, a symbol of the sexual magick practiced by initiates of the Order. (See Part 2, chapter 6; see also The Magical Revival, for historical facts concerning the O.T.O.).4

The Order of the Temple of the East, or the Order of the Temple of the Rising Star, Sirius. Its present Head in the Outer is Aossic-Aiwass 718, who succeeded the Master Therion (Aleister Crowley) in this capacity shortly after the latter's death in 1947. The O.T.O. is an occult Gateway for the influx of magical power from the A.'.A.'. (q.v.), and of the Great Old Ones. 5

It is one of the major tasks of this Order to prepare human consciousness to assimilate and to intergrate the new dimensions that will be opened up to it when the Outer Ones manifest terrestrially. 6


Orion

This important complex of stars was adopted by the ancient Egyptians as a symbol of the Sahu, or risen star-body (spirit-body) of the deceased. The constellation was originally named after 'Horus of the Resurrection'. 1


Orisha
Orisha (Af.)

Var. Oricha. Fetish. 3

Variant, Oricha. A fetish or talisman for embodying a 'spirit' or non-human intelligence. 5


Orissor

'Soul Substance'. 5


Oro
Oro (Af.)

Tempest. 3


Orthrus

The twin of Cerberus, the dog of Set and hound of hell. 5


Orun
Orun (Af.)

The Sun. (Cf. Egyptian On). 3


Orun-padi
Orun-padi (Af.)

The fiery furnace. 3


Orungan
Orungan (Af.)

The element Air, the form in which Orungan raped his mother, Iyemoja (q.v.). Orungan is thus a form of the Holy Ghost, the breath or spirit which impregnates and sanctifies. 3

The African original of the Holy Ghost, geist, or gust; the breath of spirit that impregnates and thereby sanctifies. See Ruach.4


Orunrere
Orunrere (Af.)

The rear or back of the Sun (see Orun), and therefore symbolic of the country of the dead, the underworld. The Egyptian Amenta. Magically speaking, the subconsciousness. 3


Orus
Orus (Gk.)

A form of Horus. Cf. Ares, Aries, etc. 2


Osanyin
Osanyin (Af.)

The African Aesculapius, the genius of nedicine. The original 'medicines' or metals (as with the Alchemists) were the kalas (q.v.), hence the connection with healing or making whole, i.e. holy. 3


Osiris-Tesh-Tesh
Osiris-Tesh-Tesh (Eg.)

The mummy in its funereal swathings or bandages. The feminine form of Osiris bound up in linen. Hence the 'black' or bloody god. Tesh is the soft form of Tekh, Tekhi, q.v. 3


Osiris

The 'Black God' of the Egyptian Mysteries symbolic of the generative power operating in the darkness of Amenta. In magical terms: the Hidden God who infuses the sigil with vitality in the darkness and 'forgetfulness' of the subconsciousness. In mythology, the father of Horus, the result of his machinations in Amenta, and the bull of Isis. See Chapter 10 for the initiated interpretation of the myth of Isis and Osiris. 2

God of the Underworld; the Spirit in Amenta. Osiris is a 'black' god because connected with the mysteries of sex and the secret workings of the solar-phallic energy in the under-world (Amenta), i.e. the subconsciousness. 3


O.T.O.

See Templi Orientis. 2

See Ordo Templi Orientis.4


Outer Ones

See Great Old Ones. 6


Oz
Oz (Heb.)

Strength; also 'an he goat'. Oz equals 77 which is the number of MZL (Heb.), with which it is therefore qabalistically equivalent. MZL (Mezla) is the Influence from Kether or, more correctly, from the sphere of Nu-Isis of which Kether is the Focus. 2


Pan
Pan (Gk.)

Lit. 'All'. Cf. Latin Omne, Sanskrit Aum, Egyptian Amoun, Hebrew Amen; all designations of the Hidden God of the forest, the Abyss, the deep, the underworld; any region withdrawn and without the range of waking consciousness. A Greek word meaning 'All'. The qabalistic value of All is 61 which is AIN, Nothing, or Nuit. Thus All=Nought is a mystical expression of the formula of Pan. The Latin Omne (All) and the Hindu Om, also represent the same idea. In the ancient Egypt pantheon, Amoun, a variant of Aum or Aumgn, referred to a similar concept. But this cosmic power (Pan) is popularly conceived of in a goatish or goat-footed form, the goat being symbolic of the lonely liaper in high places, i.e. the aspiration and consequent exaltation of the soul to high and holy places. The number of Pan is 131, which is also that of Samael, a form of Shaitan, hence another reason for its association in the uninitiated mind with terror and the Great Unknown. 1

The Greek god whose zoomorphic symbol is the Goat and whose sacred number is Ayin, q.v. In a cosmic sense, Pan is The All.4


Panchamakaras
Panchamakaras (Skt.)

The Five Makaras, usually referred to as the Five M's. See Makara. 2

The five (pancha) ma kara-s (letter M). The Five Ms. See Panchatattva-s and Makara-s. 3


Panchatattivas
Panchatattivas (Skt.)

The Five (pancha) essences, elements, principles, or truths (tattvas). Another name for the Five M's. See Makara. 2


Paramahamsa
Paramahamsa (Skt.)

An Order of Spiritual Attainment in Hinduism corresponding to Cosmic Consciousness represented in the Western system of occultism by the Grade of Ipsissimus (q.v.). 5


Paramara
Paramara (Skt.)

Spiritual lineage as applied to a given hierarchy of religious or magical teachers (gurus). Apostolic succession is a cognate idea. 2


Parfaxitas
Parfaxitas (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 27th Tunnel.4


Paroketh
Paroketh (Heb.)

On the Tree of Life, Paroketh is the veil between the higher and lower triads. See Cheth, and Koth.4

The Veil of Paroketh is the division, on the Tree of Life, between the lower or infernal triad of cosmic power-zone and Tiphereth (q.v.), the center, or sun of the system represented by the Son. Thus is the daughter-zone (moon) divided from that of the son-zone (Sun). Paro-koth, lit. beyond the 'Hollow One', or daughter. Paroketh is thus a veil of the Secret Gateway to Universe 'B' typified by the daughter. 5


Parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis (Gk.)

Virgin birth. 2


Pasht
Pasht (Eg.)

The Cat goddess, symbolic of Night and of the North. Cf. Sekhet. 3


Pashu
Pashu (Skt.)

Beast; animal nature. 3


Pe'
Pe' (or pe'h): (Heb.)

A mouth. The seventeenth letter of the Chaldaean alphabet. It is attributed to Atu XVI, The Tower. It plays an important part in the symbolism of the Maat Cult. 5


Peacock

Sacred to the Yezidi and to the Cult of Shaitan. The multi-eyed tail is symbolic of the faculty of astral vision and dream control which is brought into play in the entranced preistess during the secret rites. (See Aleister Crowley & the Hidden God, chapter 7).4


Peh
Peh (Eg.)

The number 80, attributed to the Tower (in the Tarot). Pe' means a 'mouth'. The mouth and the tower are two of the major symbols connected with the Cult of Maat. (See Liber Pennae Praenumbra).4

The tail or thigh of the lioness which typifies the Great Magical Power and the locus of its operation. See Sekhet. 5


Pert-em-hru
Pert-em-hru (Eg.)

Lit. 'Coming Forth by Day' or 'Coming Forth Today'. The name given by the ancient Egyptians to the Ritual which enabled the deceased to emerge from Amenta to take his pleasure on the earth among the living. There are numerous versions and recessions of this Ritual; they are known collectively as The Book of the Dead. 2


Petro
Petro (Voo.)

A Voodoo sect which evokes the loa (q.v.) by the use of vibrations between the Spatial Gateways. This is evident in the curious 'off-beat' rhythms characteristic of Petro. (See Rada). 6


Petro rites
Petro rites (Cr.)

A Voodoo term which distinguishes the rites of the 'infernal' loa (q.v.) from those of the more acceptable kind (the Rada rites). Petro is significant in that the drum beats follow an off-beat pattern, and the corresponding vevers (q.v.) of the loa are based not upon the vectors of force of force uniting the four directions of Space, but on the lines between them. This is important for Thelema, and equates also with the 'inbetweenness concepts' of Austin Spare's formula of Atavistic Resurgence; it also equates with the Lovecraftian concept of extra-terrestrial entities that dwell, not on the stars, but in the spaces between them. 2

The Voodoo equivalent of the Left-handed Tantras. See Rada Rites. Petro is oblique to all other rites, utilizing the 'inbetweenness concepts' or intervals between beats and the interstices of the four cardinal points. 3

The Voodoo equivalent of the left-handed Tantras.4


Phoenix

The symbolic Bird of Return which represented various Cycles of Time in the ancient Traditions. The Phoenix was the constellation in which Sothis, the Star of Set, was the chief star. As a constellation it probably corresponded to that of Cygnus and the Eagle (Aquila). Both the Swan and the Eagle were themselves types of the Bennu, or Bird of Return. 1

The Bennu Bird, or Bird of Return, a symbol of recurring cycles of time. The ancient constellation of which Sirius, the Star of Set, was the chief star was named the Phoenix. This constellation probably corresponded to the complex of stars now known as Cygnus and Aquila. Phoenix was Crowley's secret title as the Inner Head of the O.T.O. (See The Magical Revival, Chapter 1.) 2


Pingala nadi
Pingala nadi (Skt.)

The right nostril typifying the passage or flow of the solar current of prana (q.v.) in the human body. Its complement is the Ida nadi, q.v. 3


Pisces

The twelfth and final zodiacal sign, It has special significance in connection with the formula of the previous Aeon through its association, via the eighteenth Key of the Tarot, with the Moon. The letter qoph (q.v.) is attributed to Pisces, and its sphere of function on the Tree of Life is the 29th Path, the plane of phantoms and illusory phenomena. 2


Pitha
Pitha (Skt.)

Seat, throne, fundament. 3


Pluto

The Guardian of the Pylon of the Great Abyss. Pluto is attributed to Kether, the outpost of the solar system and, by implication, of all known things. Pluto is connected occultly with Scorpio, and therefore with Mars (Horus), also with Capricorn and Cancer. See Chapter 10. The god-form of Pluto is the dog, which identifies him with the god (dog in reverse) of the underworld. Cf. AL, II, 19; also Set-An(ubis), the dog or jackal-headed guide of souls in Amenta. 2

 The planet whose totem is the dog, guide of the dead in the underworld, or world beyond the wniverse. Pluto is ascribed to Kether, the outer-most (and, by reflection, also the innermost) Pylon of the Tree.4


Points-Chauds

The 'hot-points' or marmas (q.v.) mapped by Michael Bertiaux in connection with the kalas (q.v.) and venoms of the Goddess worshipped in the Cults of the Black and Red Snake (Couleuvre Noire et Couleuvre Rouge). (See chapter 7 of the present volume). 5


Prana
Prana (Skt.)

Magical energy, usually considered as breath; the breath of life, spirit, etc. 2

Breath, Spirit Vital Force. 6


Pranava
Pranava (Skt.)

The mystic syllable or primal vibration, OM (q.v.). 2

The root of the life force (prana); the cosmic vibration; the creative breath. The supreme Mantra. 3


Pranayama
Pranayama (Skt.)

The control or direction (to magical or mystical ends) of prana (q.v.). 6


Prastaras
Prastaras (Skt.)

Ritual postures or positions. The three main prastaras are Bhu, Kailasa, and Meru, (q.v.) 3


Premadeha
Premadeha (Skt.)

Prema (divine or objectless love), deha (sheath or body). The Indian equivalent of the Egyptian Sahu*, the incorruptible, fully spiritualized body purified by devotion to Krishna, in the case of the premadeha; to one or other of the gods of Egypt in the case of the Sahu. 2


Puja
Puja (skt.)

Worship. 3


Pujari
Pujari (Skt.)

Priest, or conductor of puja. 3


Puranas
Puranas (Skt.)

The sacred books of the Indian Vaishnavas or devotees of Rama, Vishnu, Krishna, etc. A collection of allegories and myths treating of the lives of saints and mahatamas (great souls), of which the Bhagavatam Purana is the foremost. 2


Qabalah
Qabalah (Heb.)

Lit. 'Received Tradition'. Knowledge of the Mysteries of Creation and Cosmic Consciousness received by Adepts in exalted states of trance and suprasensual communication with beings of a superhuman nature. 2

'Received Tradition'; anciently supposed to have been received from 'angel's today we might say that it is a Tradition received from 'Outside'. 5


Qadeshim
Qadeshim (Heb.)

'Holiness unto the Lord.' See Chapter 7 for an esoteric interpretation of this term, which is highly technical. 2


Qadosh
Qadosh (Heb.)

Holy, primeval, ancient. A form of the name Qatesh (q.v.) which explains the sexual nature of the primal Mysteries.4


Qatesh

The only goddess depicted full-faced by the ancients. She is represented as a naked woman standing on a lion with a head-dress consisting of the full moon resting in a crescent moon. She holds flowers in her right hand, and in her left, a serpent. (Right is Dakshina, bounty, flowering, boon, grace; Left is Vama, and the serpent symbolizes the lunar phase of the goddess. See R.V.Lanzone, Plates 191 and 192.) On an Egyptian stele Qatesh is called Kent or Kunt, and on a stele now in Turin, Qetesh. Her lovers are the ithyphallic god, Min, and Reshpu. The lion and serpent symbolism equates this image with the formula of love under will. 2

 The Naked goddess who carries flowers and a serpent (see kalas). She is mounted upon a lion. Qatesh is an Asiatic version of Babalon straddling the Beast. On an Egyptian ste'le', Qatesh is called Kent or Kunt. The lion and the Serpent symbolism shows her to be as embodiment of the formula, love under will.4


Qesheth
Qesheth (Heb.)

A rainbow. See Aliester Crowley & the Hidden God, chapter 7 for a full explanation of this symbol. The rainbow is associated with the alchemical formula of regeneration through putrefaction.4


Qliphoth
Qliphoth (Heb.)

The plural form of Qlipha, sometimes written Klippah. The Qliphoth is the name given to a world or plane of soulless entities that, as such, are not truly living, but merely lingering shells of once conscious persons. They are automata such as those that haunt graveyards and seance rooms, and the magician is warned against trafficking with them in any way. Also of the Qlophoth are the more dangerous remnants of once highly organized elementals that drag out a twilight existence by vampirizing the living. 1

The plural form of qlipha, a harlot. Qliphoth is the name given to a region inhabited by soulless entities, the shells or mouldering vehicles of perverted and aborted desires that prolong their twilight existence by preying on the vital fluids of the living. It is the region of vampires, ghouls, demons, and evil spirits, as well as beings the habitation of the phantom forms generated by sexual desires and morbid cravings constantly produced by dwellers on earth. Each sephira of the Tree of Life has its corresponding qliphoth which is the reflection of the energy which it represents, and these averse sephiroth form what is known as the Tree of Death. Only the well-armed Initiate, the Adept, in fact, can use these power-zones with impunity. 2

Qliphah (singular) 'an harlot' or companion, hence qliphoth, the world of shadows, shells, or doubles. The qliphoth are the averse aspects of the cosmic and human power-zone. The qliphoth haunt the realm of the vampire, the ghoul and the undead ghost, and of those elemental or non-human spirits that seek to prolong their twilight existence by absorbing the vitality of the living. 3

The plural form of qlipha, meaning 'an harlot' or 'strange woman'; terms which signify 'otherness'. The shadowy world of shells or reflections. Each sephira of the Tree of Life has its corresponding qlipha, which is the reflection of the energy which it represents, and these averse power-zones - or qliphoth- form the Tree of Death.4

Lit. 'shells', 'cortices', the 'shades' of the dead whose names appear in the books of Dzyan, or Thoth, of the Necronomicon, of AL, and similar grimoires of the 'forbidden' Wisdom. We are only now beginning to understand that these names contain formulae of immense magical and scientific potency. 5

The plural form of Qlipha, an harlot. The Qliphoth are seductively potent energies which remain over after manifest entities have been dissolved. Hence the Qliphoth are described as 'shells', 'cortices', 'shrouds'. Hence also the nostalgia inherent in the formula of Atavistic Resurgence, which utilizes the shell or husks of memory (past time) for the fecundation of future fantasies. In this sense, the Qliphoth are a potently creative magical force. 6


Qoph
Qoph (Heb.)

The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet; qoph means the 'back of the head' (the cerebellum), where, as Crowley notes in Magick (p.183), 'the creative or reproductive force is primarily situated'. Qoph is connected with the Moon through Atu XVIII, and also with Pisces, the sign of illusion and change, represented by the dual lunation. The numerical value of qoph is 100, the sum total of the letters K (20) and P (80), the initials of Kteis and Phallus which, in union, create the illusion of manifested existence. In Liber 777 Crowley noted that 'Qoph represents the 'hysterical' sealed womb at night. The womb 'sees* things' in the glamour of physiological upset, while the Sun lurks.' This fact explains phenomena of clairvoyance which occur in the priestess at the time of menstruation. See also Resh. 2

The letter of the Goddess or Qatesh, whose emblem is the queue, tail, or hindward region; hence its connection with Amenta (the subconsciousness) and the back of the head, where the seat of creative force is said to reside. The number of qoph is 100 which is the number of Illusion engendered by the coupling of the phallus and the kteis. See Kaph. 3

The number 100, which is also that of Hecate (q.v.), the goddess of sorcery. Qoph is also the daughter, Koph (q.v.), mentioned in AL, whose secret 'eye' (Nia) is the gateway to Universe 'B'. Qoph means the 'back of the head' (cerebellum), where 'the creative or reproductive force is primarily situated'. (Magick, p. 183).4

This letter of the Magical Alphabet has the value of one hundred, which is the number of Hecate (whose name means 'an hundred'). Qoph means the 'back of the head', the complement of the next letter of the Alphabet, Resh, which means 'the head'. Qoph refers to the moon; Resh, to the sun. This fact gives a clue to the formula of reification via the lunar current which manifests, in the waking state, as the illusory world of the senses which surrounds us and which forms our mandala (q.v.). The back of the head is the occult seat or center of the sexual energies in the human organism. 5

The letter Q is of prime import in the Typhonian Tradition. It represents not only the Queue or tail symbolic of the feminine principle, but also the 'back of the head' (the literal meaning of qoph) which indicates the cerebral locus of the reproductive forces in the human organism. Qoph is thus the source of the reproduced or illusory image, it is therefore an accurate symbol of the phenomenal universe. Qoph also has affinities - phonetically and magically - with Coph Nia and with Kaph (q.v.). 6


Qulielfi
Qulielfi (Heb.)

The name of the Guardian of the 29th Tunnel of Set. 5


R'lyeh
R'lyeh (Nec.)

The city beneath the sea in which dead Cthulhu (q.v.) waits, dreaming. (See Hriliu). In magical term, R'lyeh is symbolic of the subconsciousness. 6

In the Necronomicon Mythos, R'lyeh is the sunken City in which 'dead' Cthulhu lies dreaming. R'lyeh is therefore a type of the Subconsciousness, the Abode of the Forgotten Ones.


Raflifu
Raflifu (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 30th Tunnel.4


Ra-Hoor-Khuit
Ra-Hoor-Khuit (Eg.)

The Egyptian God of Force and Fire. He is the child of Nuit and Hadit and therefore the manifested universe, as Hoor-Paar-Kraat (his twin) is the hidden universe. Ra-Hoor-Khuit represents The Crowned and Conquering Child, and as such the fulfillment of the Will of the Magician which he brings to birth or manifests. Ra-Hoor-Khuit is a form of Horus; he is depicted on the Ste'le' of Revealing throned and Crowned; his mother, Nuit, arched above him, with Hadit (his Father) in the form of a winged globe of Light beneath her. 1

The Egyptian god Herakhaty, Lord of the Eastern Horizon as Hoor-Paar-Kraat (q.v.), his twin, is Lord of the West. In magical terms, Ra-Hoor-Khuit stands for the projection of energy which begets the 'child', the dwarf-or bud-will in the womb of Nuit, the child that bears the imprint of that will and emerges as Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, Lord of the New Aeon, and the perfect manifestation of the magical will (no longer crippled, no longer a dwarf) in the form of the universe. 2

The positive or manifest aspect of Hoor-Paar-Kraat (q.v.) Ra-Hoor-Khuit is the 'child' of Nuit and Hadit and, as such, the result of the union of any pair of opposites, whether in consciousness (i.e. subconsciousness) or in nature (objectivity). Ra-Hoor-Khuit is thus the 'present moment', the 'event-act', the 'now', the 'moment of truth' that illumines the mechanism of manifestation. The state of consciousness signified by Ra-Hoor-Khuit is the faculty of immediate awareness that will be brought to perfection during the present aeon, for the Aeon of Ra-Hoor-Khuit (Horus) is the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. IN a magical sense, Ra-Hoor-Khuit symbolizes the 'child' or 'event' brought to birth by an act of 'love under will' through the formula of sexual magick. In a metaphysical sense, Ra-Hoor-Khuit represents the union of Nuit and Hadit, North and South, Kether and Malkuth, or, in Eastern terms, of Nirvana and Sangsara. 3

The God Horus as the Child of Light whose shadow is his dark twin, Set (q.v.).4

The Active form of Horus. Horus as the 'Enterer' or Projector of Force. His formula is speech, the Word. His reflex is Hoor-Paar-Kraat (q.v.)-the Silence. 5

(Th.): The positive reflex of Hoor-Paar-Kraat (q.v.). Ra-Hoor-Khuit is a form of Horus as the 'Crowned and Conquering Child'. He is the bright twin to Set's dark. Together they form the twin aspects of the 'magical child', which thus embodies the Double Current. See Ur-Hekau. 6


Rada
Rada (Voo.)

See Petro. Rada is usually equated with 'white' Voodoo, to Petro's 'black. The Rada rhythms are 'strict tempo' in contradistinction to Petro's 'off-beat'. 6


Rada rites
Rada rites (Cr.)

See Petro rites. 2


Radha
Radha (Skt.)

The consort or shakti of Krishna (q.v.). 2

Rainbow

See Qesheth.4


Rajas
Rajas (Skt.)

One of the three guna-s of Hinduism. It equates with the brilliance and restlessness associated with the element of fire. 3


Rajoguna
Rajoguna (Skt.)

Of the three gunas, or principles, Sattvas, Rajas and Tamas, Rajoguna is the principle of activity, brilliance, restlessness, etc. It is equated with the fiery properties of the Alchemical Sulphur, and is therefore fiercely male. 2


Rakta
Rakta (Skt.)

The 'gall of rukh'; the incense of the lunar current. See Chapter 8 for an explanation of this highly technical term. 2


Rerit
Rerit (Eg.)

See Lalita, Lilith.4


RPSTOVAL

 The 8-lettered cypher that appears in Liber AL. (See Part 1, chapter 11).4


Rasa
Rasa (Skt.)

Sweetness. The kala usually associated with the celebrated Rasleela of Radha and Krishna. The Rasa-kala is nectar that is emitted when the moon is full. 6


Rasis
Rasis (Skt.)

The feminine vehicles of the rasa (see Rasa). There are 16 major varieties and their combinations constitute an exact science which is known as Srividya, or 'Knowledge of the Goddess'. 6


Resh
Resh (Heb.)

The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Resh means the 'Head' and is attributed to the Sun (the head or highest one), as Qoph (q.v.), the letter immediately preceding it, is attributed to the Moon and means the 'Back of the Head'. The symbolism is obvious. The qabalistic value of Resh is 200. 2

Lit. Head. This letter of the Magical Alphabet is attributed to the Sun, as its reflex, Qoph, is attributed to the Moon. Resh denotes the manifestation in the light of the sun (dayside, or waking consciousness) of the forces set in motion in the dream-state (astral) by the light of the Moon. (See Qoph). *4


Ritu
Ritu (Skt)

Rite, ceremony. Its inner-sense meaning is given in Chapter 8. 2


Ru
Ru (Eg.)

The emaning mouth; the womb; the origin of all images. 5


Ruach
Ruach (Heb.)

In the Hebrew Tradition, Reason, Intelligence. The primary meaning of Ruach, however is spirit in the sense of that associated with Rakta (q.v.), a word with which it is basically identical. 2

The faculty of reason. Its primary meaning is 'Spirit' in the sense of breath or prana (life-force) circulating or rotating in the human body. Cf. Ru, the yoni, hence 'wheel', French 'roue'', the wheel being the means of movement and therefore of life. 3

Spirit. The Egyptian root of Ruach is Ru, the emaning mouth or womb, thus showing that the nature of Spirit was originally conceived of as feminine, and ascribed to water, or blood. In later times, Ruach was given a masculine connotation and assigned to air as the wind or breath of creative spirit, hence the gust or ghost that became the Holy Ghost symbolized by the dove, the beast of the aer. In yet later phases of its symbolisms, the Ruach came to be identified with the Reason.4


Rudh
Rudh (Skt.)

See Rakta. 2


Sadhaka
Sadhaka (Skt.)

One who pursues a given sadhana, q.v. 3

One who follows a specific sadhhana (q.v.). 6


Sadhana
Sadhana (Skt.)

A method or path of spiritual culture.3

A path or way of spiritual culture. 6


Sagala

The heavy metal associated with Sirius 'B'. (See Shugal). 6

(Af.): The immensely heavy metal of which the dwarf twin of Sirius (Sirius 'B') is compacted. Its number is 333, which aligns it with the Mysteries of Choronszon and of Set. 5


Sahajasamadhi
Sahajasamadhi (Skt.)

The highest form of samadhi (q.v.) in which the Adept remains permanently in the natural state of the Self (Atman), bereft of all egoidal tendencies; he is neither in trance nor out of it, but appears at all times to be living a serene, spontaneous existence, absolutely beyond the play of the gunas (mental tendencies manifesting as desires, and then as objects, in the waking state of consciousness). 2


Sahasrara Chakra
Sahasrara Chakra (Skt.)

The thousand-pettled lotus. The Eighth and Supreme Chakra overshadowing the human organism, and therefore, in a sense, outside it, as the qabalistic Ain(q.v.) overshadows the Tree of Life. 3

 The 1000-petalled lotus which is the eighth and therefore the height, in terms of exaltation and potency, of the microcosmic power-zone. It over-shadows man in the sense that the Ain over shadows the cosmic power-zones represented by the Tree of Life.4


Sahu

The Egyptian name of the constellation Orion which represents the star-body that resurrects in the womb of Nuit, Lady of the Stars. See under Orion. 1


Sakhis
Sakhis, or Sacis (Skt.)

A Vaishnav term denoting female spiritual companions. They are the equivalent of the tantric saktis, with emphasis on mystical, as distinct from magical, culture. 6


Saksaksalim
Saksaksalim (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 25th Tunnel.4


Sakti
Sakti, or shakti (Skt.)

Force or Power, typified as a feminine potency or 'goddess' in the Draconian Traditions of Egypt and India. The word 'sakti' derives from Sekh, which in ancient Egypt denoted heat, particularly sexual heat, exemplified by Sekhet ar Sakhmet, the fierce lioness-headed goddess of the South. 1

Power. In the Tantras it is frequently symbolized in the form of the human female. 5

Power. In Hindu Tantra, sakti is typified by the female energies. The word derives from the Egyptian Sekht or Sekhet, the goddess of sexual heat symbolized by the fiery sun in the South. Hence the association with Set. 6


Samadhi
Samadhi (Skt.)

Lit. Together with (sam) the Lord (adhi). There are various degrees of Samadhi, the highest of which is Sahaja Samadhi or Thought-free Consciousness. This differs from other forms of Samadhi in that it is not a trance condition at all but the natural state of pure Self-realization- the aim of all spiritual culture, Eastern and Western. 1

Lit. 'Together with the Lord' (sam-adhi). A state of trance of which there are several kinds and in which thought its dissolved in its source, i.e. pure consciousness. See Sahajasamadhi, which is the highest form of Samadhi, free from all conditions, even those of trance. 2

A state of thought-free consciousness which usually comports some form of trance and suspension of the normal human faculties, though the highest form of Samadhi-Sahaja-Samadhi- does not. 3

Lit. 'Together with the Lord'. A state of thought-free consciousness characterized by bliss. There are several forms and degrees of Samadhi, the highest being Sa haja-Nirvikalpa-Samadhi which is a state of Pure Consciousness bereft of any subject (ego) and therefore, also, of any object.4


Samadrishti
Samadrishti (Skt.)

Equal vision. The viewing of all things as equal. This is achieved only after the illusory nature of phenomena has been realized. All in equally illusory. 2


Samael
Samael (Heb.)

A prince of the Qliphoth (q.v.) whose wife is the Elder Lilith (q.v.). The number of Samael is 131 which equates him, qabalistically, with Pan.4


Samaya Marg
Samaya Marg (Skt.)

The Right-Hand Path, so called. It is not a genuine Path since for the ritual adjuncts of the worship of the Goddess are substituted mere letters and verbal sounds for Her mantra, a mere diagram for the living representative of Her yantra, and mere wine and perfumes instead of the blood and vaginal vibrations that fulfill Her tantra. 2


Samayins
Samayins (Skt.)

Followers of the Samaya Marg (q.v.) of which one of the foremost advocates was Lakshmidhara, who flourished under Prataprudradeva of Orissa (A.D.1504-32). 2


Samedhi
Samedhi, Baron (Cr.)

A form of Baron Cimitie`re, Lord of the Dead. Identical with Carrefour, Carfax, Kalfu etc., (q.v.)- Lord of the Cross or Crossroads. 3

A form of Baron Cimitiere, Lord of the Dead. He is identical with Carfax, Carrefour, Kalfu, Karfu, etc., the Lord of the Crossroads, hence the Lord of Daäth, the Place of the Cross(ing).4

(Voo.): Doctor Saturday; Lord to the Tombs. (See Carrefour, Baron, etc.). 5


Samekh
Samekh (Heb.)

Lit. a prop or standing stone, the symbol of the god Set. Crowley chose Samekh as the name of the holy book containing the ritual of congressus cum daemone, which he composed on the basis of a Sumerian Ritual of extreme antiquity. See particularly, chapter 1. 1


Sammasati
Sammasati (Pali)

A Buddhist term meaning Right Recollection in the sense of Right Viewpoint. 1


Samsara
Samsara (Skt.)

The interdependent counterpart of Nirvana (q.v.). When thoughts arise in consciousness, as on waking from sleep, the phenomenal universe also arises, and with it arises the idea of an 'I' or beholder. These two: the self (subject) and the universe (object) rise and set together. They constitute Samsara and have no existence apart from the consciousness in which they arise. When subject and object are dissolved in Samadhi (q.v.), then Samsara becomes Nirvana. When both are transcended, then Supreme Enlightenment (i.e. Buddhahood) obtains.4


Samvit
Samvit (Skt.)

Consciousness. 2


Sandhis
Sandhis (Skt.)

Physiological power-zones and points of tumescence indicated on the Shri Chakra (q.v.) wherever two lines cross each other. There are 24 sandhi-s and 28 marma-s (q.v.) in the human body, to each of which is attributed one of the 52 letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, thus forming the basis of an esoteric qabalah known only to Tantric initiates of the Vama Marg. 3

The loci of the kalas (q.v.) are determined by the intersection or crossing of two lines on the Sri-Yantra (or Sri Chakra, as it is sometimes called). These crossings are known as sandhis. 5


Sandhya
Sandhya (Skt.)

In the secret science of the Kalas (Kala Vidya), the Sandhya denotes a crossing or intersection of two lines on the Sre Yantra (or Sri Chakra). In orthodox Hinduism, the Sandhya refers to the times of dawn and dusk, the junctures or divisions between light and darkness. 1


Sandhyabhasa
Sandhyabhasa (Skt.)

The twilight language; the secret or ambiguous language used in the Tantras to conceal ritual procedures from the profane. The Alchemist employed a similar device, as do also the secret societies of today. 2


Sangha
Sangha (Skt.)

A term employed mainly by Buddhists to denote their Brotherhood. 2


Sangsara
Sangsara (Skt.)

Objectivized or phenomenal existence; the counterpart of Nirvana which is the subjectivization and therefore the negation of phenomenal existence. These twin poles of the Absolute are interdependent counterparts which, like Matter and Spirit, are identical in their noumenal phase. 2

 	The world of objective and subjective experience. The interdependent counterpart of Nirvana (q.v.). 3


Sanhis
Sanhis (Skt.)

Wherever an intersection of two lines occurs on the Shri Chakra, at the place is indicated a zone of tumescence in the body of the Goddess, and, by implication, in that of the priestess chosen for the rite. There are 24 Sandhis (points of tumescence) and 28 marmas (q.v.) (points of detumescence) in the human body; their location differs slightly in every female. See also Marmas. 2


Sat-Sangh
Sat-Sangh (Skt.)

To seek Sat-Sangh is to seek the Company (sangh) of the Self (Sat), Being, Pure Consciousness, through sadhana. It is considered highly meritorious and is popularly interpreted as seeking the company of Holy Men and Women, those who have realized the true nature of the Self. 5


Satan

See Shaitan, and Set. 2

The Opposer; the Adverse and Averse One, and therefore the reflection or double that is the Devil, in the sense of being the antithesis of Being. See Shaitan, and Set.4

The Adversary' the adverse or contrary of Being (Sat) is Asat (Not Being). In Egyptian, Satan is represented by the god Set and by the star-system of Sothis (Sirius); his planetary representative is Saturn which links this concept with the Third Cosmic Power-Zone, Binah, which is attributed to the Great Mother, or Supreme Shakti. 5


Sattva
Sattva (Skt.)

One of the three guna-s of Hinduism. It equates with the qualities of peace, whiteness, purity (in the sense of absence of distraction). 3


Saturn

The planetary representative of Shaitan or Set (q.v.). Saturn is attributed to the third sephira, Binah. The number 3, like the number 5, is by shape a form of the sickle or sword which denotes the female cleft and the division of time into periods. See Chapter II. 2

The planetary vehicle of Set (q.v.). Saturn is ascribed to the third cosmic power-zone that is known as Binah (q.v.) and the City of the Pyramids (q.v.), the abode of Babalon (q.v.).4


Scarlet Woman

This term has a special connotation in the Cult of Shaitan-Aiwass where it equates with the priestess of Kali, goddess of time and periods whose symbol is the scarlet hibiscus or China rose. See also Babalon. 2 (Th.)

A name given to a certain class of woman chosen for her ability to transmit the vaginal vibrations of Babalon (q.v.). She is called scarlet because red is the colour or kala (q.v.) of the lunar current in its Martian phase. (See Aleister Crowley & the Hidden God, chapter 10).4

The embodiment in the human female of the Supreme Kala (or colour). She is the consort of the Beast who unites with her to unseal the Gateway for the influx of alien or non-human forces. (see Babalon). 5


Scorpio

The eighth sign of the Zodiac. It resumes the katabolic phase of the Ophidian Current (q.v.) as does Capricorn the anabolic. The special significance of Scorpio is explained in Chapters 2 and 7. 2


Sebek
Sebek (Eg.)

A form of Set worshipped in Egypt under the form of the crocodile, the beast of the waters or dragon of the deep, i.e. the midnight sun, or the sun in Amenta. 3


Sebek-Ab-Ra
Sebek-Ab-Ra (Eg.)

A title of the Chief Priests of Set in the Draconian Dynasties of ancient Egypt. See Abahadabra. 3


Sebek-hepts
Sebek-hepts (Eg.)

The devotees of Sebek; adherents of the Draconian Cult. 3

Sebek-nefer-Ra: A queen of the XIIIth Dynasty, during whose reign the Draconian Cult achieved its height. 3


Sebek-Ra

The crocodile or dragon-headed deity of the dark dynasties of ancient Egypt. See Chapter 3. Ankh-f-n-Khonsu attempted a revival of his Cult in the XXVIth Dynasty, but it failed to become generally established. Now, in the New Aeon, another break-through of the Current has occurred through Aiwaz, who incarnated in The Master Therion. 1


Secret Chiefs

A term used by Adepts of the Golden Dawn and, later, by Aleister Crowley to denote Intelligences beyond the Abyss. They are, therefore, and strictly speaking, beyond the comprehension of human consciousness. They include the minions and messengers of the Great Old Ones, the Outer Ones, the Deep Ones, the Mahatmas, the Dhyan-Chohans, and numerous other entities considered by terrestrials to be essentially extraterrestrial. 6


Sefekh
Sefekh (Eg.)

'The place of execution' which symbolizes the spilling of blood in a sexual sense, i.e. as the lunar kala (q.v.) of the priestess represented by the moon (qoph, q.v.); or as the solar seed of the priest when his 'head' (resh, q.v.) is 'cut off'. Sefekh means, literally, to pour out blood. 5


Sekhet
Sekhet (eg.)

The lioness-headed goddess of the Egyptians-the twin of Bast, her northern counterpart. Sekhet is thus the sakti of the South, and as such, the symbol of the fierce summer heat which became the type of sexual heat, pleasure, and strong drink (sakh). The sakti of the South is the real-izing power of Horus, i.e. the power of manifestation. This explains the verse in The Book of the Law: 'Had! the manifestation of Nuit.' 1

The lioness-headed goddess of the South; the type of solar-phallic or sexual heat and of fermented drink. She was considered by the ancients as the divine inspirer or breather, the spirit of creation. Sekhet gave her name to the Indian concept of Sakti, or Shakti, the creative power of Shiva, and to such concepts as sak, fermented liquor, sake, etc. In her gentler, cooler, and lunar aspect, she is Bast who 'catted' and brought forth her brood as children of the bother-blood, the bast-ards, before the function of the male was understood in relation to procreation. 2

The lioness of the South, typifying solar and therefore sexual heat. Her northern counterpart is Bast q.v. Sekhet, the later Shakti of the Indian Tantric Cults, is described in 'The Book of the Dead' as 'She who existed before all the gods', i.e. She was the primal and Supreme Creative Power. 3

The fierce lioness-headed goddess of the South. Her ferocious qualities typify secual heat and the fire of fermented drink. her counterpart in the North is the gentle Bast, or Pasht, the lunar cat-headed deity of the coolth of night, as Sekhet is the solar and of the furnace-heat of the day. From the name Sekhet was derived the Indianword shakti, meaning power, with special reference to the magical power of creation as typified by the Fire Snake (q.v.).4

The lion-headed goddess typical of the fierce heat of the South, the place of Set; of sexual heat and of fermented liquor. In this sense she is the goddess of sexual pleasure and strong drink. One of her major symbols is the bee, drunk on the nectar of flowers (i.e. kalas, q.v.). From the word Sekhet is derived the Sanskrit Sakti, connoting power, especially of a sexual nature. (See chapter 15 of the present book). 5

The Goddess of the South typified by the lioness. See Sakti. 6


Sekhet-Aahru
Sekhet-Aahru (Eg.)

The Egyptian paradise, or 'fields of peace'. Cf. the Elysian Fields. 3

Lit. The field or zone of Sekhet (q.v.). (See The Book of the Dead).4

The Fields of Blood. A reference to the magnetic fields of Sekhet or Sakti. 5

The Fields of Sekhet; the Fields of blood; blood being the physical menstruum of Sekhet's power (sakti). Sekhet Aahru is also a technical designation denoting the electro-magnetic fields which lie obliquely and adjacent to the Tunnels of Set (see Nightside of Eden). 6


Sekhmaat
Sekhmaat (Ma.)

Sekhet, or Power, at the Place of Maat. This may be located either at Yuggoth, where supreme Balance (Maat) is attained, or at Daäth, the Place of the Word of Power. 5


Sekhmaut
Sekhmaut (Ma.)

Sekhet at the Ninth or Yesodic Power-zone, where she is typified as the Vulture. The Mysteries of the Dead and of the Sexuality are here implied. 5


Sekhmet
Sekhmet (Eg.)

See Sekhmaat. 5


Selwanga
Selwanga (Af.)

The Python god, attributed to the Path of the Sun, thus, a solar-phallic deity. 3


Sephira
Sephira (Heb.)

Number, emanation, sphere, wheel or chakra. There are ten Sephiroth; each one represents both an emanation and a concentration of cosmic power, and together they constitute the Tree of Life. They are, in order from one to ten, increasingly dense manifestations of Nuit (the Ain) in conjunction with Hadit (the Hidden God). The whole schema constitutes the Holy Qabalah which forms- as Dion Fortune observes- the ground plan of Western Illuminism. 1

The singular form of sephiroth q.v.; the divine emanations or numbers-ten in number- schematized as the Tree of Life, the foundation of the Western Occult Tradition and the ground-plan of the Grade-system of the A.'.A.'. (q.v.). 3

Number, Word, Emanation. The name given to the cosmic power-zones as emanations fo the numbers from 0 - 10, from the infinite ain of No-Thing and No-Number.4

(pl. sepehirioth (Heb.): The Ten Cosmic Power-Zones or Emanations of Light (Supreme Consciousness) represented by the Circles or chakras of the Tree of Life. (See Diagram of Tree). Daäth, the eleventh power-zone, is illusory form the viewpoint of the hither side of the Tree, and is the Tunnel of Transition from Universe 'A' to Universe 'B'. 5


Sephiroth
Sephiroth (Heb.)

The plural of Sephira; number, wheel, emanation. There are, traditionally, ten emanations of Cosmic Consciousness from Kether to Malkuth inclusive. They are connected by vectors of force which, when organized subjectively by the Adept, from the 22 Paths to which have been attributed the 22 Atu of Thoth and the 22 letters of the qabalistic alphabet with their corresponding elemental and magical attributions. See Diagram. *1


Sept

A name of the Star Sothis, the Star of Set. Sept was also a name of the primal goddess of the seven stars who gave birth to Sevekh, or Set, the first male deity who, as the son of the mother, was worshipped as the eighth, the herght, pinnacle or culmination of the seven. 2

A name of Set and of Sothis. Sept is the number seven and therefore identifiable as the primal goddess of the seven stars who was symbolized by her child, Set (q.v.).4


Serau
Serau (Ar.)

The 'hairy deities' (i.e. satyrs, panic demons) of ancient Egypt.4

The long-haired goat associated with the symbolism of Sirius, the Star of Set. 5


Serk
Serk (Eg.)

The goddess presiding over female generative organ. Her stellar symbol is Scorpio, which is the meaning of her name. The Circle-to which she also gave her name- was identified by the ancient Egyptians with the cyclic revolutions of the star sacred to the god Set, i.e. Sothis. 3

The scorpion-headed goddess whose name became identical with the circle, for the first magic circle was the female generative organ, over which Serk presided.4


Serpent Power

See Kundalini. 2

The Kundalini (q.v.) or cosmic magical power which, in its microcosmic aspect is symbolized by a serpent sleeping at the base of the spine, hence its popular confusion with the merely physiological sexual energies. The Serpent Power in the human organism is the Ophidian Current in its raw or primordial form. 6


Sesha
Sesha (Skt.)

In mythology, the primal Serpent. In terms of the secret Tantric rites, the peculiar effluvia emanating from the priestess during the lunar phase of the Rite of the Goddess. See Chapter 6. 2

The primal serpent typical of the Ophidian Current that emanates from the suvasini (q.v.). 3


Sesheta
Sesheta (Skt.)

The goddess whose determinant is the Star; the scribe of Thoth (the moon-god) whose function it was to record or reflect the Creative Word. See Khabs and Khu. 3


Desert of Set

The Abyss of Stars of which Sirius 'A' is the brightest, as Horus, and Sirius 'B' is the darkest, as Set. 5


Set-An
Set-An (Eg.)

The composite Set-Anubis that is the origin of the word Satan (q.v.). Anubis is the golden dog; Set the Black. Note again the connection with the dog of Sirius. One of Satan's symbols is the black dog. 5


Set-Hulhu

This is probably the earlier form of Cthulhu (q.v.) It shows clearly the Draconian origin of a Great Old One, or Deep One, who plays an important part in the Necronomicon Mythos. 5


Set

Lit. Black. Our word 'soot' derives from this incalculably ancient name. Set was the primordial god of the Egyptians; no earlier exists in the recorded history of the present human race. See also Shaitan. 1

The first and therefore oldest of the gods; the prototype of Shaitan or Satan, the God of the South whose Star is Sothis, the soul or 'son' if Isis (i.e. Sept, goddess of the seven stars represented astronomically by Ursa Major in the Northern heaven). The word Set, or Sut, means 'black'. This indicates not only the generative nature of this god but also his association with the night-world, Amenta, for from being a god of the heavens Set fell beneath the horizon and was recognized in later mythologies as the Lord of Hell, the Hidden Land. In magical terms, Set is the epitome of dormant subconscious atavisms. This god is of supreme importance in Crowley's Cult, being not only the name of the primal creative spirit but also the formula of sexual magick. See LAShTAL and ShT 2

The prototype of Shaitan or Satan, the God of the South whose star is Sothis. Set or Sut means 'black' (q.v.), the main kala or colour of Set is black, or red (interchangeable symbols in the Mysteries), which denotes the underworld or infernal region of Amenta. As Lord of Hell, Set is the epitome of subconscious atavisms and of the True Will, or Hidden Sun. Set is of supreme importance in Crowley's Cult of Thelema, being not only the symbol of the Creative Spirit but also of the formula of sexual magick of which he is the heart. His formula is LAShTAL. Cf. Abahadabra of which Had (i.e. Hadit; also Set) is the heart. 3

The prototype of Shaitan or Satan, God of the South whose star is Sothis. Set, or Sut (Soot), means 'black', which is the chief colour (or kala) of set. Black indicates the dark mysteries of the god which were originally enacted in the underworld, or 'other' world, of Amenta (q.v.). Set, as Lord of Amenta, or the hidden land (i.e. hell), is the epitome of subconciousness, and therefore of the True Will or Hidden Sun, the son behind the sun symbolised by the Star of Set (i.e. Sothis).4

The son to Typhon; the dark twin of Horus. Set is the prototypical Satan of the post-Draconian traditions. In astronomical terms he represents Sirius 'B' to Horus's Sirius 'A'. The Silver Star (A.'.A.'., q.v.) is that of Set or Sirius. 5


Sevekh

See Sebek. 1


Shabda
Shabda (Skt.)

Sound, vibration. 3


Shaitan
Shaitan (Ch.)

The ancient deity of the Yezidi, worshipped in Lower Mesopotamia, the source of the Sumerian Tradition that Crowley set out to restore. The name Shaitan is a form of Set and has many qabalistic meanings, some of which have been dealt with fully in the present volume. The name also conceals the complete formula of Sexual Magick as practiced by Crowley. The corruption of the name as Satan is the work of those who failed to understand the true formula and thus degraded the image. 1

The god worshipped by the Yezidi in Lower Mesopotamia, the ancient source of the Sumerian Tradition. The biblical version of this god as Satan is a degradation of the meaning of the Power which it originally represented and which Crowley made the central formula of his Cult. See LAShTAL. *2

The Chaldean form of Set q.v. The god of the Yezidi whose stellar vehicle-Sothis- was the Star of Annunciation; the star that announced the rising of the Nile that brought relief to a sun-stricken land. Shaitan therefore represents the Star that announces the redeeming or creative deluge of waters. Shaitan therefore symbolizes a magical formula involving the use of the Ophidian Current in its feminine form. 3

The Chaldean form of Set (q.v.). The god of the Yezidi whose stellar representitive - Sothis - announced the rising of the river Nile. Shaitan, as the Star of Set, therefore represents the deluge of waters (blood) that embodies the Ophidian Current in its feminine or primal form.4

The Chaldaean form of Set. The Cult of Shaitan was established in Sumer by the prophet Yezid who preceded Mahomet by several centuries. Crowley, who was a reincarnation of Yezid, revived the Cult of Shaitan or Set, and the Book of the Law (Liber AL) was the fulfillment of the promise made in Yezid's time of 'a book written from eternity', i.e. from an extra-terrestrial source. Shaitan-Ai-wass fulfilled this promise with the transmission of AL. 5


Shaitan-Aiwass

The Supreme focus of the Thelemic Cult, which channels the Energies of Sirius (Shaitan) through the 'ministry' of Aiwass. 5


Shaivas
Shaivas (Skt.)

Worshippers of the god Shiva, who typifies the powers of dissolution and regeneration. The Indian version of Set, the Fire Snake. 2


Shaktas
Shaktas (Skt.)

Worshippers of the Absolute in the form of Energy or Power. (shakti). 2


Shakti
Shakti (Skt.)

Power, Force, Energy; shakti typifies the manifesting powers of Consciousness, represented by her consort Shiva. 2

Power. Cf. Sekhet, q.v. 3

Power, particularly magical power. See Sekhet.4

See Sakti. 5


Shambhu
Shambhu (Skt.)

A title of Shiva, the Indian form of Set. Shambhu also means plenty, the Horn of Plenty. 3


Shalicu
Shalicu (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 31st Tunnel.4


Shatchakras
Shatchakras (Skt.)

The Sex Chakras; the main occult power-zones in the subtle body of man. See The Serpent Power, By Sir John Woodroffe. 2


Shava
Shava (Skt.)

Lit. 'corpse; dead one'. An ancient Hindu saying has it that 'Shiva is shava without shakti'. See Shakti. 2


Sheitan

Var. Shaitan, q.v. See also Teitan, Titan. 3


Shekinah
Shekinah (Heb.)

The qabalistic version of Shakti (q.v.). The female embodiment of power.4


Shemhamphorasch
Shemhamphorasch (Heb.)

The Divided Name; a famous Word of Power formed of three times seventy-two letters which represent the names of Angels or extra-terrestrial entities. Note that 216 (3x72) is the number of IPSOS (q.v.); also of DBIR (6x6x6), 'The Holy of Holies'. 5


Shichiririon
Shichiririon (Heb.)

'The Black'. An Order of Qliphoth (q.v.) attributed to the 18th Tunnel.4


Shin
Shin (Heb.)

The letter of Spirit in the Hebrew Alphabet. Its numerical value is 300. It is of great importance in the present Aeon because it is attributed to the twentieth Key of the Tarot (Book of Thoth). This key- The Aeon-together with Keys O and XI, contains the secret formulae of the New Aeon. Their total numeration is XXXI, the number of The Book of the Law and of AL (Hadit) and LA (Nuit). See, in particular, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.336 et seq. 1

The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, shin means a 'tooth' and is attributed to the element of Fire. This letter is of supreme importance in Crowley's Cult because together with the letter Teth (T, a serpent), it forms ShT, the glyph of the god Set or Shaitan, the Fire Snake. 2

The letter of Fire whose triple tongue represents the threefold nature of Consciousness, via: Waking, dreaming, and 'pure' consciousness typified by dreamless sleep. Shin is the letter of Spirit in the 'three worlds'. Shin or Sin is the name of the Sumerian moon god and represents Spirit in its triple phase: Sh (attributed to Fire; the Fire Snake), I (phallic energy), and N (female Ophidian Current represented by Scorpio). The total numeration of Shin is Sh(300)+I(10)+N(50)=360, Full Circle; the fulfillment of a Cycle or an Aeon. 3

The letter and number of Spirit - 300. THe triple fire-tounge that is the special emblem of Set (Shaitan) in his role of the God of the Deep (See Nodens, Neptune). The trident of Set or Typhon, is also the emblem of Chozzar (See Choronzon), the god of dark Atlantean sorcery that was carried over into the present aeon as the god of Death (Daäth) and of the Abyss.4

The letter of Spirit represented by a triple tongue of flame, and by the number 300. It is the triple Fire-Tongue typical of Chozzar or Choronzon (q.v.). It is the Trident of Shiva, the triple prong of the Deep One-Neptune or Nodens, and the three phases of the Assyrian Moon-god, Sin. (See Appendix) 5


Shiva
Shiva (Skt.)

Pure Consciousness. In mythology, the god Shiva is the great destroyer and therefore equivalent to the Egyptian god Set, who destroys illusory phenomena to make way for Reality. 2


Shivadasis
Shivadasis (Skt.)

'Devotees of Shiva'; Which is a symbolic way of describing sadhakas (q.v.) absorbed in the bliss of pure (i.e. concept-free) Consciousness. 6


Shona Kala
Shona Kala (Skt.)

The red (shona) kala (ray or star). One of the three kalas that forms the Trikona (q.v.) of the Goddess. 2


Shri Chakra
Shri Chakra (Skt.)

The Supreme Goddess (Devi or Shakti; Light and Power) in linear form. See Plate 5. The yantra of the Devi (goddess) consists of a series of upward and downward pointing triangles. When the central triangle is inverted, the Goddess is worshipped by the rites of Kailasa Prastara (q.v.); when upward facing, by the Bhu Prastara, i.e. when the priestess is spread upon the ground. See The Kamakalavilasa, translated by Sir John Woodroffe, for a detailed account of the evolution of the Shri Chakra from the binu or root-seed at its center. 2


ShT

The name and formula of the god, Set. Sh, the letter shin (q.v.) is attributed to Fire; T, the letter Teth, to the Serpent; hence ShT is the formula of the Fire Snake or Kundalini. See LAShTAL. 2


Shu
Shu (eg.)

When the Sun-god Atum performed a magically directed act of masturbation he produced the twins, Shu and Tefnut. Shu is fire, or heat; Tefnut is moisture, humidity. (See The Hieratic Papyrus of Nesi Amsu, translated by E.A. Wallis Budge, 1891). Shu is a sophisticated form of the African Echu, or Eshu (q.v.).4


Shub-Niggurath

This entity features in the Necronomicon Mythos as 'the Goat with a Thousand Young'. She is the consort of Yog-Sothoth (q.v.) together with whom she bred the monstrous twins Nug and Yeb. 5


Shugal
Shugal (Heb.)

The desert fox symbolic of Set, the male half of the Beast 666. (The number of Shugal is 333). See Choronzon.4

The fox or jackal typical of Set. Its number is 333 which links it with Choronzon (q.v.)., in congress with which it becomes the Beast 666. Cf. Sagala, where the Set symbolism is confirmed. 5

The jackal or Fenekh-fox symbolic of the Desert of Set; a zootype of Aiwass. The number of Shugal is 333, which equates it with the Choronzonic Current of the Beast, for Shugal (333)+ Choronzon (333) = 666. Shugal is synonymous with Sagal (q.v.), the twin star of Sirius. 6


Shukra
Shukra (Skt.)

Semen. See also Rakta. 2


Siddhi
Siddhi (Skt.)

Magical or Occult Power. Siddha: one who possesses same. 2 Occult power. The person wielding it is known as a Siddha. 1


The Silver Star

See A.'.A.'.. The two major emblems of the Cult of Thelema are the Star and the Snake - the Star is Sothis (Sirius), the Star of Set; the Snake is the Fire Snake, Kundalini, the formula of whose awakening is contained in the name of Set. See LAShTAL. 2


Sin
Sin (Heb)

See Shin. 'The word of Sin is Restriction'. This means that Shin, as the lunar current (the moon-good, Sin) is the antithesis of Shin, the creative spirit or Fire Snake, and, as such, a key to Universe 'B'. This may mean that Restriction (in the sense of Karezza, q.v.) could be a dynamic formula.4

The Assyrian Moon god. According to AL 'The word of Sin is Restriction', i.e., as applied to the 'closed period' in connection with the lunar cycle of the female. (See Shin, Zain, Zin). 5

The lunar current. See Zain, Zin. 6


Sirius

The Dog-Star. In the Arcane Tradition, the vast star, Sirius, symbolizes the sun behind the sun; i.e. the true father of our Universe. Sirius was the primordial star of all time, as the duplicator or renewer (of time cycles). He was known in Egypt as the Doubling One, therefore a Creator or reflector of the Image. Sirius, or Set, was the original 'headless one' the light of the lower region (the South) who was known (in Egypt) as An (the dog), hence Set-an (Satan), Lord of the infernal regions, the place of heat, later interpreted in a moral sense as 'hell'. 1

The Dog Star, Sothis, sacred to Set. 2

See Sothis.4

See A.'.A.'., Set, etc. 5

The 'One Star in Sight' of all terrestrial dwellers. Sirius 'A', and its dark twin, Sirius 'B' imbue with Magical Light the Order of The Silver Star (See A.'.A.'.) which is the Elevenfold Star of the Great White Brotherhood that radiates its influence from the power-zone of Set. 6


Sita Kala
Sita Kala (Skt.)

The white (sita) kala (ray, essence, or perfume). One of the three kalas which form the Trikona (q.v.) of the Goddess. 2


Sixtystone

 See Ixaxarr. 6


Magical Sleep

For the nature of the Magical Sleep, see Part 2, chapter 3.4


Smashanam
Smashanam (Skt.)

Lit. 'cremation or burning ground'. A name of the goddess Kali when her yoni is identified as, or likened to, the place where all desires are extinguished (i.e. fulfilled). 2

The cremation or burning-ground symbolized by the flower-strewn yoni of the goddess Kali, into whose 'funeral pyre' the sadhaka pours the lust of his spirit, and being purged by fire, attains Kaivalya, q.v. 3


Smen
Smen (Eg.)

The Smen, semen, or seed was originally the fructifying blood regarded as feminine, before the creative spirit was ascribed to masculinity. Hence, Am-Smen was the place of purgation and preparation. See Part 1, chapter 6.4


Soma
Soma (Skt.)

The mystical perfume of fragrance of the 16th Kala of the Moon. 3


Sothis
Sothis (Gk.)

The Soul (i.e. the star) of Isis. Another name for Sirius, the Dog-star. Set is the Star of Isis, thus Venus is transcended in Sirius in the sense that the 'child' surpasses the 'mother'. The Sothiac Cycle was a period of time, like the Phoenix and other cycles. In Ancient Egypt Sothis was the Opener of the Year, rising in time to announce the inundation of the Nile which brought relief to a sun-stricken land. Hence Sothis was the Star of Annunciation. 1

The Soul, or Star, of Isis; the Dog Star, Sirius, the stellar vehicle of Set. 2

The Star of Set from which the extra-terrestial transmission of the Ophidian Current derived. Sothis is a 'twin' Star and, as such is a perfect glyph of the twins (Set-Horus). Sirius 'A' is visible; the other Sirius, Sirius 'B', is invisible. They represent Universes 'A' and 'B'.4

The Greek form of Sirius which is the Star of Set and The Silver Star whose influence informs the A.'.A.'. or Great White Brotherhood. 5

Greek form of Sirius, q.v. 6


Sothoth

 See Yog-Sothoth. 5


Spanda
Spanda (Skt.)

Vibration. 5


Srichakra

The Mandala (q.v.) of Tripurasundari, the Supreme Goddess of the Tantras. The Srichakra contains in its lines and angles a complete resume' of the Srividya or Science of the Kalas (q.v.) in respect of cosmic and magical creation, as embodied in the fully initiated or awakened priestess. 5

The disc or chakra of the Mother. A linear representation of the source of all kalas; the matrix of all manifestation, terrestrial and extraterrestrial. (See Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God, plate 5). 6


Srividya
Srividya (Skt.)

The sacred knowledge or science (of the kalas, q.v.).4

The Supreme Science or Gnosis. It is the oriental counterpart of the Alchemical tradition in the West. It has special reference to the Kalas (q.v.), colors, metals, flowers, or essences (tattvas). 5


Sriyantra
Sriyantra (Skt.)

See Srichakra. A Yantra is a linear representation of occult forces, such as sound (mantra) and magical invocation (tantra). The Sri (or Supreme) Yantra is therefore the Srichakra, or Circle of the Goddess in human form. 5

Another name for the Srichakra (q.v.). (See Yantra). 6


Comity of Stars
Comity of Stars (Ma.)

Another name for the Great White Brotherhood, or A.'.A.'. 5


Ste'le' of Revealing
The Ste'le' of Revealing

See Plate opposite p.116 in The Magical Revival (Grant). The mortuary ste'le' of Ankh-af-na-Khonsu. It adumbrated in the XXVIth. Dynasty of ancient Egypt the tenets peculiar to the present Aeon of Horus inaugurated in 1904 when Aleister Crowley (a reincarnation of Ankh-af-na-Khonsu) received Liber AL: The Book of the Great Old One, whose name is Aiwass. The Ste'le' of Revealing is known as 'The Abominable of Desolation'. Its number, 718, is the number of Azyn (q.v.), the Gateway to the Abominable, 'Unspeakable', or 'Wordless Aeon of Zain (q.v.). 5


Stotra
Stotra (Skt.)

Hymn or Song of Praise. 2


Sunyata
Sunyata (Skt.)

The Void; Emptiness; The Abyss; Chaos. The essentially void nature of phenomena (the world of appearances) is realized only when its noumenal source (non-being, or the world of dis-appearances) is experienced as the source of Being. 5

The Void. The Emptiness or illusoriness of phenomena which is typified, in the Western Occult Tradition, by deserted places of which the Desert of Set, the Crimson Desert of the Arabs, are examples. The Qabalistic Abyss is also, in certain respects, apposite. 6


Sunyatavada
Sunyatavada (Skt.)

The Way or Path of the Void. 6


Sunyatavadin
Sunyatavadin (Skt.)

One who follows the Sunyatavada (q.v.). This is not strictly accurate, for there is in fact no 'one' to do so. 6


Supushpa
Supushpa (Skt.)

Pleasing, or fragrant, flower. 2


Sushumna
Sushumna (Skt.)

The principal nadi (q.v.) of the subtle body. Sushumna is the central or 'spinal' canal in man, the middle pillar of the Tree of Life. It is equated with Fire, with the sun (Pingala) and the moon (Ida) on either side. Sushumna is thus the Path of the Fire Snake after it has been aroused from sleep by the joint action of the solar and lunar currents. The Caduceus of Mercury with twin serpents twined about a central pole or wand is a cognate symbol. 2


Sushupti
Sushupti, Susupti (Skt.)

The state of deep dreamless sleep which intervenes when the image-making faculty (i.e. the mind) is utterly quiescent. 2

Dreamless sleep. One of the three states of Conciousness. See Jagrat, and Svapna.4

The state of deep and dreamless sleep wherein no thing is experienced by consciousness; no thing but the Self. 5

The state of deep and dreamless sleep in which no objects appear, and in which there is no subject to claim them. See Jagrat. 6


Suvasini
Suvasini (Skt.)

Lit. 'Fragrant (Su) woman' (Vasini). The Tantric version of the Scarlet Woman. She possesses certain secret qualities, known only to Initiates, which fit her for the role of priestess in the Kaula Circle Ritual (q.v.). 2

Lit. 'Sweet-smelling woman'; a description of the woman chosen to represent the Goddess in the ritual of the Kaula Circle. 3

Lit. Sweet smelling lady. The woman chosen for magical and/or tantric rituals because of a certain fragrance of flowers (kalas, q.v.) that qualifies her for the role of priestess or Scarlet Woman (q.v.). 5

Lit. 'Sweet-smelling Woman'. The term refers to the perfumes or fragrances peculiar to the kalas (q.v.) shed by the shaktis engaged in the Magical Rituals, especially of the Kaula Circle (the worship of the Supreme Goddess, Kali). 6


Svadisthana Chakra
Svadisthana Chakra (Skt.)

One of the seven major power-zones in the human body. 3

The microcosmic power-zone at the region of the solar plexus in the subtle anatomy of man.4


Svapna
Svapna, Swapna (Skt.)

Consciousness in the dream state. 2

The dream state of conciousness. One of the three states of consciousness, See Jagrat, and Sushupti.4

The state of dreaming, wherein 'things' are experienced by the mind in the light of consciousness alone. 5

The state of dreaming. Its images are as illusory as those which appear in the so-called waking state (jagrat). The only real element in either state is the power that animates both the subject (dreamer) and his (dreamed) objects. (See Jagrat). 6

Ta-Urt (Eg)

The Mother of Set (q.v.) whom the Greeks called Typhon. She is the prototype of the wheel, chakra, womb, or circle of eternal revolutions; hence the Tarot (q.v.) is the Book of the Mysteries of Celestial Influences; Rota, is the Wheel, Thora, is the Law; and Athor, is the goddess Hathor whose name means the womb (At, or Hat) of Hor, i.e. Horus. All these derive from Ta-Urt. 5

The ancient or enceinte Mother adored by the Typhonians in pre-dynastic Egypt under the form of the pregnant hippopotamus, symbolic of the Dragon of the Waters. Hence the Draconian and the Typhonian Traditions are one. Ta-Urt is the 'Mother of Revolutions' when she is identified celestially as the 'haunch' constellation. She is typified by the flashing spark and the whirling disc (lightning and thunder), and the Mystery of the later Disc Worshippers must be fathomed at this level. She gave her name to the Tarot, which is an occult commentary on the Mysteries of Celestial Revolutions, Discs, and stellar influences. As such She presides over analogous phenomena in the human organism where the terrestrial reflexes of these kalas are generated. 6


Tahuti
Tahuti (Eg.)

Thoth, God of Wisdom and Magic. The Egyptian form of Hermes and Mercury, the latter being the planetary representative of Set. 1

Thoth, q.v. 3


Talam
Talam (Ma.)

A peculiar kind of honey. (See chapter 12 and 17). 5


Tamas
Tamas (Skt.)

Inertia, matter, density. One of the three guna-s of Hinduism equivalent to the Alchemical principle of Salt in the Western Arcane tradition. See Tribindu. 3


Tan
Tan (heb.)

Var. Than. The root of the work Leviathan (q.v.), that old serpent ever seeking to penetrate into Eden.4


Tanith

The feminine terminal (ith) added to Tan or Than denotes the Draconian Current and the magical formula of Babalon.4

The Dragon of the Deep that is the primal form of Babalon (q.v.). That form of the Ophidian Current which is activated by the fusion of the twin Currents, 93 (Horus) and 696 (Maat). This produces 789, the number of Tanith. Like Babalon, Tanith is an 'office', not a persona. 5

The root is 'Than', 'Dragon'. The Typhonian Dragon of the Deep, i.e. of Air or Space (Outer Ones), or of Water or the Astral Plane (Deep Ones). The concept has special relevance to the Double Current because the Aeon of Horus, represented by the 93 Current, and the Aeon of Maat, represented by 696 Current are concentrated in the number of Tanith, viz. 789. Tanith therefore typifies the Draconian or Ophidian Current. As TNIT, equals 78, a number of Aiwass, the messenger or 'angel' of Hoor-paar- Kraat (q.v.), and of 'Mezla', the 'Influence from Beyond' (i.e. beyond Kether, or Yuggoth, q.v.). 6


Tantra
Tantra, Tantric (Skt.)

Function, functioning; any continuous ritual process or movement having a prescribed aim or object, magical or mystical. The term applies particularly to certain oriental grimoires or manuals of ritual technique compiled for the use of Shaktas (q.v.). In a strictly technical sense, the tantra of a deity is its mode of invocation; its mantra is its secret name or vibration; its yantra is the representation of its power-zones and vectors of energy in linear form. 2

The 'tantra' of a deity or force is the practical mode of its invocation; its mantra is its secret formula of vibration; its yantra is the linear pattern of its power-zone or the vectors of force radiating therefrom. 3

A method, magical or mystical, of evoking or invoking a particular deity or force. The Hindu and Buddhist Tantras are grimoires replete with such techniques. See in particular the works of Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon). 5


Tao

A Chinese term denoting That from which all appears to proceed and into which all appears to return. Equivalent to the Hindu concept of Brahman, i.e. Pure Consciousness beyond the operations of the image-making faculty (i.e. the mind). 2


Tara
Tara (Skt.)

the Supreme Goddess of the Tibetan Mahayana Buddhists. She represents the World Saviour. 2

The Saviouress. The goddess who is the Taru (door or gateway) to other and higher modes of being. There is a White Tara and a Green Tara, and a Taradravamayi, or 'Saviouress in liquid form' who is an embodiment of the kalas (q.v.) and the supreme goddess of the Tantrics, and of the Gnostics who worshipped her as Charis, the charismatic one, the pre-Christian Christ in female form. 5


Taradravamayi
Taradravamayi (Skt.)

Lit. 'The Saviour (Tara) in liquid form' (dravamayi). The Tibetan form of the pre-Christian (i.e. Gnostic) Saviour, Charis, whose saving blood represented the menstruum or vehicle of birth into this world, and of rebirth into the next, long ages before that function was ascribed to Christ and the later masculine 'saviours'. 2


Tarot
Tarot (Heb.)

Lit. a Wheel or Revolution. The Book of Thoth, which contains the Keys to the 22 Paths of the Tree of Life as well as many other secret cells of the Hermetic Tradition. The pack of cards used for telling fortunes and calculating mundane chances of whatever order, is a debasement of the original sublime Arcana that occurred when the true keys were lost. They have recently been recovered and interpreted according to the Mysteries of the New Aeon, by Aleister Crowley. 1

Lit. 'Wheel' or 'Cycle' (i.e. of Time). The Book of Thoth which contains, in mysterious ciphers, now revised by Crowley in accordance with the doctrines of the New Aeon, the entire body of magical philosophy. It contains the 22 Keys of the Atu of Tahuto (Thoth), known as the Major Arcana, the remaining 56 designs constituting the Minor Arcana. The correct assignment of the Keys to the 22 Paths of the Tree of Life is given on Plate 2. See also The Book of Thoth by The Master Therion (Crowley). 2

Principle, essence, law.. See Taurt. The Tarot is a collection of magical formulae in pictorial form which contains the mysteries of Time and the Oracles of Eternity. 3

The ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth. It contains 78 symbolic designes wherein are concealed the secret formulae of magical initiation. 78 is the number of MEZLA, 'the influence from above, or beyond'. Twenty-two of these glyphs treat specifically of the Major Arcana, or Mysteries, and of the Qliphoth of these as described in the present book.4

See Ta-Urt. The word has come to be associated with the 78 Cards of magical and mystical designs that are said to constitute the Book of Thoth. The only pack relevant to the present and future aeons is that designed by Aleister Crowley and executed by Frieda, Lady Harris. (See bibliography). 5

The Book of Thoth, which contains 78 chapters or magical visualizations. The word Tarot derives from the Egyptian Ta-Urt (q.v.), the Rota, Wheel, or Disc which symbolizes the Grail and the Feminine Void as the matrix or Gateway of Cosmic Energy. 6


Tatanka
Tatanka (Skt.)

The sun and moon regarded as time keepers..3


Tattva
Tattva (Skt.)

Principle; truth; element; essence. 2

Principle, essence, law. 3

Truth, Principle, Law. 6


Tau
Tau (Heb.)

The Sign of the Cross. In its upright form it is the symbol of the Creative Spirit-Set in the South; in its down-ward form it is the symbol of Death.- of Set as Lord of the Crossing, or Place of Crossing Over into the world of Spirit. See Chapter I. 3


Taurt
Taurt (Eg.)

The Primaeval Mother Goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt in the form of a pregnant hippopotamus. She was represented astronomically by the Great Bear constellation (Typhon). Taurt means the Mother of Revolutions, and it is possible that she gave her name to the Tarot (q.v.) which is the Book of the Secret Revolutions of the Stars and Cosmic Time-Cycles. 1

The primal goddess as the hippopotamus or Beast of the Waters (of Space). Her constellation in the heavens rotated around the North Pole and she was accordingly known as 'The Mother of Revolutions'. She embodied the concept of time, repetition, cyclic return, and light in night. The word Tarot (q.v.) combines all these ideas. 3


Tefnut
Tefnut (eg.)

See Shu.4


Teitan

The Chaldaean form of Sheitan or Shaitan q.v. 3


Tekh
Tekh (Eg.)

The hard form of Tesh; a name of Thoth as god of the crossing, boundary, or limit. See Osiris-Tesh-Tesh. 3


Tekhi
Tekhi (Eg.)

Goddess of the feminine period. 3


Temphioth
Temphioth (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 19th Tunnel.4


Teth
Teth (Heb.)

A lion-serpent. The ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is attributed to the solar-phallic deity, Set, Tet, Hadit or Thoth, which are all forms of Teth, the special formula of which is contained in the eleventh Key of the Book of Thoth; it is entitled Lust and exhibits the Scarlet Woman, Babalon, riding upon the seven-headed Beast, her chalice exalted. 1

The ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Teth means a 'lion-serpent' and is attributed to the solar-phallic deities, Set, Tet, Had, Hadit, Thoth, etc., all being forms of Teth. This letter is also attributed to the eleventh Key of the Tarot (q.v.) which is entitled Lust and which exhibits the lion-headed serpent straddled by the Scarlet Woman with her Cup exalted. 2

The lion-serpent; the number 9 (in Hebrew) and therefore the number of sexual magick connected with the 9th Cosmic Power-zone, Yesod, q.v. 3

'A lion serpent'. Teth is the number 9, and the lion-serpent is the symbol of the Cult of the Spermatozoon; it is thus a secret cypher of the IXo O.T.O. (See Part 2, chapter 9).4

Lit. 'the Serpent'. The ninth letter of the Magical Alphabet and the Monogram of Thoth, with whose name Teth is synonymous. Hence the association of Teth with the Word whose creative magick is exemplified in the symbolism of the Ninth Degree (IX`)) O.T.O. Teth, as the Serpent, is the symbol par excellence of the Ophidian Current. 6


Tetragrammaton
Tetragrammaton (Heb.)

The four-lettered sacred Name IHVH (q.v.). 2

The Four lettered Holy Name of God - IHVH - commonly known as Jehovah. ITs number is 26, which is the sum of the numbers of the sephiroth of the Middle Pillar of the Tree of Life (see diagram). Its tarotic attribution is that of The Devil, which relates to the 26th Path under the aegis of Capricorn (a symbol of Babalon, the Scarlet Woman, q.v.). Tetragrammaton contains the highly complex doctrine pertaining to the Yod and the He (male and female) and thier union (symbolised by the son, Vau) which results in the production or manifestation of He final: the daughter. (See Coph Nia, Koph, Qoph, etc.).4

IHVH, the Holy Fourfold Name composed of I (attributed to Fire), H (attributed to Water), V (attributed to Air). H-final (attributed to Earth). I represents the Father (the phallus/semen), H represents the Mother (womb/blood), V represents the Son (copula), H (final) represents the Daughter (manifestation or birth into Matter/Maat). See Appendix for a discussion of this formula in connection with aeonic succession. 5

The Sacred Fourfold Word or Name, IHVH. See Appendix to Outside the Circles of Time for a specific definition of the Name in connection with the Typhonian Tradition. 6


Thantifaxath
Thantifaxath (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 32nd and final Tunnel.4


Thelema
Thelema (Gk.)

Will. The Word of the Law, as Abrahadabra (q.v.) is the Word of the Aeon. The number of Thelema is 93, which is also that of Agapè, the means of the Law's fulfillment. 1

The word means 'Will'. The Word of the Law of the current Aeon of Horus. Its numerical value is 93, which designates the Thelemic Current and equates it with Agapè (love) and Aiwaz, the transmitter of the Ophidian Current and the Doctrine which goes with it (i.e. The Book of the Law; see AL). The discovery by each man and woman of the True Will, his or her true purpose, is the central theme of this doctrine of Thelema. Not to be confused with the Word of the Aeon, which is Abrahadabra (q.v.). 2

Will. The Word of the Law of the New Aeon. Its number -93- equates Thelema with Agapè (love), which is the formula of its manifestation or fulfillment. 3

The magical or 'true' will that is veiled beneath the psycho-sexual complex of man's deepest conciousness. The purpose of magick is to unveil the True Will and reveal the Hidden Light. To this end it uses the formula of Love (Agapè, q.v.).4

Will. Together with Love, Agapè (q.v.), Thelema completes the formula of 'Love under will' which evokes/invokes the energies of Horus to manifest and create a vortex which earths the Maatian Current. 5


Theojas

A term coined by Michael Bertiaux to denote an ultimate form of Ojas (q.v.). 6


Theli
Theli (Heb.)

Dragon.4


Therion
Therion (Gk.)

the Beast. Crowley assumed the title to Maga Therion (The Great Wild Beast) when he attained the Grade of Magus 9=2 A.'.A.'. in New York in 1915. The numerical value of the title is 666. 2


Third Eye

Sometimes called the Eye of Shiva. See Ajna Chakra. When this eye 'awakes', the illusory universe is destroyed and the Adept realizes Absolute Truth. 2


Thoth
Thoth (Gk.)

The God Tahuto (q.v.), whose Book contains the Supreme Keys of Magick. 1

The Greek form of Tahuti, the Egyptian god of magic whose Book contains the supreme keys of magick power. This god is associated with the moon and is accompanied by a cynocephalous, or dog-headed baboon, which is known as the Ape of Thoth and which, by virtue of its association with the lunar current and periodic time, is the secret reifying agent of the magick of Thoth. 2

The Greek form of Tahuti, the Egyptian god of magick associated with the lunar current through his companion or 'shakti', the dog-headed Kaf-ape (q.v.), through which the magick of Thoth is manifested. 3

The Egyptian god of Magick whose vehicle is the kaf-ape (q.v.). In an occult sense, Thoth is synonymous with Daäth (q.v.).4

The Egyptian god of Magick, or illusion. He is identified with the eleventh Cosmic Power-Zone, Daäth (q.v.). The magick of Thoth is the main subject of the present volume. 5


Tiphereth
Tiphereth (Heb.)

The Sixth and central Sephira of the Tree of Life. The Sphere of the Sun, i.e. the Holy Guardian Angel. Tiphareth means 'Beauty'. 1

The sixth and central sephira of the Tree of Life which is translated as 'Beauty'. It is the focus of solar consciousness, as Kether is of cosmic consciousness, and symbolizes the spiritual center, individualized in man as the jiva or Holy Guardian Angel (q.v.). 2

The sixth and central Cosmic Power-zone on the Tree of Life; it is assumed to Solar Energy in its radiant aspect and to the Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel. Tiphereth means 'beauty'. 3

The sixth and central cosmic power-zone represented on the Tree of Life as the sephira called 'Beauty' (Tiphereth). It is assumed to the sun.4

The Sixth Cosmic Power-Zone on the Tree of Life. It is the heart or solar center of the Tree and the focus of illuminated human consciousness. 5

The Sixth Cosmic Power Zone. It is not quite the Central Point or Pivot of the Sephirotic Tree, for there 11, not 10, sephiroth. Tiphereth is the locus of the Angel, 'Knowledge & Conversation' with whom is essential before the magician may establish contact with the Outer Ones. 6


Tirtha
Tirtha (Skt.)

A holy place or earthly power-zone; usually considered such after having been sanctified by the residence of, or even fleeting contact with, a spiritually enlightened being. 2


Titan
Titan (Gk.)

A form of Teitan, whose number is 666. Teitan is the Chaldaen form of Shaitan, the Devil-God of ancient Sumer whose secret name is Aiwass (q.v.). 3


Togo
Togo (Af.)

The 'red water'. The symbolism connects it with the lunar aspect of the Ophidian Current. Togo is a sacred lagoon. 3


Tree of Death

The averse Tree of Life with its tunnels of Set to which Daäth is the Gateway.4


Tree of Life

The ten cosmic poower-zones and the twenty-two paths constitute the Tree of Life. (See diagram). The complex system of kalas (q.v.) attributed to the paths has been treated extensively in the Typhonian Trilogy.4


Tribindu
Tribindu (Skt.)

The three bindus of the Kamakala (q.v.), shukra, (or sita), shona, and misra (q.v.). In Crowley's Cult these tribindu are Hadit, Nuit and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. 2

The three (tri) seeds or essences (bindu-s). They are the red bindu (shonabindu), the white bindu (sitabindu) and the mixed bindu (misrabindu), attributed to the three guna-s rajas, tamas, and sattva, or to the three alchemical principles- sulphur, salt, and mercury. 3


Trikona
Trikona (Skt.)

The three-angled yoni or inverted triangle typical of the Muladhara Chakra (q.v.), the abode of the sleeping Fire Snake. The supreme power-zone of the Goddess. 2


True Will
True Will (Th.)

The vital difference between the will and the True Will is not always easy to determine. The lack of proper discrimination between the two is the cause of ninety percent of the wrecks that litter the Magical Path. The True Will is the vital and creative current of energy which uses a specific vehicle for the furtherance of the Cosmic plan, bringing to birth in human consciousness the realization of its ultimate destiny. The personal will, or ego, is usually-and by virtue of its alliance with desire-instrumental in vitiating, if only temporarily, this destiny. 5


Tuat
Tuat (Eg.)

The passage or tunnel leading to Amenta (the underworld). Sometimes known as the Duat. It is the Egyptian original of the word Daäth (q.v.).4


Tulku
Tulku (Tib.)

The embodiment or incarnation of a praeter-human or extra-terrestrial Intelligence. Cf. Hindu avatar, q.v. 3


Tulpa
Tulpa (Tib.)

A double or magical projection of the magician in a form predetermined. 6


Tum
Tum (Eg.)

The evening or setting sun associated with the West and with the underworld of Amenta (q.v.).4


Turiya
Turiya (Skt.)

Lit. 'The Fourth'. The three states of consciousness known as jagrat (waking), swapna (dreaming) and sushupti (deep dreamless sleep) have Turiya as their substratum; this is why it is called the 'fourth'. In actual fact, however, there is but One state and that is Turiya, the other three states being illusory and ephemeral phenomena. It is the Turiya state or no-state that is the natural state of the realized soul; he knows no waking, dreaming or forgetfulness for he is forever aware that the entire objective and subjective universe is non-existent outside the mind, and that mind too is an illusion. 2

Pure undifferentiated Consciousness that is absolutely bereft of all thought constructs. It is the one constant reality, and the Only Reality, underlying the three states of consciousness known as jagrat (q.v.), svapna (q.v.), and sushupti (q.v.).4


Tuyau

A term coined by Michael Bertiaux to denote an astral temple or conduit. The Tunnels of Set are the classic example. 6


Typhon

The Greek form of the Egyptian name Ta-Urt (q.v.). She gives her name to the Typhonian Tradition continued today in the O.T.O. (q.v.). *1

 	The feminine aspect of Set; sometimes typified as the Mother of Set in her role of Goddess of the Seven Stars, of which Set is the Eighth. 2

The Mother of Set and the Supreme symbol of the Draconian Cult in which the primal goddess is worshipped as shakti (power).4

The Greek form of the Egyptian name Ta-Urt (q.v.). Typhon is the Supreme Matrix or Great Mother. As the Mother of Set, Typhon is the Type of the 93 Current radiating from Shaitan-Aiwass, and of the Tradition to which she gives her name. 6


Current, Typhonian
Typhonian Current

The Primeval Cult of the Mother (Time) from whose womb all vibrations (currents) emanate. 5


Typhonian Tradition

The primal African Cult in its ancient Egyptian or Draconian form. Typhon, or Taurt (q.v.), represented the first light in darkness as the circumpolar complex of seven stars that gave her the name of the Dragon of the Deep. Her seven stars, or souls, were manifested by Set, her son in the South, who, as the eighth was the culmination or height of her light and the first male deity ever to be worshipped. 3


Tzaddi
Tzaddi (Heb.)

This is the only letter of the magical alphabet that appears in its original form in the Book of the Law; it is doubtless, therefore, that it is of extreme importance to the present Aeon of Horus and also, perhaps, to the Aeon of Maat. 5

Lit. 'a fish-hook', and thus a cypher of the Deep Ones. Its number is 90, which denotes the Northern Quarter (allotted to Nuit) of the Full Circle of Space. In AL I.57, Tzaddi is especially nominated as Not (i.e. NVT, or Nuit). NVT as 65 is the Angel or Messenger from Nuit (i.e. Space). 6


Tzalalimiron
Tzalalimiron (Heb.)

'The Changers'. An Order of Qliphoth (q.v.) attributed to the 17th Tunnel. 4


Tzaphiririon
Tzaphiririon (Heb.)

 'The Scratchers'. An Order of Qliphoth (q.v.) attributed to the 20th Tunnel.4


Tzuflifu
Tzuflifu (Heb.)

Sentinal of the 28th Tunnel.4


Umr At-Tawil
Umr At-Tawil (Ar.)

'He who gardeth the Gateway; the most Ancient One...' (Necronomicon Mythos). 5


Upadhi
Upadhi (Skt.)

The superimposition upon Reality (Pure Consciousness) of an illusory concept that is assumed to be real (e.g. the 'self', 'others', the world of names and forms). When This upadhi is dissolved, enlightenment occurs.4


Uranus

 THe planetary representative of Daäth. Uranus indicates the sudden and explosive nature of the formula of magick (or change) associated with the eleventh cosmic power-zone.4


Ur-heka
Ur-heka (Eg.)

'The mighty one of enchantments.' The Great Magic Power of the ancient Egyptians. The Ur-heka was a magical instrument of regeneration used by the priest-magicians in the Ceremony of the Opening of the Mouth (see The Book of the Dead). The Ur-heka was in the shape of a ram-headed serpent. The ram is the symbol of creative force; the serpent represents the lunar current. These two combined constitute the formula of regeneration or resurrection. The ram, Amen, was a title of Sebek or Set, the Draconian deity of the Typhonians. 2


Ur-hekau
Ur-hekau (Eg.)

'Mighty One of Enchantments'. The Great Magic Power represented by the thigh, khu or queue of the Goddess in which the khabs (star, kala, essence of light) resides. The term ur-hekau connects this light with hekt or hecate, the lunar Ophidian Current represented by the frog, hare, lizard, ape, hyena, and other lunar emblems of change or magical transformation. The ancient Egyptians employed a magic wand which they called Ur-hekau. It was in the form of a ram-headed snake. This was the symbol of the Living Word that was originally feminine in nature and symbolized by the hippopotamus-the goddess Taurt or Typhon. The ram (Aries) was a symbol of Amoun or Amen, the Hidden God carried over from the previous aeon when the crocodile was the zootype of Set, the god born of the thigh, haunch or khu of Typhon. 3

'The Mighty One of Enchantments'. The Great Magick Power represented by the thigh of the goddess (see Khepsh). The great magical power (Khu) resides in the queue or tail (i.e. the vagina) of Typhon. Hekau connects this power with hekt (q.v.) or Hecate, the lunar Ophidian Current represented by such zootypes as the frog, hare, lizard, ape, hyena, and other types of periodic change (magick) and renewal.4

The Supreme Magical Power. Cf. Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The word Ur-Hekau contains the Hekh or Hecate' association plus the Khu, or magical power. It thus has affiliations with Rahakarti and Hoor-pi-khart. The Ur-hekau as a magical talisman was typified by the thigh or haunch constellation sacred to Ta-Urt (q.v.). 6


Uriens
Uriens (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 16th Tunnel. (Cf. Oriens).4


V.V.V.V.V.

Crowley's motto as a Master of the Temple of A.'.A.'., was Vi Ver Vniversum Vivus Vici ('By the power of Truth, I, while living, have conquered the Universe'). The initials of the motto have been likened to the 'footprints of a camel', the ship of the desert (of Set). Five Vs symbolize the full extension of the Pentagram or Five Pointed Star of Set; (Note that 'the power of Truth' may be read as 'the shakti of Maat'). 5


Vahana
Vahana (Skt.)

Vehicle, medium, menstruum.4

Vehicle. 6


Vaikuntha
Vaikuntha (Skt.)

The abode of Vishnu. The ultimate aim of the Vaishnavas (q.v.) is to so purify themselves by prayer and devotion that their bodies become sufficiently refined to enter Vaikuntha and remain permanently in the divine presence. 2


Vaishnavism

That branch of Hinduism that exalts the loving aspect of Supreme Godhead (Vishnu) as Rama or Krishna. One of the outstanding contemporary representatives of this Cult was Thakur Haranath (1865-1927) of Sonamukhi, West Bengal, an avatar of Shri Krishna Chaitanya who gave a great impetus to the Cult in the 15th century. 3


Vajroli mudra
Vajroli mudra (Skt.)

The posture or attitude (mudra) of Vajroli. See Olis. 2


Vama
Vama (Skt.)

Woman, Left.4

That which is thrown out (Cf. the English 'vomit'). The word also means 'Left', 'Woman', 'Excrement'. (See Vama Marg). 5


Vamachara
Vamachara (Skt.)

Lit. The Way of Woman, or the Left Hand Path. The tantric or magical use of the female kalas (q.v.) in the Draconian Cult.4


Vama Marg
Vama Marg (Skt.)

Vama means Left, Woman, Excrement; Marg, Way or Path. The term Vama Marg is usually translated 'Left-Hand Path'. It has been mistakenly supposed that the Dakshina Marg (often translated Right-Hand Path) is opposed to the Vama Marg in that it does not countenance the ritual use of women. But this is erroneous, for Dakshina is a designation of the South, and of the Sun in the South, and the rites of Dakshinakalika alone prove that women are so used. It is the adherents of the Samaya Marg who regard their use as reprehensible; they employ substitutes for the Panchamakaras (q.v.), and worship the Goddess via her diagram, as against her earthly representatibes (see Samaya Marg); and this is hypocrisy, for the image of the woman is necessarily present in their minds during worship. The Vama Marg values the elixirs of the suvasini (q.v.); Dakshina Marg also exalts these elixirs, it seems, but after as infusion of the solar current has rendered them active. Perhaps the essential difference between Vama and Dakshina Marg(s) is that the Vamacharins worship the Fire Snake in the Trikona (q.v.) and achieve instant liberation, whereas the Dakshinacharins lead the Fire Snake up the Path of Fire (Sushumna) and enjoy the powers and ecstasies accruing at the various stages (chakras) of the ascent. 2

The Left Hand Path, involving the magical use of woman as the human embodiment of the Supreme Goddess. 3

See Vamachara.4

Vama, left; Marg, Path: the Left Hand Path; so called because it involves the use of Woman and/or certain organic substances that are usually regarded with abhorrence. 5


Vasini
Vasini or Vashini (Skt.)

One of the three main types of woman suitable for rituals of the Vama Marg, q.v. 3

The Left Hand Way or Path. It comports the use of the Priestess, or magically competent woman, as a gateway to 'Outside'. See Cults of the Shadow for an in-depth study of this Path. 6


Vampire Vortex

A specific formula of necromantic magick whereby the soul or astral double of a ritually consecrated and slain priestess is made subservient to the will of the magician.4


Vau
Vau (Heb.)

The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Vau means a 'nail' (unguis). Its attribution to the son (see IHVH) is based upon this phallic attribution. 2

The number six (or sex). The process of sexual union typified by the son, or child, of that union. Vau means a 'nail', typical of the phallus.4


Veil of the Abyss

See the Tree of Life. The veil separates the Triad of the Supernals (Kether, Chokmah, Binah) from the remaining Sephiroth. This veil is rent by the Oath of the Abyss, which plunges the Aspirant into ordeals the transcendence of which propels him ultimately across the Abyss and into the City of the Pyramids (Binah) where he is reconstituted in accordance with the Spiritual Light which now characterizes his nature; for he has been utterly changed by the ordeals, freed forever from the illusions of the plane of duality or phenomenal existence. See Abyss.2


Vess
Vess (Af.)

See Besz; Cf. Aivasz. 5


Vever
Vever (Cr.)

The Voodoo equivalent of the yantra (q.v.). 2

The Voodoo equivalent of a yantra (q.v.).4

A linear representation of a loa, law, or 'god'. 5


Vhril

A term used by Sir Bulwer-Lytton in connection with the 'Coming Race'. It very probably has affinity with the word hriliu (q.v.). See also, Vrihl, and chapter 17 of this book. 5


Ville-aux-Champs
Ville-aux-Champs (Voo.)

The name of the True Shamballah, the City consecrated to the rites of Babalon, Odudua, Tanith, etc.4


Vinum Sabbati

Wine of the Sabbath. This particular wine is distilled in the Tunnel of A'ano'nin (q.v.) and it bestows upon its imbibers the vision peculiar to that Tunnel. 5


Viparita
Viparita (Skt.)

Reverse, or back-to-front. Applied to maithuna (q.v.). It indicates the formula of XIo . In a mystical sense, it denotes the retroversion of the senses until sentience returns to its source in the Self, upstream of its diffusion through the five senses; it is then pure Kia (q.v.). 6


Viparita Karani
Viparita Karani (Skt.)

The total reversion of the senses by presenting them with things and ideas from which, under ordinary circumstances, they would recoil. See Chapter 6. 2 The yogic control of the five senses by subjecting them to a process of total reversion. This is done by habituating them to things and circumstances from which they would normally recoil. 3


Viparita Maithuna
Viparita Maithuna (Skt.)

Lit. Inverse, or upside-down, congress. The formula of Kailasa Prastara (q.v.) is implied. In the Draconian Tradition of ancient Egypt, the ste'le' of Ankh-af-na-Khonsu exhibits a cognate formula. 2

Lit. 'Upside down sexual congress'. A form of magical union involving the total reversion of the flow of consciousness from objective experience to subjective awareness, and beyond both to pure undifferentiated Consciousness. The zoomorphic totems of this reversion of consciousness includes such animals as the bat (that sleeps upside down), and the hyena (and other retromingent beasts). In the Book of Thoth this formula is represented by the Hanged Man who is crucified upside down and who thus forms the symbol of the Cross or crossing over into 'other' (i.e. averse) dimensions.4

Viparita, upside-down or topsy-turvey; maithuna, coupling, intercourse. The upside-down form of sexual intercourse is a magical formula symbolizing the reversion of the senses. The bat is the supreme zootype of this reversion which admits the magician to the magical sleep or trance in which he communes with the Outside from the deeps within. 5


Magical Virginity

 See Part 2, chapter 3. A woman chosen for magical rites is said to be virgin when she is in the dream state or oracular phase of a rite. She is then 'unawakened', or in a magical sleep (q.v.).4


Visuddha Chakra
Visuddha Chakra (Skt.)

The microcosmic power-zone located at the region of the throat (the centre of the magical Word) in the occult human anatomy. This zone is, significantly, repesented by a 16-pettalled lotus, which typifies the 8 power-zones of the male doubled or reflected in those of the female partner, or shakti.4

The power-zone at the region of the throat, the source of the Word, under the dominion of Daäth, q.v., whose planetary type is Uranus. See Diagram 1. The microcosmic power-zone situated at the region of the throat, the Place of the Word - Daäth. It is typified by a 16-petalled lotus-flower which, in turn, typifies the 8 power-zone of the male doubled or reflected in those of the female partner, or shakti. 5


Voltigeurs

A term used by Black Snake Cultists to denote the Leapers or Vaulters of the Paths on the 'other side' of the Tree. See Hecate, Hekt.4

The Leapers or Jumpers. A term used in the Cult of the Black Snake to denote the peculiar method of vaulting the secret pathways on the nightside of the Tree of Life. 5

A term used by Black Snake Cultists to denote the leapers or vaulters back of the Tree of Life. The tree-frog is their especial totem, and it identifies their formula as pertaining to Hecate', whose zootype is the frog or toad. 6


Voodoo
Voodoo (Cr.)

African Sorcery, particularly that which utilizes the Odic or Vodic current. See under Od. 1

The word derives from Od, an African term meaning Light (i.e. magical light, LVX, consciousness). It also has affinities with Ob, a serpent, the origin of Obeah. Odic or Vodic Energy is thus identical with the Ophidian Current. Voodoo is a specialized application of this current peculiar to the people of Haiti, and similar remarks apply to Obeah in connection with the people of Jamaica. 2

The Cult of the magick fire or Od (q.v.), and the Mysteries of Odun (q.v.)gave its name to the West Indian Cult of Voodoo with its emphasis on the Ophidian Current. 3


Vrihl

The name of an Angel or extra-terrestrial entity. (See Vhril). Crowley carried upon his person a square of parchment having this name inscribed upon it, which suggests that he was in communion with such an entity. (See hriliu). 5

Magical Power. The words hriliu and R'lyeh (q.v.) are cognate terms indicating the subconsciousness (in this case, R'lyeh) as the source of Magical Power. Vrihl also denotes the arch-magician - Man. 'There is no god but man' (see Liber Oz), would therefore indicate the virile one, the one imbued with vrihl. When vrihl is expressed it becomes hriliu (q.v.). 6


Vyoma
Vyoma (Skt.)

Space. 6


Wanga
Wanga (Voo.)

An 'evil' charm or curse. A loaded term in Thelemic symbology the key to which lies in its number -61- which signifies the Ain, and the Nia (q.v.). It is considered 'evil' in the old-aeon context of anti-feminist culture, for the 'curse' has reference ultimately - to that wise wound which is considered a blessing by wizards, warlocks, and witches, and other votaries of Hecate'. *1

'The work of the Sword'. (AL.II, 37). THe sword is a symbol of the female as the cleaver or cutter in two. See Zain.4


Widdershins

Anticlockwise; the circular dances of the witches ran counter to the sun's course, i.e. they followed the path of the lunar current. Crowley maintains that the widdershins dance is tremendously potent to invoke cosmic and elemental forces: 'Certain forces of the most formidable character may be invoked by circumambulation Widdershins when it is executed with intent toward them... Of such forces Typhon is the type, and the war of the Titans against the Olympians the legend' (Magick, p. 208). Teitan, which has in Greek the numerical value of 666, is the Chaldean form of Shaitan (q.v.). Widdershins is the opposite of Deosil, the clockwise direction of the sun's course. 2


Woro
Woro (Af.)

The terrestrial power-zone of Elegba (q.v.), near Badagry in West Africa. 3


Wu
Wu (Chi.)

'White' magick. See Ku. 6


Xoth

See Koth. 6


Yab-Yum
Yab-Yum (Tib.)

The celebrated Tibetan version of Siva-Sakti, the union and polarization of the active and passive currents of magical energy symbolized by the Divine Father (Yab) and the Divine Mother (Yum). In Hinduism (Tantra), the roles are reversed, the female, Sakti, being active, while the male, Siva, is passive. 1

Subject and Object fused in ecstatic embrace and typified, anthropomorphically, by the sexual union of Prajna and Upaya, or, in Hindu terms, the Shiva and shakti poles of Consciousness. 6


Yajaka
Yajaka (Skt.)

High Priest. 3


Yang

A Chinese term for the masculine current, typified by the lingam. 2


Yantra
Yantra (Skt.)

The linear form of a mantra or Divine Name of which the most complete example is the famous Sri Yantra (sometimes called Sri Chakra), the diagrammatical representation of the Primordial Energy (Sakti). The Sri Yantra constitutes the basis of Sri Vidya, the secret science of the Kalas or mystical vibrations that emanate from the suvasini chosen to fulfill the role of the Goddess in the Tantric Ritual of the Sri Chakra. 1

A linear patten or diagram. A delineation of the vectors of force connecting the power-zone of a particular deity. The Shri Chakra (q.v.) is the supreme example. See Diagram. The yantra is the geometric figure or shape assumed by the sound-waves (or mantra) which constitutes the name or formula of the deity. Both the mantra and the yantra, however, remain mere Name and Form unless vitalized by the Tantra or magical application of these principles to the consciousness of the practitioner. 2

The linear or geometric expression of the power-zones, human or cosmic. Each deity has its specific yantra or magical diagram; its mantra, or secret name or vibration; and its tantra, or method of invocation. 3

A geometric pattern or design depicting the vibrations or sound-waves (mantra) which constitute the formula of a deity or magical force.4

A linear expression of the occult anatomy of gods and goddesses, of which the Sriyantra (q.v.) is the supreme example (see Aleister Crowley & the Hidden God, Plate 5). It is in effect a map of the erogenous zones which respond to magical stimulation, and from which are precipitated the kalas (q.v.). The subject is studied in depth in these trilogies, particularly in Cults of the Shadow. 6


Ychronos
Ychronos (Ma.)

See Chthonos. The substrate of Time, which operates conjointly with chthonos. 5


Yesod
Yesod (Heb.)

The ninth Sephira of the Tree of Life. The Sphere of the Moon which is astronomical symbol of Change and therefore of Magick. The mysteries of Sex are particularly attributed to this Sephira, which is the sphere of activity of the Yezidi, or worshippers of Shaitan (Set). 1

The ninth sephira of the Tree of Life. Yesod, or Yezod, is the Sphere of Change (magick), the source of the stellar and lunar current and of that ophidian power worshipped by the Yezidi. The psycho-sexual energies are concentrated in Yesod, which means 'Foundation'. 2

The ninth Cosmic Power-zone (see Tree of Life) and the specific Circle or Chakra of the Yezidi, with which the name I-sud (Yesod) has a direct affinity. The word Yesod means 'foundation', 'fundament' 'base'; also 'the Secret'. It is the Place of the Secret-ion of Manifestation. 3

'Foundation' or 'fundament'. The ninth cosmic power-zone. It concentrates the lunar light as the reifying power of the Ophidian Current. This is the Cult centre of the Yezidi who use the formula of Set, or Shaitan. See Aleister Crowley & the Hidden God.4

The Ninth Cosmic Power-Zone of the Tree of Life. Yesod means 'foundation'. It is the sexual center of astro-magical forces and the secret zone of the Cult of the Yezidi, the so called 'devil' worshippers. (See Shaitan). 5


Yetzirah
Yetzirah (Heb.)

Of the Four Worlds of the Hebrew Tradition, Yetzirah is the Second and equates with the Astral Plane of the Western Tradition, and with swapna (q.v.), the dream-world of the Hindu System. Air, the element of fantasy and unsubstantial images, is attributed to Yetzirah. 2

The astral world, or world of formation.4


Yezidi

The prophet of the Yezidi, who preceded Mahomet by many centuries and who established the cult of Shaitan in Sumer. Crowley was a reincarnation of this Prophet and The Book of the Law was the fulfillment of the promise of 'a book written from eternity', i.e. from an extra-terrestrial source. The mystical cult-center of the Yezidi is the Sephira Yesod or Yezod, the Sphere of the Moon, which is especially concerned with the Magick of Transformation. The number of YZID is 31 which is that of AL, LA, LAShTAL, The Book of the Law and the Aiwaz Current. 1

The worshippers of Shaitan in Lower Mesopotamia. It was the ancient Sumerian Tradition that Crowley restored in his cult of Shaitan-Aiwass, after ridding the current of the life-negating qualities with which the intervening Aeon of Osiris (represented by Christianity) had infected it. 2

The worshippers of Shaitan in ancient Sumer. Aleister Crowley as the Beast 666 was an avatar of their high-priest, Yezid. The Beast fulfilled the prophecy given to the Yezidi, by receiving Liber AL from Aiwaz- the 'book written from Eternity', i.e. from extra-terrestrial dimensions. The number of Yezid (Yzid; Cf. Yesod) is 31, which is the Key of AL and the number of LA, LAShTAL, and Cult of Aiwaz. 3

The votaries of Yezid, who concentrated the power (shakti) of Yesod into the Cult of Shaitan or Set, of which Aiwass, 93 (q.v.) is the transmitter.4

The votaries of Shaitan (q.v.) whom they worship under the form of the Snake and the Peacock, symbolic of the Ophidian Current (snake) and the multi-dimensional Magical Vision (thousand eyes of the Peacock) which the worship of Shaitan confers. (The peacock symbolism is implicit in the secret name of the A.'.A.'. See The Magical Revival, p.75). 5


Yi King
Yi King (Ch.)

'The Book of Change'. The ancient Chinese magical system of Change comprising the 4 hexagrams which are perutations of the 8x8 trigrams of Fu Hsi. 3


Yig
Yig (Nec.)

The lunar serpent associated with the ninth Cosmic Power-Zone, Yesod. (q.v.). 5

The Yesodic power-zone in the triple complex - Yug-yog-yig -which comprises

1) the ultimate Power-zone, Yuggoth;

2) the Daäthian Doorway, Yog-Sothoth;

3) the Yesodic Yig, which typifies the terrestrial manifestation of the Ophidian Current. 6


Yin

A Chinese term for the feminine current, typified by the yoni. 2


Yith
Yith (Nec.)

An extraterrestrial race consisting solely of chittam (mind-stuff). 6


Yod
Yod (Heb.)

The tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, meaning a 'hand', the principal executive of man's will and a symbol of the phallus. Yod represents the secret seed, and its corresponding Tarotic attribution is the Hermit, represented by Virgo, the virgin, withdrawn, or 'hidden' god. 2

The number ten. It means the total, the complete series of power-zones from Malkuth to Kether. Ten is the one before eleven that caused complete change. Ten is the one before eleven that causes complete change. It is symbolized by fire in the macrocosm, and by the solar-phallic fire (or spermatozoon) in the microcosm. Yod means a 'hand', thus typifying the executor of the Will (Thelema. q.v.).4

Lit. 'a hand'. It typifies the womb as the first 'hold', and the dule nature of woman (double 5). Its identification as the masculine creative fire indicates the later, post-stellar phases of the Mythos. As such, Yod typifies the Cult of the Serpent, not as the lunar current but as the spermatozoon. Yod then equates with the bindu or Hadit-principle. 5


Yog
Yog (Nec.)

Yog means 'union', which, aproprs the Necronomicon Mythos, signifies the union of man with that which is beyond man. See Yig. 6


Yog Sothoth
Yog Sothoth (Nec.)

A name which appears in the fictions of H.P. Lovecraft. It is an amalgam of the god-name Thoth and Set, the yog, or union, being their synonymity.4

In the Necronomicon Mythos this entity embodies the Supreme and ultimate blasphemy in the form of the Aeon (yog or yuga) of Set (Sothoth = Set + Thoth) which H.P. Lovecraft described as 'the noxious Yog-Sothoth who froths as primal slime in nuclear chaos beyond the nethermost outposts of space and time!' 5

Lit. 'the Age (yug), or Aeon, of Set-Thoth'. In a metaphysical sense, Yog Sothoth is the symbol of the Spirit of Choronzon (q.v.) which abides at the heart of matter, or the material universe. Its mystery may be surprised only via the Gate of Daäth (i.e. Thoth) in the Desert of Set, Set-Thoth, or Sothoth. 6


Yoganidhra
Yoganidhra (Skt.)

Lit. ' the sleep of union'. In a magical sense yoganidhra equates with the hypnotic and magnetic sleep in which the priestess communes with 'spirits', or with the denizens of extraterrestrial realms. 6


Yogini
Yogini (Skt.)

A type of female Adept specially suited to the rites of the Vama Marg, q.v. 3


Yoni
Yoni (Skt.)

The female sexual organ (see Kteis); a symbol of the Trikona (q.v.) or abode of the Fire Snake. 2

The symbol of the Goddess as the source of all manifest phenomena. Cf. ain, ajna, ayin. In the living embodiment, or representative, of the Goddess in the Tantric Rites, this talisman is the vagina from which emanate the subtle perfumes or kala-s used in magical operations. 3

The vulva. The source of all material forms. Its symbol is the Eye which, in the Magical Alphabet, is represented by the letter O (ayin, q.v.), which is also the ain, or No thing, and therefore - by reticulation - the matrix of Every thing. 6


Yonicaras
Yonicaras (Skt.)

The worshippers of Kundalini in the Trikona or Muladhara Chakra. 2


Yoninis

A term coined by Michael Bertiaux to denote the esoteric kalas (q.v.). The yoninis are 'holes in space' through which flow the magical energies from Outside. As such, they are typified as the Daughters of Aditi (q.v.). 6


Yug

An age or aeon. Yug is also the finial upon the Tree of Life where it denotes Yuggoth and the transplutonic realms beyond Time/Space. (See Yig, and Yog). 6


Yuga
Yuga (Skt.)

Age or Aeon. 5


Yuggoth
Yuggoth (Nec.)

Lit. the Aeon of Goth or Guth. In the Necronomicon Mythos Yuggoth is the secret name of Pluto, the planet ascribed to the First Cosmic Power-Zone, Kether. Yuggoth is the dark side of Kether, whose pure whiteness suggests the ultimate snows connected with the last outpost of the known Universe. Goth = 409, which is the number of the 'Holy Ones' and of the Place of the Skull. Cf. Golgotha. 5

The planet Pluto. The ultimate outpost of the known Universe (Universe 'A'). It is ascribed to the First Power Zone, Kether (q.v.). the Ancient of Days, or Great Old One. (See Yug). 6


Zain
Zain or Zayin (Heb.)

The number seven and the type of the twins-Set-Horus. It is mystically connected with the yoni or ayin, with the letter of the Serpent-Z-prefixed. Zayin means a sword, and this magical instrument is identical with the feminine pudendum as that which is cut and which divides into two. 3

The number seven. The supreme number of the Draconian Tradition symbolized by the twins, Set-Horus (Gemimi), and by the Serpent (Z) and the Eye (Ain). The word Zain, meaning a 'sword' is a glyph of the Goddess as the cleaver in twain, and of the Eye of the Serpent attributed to the Daughter (see Coph Nia). Zain is also the symbol of sex-magical polarity, and is attributed to the Twins or Lovers in the tarot of the zidiac. The letter Zain, spelt in full, equals 67, which signifies the womb of the Mother (Binah = 67) containing the twins, i.e. Set-Horus. Taking the final letter of Zain (i.e. 'n') at its full value, the word then equals 717 which is one less than 718, a supremely significant number in the Cult of Thelema, for it is the number of the Ste'le' of Revealing and of the 'Abomination of Desolation' connected with it. See The Typhonian Trilogy. The whole of this symbolism should be studied in connection with that of the 17th Tunnel.4

The seventh letter of the Magical Alphabet. It is attributed to the twin forces (the Double Current) of Z, the Serpent, and Ain, the Void or Abyss symbolized by the Eye (ayin = ain = yoni). The Mysteries of the Aeon of Zain form the main substance of the present book. 5

The Seventh and - in relation to aeonology at the present stage of evolution - the most important letter of the Magical Alphabet. It is attributed to the Twins symbolic of the Double Current. Its number, 7, is that of the Stellar Goddess and most powerful Kala, Set, whose name means 'seven'. Zain means 'a sword' which is a glyph of the Feminine Power. The 'work of the sword' (AL.I.37) is connected with the Wanga (q.v.), thus equating it with the Ophidian Current. The symbolism of Zain is studied in extenso in Nightside of Eden, and Outside the Circles of Time. 6


Zamradiel
Zamradiel (Heb.)

Sentinel of the 17th Tunnel.4


Zangbeto
Zangbeto (Cr.)

The people of the night who come from the other side of the sea', i.e. a secret society similar to the Ogboni (q.v.). The Zangbeto are assumed to the Path of Set or Saturn. 3


Zeus Arrhenothelus
Zeus Arrhenothelus (Gk.)

he hermaphroditic form of the Creator, Zeuse or Deus. Jupiter, Io-Pater, is similarly ambivalent, Mother-Father, the biune parent of the gods. 2


Zin

The Moon was known to the magicians of Atlantis by this name, which the Assyrians later worshipped as Sin (q.v.). See Azyn. 5

An Atlantean designation of the Lunar Current, known as Sin in Sumer. Zin is a form of Zain (q.v.). 6


Zivo

A corrupt form of OVIZ or Aiwaz (q.v.) the god worshipped in ancient Sumer and identical with Set or Shaitan, q.v. 3


Zobop
Zobop (Cr.)

A sorcerer belonging to a Voodoo secret society. See Ogboni, Zangbeto, etc. 3


Mystère du Zombeèisme
Mystère du Zombeèisme (Voo.)

A term used in the Black Snake Cult to denote a form of necromancy resulting in the production of a zombie (q.v.).4


Zombi
Zombi, Zombie (Voo.)

A neither living nor dead creature that has had its principle of intelligence (soul) ejected, and whose body has been invaded by alien froces or by the will of the magician that has generated it.4

The Undead. The word derives from the Egyptian zem-zem which denoted a secret process of reanimating the corpse or mummy: 'Inexplicable is the zem-zem; it is the greatest of all secrets'. (Book of the Dead. ch.XV.) 5

The living 'dead'. The word derives from the Egyptian Zem-zem, which denoted a secret process of animating the dead. 6


Zos Kia Cultus

Zos- 'the body considered as a whole'; Kia- 'the Atmospheric I'. The combination of these concepts supplies the basis of Austin Spare's Cult of the Neither-Neither and the method whereby individuality is transcended and made cosmic by the formula of Atavistic Resurgence. See the Magical Revival, Chapters II and 12. 2

The Cult of the Body and the 'Atmospheric 'I'. 3

The Cult of the Zos (q.v.) and the Kia (q.v.) created by Austin Osman Spare.4

A Cult founded c.1952 by Austin Osman Spare and Kenneth Grant for the cultivation of artistic genius with the purpose of establishing contact with the denizens of other worlds or dimensions. ZOS is the 'body considered as a whole'; KIA is the 'Neither-Neither' (q.v.), the vision of inbetweenness that unseals the Gateways to other dimensions via the back of the Tree of Life. 5

Terms coined by Austin Osman Spare to denote the phenomenal and noumenal aspects of existence. See Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare (Grant). The Cult itself was formed by Spare and Grant c.1952 for the purpose of exploring the magical universe (Ontic Sphere) by means of the visual arts. The society flourishes today. Some of its members have contributed their visualizations to these trilogies. 6


Zos vel Thanatos

The magical name of Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956). It has reference to the Death Posture of the Body. See Chapter II. 3


Zos

'The body considered as a whole'; a term used by Austin Osman Spare to denote the total field of sensation and awareness. The complement of the Kia, q.v. The Zos is symbolized by the hand, the organ of touch. 3

A term used in Zos Kia Cultus (q.v.), to denote the 'body considered as a whole', i.e. as a total field of awareness. See Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare.4


Zothyria

 A term coined and defined by Michael Bertiaux as 'the eternal Yoni of hyper-space', and equated with Aditi (q.v.). The Zothyrian Gnosis, therefore, concerns itself with the trans-yuggothian and 'infinite space of the Meon.' 6