Really long! Warning! - Star Ruby notes

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(The following is taken from In the Continuum Vol. III, Number
3, page 3. This periodical was published through The College of Thelema
from 1973-1996. It has since been replaced by their new periodical, The
Black Pearl. All back and current issues of both periodicals are
available at the College of Thelema's website).

No later than 1913, when The Book of Lies was published,
Aleister Crowley had written what he termed "a new and more elaborate
version of the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram... an official ritual
of the AT AT." Later, during the Cefalu period when Magick in Theory
and Practice was written, he modified this ritual, called it the "Star
Ruby", to bring it more into conformity with other strongly Thelemic
rituals such as Liber Reguli. Both versions are given on the preceding
pages [excluded here, ed.] Despite the apparent importance of this
ritual (and the Star Sapphire, "the real and perfect Ritual of the
Hexagram"), little attention seems to have been paid to it in the years
since.

Part of this has to do with obscurities in the ritual, such as
what have long appeared to be archangelic names (Junges, Sunoches,
Teletarchae, and the more recognizable Daimones) whose origins and
symbolism were never clearly stated by A.C. The key to these names has
been found through recent scolarship and qabalistic analysis.

Many students have suspected that this revamping of the standard
Pentagram Ritual was (along with the Star Sapphire) part of a grand
joke on his readers which Crowley claims to have perpetuated while
writing The Book of Lies. Therefore, let's take a moment and
demonstrate the Beast's sincere opinion on the importance of this
ritual.

First, in Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter 13, "Of the
Banishings: And of the Purifications", we read: "It is usually
sufficient to perform a general banishing, and to rely upon the aid of
the guardians invoked. Let the banishings therefore be short, but in no
wise slurred - for it is useful as it tends to produce the proper
attitude of mind for the invocations. 'The Banishing Ritual of the
Pentagram' (as now rewritten, Liber 333, Chapter XXV) is the best to
use." Liber 333 is The Book of Lies, and Chapter XXV is the Star Ruby.

Another source of information is not generally available to
students. During his Cefalu period, in the 1920s, Crowley chartered a
magical order called The Order of Thelemites, under the imperatorship
of Fra. Semper Paratum (James Thomas Windram), 6=5 AT AT. This order,
not to be confused with a certain "Order of Thelema", was primarily
based on the lines of the AT AT. The constitution of the order is
available to us. In assigning practices to the grades of this order, To
Mega Therion wrote that all members of the order "shall use the daily
invocations given Liber CC, the Rituals of Liber XXV, Liber XXXVI, and
Liber XLIV, and Will before meat, as taught them in their initiation."

Besides Will and Liber Resh (Liber CC), he was assigning the use
of the Star Ruby (Liber XXV), the Star Sapphire (Liber XXVI), and the
Mass of the Phoenix (Liber XLIV). At least during the '20s, we can then
reasonably assume that Therion considered these among the most
important practices for students of Thelemic magick - of any grade.

The remainder of this article is an analysis of the elements of
this ritual, particularly qabalistically as suggested in Crowley's Book
of Lies note quoted above. In particular, we've emphasized the section
where"the guardians invoked" are mentioned. This was an exciting
adventure for us as it required gaining familiarity with a philosophy
and magical terminology we had not previously explored.

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The Cross Qabalistic

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Notice that the basic form of the Star Ruby is essentially the
same as that of the more familiar Lesser Pentagram Ritual. There is a
Qabalistic Cross at the beginning and end which establishes the Tree of
Life in the Magical Body of the Magician. Between the opening and
closing there is the placing of the pentagrams at each of the four
quarters, charging them with Divine Names; and the invoking, again at
the quarters, of some sort of magical guardians. The traditional four
parts of the Pentagram Ritual are joined in the Star Ruby by a fifth
(just as there are five points to the pentagram). The fifth portion,
dropped into the middle of the ritual even as Shin descends upon the
center of Tetragrammaton, might be termed the Summons of the Supernals,
and is the invocation of the Night of Pan (more on this below).

In the familiar pentagram ritual, the Qabalistic Cross consists
of vertical and horizontal bars (see Liber O). In formulating these
balanced currents within himself or herself, the magician vibrates the
words: ATEH, MALKUTH, ve-GEBURAH, ve-GEDULAH; that is, "Thou art (ATEH)
the Kingdom (MALKUTH), and the Strength (ve-GEBURAH), and the Majesty
(ve-GEDULAH = Chesed). This then is sealed with the words L'OLAM,
difficult to translate, meaning variously "time immemorial", "time
past", "eternity", "distant future", "everlasting time"; that is
"throughout the entire range of the arbitrary dimension called time";
or, as a declaration, "As it was, is, and shall be".

The Qabalistic Cross in the Star Ruby is fundamentally the same.
The cross itself is drawn with the same motions, but with the words,
SOI, O PHALLE, ISChUROS, EUChARISTOS, IAO.

SOI, (SOI) means "Unto Thee". This is an address to the Most
High, Kether aspect of one Self. Curiously, its numerical value, 280,
is that of the Name of the Archangel of Malkuth, Sandalphon, reminding
us that "Malkuth is in Kether, and Kether is in Malkuth". Sandalphon's
name has been translated to mean "the sound of sandals", the sound of
passage of Him That Goest. In Greek, the number 280 is written Sigma-
Pi, equivalent to Samekh-Peh. It is at the intersection of these two
paths on the Tree of Life, before the Veil of Paroketh, that one
symbolically stands in performing the traditional Pentagram Ritual. It
seems likely that this symbolism is to be maintained in the Star Ruby.
This is emphasized by another significance of 280: it is the number of
squares on the walls of the Vault of the Adepti wherein the initiates
of the Golden Dawn were raised to full adepthood. That psyche of the
pronouncement of the word SOI is none other than the highest
manifestation of one's own Holy Guardian Angel.

W FALLE, (O PHALLE) means, "O Phallus". Notice that Crowley
could have simply said "Phallus", but instead sang a brief praise to
that part of the body coresponding to the lower spheres of the Tree of
Life, appending the exclamatory "O". The numerical value of this word
couplet is thus 1369. This number is the square of 37! Thirty-seven is
the value of the word YECHIDAH, the aspect of conciousness assigned to
Kether. Remarkably, we have not only placed the Archangel of Malkuth in
Kether, but the consciousness of Kether in Malkuth. No other formula
would be so complete. In Greek, 1369 is written Alpha-Tau-Xi-Theta: the
primal Life-breath (A), the phallic Cross (T), the phallic Cross (C),
and the phallic serpent (F). It would seem this number is most
appropriate for "O Phallus".

A link has been established between the Spirit Supernal and the
Spirit Incarnate (see Liber Tzaddi, especially verses 33-34). The
magician is balanced vertically, and prepared to be balanced
horizontally.

ISCUROS, (ISChUROS) literally means "strong, mighty",
corresponding to Geburah. It's value is 1580. Advanced students of
Qabalah may wish to study this as 20 x 79. In Greek, 1580 is written
Alpha-Phi-Pi, Phi and Pi both being equivalent to the Hebrew Peh, Mars;
and Alpha again representint the Primal Energy of Life.

EUCARISTOS, (EUChARISTOS) is the root of our word "eucharist"
and essentially indicates a blessing, clearly corresponding to Chesed,
the Sphere of Jupiter. Its letters total 1886, or 2 x 23 x 41; where 23
is most notibly the value of ChIH, "life"; and 41 fo AM, "mother". This
balances against the masculine quality of Mars in Ischuros. (NOTE:
These numbers - 2, 23, and 41 - are the prime factors of 1886.)

In the place of L'OLAM is the Gnostic versicle IAW. IAO can be
studied at length in Magick in Theory and Practice (Chapter 5). At the
risk of oversimplification, it may be regarded in this ritual as a
mantram of Tiphareth, declaring the central balance and equilibration
that has been established by the four-armed cross, as well as the Light
which springs forth in the center of the cross (in the heart region) in
the completion of Pentagrammaton. Its value is 811, hinting at the
union of Hadit (8) and Nuit (11). These three letters, Iota, Alpha, and
Omega, are the exact letters used to write the number 881 in Greek.
That is, they are the essence of the number in themselves.

This cross is preceded by the command, APO PANTOS KAKODAIMONOS
(APO PANTOS KAKODAIMONOS). This means, "Completely away (from here),
Evil Spirits". The word KAKOS literally means "bad", which is to be
taken in a functional, rather than moralistic sense, as "that which is
contrary to the performance of my True Will". In fact, KAKODIAMON means
"evil genius", or the shadow side of one's H.G.A. (KALODAIMON,
"beautiful genius".)

The phrase APO PANTOS KAKODAIMONOS is exactly equivalent to
HEKAS, HEKAS, ESTE BEBELOI, or to PROCUL, O PROCUL ESTE PROFANI. Both
mean, "Away, away, that which is profane".

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Divine Names of the Quarters

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Notice that between 1913 and circa 1929, Crowley modified the
Divine Names vibrated at each quarter. In each case, the movement is
widdershins (counter-clockwise).

In the earlier version of the Star Ruby, the Names are: CAOS
(ChAOS), East; BABALON (BABALON), North; ERWS (EROS), West; and YUCH
(PsUChE), South.

CAOS is the name of Chokmah. The word means much the same as it
does in English, but in the sense of "that which was the nature of the
Universe before order was established". It represents the infinite,
unordered expanses of existence. With sublime perfection, its numerical
value (871) is written in Greek as Omega-Omicron-Alpha. O-mega (W) is
the "big O"and O-micron (O) the "little O" of the Greek alphabet; while
Alpha (Aleph a) is the Fool, whose number is 0. We thus have declared
in this name the Trinity as Nothing, the unbounded openness of space.
This may also be read as "from Alpha to Omega, with Nothing (0)
between".

BABALON is the Sublime Manifest Aspect of Nuit described at
length in The Vision and the Voice. Her number, in Greek as in Hebrew,
is 156. See I.T.C., Vol. 1, No. 7 for some meanings of this number.

ERWS is the name of the god whom the Greeks called "Cupid". The
word literally means "love" or "desire", and is here assigned to the
West, the place of death. This word, unlike most in Greek, can be
spelled with the "O" either as Omicron or Omega. The latter gives it a
value of 1105; but the former totals to 375, the value of Solomon.

YUCH is familiar to us as "psyche". The Greek letter Upsilon,
though the letter "u", looks like "y" in its capital form. Most Greek
words with an Upsilon have it transliterated as "y" when the word is
brought into English.The correct, original pronunciation is closer to
the English "u", however; identical to the French "u" (as in tu).
PsUChE is most commonly translated as "soul"; but its earliest use is
identical with the Latin spiritus, "breath, life".

Its numerical value is 1708. This is written in Greek as Alpha-
Psi-Eta. This provides us with a powerful formula of attainment! The
Psi and Eta remain from the original word, but Upsilon (400) and Chi
(600) have been unidted to produce a large Alpha (1000). Upsilon is
equivalent to Vau, the Son, and Chi (X) is the Cross. In their
conjunction they become the Breath of Life, the Babe in the Egg matured
into Pangenator Pamphage (the large A, not the small; compare Therion's
analysis of "The Formula of Agape" in Magick in Theory and Practice
where the large Alpha is equated with Dionysus).

This is then a formula of the Rose-Cross. Beside it are twin
forms of Receptive Adoration and invocation of the Most High to descend
and fulfill one's vehicle: Psi, the individual (U) standing with arms
upraised to Heaven, the Wand upright and keen within the Cup; and Eta,
which is Cheth, Cancer, the Holy Graal.

In the later version of the Star Ruby, the Divine Names provided
are: ThERION in the East, NUITh in the North, BABALON in the West, and
HADITh in the South. These names are much more familiar to the budding
Thelemite. Their attributes can be studied in Liber V vel Reguli where
the same formula is used. Notice that ThERION (who is the Divine Aspect
called "The Beast", is not by any means the man Aleister Crowley) is
assigned to Taurus; NUITh to Aquarius; BABALON to Scorpio; and HADITh
to Leo. The correct spelling of these are:

ThERION = Q-H-R-I-O-N = 247

NUITh = N-U-I-Q = 469

BABALON = B-A-B-A-L-O-N = 156

HADITh = A-D-I-Q = 315

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N.O.X. and IO Pan

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The Signs of N.O.X. are given in Liber Reguli in Magick in
Theory and Practice. "Nox" means "night". The night referred to is the
"Night of Pan". It refers to the Sublime Darkness veiled by the
Ineffable Light. We may study this in the early chapters of The Book of
Lies, and in Liber Reguli. See also I.T.C., Volume III, Number 2 for an
analysis of the number 210.

IO PAN is a hailing exclamation to the God Pan. Pan is written
as PAN: "P, the letter of Mars, is a heiroglyph of two pillars, and
therefore suggests duality; A, by its shape, is the pentagram, energy,
and N, by its Tarot attribution, is death" (The Book of Lies, Ch. I,
Commentary).

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Invocation of the Guardians

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The fourth section of this ritual translates into English as
follows: "Before me, Junges; behind me, Teletarchai; on my right hand,
Sonoches; on my left hand, Daimones [or Daimonos]. For about me shines
the Pentagram [literally, "star of five"] and in the column is the six-
rayed star [literally, "star of six"].

The word translated as "column" is STHLHI (STELE), exactly as in
"Stélé of Revealing". It means a block of stone, often as a monument or
declaration of a covenant, frequently in the form of a pillar or post.
Notice that one version lists "Daimonos" and the other, "Daimones".
This is not a misspelling. There are seperate words, each suitable to
the ritual in different ways.

For several reasons, we had assumed that Junges, Sonoches,
Teletarchai and Daimones were intended to be archangels postulated by
Crowley in his Hellenization of the Pentagram Ritual. After all, they
appear to replace the Hebrew archangels of the elements of the latter
ritual. They were declared to be "the guardians" of the quarters, and
do appear to represent orders of divine or semi-devine beings, provided
we define "beings" a little differently than we normally do.

They were not, however, inventions of 666. They come directly
from the Pythagorean school as represented in the so-called "Chaldæan
Oracles", often attributed to Zoroaster, but most certainly
communicated through spiritual experience to Julianus in the Second
Century A.D. These Oracles were considered among the finest
philosophical or religious writings of their time. Their exalted
eloquence can be found excerpted throughout the rituals of the Golden
Dawn. Crowley's Little Essays Toward Truth is, in some ways, little
more than a commentary on these aphorisms. Our authority for quotations
that follow is the compilation and translation of these Oralces by
Sapere Aude (Wynn Wescott).

In approaching the Oracles, we must purify ourselves of prior
conceptions of the meanings of certain words before we may proceed with
our Work. Certain words are used in ways misleading to the average
student in our circles. For example, "intelligible" and "intellectual"
do not in these verses refer to Ruach, or what we call the Intellect.
They instead imply the highest reaches of conciousness beyond the
abyss, even at the pre-formative levels prior to Kether, in the Ain
Soph Aur. "Father", similarly, should neither be regarded as the Judeo-
Christian Demiurgos, nor as the Supernal Father, Chokmah; it is an
unfortunately gendered term implying the All, the Undifferentiated. I
cannot, for myself, discriminate it from ideas of Nuit or Tao, amd must
struggle fiercly to resist sliding into prior Christian conditioning
about "Our Father, who art in Heaven". Such anthropomorphisms are
totally destructive to grasping the essence -- to truely understanding
the meaning of the passages about to be quoted.

The one virtue, and it is a slight one, in retaining the
paternal designation of the Naught is that it permits the use of a
certain sexual symbolism in the description of the Creation of Things.
Kether, "the white Head" to Qabalists, but a White Hole to the
physicist, spewing radiant matter into our physical universe from some
alternative realm of exsistance, may be likened in this so-called
Chaldæan model to the spewing Ejaculate of the Infinite, each seed
being in truth a Star.

In what follows, notice also that prior to things there came
into [being] a matrix, shall we say, of that Form within which things
might come to exsist. Keep in mind Ko Yuen's (Aleister Crowley's) words
in the introduction to the Tao Teh King: "The Tao is 'Reason' in this
sense, that the substance of things may be in part apprehended as being
that necessary relation between the elements of thought which
determines the laws of reason. In other words, the only reality is that
which compels us to connect the various forms of illusion as we do. It
is thus evidently unknowable, and expressible neither by speech nor by
silence. All that we can know about is that there is inherant in it a
power (which, however, is not itself) by virtue whereof all beings
appear in forms congruous with the nature of necessity."

With these words of preface, we quote from Part II of the
Chaldæan Oracles:

"The mind of the Father whirled forth in re-echoing roar,
comprehending by invincible will Ideas omniform; which flying forth
from that one fountain issued; for from the Father alike was the Will
and the End (by which they are connected with the Father according to
alternating life, through varying vehicles). But they were divided
asunder, being by Intellectual Fire distributed into other
Intellectuals. For the King of all previously placed before the
polymorphous World a Type, intellectual, incorruptable, the imprint of
whose form is sent forth through the World, by which the Universe shone
forth decked with Ideas of all various, of which the foundation is One.
One and alone. From this the others rush forth distributing and
separating through the various bodies of the Universe, and are borne in
swarms through its vast abysses, ever whirling forth in illimitable
radiation."

"They are intellectual conceptions from the Paternal Foundation
partaking abundantly of the brilliance of Fire in the culmination of
unresting Time."

"But the primary self-perfect Fountain of the Father poured
forth these primogenial Ideas."

Speaking further of these "Ideas" (that is, root
structuralizations of consciousness of so early a stage as to be beyond
comprehension), the text continues: "These being many, descended
flashingly upon the shining Worlds, and in them are contained the Three
Supernals. They are the guardians of the works of the Father, and of
the One Mind, the Intelligible."

These "guardians" -- a word used identically by 666 with
reference to the Tylers of the Quadrents -- are the Three Supernals.
They were called the "Intellectual Triad". Wescott tells us in his
interpolation on the text, "The Second Order of the Platonist
philosophy was the 'Intelligible and Intellectual Triad'. Among the
Chaldæans, this order includes the Junges, Synoches, and Teletarchs."

We deal therefore with Supernal concepts; though, as we'll see
below, these names (all of which, incidentally, are Greek plurals, thus
are not the names of individual Beings whatsoever) refer to classes of
Beings much like the "orders of angels" of the Hebrew Qabalah. They are
correspondant to the Supernals. But they are not the Supernals
themselves.

Also, we admit to having but begun to understand these ideas.
Our investigation into the depths of Pythagorean and Neo-Platonic
thought, which relate closely to these Oracles, is very young.
Hopefully these understandings will mature. We appreciate the input of
our brothers and sisters in this work, as surely there are others far
more knowledgable in these areas than we are.

Notice in preliminary the initial letters of these four orders
of Beings. Begining East and moving clockwise, they are:

Iota (I) 10, which is by Aiq Bkr, 1

Sigma (S) 200, which is by Aiq Bkr, 2

Tau (T) 300, which is by Aiq Bkr, 3

Delta (D) 4, which is by Aiq Bkr, 4

IUGGES

In the East we invoke Junges (Iota-Upsilon-Gamma-Gamma-Epsilon-
Sigma: in Greek the double "GG" is pronounced like "ng").

The arithmetic total of these numbers is 621. Writing this
number in Greek, we get Chi, the Chariot; Kappa, the Wheel of Fortune;
Alpha, the Primal Swirlings, or Swastika, or Thunderbolt of Zeus.
Totalling the numbers of the Tarot Trumps corresponding we get 7 + 10 +
0 = 17, a number again representative of the swastika. Every aspect of
this suggests a spinning, electrical surge, a primal, swirling power.

Aeschylus used this word metaphorically to mean "a spell, charm,
passionate yearning for"; but this is a derivative meaning. The word
comes from IUGMOS, a shreaking sound. Junges was the name given to the
wryneck, a bird noted for its cry. Once more we find the symbolism of
the wheel: for ancient witches used to bind the wryneck to a wheel,
believing that, as it turned, it drew human hearts along with it.

Much later the idea of a "spell" took on a specific
significance. Psellus describes a specific magical method: "The
Hecatine Strophalus is the Golden Ball, in the midst whereof is a
Sapphire; they fold about it a Leather-Thong; it is beset all over with
Characters: thus whipping it about, they made their Invocations; these
they called Iynges, whether it be round or triangular, or any other
Figure; and whilst they are doing thus, they make Insignificant or
Brutish Cries, and lash the Air with their Whips. The Oracle advisith
to the performance of these Rites or such a Motion of Strophalus, as
having an expressible Power."

Within the Oracles themselves we find symbolism consistent with
Chokmah and, even more so, with Alchemical Sulphur. This is most
interesting since the Order of Angels of Chokmah are the Auphanim, that
is, "Wheels".

Quoth the Oracles: "The Intelligible Junges themselves
understand from the Father; by ineffable counsel being moved to
understand." "Understand" should not be "understood" to be that word
which in Hebrew is Binah. The key to the above is that the Supernals
were said to be contained within the "sperm" of the Father. They are,
we suppose, like chromosomes. This analogy is perfect, explaining
precisely the way in which they are "by ineffable counsel being moved
to understand".

Junges are further called "the Operator... the Giver of Life-
Bearing Fire... it filleth the Life-producing bosom of Hecate; and it
instilleth into the Sunoches the enlivening strength of Fire, ended
with mighty Power." Hecate was an important deity to the Chaldæans. One
of the "old gods" (i.e. Supernal), she had originally not only her
dark, destructive aspect with which we are most familiar, but was a
fertile goddess of generation (as anyone who caught Chris Kimball in
MacBeth at the Metropolitan Opera can tell you). She is unquestionably
an aspect of Binah, toward which the Junges fulfill a Chokmah function.
Similarly, we start to get a hint at the real nature of Sunoches. These
conjectures are supported by Pletho saying that Junges are "the
Intellectual Species which are conceived by the Father; they themselves
also being conceptive, and exciting Conceptions or notions, by
unspeakable or unutterable Counsels is as much as unmoved, for speaking
consists in Motions"; the meaning is this, "That these Species [Junges]
are immovable and have a habitude to Notions not transiently as the
Soul." Psellus adds, "Iynges are certain (Virtues or) Powers, next the
Paternal Depth, consisting of three Triads. These understand according
to the Paternal Mind, which containeth their Cause solely in
himself...."

SUNOCES

This word Sunoches (Sigma-Upsilon-Nu-Omicron-Chi-Epsilon-Sigma)
has a value of 1525. This is the value in Hebrew of Shem Hamphorash,
The 72-fold Name of God. By factoring it we get 5 x 5 x 61. This is
interesting, since 61 is the value of Ain, "no-thing", of KALI the
Hindu goddess of destruction, etc.; and the closest correspondance of
Sunoches to a member of the Supernal Triad is Binah.

No such Greek word can be found in precisely this form, though
enough similar words exsist to allow us to deduce its meaning. SUNOChE
means "a being held together". SUNEChO means "to hold together; to
enclose, to encompass, embrace; to keep together, keep from dispersing;
to constrain or force one to a thing; to oppress, afflict". SUNEChES
means "holding together" and "continuous" (as in a continuous sequence
of things held together), hinting at the idea of "eternity".

So the root meaning is a holding together, a binding action.
Much of the above corresponds to the maternal, form-giving aspect of
Binah. Magically, we may say that, if the Junges is the conjuration,
Sunoches is the constraint.

The image of Binah, as the compliment to the Chokmah aspect of
Junges "instilleth into the Sunoches the enlivening strength of Fire,
endued with mighty Power". To "instill" is to pour into (as a cup),
drop by drop. We may recall that in the Scarlet Woman "is all power
given".

The Oracles say, "He gave his own Whirlwinds to guard the
Supernals, mingling the proper force of his own strength in the
Sunoches". Again, the idea of strength being established in Sunoches.
We recall that the Masons interpret Boaz to mean "strengthening" and
Jachin to mean "establishment".

Some other passages: "But likewise as many as serve the material
Sunoches". The syntax is unintelligable to me, but notice the material
Sunoches.

"The Teletarches are comprehended in the Sunoches". To
"comprehend" is a superior translation of the Hebrew BINH , which we
render "understanding". The rest of this sentence is incomprehensible
until we understand the Teletarchs.

Knowing that all three of these represent Supernal concepts, I
find the Binah symbolism consistent. Alternatively, we can see root
ideas of the Alchemical concept of Salt.

DAIMONES/ DAIMONOS

DAIMON means "god, goddess", much like Theos or Thea. In Homer
it is interchangeable with the Latin numen. Though it is the source of
our word "demon", it was only in the New Testament times that it came
to have "demonic" attributes. Most simply it meant any sort of spirit
or "genius".

The plural of this word is DAIMONOS, the word used in the later
version of the Star Ruby. It therefore means Spirits, "Geniuses" or
Entities. In the hierarchy of the Chaldæans, the Daimonos were beneath
the Demiurges, who were beneath the "Intellectual Triad" (i.e., the
Supernals). We therefore have the most "earthly" concept of these four;
and it is perhaps significant that Daimonos are assigned to the North,
"the place of the greatest darkness".

DAIMONOS totals to 445. (No, Most Beloved Frater, it cannot be
spelled without the A).

A different, but related, word is DAIMONES. Hesiod used this
term to mean "the souls of men of the Golden Age, forming a link
between gods and men". That is, Man-God. As what we call the H.G.A. was
of old termed the "genius" (Daimon), the Daimones were those who "had
their genius"; that is, true aspects.

This word totals to 380. Check Sepher Sephiroth and you'll see
this is the number gotten by multiplying, one-for-one, the value of the
letters YHVH by the value of the letters of ADNI. The result is a very
complex idea of Deity; that is, one suitable for the evening news.
Other words of this value are OTzB OTzBVN, "pain, trouble, misery"; and
ORPL, "thick fog, darkness"; but it is also a name of Egypt. Perhaps
the hidden meaning to Jewry is "the place of our difficulty".

We have, by now, come a fair bit down the Tree of Life! These
clues certainly fit what we next expected to see, the earthed
correspondent to the Divine Triad. This factor fulfills the Trihnity to
perfection. The Aspirant (Man of Earth) stands before the Initiator
(Teletarchai). We have, it seems, a coherant system in the tetrad.

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We may then say that from the Tao came a flood of Ideas; and
that of these Ideas, Three were "guardians of the works of the Father".
This Spiritual Triad, Junges, Sunoches and Teletarchai were fulfilled
and reflected on Earth, in manifestation, by a fourth, called Daimones
or Daimonos.

The Triad corresponds fairly to the alchemical principles of
Sulphur, Salt and Mercury, respecrively; and these are fulfilled in the
Stone.

IUGGES appears to be the name of an Order of Beings (that is,
categories of organization of conciousness) correlative with Chokmah,
whose nature is fiery, invigorating, seminal, transmitting by ineffable
means the Will of All.

SUNOCES appears to be the name of an Order of Beings correlative
with Binah and representing the function of alchemical Salt, whose
nature is binding, holding together, uniting in love under will, being
instilled with strength and power.

TELETARCAI appears to be the name of an Order of Beings
correlative with the Middle Pillar, representing the agent of
initiation, the result of the insemination of Sunoches by Junges. As
the "Overlord of Initiation" originating in the Supernals, this is not
incompatible with Ra-Hoor-Khuit; the only difference in the attribution
being that one is placed in the East, the other in the West.

DAIMONOS are Spirits, Divinities below the Abyss. If we take the
word to be Daimones then it signifies the energies of departed Adepts,
the Inner Plane representatives of the Order, much like the Saints as
invoked in the Mass of the Gnostic Catholic Church, the "Sons of the
Lion and the Serpent".

And what is the purpose of this ritual which calls upon the
names of Nuit, Hadit, Babalon and Therion, then places at the quarters
such Potencies as these? Why, the only purpose for which any magick is
suitable at all! As it is described in the Oracles themselves:

"So therefore first the Priest who governeth the works of Fire,
must sprinkle with the Water of the loud-resounding Sea."

"Labour thou around the Strophalos of Hecate. When thou shalt
see a Terrestrial Dæmon approaching, Cry aloud! and sacrifice the stone
Mnizouirin."

"If thou often invokest thou shalt see all things growing dark;
and then when no longer is visible unto thee the High-Arched Vault of
Heaven, when the stars have lost their Light and the Lamp of the Moon
is veiled, the Earth abideth not, and around thee darts the Lightning
Flame and all things appear amid thunder..."

"A similar Fire flashing extending through the rushings of Air,
or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a
flashing Light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also
there is the vision of the fire-flashing Courier of Light, or also a
Child, borne aloft on the shoulders of the Celestial Steed, fiery or
clothed with gold, or naked, or shooting with the bow shafts of Light,
and standing on the shoulders of the horse; then if thy meditation
prolongeth itself, thou shalt unite all these symbols into the form of
a Lion."

"When thou shalt behold that Holy and Formless Fire shining
flashingly through the depths of the Universe: Hear thou the Voice of
Fire."

ABRAHADABRA!

--
In Nomine Babalon

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