The Magician's Dictionary. Edward E. Rehmus

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СКАЧАТЬ the higher self. The Causal or Egoic Body. First used by Iamblichus. In Crowley’s case this was the mysterious Aiwass. In Bulwer Lytton’s Zanoni it is rendered as the “Higher Ego.” The knowledge of the Augodeides is one of the major goals of the magician. (See HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL.).

      AUM/OM — This is the holy word in its tripartite form, representing the Hindu Trinity. A = Vishnu (the self). U = Brahma (Not-Self). M = Shiva (location).

      AUTISM — A mental state in which one fails to discern even the slightest meaning or purpose in other people, or indeed in anything outside the self. If there were such a thing as the opposite of a “magical” mind, such would be the autistic personality.

      AUTOCTHON —That which has sprung from the earth itself.

      AUTOPOETIC LAPIS —Terence McKenna’s psilocybic revelation from Magical Blend, April 1989: “The ‘autopoetic lapis’ is the ingression of novelty to concrescence, a ‘tightening gyre’. Everything flows together and coalesces in the alchemical stone at the end of time ... when the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum, the monad, able to express itself, rather than only able to cast a shadow into physis as its reflection. In 2012 our species enters hyperspace, but it will appear to be the collapse of the state vector, the end of physical laws and the release of mind into itself.

      “All these other images — the starship, the space colony, the lapis — these are precursory images. They follow naturally from the idea that history is the shock wave of eschatology. As one closes distance with the eschatological object, the reflections it is throwing off resemble more and more the thing itself. In the final moment The Unspeakable stands revealed. There are no more reflections of the Mystery. The Mystery in all its nakedness is seen, and nothing else exists. But what it is, decency can safely scarcely hint at; nevertheless, it is the crowning joy of futurism to seek anticipation of it.”

      AUTOPROSSING — Using a word-processor for automatic writing. The first channeled entity (1988) was Thurmon of Xoros-Eridanus 14.

      AVATAR — Incarnation; Descent of a deity into a visible form. Rama Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu. (See VISHNU.)

      AVIDYA — Lit. “not knowing.” The ignorance of non-enlightenment. Normal intellectual state. Ignorance comes in two flavors: simple “non” knowing vs. the more complex “wrong” knowing. Both kinds obscure illumination.

      AVOIDANCE FIXCATION — Habits and addictions are escape mechanisms for coping with deprivation, restriction and monotony.

      AWAR — Son of Iblis, Arab demon of laziness.

      AZATHOTH — Lovecraft’s ultimate blind chaos at the center of infinity.

      AZAZEL — (“Strength of God.”) The Angel who refused to worship Adam, renamed “Iblis,” the Arab demon. Aaron paid equal tribute to Azazel and Jehovah.

      AZOTH — The jewel of Paracelsus. Alchemist’s mercury. According to some, from Arabic Az-zaug, “the quicksilver.” According to others, the word comprises totality from A to Z, from Alpha to Omega, from Aleph to Tau. Salt, the passive principle, is joined to Sulphur, the active principle, by the catalyst Mercury. Azoth is thought to be the creative principle itself. It is usually symbolized by a cross or circle with the letters TARO at the 4 termini.

      AZTEC ASTROLOGY — Based on the 52-year revolution of the Pleiades, the calendar is divided into four 13-year quarters. A religious year consisted of three concentric cycles: the Tonalpohualli of 260 days, the solar year of 365 days and the Venus cycle of 584 days. The earth has survived 4 “Suns” or eons, called Nahui, which destructions were characterized by earth, air, fire and water (Thus the most recent End of the World coincided with the biblical flood.)

      The fifth Sun, Nahui Ollin or “Movement,” which we now inhabit, is the aeon of the calendar in question. It was divinely created in 13 Acatl at Teotihuacan and will end in 2011, with the beginning of the 6th Sun. Precisely how the current aeon will collapse is anyone’s guess.

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      BA — The Atman, the Egyptian soul, depicted as a bird with a human head, though apparently not the very similar bennu-bird. After death it splits apart into the akh which is a temporary spirit in the form of a bird that flies to the Afterworld where it turns back into the ka, or double. The ba remains behind with the mummy. The ba is incarnation, the ka is the vitalizing power and the akh (symbolized by the ibis) is light. On the spirit level they correspond to the uas, ankh and djed.

      BAAL SHEM TOV — (“Lord of the Good Name.”) This phrase is involved in the Hebrew banishing and exorcism of the demons of black magic.

      BABALON — Crowley’s numerologically-derived spelling. Another name for the “Scarlet Woman” (i.e., a fire elemental). But it is also the city of “Babylon” in its greatness, before its relegation to the New Testament’s “whoredom.” Ba is the Egyptian soul and its repetition in Baba-lon indicates the “double-wanded” one’s “double-path.”

      BAILEY, ALICE — Authoress of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (and numerous other works). Died in 1949 at age 69. She was a Theosophist who also, it is claimed, maintained a fundamentalist Xtian belief (quite unlike HPB) and the conviction that she (like HPB) was in contact with the Secret Chiefs of the Inner Plane, especially Koot Hoomi. It is difficult, however, to assign much importance to any possible Galilean influences on her serious work. Her writings are highly arcane and abstract, containing insights into Hindu, Tibetan and Buddhist metaphysics of a profundity, and frequently of an opacity, rarely encountered elsewhere.

      BALCHIPUSHTI — Literally, “Lord of the cockroaches” (King of the Jebusites).

      BALKH — “All roads lead to Balkh” (mysterious Near Eastern city) said by Gurdjieff, referring to the Sufic origin of all systems.

      BAPHOMET — Idol (chiefly its head) said to have been worshiped by the Templars. It is also the God of the Sabbath of Sorcerors. Its obvious association with “Mohamet” is possibly the result of unexamined Islam. It’s also a symbol of Gnosticism. The Knights Templars (1118-1300) were involved with Gnosticism, Cathars, Albigensians, Manichaeans, and many other groups.

      Since the Tarot appears in the 14th Century and since it bears some indications of Muslim origin (primarily the word, Al-Tariqa, or “the way”) and the “Naipes” of Spain < Arabic nabi, “prophet,” then perhaps Baphomet was supposed to be Mohammad. Crowley’s “Devil” Baphomet certainly is alchemical, phallic and capric enough (with a 3rd eye).

      

      Lévi: “To know how to extract from all matter the pure salt concealed therein is to possess the secret of the Stone that the Qabalists gave to their Mercury, the personification of Hermanubis and to Sulphur, the Templar’s Baphomet. The name can also be given backwards: TEM OPH AB “Templi Omnium Hominis Pacis Abbas.”

      Satan, in an important sense, has no existence. He’s perennially invented by a perverse will again and again, strictly СКАЧАТЬ