The Invocations
C.M. first performs the Invoking Ritual of Mars. The Adepts stand at the points of the Tau. C.M. Even as of old there came three Magi from the ends of the earth to adore the Fivefold Star, so come we, O Lord, armed for the holy work of an Evocation of Bartzabel the spirit of Mars, that is obedient unto the Intelligence Graphiel, chosen from the Seraphim who follow Kamael the Great Archangel that serveth God under his name of Elohim Gibor, a spark from Thine intolerable light, Therefore hear...
An Evocation Of Bartzabel The Spirit Of Mars
THE FORMULA OF THE MAGICK OF LIGHT, let them be puissant in the EVOCATION of the SPIRIT THE Ceremony consists of Five Parts 1. The Banishings and Consecrations. 2. The Special Preparation of the Material Basis. 3. The Particular Invocations of the Forces of Mars. 4. The Dealings with Bartzabel, that mighty Spirit. Gloria Deo Altissimo Ra Hoor Khuit in nomine Abrahadabra et in hoc signo
A Literatooralooral Treasuretrove
THE happiest of literary discoveries would presumably be the complete works of Sappho. In the meantime we have got along wonderfully well with the masterpiece of G. Ragsdale M'Clintock which Mark Twain unearthed in his matchless Cure for the Blues. He does not specify Oxford or Cambridge. The phrase that chiefly sticks in my memory is one of which Mark Twain makes especial fun the topmast topaz of an ancient tower. But this is not funny, it is superb it is pure early Maeterlinck, and better...