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First, let him prepare a chamber, of which the walls and the roof
shall be white, and the floor shall be covered with a carpet of black
squares and white, and the border thereof shall be blue and gold.
And if it be in a town, the room shall have no window, and if it be
in the country, then it is better if the window be in the roof. Or, if
it be possible, let this invocation be performed in a temple
prepared for the ritual of passing through the Tuat.37
From the roof he shall hang a lamp, wherein is a red glass, to burn
olive oil. And this lamp shall he cleanse and make ready after the
prayer of sunset, and beneath the lamp shall be an altar,
foursuqare, and the height shall be thrice half the breadth or
double the breadth.
And upon the altar shall be a censer, hemispherical, supported
upon three legs of silver, and within it an hemisphere of copper,
and upon the top a grating of gilder silver, and thereupon shall he
burn incense made of four parts of olibanum and two parts of
stacte,38 and one part of lignum aloes, or of cedar, or of sandal.
And this is enough.
And he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar,
holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal.39
And even if he be of higher rank than a Probationer, he shall yet
wear the robe of the Probationer, for the star of flame showeth
forth Ra-Hoor-Khuit openly upon the breast, and secretly the blue
triangle that descendeth is Nuit, and the red triangle that
ascendeth is Hadit. And I am the golden Tau in the midst of their
marriage.40 Also, if he choose, he may insread wear a close-
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fitting robe of shot silk, purple and green, and upon it a cloak
without sleeves, of bright blue, covered with golden sequins, and
scarlet within.
And he shall make himself a wand of almond wood or of hazel,
cut by his own hands at dawn at the Equinox, or at the Solstice, or
on the day of Corpus Christi, or on one of the feast-days that are
appointed in The Book of the Law.41
And he shall engrave with his own hand upon a plate of gold the
Holy Sevenfold Table,42 or the Holy Twelvefold Table,43 or some
particular device. And it shall be foursquare within a circle, and
the circle shall be winged, and he shall attach it about his forehead
by a ribbon of blue silk.
Moreover he shall wear a fillet of laurel or rose or ivy or rue, and
every day, after the prayer of sunrise, he shall burn it in the fire of
the censer.
Now he shall pray thrice daily, about sunset, and at midnight, and
at sunrise. And if he be able, he shall pray also four times
between sunrise and sunset.
The prayer shall last for the space of an hour, at the least, and he
shall seek ever to extend it, and to inflame himself in praying.
Thus shall he invoke his Holy Guardian Angel for eleven weeks,
and in any case he shall pray seven times daily during the last
week of the eleven weeks.
And during all this time he shall have composed an invocation
suitable, with such wisdom and understanding as may be given
him from the Crown, and this shall he write in letters of gold upon
the top of the altar.
For the top of the altar shall be of white wood, well polished, and
in the centre thereof he shall have placed a triangle of oak-wood,
painted with scarlet, and upon this triangle the three legs of the
censer shall stand.
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Moreover, he shall copy his invocation upon a sheet of pure white
vellum, with Indian ink, and he shall illuminate according to his
fancy and imagination, that shall be informed by beauty.
And on the first day of the twelfth week he shall enter the
chamber at sunrise, and he shall make his prayer, having first
burnt the conjuration that he had made upon the vellum in the fire
of the lamp.
Then, at his prayer, shall the chamber be filled with a light
insufferable for splendour, and a perfume intolerable for
sweetness. And his Holy Guardian Angel shall appear unto him,
yea, his Holy Guardian Angel shall appear unto him, so that he
shall be rapt away into the Mystery of Holiness.
All that day shall he remain in the enjoyment of the knowledge
and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
And for three days after he shall remain from sunrise unto sunset
in the temple, and he shall obey the counsel that his Angel shall
have given unto him, and he shall suffer those things that are
appointed.
And for ten days thereafter shall he withdraw himself as shall
have been taught unto him from the fulness of that communion,
for he must harmonize the world that is within with the world that
is without.
And at the end of the ninety-one days he shall return into the
world, and there shall he perform that work to which the Angel
shall have appointed him,
And more than this it is not necessary to say, for his Angel shall
have entreated him kindly, and showed him in what manner he
may be most perfectly invoked. And unto him that hath this
Master there is nothing else that he needeth, so long as he
continue in the Knowledge and Conversation of the Angel, so that
he shall come at last into the City of the Pyramids.
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TRANSCRIBER S NOTES
Liber DCCC
Liber Samekh is an adaptation by Crowley of a Græco-Egyptian ritual of exorcism
which survives in a papyrus in the British Museum (P. Lond. 46, a.k.a. PGM V).
The original is titled Stele of Jeu the Hieroglyphist (or Painter ) (Sthlh tou
'Ieou tou zwgrafou); it is also popularly known as the Headless One or Bornless
One ritual, although the Headless One or Headless Daimon (Ð ¢kefaloj daimon)
is also invoked in a number of other extant Greek magical papyri.
A transcription and English translation of London Papyrus 46 was published in
1852 by Charles Wycliffe Godwin (Fragment of a Græco-Egyptian Work upon
Magic). A modern English translation of the Stele of Jeu by D.E. Aune can
be found in Betz (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation.
An intermediate version of the ritual was worked up by someone, possibly
Allan Bennett, perhaps based on Godwin s publication, and published under
the title Preliminary Invocation at the start of an edition of the Goëtia (a 17th-
century English ritual of Evocation, composited from various Renaissance works
on magick) issued by Crowley in 1904. From this publication the ritual is cited
as the Preliminary Invocation of the Goëtia although its only connection with
the Goëtia derives from that publication (and possibly from private magical
work by Crowley, Bennett and others in which the two were combined). There
is no evidence that the Bornless One ritual in itself was an official G.D. paper;
it may have been, but the evidence normally adduced for this, the Bornless
Ritual for the Invocation of the Higher Genius printed by Israel Regardie in
vol. III of The Golden Dawn, was compiled by Regardie himself from the
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