Liber Samekh

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Liber Samekh, fully titled Theurgia Goetia Summa, (Congressus Cum Daemone), Sub Figura DCCC, is a ritual written by Aleister Crowley which he used for the purpose of attaining the "Knowledge and Conversation" of his Holy Guardian Angel. Within the A.'.A.'. (specifically for the Grade of Adeptus Minor) it is a Class D document (signifying "official rituals and instruction").

Table of contents

1 The ritual

1.1 POINT I

1.1.1 Section A. The Oath
1.1.2 Section Aa
1.1.3 Section B. Air

The ritual

POINT I

Evangelii Textus Redactus ("Restored text of the Gospel")

THE INVOCATION

Magically restored, with the significance of the BARBAROUS NAMES Etymologically or Qabalistically determined and paraphrased in English.

Section A. The Oath

Thee I invoke, the Bornless One.
Thee, that didst create the Earth and the Heavens.
Thee, that didst create the Night and the Day.
Thee, that didst create the darkness and the Light.
Thou art ASAR UN-NEFER ("Myself made Perfect"):
Whom no man hath seen at any time.
Thou art IA-BESZ ("the Truth in Matter").
Thou art IA-APOPHRASZ ("the Truth in Motion").
Thou hast distinguished between the Just and the Unjust.
Thou didst make the Female and the Male.
Thou didst produce the Seeds and the Fruit.
Thou didst form Men to love one another, and to hate one another.

Section Aa

I am ANKH-F-N-KHONSU hy Prophet, unto Whom Thou didst commit Thy Mysteries, the Ceremonies of KHEM.

Thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created Life.

Hear Thou Me, for I am the Angel of PTAH-APO-PHRASZ-RA (vide the Rubric): this is Thy True Name, handed down to the Prophets of KHEM.

Section B. Air

Hear Me:—

  AR ("O breathing, flowing Sun!")
  ThIAF ("O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!")
  RhEIBET ("Thou that flowest! Thou that goest!")
  A-ThELE-BER-SET ("Thou Satan-Sun Hadith that goest without Will!")
  A ("Thou Air! Breath! Spirit! Thou without bound or bond!")
  BELAThA ("Thou Essence, Air Swift-streaming, Elasticity!")
  ABEU ("Thou Wanderer, Father of All!")
  EBEU ("Thou Wanderer, Spirit of All!")
  PhI-ThETA-SOE ("Thou Shining Force of Breath! Thou Lion-Serpent Sun! Thou Saviour, save!")
  IB ("Thou Ibis, secret solitary Bird, inviolate Wisdom, whose Word in Truth, creating the World by its Magick!")
  ThIAF* ("O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beas that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!")

[* The letter F is used to represent the Hebrew Vau and the Greek Digamma; its sound lies between those of the English long o and long oo, as in Rope and Tooth.]

(The conception is of Air, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Bird, "the Holy Ghost", of a Mercurial Nature.)

Hear me, and make all Spirits subject unto Me; so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth, on dry land and in the water; of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me.

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