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c. as the god, command the spirits that come under his jurisdiction. In this way the initial invocation
of Thoth may precede an effective evocation of a spirit of Mercury, Thoth being the Egyptian form of
Mercury. (See Chapter Fourteen.)
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. The magician can earth the energy and virtue of the god into:
a. a talisman, which can store this and continue operating long after the ceremony has ceased. (See
Chapter Eight.)
b. magical equipment, in the same way that the elements were concentrated into and used to charge
your Four Elemental Weapons. (See Chapter Seven.)
c. a sacrament which is then administered to a congregation or re-absorbed by the celebrant.
Taking these one at a time:
Initiation
As in the chapter on self initiation, the basis of this operation is obviously the invocation of the Holy
Guardian Angel. In a ceremonial initiation carried out in a full magical lodge, the hierophant invokes
and assumes the form of the god, in many cases Osiris. As the initiation proceeds on the physical
plane the energy working through the hierophant to the candidate, affects to a greater or lesser extent a
transformation in the candidate which may have taken him many years to achieve by his own unaided
efforts.
Oracles
In the early years of the century Aleister Crowley and Victor Neuburg performed a series of
invocations of Jupiter, Mercury, Sol and Venus (omitting the so-called malefic planets) in the Paris
Working. During these invocations Neuburg, and occasionally Crowley, gave utterance to various
communications which were allegedly the transmission of the words of the god being invoked.
In Evocation
As has already been intimated at the beginning of this chapter, one of the main keys to success in
evocation is the clear assumption of the 'god-form' and invocation through its authority, so that the
magician is not left uttering idle threats from his position in the middle of the Circle of Art, but is able
to command with the authority of a god, or so it will seem to those entities on the astral plane that he
wishes to invoke.
Talismans
The short ritual offered as an example of a rite for the consecration of a talisman in Chapter Eight
should now be rewritten by the magician so that the appropriate planetary god or goddess should be
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