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The God of Wisdom is in my Heart!
My tongue is the Sanctuary of Truth!
And a God sitteth upon my lips.
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1. My Word is accomplished every day!
And the desire of my heart realises itself, as that of Ptah when he createth!
I am Eternal; therefore all things are as my designs;
therefore do all things obey my Word.
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2. Therefore do Thou come forth unto me from Thine abode in the Silence:
Unutterable Wisdom!
All-Light! All-Power!
Thoth! Hermes! Mercury! Odin!
By whatever name I call Thee,
Thou art still nameless to Eternity:
Come Thou forth, I say,
and aid and guard me in this work of Art.
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3. Thou, Star of the East, that didst conduct the Magi!
Thou art The Same all-present in Heaven and in Hell!
Thou that vibratest between the Light and the Darkness!
Rising, descending! Changing ever, yet ever The Same!
The Sun is Thy Father!
Thy Mother the Moon!
The Wind hath borne Thee in its bosom;
and Earth hath ever nourished the changeless Godhead of Thy Youth!
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4. Come Thou forth, I say, come Thou forth!
And make all Spirits subject unto Me:
So that every Spirit of the Firmament
And of the Ether,
And of 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 the Vast One,
may be obedient unto Me!'
This invocation is preceded by several conventional openings of the veil, but is primarily derived from
the Book of the Dead, which is a positive goldmine of invocations of the Egyptian Gods. For the
Greek gods, some of the collections of Orphic poetry (especially Thomas Taylor's Hymns of Orpheus)
and Greek mystical verse (see the Oxford collection of Greek verse) provide excellent sources of
invocations. Likewise, as has already been mentioned, a study of the Greek dramatists can be quite
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