Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

to complete the Universe. In a third, the true formula of the Beast 666,
I and O are the opposites which form the field for the operation of A.
This is also identical with the Word Lux, L.V.X., which is formed by
the arms of a cross. It is this formula which is implied in those ancient
and modern monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the
Savior of the World.
The same is true of a magical ceremony. The magician who is
destroyed by absorption in the Godhead is really destroyed. The
miserable mortal automaton remains in the Circle. It is of no more
consequence to Him that the dust of the floor.
The Alchemists themselves taught this same truth. The first matter of
the work was base and primitive, though "natural". After passing
through various stages the "black dragon" appeared; but from this
arose the pure and perfect gold.
There is an etymological identity between Tetragrammaton and "I A
O", but the magical formulae are entirely different, as the descriptions
here given have schewn. It will now be understood that this formula of
I A O is a formula of Tiphareth. The magician who employs it is
conscious of himself as a man liable to suffering, and anxious to
transcend that state by becoming one with god
It was this key that thus unlocked the Book. Formulae shall be covered
in detail presently, but for now suffice to say that the formula is not
only the key to the cosmogony but also a further proof which is
contained in Crowley’s rectification of IAO to FIAOF. 218
…
For now, however, I will only mention Grant’s Aleister Crowley and
the Hidden God, which revealed the full implication of… the formula
of the Gnostics, IAO 219 . Grant himself interprets the formula as:
The three-fold formula of Babalon…is also the magical significance of
218
The formula FIAOF is, itself valuable, but I here am referring to the rectification technique
employed by Crowley.
219
Grant, Kenneth Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God Skoob, 1993, pg 105
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