Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

other.) He would then describe what he saw and repeat what he heard,
and Frater O.V 67 ., the Scribe, would write down his words, and
incidentally observe any phenomena which struck him as peculiar.
(For instance, He would at times pass into a deep trance so that many
minutes might pass between two successive sentences, as the text to the
later Aethyrs shows.)
They walked steadily through the Desert, invoking the Aethyrs, one by
one, at convenient times and places, or when the Spirit moved them. As
a rule, one Aethyr was obtained every day. Bou-Sada was reached on
November 30th; on December 8th they started again through the
desert for Biskra which they reached on December 16th, completing
the work on the 19th. By the time Bou-Sada was reached, and they had
arrived at the 20th Aethyr, the Seer began to understand that these
visions were, so to speak, cosmopolitan. They brought all systems of
Magical doctrine into harmonious relation[…] The whole of the past
Aeon, in short, appeared in detailed perspective, and each element
therefore surrendered its sovereignty to Horus, the Crowned and
Conquering Child, the Lord of the Aeon announced in The Book of
the Law Love is the law, love under will. 68
The Enochian Aethyrs themselves are “opened” by (t)he nineteenth
Call (which) gives the user access to the thirty "Aires, or Aethyrs."
These are seen as a series of concentric spheres surrounding the
material universe, of increasing spirituality from TEX, the closest to
our world, to LIL, that closest to the surface of this hypothetical
cosmic onion. 69 From the description given by Crowley, we can see
that the Aethyrs are ‘seen’ in a visionary sense, deliberately invoked
and are thought to have some correspondence with the Aeons of the
Gnostics, who developed elaborate schemas of them. Interestingly, the
most famous of the Gnostic schools, the Valentinians, held that there
were 30 Aeons, the same number of Aethyrs the Angels revealed to
Dee and Kelley.
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i.e. Victor Neuberg
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Aleister Crowley, Liber 418: The Vision and the Voice, Introduction at
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/l418/intro418.html
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An Introduction To Enochian Magick, Christeos Pir,
http://www.nnk.art.pl/kluseczka/enochia/enoch.htm
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