Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

Angel which does not, it should be noted, end with the appearance of
the Angel. The magician must conjure the four “Great Princes” of the
infernal “Host” and bind them to his (the magician’s) service, then the
subservient demons of these princes, etc. In the previously referenced
essay, Koenig makes a comparison of Judaic and Roman Catholic
angelology, noting that the historian of the Kabbalah, Gershem
Sholem, had concluded that the system of Abramelin had been greatly
influenced by both of these schools of thought (presumably current at
the time of the books writing) and therefore was not, in fact written by
a Jew but a Christian.
It is also important to our examination of the ritual of the Sacred
Magic to note that the process of evoking first the Angel and then the
Demon Princes is, as Koenig says, meant to result in a state where
“Human and Angel become One and together forge a bridge to the
divine”. This is a major idea, as we shall see, in that the being, as it
were, of the Angel is such that the “bridge” so created acts as conduit
for forces that are rarely, even in occult circles, spoken of in plain
language.
Interestingly, even though Crowley attempted the ritual, he did not
complete it and ultimately obtained “Knowledge and Conversation”
with his Angel by other means 125 . A method the is probably best
considered as somewhat risky is the initiation through the Grades via
the systematic skrying of the Enochian Aethyrs. This work is covered
in several decent books about Enochian magic (if you aren’t hung up
on Dee or some concept of Enochian orthodoxy) that can point the
would be magician in the right direction technically. The Eye in the
Triangle by Israel Regardie is an excellent analysis of Crowley,
including his Enochian working in the Algerian desert and, of course
Liber 418: The Vision and the Voice stands as, in my opinion, one of
the most important books Crowley wrote in terms of practical (or at
least useable) information. The Enochian Aethyrs are not, in
themselves, terribly dangerous but skrying them is a form of initiation.
Recall the earlier discussion regarding spiritual inertia. The Holy
Guardian Angel appears at various stages in the course of the
125 see The Invocation of the Bornless One, Liber Samekh, The Autohagiography of A.C. etc.
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