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142 THE TREE OF LIFE
Qabalistic principles, so that in the name may be found a summary
of the forces and powers inhering therein. In a word is Magic contained,
and a word properly pronounced is stronger, says Levi,
than the powers of heaven, earth or hell. Nature is commanded with
a name ; the kingdoms of Nature likewise are conquered, and the
occult forces comprising the invisible universe are obedient to him
who pronounces with understanding the incommunicable names.
" To pronounce these great names of the Kaballah, according to
science, we must do so with full understanding, with a will unchecked
by anything, with an activity which nothing can rebuff."
The vibration of God-names, then, constitutes one of the most
important divisions in a ceremonial invocation. The incenses,
perfumes, colours, sigils and lights around the magical circle will
assist in evoking the desired idea or spirit from the imagination and
to manifest itself in an appropriate garb coherent and tangible to the
exorcist. Not alone must there be intention and thought, but there
should be the concrete expression of thought in an action or a word
which, to the idea, must be as a logos. To illustrate the mode of
vibration, let it be supposed that an exorcist is desirous of invoking
the powers pertaining to the sphere of Gevurah. Its planct will be
ascertained to be Mars ; its essential quality being one of cosmic
energy and force, summarized in the divinity Horus, its archangel
will be Icamael, its spirit Bartsbael, and the Sephirah to which these
are attributed bears the divine Name Elohim Gibor. When, in the
magical ceremony which the Theurgist instigates, the time arrives
for the pronouncing of the divine name, let him inhale very deeply,
slowly and forcefully. At the moment when the air from without
strikes against the nostrils, the realization should be clearly imagined
that the name of the God, Elohim Gibor, is being inhaled with the
air. Picture the name borne aloft in great letters of fire and flame,
and as the air slowly fills the lungs, the name should be imagined to
permeate, and vibrate throughout the whole frame of the body,
gradually descending through the thorax and the abdomen, down
the thighs and legs to the feet. When the force appears to strike
the lowest portion of the legs, expanding and spreading to every
atom and cell in the foot-and practice will render this feat of iniagination
less difficult than it sounds-he should assume one of the
characteristic poses of the god Horus shown in the vignettes of the
Egyptian Book of the Dead. One of them, the Sign of the Enterer,
consists of throwing the left foot forward and inclining the body