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more hopelessly in its vain search after the truth, outside the Occult Sciences and the veil of
Initiation.
Two Rituals of Magic - (Page 253) This seventh verse says with regard to such divine
evocation or theomantic consultations:
One must invoke that divine and great name [ How can De Mirville see Satan
in the Egyptian God of the great divine Name, when he himself admits that
nothing was greater than the name of the oracle of Dodona, as it was that of
the God of the Jews, IAO, or Jehovah That oracle had been brought by the
Pelasgians to Dodona more then fourteen centuries B.C. and left with the
forefathers of the Hellenes, and its history is well-known and may be read in
Herodotus. Jupiter, who loved the fair nymph of the ocean. Dodona, had
ordered Pelasgus to carry his cult to Thessaly. The name of the God of that
oracle at the temple of Dodona was Zeus Pelasgicos, the Zeuspater (God the
Father), or as De Mirville explains: “It was the name par excellence, the name
that the Jews held as the ineffable, the unpronounceable Name—in short,
Jaoh-pater, i.e., ‘he who was, who is, and who will be,’ otherwise the Eternal.”
And the author admits that Maury is right “in discovering in the name of the
Vaidic Indra the Biblical Jehovah,” and does not even attempt to deny the
etymological connection between the two names - “the great and the lost
name with the sun and the thunder-bolts.” Strange confessions, and still
stranger contradictions.] only in cases of absolute necessity, and when one
feels absolutely pure and irreproachable.
Not so in the formula of black Magic. Reuvens, speaking of the two rituals of Magic of the
Anastasi collection, remarks that they
Undeniably form the most instructive commentary upon the Egyptian
Mysteries attributed to Jamblichus, and the best pendant to that classical
work, for understanding the thaumaturgy of the philosophical sects,
thaumaturgy based on ancient Egyptian religion. According to Jamblichus,
thaumaturgy was exercised by the ministry of secondary genii. [ Reuvens”
Letter to Letronne on the 75 th number of the Papyri Anastasi.” See De Mirville,
v.255.]
Reuvens closes with a remark which is very suggestive and is very important to the
Occultists who defend the antiquity and genuineness of their documents, for he says:
All that he [ Jamblichus] gives out as theology we find as history in our papyri.
But then how deny the authenticity, the credibility, and, beyond all, the trustworthiness of
those classical writers, who all wrote about Magic and its Mysteries in a most worshipful spirit
of admiration and reverence Listen to Pindarus, who exclaims:
Happy he who descends into the grave thus initiated, for he knows the end of
his life and the kingdom [The Eleusinian Fields.] given by Jupiter. [
Fragments. ix. ]
(Page 254) Or to Cicero:
Initiation not only teaches us to feel happy in this life, but also to die with
better hope. [ De Legibus. 11. iv.]
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