Transcendental Magic — Éliphas Lévi
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p. 219all the rivers of life, to be continually reborn in Thee ! O ocean of infinite perfections ! Height which reflects Thee in the depth, depth which exhales Thee to the height, lead us unto true life by intelligence and love ! Lead us to immortality by sacrifice, that we may be found worthy one day to offer Thee water, blood, and tears, for the remission of sins ! Amen.
Fire is exorcised by the sprinkling of salt, incense, white resin, camphor, and sulphur, by thrice pronouncing the three names of the genii of fire : MICHAEL, king of the sun and the lightning ; SAMAEL, king of volcanoes ; and ANAEL, prince of the astral light ; and, finally, by reciting the Prayer of the Salamanders.
Immortal, eternal, ineffable, and uncreated Father of all things, who art borne upon the ever-rolling chariot of worlds which revolve unceasingly ; Lord of the ethereal immensities, where the throne of Thy power is exalted, from which height Thy terrible eyes discern all things, and Thy holy and beautiful ears unto all things hearken, hear Thou Thy children, whom Thou didst love before the ages began ; for Thy golden, Thy grand, Thine eternal majesty shines above the world and the heaven of stars !
Thou art exalted over them, 0 glittering fire ! There dost thou shine, there dost Thou commune with Thyself by Thine own splendour, and inexhaustible streams of light pour from Thine essence for the nourishment of Thine infinite spirit, which itself doth nourish all things, and forms that inexhaustible treasure of substance ever ready for generation, which adapts it and appropriates the forms Thou hast impressed on it from the beginning !
From this spirit the three most holy kings who surround Thy throne and constitute Thy court, derive also their origin, 0 universal Father ! 0 sole and only Father of blessed mortals and immortals ! In particular Thou hast created powers which are marvellously like unto Thine eternal thought and Thine adorable essence; Thou hast p. 220established them higher than the angels, who proclaim Thy will to the world ; finally, Thou hast created us third in rank within our elementary empire. There our unceasing exercise is to praise Thee and adore Thy good pleasure ; there we burn continually in our aspiration to possess Thee. O Father ! 0 ; Mother, most tender of all mothers ! 0 admirable archetype of maternity and of pure love !
0 son, flower of sons ! 0 form of all forms, soul, spirit, harmony, and number of all things ! Amen. The earth is exorcised by aspersion of water, by breathing, and by fire, with the perfumes proper for each day, and the
Prayer of the Gnomes. King invisible, who, taking the earth as a support, didst furrow the abysses to fill them with Thine omnipotence ; Thou whose name doth shake the vaults of the world, Thou who causest the seven metals to flow through the veins of the rock, monarch of the seven lights, rewarder of the subterranean toilers, lead us unto the desirable air, and to the realm of splendour.
We watch and we work unremittingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the Holy City, by the hidden talismans, by the pole of loadstone which passes through the centre of the world ! Saviour, Saviour, Saviour, have pity on those who suffer, expand our hearts, detach and elevate our minds, enlarge our entire being ! 0 stability and motion ! 0 day clothed with night ! O darkness veiled by light !
0 master who never keepest back the wages of Thy labourers ! 0 silver whiteness ! 0 golden splendour ! 0 crown of living and melodious diamonds ! Thou who wearest the heaven on Thy finger like a sapphire ring, Thou who concealest under the earth, in the stone kingdom, the marvellous seed of stars, live, reign, be the eternal dispenser of the wealth whereof Thou hast made us the warders ! Amen. It must be borne in mind that the special kingdom of
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