Rites of the Mummy by Jeffrey D. Evans & Peter Levenda

Author:Jeffrey D. Evans & Peter Levenda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ibis Press

There is much more than can be explained regarding the circles, the lotus petals, and the surrounding structure of four doors, but we believe that interested readers will have no difficulty in discovering all of that for themselves. We may even suggest a close reading of AL I:51 and AL III:64-67 for more inspiration along those lines.

For the Western ceremonial magician, the triangle still represents that moment of creation, of materialization, consciously constructed and employed to bring invisible beings to visible appearance. And the circle the magician stands in represents what Jung called the mandala: the proof of individuation, of the magician who has made contact with the Holy Guardian Angel (to use an Abramelin and Crowley reference). Both the Sri Yantra and the Mandala are geometric forms representing the balance of forces in harmonious interplay. It represents the perspective that this cosmos—seemingly full of contradictions, tensions, and negativity—is actually in balance; it is also a means towards achieving that same perspective.

In India, that means meditation on the diagrams themselves, accompanied by the appropriate mantras (words of power) as well as incenses, mudras (gestures) and the like in a mechanism for approaching the center of the diagram and walking backwards through time to the moment when everything came into existence through the action of Desire.

In the modern Western tradition represented by the Golden Dawn and, later, the A∴A∴, it means walking upward along the paths on the Tree of Life in an attempt to approach that same singularity on the other side of the Abyss. That includes mantras and mudras as well, albeit the Western forms of the same in the incantations, the ritual gestures, and the application of the aspirant's will to overcome all obstacles along the way.

In the Indian context, that means worshipping the Tripurasundari, the Goddess of the Three Worlds; in Thelema, it means giving the last drop of one's blood to the Goddess of the City of the Pyramids: Babalon.

83 Kenneth Grant, Beyond the Mauve Zone, Starfire Publishing, London, (1999) 2016, p. 39.

84 Plato, Republic, VII, 52.

85 Plato, Timaeus, B. Jowett, trans. The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. Two, Random House, NY, 1892 (1920), p.35.

86 Plotinus, The Enneads, Stephen MacKenna, trans. Faber & Faber Ltd., London, 1917-1930, pp. 541-595.

87 Aleister Crowley, ed., The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King, Magickal Childe, New York, 1989, frontispiece.

88 Joseph Peterson, ed., The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon, Ibis Press, Lake Worth, 2009, p.232.

89 For instance, N.H. Sahasrabudhe & R.D. Mahatme, Secrets of Vastushastra, Sterling Paperbacks, New Delhi, 1999, pp. 73-76.

90 Kenneth Grant, Beyond the Mauve Zone, Starfire Publishing, London, (1999) 2016, p. 91.

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