`                    Liber XXV--The Star Ruby

        By Aleister Crowley--annotated and edited by Frater shARAsh.
       
	This ritual is the Thelemic version of the Lesser Banishing 
Ritual of the Pentagram.  It differs from the LBRP in that 1) the 
language used is Greek instead of the Hebrew of the LBRP, and 2) the 
pentagrams are visualized instead of drawn with the weapon as in the 
LBRP.

	This paper is a combination of Magick in Theory and Practice, 
the O.T.O Newsletter, and In the Continuum.

	The Star Ruby is performed in three gesture, as follows:  


1. THE FIRST GESTURE:   The Cross Qabalistic

	a.  Facing East, in the centre, draw deep deep deep thy breath 
closing thy mouth with thy right forefinger pressed against thy 
lower lip.  Then dashing down the hand with a great sweep back and 
out, expelling forcibly thy breath, cry APO PANTOS KAKODAIMONOS. (1)

	b. With the same forefinger touch thy forehead and say [that 
is, vibrate] SOI, (2)

	c. thy member, and say O PHALLE (3),

	d. thy right shoulder, and say ISCHUROS, (4)

	e. thy left shoulder, and say EUCHARISTOS, (5)

	f. then clasp thine hands, locking the fingers, and cry     
IAO. (6)

2.  THE SECOND GESTURE:  Calling forth God Names

	a. Advance to the East.  Imagine strongly a Pentagram, aright 
in thy forehead.  Drawing the hands to they eyes, fling it forth, 
making the sign of Horus (7) and roar THERION. (8)

	b.  Retire thine hand in the sign of Hoor-paar-kraat. (9)

	c.  Go round to the North and repeat; but say NUIT. (10)

	d.  Go round to the West and repeat; but whisper BABALON. (11)

	e.  Go round to the South and repeat; but bellow HADIT. (12)

	f.  Completing the circle widdershins, retire to the centre 
and raise thy voice in the Paian, with these words, IO PAN, (13) 
WITH THE SIGNS OF N.O.X. (14)

	g. Extend the arms in the form of a Tau and say low but clear:  
Pro mou Iunges, opicho mou Teletarchae, epi dexia Sunoches; epa 
ristera Daimonos.  Pheg ei gar peri mou ho astere ton pente, kai en 
tei stelei ho astere ton hex esteche. (15)

3. THE THIRD GESTURE:  The Cross Qabalistic

	Repeat the Cross Qabalistic, as above, and end as thou didst 
begin.

                              FOOTNOTES

1.  Apo Pantos Kakodaimonos.  Greek for "Depart from me all evil 
spirits."
2.  Soi.  Greek for "To Thee.  (Enumerates to 280 and corresponds to 
ATOR=280, the Great Mother.  See also ROTA, TARO & ORAT.)
3.  O Phalle.  Greek for "O Phallus."  (Enumerates to 831.)
4.  Ischuros.  Greek for "Power, Mighty."  (Sphere of Geburah, 
Mars.)
5.  Eucharistos.  Greek for "Gratefulness, Thanksgiving. (See also 
the meaning of Eucharist in a good etymological dictionary.  Sphere 
of Chesed.)
6.  IAO.  (See Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter 5.  IAO adds 
to 81.)
7.  Standing with thy feet together, bring thy hands back to the 
sides of thy head, sticking the thumbs out in the attitude of Pan.  
Stepping forward with thy left foot, shoot thine arms straight out 
in front of thee, the fingers pointed towards the target.
8. Therion.  Greek for "Beast."  (Enumerates to 666.)
9. Place thy left forefinger across thy lips making the Sign of 
Silence, just like we dost do in Kindergarten.
10.  NU=56, which reduces to 11; IT=19 making the sum 75.  Study the 
meaning of 10+9 to understand "IT" as it is added to NU.  NUITh=466.
11.  Babalon=156.
12. HADITh = 420 or as HADIT=29.  See other enumerations.
13.  IO PAN.  IO enumerates to 80, see Liber AL vel Legis (I,46) 
where we read, "I call it eight, eighty, four hundred and eighteen."
14.  N.O.X. Latin for "Night" as opposite of L.U.X. or "Light."

	Make the Sign of Puella, standing with thy feet together, head 
bowed, the left hand shielding the Muladhara Cakkra (genitals) and 
the right hand shielding  they breast (the attitude of Venus de 
Medici).

	Make the Sign of Puer, standing with thy feet together, head 
erect.  Let thy right hand (the thumb extended at right angles to 
the fingers) be raised, thy forearm vertical at a right angle with 
the upper arm, which is horizontally extended in the line joining the 
shoulders.  Let thy left hand, the thumb extended forward and the 
fingers clenched, rest at the junction of thy thighs (attitude of 
the Gods, Mentu, Khem, etc.). 

	Make the Sign of Vir, thy feet being together.  Thy hands, 
with clenched fingers and thumbs thrust out forwards, are held to 
the temples.  Thy head is then bowed and pushed out, as if to 
symbolize the butting of a horned beast (attitude of Pan, Bacchus, 
etc.)

	Make the Sign of Mulier.  Thy feet art widely separated, and 
the arms raised so as to suggest a crescent.  Thy head is thrown back 
(attitude of Baphomet, Isis in Welcome, the Microcosm of Vitruvius).

	(See Liber AL, Chapter I, for a description of space, or as 
some say, the dark night of Pan.  Also refer to Chapter III verse 
22, which refers to ". . .the Ordeal X.")

15.  Pro mou. . . etc.

	Greek for:  "Before me the Spells, behind me the Mysteries, on 
my right the Constraints (or Gnosis?), on my left Spirit (or 
Powers).  For about me flames the Star of the Five, and in the Stone 
the Star of the Six is fixed."  (STELEI = 52, 52 =666=718.  ASTER =  
318).


                 With Regard to Pronunciation [Greek]

As a general rule, please note that "g" is hard, as in goat; "ch" as 
in Loch Ness, not as in cheese; "u" by itself as in German Ÿber, or 
English excuse; ou as in rouge; and ai is pronounced like y in sky.

                           Additional Notes
                   (by Frater H'yitem k-Elohim 1131) 

	After the evocation of the Angels, the magician repeats the 
cross qabalistic, as at the beginning.  Crowley then goes on to say, 
". . .and end as thou didst begin"--which may suggest a repetition 
of the phrase, "Apo Pantos Kakodaimonos."  This must remain a matter 
of personal preference, since he may be referring only to the cross 
qabalistic.

	The student will note that Crowley does not specify an 
attribution of the elements to the Quarters.  If the student wishes 
to use such an attribution, it is possible to simply use the 
attributions as they are given in the Pentagram ritual.  in my own 
opinion, however, it makes more sense to use the attributions as 
they are given in Reguli, since the same god-names are employed, as 
well as the same signs (those of N.O.X.).  These attributions are as 
follows:  Earth in the East, Air in the North, Water in the West, 
and Fire in the South.  Similarly, they may wish to make one of the 
signs of NOX at each of the quarters, as attributions are as 
follows:  Puella in the North, Puer in the South, Vir in the East, 
and Mulier in the West.  It is also quite effective to employ a 
spiral dance during the Paian, although a little more complex.  If 
this is done, the magician may simply stop at each of the quarters 
long enough to make the sign of that quarter, then proceed through 
the spiral dance, continuing the chant, until he finally arrives at 
the center of the circle, there to evoke the angels of the quarters.  
The possibilities are endless.

	The signs of NOX, properly performed, thus trace a state of 
gradually increasing exaltation beginning with the modes shyness of 
the young girl awaiting her lover, to the abandoned ecstasy of the 
last sign, in which the magician is completely rapt away in the love 
of Pan.  At this point, the magician is sufficiently exalted to 
proceed to the evocation of the Angels, which he does (like any good 
gnostic) in Greek.

	The advantages of this ritual for a Thelemic magician are 
considerable (although not beyond question), simply because most 
Thelemites have a more intense emotional reaction to the name Nuit 
than to the name Adonai.  The Greek, while certainly a bit more 
difficult to memorize than the English in the Lesser Pentagram, is 
also more effective for many people, partly because of the beauty of 
the sound of it, and perhaps even more, because it is 
unintelligible.  (See Crowley's discussion of the Barbarous Names in 
Magick in Theory and Practice.)

	Bill Heidrick once wrote, "Perfect the way of saying the words 
as in ordinary speech before perfecting it in vibration.  When in 
doubt, attempt to utter the word any way you can in ritual--after 
all, doing the best you can is all that really matters in elementary 
work.  Those who refuse to perform rituals until they have 
everything perfect are also those who never perform rituals."

[Diagram follows.  There is a circle, in the center of which is 
written, in Greek, IO PAN.  Above the circle (outside) is written:
               EAST
      Earth--Vir--ThERION (ChAOS) [the latter two in Greek]

Below the circle (outside) is written:
               WEST
       Water--Mulier--BABALON (EROS) [EROS only is in Greek]

To the right of the circle is written:
               SOUTH
       Fire--Puer--HADIT (PsUchE) [Psyche in Greek]

To the left:
                NORTH
       Air--Puella--NUIT (BABALON [written in Greek]) ]


              An Analysis of the Star Ruby Ritual
                      by Frater A.L. (433)
                  (with gratitude to Fra. C.L.)

(The following is taken from "In the Continuum," Vol. III, Number 3, 
page #.  The reader is strongly advised to subscribe to this 
information-filled periodical which is published through the College 
of Thelema.)

	No later than 1913, when "The Book of Lies" was published, 
Aleister Crowley had written what he termed "a new and more 
elaborate version of the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. . . and 
official ritual of the A .'. A .'.."  Later, during the Cefalu 
period when "Magick in Theory and Practice" was written, he modified 
this ritual, called it "The Star Ruby," to bring it more into 
conformity with other strongly Thelemic rituals such as Liber 
Reguli.  Both versions are given on the preceding pages [excluded 
here,ed.].  Despite the apparent importance of this ritual (and the 
Star Sapphire, "the real and perfect Ritual of the Hexagram"), 
little attention seems to have been paid to it in the years since.

	Part of this has to do with obscurities in the ritual, such as 
what have long appeared to be archangelic names (Junges, Sunoches, 
Teletarchae and the more recognizable Daimones) whose origins and 
symbolism were never clearly stated by A.C.  The key to these names 
has been found through recent scholarship and qabalistic analysis.

	Many students have suspected that this revamping of the 
standard Pentagram Ritual was (along with the Star Sapphire) part of 
a grand joke on his readers which Crowley claims to have perpetuated 
while writing "The Book of Lies."  Therefore, let's take a moment 
and demonstrate the Beast's sincere opinion on the importance of 
this ritual.

	First, in "Magick in Theory and Practice," Chapter 13, "Of the 
Banishing: And of the Purifications," we read:  "It is usually 
sufficient to perform a general banishing, and to rely upon the aid 
of the guardians invoked.  Let the banishings therefore be short, bu 
tin no wise slurred--for it is useful as it tends to produce the 
proper attitude of mind for the invocations.  "The Banishing Ritual 
of the Pentagram' (as now rewritten , "Liber 333," Chapter XXV) is 
the best to use."   "Liber 333" is "The Book of Lies," and Chapter 
XXV is the Star Ruby.

	Another source of information is not generally available to 
students.  During his Cefalu period, in the 1920's Crowley chartered 
a magical order called The Order of Thelemites, under the 
imperatorship of Fra. Semper Paratum (James Thomas Windram), 6=5 
A.'. A.'..  This order, not to be confused with a certain "Order of 
Thelema," was primarily based on the lines of the A.'. A.'. The 
constitution of this order is available to us.  In assigning practices 
to the grades of this order, To Mega Therion wrote that all members 
of the order "shall use the daily invocations given Liber CC, the 
Rituals of Liber XXV, Liber XXXVI, and Liber XLIV, and Will before 
meat, as taught them in their initiation."

	Besides Will and Liber Resh (Liber CC), he was assigning the 
use of the Star Ruby (Liber XXV, the Star Sapphire (Liber XXXVI) and 
the Mass of the Phoenix (Liber XLIV). At least during the 20's, we 
can then reasonably assume that Therion considered these among the 
most important practices for students of Thelemic Magick--of any 
grade.

	The remainder of this article is an analysis of the elements of this ritual, particularly qabalistically as suggested in Crowley's "Book of Lies" note quoted above.  In particular, we've emphasized the section where "the guardians invoked" are mentioned.  This was and exciting adventure for us as it required gaining familiarity with a philosophy and magical terminology we had not previously explored.

                        "The Cross Qabalistic"

	Notice that the basic form of the Star Ruby is essentially the same as that of the more familiar Lesser Pentagram Ritual.  There is a Qabalistic Cross at the beginning and end which establishes the Tree of Life in the Magical Body of the Magician.  Between the opening and closing there is the placing of pentagrams at each of the four quarters, charging them with Divine Names; and the invoking, again at the quarters, of some sort of magical guardians.  These traditional four parts of the Pentagram Ritual are joined in the Star Ruby by a fifth (Just as there are five points to the pentagram).  The fifth portion, dropped into the middle of the ritual even as Shin descends upon the center of Tetragrammaton, might be termed the Summons of the Supernals, and the invocation of the Night of Pan (more on this below).

	In the familiar pentagram ritual, the Qabalistic Cross consists of vertical and horizontal bars (see Liber O).  In formulating these balanced currents within himself or herself, the magician vibrates the words:  ATEH, MALKUTH, ve-GEBURAH, ve-GEDULAH; that is, "Thou art (ATEH) the Kingdom (MALKUTH), and the Strength (ve-GEBURAH) and the Majesty (ve-GEDULAH=Chesed).  This is then sealed with the words L'OLAM, difficult to translate, meaning variously "time immemorial," "time past," "eternity," "distant future," "everlasting time"; that is, "throughout the entire range of the arbitrary dimension called time"; or, as a declaration, "As it was, is, and shall be."

	The Qabalistic Cross in the Star Ruby is fundamentally the same.  The cross itself is drawn with the same motions, but with the words, SOI, O PHALLE, ISChUROS, EUChARISTOS, IAO.

	SOI [Greek in original ITC text] means "Unto Thee."  This is an address to the Most High, Kether aspect of one Self.  Curiously, its numerical value, 280, is that of the Name of the Archangel of Malkuth, Sandalphon, reminding us that "Malkuth is in Kether, and Kether is in Malkuth."  Sandalphon's name has been translated to mean "the sound of sandals," the sound of passage of Him That Goest.  In Greek, the number 280 is written Sigma-Pi, equivalent to Samekh-Peh.  It is at the intersection of these two paths on the Tree of Life, before the Veil of Paroketh, that one symbolically stands in performing the traditional Pentagram Ritual.  It seems likely that this symbolism is to be maintained in the Star Ruby.  This is emphasized by another significance of 280:  it is the number of Squares on the Walls of the Vault of the Adepti wherein the initiates of the Golden Dawn were raised to full adepthood.  The psyche of the pronouncement of the word SOI is none other than the highest manifestation of one's own Holy Guardian Angel.

	O PHALLE [Greek in ITC text] means, "O Phallus."  Notice that Crowley could have simply said "Phallus," but instead sang a brief praise to that part of the body corresponding to the lower spheres of the Tree of Life, appending the exclamatory "O."  The numerical value of this word couplet is thus 1369.  This number is the square of 37!  Thirty-seven is the value of the word YECHIDAH, the aspect of consciousness assigned to Kether in Malkuth.  No other formula would be so complete.  In Greek, 1369 is written Alpha-Tau-Xi-Theta: the primal Life-Breath (A), the phallic Cross (T), the phallic Cross (X), and the phallic serpent (Theta).  It would seem this number is most appropriate for "O Phallus."

	A link has been established between the Spirit Supernal and the Spirit Incarnate (see Liber Tzaddi, especially verses 33-34).  The magician is balanced vertically, and prepared to be balanced horizontally.

ISChUROS literally means "strong, mighty," corresponding to Geburah.  It's value is 1580.  Advanced students of Qabalah may wish to study this as 20 x 79.  In Greek, 1580 is written Alpha-Phi-Pi, Phi and Pi both being equivalent to the Hebrew Peh, Mars; and Alpha again representing the Primal Energy or Life.

	EUChARISTOS is the root of our word "eucharist" and essentially indicates a blessing, clearly corresponding to Chesed, the Sphere of Jupiter.  Its letters total 1886, or 2 x 23 x 41; where 23 is most notably the value of ChIH, "life"; and 41 of AM, "mother."  This balances against the masculine quality of Mars in Ischuros.  (NOTE:  These numbers--2,23, and 41--are the prime factors of 1886.)

	In the place of L'OLAM is the Gnostic versicle IAO.  IAO can be studied at length in Magick in Theory and Practice (Chapter 5)  At the risk of oversimplification, it may be regarded in this ritual as a mantram of Tiphareth, declaring the central balance and equilibration that has been established by the four-armed cross, as well as the Light which springs forth in the center of the cross (in the heart region) in the completion of Pentagrammaton. Its value is 811, hinting at the union of Hadit (8) and Nuit (11).  These three letters, Iota, Alpha, and Omega, are the exact letters used to write the number 811 in Greek.  That is, they are the essence of the number in themselves.

	This cross is preceded by the command APO PANTOS KAKODAIMONOS [in Greek in In the Continuum text].  This means, "completely away (from here), Evil Spirits.  The word KAKOS literally means "bad," which is to be taken in a functional, rather than moralistic sense, as "that which is contrary to the performance of my True Will."  In fact, KAODIAMON means "evil genius," or the shadow side of one's H.G.A. (KALODAIMON, beautiful genius.")

	The phrase APO PANTOS KAKODAIMONOS is exactly equivalent to HEKAS, HEKAS, ESTE, BEBELOI, or to PROCUL, O PROCUL ESTE PROFANI.  Both mean, "Away, away, that which is profane."


                   Divine Names of the Quarters

	Notice that between 1913 and circa 1929, Crowley modified the Divine Names vibrated at each quarter.  In each case, the movement is widdershins (counter-clockwise).

	In the earlier version of the Star Ruby the Names are [in Greek & Roman Letters]:ChAOS, East; BABALON (North); EROS, West; and PsUChe, South.

	ChAOS is the name of Chokmah.  The word means much the same as it does in English, but in the sense of "that which was the nature of the Universe before order was established."  It represents the infinite, unordered expanses of existence.  With sublime perfection, it's numerical value (871) is written in Greek as Omega-Omicron-Alpha.  O-mega (Omega) is the "big O" and O-micron (O) the "little O" fo the Greek alphabet; while Alpha (Aleph) is the Fool, whose number is 0.  We thus have declared in this name the Trinity as Nothing, the unbounded openness of space.  This may also be read as "from Alpha to Omega, with Nothing (O) between."

	BABALON is the Sublime Manifest Aspect of Nuit described at length in "The Vision & the Voice.  Her number, in Greek as in Hebrew, is 156.  See "I.T.C.", Vol. 1, No. 7 for some meanings of this number.

	EROS is the name of the god whom the Greeks called "Cupid."  The word literally means "love" or "desire," and is here assigned to the West, the place of death.  This word, unlike most in Greek, can be spelled with the "O" either as Omicron or Omega.  The latter gives a value of 1105; but the former totals to 375, the value of Solomon.

	PsUChE is familiar to us as "psyche."  The Greek letter Upsilon, through the letter "u," looks like "y" in its capital form.  Most Greek words with an Upsilon have it transliterated as "y" when the word is brought into English.  The correct, original pronunciation is closer to the English "u," however; identical to the French "u" (as in "tu").  PsUChE is most commonly translated as "soul"; but its earliest use is identical with the Latin "spiritus," "breath, life."

	Its numerical value is 1708.  This is written in Greek as Alpha-Psi-Eta.  This provides us with a powerful formula of attainment!  Th Psi and Eta remain from the original word, but Upsilon (400) and Chi (600) have been united to produce a large Alpha (1000).  Upsilon is equivalent to Vau, the Son, and Chi (X) is the Cross.  In their conjunction they become the Breath of Life, the Babe in the Egg matured into Pangenator Pamphage (the large A, not the small; compare Therion's analysis of "The Formula of Agape" in "Magick in Theory and Practice" where the large Alpha is equated with Dionysus).

	This is then a formula of the Rose-Cross.  Beside it are twin forms of Receptive Adoration and invocation of the Most High to descend and fulfill one's vehicle:  Psi, the individual (Y) standing with arms upraised to Heaven, the Wand upright and keen within the Cup; and Eta, which is Cheth, Cancer, the Holy Graal.

	In the later version of the Star Ruby the divine Names provided are:  ThERION in the East, NUITh in the North, BABALON in the West, and HADITh in the South.  These names are much more familiar to the budding Thelemite.   Their attributes can be studied in Liber V vel Reguli where the same formula is used.  Notice that ThERION (who is the Divine Aspect called "The Beast," is not by any means the man Aleister Crowley) is assigned to Taurus; NUITh to Aquarius; BABALON to Scorpio; and HADITh to Leo. The correct spelling of these are:

ThERION= [Same in Greek]=247

NUITh= [Greek]=469

BABALON= [Greek]=156

HADITH= [Greek]=315



                       N.O.X and IO Pan

	The Signs of N.O.X. are given in Liber Reguli in "Magick in Theory and Practice."  "Nox" means "night."  The night referred to is the "Night of Pan."  It refers to the Sublime Darkness veiled by the Ineffable Light.  We may study this in the early chapters of "The Book of Lies,"  and in Liber Reguli.  See also I.T.C., Volume III, Number 2 for and analysis of the  number 210.

	IO PAN [in Greek, w P=Pi] is a hailing exclamation to the God Pan.  Pan is written as PAN [in Greek]"  "P [Pi}, the letter of Mars, is a hieroglyph of two pillars, and therefore suggests duality; A, by its shape, is the pentagram, energy, and N, by its Tarot attribution, is death"  ("The Book of Lies,"  Ch. 1, Commentary).


                    Invocation of the Guardians

	The fourth section of this ritual translates into English as follows:  "Before me, Junges; behind me, Teletarchai; on my right hand, Sonoches; on my left hand, Daimones [or Daimonos].  For about me shines the Pentagram [literally, "star of five"] and in the column is the six-rayed star [literally, "star of six"].

	The word translated as "column" is STELE, exactly as in "Stele of Revealing."  It means a block of stone, often as a monument or declaration of a covenant, frequently in the form of a pillar or post.  Notice that one version lists "Daimonos" and the other, "Daimones."  This is not a misspelling.  These are separate words, each suitable to the ritual in different ways.

	For several reasons we had assumed that Junges, Sonoches, Teletarchai and Daimones were intended to be archangels postulated by Crowley in his Hellenization of the Pentagram Ritual.  After all, they appear to replace the Hebrew archangels of the elements of the latter ritual.  They were declared to be "the guardians" of the quarters, and do appear to represent orders of divine or semi-divine beings, provided we define "beings" a little differently than we normally do.

	They were not, however, inventions of 666.  They come directly from the Pythagorean school as represented in the so-called "Chaldaean Oracles," often attributed to Zoroaster, but most certainly communicated through spiritual experience to Julianus in the Second Century A.D.  These Oracles were considered among the finest philosophical or religious writings of their time.  Their exalted eloquence can be found excerpted throughout the rituals of the Golden Dawn.  Crowley's "Little Essays Towards Truth' is, in some ways, little more than  a commentary on these aphorism.  Our authority for quotations that follow is the compilation and translation of these Oracles by Apere Aude (Wynn Wescott).

	In approaching the Oracles, we must purify ourselves of prior conceptions of the meanings of certain words before we may proceed with our Work.  Certain words are used in ways misleading to the average student in our circles.  For examples, "intelligible" and "intellectual" do not in these verses refer to Ruach, or what we call the Intellect.  They instead imply the highest reaches of consciousness beyond the abyss, even at the pre-formative levels prior to Kether, in the Ain Soph Aur.  "Father," similarly, should neither be regarded as the Judeo-Christian Demiurgos, nor as the the Supernal Father, Chokmah; it is an unfortunately gendered term implying the All, the Undifferentiated.  I cannot, for myself, discriminate it from ideas of Nuit or Tao, and must struggle fiercely to resist sliding into prior Christian conditioning about "Our Father, who are in Heaven."  Such anthropomorphisms are totally destructive to grasping the essence--to truly understanding the meanings of the passages about to be quoted.

	The one virtue and it is a slight one in retaining the paternal designation of the Naught is that it permits the use of a certain sexual symbolism in the description of the Creation of Things.  Kether, "the white Head" to Qabalists, but a White Hole to the physicist, spewing radiant matter into our physical universe from some alternative realm of existence, may be likened in this so-called Chaldaean model to the spewing Ejaculate of the Infinite, each seed being in truth a Star.

	In what follows, notice also that, prior to things there came into a matrix, shall we say, of that Form which things might come to exists.  Keep in mind Ko Yuen's (Aleister Crowley's) words in the introduction to the Tao Teh King:  "The Tao is 'Reason' in this sense, that the substance of things may be in part apprehended as being that necessary relation between the elements of thought which determines the laws of reason.  In other words, the only reality is that which compels us to connect the various forms of illusion as we do.  It is thus evidently unknowable, and expressible neither by speech nor by silence.  All that we can know about it is that there is inherent in it a power (which, however, is not itself) by virtue whereof all beings appear in forms congruous with the nature of necessity."

	With these words of preface, we quote from Part II of the Chaldaean Oracles:

	"The Mind of the Father whirled forth in re-echoing roar, comprehending by invincible will Ideas omniform; which flying forth from that one fountain issued; for from the Father alike was the Will and the End (by which are they connected with the Father according to alternating life, through varying vehicles).  But they were divided asunder, being by Intellectual Fire distributed into other Intellectuals.  For the King of all previously placed before the polymorphous World a Type, intellectual, incorruptible, the imprint of whose form is sent forth through the World, by which the universe shone forth decked with Ideas of all various of which the foundation is One.  One and alone.  From this the others rush forth distributing and separating through the various bodies of the Universe, and are borne in swarms through its vast abysses, ever whirling forth in illimitable radiation.

	"They are intellectual conceptions from the Paternal Foundation partaking abundantly of the brilliance of Fire in the culmination of unresting Time.

	"But the primary self-perfect foundation of the Father poured forth these primogenial Ideas."

	Speaking further of the "Ideas" (that is, root structuralizations of consciousness of so early a stage  as to be beyond comprehension), the text continues:  "These being many, descended flashingly upon the shining Worlds, and in them are contained the Three Supernals.  They are the guardians of the works of the Father, and of the One Mind, the Intelligible."

	These "guardians"--a word used identically by 666 with reference to the Tylers of the Quadrants--are the Three Supernals.  They were called the "Intellectual Triad."  Wescott tells us in his interpolation on the text, "The second Order of the Platonist philosophy was the 'Intelligible and Intellectual Triad'.  Among the Chaldaeans, this order includes the Junges, Synoches, and Teletarchs."

	We deal therefore with Supernal concepts; though, as we'll see below, these names (all of which, incidentally, are Greek plurals, thus not the name of individual Beings whatsoever) refer to classes of Beings much like the "orders of angels" of the Hebrew Qabalah.  They are correspondent to the Supernals.  But they are not the Supernals themselves.

	Also, we admit to having but begun to understand these ideas.  Our investigation into the depths of Pythagorean and Neo-Platonic thought, which relate closely to these Oracles, is very young. Hopefully these understandings will mature.  We appreciate the input of our brothers and sisters in this work, as surely there are others far more knowledgeable in these areas than we are.

	Notice in preliminary the initial letters of these four Orders of beings.  Beginning East and moving clockwise, they are:

	Iota, 10, which is by Aiq Bkr, 1

	Sigma, 200, which is by Aiq Bkr, 2

	Tau, 300, which is by Aiq Bkr, 3
	
	Delta, 4, which is by Aiq Bkr, 4

	
JUNGES

	In the East we invoke Junges (Iota-Upsilon-Gamma-Gamma-Epsilon-Sigma: in Greek the double gamma is pronounced like "ng").

	The arithmetic total of these letters is 621.  Writing this number in Greek we get Chi, the Chariot; Kappa, the Wheel of Fortune; Alpha, the Primal Swirlings, or Swastika, or Thunderbolt of Zeus.  Totalling the numbers of the Tarot Trumps corresponding we get 7=10=0=17, and number again representative of the swastika.  Every aspect of this suggests a spinning, electrical surge, a primal, swirling power.

	Aeschylus used this word metaphorically to mean "a spell, charm, passionate yearning for"; but this is a derivative meaning.  The word comes from IUGMOS, a shrieking sound. Junges was the name given to the wryneck, a bird noted for its cry.  Once more we find the symbolism of the wheel:  for ancient witches used to bind the wryneck to a wheel, believing that, as it turned, it drew human hearts along with it.

	Much later the idea of a "spell" took on a specific significance.  Psellus describes a specific magical method:  The Hecatine Strophalus is the Golden Ball, in the midst whereof is a Sapphire; they fold about it a Leather-Thong; it is best all over with Characters:  thus whipping it about, they made their Invocations;  these they called Iynges, whether is be round or triangular, or any other Figure; and whilst they are doing thus, they make Insignificant or Bruitish Cries, and lash the Air with their Whips.  The Oracle adviseth to the performance of these Rites or such a Motion of Strophalus, as having an expressible Power.

	Within the Oracles themselves we find symbolism consistent with Chokmah and , even more so, with Alchemical Sulphur.  This is most interesting since the Order of Angels of Chokmah are the Auphanim, that is, "Wheels."

	Quoth the Oracles:  "The Intelligible Junges themselves understand form the Father; by ineffable counsel being moved to understand."  "Understand" should not be "understood" to be that word which in Hebrew is Binah.  the key to the above is that the Supernals were said to be contained within the "sperm" of the Father.  They are, we suppose, like chromosomes.  This analogy is perfect, explaining precisely the way in which they are "by ineffable counsel being moved to understand."

	Junges are further called "the Operator. . .the Giver of Life-Bearing Fire. . .it filleth the Life-producing  bosom of Hecate; and it instilleth into the Sunoches the enlivening strength of Fire, ended with mighty Power."  Hecate was an important deity to the Chaldaeans.  One of the "old gods" (i.e., Supernal), she had originally not only her dark, destructive aspect with which we are most familiar, but was a fertile goddess of generation (as anyone who caught Chris Kimball in "Macbeth" at the Metropolitan Opera can tell you).  She is unquestionably an aspect of Binah, toward which the Junges fulfill a Chokmah function.  Similarly, we start to get a hint at the real nature of Sunoches.  These conjectures are supported by Pletho saying that Junges are "the Intellectual Species which are conceived by the Father; they themselves also being conceptive, and exciting Conceptions or notions, by unspeakable or unutterable Counsels is as much as unmoved, for speaking consists in Motions";  the meaning is this, "That these Species [Junges] are immovable and have a habitude to Notions not transiently  as the Soul."  Psellus adds, "Iynges are certain (Virtues or) Powers, next the Paternal Depth, consisting of three Triads.  These understand according to the Paternal Mind, which containeth their Cause solely in himself. . ."

SUNOChES

	This word Sunoches (Sigma-Upsilon-Nu-Omicron-Chi-Epsilon-Sigma) has a value of 1525.  This is the value in Hebrew of Shem Hamphorash, the 72-fold Name of God.  By factoring it we get 5 x 5 x  61.  This is interesting, since 61 is the value of Ain, "no-thing,"  of KALI the Hindu Goddess of destruction, etc.; and the closest correspondence of Sunoches to a member of the Supernal Triad is to Binah.

	No such Greek word can be found in precisely this form, though enough similar words exist to allow us to deduce its meaning.  SUNOChE means "a being held together."  SUNOChO means "to hold together, to enclose, encompass, embrace; to keep together, keep from dispersing; to constrain or force on to a thing; to oppress, afflict."  SUNEChES means "holding together" and "continuous"  (as in a continuous  sequence of things held together), hinting at the idea of "eternity."

	So the root meaning is a holding together, a binding action.  Much of the above corresponds to the maternal, form-giving aspect of Binah.  Magically, we may say that, if the Junges is the conjuration, Sonoches is the constraint.

	The image of Binah, as the complement to the Chokmah aspect of Junges "instilleth in the Sunoches the enlivening strength of Fire, endued with mighty Power."  To "instill" is to pour into (as a cup) drop by drop.  We may recall that in the Scarlet Woman "is all power given."

	The Oracles say, "He gave his own Whirlwinds to guard the Supernal, mingling the proper force of his own strength in the Sunoches."  Again, the idea of strength being established in Sunoches.  We recall that the Masons interpret Boaz to mean "strengthening" and Jachin to mean "establishment."

	Some other passages:  "But likewise  as many as serve the material Sunoches."  The syntax is unintelligible to me; but notice the material Sunoches.

	"The Teletarches are comprehended in the Sunoches."  To "comprehend" is a superior  translation of the Hebrew BINH, which we render "understanding."  The rest of this sentence is incomprehensible until we understand the Teletarchs.

	Knowing that all three of these represent Supernal concepts, I find the Binah symbolism consistent.  Alternatively we can see root ideas of the Alchemical concept of Salt.  

TELETARChAI

	Numerologically, Teletarchai is quite important.  It totals to 1342, or 2 x 671.  For 671 we find the words ThORA (the Law); ThARO (Taro); ThROA (the Gate); and A:D:N:I (Adonai, with each letter spelled in full).  It is also 11 (the number of Nuit, and of Abrahadabra) x 61 (AIN, "nothing," etc.).

	Many words come from the root TELEOS, which deals with a multitude of ideas of fullness, completion, and perfection.  Numerous others dealing with initiation or the Mystery Schools come from these roots, including TELESTERION (a place of initiation):  TELESTIKOS (initiatory, mystical); TELESTOR (priest);  TELETE (initiatory rites).

	I began to wonder if TELETARChAE were not the plural of an elision between TEWLETE and ARChE.  A compound  such as TELETE-ARChE would most likely have become TELETARChE.  ARChE means "beginning, origin, first cause"  (archeology is the study of beginnings). I came to mean "that which was in the beginning," or "first in rank"--in short, the boss in any situation; and later, "the authorities."  TELETE-ARChE would most likely mean "the one in charge of an initiation festival."  With this clue I turned to a modern Greek dictionary and found TELETARChES, "master of ceremonies  or marshall" of just such a festivity.

	So the Teletarchai are most certainly the Hierophants.  Ideas relating to Aiwass, as the Hierophant of the Aeon, come to mind as we recall he bore the Law (ThORA) ans was Adonai.  One spelling of Aiwass totals to 78, the number of cards in the ThARO.

	But, speculation aside, we have been told that Teletarchai share with Junges ans Sunoches the Supernal Realm and completes with them a Trinity.  If we maintain the Sulphur and Salt symbolism for the first pair, we must attribute to this third mane some variation of the idea of Mercury.

	"The Teletarchs are comprehended in the Sunoches,"  say the Oracles; as though the Teletarchs correspond to the Child born within the Mother; of as though the Truths of Initiation are comprehended once the consciousness of Binah, Understanding, is attained.

	DAIMONES/DAIMONOS

	DAIMON means "god, goddess," much like Theos or Thea.  In Homer it is interchangeable with the Latin "numen."  though it is the source of our word "demon," is was only in the New Testament times that it came to have "demonic" attributes.  Most simply it meant any sort of spirit or genius."

	The plural of this word is DAIMONOS, the word used in the later version of the Star Ruby.  I therefore means Spirits, "Geniuses," of Entities.  In the hierarchy of the Chaldaeans, the Daimonos were beneath the Demiurges, who were beneath the "Intellectual Triad" (i.e., the Supernals).  We therefore have the most "earthly" concept of these four; and it is perhaps significant that Daimonos are assigned to the North, "the place of greatest darkness."

	DAIMONOS totals to 445.  (No, Most Beloved Frater, it cannot be spelled without the A.)

	A different, but related, word is DAIMONES.  Hesiod used this term to mean "the souls of mend of the Golden Age, forming a link between gods and men."  That is, Man-God.  As what we called the H.G.A. was of old termed the "genius" (Daimon), the Daimonos were those who "had their genius"; that is, true aspects.

	This word totals to 380.  Check "Sepher Sephiroth" and you'll see this is the number gotten by multiplying, one-for-one, the value of the letters YHVH by the value of the letters of ADNI.  The result is a very complex idea of Deity; that is one suitable for the evening news.  Other words of this value are OTzB OTzBVN, "pain, trouble, miser"; and ORPL, "thick fog, darkness"; but it is also a name of Egypt.  Perhaps the hidden meaning to Jewry is "the place of our difficulty."

	We have, by now, come a fair bit down  the Tree of Life!  These clues certainly fit what we next expected to see, the earthed correspondent to the Divine Triad.  This factor fulfills the Trinity to perfection.  The Aspirant (Man of Earth) stands before the Initiator (Teletarchai).  We have, it seems, a coherent system in the tetrad.

                                Summary

	We may then say that from the Tao came forth a flood of Ideas; and that of these idea, Three were "guardians of the works of the Father."  This Supernal Triad, Junges, Sunoches and Teletarchai were fulfilled and reflected on Earth, in manifestation, by a forth, called Daimones or Daimonos.

	The triad corresponds fairly to the alchemical principles of Sulphur, Salt and Mercury, respectively; and these are fulfilled in the Stone.

	JUNGES appears to be the name of an Order of Beings (that is, categories of organization of consciousness) correlative with Chokmah, whose nature is fiery, invigorating, seminal, transmitting by ineffable means the Will of All.

	SUNOChES appears to be the name of an Order of Beings correlative with Binah and representing the function of alchemical Salt, whose nature in binding, holding together, uniting in love under will, being instilled with strength and power.

	TELETARChAI appears to be the name of an Order of Beings correlative with the Middle Pillar, representing the agent of initiation, the result of the insemination of Sunoches by Junges.  As the "Overlord of Initiation" originating in the Supernals, this is not incompatible with Ra-Hoor-Khuit; the only difference in the attribution being that one is placed in the East, the other in the West.

	DAIMONOS are spirits, Divinities below the Abyss.  If we take the word to be Daimones, then it signifies the energies of departed Adepts, the Inner Plane representatives of the Order, much like the Saints as invoked in the Mass of the Gnostic Catholic Church, the "Sons of the Lion and the Serpent."

	And what is the purpose of this ritual which calls upon the names of Nuit, Hadit, Babalon, and Therion, then places at the quarter such Potencies as these?  Why, the only purpose for which any magick is suitable at all!  As it is describes in the Oracles themselves:

	"So therefore first the Priest who governeth the works of Fire, must sprinkle with the Water of the loud-resounding Sea.

	"Labour thou around the Strophalos of Hecate.  When thou shalt see a Terrestrial Daemon approaching, Cry aloud! and sacrifice the stone Mnizourin.
	
	"If thou often invokest thou shalt see all things growing dark; and then when no longer is visible unto thee the High-Arched Vault of Heaven, when the Stars have lost their Light and the Lamp of the Moon is veiled, the Earth abideth not, and around thee  darts the Lightning Flame and all things appear amid thunder. . .

	"A similar Fire flashing extending through the rushings of Air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud.  Also there is the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a Child, borne aloft on the shoulders of the Celestial Steed, fiery or clothed with gold, or naked, or shooting with the bow shafts of Light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse; then if thy meditation prolongeth itself, thou shalt unite all these symbols in the form of a Lion.

	"When thou shalt behold that Holy and Formless Fire shining flashinly through the depths of the Universe:  hear thou the Voice of Fire."

	ABRAHADABRA!

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