The light is mine; its rays consume
   Me: I have made a secret door
   Into the house of Ra and Tum,
   Of Khephra, and of Ahathoor.
   I am thy Theban, O Mentu,
   The prophet Ankh-f-n-Khonsu!
   By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
   By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell.
   Show thy star-splendour, O Nuith!
   Bid me within thine House to dwell,
   O winged snake of light, Hadith!
   Abide with me, Ra Hoor Khuit!
   (Magus faces         , and others support him.)
   Hail! Hail! Hail! Hail! Hail!
   Send forth a spark of thine illimitable light and force, we beseech Thee,
that it may appear in the Heaven of Mars as the God Elohim Gibor.
   O winged glory of gold! O plumes of justice and stern brows of majesty! O
warrior armed with spear and shield! O virgin strength and splendour as of
spring! That ridest in thy Chariot of Iron above the Storm upon the Sea! Who
shootest forth the Arrows of the Moon! Who wieldest the Four Magick Weapons! Who
art the Master of the Pentagram and of the blazing fury of the Sun!
   Come unto me, thou great God Elohim Gibor, and send thy Angel Kamael, even
Kamael the mighty, the Leader of thine Armies the fiery Serpents, the Seraphim,
that he may answer my behests.
   O purple flame that is like unto the whirling wheel of Life! O strong
shoulders and virginal breasts and dancing limbs!
   Kamael! Kamael! Kamael! Kamael!
   I see thee before me, O thou great Archangel! Art thou not the Leader of the
armies of the Lord? Of the grey snakes upon whose heads are triple crowns of
spiritual light, and whose tongues are triply forked with judgment? Whose bodies
are like the Sun in his strength, whose scales are of the adamant of Vulcan, who
are slim and splendid and virginal as they rush flaming over the lashed sea?
   Come unto me, Kamael, thou archangel almighty, and send to me Graphiel that
great intelligence of thine, that he may answer my behest.
   O moon, that sailest on the shoulders of the Sun! Whose warrior body is like
white-hot steel! Whose virgin limbs and golden wings move like ripe corn at the
caress of the thunderstorm!
   O thou that wieldest the Sword and Balances of Power!
   Graphiel! Graphiel! Graphiel!
   Graphiel! Graphiel! Graphiel!
   Come unto us, thou bright intelligence of Mars, and answer my behest. In the
name of Kamael thy Lord, I say: Compel the spirit Bartzabel that is under thy
dominion to manifest within this triangle of Art, within the Ruach of the
material basis that is consecrated to this work, within this pure and beautiful
human form that is prepared for his habitation.
   And now I see thee, O thou dull deceitful head, that I shall fill with wit
and truth; thou proud heart that I shall humble and make pure; thou cold body
that I shall fashion into a living flame of amethyst. Thou sexless being of whom
I shall make the perfect child of Hermes and Aphrodite that is God; thou dull ox
that I shall turn into the Bull of Earth; thou house of idleness wherein I shall
set up the Throne of Justice.
   Bartzabel! Bartzabel! Bartzabel!
   Bartzabel! Bartzabel! Bartzabel!
   Come forth, and manifest beyond the bars!
   Forth from the palace of seraphic stars!
   Come, O thou Bartzabel, the sprite of Mars!
   Come: I unbind thee from the chains of Hell,
   Come: I enclose thee in the invisible
   To be my slave, thou spirit Bartzabel!
   By the spear, the sword, the spell,
   Come unto me, Bartzabel!
   By the word that openeth Hell!
   Come unto me, Bartzabel!
   By the power o'th'panther's pell,
   Come unto me, Bartzabel!
   By the circling citadel,
   Come unto me, Bartzabel!
   By this mind of miracle
   Come unto me, Bartzabel!
   By Ra Hoor Khuit, by Elohim Gibor,
   By Kamael and the Seraphim; by Hoor,
   Khem, and Mentu, and all the Gods of War,
   Ares and Mars and Hachiman and Thor,
   And by thy master, Graphiel,
   Come unto me, Bartzabel!
   And if he come not, let the Chief Magus and his assistants humble themselves
mightily, and repeat these holy invocations, even unto thrice.