P-6/1


   The Esoteric Record [of the Third Working]

   Die Saturni: 1:58 a.m. Hermes as Force

   LL He is essentially phallic, but He has a book in His hand, the book II
which has 106 pp. On the last page, as a colophon, is a four-pointed star, very
luminous, and this is to be identified with the Eve of Shiva, and the book
pertains to the grade of 7         4. The sub-title of the book is BIA, which is
said to mean `force'.
   Every drop of semen which Hermes sheds is a world. The technical term for
this semen is KRATOS. Those worlds are held in chains, but invisibly. People
upon the worlds are like maggots upon an apple -- all forms of life bred by the
worlds are in the nature of parasites. Pure worlds are flaming globes, each a
conscious being. Number of worlds ejected, 7,482,135         . The name of this
Phallus is Thoth, Hermes or Ma. Ma is the God who seduced the Phallus away from
the Yoni; hence the physical Universe. All worlds are excreta; they represent
wasted semen. Therefore all is blasphemy. This explains why man made God in his
own image. The feminine side of Ma is Pan, which explains why Pan is a devil.
The only way to be really born is by annihilation -- to be born into Chaos,
where Pan is the Saviour. I may say no more because the process is secret.
   With regard to Genesis; when Adam died, Heva became masculine, in order to
escape the temptations of the serpent; but she failed. Her failure cut the
serpent in two; hence the Caduceus: because if there were only one serpent,
Hermes could not be the messenger of the Gods. It is the quality of this serpent
business that gives Him power to travel. This again is blasphemy; but lawful,
because the law of the Jews is founded upon it. It is the fixed Mercury, of
which the physical form of the God is made. This fixed Mercury is the result of
the mind. Semen itself is Mercury, the river of life flowing throughout the
generations. That is fluid Mercury. What is (from the point of view of life--)
waste, is knowledge. Hence the opposition between knowledge and life. One is
homo-and the other hetero-sexuality. Those are reconciled in Mercury, who is
wisdom.
   OO I am making a silent prayer to the God, and thanksgiving.
   You can get magic force from either women or men; but to use the former is
more dangerous to the career of the magician, and there is the danger of
impregnation, which, however, can be guarded against in the obvious way.
   In order to get this God more perfectly, a cock should be slain in His
honour, and the blood drunk, as a sacrament. The throat of the cock should be
cut over the great Image that is upon the Altar; the Image should be placed in a
vessel so as to catch the blood. He should be invoked on 8 consecutive nights,
beginning with Wednesday.
   He says we should feed in greater abundance: He will protect us. There is a
gate to knock down between us and mastery of the Universe; and Frater L.T. has a
fault, which is introspection. The point is that he is a man of thought, rather
than of action. O.S.V. has also faults; his chief fault is contradiction.
Whenever he gets into a state of hopelessness he may renew his strength by this
Rite; and this will be good for always.
   The nature of this God is to bo blindly ahead. The semen that He sheds is
Kether, and not His own. He is only responsiblefor ejecting it, and He cares
nothing what may come of it. He despises intensely all these correspondences,
identifications, and the like. He despises intelligence; for He is the supreme
wisdom; so fully in accord with destiny, that interpretation is beneath Him. If
we need pure magical force, He is to be invoked. He says that tomorrow night we
are to ask questions by Geomancy, without doing any Rite. We are to invoke
Juppiter on Monday. Had it not been that we first invoked Him, we could not
invoke Juppiter successfully. We shall probaby have to invoke Juppiter for 4
nights running, reaching a climax on Thursday. We shall get not so much
information as aid from Juppiter. It is very important to have Banquets.




   P-6/2


   LL Will He help to this end?
   OO He doesn't know and doesn't care. He says ``Don't be such an ass to think
how you are going to do a thing: just do it''. The man in the parable who
counted the cost had the slave-spirit. He also says that in the Rites of Luna
and Venus, O.S.V. should have a woman; in that of Luna a menstruating woman. He
refuses to tell me when I am to have this woman; He says it is a question of
common sense. He says do it; don't ask me about it.
   I am now lost in contemplation of Him, in His great aspect of vehicle of the
energy of the highest. He is that which fertilizes the luminiferous ether, the
strain in it that produces what is called matter. He is the creative energy of
the artist, in particular, and one should invoke Him unless one wants the
'drawing-room songs of Apollo'. I see it all now; the virile force of Mars is
far beneath Him. All of the other Gods are merely aspects of Juppiter formulated
by Hermes. He is the first of the Aeons. He wants us not to invoke the other
forms of Mercury. He says that we have more knowledge than we know what to do
with. Julius Caesar did not know the Qabalah, but he did better than the pair of
you in the matter of husbands and wives. He, moreover, subdued Gaul and Germany,
and would not have been killed if he had not gone to a talking shop.
   I am praying Him to fill us with magick force for this invocation of
Juppiter. He says it depends principally upon the Banquets. This is the great
preparation to make. And He says ``What fools to bother about the room, you
don't think I am in the room, do you?'' He wants us to overcome shame generally,
and says ``There is no shame about me, is there?'' He suggests an obvious method
which I blush to repeat. The sense of humour of this God is very strong. He is
not sentimental about His principal function; He regards the Universe as an
excellent practical joke; yet He recognizes that Juppiter is serious, and the
Universe is serious, although He laughs at them for being serious. His sole
business is to transmit the force from Juppiter, and He is concerned with
nothing else. The message is Life, but in Juppiter the life is latent; He says
that we can do everything if we will only act as He does. He again exhibts His
contempt for the art of conversation, by making a suggestion, with which, owing
to the lateness of the hour, we comply only in symbolic form.
   2:15 a.m.