The Essential Golden Dawn: An Introduction to High Magic [Illustrated] 0738703109, 9780738703107

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CHAPTER

FIVE

Adoration of Ammon Ra Harmachis: "Hail to Thee the Holy One Who hast formed thyself, Vast in Thy Measure, Illimitable, Divine Chief rejoicing in the power of creating himself. Vast and Flaming Serpents of Wisdom, Strength Supreme and Mysterious Form. Invisible Spirit. Author of His Unconquerable Power, King of the Higher and the Lower Land, Ammon Ra. Perfect and forceful Light. Created from Himself! Twofold Horizon. Hawk of the East. Brilliant Illuminating. Blazing forth. Intelligence more intellectual than the Gods. Thou art hidden in the great Ammon. In thy transformation thou revolvest in the solar disk. God, Totnen, Vaster than the Gods.

Thou wast old and art born again. Wanderer of the Centuries. Ammon eternal in all things. Thou, the God whose thought begat the World."

Hermetic Invocation The following invocation is adapted from a prayer entitled "The Secret Song: The Holy Speech" from The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus. "Let all the Nature of the world entertain the hearing of this Hymn. Be opened, O Earth, and let all the Treasure of the Rain be opened. You Trees tremble not, for I will sing, and praise the Lord of the Creation,

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A combination of the gods Ammon, Ra, and Harmachis, "Horns of the horûon."

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