I see behind the duality blind
And for this sight I rise in kind
To King's own Jester -- Fool Sublime
Immortal Idiot, Godly Mime.
"... to recall that indeed there was ONE
who attained by its use
to the Knowledge and Conversation
of His Holy Guardian Angel,
the which forsook him no more,
but made Him a Magus,
the Word of the Æon of Horus! ...
The Hermit to himself,
the Fool to foes,
the Hierophant to friends,
Nine by nature,
Naught by attainment,
Five by function.
In speech, swift, subtle and secret,
In thought creative, unbiased, unbounded;
In act gently, patient and persistent.
Hermes to hear,
Dionysus to touch,
Pan to behold.
A Virgin, a Babe, a Beast!
A Liar, an Idiot, and a Master of Men!
A kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow;
he that hath ears to hear, let him hear! ...
And let him then end all, saying, Such are the Words! For by this he maketh proclamation before all them that be about this Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose ......
For the true formula whose virtues sufficed
the Beast in this Attainment, was thus:
INVOKE OFTEN