The Cry Of The 23Rd Aethyr : The Cry of the 23rd Aethyr, Which is Called TOR1. In the brightness of the stone are three lights, brighter than all, which revolve ceaselessly2. And now there is a spider's web of silver3 covering the whole of the stone. Behind the spider's web is a star of twelve rays4; and behind that ag...
The Cry Of The 1St Aethyr : The Cry of the 1st Aethyr, Which is Called LIL1 First, let praise and worship and honour and glory and great thank be given unto the Holy One, who hath permitted us to come thus far, who hath revealed unto us the ineffable mysteries, that they might be disclosed before men. And we humbly beseech...
The Cry Of The Thirtieth Or Inmost Aire Or Aethyr : The Cry of the 30th Aethyr Which is Called TEX1 I AM in a vast crystal cube in the form of the Great God Harpocrates. This cube is surrounded by a sphere2. About me are four archangels in black robes, their wings and armour lined out in white. In the North3 is a book on whose back and front are A.M...
The Cry Of The 28Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 28th Aethyr, Which is Called BAG1 There cometh an Angel into the stone with opalescent2 shining garments like a wheel3 of fire on every side of him, and in his hand is a long flail of scarlet lightning4; his face is black5, and his eyes white without any pupil or iris6. The face is...
The Cry Of The 2Nd Aethyr : The Cry of the 2nd Aethyr, Which is Called ARN1 In the first place, there is again the woman riding on the bull, which is the reflection of BABALON, that rideth on The Beast. And also there is an Assyrian legend of a woman with a fish, and also there is a legend of Eve and the Serpent, for C...
The Cry Of The 27Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 27th Aethyr, Which is Called ZAA1 There is an angel with rainbow wings, and his dress is green2 with silver, a green veil over silver3 armour. Flames of many- coloured fire dart from him in all directions. It is a woman of some thirty years old, and she has the moon for a crest...
The Cry Of The 29Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 29th Aethyr, Which is Called RII1 The sky appears covered with stars of gold; the background is of green. But the impression is also of darkness. An immense eagle-angel is before me. His wings seem to hide all the Heaven2. He cried aloud saying: The Voice of the Lord upon the Waters:...
The Cry Of The 20Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 20th Aethyr, Which is Called KHR1 The dew that was upon the face of the stone is gone, and it is become like a pool of clear golden water. And now the light is come into the Rosy Cross. Yet all that I see is the night, with the stars therein, as they appear through a telescope2...
The Cry Of The 24Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 24th Aethyr, Which is Called NIA1 An angel comes forward into the stone like a warrior clad in chain- armour. Upon his head are plumes of gray2, spread out like the fan of a peacock3. About his feet a great army of scorpions and dogs, lions, elephants, and many other wild beasts. He...
The Cry Of The 26Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 26th Aethyr, Which is Called DES1 There is a very bright pentagram: and now the stone is gone, and the whole heaven is black, and the blackness is the blackness of a mighty angel2. And though he is black (his face and his wings and his robe and his armour are all black), yet is he so...
The Cry Of The 13Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 13th Aethyr, Which is Called ZIM1 Into the Stone there cometh an image of shining waters, glistening in the sun. Unfathomable is their beauty, for they are limpid, and the floor is of gold. Yet the sense ther is of fruitlessness. And an Angel cometh forth, of pure pale gold, walking...
Introduction : I N T R O D U C T I O N "The Vision and the Voice" of the Angels of the thirty Aethyrs, reprinted from the "Equinox," Volume 1, Supplement to No. 5, but here represented for the first time with an elaborate commentary by the MASTER THERION, is unique in that it attempts to describe in a perfectly...
The Cry Of The 9Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 9th Aethyr, Which is Called ZIP1 (The terrible Curse that is the Call of the Thirty Aethyrs sounds like a song of ecstasy and triumph; every phrase in it has a secret meaning of blessing.) The Shew-stone is of soft lucent white, on which the Rose-Cross shows a brilliant yet...
The Cry Of The 11Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 11th Aethyr, Which is Called IKH1 There appears in the stone immediately the Kamea2 of the Moon. And it is rolled up; and behind it there appeareth a great Host of Angels. Their backs are turned towards me, but I can see how tremendous are their arms, which are swords and spears...
The Cry Of The 18Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 18th Aethyr, Which is Called ZEN1 A Voice comes before any vision: Accursed are they who enter herein if they have nails, for they shall be pierced therewith; or if they have thorns, for they shall be crowned withal; or if they have whips, for with whips they shall be scourged:...
The Cry Of The 17Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 17th Aethyr, Which is Called TAN1 Into the stone there first cometh the head of a dragon, and then the Angel Madimi2. She is not the mere elemental that one would suppose from the account of Casaubon. I enquire why her form is different. She says: Since all things are God, in all...
The Cry Of The 6Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 6th Aethyr, Which is Called MAZ1 There cometh into the stone the great Angel whose name is Av2, and in him there are symbols which strive for mastery, Sulphur and the Pentagram, and they are harmonized by the Swastika3. These symbols are found both in the name of Av4 and in the name...
The Cry Of The 15Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 15th Aethyr, Which is Called OXO1 There appears immediately in the Aethyr a tremendous column of scarlet fire, whirling forth, rebounding, crying aloud. And about it are four columns of green and blue and gold and silver, each inscribed with writings in the character of the dagger...
The Cry Of The 4Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 4th Aethyr, Which is Called PAZ1 The Stone is translucent and luminous, and no images enter therein. A voice says: Behold the brilliance of the Lord, whose feet are set upon him that pardoneth transgression. Behold the six-fold Star that flameth in the Vault, the seal...
The Cry Of The 12Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 12th Aethyr, Which is Called LOE1 There appear in the stone two pillars of flame, and in the midst is a chariot of white fire. This seems to be the chariot of the Seventh Key of Tarot. But it is drawn by four sphinxes, diverse, like the four sphinxes upon the door of the vault...
The Cry Of The 8Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 8th Aethyr, Which is Called ZID1 There appears in the stone a tiny spark of light. It grows a little, and seems almost to go out, and grows again, and it is blown about the Aethyr, and by the wind that blows it is it fanned, and now it gathers strength, and darts like a snake...
The Cry Of The 19Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 19th Aethyr, Which is Called POP1 At first there is a black web over the face of the stone. A ray of light pierces it from behind and above. Then cometh a black cross2, reaching across the whole stone; then a golden cross, not so large. And there is a writing in an arch that spans...
The Cry Of The 16Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 16th Aethyr, Which is Called LEA1 There are faint and flickering images in a misty landscape, all very transient. But the general impression is of moonrise at midnight, and a crowned virgin riding upon a bull2. And they come up into the surface of the stone. And she is singing...
The Cry Of The 22Nd Aethyr : The Cry of the 22nd Aethyr, Which is Called LIN1 There comes first into the stone the mysterious table of forty-nine squares2. It is surrounded by an innumerable company of angels; these angels are of all kinds, some brilliant and flashing as gods, down to elemental creatures. The light comes...
The Cry Of The 7Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 7th Aethyr, Which is Called DEO1 The stone is divided, the left half dark, the right half light, and at the bottom ther is a certain blackness, of three divergent columns. And it seems as if the black and white halves are the halves of a door, and in the door is a little key-hole...
The Cry Of The 14Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 14th Aethyr, Which is Called UTI1 There come into the stone a white goat, a green dragon, and a tawny bull2. But they pass away immediately. There is a veil of such darkness before the Aethyr that it seems impossible to pierce it. But there is a voice saying: Behold, the Great One...
The Cry Of The 5Th Aethyr : The Cry of the 5th Aethyr, Which is Called LIT1 There is a shining pylon, above which is set the sigil of the eye, within the shining triangle. Light streams through the pylon from before the face of Isis-Hathor, for she weareth the lunar crown of cows' horns, with the disk in the centre; at her...
The Cry Of He 25Th Aethyr : The Cry of he 25th Aethyr, Which is Called VTI1 There is nothing in the stone but the pale gold of the Rosy Cross. Now there comes an Angel with bright wings, that is the Angel of the 25th Aire. And all the aire is a dark olive about him, like an alexandrite 2 stone. He bears a pitcher3 or amphora4...
The Tenth Aethyr : In nomine BABALON Amen. Restriction unto Choronzon1. THE TENTH AETHYR2 IS CALLED ZAX3. This Aethyr being accurs
The Cry Of The 21St Aethyr : The Cry of the 21st Aethyr, Which is Called ASP1 A mighty wind rolls through all the Aethyr; there is a sense of absolute emptiness; no colour, no form, no substance. Only now and then there seem as it were, the shadows of great angels, swept along. No sound; there is something very remorseless...
The Cry Of The 3Rd Aethyr : THE CRY OF THE 3RD AETHYR1, Which is Called ZON2 There is an angry light in the stone; now it is become clear. In the centre is that minute point of light which is the true Sun, and in the circumference is the Emerald Snake. And joining them are the rays which are the plumes of Maat, and because...