Is abraxis like some elder being?

[lumineth Realm Lord]

I mean, the vibe I get from him is like some lovecraftian creature, or Tzeentch from Warhammer.

 

[HoldAll]

If you mean

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, he's widely documented and usually referred to as a Gnostic deity, archon, etc.

I understand where you're coming from though. He's in the PGM's Headless Rite as "Abrasax", and whenever I say his name as part of the barbarous names in it, I get the feeling of tremendous merciless power - not that I'm conjuring that spirit, it's just in the way that name rolls off the tongue. I'd like to do some research on him (and finally read Michael Cecchetelli's "The Book of Abrasax") or create a standalone ritual for general empowerment one day... I won't use "Abraxas" though because it reminds me too much of the eponymous Santana album.

 

[Israel_Theli]

C.G. Jung elaborates the nature of Abraxas quite well in Liber Novus:

Immeasurable, like the host of stars, is the number of gods and devils. Every star is a god, and every space occupied by a star is a devil. And the emptiness of the whole is the Pleroma. The activity of the whole is Abraxas; only the unreal opposes him.

 

[bakp]

If you mean

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, he's widely documented and usually referred to as a Gnostic deity, archon, etc.

I understand where you're coming from though. He's in the PGM's Headless Rite as "Abrasax", and whenever I say his name as part of the barbarous names in it, I get the feeling of tremendous merciless power - not that I'm conjuring that spirit, it's just in the way that name rolls off the tongue. I'd like to do some research on him (and finally read Michael Cecchetelli's "The Book of Abrasax") or create a standalone ritual for general empowerment one day... I won't use "Abraxas" though because it reminds me too much of the eponymous Santana album.

How do you vibrate the names or make it efficacious?, certainly not anyone can just read 'names of powers' and feel what you feel. i would like your help to make my own invocation with names of power effective.

 

[Lemongrass00]

To me he represents the Union of opposites, or the totality of experience.

there is a great quote about abraxas from the book demian by Hesse

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.”

I think it ties in great to the Jungian idea of wholeness versus perfection. Where abraxas personifies the human phenomenon of coincidentia oppositorum.

 

[Amur]

Well Abrahadabra is a magickal formula. Perhaps it's linked to Abraxas. Another interesting think is Abraxas as a 7 lettered word, perhaps there's some Power in that.

Abra could be the 4 elements easily. If you think about it. Light and Frozen Light:

 

[HoldAll]

How do you vibrate the names or make it efficacious?, certainly not anyone can just read 'names of powers' and feel what you feel. i would like your help to make my own invocation with names of power effective.

As far as a know, "vibrate" is not to be taken literally so you aren't necessarily supposed to say the names in a vibrato voice like e.g. an opera singer would. For me it means that special vocal emphasis should be placed on them, so I kind of 'sing out' the names of the LBRP archangels while also varying the pitch of my voice according to their respective element, so I'd sing out 'Ra-pha-el' in a higher-pitched voice coming from my throat and "U-ri-el" deep from inside my belly, and yeah, it does sound rather eery and death metal. In the Bornless One (it's part of my daily practice) I focus more on the dramatic delivery of the intelligible words and let the barbarous names simply flow as they will but over time, the name 'Abrasax' began to stand out drastically, no idea why. Nowaddays I declaim it as if I was knocking on the gates of Mordor or something. I'm extremely paranoid about deceiving myself (see my signature line ), so I won't claim Abrasax was reaching out to me or that I actually conjured him.

My advice is to deliver any ritual text in a dramatic way, with full force and conviction so that you can't help being impressed yourself by your own performance, and in my opinion that's what 'vibrating' is about.

 

[bakp]

As far as a know, "vibrate" is not to be taken literally so you aren't necessarily supposed to say the names in a vibrato voice like e.g. an opera singer would. For me it means that special vocal emphasis should be placed on them, so I kind of 'sing out' the names of the LBRP archangels while also varying the pitch of my voice according to their respective element, so I'd sing out 'Ra-pha-el' in a higher-pitched voice coming from my throat and "U-ri-el" deep from inside my belly, and yeah, it does sound rather eery and death metal. In the Bornless One (it's part of my daily practice) I focus more on the dramatic delivery of the intelligible words and let the barbarous names simply flow as they will but over time, the name 'Abrasax' began to stand out drastically, no idea why. Nowaddays I declaim it as if I was knocking on the gates of Mordor or something. I'm extremely paranoid about deceiving myself (see my signature line ), so I won't claim Abrasax was reaching out to me or that I actually conjured him.

My advice is to deliver any ritual text in a dramatic way, with full force and conviction so that you can't help being impressed yourself by your own performance, and in my opinion that's what 'vibrating' is about.

do you use any form of visualization? or is the sound enough?

 

[HoldAll]

do you use any form of visualization? or is the sound enough?

No. There's nothing in the ancient PGM manuscripts concerning visualisation during the Headless One. I don't get any visuals either, just this strange feeling of power.

 

[bakp]

No. There's nothing in the ancient PGM manuscripts concerning visualisation during the Headless One. I don't get any visuals either, just this strange feeling of power.

which version do you use , there are variants, the pgm one? where can i find it?

 

[HoldAll]

which version do you use , there are variants, the pgm one? where can i find it?

The mega link to the Betz PGM translation in our Library is down but you can easily find it on annas-archive.org. For this ritual I specifically use the version in Jason Miller's "Real Sorcery".

 

[bakp]

The mega link to the Betz PGM translation in our Library is down but you can easily find it on annas-archive.org. For this ritual I specifically use the version in Jason Miller's "Real Sorcery".

Thank you.