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I am attempting to construct a Hellenistic evocation system using the DISC template and am currently stuck on the power names to be inscribed on the wand. The options include: the Six Names of the Headless One (AŌTH ABRAŌTH BASYM ISAK SABAŌTH IAŌ), the 9999 Sacred Names (AIĒ AIŌI ĒŌIAĒ AĒ IŌ ŌĒ AIĒOYEYŌAI EAI YO IAŌ IŌĒ OAY AEĒ YŌYŌ), or simply the concise IAO ZABAOTH ABRASAX. Or you have other better choice, please recommend to me, thank you
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I think this would be really cool if you could spiral it along the wand, like a snake wound around it, in a continuous "name". Whether these or any other ones are good or better than any others, I don't know.
wow，that's a great idea ! My original concept was to engrave planetary symbols on one side of the wand while inscribing primal power names on the reverse. Your perspective offers an intriguing approach—I may need to reconsider the symbolic arrangement. thank you
There have been all manners of speculation about who exactly the Headless One is (the HGA, the Egyptian god Bes, the Demiurge, etc.). One explanation I really like is that he's one (or any?) of the Egyptian gods who are often depicted as having an animal head, e.g. Anubis with a jackal or Thoth with an ibis. As you invoke the Headless One in the last part, you put your own head over an Egyptian god's body in place of its animal one and thus become a god yourself.
I've been doing the Headless Rite daily for over a year now so what I write comes from actual practice but it's still my UPG and may not match your experience. In the last months "Abrasax" has begun to surprise me by starting to stand out as an unmistakable name of power without my conscious volition, and I haven't been even interested in this Gnostic being in any way before. Despite myself, I've begun to intone his name in a loud, panting voice, tensing my muscles, clenching my fist. It just feels right, an it's weird.
In my opinion the meaning of barbarous names shouldn't be analysed to death. On a scholarly level, there have already been protests from Hebraists like Gideon Bohak against spurious claims by classicists involving putative Hebrew words in PGM voces magicae, so any such explanations should be taken with a grain of salt. However, it cannot be denied that the Headless One borrows from Judaism, with "I am Moses…" being the most blatant example. My own theory is that the barbarous names are effective because of the way they sound and not because what they mean. On the other hand, you can't help recognising words like "Isak" or "Sabaoth" if you come from a Christian or Jewish background so those words carry literal relevance for me.
In a nutshell, I vote for a simple "Abrasax"; adding "Iao Sabaoth" would spoil the effect for me.
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By the way, "The Book of Abrasax" by Michael Cecchetelli is available on annas-archive.org but I haven't got around reading it myself.
Honestly @HoldAll and @Yazata seems to have pretty good takes on this and a lot more , my approach would be more open-ended and you can write a petition paper with the name and explaining how you're going to use it, fold the paper and put it under your pillow. Might take longer but at least you will get a personalized answer for yourself with a sign from your dreams. You can of course speed it up by consecrating the petition paper with PGM IV.1596—1715 ( 12 faces of Helios spells/Consecration Rite for All Purposes).
I have two votes for nice "names" on the wand, one from PGM IV.1115—1166:
the one who gathered together the abyss at the invisible foundation of its position, PERŌ MUSĒL O PENTŌNAKS
I invoke Thee, the one on the gold leaf, before whom ever burns the undying lamp, the great God, the one who shone on the whole world, who is radiant at Jerusalem, Lord, IAŌ AIĒ IŌĒ ŌIĒ ŌIĒ IĒ AI ŌIĒ AI AI OUŌ AŌĒ ĒEI IEO ĒUŌ AĒI AŌ AŌA AEĒI UŌ EIĒ AĒO IEU AEĒ IAIA IAŌ EU AEU IAĒ EI AAA III ĒĒĒ IŌ IŌĒ IAŌ".
I have this theory that the purpose of the PGM vowel strings is to shift one's awareness into a state of trance, with each vowel affecting a different chakra or in line with a certain planet:
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For this reason I don't think they're suitable for a wand, they're more about one's subjective experience.
I have this theory that the purpose of the PGM vowel strings is to shift one's awareness into a state of trance, with each vowel affecting a different chakra or in line with a certain planet
I didn't think of that! I do feel some "tuning with them" but didn't expect that they would be unsuitable for something to be etched/engraved, make sense honestly. Like you wouldn't use a tuning fork for an emblem lol
I didn't think of that! I do feel some "tuning with them" but didn't expect that they would be unsuitable for something to be etched/engraved, make sense honestly. Like you wouldn't use a tuning fork for an emblem lol
