
                A Suggestive Inquiry:

                  Into The Royal Art!



                                  1

 From: The Magical Record of the Beast 666 (Rex de Arte Regia): 1916-1918

    p.45. Op. 65.  7 Nov. 1916.
        Assistant: Anna Grey
        Object: Help for Soror L.W.
        t {Tau} Details prohibited under Section XI.
        Result: immediate success.

    p.45. Op. 66. 9 Nov. 1916.
        Assistant: Anna Grey.
        Object: Glory to F {Phi}
        Operation: XI.

    p.45. Op. 67. 12 Nov. 1916.
        Assistant: Doris Gomez.
        Object : Wealth.
        Operation: XI in D {fire triangle -- with tiny 3
                                             inside}
        Operation and Elixir wonderful.
        Result: immediate receipt of largest sum I have handled in 12 months.

    p.46. Op. 73. 22 Nov. 1916.
        Object: wealth. Operation XI.
        Sudden and unadvised. Brief but magnificent. Elixir A1.

    p.46. Op. 74. 24 Nov. 1916.
        Object: Wealth.
        Operation XI cum cVc {Kaph Vau Kaph}. Marvellous,
                   good, Elixir A1

    p.47. Op. 78. 3 Dec. 1916
        Object: wealth.
        Operation XI aided by cVc {Kaph Vau Kaph}.
                   perfectly marvellous.

    p.51. Op. XI. Aug 11. 1917
        Assistant: Anita.
        Object: success to Simon Iff stories. XI, 33.
        Operation: superb.
        Elixir: strong & fine.

    p.51. Op. 13. 13 Aug. 1917
        Lionel Q....
        Object fully formulated.
        Operation: pD {Pe} Therion.
        Details prohibited under Baphomet XI, 33.

    p.53. Op. 22. 26 Aug. 1917
        Siddhi begins.








        Assistant: Anna Katherine Miller, the Dog.
        Object: the siddhi.
        Operation admirable but Elixir not good.
        I am quite inclined to believe that the XI is better than the
         IX.
        Mental concentration not very good.

    p.66 Op. 45. 4 Jan. 1918.
        Assistant: As III and Walter
        Object: in affirmation of the most holy trinity to whom be praise and
                 glory and thanksgiving unto the Ages,
                 World without End, Amoun.
        Operation: III and Walter prepared an Elixir of astonishing
                 strength and sweetness.
                 Then W. made B. XI then III.
         Result: [Not given.]

    p.66. Op. 49. 12 Jan. 1918.
        Assistant: Anna and Walter.
        Object: Sex force and attraction.
        Operation: XI tD {Tau} Walter in D
                    {fire triangle} with III. Admirable.
        Elixir as usual in these operations but I had also 9
                   {moon & water triangle) to mingle with 6
                   {sun} Agni

 [N.B.:] p. 49. Op.2. 17 April 1917.
       Howard p {Pe}. Details prohibited under Baphomet 33
        No object: taken by surprise.


                                  2

 From: Liber LII, The Manifesto of the O.T.O. Blue Equinox, 1919, p. 196

 O.T.O.
 Issued by Order:
 Baphomet XI O.T.O
 HIBERNIAE IONAE ET
 OMNIUM BRITANNIARUM
 REX SUMMUS SANCTISSIMUS

 (reprinted in Equinox III(10), p. 153)





                                  3

 From: Blue Equinox, 1919. Plate facing p. 197

 Baphomet XI OTO
 Supreme and Holy King of Ireland, Iaona and all the Britains That are in the
 Sanctuary of the Gnosis

 Grand Master of the Knights of the Holy Ghost
 Grand Master of the Knights of the Temple








 Custos of the Illuminati in the United States of America
 Etc. Etc. Etc.

 (reprinted in Equinox III(10), p. 206)





                                  4

 From: Liber CI, An Open Letter: 1919

 O.T.O.
 Issued by Order:
 Baphomet XI O.T.O
 HIBERNIAE IONAE ET
 OMNIUM BRITANNIARUM
 REX SUMMUS SANCTISSIMUS

 (reprinted in Equinox III(10), p. 161)





                                  5

 From: Blue Equinox, p. 226; Liber CLXI, Concerning the Law of Thelema: 1919


 O.T.O.
 Issued by Order:
 Baphomet XI O.T.O
 HIBERNIAE IONAE ET
 OMNIUM BRITANNIARUM
 REX SUMMUS SANCTISSIMUS

 (reprinted in Equinox III(10), p. 145)





                                  6

 From: Blue Equinox, p. 240; Liber CXCIV, An Intimation with Reference to the
 Constitution of the Order: 1919


 O.T.O.
 Issued by Order:
 Baphomet XI O.T.O
 HIBERNIAE IONAE ET
 OMNIUM BRITANNIARUM
 REX SUMMUS SANCTISSIMUS

 (reprinted in Equinox III(10), p. 173)














                                  7

 From: Blue Equinox, pp.244-245; Book 194, An Intimation with Reference to the
 Constitution of the Order: 1919

        28. Of the Eleventh degree, its powers, privileges, and
 qualifications, nothing whatever is said in any grade. It has no relation to
 the general plan of the order, is inscrutable, and dwells is its own Palaces.

 (reprinted in Equinox III(10), p. 177.)




                                  8

 From: Blue Equinox, pp.248; Book 15, Ecclesia Gnosticae Catholicae Canon
 Missae: 1919

 O.T.O.
 Issued by Order:
 Baphomet XI O.T.O
 HIBERNIAE IONAE ET
 OMNIUM BRITANNIARUM
 REX SUMMUS SANCTISSIMUS

 (Ritual reprinted in Equinox III(10), pp. 123ff, without Issued by Order
 page.)


                                  9

  From: The Book of the Cephaloedium Working: 1920
 {Die 6, An. XVI, 6 in 6s, 9 in 16C}    (Published in Mezla 5 & 6);

    Now on the day of the Sun, in this the Sixteenth Year of the Aeon, when He
 stood in the 6th Degree of the Sign Sagitarius, whose letter hath the value
 of Sixty, the Moon being in the 16th Degree of the Sign Cancer whose letter
 hath the value 8, did the Beast 666 To Mega Therion a Magus of the A:.A:.
 Baphomet 729 the Supreme Holy King of Ireland, Iona & all the Britains that
 are in the Sanctuary of the Gnosis X O.T.O. avatar of Bacchus Diphues in the
 Place of the XI O.T.O. Logos of the Aeon of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Grand Master of
 the Knights of the Temple, Eidolon of the Rosy Cross, Alastor The Destroyer
 Spirit of Solitude, Wanderer of the Waste, of the Blood of Kerval Arch-Druids
 Hereditary of the Oak, whose Holy Angel his Guardian id Aiwass 93, the God
 first dawning upon Man in the land of Sumer, whose brow weareth the wreath
 unfading of the Bards of English Speech, whose breast beareth the token
 adventure upon Mountains beyond any beyond any Man ofhis fellows, whose body
 and blood bear witness of the wounds of Astarte, & the shames of Priapus,
 even I in the Abbey of Thelema at Cephaloedium that am hidden, did convene
 therein to counsel Alostrael, 31-666-31, the Scarlet Woman Lea my concubine,
 in whom is all power given, sworn unto Aiwaz, prostituted in every part of








 her body to Pan & to the Beast, mother of Bastards, aborter, whore to
 herself, to man, woman, child & brute, partaker of the Eucharist of
 Excrements in the Mass of the Devil, Sorceress of the Rite of Esau & Jacob, &
 also Genesthai, 143, a Neophyte of A:.A:. a Master Magician of O.T.O. & a
 Passed Postulant to the Secret Chamber of the Knights of the Temple, High
 Priest unto the Beast before the Altar of Purple & Gold.


                          10

   From: Liber CXIII, Part One: The Fountain of Hyacinth

    20 Feb. 1922
    9:00AM Woke very succinctly, my chest still raw and distressed, but a
 voice in my ears, clear as ever came to me in my life and apropos of nothing:
 NOTJZJB

 Now the Yi had indicated this before and I had found excuses to dodge it. I
 don't like the idea even now since fully awake. But I have cleared up the
 Fontainbleau formula about Poupe(ace)e, I think, with Mark Twain's story "The
 Fine Loom of Life" (?) and NOTJZJP means (twitching my mantle blue?) "Weep no
 more, gentle shepherd, weep no more." offers the best possible conditions for
 the rest of my cure, including the IX -- XI remedy and is in all ways
 rationally indicated. With my habitual prudence, ask Thelema for an oracle. I
 bet VIII I.53. The applicability of the passage may or may not be discernible
 by those who are not initiates of the VI of O.T.O. It may involve my death,
 as "an enchantment to unbind the bound."


                          11

   From: The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley: 1923

    p. 25;
       26 May, Die Saturn
     1:21 p.m. Worked till after midnight: a rather valuable piece of work,
 including one perfectly frightful glimpse of Reality -- a corner lifted of
 the veil for the first time in my life in that particular way. I have now no
 idea at all of what I saw, or indeed of quite what I mean by the entry: it is
 something of a nature altogether new to me. Hitherto I have always been able
 to make some sort of a shot at giving intelligible expressions to my
 experiences. Probably the word 'frightful' is equivalent to 'ignotus' but I
 remember asking myself at the time whether that comment might not be the
 optimism of Panic Fear. I have had several others, by the way, in the last
 fortnight that I can get whenever I choose to enter into an unexpected
 universe far deeper than anything yet shown by Samadhi: and I must confess to
 something very like the most godless FUNK whenever I approach the . . . turn.
 (I instantly pull myself together and swear to go on: but by that time the
 Veil is down again.) Stories like Kipling's At the End of the Passage -- yes,
 there are no doubt horrors which put Magdelen Blair in a class with Sophia
 Western -- every grade is encompassed with its own set, and each demands its
 own formula of initiation, to turn them into Beauty. I think tonight's work
 has shown me the task in hand: to complete the synthesis of myself as the
 Crowned and Conquering Child, born from the Abyss by Our Lady Babalon, but
 not yet come to puberty, the sense of the Ego as uniting the e various
 impressions of childhood. When I do this -- and not till then -- I shall be
 truly the Creative Energy that I have at present no more than all the
 symptoms of becoming.








    Later continued the above meditation during day. Yes: this is the full
 meaning of COAGULA in 'Solve et Coagula' as the formula of the great work of
 initiation.

        Kakgula = 525.   Solfe =311. 525 plus 311 = 836 = 2 * 418

 The task seems to me one of those that are theoretically impossible: that is,
 to accomplish consciously: one hardly sees how to set it about. Yet it should
 be similar to that of finding the True Will by Sammasati. It may be the
 assimilation of the Will by the unconscious. I think the XI to this end --
 combined with 'Youth' once more -- should help.

    p.26;
        27 May, Die Sol
     1:11 a.m. I spent this evening in Tunis -- very uneasy, probably owing to
 a thunderstorm brewing: when it broke, I became joyous as usual, and even
 began to look for a way to work the XI.

    p. 51;
         4 June, Die Mars
    11:44 p.m. I have been talking to Leah about my sexual life & comparing
 certain recent troubles with my refusal to climb the Alps after having been
 to Chogo Ri. It is an essential part of my character, & indeed the Master Key
 to my whole career, that I simply cannot do anything (however easy in
 appearance) which does not promise an achievement beyond anything I have ever
 attained before. Hence the tragedy of Hilarion broke my heart; Alostrael
 succeeded in mending it at last; & then the Gods smashed it by killing our
 babies. Their idea was doubtless to prevent me being distracted from my Work
 as Logos. The result in any case has been to disenchant me with sex
 altogether. I can't even take an interest in it on IX & XI grounds . . .
 Well, the upshot is with them.

    p. 66;
        16 June, Die Saturn
    5 p.m. One of my worst amartia has been (from my shyness, Gunh again!) to
 fail to act according to my Kingship. In future I shall issue orders without
 explanation:
    Alostrael will cause them to be executed. O.P.V. transmitting them will
 explain when necessary.
    I will be really unapproachable (in my kingly functions, of course) &
 exact due homage. I will regard myself as travelling incognito, so far as
 ordinary people are concerned, but be august as to those with whom I am in
 magical relations. Met Shabdomar on board -- 'love at first sight'. He is
 Energy incarnate; I shall use him to set various small matters going. My work
 [XI] with him will aim at the overcoming of those defects in myself &
 external obstacles which have prevented me from coming into my Kingdom as The
 Beast.

    p. 69;
        17 June, Die Sol
    11:22 p.m. Rosa [baphomet cross]
               Crux: Shabmodar
                    XI
                  OPUS I
            phegion tersonai [phegion tersonai -- Burning Spear]
               Baphomet, XI, O.H.O.
     WEAPONS: Calix Sancta /5foinix/6 [Phoenix] O.H.O. Hasta Sanctus Melas
 [Melas -- Black] Shab.








     OPUS: Dulce: amore plenum.
     Telos [Telos -- End]: Increase of moral control of my mind to enable me
 to resist pressure from bodily sources tending to interfere with my due &
 efficient performance of the Great Work. (Special reference to disease, need
 of stimulants, natural fatigue & loss of ability to sleep & wake at will.)
     ELIXIR: Delicate, sweet & aromatic.
     RESULT: (Thursday following) after the instantaneous reaction the current
 began to flow silently. I have had practically no craving, and am down to 2
 doses today. Dyspnoea etc. have disappeared almost completely; also the
 mental depression, anxiety & loss of control.

    p. 93;
        21 July, Die Saturn
    12:12 a.m. Hail to Kheph-Ra! I am now going to test CCXX, II, 22 -- its
 limits -- by using [Heroin] to concentrate on getting the IX or XI going.
 I.e., I ask for (a) the impulse; (b) the means. I do this under the Title of
 OPUSCULUM I, at 12:21 a.m. I am concentrated for about 3 minutes, going over
 certain imaginations, & killing out various inhibitions. I got below
 consciousness at last, so as to destroy `purpose' & `lust of result'. My hope
 (then) is that my Will, directed by the Idea of the Opusculum, was released &
 flowed spontaneously. I must make a point of giving the Gods an opportunity
 to accomplish the Work in a `natural' way.

     3:21 p.m. I note that I am perfectly content to watch the Italian Comedy
 of Pan, with Mussolini as the `goat'. His `ubris {Hubris}, his insane
 boastfulness, his arbitrary tyrannies, his secret slavishness -- the whole
 play is brilliantly staged, & I wouldn't hurry it or interfere (unless called
 upon) for the world. It is delightful to watch the daily developments. On
 Monday next he is billed to tell the world how he means to run the affairs of
 England & France -- he can lift Kithairon with his little finger!

    G.S. for my proposed Retirement: general idea, methods, aims, probable
 results. Question of seeing Bertrand at Hamman Lif: IX or XI, &c.

          [Water/Fire]
 
     Sui [Hexagram] XVII
     
 
     

    ``Following''

      (Projection of the Will 666.) Thwan: Persevere.
      1. Go `beyond gate' (Marsa) change `object of pursuit' (Exact
 description
         of whole plan!)
      2. Be irresponsible. `Cleave to the little boy!!!'
      3. Remember the object of my journey (?)
      4. Qy interest English at Hamman-Lif in G.W. (?)
      5.
      6. Perform Opus I.
 
    p. 95;
       23 July, Die Luna
     11:44 p.m. Let me consider my state at the beginning of Sui.

       1. My general health, nerves & all, is very much better.








       2. I have gone back to [heroin], but the worst of the fear is gone.
       3. I must be alone if I am to conceive or create. The presence of any
 other person in my circle--the dearer and more intimate the worse it is--acts
 as a total inhibition. For I am content to work with that person; also, I
 feel that he or she might disturb me if I begin a big thing, & simply to say
 `Keep away' would stop me through fear of failure to produce justification.
       4. Lines 2 & 3 of Sui seem to urge me to begin an XI working (The
 prologue to La Collier de la Reine suggests this too. It is quite time for me
 to use the Elixir readily & properly. Cagliostro is made to discuss the
 question very sensibly; also, his account squares with the doctrine of the
 O.T.O. & with my own experience). But these lines certainly bid me act like a
 school-boy on a holiday. I proposeto take an Oracle for the L.M.R. & to ask
 definite questions about XI & Hamman-Lif (lines 1, 4, & 5--the English at
 Hamman-Lif).
    ORACLE: LXV, V, 7 `proud' (The Comment on LXV has got just to this verse!)
 Meaning: I shall proclaim Hoor--in a poem, I imagine. I shall find a girl to
 love. The rest is somewhat obscure; the event should enlighten mine
 understanding.
    Shall I seek associate or associates for IX or XI or both? If so,
 describe such; & advise as to the method. Object & Result.

 
              Earth/Earth
              Kan [Hexagram] LII
 
     
     

    Thwan:? I cannot in any way interpret this symbol. I felt, while
 manipulating the sticks, that my concentration was bad: that my question was
 too complex, &c. I will rest, worship Hadit, ad hoc, & repeat. Differently!

    p. 98;
       24 July, Die Mars
     3:15 p.m.  My plans for L.M.R. Write O.P.V. to extend time. Try Arab
 quarter for preliminary `nourishment'. Resistance immense. Chess Club: Try to
 say something nice about Jews. No Jews present. Try Avenue: both IX & XI.
 Blank. Maison Doree: Blank.

    p. 102;
       27 July, Die Venus
     12:25 a.m. Notes on XI. The Magus is [IH] providing the Energy & and the
 Substance of the Pantacle.
     The Virgin is [HV] recieving & interpreting & also expressing it
 intellectually & impressing that idea upon the Coin.
     Aiwass is of course [Sh] harmonising all four, & inspiring the whole
 conception & execution.

 

                                  12

 From: Diary: 1924
    Thursday 6th {Nov. 1924}
 XI "Good Health and spirits for D.O.". -- Success


                                  13









 From: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: 1929
    p.704;
        The X as in the old system is merely honorary, but recent researches
 into the mysteries of the IX have compelled me to add an XI to illustrate a
 scientific idea which has been evolved by the results of recent experiments.

 (reprinted as "What is Freemasonry?" in Equinox III(10), p.205.


                                  14

 From: Magick in Theory & Practice: 1929 EV (Paris, Castle, and Dover)
            p.27. Footnote 1
        1The initiate of the XI of O.T.O. will remark that there is a totally
 different formula of ALIM, complementary with that here discussed. 81 may be
 regarded as a number of Yesod rather than of Luna. The actual meaning of the
 word may be taken as indicating the formula. Aleph may be refered to
 Harpocrates, with allusion to the well known poem of Catullus. Lamed may
 imply the exaltation of Saturn, and suggest the Three of Swords in a
 particular manner. Yod will then recall Hermes and Mem the Hanged Man. We
 have thus a Tetragrammaton which contains no feminine component. The initial
 Force is here the Holy Spirit and its vehicle or weapon the Sword and
 Balances. Justice is then done upon the Mercurial Virgin with the result that
 the man is hanged or extended and is slain in this manner. Such an operation
 makes creation impossible -- as in the former case; but here there is no
 question of rearrangement; the creative force is employed deliberately for
 destruction, and is entirely absorbed in its own sphere ( or cylinder, on
 Einstein's equations) of action. This work is to be regarded as holiness to
 the Lord. The Hebrews, in fact, conferred the title of Qadosh (holy) upon its
 adepts. Its effect is to consecrate the magicians who perform it in a very
 special way. We may take note also of the correspondence Nine with Teth, XI
 Leo and the Serpent. The great merits of this formula are that it avoids
 contact with the inferior planes, that it is self-sufficient, that it
 involves no responsibilities, and that it leaves its masters not only
 stronger in themselves, but wholly free to fulfill their essential natures.
 Its abuse is an abomination.


                                  15

 From: The Book of Thoth: 1944
    P.108 (ATU XVI)
    The dominating feature of this card is the Eye of Horus. This is also the
 Eye of Shiva, on the opening of which, according to the legend of this cult,
 the universe is destroyed.
    Besides this, there is a special technical magical meaning, which is
 explained openly only to initiates of the Eleventh Degree of the O.T.O.; a
 grade so secret that it is not even listed in the official documents. It is
 not even to be understood by study of the eye in Atu XV. Perhaps it is lawful
 to mention that the Arab sages and Persian poets have written, not always
 guardedly, on the subject.

 {Init on the Night of the Feast of the Rite by Sapfw, XI and The Fox.}



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