The Magician's Dictionary by Edward E. Rehmus.pdf

THE MAGICIAN'S DICTIONARY

An Apocalyptic Cyclopaedia of Advanced M/magic(k)al Arts and Alternate Meanings

Second Edition 1996

die jovis, xxxi oct. mcmlxxxxvi, minvs iii: era apocalypt.

LUNAR YEAR OF THE FIRE MOUSE 4694

11 chicchan 8 zac 12.19.3.11.5

3468 Timescape Countdown

Julian Day 2,450,230

Heshvan 17, 5757

2749 Rom.A.U.C.

AN XCII AC

Reed 3

89073 CE

by E. E. REHMUS

(Pseud. "Romulus")

INTRODUCTION

Everywhere we can see now how the trappings of M/magic(k) are strewn around with

such mindless and perfunctory abandon that it's obvious to everyone that the mo

rning of barbarism is well advanced. Moreover, the socalled "New Age" (which is

anything but) has produced already so much over merchandised junk and shadow w

ithout substance, that it's clear no mere grain of salt, appearing alongside tha

t sea of sugar, can expect much attention.

In only the most ordinary sense are we "already" magicians. It's true that only

deliberate action which produces a visible ripple over the surface of reality is

a magical act. Nature itself endlessly engages in creatively magical acts every

moment. But what we are painfully learning for the first time is that magic com

es out of our connectedness to the world and is in no way whatsoever the wieldin

g of some mystical power over things from "outside" them. Thus, neither ordinary

religion , with its parched, subnatural separation from physical, supposedly "u

nclean" bodies, nor science with its tedious and incessant denial of all "taint"

of self, can be called magic.

Continuing in the spirit of that Renaissantial pizzazz which began in the 1960's

to raise Hermetic studies from their immemorial grave, we are now entering a mu

ch more psychically advanced era. . . ready, as greater and greater numbers of s

eekers are putting it, for "specific" instruction, even though postmodern minds

scarcely understand the words.

Where the wise of the past and present fail to provide, I've interpolated my own

quirky insights. Avoiding as much as I can the words and concepts which are abu

ndantly defined elsewhere. I've made it a practice to concentrate on the more es

oteric arcana and most misunderstood philosophical or related terms. On the othe

r hand, there are a good many magical buzz words that everyone takes for granted

as selfevident, when the truth is, hardly anyone really understands them at al

l, so I've included some of those as well.

Despite our infatuation with contemporaneity, magic must be tied to tradition

for, once stripped of tradition, it immediately and bleakly sheds all meaning an

d quickly degenerates into "black" magic, or the search for private power. In al

l magic, the figures summoned, *daimones* (good and bad), are summonings from th

e self, but that is not to say that they don't have their own steam and directio

The goal of the magician, or one might also say the alchemist, is psychic transc

endence and not just the manipulation of the material world for the puffing up o

f the ego or for changing the outward face of things. The magician's aim is to r

ecognize that we are in now way separate from the universe and need to reaffirm

our direct and total connection to it. Therefore, we are able to cease acting ho

rizontally in the hopeless trap of cause and effect and can begin acting vertica

lly to link the celestial to the terrestrial, avoiding, if possible, the much ea

sier connection of the infernal to the terrestrial.

Many of us have, with monumental smugness, shoved magic into one corner, metaphy

sics into another and religion into a third. Magic in particular, we've all secr

etly fantasized, is a search for "powers". We tend to imagine that it's just the

childlike, fairytale belief in the ability to work miracles as though ordina

ry reality isn't miracle enough. Or, even worse, we act as though magic were jus

t another toy a superbot, an FTL spacecraft, a cybernetic data cruncher, a rev

olutionary dimensionsplitter, a metamatter transmogrifier that we confidentl

y expect some great cosmic Santa Claus to deliver, once we've achieved, say, cel

ibate purity or some pinnacle of selfhypnosis. This is all rather like a dog co

mplacently assuming that you will give him the whole turkey if he merely sits on

his hind legs and limps his forepaws.

True, we've been admonished time and again that the genuine traveler shouldn't b

e distracted by mere conjurings. The yogi must not succumb to the call l to deve

lop siddhis. And even Christ refused to be daunted by Satan's insistence that st

ones are not easily turned into bread. In fact, we have been warned that we woul

d do better to avoid conjuring altogether. But of course warnings serve only to

sharpen all the more the appetites of callow youth. Let's grab the power first,

they say, and worry afterwards about whether we have acted wisely or not. Such i

s the nature of Time that eventually it delivers all things. Such is the nature

of man that he can't wait.

Yes, there are the two famous opposing systems: "black" magic versus "white" mag

ic. And yes, there is a gulf between them. For the most part, however, these lab

els derive from our ordinary religious background, which serves merely as a conv

enient hook to fetch up the metaphysically unsophisticated. The genuine magician

is undaunted by labels. Black and white are no more than reflections of one ano

ther.

Magic's inner meaning is more valuable than its outer glamour. If you suddenly f

ound a priceless diamond in the gutter that would be a perfect example of how th

e ordinary world is the source of the transcendental. Unfortunately, for those w

ho are not initiates, such lessons go unheeded. "Ordinary" reality continues to

bore hoi polloi to death.

Madame Blavatsky, G.I. Gurdjieff, Aleister Crowley and the like were wise enough

to ignore the multitudes and to write directly to their small circles of friend

s who sought truth and did not beg to be flattered. I find little reason to stra

y from that course. In any case, there are but ten remaining years for the world

(as of 1989, when this was written) and it would not be seemly to waste them tr

ying to interface with hostile technocrats, "impious xtians", primetime consume

r units or any of the rest of the millennial ragtag rabble.

WARNING:

It cannot be said often enough, M/magic(k) does not tolerate belief. Therefore,

we must neither cater to popular superstition nor seek to avoid offending it. No

r shall I apologize for exercising prejudice. Although all are potentially suspe

ct, despite a widespread misconception, not all religions are equally virulent.

And why should we be tolerant of intolerance? Christians refer to all nonChrist

ians with the prejudicial labels of "heathen" and "damned". Muslims betray their

intolerance by referring nonMuslims as "infidels". Comitas adfabilitasque cont

ra barbaros? But my objection to Christianity is more subtle and harder to expla

in than the usual reasons people give. I object on the grounds that Christianity

per se has a habit of pretending to "live and let live" while insinuating itsel

f into other practices and beliefs, like a tumor, growing until it gradually tak

es over entirely. It then rejects the shell, the original teaching as having bee

n but a poor and shameless imitation of Christianity (as, it insists, all altern

atives are) henceforth to be replaced by the orthodox Church.

In any case, the proselytizing religions of Yeshu's Galileanism and Mahomet's Al

lahism exercise vast control over the minds of hopeless billions and do more irr

eparable harm to the human spirit than any force on this planet, including nucle

ar fission.

(June 24, 1989)

AARON

Brother of Moses and the "Adept of the Adepts". The first high priest and magici

an (through Jehovah's power). Introducer of the "golden calf." HPB explains Aaro

n's rod, which turned the water to blood, as a magnetic pole acting upon red lic

hen in fusoria.

A'ANO'NIN

Guardian of the 26th tunnel of the Tree of Death, in Grant's teaching. "The Lord

of the Gates of Matter". Corresponds, in the Tarot, to The Devil's atu. Its mag

ic, indicated by the letter Ayin, is the "evil eye" or Eye of Set ("The Diamond

in the Night"). Its disease is priapism.

Egyptian "heart". The source of life amongst the Nilots. Considered the center o

f the conscious mind. It as essential that the Ab survive death through physical

embalming, because even if the physical heart was "dead" the spirit still had t

o derive its post mortem existence from it. Metaphysically, the heart is the cen

ter of the innermost self, which is simultaneously the innermost center of the u

niverse, not to mention Ra, the Sun, as being the objective counterpart.

ABBREVIATIONS

Occult literature, particularly contemporary magic literature, teems with abbrev

iations and initials, which the general reader may or may not always readily ide

ntify. Examples:

AAA

1) AntiAuthoritarian Anonymous

2) A A A, as in Djahuty A A A or "Thoth Great, Great,

Great", equivalent of Hermes Trismegistus.

AAB

Albigensian AntiProcreation

Alice Bailey

Aleister Crowley

ADE

AfterDeath Experience

Astral Plane

BCE

Before Common Era

BEM

BugEyed Monster

BHM

Big Hairy Monster

BVM

Blessed Virgin Mary

DOR

Deadly Oranur Radiation

Era Apocalyptica

EBE

ExtraTerrestrial Biological Entity

ELF

Extremely Low Frequency

EOW

End of the World

FTL

Faster than Light

FTT

Faster than Thought

GOO

Great Old Ones

HGA

Holy Guardian Angel

HPB

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

HPL

Howard Philips Lovecraft

IFO

Identified Flying Object

Jumping Jesus

Kenneth Grant

LLLL

Life, Liberty, Light, Love

LOT

Lamp of Thoth

LRH

L. Ron Hubbard

MAM

Malicious Animal Magnetism

MIB

Men in Black

NARBO

National Association for the Reduction of Boring

Occultists

NPG

Negative Population Growth

Operating Thetan

Psychokinesis

PKD

Philip K. Dick

RAW

Robert Anton Wilson

RPN

RingPassNot

SLB

Superluminal Being

UEI

Universal Eschatonic Implosion (End of the World)

Teleportation

XID

Christian Intelligence Detection

ZAG

Zero Automobile Growth

ZPG

Zero Population Growth

ABDUL ALHAZRED

"Slave of the Presence". The "Mad Arab" of Damascus, poet and supposed author of

Al Azif (730 A.D.), which Lovecraft translates as the Bedouin word for the soun

d of nocturnal insects or the howling of demons. All of this is fairly fanciful

Arabic. Al Azif is better known as The Necronomicon and is about the "Forgotten

Ones".

ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION

The mysterious indicator of the Apocalypse as mentioned in the Book of Daniel an

d Mark 13. It was mistakenly believed by the writers of the New Testament to be

a future event that would be selfexplanatory once seen. The truth is it had act

ually already taken place in Daniel's own time, for it referred to a pagan altar

erected in Jerusalem, 168 B.C.E. by King Antiochus Epiphanes. Or at least so st

ates G.A. Wells in his "Historical Evidence for Jesus". (The title is a misnomer

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