E Rehmus - The Magician's Dictionary

love philtres. Sicknesses are venereal diseases and nymphomania.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------DAGON National god of the Phillistines; half fish/half man. Sometimes confused with DOGON. -----------------------------------------------------------------------DAWN IN THE WEST Translation of Aurora Favonio, part of a qabalistic seal. Prophetic of the atomic bomb vs. spiritual awakening.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------DEATH "Mental materiality". Life becomes more and more "mental" until death (even as death becomes more and more physical until birth).

-----------------------------------------------------------------------DEATH We should not dwell on the psychic envelopes that remain behind for those wraiths, ghosts, apparitions and so on who must make their way the best they can from the clues of their predecessors. Nor should we dally with the shells of the qlipoth attending the sephiroth. The normal soul for whom, from below, the gates appear as the gates of extinction and from above the gates of birth (or vice-versa) has no time for leisurely observation. Nor does the yogin, for whom death is merely a higher state of medi tation, require distraction. But we magicians should stop for a moment at the pylons themselves, at the door of the Abyss, the pause before lingam joins yoni, we should linger and observe the transitional threshold.

Death and sex are not merely metaphorically identical, but physically so. Since death (the second, total death, after the yesodic stage) results in instant rebirth, it is obvious that birth and death are the entrance and withdrawal motions of cosmic coit us on a slow-action timescale over successive reincarnations.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------DEATH The 13th Arcanum, lettered Nun, "The World of Truth". In esoteric philosophy, Death is considered a gateway between modes of being. The Abyss, which all magicians must cross unaided, is part of the path of Death, but not entirely. On the Tree, the gateway to the darkside is the existent/non-existent portal of Da채th, but the pathway of the Death Arcanum lies between Tiphareth (rebirth) and Netzach (the individual). Notice the message, however, which is that the severed heads and limbs ar e the "fruit" which has ripened and fallen from the Tree of Life.

The Egyptians in their preoccupation with death were not being morbid. It is difficult for contemporary man to see the importance of keeping a link to the past. The Egyptian custom of embalming the dead served an existential as well as a metaphysical purpose. It was an indication of their total commitment to the past and their veneration of it.

For Crowley, the Atu is the "Death" of The Son, or His sacrifice, which in our terms is His birth into this life.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS (Mors Justi.) Death in union with orgasm - since the orgasm is the affirmation of the body and death is the rejection of the body, exact simultaneity is difficult. One will generally precede the other.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------DEATH POSTURE Austin Osman Spare's (auto-erotic) trance-state, in the Zos Kia Cultus, for receiving the divine mudra of Death, in which, says Grant, "the world of appearance ceases and its noumenal source is revealed." Normally this can happen only at the point of physical death itself.