Magic: The Invocation of Fallen Angels

there is a very vast error, because such persons imagine they have some authority over Spirits, and that Spirits may be compelled by humane authority, which is altogether impossible, since humane Energy or Authority is inferior by much to that of Spirits. Besides, they (who conjure spirits) admit a more vast mistake, supposing such natural instruments, as they use, to be able either to call up, or drive away any wicked Spirit. And they continue their mistake in endeavouring by Invocations, Deprecations or Sacrifices to please Spirits, making them propitious to their design. Without all question, the way is incomparably more easier to obtain any thing, that is truly good for men, of God, or good Angels, then of wicked Spirits.”

Alistair Crowley, like S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In his book Liber Samekh, which has as its stated goal “the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel during the Semester of His performance of the Operation of the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage,” Alistair Crowley invokes the angel Azazel under the ancient Egyptian names/titles of Azazel, namely Ptah, Apopphrasz, Khonsu, and Abrasax, calling him the Lion-Serpent in esoteric reference to the Genesis serpent Azazel‟s later expected appearance as the false-prophet Messiah Lion-of the Tribe of Judah. The invocation states: “Hear me, and make all Spirits subject unto Me; so that every Spirit (read: every fallen angel) of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth, on dry land and in the water; of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me” invoking “all Spirits (read: every fallen angel)…upon the Earth and under the Earth: on dry Land and in the Water.”

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Rosicrucians and the Vril Society were entities closely associated with Madam Blavatsky‟s powerful and well organized Theosophical Society. The Theosophical Society was established in America in New York City in 1875 A.D. „Theosophy,‟ by one account meaning „god-wisdom,‟ is a religious philosophy based on ancient esoteric religious teachings tasked in comparative religious studies (some famous Theosophists include L. Frank Baum (author of The Wizard of Oz, a member of Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society), William Butler Yeats (Irish poet; prominent member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) (Doyle was also a Mason), Jack London (The Call of the Wild), James Joyce (Ulysses), T. S. Eliot (an Oxford alumni), Thomas Edison (The Wizard (by definition a ‘male witch’) of Menlo Park), Jane Goodall (Jane Goodall Institute), Carl Gustav Jung (Psychiatrist), Paul Gauguin (Artist), Elvis Presley (Musician), Shirley MacLaine (Actress), Henry Wallace (33rd Vice-President of the U.S.), Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India), Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Independence Movement Leader), G.R.S. Mead (Author/translater of many esoteric works), Abner Doubleday (Union Civil War General; President of the Theosophical Society), and George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright and a cofounder of the London School of Economics. Shaw was associated with the Fabian Society, which society laid the foundations of the Labour Party in England. It must be noted that Tony Blair, former Labour Party Prime Minister of the U.K., is the Quartet's envoy to the Middle East involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks).

The Vril Society (also known as The Luminous Lodge) was a secret society founded in Berlin, Germany, by a group of Berlin Rosicrucians being based on author Edgar BulwerLytton's novel The Coming Race about an advanced group of men said to be residing within the Earth and of who it is said will later emerge to rule over the world. Said to once inhabit the Earth's outer surface, the group was forced to retreat underground many thousands of years ago